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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Offill and Chris AppelhansAdam Stower|title=Sparky!Murray and Bun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=There are so many books about unusual petsMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, that I was whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a little wary when first opening this book. On one handbad magician's cat, it’s so his favourite bun has been turned into a subject which I think works really well hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and is always popular. On the other handcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, is but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it over done? I needn’t have worrieddrops them into a Viking land, this book where a troll hunter is really ever so slightly different. It’s aimed at an older readerexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, I’d say primary school ageto be honest, but he's turned up and in the end it makes for a pretty poignant read.he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014862</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Margaret Wild The Adventures of Birpus and Deborah NilandBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=This Little Piggy Went DancingWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=34
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|summary=There are classics 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 nursery rhyme oeuvre and This Little Piggy Sour Milk Dragon is certainly one of chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. Who doesn(Please don't remember someone ticking of each of their fingers or toes as they explained the whereabouts of our porcine pals, only to be tickled try this at the home: it won't end? well.) HoweverFortunately, this is 2014 they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and there must be when a way ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to improve the rhyme; perhaps Tree Wee homes high up in the pigs are eating something different or like a different activity? Or perhaps we should just leave well alone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743315112</amazonuk>tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Kane and Sara ActonB0CC9W7GLR|title=Esther's Rainbow|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=There's something rather magical about rainbows. Even now I find I get a little bit excited when I see one and will rush over to On the window to see how big it is, and where the pot of gold might be! In this rainbow story, Esther spies a rainbow on the floor. When she touches it, it's soft and warm and smells slightly like honey. After the rainbow goes away she finds herself noticing, throughout the week, the different rainbow colours in her every day life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743313705</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBeach: The Winter Visitor|author=B J Novak|title=The Book With No PicturesChris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=My favourite moments of reviewing books are ones Kit and Teal were just like this; when I decide beginning to wonder whether it was better to take be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a chance on snowy beach when a book that I have no idea about but which looks like it might be just large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a little bit interestingpolar 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 turns out they are, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. The Book With No Pictures by B J Novak isn't just He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a little bit interesting, it is staggeringly original good meal and so much funsomewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0803741715</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Gravett1913839656|title=Bear and Hare: Snow!Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=Emily Gravett isTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, let's face it, always good. There are books upon books which are well written and well thought out for not least because she made the preschool market, but I can't help but feel like very young tots are often an after thoughtbest beetle juice. Gravett, however, takes her sweet He packed two pairs of dungarees and witty style his favourite hat and gives it then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to just the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this marketas he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and she is repeatedly excellent at ithe wondered why that could be. There is just as much Grandma thought in her work as with any picture book for a slightly older reader, but that it speaks to small ones in particular and I cannot do anything other than applaud her for thatmight be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273230</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dylan Thomas and Peter Bailey1529504775|title=A Child’s Christmas in WalesThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Christmas time growing Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in a Welsh seaside town the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was magical tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for Dylan Thomassupport, always snowy and full of adventurewalk behind it. From attempting Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to extinguish house fires with snowballs to hippo footprints in the snow his childhood in Repair Shop, hoping that the snow was a time of wonder and pure joyexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kelly L Bingham and Paul O Zelinsky1529504767|title=Circle, Square, MooseThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=If you Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have children you have no doubt read loads worried though as she went to the home of books about shapes; the circleMr and Mrs Russell, the square, the dodecahedronwho couldn't have been kinder to her. They are She even had her own room - all variations of to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the same things – this wheel is round like a circle, this bread reminds me of a square, what decorations on earth is a dodecahedron? Why not spice the book up by throwing in a moose, but not just any mooseChristmas tree. This is a moose that brings chaos to everything he touches and must be chased from The best surprise happened the book!