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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=When your children are very littleMurray is supposed to be a humble, it can be incredibly difficult to sum up to them what it tidy and friendly cat, one who is you want for their future. It can also be incredibly difficult to sum up to them just how much you want them to go able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of an evening; this book ties up the two nicely. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, in what I believe to be a really good bedtime story.honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190942854X</amazonuk>0008561249
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Something About a BearThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Jackie MorrisWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=IWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they'm partial to a book about bears, as I've mentioned re running for their lives in previous reviews, so I jumped at the chance to read this bookForest of Fine Repute. I could give you a couple of paragraphs just on Their greatest fear has come about: the cover art if you like! Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. IHe'm not fussy about my bears in bear books...I'm not a purists right behind them, requiring that they all look like real bearsspewing hot, but in this book the illustrations are really wonderfully donesour milk from his nostrils. Mr Bear on the cover is a delightfully serious brown bear. I have a friend who declares picture books for children with artwork like (Please don't try this are wasted on small children, but Iat home: it won'd beg to disagreet end well. ) I think that it's wonderful to be able to provide your child with Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a range ladder of artistic styles to enjoy moss and appreciatevines was lowered for them, they escaped. There's a place for They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|Gruffalo]] styletangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, or [[:Category: Richard Scarry|Richard Scarry]], but I think there's also a place for these books that are made of beautiful paintingsNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805167</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Cat, the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf and Grandma's WardrobeWinter Visitor|author=Diane Fox Chris Green and Christyan FoxJenny Fionda
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|summary=Have you ever sat down Kit and Teal were just beginning to read a story aloud wonder whether it was better to someone and found that they interrupt be at every given opportunity, asking questionshome, making commentsbored but warm, or frozen cold and generally fidgeting with anything and everything? building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. I'm sure if you've spent any time with a toddler then this will be On top of the ice was a familiar experiencepolar bear. This story plays on thatAs the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a cat tryingrun for it, very hard, to tell a dog but Teal knew that the story of Little Red Riding Hoodbear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. But dog can't sit still, and he wants He obviously needed to know what Red's superpower is, because if she has a cape she must be taken home on the bus and given a superhero, good meal and he's pretty sure that Red must have zapped the wolf with her kindness ray when she met himsomewhere to sleep...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277002</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=A Day at the Police StationLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Richard ScarryLainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=We like Richard Scarry books in our house. My 2 year old son has brought me Todd was excited about spending the [[Busiest People Ever by Richard Scarry|Busiest People Ever]] book to read more times than I'd care to think aboutweekend with his grandmother, but actually I always enjoy it too not least because there are so many things to see she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and discuss his favourite hat and look forthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. The funny illustrations are usually She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the key selling point for me but actually, in local community centre and Todd was pleased about this particular bookas he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it was the story I likedmight be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574940</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=JampiresThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Sarah McIntyre Amy Sparkes and David O'ConnellKatie Hickey|rating=34.5
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|summary=Jampires is Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a great book explaining why some of your doughnuts might not be bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as jammy as you’d perhaps likecash was tight at home. This is a really funny premise Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for a children’s book support, and I really did enjoy reading walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, on hoping that the wholeexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200123</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Further Adventures of the Owl and the Pussy-catChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Julia Donaldson Amy Sparkes and Charlotte VoakeKatie Hickey
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|summary=I Susan was utterly intrigued by the idea of a follow up very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to the wonderful Edward Lear poem, The Owl and the Pussy-cather final destination. I thought it might She needn't have worried though as she went to the feel that some follow ups by different authors might home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have, but I was very pleasantly surprisedbeen kinder to her. If anybody was going She even had her own room - all to be able herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to write verse that could live up enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the original, Julia Donaldson was, and she didChristmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141332972</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Bears DonSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't Read!- or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Emma Chichester ClarkBriony May Smith
