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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Evangeline Lilly Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the 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 Johnny Fraser-Allenhe'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=The SquickerwonkersAdventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Selma is a young girl who finds a strange attraction on the edge of a fair – a large gypsy caravan-styled contraption, which she enters, alone but for her shiny red balloon. She appears to be alone, until nine marionette puppets suddenly appear on the stage within, and a disembodied voice introduces them all to her. They are the Squickerwonkers, and as we are about to see, they can reveal someone's entire character with the simplest of actions…
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{{newreview
|author=Tom Moorhouse and David Roberts
|title=The Adventures of Mr Toad
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Poop poop! Here comes MrWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Toad! The irrepressible Mr Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. Toad returns He's right behind them, accompaniedspewing hot, of coursesour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, by Ratty, Mole they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and Badger in this cheerful picture book version when a ladder of The Wind in the Willowsmoss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. The well-known highlights of They climbed up to the classic tale; the yellow caravan, Tree Wee homes high up in the beautiful cartangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, the shame of Toad's prison stay and his daring escape plus The Weasels and The Stoats are all included Nester Nook and, accompanied by charming illustrations, this is a wonderful way to introduce young children to a classicGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738674</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max VelthuijsB0CC9W7GLR|title=Frog is a HeroOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=Always 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 sucker for snowy beach when a story with a hero, I thoroughly enjoyed this book with Frog as large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the unlikely heroshoreline. It's On top of the ice was a very rainy daypolar bear. At first As the ice bumped onto the rainsand, for Frog at least, is lovely the bear woke and he goes outside dancingwith wobbly legs moved from the ice. But then it starts to get Kit was all for making a little bit too heavy even run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave himone apple and then another. Worried about how his friends are coping with He obviously needed to be taken home on the adverse weather, Frog decides to go bus and see them given a good meal and with everyone's houses leaking, a plan must be formed!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441445</amazonuk>somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Faye Hanson1913839656|title=The WonderLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=Don't judge a book by its cover, they say. It Todd was excited about spending the beautiful cover that weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made me want 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 try the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this gorgeous book as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and still I was not prepared for the stunning illustrations he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that make up the journey into the imagination of the little boy in this thoughtful storyit might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783701145</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Trudi Esberger1529504775|title=The Boy Who Lost His BumbleToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=A Elsie and her little boy loves his garden brother David loved to go to the park and he particularly loves watch the bees that visit it each dayred buses drive past. He is so fascinated by his buzzy friends that Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he gives them each names 'd been born with cerebral palsy and records their habits even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and characteristicswas happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Then Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the weather changesbus for support, and walk behind it grows cold and his bees disappear. Where can they be? Will they come back? The boy is puzzled Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and saddened by their departure and tries hard rusted, to encourage his missing friends to returnthe Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846436613</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross1529504767|title=Rita's RhinoThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Rita really wants a pet, but Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she asks got to her final destination. 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 Mum for one . She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she isn’t so keenrelaxed and began to enjoy her life. They’re smelly She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and greedy when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and take lots of hard workMr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning. Eventually she relents}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, and gives Rita there's something they all dread - a jar with a flea in itsqueakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his name is Haroldblanket and ''wails''. Obviously, Rita isn’t happy with this so she decides The sea offers to take matters into her own handshelp. What will she do It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and how will she manage you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to hide have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a Rhino from her pet-fearing mother?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440252</amazonuk>seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Newbery140639131X|title=The BrockenspectreA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Tommi lives up in the mountains with his parents and his baby sister. Mamma is artistic and paints beautiful designs on chairs and stools and planters for tourists to buy. Pappi is a mountain guide and Tommi's hero - brave and fearless and a lover of his wild mountain home. Tommi wants nothing more than to be like Pappi. But things aren't peaceful at home. Pappi is only truly happy by himself, out amongst the peaks. After just a day or two at home without guiding work, he becomes irritable and critical of Mammi and his children.
