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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rudey's Windy ChristmasAdam Stower|authortitle=Helen Baugh Murray and Ben MantleBun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=We all know that at this time of year there are oh-so-many Christmas Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and Santa related stories friendly cat, one who is able to choose fromsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. How do you pick which ones to buy or read? Well But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the answer to that is if you’ve got small boys or girls who tend towards potty humourcatflap they both use can chuck them out, then this is not into the book for youregular 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007542828</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Polly Parrot Picks a PirateThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Peter Bently Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Penny DannIndre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Anyone who When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has anything to do with little children will know that you can never have too many piratescome about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. There are pirate costumes He's right behind them, pirate television showsspewing hot, and here we have another pirate booksour milk from his nostrils. In (Please don't try this fun at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and entertaining talewhen a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, we find out how Polly they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the parrot goes about choosing a pirate as her pettangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447223438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Owl and the Pussy-catWinter Visitor|author=Edward Lear, Charlotte Voake Chris Green and Julia DonaldsonJenny Fionda
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|summary=This is Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a poem which has always resonated with me, because there is something about it which is nothing short snowy beach when a large slab of magicalsilvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. It taps into that part On top of children which still love nursery rhymesthe ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, or to pretend they fly but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the moon when they go bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. This edition is beautifully laid out, and I What else would happily buy it in a heartbeat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>072329321X</amazonuk>you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=KatieLet's London ChristmasCelebrate Being Different|author=James MayhewLainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=We have never been strict Todd was excited about Christmas in our house. It's usually my husband who starts it, spending the weekend with a carol or two during the summer! It's hard to resist that Christmas urge if you're a die-hard fan of the season! I have a friend who keeps all her Christmas related stories safely in a cupboardhis grandmother, brought out in a special basket only during not least because she made the season itselfbest beetle juice. We, meanwhile, have Christmas stories all year round because, honestly, who doesn't like a bit He packed two pairs of Father Christmas magic now dungarees and his favourite hat and then?! gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Anyway, She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this is all as he wanted to say that here is a Christmas story that some purists will tuck away until Christmas Eve but we have quite happily read during Halloween! make new friends. Katie is backAt home, his only friend was his mum and heading back to London, but this time she's on a mission to help Father Christmas.he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326418</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=How the Library The Toy Bus (Not the PrinceThe Repair Shop Stories) Saved Rapunzel|author=Wendy Meddour Amy Sparkes and Rebecca AshdownKatie Hickey
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|summary=When I'm not reading books, or being a mum, I'm busy being a librarian, so of course I wanted Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to read this book! Poor Rapunzel is down in the dumpspark and watch the red buses drive past. As Elsie would race the story tells us, ''she had nowhere to go, she had nothing to provebuses 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. If this were an adult story she'd be diagnosed with depression, but since we're One day Elsie spotted a bus in the realm of pictures books we merely see a queue of people who drop by toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to visit Rapunzel, asking use the coins from her money box to let down her hair so that they can deliver things to her or come by and visit who fail completely pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to entice her out of her flatstand up, or use the bus for her to let down her hair to let them insupport, and walk behind it. What is Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it she is waiting for? Is she just on hold until so that her handsome prince comes by?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804322</amazonuk>grandchildren could play with it.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Robert Crowther's Pop up Dinosaur AlphabetThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Robert CrowtherAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=ABC books could stand for A Boring Concept, but you might want Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to wait until you find out what the D is before making a decisionher final destination. In this case D stands for Dinosaurs She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and there is nothing boring about themMrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. There is also nothing boring about popShe even had her own room -upsall to herself. The two together may just join up Gradually she relaxed and began to make something pretty specialenjoy her life. Use this book She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to learn your basic alphabet Christmas Eve Susan and gain Mr Russell put the some pretty intellectual knowledge decorations on dinosaurs; from Allosaurus to Zapalasaurusthe Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348643</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Seen and Not HeardSqueakily Baby|author=Katie May GreenBeth Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=During the day the eight children of Shiverhawk Hall are seen and not heard for Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they are images captured on canvasall dread - a squeakily baby. He'Don’t they look s so sweet tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and good''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, so well behaved like children should?hush'' They certainly look . Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a picture, picked out in sandy beach and you have the silvery moonlightsound perfectly. As night sets The mermaids join in and all is quiet- ''la lou, only the black cat and la lay...'' And for a handful of mice are there moment it seems to see the portraits come have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to life and step out of their frameshappen next. What mischief can these children from across the ages make? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346519</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other StoriesA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Sylvia Plath and David RobertsBriony May Smith