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|summary=IPhilippa Pheasant was 'm a sucker for bear stories'tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. I find that I am very rarely disappointed by a book with She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a bear in it. Certainly, this particular bear book is charming, with lots of appeal for both bear-lovers and book-lovers too! George is no common bear, oh noreply. HePhilippa wasn's the sort of bear who sits t a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a bench, thinking about problem which needed solving: she saw the meaning benefits of life. No longer wanting to do the usual bear sort of things, he feels lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that he needs more.she would set up something similar herself..but what can he do? One day he happens Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to stumble upon a book and, start with it, but the new ambition for his lifebenefits were obvious. George needs All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to learn how to read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000742518X</amazonuk>provide a safe path overnight.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Line Up, PleaseLeilong's Too Long!|author=Tomoko OhmuraJulia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=I was intrigued by Every morning Leilong, the beginning of this bookbrontosaurus school bus, which starts with a sign declaring that 'makes his way through the line starts here' and below that is a frogcity, labelled picking up children as being a from, he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and he also has a number 50 beneath himslide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What is could be a more fun way of going onto school? Turning the page we see that there There is a queue of animalsproblem, and that each animal is named and numbered, with the numbers decreasing from 50 downwardsthough. From Leilong isn't happy in the start this is the perfect book for a child obsessed with all the different animal species you can name. Therecity: he's everything in this queue from moles always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and guinea pigs – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to an armadillo, a sloth and a wombat!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>187757998X</amazonuk>traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Doughnuts for a DragonBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Lee WildishDavid Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=I love a good board book! ''Doughnuts for a DragonBumblebee Grumblebee'' does pretty much what is aimed at quite a niche market: it says on 's for the tinchild who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with George heading words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off on with a mission to find hair drier becomes a dragon''fluffalo''. In [[Marshmallows for Martians by Lee Wildish, Adam Guillain and Charlotte Guillain|Marshmallows for Martians]] he built himself The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a spaceship in order to hunt for extraterrestrial life, but this time ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his plan requires potty changes into a time machine - I mean''sm.......'' OK, how else let's not go there Some people are you going to find a Dragon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405270543</amazonuk>eating!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Sam and Dave Dig a HoleCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Mac Barnett and Jon KlassenEd Boxall
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|summary=Sam and Dave are digging a hole, and they’re sure they’re going It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to find something spectacular. But the more they dig, the more they keep missing undo all the spectacular stuff, not that they know it. This is an interesting book which requires a pretty good attention span to fully appreciate it. It has that thing that is parents do, so often missing in picture books; it is just that bit different, which I the trips out were always appreciateso much fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406357766</amazonuk>}} A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
{{newreview|title=Pete the Cat and the New Guy|author=Kimberly Dean and James Dean|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|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 it for The Bookbag a few months ago, and it has continued to ''It'll be so ever since. So I was very excited to receive Pete’s latest adventurebrilliant, Pete the Cat and the New Guy. It is a lot longer than the last bookjust remember, but this is not a bad thing and only serves to back up don't let go of my opinion that these books are suitable for a wide range of reading ageshand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007590806</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Scarf Cherolachian Tortoise and a HalfHare|author=Amanda Brandon and Catalina EcheverriCordellya Smith
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|summary=A Scarf and a Half follows When the story of Little Lionelworld was made, whose Granny just loves to knitthe animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. When she knits him Water Spider received a scarf for his birthday, strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he just can’t help could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but be disappointed, after all unfortunately, not the ability to use it isn’t well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a nice bouncy ballrace with Turtle. But it isn’t just any old scarf, Granny loves knitting so much You might think that it’s 's not a scarf fair contest but wait and a half, and luckily for Lionel his friends see. Things are on hand to show him just not always as they seem. I'll tell you how many different uses it could havecame about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861168</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Willy The WimpRob Keeley|authortitle=Anthony BrowneCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Willy is a mild mannered chimp. He apologises even when it is not his fault, which is most of the timeLily loves eating fruit and vegetables. In the mean streets of townShe likes carrots, his timid mannerbroccoli, Fair Isle tank top cabbage and Oxford brogues mark him out as an easy target aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for the gorilla gangyou and how nice to eat. That is until the One day he spots a mail order advertisement which guarantees a transformation from wimp to loud talking, sand kickingpoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, muscle bulging manwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Willy sends off Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the couponground. Jordan says, some cash "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and then waits…everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406356417</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{Frontpage
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|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''
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|summary=Melissa has a pet octopus. He’s splendid, but not exactly the most suitable of pets. But what other unsuitable pets do Melissa’s friends have, and which is the most unsuitable of all?