 
After an argument one day, Pappi strides out of the house and onto the mountain. And he doesn't return.
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{{newreview
|author=Toby Forward and Ruth Brown
|title=The Quayside Cat
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|summary=Sometimes itPhilippa Pheasant was 's good to be wrong. I'd been keen to review tired''The Quayside Cat'' almost entirely because of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the beautiful colour palette of mayor about the front cover – and also because I spend quite problem but didn't even get a lot of time hanging around on quaysidesreply. But then I began Philippa wasn't a bird to get cold feet – had I been guilty sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the classic adult sin, choosing lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a book because it appealed little amateur to me and start with no thought of whether but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the children would like it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441046</amazonuk>crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Thurlby1776574338|title=NumbersLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=Is it art or is Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, 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 window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it pedagogy? That’s What could be a weighty question more fun way of going to start school? There is a review of a children’s picture bookproblem, though. When Leilong isn't happy in the book in question is city: he'Numberss always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he' by Paul Thurlby though, it’s central s longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to whether you will love this volume or notand traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918753</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=The Illustrated Old PossumBumblebee Grumblebee|author=T S Eliot and Nicolas BentleyDavid Elliott
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=This title is clearly of importance to the house of Faber. To this day their puff mentions it was one of their first childrens' books, after the author sent his publisher's son, his godson, some writings based on jellicle cats and some of their scrapes. It's clearly a book that's important to Andrew Lloyd Webber, too, but we'll gloss speedily over that. It's a book that was important to me as well – I certainly had a copy, a thin, barely illustrated, old-fashioned style paperback of it once I had seen the musical. And with the excellent writing here and the ability of it to delight so many people of so many ages, it has the power to be important to a future generation.
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{{newreview
|title=Nonsense Limericks (Faber Children's Classics)
|author=Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=There was a young man whose critique<br>
Of this book was submitted one week<br>
When they asked 'Was it fine?'<br>
He said 'No denyin' –<br>
'There's very little here they could tweak!'
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{{newreview
|title=Rudey's Windy Christmas
|author=Helen Baugh and Ben Mantle
|rating=4.5
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|summary=We all know I 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 at this time of year there are oh-so-many Christmas you can ''play'' with words and Santa related stories to choose make something quite different fromeach one. How do you pick which ones to buy or read? Well, We have the answer to that elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is if you’ve got small boys or girls a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who tend towards sits on his potty humourchanges into a ''sm.......'' OK, then this is the book for you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007542828</amazonuk>let's not go there Some people are eating!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Polly Parrot Picks a PirateCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Peter Bently and Penny DannEd Boxall
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|summary=Anyone who has anything 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 with little children will know that you can never have too many pirates. There are pirate costumes, pirate television shows, and here we have another pirate bookso the trips out were always so much fun. In this fun and entertaining tale A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, we find out how Polly the parrot goes about choosing a pirate as her pet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447223438</amazonuk>}}who told him:
{{newreview|title=The Owl and the Pussy-cat|author=Edward Lear''It'll be brilliant, Charlotte Voake and Julia Donaldson|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is a poem which has always resonated with mejust remember, because there is something about it which is nothing short don't let go of magical. It taps into that part of children which still love nursery rhymes, or to pretend they fly to the moon when they go to sleep. This edition is beautifully laid out, and I would happily buy it in a heartbeatmy hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>072329321X</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=KatieOtter's London ChristmasCoat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=James MayhewCordellya Smith
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|summary=We have never been strict about Christmas in our houseWhen the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. It's usually my husband who starts it, with Water Spider received a carol or two during strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the summer! Itpresent ''and's hard to resist that Christmas urge if you're a die-hard fan of the season! future. I have a friend who keeps all her Christmas related stories safely in a cupboardRabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, brought out in a special basket only during not the season itselfability to use it well. We, meanwhile, have Christmas stories all year round because, honestly, who doesn't like a bit of Father Christmas magic now and then?! He liked to trick other animals. Anyway, this is all He was also jealous which was how he came to say that here is be in a Christmas story race with Turtle. You might think that some