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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How the Library (Not the Prince) Saved RapunzelAdam Stower|authortitle=Wendy Meddour Murray and Rebecca AshdownBun
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|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 two. 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, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…
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|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon
|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=When Iwe first meet Birpus and Bulbus they'm not reading books, or being a mum, I'm busy being a librarian, so re running for their lives in the Forest of course I wanted to read this book! Fine Repute. Poor Rapunzel Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is down in the dumpschasing them. As the story tells usHe's right behind them, ''she had nowhere to gospewing hot, she had nothing to provesour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. ) If this Fortunately, they were an adult story she'd be diagnosed with depression, but since we're in the realm of pictures books we merely see nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a queue ladder of people who drop by to visit Rapunzelmoss and vines was lowered for them, asking her they escaped. They climbed up to let down her hair so that the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they can deliver things to her or come by lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and visit who fail completely to entice her out of her flat, or for her to let down her hair to let them inGranny Cranny. What is it she is waiting for? Is she just on hold until her handsome prince comes by?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804322</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Robert Crowther's Pop up Dinosaur AlphabetOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Robert CrowtherChris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=ABC books could stand for A Boring ConceptKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but you might want to wait until you find out what warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the D is before making ice was a decisionpolar bear. In this case D stands for Dinosaurs As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and there is nothing boring about themwith wobbly legs moved from the ice. There is also nothing boring about pop-upsKit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. The two together may just join up He obviously needed to make something pretty special. Use this book to learn your basic alphabet be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and gain the some pretty intellectual knowledge on dinosaurs; from Allosaurus somewhere to Zapalasaurussleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348643</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Seen and Not HeardLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Katie May GreenLainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=During Todd was excited about spending the day weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the eight children best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of Shiverhawk Hall are seen dungarees and not heard for they are images captured on canvashis favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. 'Don’t they look so sweet She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and good, so well behaved like children should?' They certainly look a picture, picked out in the silvery moonlightTodd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. As night sets in and all is quiet At home, his only the black cat friend was his mum and a handful of mice are there to see the portraits come to life and step out of their frameshe wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different. What mischief can these children from across the ages make? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346519</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Sylvia Plath Amy Sparkes and David RobertsKatie Hickey
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|summary=I've said it before Elsie and I'll say it again, that you should always approach classical authors through their least typical, shortest her little brother David loved to go to the park and more individual works – you wonwatch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't gain much insight perhaps into why they were famous, but you will find more entertainment - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and greater pleasures by staying outside the canoneven just standing up was very difficult. And One day Elsie spotted a bus in the lovely people at Faber toy shop window which would help David - and Faber have a case in point – rather than plough through serious dross was happy to use the coins from Eliother money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, why not stick David learned to [[The Illustrated Old Possum by T S Eliot stand up, use the bus for support, and Nicolas Bentley]]? walk behind it. And with Sylvia Plath I cannot think of a better place Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to start with the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her oeuvre than grandchildren could play with these snappy and delightful pagesit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314643</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=Dog on Stilts|author=James Thorp and Angus Mackinnon|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Once you have reached adulthood, never try and understand what is going on with a child’s imagination. Whilst they can sit on the floor and talk to their imaginary friends, from the age of 20+ this is suddenly frowned upon. A child can think of crazy and wonderful things that would not even cross an adult’s mind. That is unless you are an author of children’s books, then you can come up with an idea as strange as a dog who likes to use stilts.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909428051</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1529504767|title=TwinkleThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Katharine Holabird Amy Sparkes and Sarah WarburtonKatie Hickey
