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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=The CatMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the Dogtwo. But he's a bad magician's cat, Little Redso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the Exploding Eggscatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the Wolf regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and Grandmawhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's Wardrobeturned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Diane Fox Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Christyan FoxIndre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=54
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|summary=Have you ever sat down to read a story aloud to someone When we first meet Birpus and found that Bulbus they interrupt at every given opportunity're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, asking questionsspewing hot, making comments, and generally fidgeting with anything and everything? sour milk from his nostrils. I(Please don'm sure if yout try this at home: it won've spent any time with a toddler then this will be a familiar experiencet end well. ) This story plays on thatFortunately, with they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a cat tryingladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, very hard, to tell a dog the story of Little Red Riding Hoodthey escaped. But dog can't sit still, and he wants They climbed up to know what Red's superpower is, because if she has a cape she must be a superherothe Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and he's pretty sure that Red must have zapped the wolf with her kindness ray when she met him..Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277002</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=A Day at On the Police StationBeach: The Winter Visitor|author=Richard ScarryChris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=We like Richard Scarry books in our house. My 2 year old son has brought me the [[Busiest People Ever by Richard Scarry|Busiest People Ever]] book Kit and Teal were just beginning to read more times than I'd care wonder whether it was better to think aboutbe at home, bored but actually I always enjoy it too because there are so many things to see warm, or frozen cold and discuss building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and look forwith wobbly legs moved from the ice. The funny illustrations are usually the key selling point Kit was all for making a run for me it, but actually, in this particular book, it Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the story I likedbus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574940</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=JampiresLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Sarah McIntyre and David O'ConnellLainey Dee
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|summary=Jampires is a great book explaining why some Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of your doughnuts might not be as jammy dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as you’d perhaps likehe wanted to make new friends. This is a really funny premise for a children’s book At home, his only friend was his mum and I really did enjoy reading he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it, on the wholemight be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200123</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=The Further Adventures of the Owl and the Pussy-catToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Julia Donaldson Amy Sparkes and Charlotte VoakeKatie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=I was utterly intrigued by the idea of a follow up Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the wonderful Edward Lear poem, The Owl park and watch the Pussy-catred buses drive past. I thought it might have Elsie would race the buses along the side of the feel that some follow ups by different authors might have, park but I David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very pleasantly surpriseddifficult. If anybody One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was going happy to be able use the coins from her money box to write verse that could live pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up to , use the originalbus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Julia Donaldson wasElsie brought the bus, now damaged and she didrusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141332972</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Bears Don't Read!The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Emma Chichester ClarkAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=I'm a sucker for bear stories. I find that I am Susan was very rarely disappointed by a book with a bear young when she was evacuated from London in it. Certainly, this particular bear book is charming, with lots of appeal for both bear-lovers 1939 and book-lovers too! George is no common bear, oh nonervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. HeShe needn's t have worried though as she went to the sort home of bear Mr and Mrs Russell, who sits on a bench, thinking about the meaning of lifecouldn't have been kinder to her. No longer wanting She even had her own room - all to do the usual bear sort of things, he feels that he needs more.herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life.but what can he do? One day he happens She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to stumble upon a book Christmas Eve Susan and, with it, Mr Russell put the decorations on the new ambition for his lifeChristmas tree. George needs to learn how to read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000742518X</amazonuk>The best surprise happened the following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Line Up, Please!Squeakily Baby|author=Tomoko OhmuraBeth Webb