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441860</amazonuk>following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicki Greenberg 1916459943|title=The Naughtiest ReindeerSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=If you made all of Father Christmas’s reindeer line upMuch as mothers love their babies, you would find it pretty tricky to find the naughtiest one among them as there's something they are all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so well behavedtired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. However, there is one reindeer who is so naughty that she does not get asked The sea offers to pull help. It rocks Baby gently and the sleigh very oftenwaves sing ''hush, hush''. On certain occasions needs must Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and when Rudolf is ill on Christmas Eve, you have the only help comes sound perfectly. The mermaids join in the form of - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his little sister Ruby – dear oh deereyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743313047</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kristina Stephenson140639131X|title=Sir Charlie Stinky Socks: The Pirate's CurseA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=Sir Charlie Stinky Socks: the PiratePhilippa Pheasant was ''tired''s Curse passed the grandchild test. The oldest granddaughter, aged 7, chose it for the teatime read of nearly getting squished as she'd already enjoyed another in this seriestried to cross the Old Oak Road. She took wrote to the lead in turning mayor about the pages, opening 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 saw the giant flaps and pointing out details benefits of the plot lollipop lady at the school crossing and jokesdecided that she would set up something similar herself. The varied typefaces Her uniform and sizes made it easy for her beginner reader brother lollipop stick were both a little amateur to join in and start with but the lively story line frequently attracted benefits were obvious. All the attention of animals used the third child who crossing and Hedgehog was sitting on the other side of the table absorbed in even trained up to provide a project of her ownsafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268093</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evangeline Lilly and Johnny Fraser-Allen1776574338|title=The SquickerwonkersLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=Selma is a young girl Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who finds a strange attraction on live at the edge 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? What could be a fair – more fun way of going to school? There is a large gypsy caravan-styled contraption, which she entersproblem, alone but for her shiny red balloonthough. She appears Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be alone, until nine marionette puppets suddenly appear on the stage within, careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a disembodied voice introduces them all tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to herand traffic regularly gets snarled up. They are the Squickerwonkers, and as we are about to see, they The school decides that he can reveal someone's entire character with t be the simplest of actions…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295457</amazonuk>bus anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Moorhouse and David Roberts1776574028|title=The Adventures of Mr ToadBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=Poop poopI love a good board book! Here comes Mr. Toad! The irrepressible Mr. Toad returns ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, accompanied, of course, by Ratty, Mole see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and Badger in this cheerful picture book version of The Wind in make something quite different from each one. We have the Willowselephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The well-known highlights of the classic tale; the buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow caravan, the beautiful car, the shame of Toadduck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''s prison stay and . The rhinoceros who drops his daring escape plus The Weasels and The Stoats are all included and, accompanied by charming illustrations, this ice cream cone is a wonderful way to introduce young children to ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a classic''sm.....|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738674</amazonuk>..'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Velthuijs1838226834|title=Frog is a HeroCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4.5
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|summary=Always a sucker for a story with a hero, I thoroughly enjoyed this book It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with Frog as the unlikely heroour grandparents. ItThey's a very rainy day. At first re there to undo all the raingood that parents do, for Frog at least, is lovely and he goes outside dancingso the trips out were always so much fun. But then it starts A young boy was going to get a little bit too heavy even for him. Worried about how his friends are coping with the adverse weather, Frog decides to go and see them and carnival with everyone's houses leakinghis Grandad, a plan must be formed!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441445</amazonuk>}}who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Trudi EsbergerB09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Boy Who Lost His BumbleReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=A little boy loves his garden and When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he particularly loves the bees could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that visit it each dayeven fire could not burn. He is Owl had excellent sight so fascinated by his buzzy friends that he gives them each names could see the present ''and records their habits and characteristics'' the future. Then Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the weather changes, ability to use it grows cold well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and his bees disappearsee. Where can Things are not always as they be? Will they come back? The boy is puzzled and saddened by their departure and tries hard to encourage his missing friends to returnseem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846436613</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony RossRob Keeley|title=Rita's RhinoCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=Rita really wants a pet, but when she asks her Mum for one she isn’t so keen. They’re smelly and greedy Lily loves eating fruit and take lots of hard workvegetables. Eventually she relentsShe likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and gives Rita a jar with a flea in itaubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, his name Lily is Harold. Obviously, Rita isn’t happy with this so she decides keen to take matters into her own hands. What will she do, explain how good they are for you and how will she manage nice to hide a Rhino from eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her pet-fearing mother?