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|summary=PinkSusan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. Glitter. Magic She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. Right from the start this book has She even had her own room - all the ingredients needed to be a hit with little girlsherself. I hate Gradually she relaxed and began to stereotype but there’s no denying enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it with this onecame to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. From the author of ''Angelina Ballerina'' comes The best surprise happened the first in a new, rather magical seriesfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444913387</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=One Christmas NightSqueakily Baby|author=Christina M Butler and Tina MacNaughtonBeth Webb
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|summary=If you regularly read children’s books about Father Christmas you are probably Much as amazed as I am that mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he ever gets the job donejust lies on his blanket and ''wails''. It would appear that almost every year some sort of problem befalls old Santa Claus and he has The sea offers to ask for help. I can understand getting aid from his elves, his reindeers or even It rocks Baby gently and the tooth fairy at a pushwaves sing ''hush, but a hedgehog? hush''. However, this is not just any hedgehog, but Little Hedgehog and with the aid Think of friends gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and a fluffy scarf, Hedgehog may just get you have the job done sound perfectly. The mermaids join in time- ''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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848952422</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Monsters Love Underpants A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Claire Freedman and Ben CortBriony May Smith
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|summary=Who loves underpants? EVERYONE loves underpants! We’ve already explored how aliens love them, how cavemen love them, and how pirates love themPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Who else could Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there possibly be? Oh yes, that’s right…was a problem 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. Monsters! Claire Freedman Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Ben Cort are back with yet another tale about pingy pants elasticHedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385710</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Do You Speak English, Moon?Leilong's Too Long!|author=Francesca Simon, Ben Cort Julia Liu and Lenny HenryBei Lynn|rating=4.5
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|summary=Night can be a scary time for a childEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, with shadows playing tricks on picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the walls window and no daylight to make everything seem okayslide down his neck. Do You Speak English It's perfect, Moonisn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a great book for this situationproblem, with a little boy deciding though. Leilong isn't happy in the best thing city: he's always having to do is to talk be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to the moon. He asks the moon some lovely and magical questions before finally snuggling down and going to sleeptraffic regularly gets snarled up. This is an excellent way to try and make The school decides that he can't be the dark just a little less of a fearful place for young childrenbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409151050</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=Rattle and Rap|author=Susan Steggall|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFrontpage|summaryisbn=Apparently, back in the days of steam, every little boy used to dream of being an engine driver. The trains in ''Rattle and Rap'' are all diesel but the allure of travel still wafts strongly from the pages. This is one in a series of vehicle-themed books aimed at pre-schoolers. It’s unusual to find engaging non-fiction for the under fives. With the focus on vehicles, Susan Stegall takes a staple of many a children’s book but, unlike some other authors, she treats the subject with imagination and creativity. It’s enough to make an anthropomorphised tank engine blush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805833</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1776574028|title=Secrets of the Rainforest: A Shine-a-Light BookBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Carron Brown and Alyssa NassnerDavid Elliott|rating=54
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|summary=The rainforest I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is bustling with life. If we look closelyaimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, we will be able see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to spot the animals living therehave realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Some are hiding in We have the trees, some under leaves or behind rockselephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. There are plenty of secrets to discover. And to become The buffalo who has had a special rainforest explorer, you will need bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a torch, or hair drier becomes a bright light, because that ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is the key to spotting all of those hidden creaturesa ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401490</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=The Tooth Fairy's ChristmasCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Peter Bently and Garry ParsonsEd Boxall|rating=54
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|summary=If I had a choice of being a magical figure I would choose someone like Father Christmas over the Tooth Fairy. Yes, he may be morbidly obese, but at least he only has to work really hard on It was one day of the yearthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. The Tooth Fairy has They're there to work undo all year round, including Christmas Day. Thankfully, all these magical folk appear to be in some sort of unionthe good that parents do, so when the weather is too bad on 24th December you can trips out were always rely on St Nick so much fun. A young boy was going to help you out|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918346</amazonuk>}}the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=What Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Wonderful WorldCherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Bob Thiele, George David Weiss and Tim HopgoodCordellya Smith