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|summary=I was intrigued by the beginning of this bookMuch as mothers love their babies, which starts with there's something they all dread - a sign declaring that squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can'the line starts heret - or won' and below that is a frog, labelled as being a fromt - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and he also has a number 50 beneath him''wails''. The sea offers to help. What is going on? Turning It rocks Baby gently and the page we see that there is waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a queue of animals, sandy beach and that each animal is named and numberedyou have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, with the numbers decreasing from 50 downwardsla lay... From the start this is the perfect book '' And for a child obsessed with all the different animal species you can namemoment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. There Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's everything in this queue from moles and guinea pigs going to an armadillo, a sloth and a wombat!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>187757998X</amazonuk>happen next.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Doughnuts A Practical Present for a DragonPhilippa Pheasant|author=Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Lee WildishBriony May Smith
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|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''Doughnuts for a Dragontired'' does pretty much what it says on of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the tin, with George heading off on problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a mission bird to find sit back on her tail feathers when there was a dragonproblem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. In [[Marshmallows for Martians by Lee Wildish, Adam Guillain Her uniform and Charlotte Guillain|Marshmallows for Martians]] he built himself lollipop stick were both a spaceship in order little amateur to hunt for extraterrestrial life, start with but this time his plan requires a time machine - I mean, how else are you going the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to find provide a Dragon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405270543</amazonuk>safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Sam and Dave Dig a HoleLeilong's Too Long!|author=Mac Barnett Julia Liu and Jon KlassenBei Lynn
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|summary=Sam and Dave are digging a holeEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, and they’re sure they’re going to find something spectacular. But makes his way through the more they digcity, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the more top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they keep missing all simply climb out of the spectacular stuffwindow and slide down his neck. It's perfect, not that they know isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though. This is an interesting book which requires Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a pretty good attention span tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to fully appreciate itand traffic regularly gets snarled up. It has The school decides that thing that is so often missing in picture books; it is just that bit different, which I always appreciatehe can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406357766</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Pete the Cat and the New GuyBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Kimberly Dean and James DeanDavid Elliott|rating=54
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|summary=[[Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin and James Dean|Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons]] was an instant and complete hit in my household when I reviewed love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it 's for The Bookbag a few months agothe child who still enjoys board books (er, and it see my first sentence) but has continued mastered sufficient language skills to be so ever sincehave realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. So I was very excited to receive Pete’s latest adventure, Pete We have the Cat elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and the New Guythen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. It The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a lot longer than the last book''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'' OK, but this is let's not a bad thing and only serves to back up my opinion that these books go there Some people are suitable for a wide range of reading ages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007590806</amazonuk>eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=A Scarf and a HalfCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Amanda Brandon and Catalina EcheverriEd Boxall
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|summary=A Scarf and a Half follows the story It was one of Little Lionel, whose Granny just loves those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to knit. When she knits him a scarf for his birthday, he just can’t help but be disappointed, after undo all it isn’t a nice bouncy ball. But it isn’t just any old scarfthe good that parents do, Granny loves knitting so the trips out were always so much that it’s a scarf and a halffun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, and luckily for Lionel his friends are on hand to show who told him just how many different uses it could have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861168</amazonuk>}}:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Belle and Boo Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and the Very Merry ChristmasHare|author=Mandy SutcliffeCordellya Smith
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|summary=In When the world of children’s literature you have to get your winter solstice books out early if you want to stand out in was made, the crowdanimals were given gifts. Before you can release Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a Christmas book thoughstrong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it would help if all the characters knew what Christmas well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which washow he came to be in a race with Turtle. Thankfully, Boo need You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not worry for too long always as Belle is on hand to they seem. I'll tell him exactly what to doyou how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408320916</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Jolly SnowmenRob Keeley|authortitle=Ned TaylorCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Snowmen are universally adored Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. Everyone I know who picked When her friends at school turn up this booktheir noses, young Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and oldhow nice to eat. One day, went ''Ooohpoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, snowmen!'' There’s