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|summary=IPhilippa Pheasant was 've said it before and I'll say it again, that you should always approach classical authors through their least typical, shortest and more individual works – you wontired''t gain much insight perhaps into why they were famous, but you will find more entertainment and greater pleasures by staying outside of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the canonOld Oak Road. And She wrote to the lovely people at Faber and Faber have mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a case in point – rather than plough through serious dross from Eliot, why not stick bird to [[The Illustrated Old Possum by T S Eliot sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and Nicolas Bentley]]? decided that she would set up something similar herself. And with Sylvia Plath I cannot think of Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a better place little amateur to start with her oeuvre than with these snappy but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and delightful pagesHedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314643</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Dog on StiltsLeilong's Too Long!|author=James Thorp Julia Liu and Angus MackinnonBei Lynn|rating=34
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|summary=Once you have reached adulthoodEvery morning Leilong, never try and understand what is going on with a child’s imaginationthe brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Whilst Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they can sit on simply climb out of the floor window and talk to their imaginary friendsslide down his neck. It's perfect, from the age isn't it? What could be a more fun way of 20+ this going to school? There is suddenly frowned upona problem, though. A child can think of crazy 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 tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and wonderful things that would not even cross an adult’s mindtraffic regularly gets snarled up. That is unless you are an author of children’s books, then you The school decides that he can come up with an idea as strange as a dog who likes to use stilts't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909428051</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=TwinkleBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Katharine Holabird and Sarah WarburtonDavid Elliott|rating=54
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|summary=PinkI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Glitter. Magic We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. Right from the start this book The buffalo who has all the ingredients needed to be had a hit bath (complete with little girls. I hate to stereotype but there’s no denying it yellow duck) and then dries off with this onea hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. From the author of The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''Angelina Ballerinacrynoceros'' comes the first in (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a new''sm.......'' OK, rather magical series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444913387</amazonuk>let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=One Christmas NightCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Christina M Butler and Tina MacNaughtonEd Boxall
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|summary=If you regularly read children’s books about Father Christmas you are probably as amazed as I am It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that he ever gets parents do, so the job donetrips out were always so much fun. It would appear that almost every year some sort of problem befalls old Santa Claus and he has A young boy was going to ask for help. I can understand getting aid from his elves, his reindeers or even the tooth fairy at a push, but a hedgehog? However, this is not just any hedgehog, but Little Hedgehog and carnival with the aid of friends and a fluffy scarfhis Grandad, Hedgehog may just get the job done in time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848952422</amazonuk>}}who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Do You Speak English, Moon?Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Francesca Simon, Ben Cort and Lenny HenryCordellya Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=Night can be When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a scary time for protector. Water Spider received a child, with shadows playing tricks on strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the walls present ''and no daylight to make everything seem okay'' the future. Do You Speak English Rabbit developed intelligence - but, Moon? is a great book for this situationunfortunately, with a little boy deciding not the best thing ability to do is to talk to the moonuse it well. He asks the moon some lovely and magical questions before finally snuggling down and going liked to sleeptrick other animals. This is an excellent way He was also jealous which was how he came to try and make the dark just be in a little less of race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fearful place for young childrenfair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409151050</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=Rattle and RapFrontpage|author=Susan Steggall|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=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>}} {{newreviewRob Keeley|title=Secrets of the Rainforest: A Shine-a-Light Book|author=Carron Brown and Alyssa NassnerCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=The rainforest is bustling with life Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. If we look closelyShe likes carrots, broccoli, we will be able to spot the animals living therecabbage and aubergines. Some are hiding in the treesWhen her friends at school turn up their noses, some under leaves or behind rocks. There Lily is keen to explain how good they are plenty of secrets for you and how nice to discovereat. And to become a special rainforest explorerOne day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, you will need a torchwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, or a bright lightLily checks with the teacher, because who explains that is fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the key ground. Jordan says, "I did try to spotting all of those hidden creatures..tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782401490</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=The Tooth FairyYou Can's Christmast Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Peter Bently Justine Avery and Garry ParsonsKate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=If I had a choice of being a magical figure I would choose someone like Father Christmas over ''For the Tooth Fairy. Yesbig, he may be morbidly obesegrownup girls out there, but at least he only has to work really hard on one day of the year. The Tooth Fairy has to work all year round, including Christmas Day. Thankfully, all these magical folk appear to be potty masters in some sort of uniontraining, so when "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the weather is too bad on 24th December you can always rely on St Nick to help you out|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918346</amazonuk>}}big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''
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=What A Wonderful WorldJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Bob Thiele, George David Weiss and Tim HopgoodEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=''What Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a Wonderful World'child that doesn' t find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is a book and accompanying CD set based on . But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the Louis Armstrong songwrong time. In fact class, say, when everyone will hear it is the book and CD of that song as it’s not a new story or a padded out version of 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 originalfamiliar humour attached, it’s simply an illustrated version of the lyricsexplains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192736906</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=It's Snow DayWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Richard Curtis Justine Avery and Rebecca CobbSeema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=We all remember ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the best sort of school days, don’t we? Snow days. Waking up latest release in the morning and seeing the glow ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of white through fun picture books aims to take the curtains, and looking pain out of the window to see the whole world of our back gardens potty training children and rooftops turned whitereplace it with some fun. This is It's a book all about thatworthy aim, and the only two people who turn up at school on this particular snow dayas any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723288925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=The Crocodile Under When Fred the BedSnake Got Squished and Mended|author=Judith KerrPeter Cotton