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|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''What a Wonderful Worldand'' is a book and accompanying CD set based on the Louis Armstrong songfuture. In fact Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it is the book and CD of well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that song as it’s 's not a new story or a padded out version of the original, it’s simply an illustrated version of the lyricsfair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736906</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=It's Snow DayRob Keeley|authortitle=Richard Curtis and Rebecca CobbCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=We all remember the best sort of school days Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, don’t we? Snow dayscabbage and aubergines. Waking When her friends at school turn up in the morning their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and seeing how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the glow of white through the curtainsteacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and looking out of vegetables, like carrots, grow in the window ground. Jordan says, "I did try to see the whole world of our back gardens and rooftops turned white. This is a book all about thattell her, Miss!" and the only two people who turn up everyone laughs at school on this particular snow daypoor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0723288925</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=The Crocodile Under the BedYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Judith KerrJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=43.5
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|summary=Judith Kerr wrote the classic [[The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr|The Tiger Who Came to Tea]], and now she is back with ''The Crocodile Under For the Bed''big, grownup girls out there, which I’m fairly certain is going to join it the potty masters in classic status before too long. This timetraining, Matty "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a little boy who wants desperately to go to cry (the party but he gets sick so can’t gobig-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride. He’s having no fun, but there’s somebody who is pretty sure he can help with that; the crocodile under the bed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007586752</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|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=What Will I BeEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies?Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Richard Sinclair Justine Avery and Jon Lycett-SmithSeema Amjad
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|summary=When your ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children are very little, and replace it can be incredibly difficult to sum up to them what it is you want for their futurewith some fun. It can also be incredibly difficult to sum up to them just how much 's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you want them to go to sleep of an evening; this book ties up the two nicely, in what I believe to be a really good bedtime story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190942854X</amazonuk> .
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Something About a BearWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Jackie MorrisPeter Cotton
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|summary=I'm partial to a book about bearsMeet Fred. Well, actually, as Iyou've mentioned in previous reviews, so I jumped at the chance re going to read this bookbe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. I could give you a couple of paragraphs just on the cover art if you like! But I'm not fussy about my bears in bear books...getting ahead of myself: I'm not d better tell you a purist, requiring that they all look like real bears, but in this book the illustrations are really wonderfully donebit more about Fred. Mr Bear on the cover Fred is a delightfully serious brown bear. I snake and even those of us who have a friend who declares picture books for children with artwork like this phobia about snakes are wasted on small children, but I'd beg going to warm to disagreehim. I think He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that it's wonderful he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to be able to provide your child the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a range of artistic styles to enjoy and appreciatewalk. There's a place for And that was where the [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|Gruffalo]] style, or [[:Category: Richard Scarry|Richard Scarry]], but I think thereproblem started. Fred didn's also a place for these books that are made of beautiful paintingst have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805167</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Cat, the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf Justine Avery and Grandma's WardrobeNaday Meldova|authortitle=Diane Fox and Christyan FoxEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=Have you Can potty training ever sat down to read a story aloud to someone and found that they interrupt at every given opportunity, asking questions, making comments, and generally fidgeting with anything and everythingbe joyous? IIt often isn'm sure if you've spent t, as any time with a toddler then this parent will be a familiar experience. This story plays on that, with a cat trying, very hard, to tell a dog the story of Little Red Riding Hoodyou. But dog canreally, why shouldn't sit still, and he wants it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to know what Redlearn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn's superpower ist potty training be as much fun as, because if she has a cape she must be a superherosay, learning about why the sun and he's pretty sure that Red must have zapped the wolf with her kindness ray when she met him...moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910277002</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Day at the Police StationJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Richard ScarryNo, No, No!