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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=Belle Justine Avery and Boo and the Very Merry ChristmasNaday Meldova|authortitle=Mandy SutcliffeEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=In the world of children’s literature you have Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to get your winter solstice books out early talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you want to stand out in let one go at the crowdwrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. Before At you can release a Christmas book though. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, it would help if all with the characters knew what Christmas was. Thankfullyfamiliar humour attached, Boo need not worry for too long as Belle explains that tooting is on hand to tell him exactly what to doperfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408320916</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Jolly SnowmenWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Ned TaylorJustine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Snowmen are universally adored. Everyone I know who picked up this book, young and old, went ''Oooh, snowmenWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' There’s something so cheerful about this precious, somewhat rare creature, and is the likes of Frozen have cemented this latest release in the minds ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the latest generationpain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. A book about two balls of icy snow doesnIt't sound much, but add s a scarfworthy aim, coal eyes and a carrot nose, and the transformation is astonishingas any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184857424X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=TinWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Chris JudgePeter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=When Tin agrees to look after Nickel for the afternoonMeet Fred. Well, actually, you can tell he really just wants her 're going to play peacefully while he reads his comicbe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But little sisters have a habit I'm getting ahead of not doing what myself: I'd better tell you want, and before he knows it, Tin a bit more about Fred. Fred is up off his sun lounger a snake and racing after Nickel even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to keep her from dangerwarm to him. As He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and Zinc immediately became part of the dog chase after herfamily, to the extent that they find themselves in an adventure of their own in would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the big cityproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440406</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=It's an Orange Aadvark!Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Michael HallEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
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|summary=A group of ants decide to drill through their tree stump in order Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to give themselves a window learn about our bodily functions just as we have to the outside worldlearn about everything else when we are small. The more they drillWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the more colours they find, sun and the more whacky and wild ideas they come up with for what they mind find outside moon take turns in the safety of their home.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910277045</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Yuck! Said the YakJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Alex English and Emma LeveyNo, No, No!
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|summary=Yuck! Said They say the best picture books are the Yak is a great, fun book for young listenerssimplest ones. Alfie is trying desperately to find something which his hungry Yak friend will want to eatAnd nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, but he doesn’t really think about what a Yak will want, and so all the Yak can say is ''Yuck!''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861141</amazonuk>}}Bookbag favourite.
{{newreview|title=The Twelve Days of Christmas|author=Britta Teckentrup|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=You know the song already'No, No, but this peep-through book recreates the magic of the No!''Twelve Days of Christmas'' in a beautiful and special wayis based around the simplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848958862</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Surprise|author=Jonathan Litton and Fhiona Galloway|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Pass the Parcel is a timeless classic for any occasion''No, be it a birthday orno, as in this bookno! Okay, Christmas timeokay. But have Yes, you ever played it in a book before? No? Keep readingmay.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848959079</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=Your Hand in My Hand|author=Mark Sperring and Britta Teckentrup|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When I was young my Mum always wanted me to come over for That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a lean or hold her hand if we were walking. I would be asked how veritable tardis - so much I loved her and I would reply, ''This Much'' whilst stretching out my arms as far as they would go. It seems bigger on the inside that my Mum was quite a sentimental person, so this book would have been perfect for her to read to me before bedit appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408333163</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=Baker CatThe Farm Shop|author=Posy SimmondsDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Poor Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat! All day long he works decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for the mean baker all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his equally unpleasant wife in the bakery, mixing, baking, chopping, slicing and sweeping while the baker grumblessmart grey fur coat. Then at night the exhausted cat, without any supper, is expected As they walk to catch the mice that run riot in top of the storeroomhill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. Unfortunately he It's a farm shop! But this is not a particularly successful mouse catcherfarm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. Eventually the poor catThere are sheep and ducks and cows, denied even a name by his miserable owners, becomes thingoats and chickens, sad and weepy and slumps in despaireven some mice. It is then that the mice take pity on him Excited, Kirelle and concoct a clever plan to help himSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441054</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Hooray for Hat|author=Brian Won|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Helping someone is a great way to make them feel good and what better way to do this than providing a novelty hatWhat will they buy? I can think of a few things myself, but for Elephant, Zebra, Turtle and the rest of their pals; hat-giving is the joy de jour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441763</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=The Oxford Treasury of Nursery RhymesSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Sarah Williams Maureen Duffy and Karen KingAnita Joice