something so cheerful about this preciouswho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, somewhat rare creatureLily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and the likes of Frozen have cemented this vegetables, like carrots, grow in the minds of the latest generationground. A book about two balls of icy snow doesn't sound muchJordan says, but add a scarf"I did try to tell her, coal eyes Miss!" and a carrot nose, and the transformation is astonishingeveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184857424X</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=TinYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Chris JudgeJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=When Tin agrees to look after Nickel for ''For the afternoonbig, you can tell he really just wants her to play peacefully while he reads his comic. But little sisters have a habit of not doing what you wantgrownup girls out there, and before he knows itthe potty masters in training, Tin "You Can't Wear Panties!" is up off his sun lounger and racing after Nickel to keep her from danger. As he and Zinc a cry (the dog chase after her, they find themselves in an adventure big-girl kind!) of their own in the big citytoilet triumph and persevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440406</amazonuk>}}''
And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Yuck! Said the YakJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Alex English and Emma LeveyEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Yuck! Said the Yak is a greatToots, trumps, fun book farts. Whatever your word for young listenersthem, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Alfie Funny to talk about and joke about, that is trying desperately to find something which his hungry Yak friend . But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will want to eat, but he doesn’t really think about what a Yak hear it and everyone will wantlaugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, and so all with the Yak can say familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Yuck!Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848861141</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=The Twelve Days of ChristmasWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Britta TeckentrupJustine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Pass ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the Parcel is a timeless classic for any occasion, be ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a birthday orworthy aim, as in this book, Christmas timeany frustrated parent will tell you. But have you ever played it in a book before? No? Keep reading .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848959079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Your Hand in My HandWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Mark Sperring and Britta TeckentrupPeter Cotton|rating=34.5
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|summary=When I was young my Mum always wanted me Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to come over be meeting Fred-Fred for a lean or hold her hand if we were walkingreasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I would be asked how much 'm getting ahead of myself: I loved her 'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and I immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would reply, ''This Much'' whilst stretching take Fred out my arms as far as with them when they would gowent out for a walk. It seems And that my Mum was quite a sentimental person, so this book would where the problem started. Fred didn't have been perfect for her to read to me before bedany road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408333163</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Baker CatJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Posy SimmondsEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Poor cat! All day long he works for the mean baker and his equally unpleasant wife in the bakeryCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, mixing, baking, chopping, slicing and sweeping while the baker grumblesas any parent will tell you. Then at night the exhausted catBut really, without any supper, is expected why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to catch the mice that run riot in the storeroom. Unfortunately he is not a particularly successful mouse catcherlearn about everything else when we are small. Eventually the poor catWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, denied even a name by his miserable ownerssay, becomes thin, sad learning about why the sun and weepy and slumps the moon take turns in despair. It is then that the mice take pity on him and concoct a clever plan to help him.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783441054</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hooray for HatJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Brian WonNo, No, No!
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|summary=Helping someone is a great way to make them feel good and what better way to do They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this than providing latest from Justine Avery, a novelty hat? I can think of a few things myselfBookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable. ''No, no, but for Elephantno! Okay, Zebraokay. Yes, Turtle and you may.'' That's it! But, like all the rest best picture books, this tiny snippet of their pals; hattext is a veritable tardis -giving is so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the joy de jouroutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783441763</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=The Oxford Treasury of Nursery RhymesFarm Shop|author=Sarah Williams Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Karen KingEma Tepic|rating=3.54
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|summary=When it comes Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to nursery rhymes, what you learn at your Mother’s knee as go for a baby walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is gospelperfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. Recently I have expanded my repertoire courtesy As they walk to the top of Cheshire libraries excellent rhyme time activitiesthe hill, but at heart I still canthey see a big barn with a sign outside. It't quite come to terms s a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the librarian saying 'washed ''the spider'' out as opposed to my mum’s washed ''poor Incey'' out'stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. SadlyExcited, Williams’ Kirelle and King’s compendium ''The Oxford Treasury of Nursery Rhymes'' doesn’t take my Mum’s side in thisSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738666</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Dinosaur Poo!Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Christyan Fox Maureen Duffy and Diane FoxAnita Joice