purists will tuck away until Christmas Eve but we have quite happily read during Halloween! Katie is back, and heading back to London, but this time she's on not a mission to help Father Christmasfair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326418</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How the Library (Not the Prince) Saved RapunzelRob Keeley|authortitle=Wendy Meddour and Rebecca AshdownCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=When I'm not reading books Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, or being a mumbroccoli, I'm busy being a librariancabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, so of course I wanted Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to read this book! Poor Rapunzel is down in the dumpseat. As the story tells usOne day, ''she had nowhere to gopoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, she had nothing to prove''who tells her that carrots grow on trees. If this were an adult story she'd be diagnosed Infuriated, Lily checks with depressionthe teacher, but since we're who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the realm of pictures books we merely see a queue of people who drop by to visit Rapunzelground. Jordan says, asking her "I did try to let down tell her hair so that they can deliver things to her or come by , Miss!" and visit who fail completely to entice her out of her flat, or for her to let down her hair to let them ineveryone laughs at poor Lily. What is it she is waiting for? Is she just on hold until her handsome prince comes by?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847804322</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B09FFJF8YS
|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)
|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
|rating=3.5
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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=Robert Crowther's Pop up Dinosaur AlphabetJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Robert CrowtherEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
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|summary=ABC books could stand Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for A Boring Conceptthem, but you might want find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to wait until talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you find out what let one go at the D is before making a decisionwrong time. In this case D stands for Dinosaurs class, say, when everyone will hear it and there is nothing boring about themeveryone will laugh. There is also nothing boring about pop-upsAt you. The two together may just join up to make something pretty special. Use this book to learn your basic alphabet Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and gain calmly, with the some pretty intellectual knowledge on dinosaurs; from Allosaurus to Zapalasaurusfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406348643</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Seen and Who Needs Nappies? Not HeardMe! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Katie May GreenJustine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=During the day the eight children of Shiverhawk Hall are seen and not heard for they are images captured on canvas. 'Don’t they look so sweet and good, so well behaved like children should'Who Needs Nappies?Not Me!'' They certainly look a picture, picked out is the latest release in the silvery moonlight''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. As night sets in and all is quiet, only the black cat and a handful This series of mice are there fun picture books aims to see take the portraits come to life and step pain out of their framespotty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. . What mischief can these children from across the ages make? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346519</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=The It Doesn't Matter Suit When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Other StoriesMended|author=Sylvia Plath and David RobertsPeter Cotton
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|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I've said it before and m getting ahead of myself: I'll say it again, that d better tell you should always approach classical authors through their least typical, shortest and a bit 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 canonabout Fred. And the lovely people at Faber Fred is a snake and Faber even those of us who have a case in point – rather than plough through serious dross from Eliot, why not stick phobia about snakes are going to warm to [[The Illustrated Old Possum by T S Eliot and Nicolas Bentley]]? him. And He arrived as a present in a box with Sylvia Plath I cannot think holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of a better place the family, to start the extent that they would take Fred out with her oeuvre than with these snappy and delightful pagesthem when they went out for a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314643</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dog on StiltsJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=James Thorp and Angus MackinnonEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=34
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|summary=Once Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you . But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have reached adulthoodto learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, never try say, learning about why the sun 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 moon take turns in 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.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909428051</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreview|title=TwinkleFrontpage|author=Katharine Holabird Justine Avery and Sarah WarburtonNaday Meldova|ratingtitle=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Pink. Glitter. Magic. Right from the start this book has all the ingredients needed to be a hit with little girls. I hate to stereotype but there’s no denying it with this one. From the author of ''Angelina Ballerina'' comes the first in a newNo, No, rather magical series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444913387</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=One Christmas Night|author=Christina M Butler and Tina MacNaughtonNo!