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|summary=We like Richard Scarry They say the best picture books in our house. My 2 year old son has brought me are the [[Busiest People Ever by Richard Scarry|Busiest People Ever]] book to read more times than I'd care to think about, but actually I always enjoy it too because there are so many things to see and discuss and look forsimplest ones. The funny illustrations are usually the key selling point for me but actually, in And nothing could be truer of this particular booklatest from Justine Avery, it was the story I likeda Bookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574940</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=Line Up, Please!The Farm Shop|author=Tomoko OhmuraDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=I was intrigued by Kirelle and her best friend Sam the beginning of this book, which starts with cat decide to go for a sign declaring that 'the line starts here' walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and below that Sam is a frog, labelled perfectly turned out as being a from, and he also has a number 50 beneath himever in his smart grey fur coat. What is going on? Turning As they walk to the top of the page we hill, they see that there is a queue of animals, and that each animal is named and numbered, big barn with the numbers decreasing from 50 downwardsa sign outside. From the start It's a farm shop! But this is the perfect book for a child obsessed farm shop with a difference: all the different animal species you can namestallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There's everything in this queue from moles are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and guinea pigs to an armadilloeven some mice. Excited, a sloth Kirelle and a wombat!Sam go shopping. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>187757998X</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Doughnuts for a DragonLittle Gold Ted|author=Adam GuillainVanessa Wiercioch, Charlotte Guillain Poppy Satha and Lee WildishSasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It''Doughnuts for s quite a Dragon'' does pretty much what it says on deep puddle and the tin, with George heading off on a mission water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to find spin around and around and is sucked down a dragondrain on the side of the street. In [[Marshmallows for Martians by Lee Wildish, Adam Guillain and Charlotte Guillain|Marshmallows for Martians]] he built Finding himself a spaceship down in order the sewer, Ted starts to hunt for extraterrestrial lifepanic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, but this time who plucks him out of the dirty water using his plan requires cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a time machine - I mean, how else are you going to find kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a Dragon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405270543</amazonuk>nice bowl of broth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Sam and Dave Dig a HoleRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mac Barnett Mayuri Naidoo and Jon KlassenCaroline Siegal
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|summary=Sam Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Dave are digging a holeBrandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and they’re sure they’re going to find something spectacularhas small eyes. But the more They are mean but they dig, the more they keep missing all the spectacular stuff, are not that they know itstupid. This is an interesting book which requires a pretty good attention span They are careful to fully appreciate it. It has that thing that is so often missing in picture books; it is wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit differentfurther when the other kids are around. So, which I always appreciatewhen Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406357766</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Pete the Cat and the New GuyThe Invisible|author=Kimberly Dean and James DeanTom Percival
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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 it for The Bookbag a few months ago, and it has continued to be so ever since. So I was very excited to receive Pete’s latest adventure, Pete the Cat and the New Guy. It This is a lot longer than the last book, but this is not a bad thing and only serves to back up my opinion that these books are suitable for a wide range of reading ages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007590806</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A Scarf and a Half|author=Amanda Brandon and Catalina Echeverri|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=A Scarf and a Half follows the story of Little LionelIsobel, whose Granny just loves to knit. When she knits him a scarf for his birthday, he just can’t help but be disappointed, after all it isn’t little girl who made a nice bouncy ballbig difference. But it isn’t just any old scarf, Granny loves knitting so much that it’s Isobel lived with her parents in a scarf and house - a halfvery cold house, and luckily for Lionel his friends are because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on hand to show him just how many different uses it could have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861168</amazonuk>}}:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Belle and Boo Nick Jones and the Very Merry ChristmasSi Clark|authortitle=Mandy SutcliffeOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=In the world of children’s literature you Many children have to get your winter solstice books out early if you want to stand out an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in the crowd. Before you can release a Christmas book thoughBeartown, it would help if all the characters knew what Christmas was. Thankfully, Boo need not worry for too long as Belle is on hand to tell him exactly what to doobsessed with bears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408320916</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Jolly Snowmen|author=Ned Taylor|rating=4She collects books about bears.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Snowmen are universally adoredHer favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Everyone I know who picked up this bookEvery night, young she looks out of her bedroom window and old, went ''Oooh, snowmen!'' There’s something so cheerful about this precious, somewhat rare creature, and the likes of Frozen have cemented this in the minds of says goodnight to the latest generationbear statue outside. A book about two balls of icy snow doesn't sound muchEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, but add a scarf, coal eyes and a carrot nose, and the transformation is astonishingcolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184857424X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}