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440252</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Linda Newbery|title=The Brockenspectre|rating=4that carrots grow on trees.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Tommi lives up in Infuriated, Lily checks with the mountains with his parents and his baby sister. Mamma is artistic and paints beautiful designs teacher, who explains that fruits grow on chairs trees 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 vegetables, like Pappi. But things aren't peaceful at home. Pappi is only truly happy by himselfcarrots, out amongst grow in the peaksground. After just a day or two at home without guiding workJordan says, he becomes irritable and critical of Mammi and his children. After an argument one day"I did try to tell her, Pappi strides out of the house Miss!" and onto the mountain. And he doesn't returneveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857551566</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Forward and Ruth BrownB09FFJF8YS|title=The Quayside CatYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=Sometimes it's good to be wrong. I'd been keen to review For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can''The Quayside Cat'' almost entirely because of t Wear Panties!" is a cry (the beautiful colour palette big-girl kind!) of the front cover – toilet triumph and also because I spend quite a lot of time hanging around on quaysidespersevering panty pride. But then I began to get cold feet – had I been guilty of the classic adult sin, choosing a book because it appealed to me and with no thought of whether the children would like it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441046</amazonuk>''}}
And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul ThurlbyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=NumbersEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Is it art or is it pedagogy? That’s Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a weighty question to start a review of a children’s picture bookchild that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. When the book in question is 'Numbers' by Paul Thurlby though, it’s central Funny to whether you will love this volume or not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918753</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Illustrated Old Possum|author=T S Eliot talk about and Nicolas Bentley|rating=4|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=This title joke about, that is clearly of importance to the house of Faber. To this day their puff mentions it was But horribly embarrassing if you let one of their first childrens' books, after go at the author sent his publisher's sonwrong time. In class, his godsonsay, some writings based on jellicle cats when everyone will hear it and some of their scrapeseveryone will laugh. At you. ItJustine Avery's clearly a book thatlatest entry in her ''s important to Andrew Lloyd Webber, too, but weEverybody Potties!'ll gloss speedily over that. It's a book that was important to me as well – I certainly had a copy, a thin, barely illustratedseries takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, 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 agesfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it has the power to be important to a future generation.: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Nonsense Limericks Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Faber Children's ClassicsEverybody Potties!)|author=Edward Lear Justine Avery and Arthur Robins (illustrator)Seema Amjad
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=There was a young man whose critique<br>Of this book was submitted one week<br>When they asked 'Was it fine'Who Needs Nappies?Not Me!'' is the latest release in the '<br>He said 'No denyinEverybody Potties!' –<br>'Thereseries from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's very little here they could tweak!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Rudey's Windy ChristmasWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Helen Baugh and Ben MantlePeter Cotton
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|summary=We Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all know that at this time too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those of year there us who have a phobia about snakes are oh-going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so-many Christmas that he could breathe and Santa related stories immediately became part of the family, to choose fromthe extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. How do you pick which ones to buy or read? Well, the answer to And that is if you’ve got small boys or girls who tend towards potty humour, then this is was where the book for youproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007542828</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Polly Parrot Picks a PirateJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Peter Bently and Penny DannEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Anyone who has anything to do with little children Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will know that tell you can never have too many pirates. There are pirate costumesBut really, pirate television shows, and here why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have another pirate bookto learn about everything else when we are small. In this Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and entertaining tale, we find out how Polly the parrot goes about choosing a pirate as her