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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toby Forward and Ruth BrownAdam Stower|title=The Quayside CatMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Sometimes it's good Murray is supposed to be wronga 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. I But he's a bad magician'd s cat, so his favourite bun has been keen to review ''The Quayside Cat'' almost entirely because of turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the beautiful colour palette of catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the front cover – and also because I spend quite regular back garden, but into a lot world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time hanging around on quaysides. But then I began to get cold feet round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – had I been guilty of the classic adult sinwell, one much bigger than Murray was, choosing a book because it appealed to me be honest, but he's turned up and with no thought of whether the children would like it?he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783441046</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Thurlby1732898766|title=NumbersThe 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=Is it art or When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it pedagogy? That’s a weighty question to start won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a review ladder of a children’s picture bookmoss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. When They climbed up to the book Tree Wee homes high up in question is 'Numbers' by Paul Thurlby thoughthe tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, it’s central to whether you will love this volume or notNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918753</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Illustrated Old PossumWinter Visitor|author=T S Eliot Chris Green and Nicolas BentleyJenny Fionda|rating=45|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=This title is clearly of importance Kit and Teal were just beginning to the house of Faber. To this day their puff mentions wonder whether it was one of their first childrens' booksbetter to be at home, after the author sent his publisher's sonbored but warm, his godson, some writings based or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on jellicle cats and some a snowy beach when a large slab of their scrapessilvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. It's clearly On top of the ice was a book that's important to Andrew Lloyd Webberpolar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, too, but we'll gloss speedily over thatthe bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. It's a book that Kit was important to me as well – I certainly had all for making a copyrun for it, a thin, barely illustrated, old-fashioned style paperback of it once I had seen but Teal knew that the musicalbear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. And with He obviously needed to be taken home on the excellent writing here bus and the ability of it given a good meal and somewhere to delight so many people of so many ages, it has the power to be important to a future generationsleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Nonsense Limericks (Faber ChildrenLet's Classics)Celebrate Being Different|author=Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)Lainey Dee|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=There Todd was a young man whose critique<br>Of excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this book as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was submitted one week<br>When they asked 'Was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it fine?'<br>He said 'No denyin' –<br>'There's very little here they could tweak!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>might be because he looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Rudey's Windy ChristmasThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Helen Baugh Amy Sparkes and Ben MantleKatie Hickey
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|summary=We all know that at this time 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 year there are ohthe park but David couldn't -sohe'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David -many Christmas and Santa related stories was happy to choose use the coins fromher money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. How do you pick which ones to buy or read? Well Gradually, the answer David learned to that is if you’ve got small boys or girls who tend towards potty humourstand up, then this is use the book bus for you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007542828</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Polly Parrot Picks a Pirate|author=Peter Bently support, and Penny Dann|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Anyone who has anything to do with little children will know that you can never have too many pirateswalk behind it. There are pirate costumes Many decades later, pirate television showsElsie brought the bus, now damaged and here we have another pirate book. In this fun and entertaining talerusted, to the Repair Shop, we find out how Polly hoping that the parrot goes about choosing a pirate as experts there could make it so that her petgrandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447223438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Owl and the Pussy-catChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Edward Lear, Charlotte Voake Amy Sparkes and Julia DonaldsonKatie Hickey
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|summary=This is a poem which has always resonated with me, because there is something Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about it which is nothing short of magicalhow she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. It taps into that part She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of children which still love nursery rhymesMr and Mrs Russell, or who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to pretend they fly herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the moon baking and when they go it came to sleepChristmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. This edition is beautifully laid out, and I would happily buy it in a heartbeat The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>072329321X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Katie's London ChristmasSqueakily Baby|author=James MayhewBeth Webb
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|summary=We have never been strict about Christmas in our houseMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. ItHe's usually my husband who starts itso tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, with a carol or two during the summer! he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. Itrocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush's hard to resist that Christmas urge if you're . Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a die-hard fan of sandy beach and you have the season! sound perfectly. I have a friend who keeps all her Christmas related stories safely The mermaids join in a cupboard- ''la lou, brought out in a special basket only during the season itselfla lay... '' We, meanwhile, have Christmas stories all year round because, honestly, who doesn't like And for a bit of Father Christmas magic now and then?! Anyway, this is all moment it seems 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! worked as Baby closes his eyes. Katie is back, Then a seagull '''shouts''' and heading back to London, but this time shewe know exactly what's on a mission going to help Father Christmas..happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326418</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=How the Library (Not the Prince) Saved RapunzelA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Wendy Meddour and Rebecca AshdownBriony May Smith