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|summary=When it comes to nursery rhymesSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what you learn at your Mother’s knee as a baby is gospelshe should be doing. Recently I have expanded my repertoire courtesy of Cheshire libraries excellent rhyme time activities, but She lives by the River Thames at heart I still can't quite come Greenwich and she loves to terms with the librarian saying 'washed ''the spider'' out as opposed to my mum’s washed ''poor Incey'' out'. Sadly, Williams’ and King’s compendium ''spend hours at The Oxford Treasury of Nursery Rhymes'' doesn’t take my Mum’s side in thisMaritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738666</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|title=Snow''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|author=Walter de la Mare|rating=4''To the Maritime Museum''.5|genre=For Sharing |summary=This is a classic poem which has been brought Her imagination was fired. She'd love to life in sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a lovely picture book which is perfect for glass case (it's the run up to Christmas one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and close afterthe attendant's warning shout. It captures perfectly When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the sense midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of joy around Christmas for young childrendolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571305571</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Dinosaur Poo!Little Gold Ted|author=Christyan Fox Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Diane FoxSasha Satha|rating=3.54
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|summary=There are two things that I find are always popular topics when it comes to young children; dinosaursOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and poothe water is swirling. This book takes that very much Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the next level side of the street. Finding himself down in this rhyming book all about dinosaur poothe sewer, Ted starts to panic. It does what it says on ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the tindirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277029</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Winnie's Big Bad RobotRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Valerie Thomas Mayuri Naidoo and Korky PaulCaroline Siegal|rating=4.5
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|summary=Winnie the Witch Remy is something of an institution in children’s literature these daysfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, and together with good reason. From the very first book in the series Valerie Thomas his sidekicks Ryan and Korky Paul managed to capture a wonderful sense of funBrandon, have been laughing at Remy, mischief calling him names because he is short and adventurehas small eyes. This addition They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the series is no exceptioninstigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738720</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=On Sudden HillThe Invisible|author=Linda Sarah and Benji Davies (Illustrator)Tom Percival
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|summary=Birt and Etho are best friends. They spend hours together playing on Sudden Hill. Usually they play with large cardboard boxes imagining that they are pirates, or soldiers or maybe kings but always they are This is the best story of friends. Then one day another Isobel, a little boy, Shu, brings his box to Sudden Hill and asks if he can play toogirl who made a big difference. The three boys sit Isobel lived with her parents in their boxes together and imagine that they are dragon slayers or skyscraper dancers but Birt feels strange. He misses the twoa house -by-two rhythm he had shared with Etho. Can a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the boys make a friendship of two become three?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119289</amazonuk>}}heating on:
{{newreview|author=Zanib Mian and Laura Ewing Ferrer|title=Never too Small|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=There was once a young boy who didn't try to do things because he felt that he was too small, but he was lucky. He had a good friend and that friend wrote him a letter to tell him that people are never too small, or too big, or too old to try something new. There was also a little girl and she was afraid of the dark. It was her brother who wrote her a letter to tell her that he would always be there for her. There was the boy who wouldn't try new things to eat, Ice curled across the young girl who was afraid inside of heights, a boy who was terrified about going to school the window and a girl who was frightened crept up the corner of spiders. They all had that special someone who took the time to write them the letter which gave them the confidence to overcome their fearsbedpost.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956419658</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=Bing: Make Music|author=Ted Dewan|rating=3The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= Then the day came when they couldn''Round t afford the corner, Not far away…'' These are rent for 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 house and get on with some urgent tasks but, truth be told, I’m happy they had to snuggle up and drink in the rich artwork that is Bing Bunny brought move to life on CBeebies. Unusually, Bing on the box was born out far side of Bing the bookcity. Also, unusually, my local library have no Bing books so ''Bing: Make Music'' was my first experience This part of the Bingster (as he is known to his fans) confined to paper. There on the first pagecity was cold, just like on CBeebies, were the magic opening words followed by… ''Bing’s been bongo- ing all day''sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007515421</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Quentin BlakeNick Jones and Si Clark|title=The Five of UsOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Five friends set off on Many children have an outingobsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, complete is obsessed with yellow bus and sandwichesbears. There was Angie who could see a sparrow from five miles awayShe collects books about bears. Ollie could hear it sneeze. Simona and Mario were so strong that they could lift anything. They were all amazing. Then there was EricHer favourite toy is Berisford, but Eric wasn'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 turnteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. What were The Five to do? WellEvery night, they set off with Simona she looks out of her bedroom window and Mario carrying Eddie (and, by gosh, he is big) but suddenly they came says goodnight to the banks of bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a big river - and this was when Eric discovered exactly why he is amazingcolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849763046</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{newreview|title=Foxy and Egg|author=Alex T Smith|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Long-time lovers of thebookbag.co.uk may find something familiar about the tale of Foxy DeBois who invites a young egg into her house for a meal. What can this sense of déjà vu be? More than likely you read the earlier review by our own Keith Dudhnath Move on to [[Egg by Alex T Smith|EggNewest General Fiction Reviews]]. With the success of Foxy in the intervening years, the book has been renamed and re-released, but does it remain as fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444920928</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=You Can Do It, Bert!|author=Ole Konnecke|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=It's very rare that I get my hands on a Gecko Press picture book and find I don't like it. They seem to publish lots of unusual, entertaining books that become firm favourites on our bookshelves. This one is no exception. Bert is a plump little birdie, standing on a branch, facing his big day. Can he? Will he? Should he jump?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271037</amazonuk>}}