pet.moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447223438</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=Katie's London ChristmasThe Farm Shop|author=James MayhewDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=We have never been strict about Christmas Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in our househer bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. It's usually my husband who starts itAs they walk to the top of the hill, they see a big barn with a carol or two during the summer! sign outside. It's hard to resist that Christmas urge if you're a die-hard fan of the seasonfarm shop! I have But this is a friend who keeps farm shop with a difference: all her Christmas related stories safely in a cupboard, brought out in a special basket only during the season itselfstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. WeThere are sheep and ducks and cows, meanwhile, have Christmas stories all year round becausegoats and chickens, honestly, who doesn't like a bit of Father Christmas magic now and then?! Anyway, this is all to say that here is a Christmas story that even some purists will tuck away until Christmas Eve but we have quite happily read during Halloween! Katie is backmice. Excited, Kirelle and heading back to London, but this time she's on a mission to help Father Christmas..Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326418</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Robert Crowther's Pop up Dinosaur AlphabetSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Robert CrowtherMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=ABC books could stand for A Boring ConceptSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, but you might want to wait until you find out her mind never on what the D is before making a decisionshe should be doing. In this case D stands for Dinosaurs She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and there is nothing boring about them. There is also nothing boring about pop-ups. she loves to spend hours at The two together may just join up to make something pretty special. Use this book to learn your basic alphabet and gain the some pretty intellectual knowledge on dinosaurs; from Allosaurus to ZapalasaurusMaritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348643</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other StoriesLittle Gold Ted|author=Sylvia Plath Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and David RobertsSasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=IOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It've said it before s quite a deep puddle and I'll say it again, that you should always approach classical authors through their least typical, shortest the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and more individual works – you won't gain much insight perhaps into why they were famous, but you will find more entertainment around and greater pleasures by staying outside is sucked down a drain on the canonside of the street. Finding himself And down in the lovely people at Faber and Faber have a case in point – rather than plough through serious dross from Eliotsewer, why not stick Ted starts to [[The Illustrated Old Possum by T S Eliot panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and Nicolas Bentley]]? And with Sylvia Plath I cannot think alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a better place to start bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with her oeuvre than with these snappy and delightful pagesa nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314643</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Dog on StiltsRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=James Thorp Mayuri Naidoo and Angus MackinnonCaroline Siegal|rating=34
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|summary=Once you have reached adulthood, never try and understand what Remy is going on with a child’s imaginationfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, Whilst they can sit on the floor together with his sidekicks Ryan and talk to their imaginary friendsBrandon, have been laughing at Remy, from the age of 20+ this calling him names because he is suddenly frowned uponshort and has small eyes. A child They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can think of crazy see and wonderful things then push him just that would not even cross an adult’s mindlittle bit further when the other kids are around. That is unless you are an author of children’s booksSo, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then you can come up with an idea as strange as a dog who likes he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to use stiltsexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909428051</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=TwinkleThe Invisible|author=Katharine Holabird and Sarah WarburtonTom Percival
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|summary=Pink. Glitter. Magic. Right from This is the start this book has all the ingredients needed to be story of Isobel, a hit with little girlsgirl who made a big difference. I hate to stereotype but there’s no denying it Isobel lived with this one. From the author of ''Angelina Ballerina'' comes the first her parents in a newhouse - a very cold house, rather magical series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444913387</amazonuk>}}because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Do You Speak English, Moon?Nick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Francesca Simon, Ben Cort and Lenny HenryOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary=Night can be a scary time for a childMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with shadows playing tricks on the walls and no daylight to make everything seem okaybears. She collects books about bears. Do You Speak English, Moon? Her favourite toy is a great book for this situationBerisford, with a little boy deciding the best thing to do is to talk to the moonteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. He asks the moon some lovely and magical questions before finally snuggling down Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and going says goodnight to sleepthe bear statue outside. This is an excellent way Every morning she says hello to try and make the dark just Bee Bear, a little less of a fearful place for young childrencolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409151050</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}