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|summary=When IPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired'm not reading books, or being a mum, I'm busy being a librarian, so of course I wanted nearly getting squished as she tried to read this book! Poor Rapunzel is down in cross the dumpsOld Oak Road. As She wrote to the mayor about the story tells us, problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she had nowhere to go, saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she had nothing to prove''would set up something similar herself. If this Her uniform and lollipop stick were an adult story she'd be diagnosed both a little amateur to start with depression, but since we're in the realm of pictures books we merely see a queue of people who drop by to visit Rapunzel, asking her to let down her hair so that they can deliver things to her or come by benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and visit who fail completely Hedgehog was even trained up to entice her out of her flat, or for her to let down her hair to let them inprovide a safe path overnight. 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=1776574338|title=Robert CrowtherLeilong's Pop up Dinosaur AlphabetToo Long!|author=Robert CrowtherJulia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5
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|summary=ABC books could stand for A Boring ConceptEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, but you might want picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to wait until you find go downstairs – they simply climb out what of the D is before making a decisionwindow and slide down his neck. In this case D stands for Dinosaurs and there is nothing boring about them. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is also nothing boring about pop-upsa problem, though. The two together may just join 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 traffic regularly gets snarled up to make something pretty special. Use this book to learn your basic alphabet and gain The school decides that he can't be the some pretty intellectual knowledge on dinosaurs; from Allosaurus to Zapalasaurusbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348643</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Seen and Not HeardBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Katie May GreenDavid Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=During I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the day 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. We have the eight children of Shiverhawk Hall are seen elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and not heard for they are images captured on canvasthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'Don’t they look so sweet and good, so well behaved like children should?' They certainly look (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a picture, picked out in the silvery moonlight''sm....... As night sets in and all is quiet'' OK, only the black cat and a handful of mice let's not go there Some people are there to see the portraits come to life and step out of their frames. What mischief can these children from across the ages make? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346519</amazonuk>eating!
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{{Frontpage
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|summary=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 parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The It Doesn't Matter Suit Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Other StoriesHare|author=Sylvia Plath and David RobertsCordellya Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=IWhen 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 ''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 won't gain much insight perhaps into why they were famous, but you will find more entertainment and greater pleasures by staying outside the canonfuture. And the lovely people at Faber and Faber have a case in point – rather than plough through serious dross from EliotRabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, why not stick the ability to [[The Illustrated Old Possum by T S Eliot and Nicolas Bentley]]? use it well. He liked to trick other animals. And He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Sylvia Plath I cannot Turtle. You might think of that's not a better place to start with her oeuvre than with these snappy fair contest but wait and delightful pagessee. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314643</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dog on StiltsRob Keeley|authortitle=James Thorp and Angus MackinnonCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=34
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|summary=Once you have reached adulthood Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, never try cabbage and understand what aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is going on with a child’s imagination. Whilst keen to explain how good they can sit on the floor are for you and talk how nice to their imaginary friendseat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, from the age of 20+ this is suddenly frowned upon. A child can think of crazy and wonderful things who tells her that would not even cross an adult’s mindcarrots grow on trees. That is unless you are an author of children’s booksInfuriated, then you can come up Lily checks with an idea as strange as a dog the teacher, who likes explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to use stiltstell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909428051</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{Frontpage
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|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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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.''
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=One Christmas NightJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Christina M Butler and Tina MacNaughtonEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=If you regularly read children’s books 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 Father Christmas , that is. But horribly embarrassing if you are probably as amazed as I am that he ever gets let one go at the job donewrong time. It would appear that almost every year some sort of problem befalls old Santa Claus In class, say, when everyone will hear it and he has to ask for helpeveryone will laugh. At you. I can understand getting aid from his elves, his reindeers or even the tooth fairy Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at a push, but a hedgehog? However, this is not just any hedgehogshame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, but Little Hedgehog and with the aid of friends and a fluffy scarffamiliar humour attached, Hedgehog may just get the job done in timeexplains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848952422</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Monsters Love Underpants Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Claire Freedman Justine Avery and Ben CortSeema Amjad
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|summary=''Who loves underpantsNeeds Nappies? EVERYONE loves underpantsNot Me! We’ve already explored how aliens love them, how cavemen love them, '' 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 and how pirates love themreplace it with some fun. Who else could there possibly be? Oh yesIt's a worthy aim, that’s right…as any frustrated parent will tell you. Monsters! Claire Freedman and and Ben Cort are back with yet another tale about pingy pants elastic .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385710</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Do You Speak English, Moon?When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Francesca Simon, Ben Cort and Lenny HenryPeter Cotton