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|summary=If you regularly read children’s They say the best picture books about Father Christmas you are probably as amazed as I am that he ever gets the job donesimplest ones. It would appear that almost every year some sort And nothing could be truer of problem befalls old Santa Claus and he has to ask for help. I can understand getting aid this latest from his elves, his reindeers or even the tooth fairy at a push, but a hedgehog? However, this is not just any hedgehogJustine Avery, but Little Hedgehog and with the aid of friends and a fluffy scarf, Hedgehog may just get the job done in timeBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848952422</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Monsters Love Underpants |author=Claire Freedman and Ben Cort|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Who loves underpants? EVERYONE loves underpants! We’ve already explored how aliens love them''No, how cavemen love themNo, and how pirates love them. Who else could there possibly be? Oh yes, that’s right…. MonstersNo! Claire Freedman and and Ben Cort are back with yet another tale about pingy pants elastic'' is based around the simplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385710</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Do You Speak English''No, Moon?|author=Francesca Simonno, Ben Cort and Lenny Henry|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Night can be a scary time for a childno! Okay, with shadows playing tricks on the walls and no daylight to make everything seem okay. Do You Speak EnglishYes, Moon? is a great book for this situation, with a little boy deciding the best thing to do is to talk to the moon. He asks the moon some lovely and magical questions before finally snuggling down and going to sleep. This is an excellent way to try and make the dark just a little less of a fearful place for young childrenyou may.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409151050</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=Rattle and Rap|author=Susan Steggall|rating=4.5|genre=ChildrenThat's Non-Fiction|summary=Apparentlyit! But, back in like all the days of steambest picture books, every little boy used to dream this tiny snippet 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 text is one in a series of vehicleveritable tardis -themed books aimed at pre-schoolers. It’s unusual to find engaging non-fiction for the under fives. With so much bigger on the focus inside that it appears 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 blushoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805833</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=194812467X
|title=The Farm Shop
|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=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 his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, 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 customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.
{{newreview|title=Secrets of the Rainforest: A Shine-a-Light Book|author=Carron Brown and Alyssa Nassner|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The rainforest is bustling with life. If we look closely, we What will be able to spot the animals living there. Some are hiding in the trees, some under leaves or behind rocks. There are plenty of secrets to discover. And to become a special rainforest explorer, you will need a torch, or a bright light, because that is the key to spotting all of those hidden creatures...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401490</amazonuk>they buy?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=The Tooth Fairy's ChristmasSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Peter Bently Maureen Duffy and Garry ParsonsAnita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=If I had Sadie's mother always said that she was a choice of being a magical figure I would choose someone like Father Christmas over the Tooth Fairy. Yesdreamer, he may her mind never on what she should be morbidly obese, but doing. She lives by the River Thames at least he only has Greenwich and she loves to work really hard on one day of the year. spend hours at The Tooth Fairy has to work all year round, including Christmas DayMaritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Thankfully, all these magical folk appear to be in some sort of union, so when the weather is too bad on 24th December you can always rely on St Nick to help you out|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918346</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|title=Over ''When all the Hills and Far Awayhouses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|author=Elizabeth Hammill (Editor)''To the Maritime Museum''. |rating=5 |genre=ChildrenHer imagination was fired. She's Rhymes d love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and Verse|summary=I’m a bit picky on behalf of my toddlerwent back regularly. See One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the word ‘Treasury’ one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and I expect him to be treated to a volume he will want to pass on to his own children. Anything less missed the closing bell and I am disappointed. I’m relieved to get one thing straight from the startattendant's warning shout. This one’s a gem - a gorgeous joy When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of a book an adventure that you will just want to keep opening again and again. It’s not she could never have imagined in a question world of whether it is worthy of hypothetical grandchildrendolphins, pirates, it’s more a question of how well thumbed it will be when they get itmermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804063</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=What A Wonderful WorldLittle Gold Ted|author=Bob ThieleVanessa Wiercioch, George David Weiss Poppy Satha and Tim HopgoodSasha Satha