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|summary=There are two things Sadie's mother always said that I find are always popular topics when it comes to young children; dinosaursshe was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and poo. This book takes that very much she loves to the next level in this rhyming book all about dinosaur poo. It does what it says on the tinspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277029</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=On Sudden HillLittle Gold Ted|author=Linda Sarah Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Benji Davies (Illustrator)Sasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=Birt One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and Etho are best friendsthe water is swirling. They spend hours together playing Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on Sudden Hillthe side of the street. Usually they play with large cardboard boxes imagining that they are piratesFinding himself down in the sewer, or soldiers or maybe kings but always they are Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the best attention of friends. Then one day another little boyReg the sewer rat, Shuwho plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, brings his box to Sudden Hill which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and asks if he can play too. The three boys sit in their boxes together dries Ted off and imagine that they are dragon slayers or skyscraper dancers but Birt feels strange. He misses the two-by-two rhythm he had shared warms him up with Etho. Can the boys make a friendship nice bowl of two become three?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119289</amazonuk>broth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zanib Mian and Laura Ewing FerrerB08R7LXQ9S|title=Never too SmallRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=There was once a young boy who didnRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''t try to do things . The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he felt that he was too is short and has small, eyes. They are mean but he was luckythey are not stupid. He had a good friend They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and that friend wrote him a letter to tell then push him just that people little bit further when the other kids are never too smallaround. So, or too bigwhen Remy reacts, or too old to try something new. There it looks as though he was also a little girl and she was afraid of the darkinstigator. It was her brother who wrote her a letter to tell her that And then he would always be there for her. There was gets into trouble at school and the boy who wouldnteachers don't try new things to eat, the young girl who was afraid of heights, a boy who was terrified about going to school and a girl who was frightened of spiders. They all had that special someone who took the time to write them the letter which gave them the confidence believe him when he tries to overcome their fearsexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956419658</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Bing: Make MusicThe Invisible|author=Ted DewanTom Percival|rating=3.5
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|summary=''Round the corner, Not far away…'' These are the words I hear in my living room most afternoons followed by 6 minutes and 30 seconds of silence from my boy. I could take advantage and get on with some urgent tasks but, truth be told, I’m happy to snuggle up and drink in the rich artwork that This is Bing Bunny brought to life on CBeebies. Unusually, Bing on the box was born out story of Bing the book. AlsoIsobel, unusually, my local library have no Bing books so ''Bing: Make Music'' was my first experience of the Bingster (as he is known to his fans) confined to paper. There on the first page, just like on CBeebies, were the magic opening words followed by… ''Bing’s been bongo- ing all day''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007515421</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Quentin Blake|title=The Five of Us|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Five friends set off on an outing, complete with yellow bus and sandwiches. There was Angie a little girl who could see made a sparrow from five miles awaybig difference. Ollie could hear it sneeze. Simona and Mario were so strong that they could lift anything. They were all amazing. Then there was EricIsobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, but Eric wasnbecause her parents couldn't quite certain if he excelled at anything. Big Eddie was driving the bus and after they had eaten their sandwiches Big Eddie suddenly took a funny turn. What were The Five to do? Well, they set off with Simona and Mario carrying Eddie (and, by gosh, he is big) but suddenly they came afford to put the banks of a big river - and this was when Eric discovered exactly why he is amazing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849763046</amazonuk>}}heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Betty Goes BananasNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Steve AntonyOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=This Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is a simple, repetitive book obsessed with a circular tale: Betty wants something, she doesn’t get it and so she cries and kicks and screams until someone helps herbears. She collects books about bears. If that makes you think that tantrums are being rewardedHer favourite toy is Berisford, in a way you’d be right, but Mr Toucan, teddy bear passed down by her repeated saviourgrandmother. Every night, is keen to show she looks out of her how bedroom window and says goodnight to do things rather than just do them for herthe bear statue outside. Teach a man Every morning she says hello to fish and he’ll never go hungryBee Bear, teach a chimp to peel a banana and she’ll be happy, for a while colourful painted bear that lives at leasther school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192738151</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}