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|summary=Night can Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be a scary time meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a child, with shadows playing tricks on the walls and no daylight to make everything seem okaybit more about Fred. Do You Speak English, Moon? Fred is a great book for this situation, with snake and even those of us who have a little boy deciding the best thing to do is phobia about snakes are going to talk warm to the moonhim. He asks arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the moon some lovely and magical questions before finally snuggling down and going family, to sleepthe extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. This is an excellent way to try and make And that was where the dark just a little less of a fearful place for young childrenproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409151050</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rattle Justine Avery and RapNaday Meldova|authortitle=Susan SteggallEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=ApparentlyCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, back in the days of steamas any parent will tell you. But really, every little boy used to dream of being an engine driver. The trains in ''Rattle and Rap'why shouldn' are t it be? We 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 have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to find engaging non-fiction for the under fiveslearn about everything else when we are small. With the focus on vehiclesWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, Susan Stegall takes a staple of many a children’s book butsay, unlike some other authors, she treats learning about why the subject with imagination sun and creativity. It’s enough to make an anthropomorphised tank engine blush.the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805833</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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|author=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova
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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=What A Wonderful WorldThe Farm Shop|author=Bob ThieleDevon Avery, George David Weiss Justine Avery and Tim HopgoodEma Tepic
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|summary=''What a Wonderful World'' is a book Kirelle and accompanying CD set based on her best friend Sam the Louis Armstrong songcat decide to go for a walk. In fact it Kirelle is the book dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and CD of that song Sam is perfectly turned out as it’s not a new story or a padded out version ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the originalhill, it’s simply an illustrated version of the lyricsthey see a big barn with a sign outside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736906</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=It's Snow Day|author=Richard Curtis and Rebecca Cobb|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all remember the best sort of school days, don’t we? Snow daysstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. Waking up in the morning There are sheep and ducks and seeing the glow of white through the curtainscows, goats and looking out of the window to see the whole world of our back gardens chickens, and rooftops turned whiteeven some mice. This is a book all about thatExcited, Kirelle and the only two people who turn up at school on this particular snow daySam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723288925</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Jackie MorrisMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=When your children are very littleSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, it can her mind never on what she should be incredibly difficult to sum up to them what it is you want for their futuredoing. It can also be incredibly difficult to sum up to them just how much you want them to go to sleep of an evening; this book ties up She lives by the two nicely, in what I believe River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to be a really good bedtime storyspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190942854X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=The Cat, the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf and Grandma's WardrobeGold Ted|author=Diane Fox Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Christyan FoxSasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=Have you ever sat down to read One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a story aloud deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to someone spin around and found that they interrupt at every given opportunity, asking questions, making comments, around and generally fidgeting with anything and everything? I'm sure if you've spent any time with a toddler then this will be is sucked down a familiar experience. This story plays drain on that, with a cat trying, very hard, to tell a dog the story side of Little Red Riding Hoodthe street. Finding himself But dog can't sit stilldown in the sewer, and he wants Ted starts to know what Redpanic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE's superpower is' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, because if she has which might look just a cape she must be bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a superhero, kind soul and he's pretty sure that Red must have zapped the wolf dries Ted off and warms him up with her kindness ray when she met him..a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277002</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A Day at the Police Stationbook about believing in yourself|author=Richard ScarryMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=We like Richard Scarry books in our houseRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, My 2 year old son together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has brought me the [[Busiest People Ever by Richard Scarry|Busiest People Ever]] book to read more times than I'd care to think about, small eyes. They are mean but actually I always enjoy it too because there they are not stupid. They are so many things careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and discuss and look forthen push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. The funny illustrations are usually the key selling point for me but actuallySo, in this particular bookwhen Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the story I likedinstigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574940</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=JampiresThe Invisible|author=Sarah McIntyre and David O'ConnellTom Percival|rating=3.5
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|summary=Jampires This is the story of Isobel, a great book explaining why some of your doughnuts might not be as jammy as you’d perhaps likelittle girl who made a big difference. This is Isobel lived with her parents in a really funny premise for house - a children’s book and I really did enjoy reading itvery cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on the whole.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200123</amazonuk>}}:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Line Up, Please!Nick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Tomoko OhmuraOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=I was intrigued by the beginning of this bookMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, which starts is obsessed with a sign declaring that 'the line starts here' and below that bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is a frogBerisford, labelled as being a fromteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, and he also has a number 50 beneath him. What is going on? Turning the page we see that there is a queue she looks out of animals, her bedroom window and that each animal is named and numbered, with the numbers decreasing from 50 downwards. From the start this is the perfect book for a child obsessed with all says goodnight to the different animal species you can namebear statue outside. There's everything in this queue from moles and guinea pigs Every morning she says hello to an armadilloBee Bear, a sloth and a wombatcolourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>187757998X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}