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|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It''What s quite a Wonderful World'' deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a book and accompanying CD set based drain on the Louis Armstrong songside of the street. In fact it is Finding himself down in the book sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and CD alerts the attention of that song as it’s not a new story or a padded Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out version of the originaldirty water using his cane, it’s simply which might look just a bit like an illustrated version old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of the lyricsbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736906</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=It's Snow DayRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Richard Curtis Mayuri Naidoo and Rebecca CobbCaroline Siegal|rating=54
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|summary=We all remember the best sort of Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school daysbully Jayden, don’t we? Snow days. Waking up in the morning together with his sidekicks Ryan and seeing the glow of white through the curtainsBrandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and looking out of the window has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the whole world of our back gardens and rooftops turned whiteother kids are around. This is a book all about thatSo, when Remy reacts, and it looks as though he was the only two people who turn up instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school on this particular snow dayand the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723288925</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=The Crocodile Under the BedInvisible|author=Judith KerrTom Percival|rating=4.5
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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 This is back with ''The Crocodile Under the Bed'', which I’m fairly certain is going to join it in classic status before too long. This timestory of Isobel, Matty is a little boy girl who wants desperately to go to the party but he gets sick so can’t gomade a big difference. He’s having no fun Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, but there’s somebody who is pretty sure he can help with that; the crocodile under because her parents couldn't afford to put the bed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007586752</amazonuk>}}heating on:
{{newreview|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)|author=Jackie Morris|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=You probably haven't heard 'Ice curled across the inside of Mergichans – although if you pronounce it correctly in your head, in connection with spirits and magic, you will work out what they are. One of them is the totem, if you like, of a hidden Himalayan valley, window and she is in crept up the form corner of a snow leopard, singing existence as she sees fit and protecting the Shangri-La type locationbedpost. But she cannot protect it from all-comers, least of all when she's trying to sing to find a successor. Mergichans do not have it all their own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>}}'
{{newreview|title=What Will I Be?|author=Richard Sinclair The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and Jon Lycett-Smith|rating=4they were happy.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When your children are very little, it can be incredibly difficult Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to sum up move to them what it is you want for their futurethe far side of the city. It can also be incredibly difficult to sum up to them just how much you want them to go to sleep This part of an evening; this book ties up the two nicelycity was cold, in what I believe to be a really good bedtime storysad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190942854X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Something About a BearNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Jackie MorrisOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary=I'm partial to a book about bearsMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, as I've mentioned who lives in previous reviewsBeartown, so I jumped at the chance to read this bookis obsessed with bears. I could give you a couple of paragraphs just on the cover art if you like! I'm not fussy She collects books about my bears in bear books...I'm not a purist, requiring that they all look like real bearsHer favourite toy is Berisford, but in this book the illustrations are really wonderfully done. Mr Bear on the cover is a delightfully serious brown teddy bearpassed down by her grandmother. I have a friend who declares picture books for children with artwork like this are wasted on small childrenEvery night, but I'd beg she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to disagreethe bear statue outside. I think that it's wonderful Every morning she says hello to be able to provide your child with a range of artistic styles to enjoy and appreciate. There's a place for the [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|Gruffalo]] styleBee Bear, or [[:Category: Richard Scarry|Richard Scarry]], but I think there's also a place for these books colourful painted bear that are made of beautiful paintingslives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805167</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{newreview|title=The Cat, the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf and Grandma's Wardrobe|author=Diane Fox and Christyan Fox|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Have you 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 everything? I'm sure if you've spent any time with a toddler then this will be a familiar experience. This story plays Move on that, with a cat trying, very hard, to tell a dog the story of Little Red Riding Hood. But dog can't sit still, and he wants to know what Red's superpower is, because if she has a cape she must be a superhero, and he's pretty sure that Red must have zapped the wolf with her kindness ray when she met him...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277002</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]