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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]]Meet Fred. Well, actually, and now she is back with ''The Crocodile Under the Bedyou'', which I’m fairly certain is re going to join it in classic status before be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too longobvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. This time, Matty Fred is a little boy snake and even those of us who wants desperately have a phobia about snakes are going to go warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the party but he gets sick so can’t go. He’s having no funfamily, but there’s somebody who is pretty sure he can help to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that; was where the crocodile under the bed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007586752</amazonuk>problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Snow Leopard Everybody Pees! (Mini EditionEverybody Potties!)|author=Jackie Morris|rating=3.54|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=You probably havenCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't heard of Mergichans – although if you pronounce it correctly in your head, in connection with spirits and magic, you as any parent will work out what they are. One of them is the totem, if tell you like, of a hidden Himalayan valley, and she is in the form of a snow leopard, singing existence as she sees fit and protecting the Shangri-La type location. But she cannot protect really, why shouldn't it from be? We all-comers, least of all when she's trying have to sing learn about our bodily functions just as we have to find a successorlearn about everything else when we are small. Mergichans do not have it all their own way…Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=A Day at the Police StationThe Farm Shop|author=Richard ScarryDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=We like Richard Scarry books Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in our househis smart grey fur coat. My 2 year old son has brought me As they walk to the top of the [[Busiest People Ever by Richard Scarry|Busiest People Ever]] book to read more times than I'd care to think abouthill, but actually I always enjoy it too because there are so many things to they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and discuss and look forcustomers are farmyard animals. The funny illustrations There are usually the key selling point for me but actuallysheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, in this particular bookand even some mice. Excited, it was the story I likedKirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574940</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=JampiresSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Sarah McIntyre Maureen Duffy and David O'ConnellAnita Joice
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|summary=Jampires is Sadie's mother always said that she was a great book explaining why some of your doughnuts might not dreamer, her mind never on what she should be as jammy as you’d perhaps likedoing. This is a really funny premise for a children’s book She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and I really did enjoy reading it, on the wholeshe loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200123</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Bears Don't Read!Little Gold Ted|author=Emma Chichester ClarkVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=I'm One day, Gold Ted falls into a sucker for bear storiespuddle. I find that I am very rarely disappointed by It's quite a book with a bear in itdeep puddle and the water is swirling. Certainly, this particular bear book Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is charming, with lots sucked down a drain on the side of appeal for both bear-lovers and book-lovers too! the street. Finding himself George is no common beardown in the sewer, oh noTed starts to panic. He's 'OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the sort attention of bear Reg the sewer rat, who sits on a bench, thinking about the meaning plucks him out of life. No longer wanting to do the usual bear sort of thingsdirty water using his cane, he feels that he needs morewhich might look just a bit like an old cricket bat...but what can Reg is a kind soul and he do? One day he happens to stumble upon a book dries Ted off and, warms him up with it, the new ambition for his lifea nice bowl of broth. George needs to learn how to read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000742518X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Line Up, Please!Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Tomoko OhmuraMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=I was intrigued by the beginning of this bookRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, which starts together with a sign declaring that 'the line starts here' his sidekicks Ryan and below that is a frogBrandon, labelled as being a fromhave been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and he also has a number 50 beneath himsmall eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. What is going on? Turning the page we They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that there is a queue of animalslittle bit further when the other kids are around. So, and that each animal is named and numberedwhen Remy reacts, with it looks as though he was the numbers decreasing from 50 downwardsinstigator. From the start this is And then he gets into trouble at school and the perfect book for a child obsessed with all the different animal species you can name. Thereteachers don's everything in this queue from moles and guinea pigs t believe him when he tries to an armadillo, a sloth and a wombat!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>187757998X</amazonuk>explain what happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Doughnuts for a DragonThe Invisible|author=Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Lee WildishTom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Doughnuts for a Dragon'' does pretty much what it says on This is the tinstory of Isobel, with George heading off on a mission to find little girl who made a dragonbig difference. In [[Marshmallows for Martians by Lee Wildish, Adam Guillain and Charlotte Guillain|Marshmallows for Martians]] he built himself a spaceship Isobel lived with her parents in order to hunt for extraterrestrial life, but this time his plan requires a time machine house - I meana very cold house, how else are you going because her parents couldn't afford to find a Dragon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405270543</amazonuk>}}put the heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Scarf Nick Jones and a HalfSi Clark|authortitle=Amanda Brandon and Catalina EcheverriOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=A Scarf Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a Half follows the story teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of Little Lionel, whose Granny just loves her bedroom window and says goodnight to knitthe bear statue outside. When Every morning she knits him a scarf for his birthday, he just can’t help but be disappointedsays hello to Bee Bear, after all it isn’t a nice bouncy ballcolourful painted bear that lives at her school. But it isn’t just any old scarf, Granny loves knitting so much that it’s a scarf and a half, and luckily for Lionel his friends are She even has bears on hand to show him just how many different uses it could have.her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848861168</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}