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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Donaldson Adam Stower|title=Murray and Axel SchefflerBun|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 he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Tales from Acorn WoodThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: HideBook One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and-Seek PigIndre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=54
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|summary=Pig When we first meet Birpus and Hen decide to play hide-and-seek and whilst Pig counts to ten, Hen goes off to hideBulbus 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. Pig thinks that sheHe's found Hen straight away when she spots a yellow beak right behind the gatethem, but when we lift the gate flap we discover that the yellow beak belongs to Blackbirdspewing hot, who happily joins in the hunt for Hensour milk from his nostrils. Could that be Hen hiding in a tent? There(Please don's a long brown ear peeping out from behind the flap, but when t try this at home: itwon's lifted, we discover Rabbit, who joins the two hunterst end well. ) She was having Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a drink when she ladder of moss and vines was foundlowered for them, but she brings her mug along they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with hertheir Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny. Before Hen is eventually found we've collected quite a few seekers!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273435</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Offill and Chris AppelhansB0CC9W7GLR|title=Sparky!On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=There are so many books about unusual petsKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, that I was bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a little wary snowy beach when first opening this booka large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On one hand, it’s top of the ice was a subject which I think works really well and is always popularpolar bear. On As the ice bumped onto the other handsand, is the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it over done? I needn’t have worried, this book is really ever so slightly differentbut Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. It’s aimed at an older reader, I’d say primary school age, He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and in the end it makes for given a pretty poignant readgood meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014862</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Wild and Deborah Niland1913839656|title=This Little Piggy Went DancingLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=There are classics Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of the nursery rhyme oeuvre dungarees and his favourite hat and This Little Piggy is certainly one of themthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Who doesn't remember someone ticking of each of their fingers or toes as they explained She had promised to take him to the whereabouts of our porcine pals, only to be tickled Friday Night Club at the end? local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. HoweverAt home, this is 2014 his only friend was his mum and there must he wondered why that could be a way to improve the rhyme; perhaps the pigs are eating something . Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different or like a different activity? Or perhaps we should just leave well alone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743315112</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Kane and Sara Acton1529504775|title=Esther's RainbowThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=ThereElsie 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's something rather magical about rainbowsd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. Even now I find I get One day Elsie spotted a little bit excited when I see one bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and will rush over was happy to use the window coins from her money box to see how big pay for it isas cash was tight at home. Gradually, and where the pot of gold might be! In this rainbow storyDavid learned to stand up, Esther spies a rainbow on use the floor. When she touches itbus for support, and walk behind it's soft and warm and smells slightly like honey. After Many decades later, Elsie brought the rainbow goes away she finds herself noticingbus, throughout now damaged and rusted, to the weekRepair Shop, hoping that the different rainbow colours in experts there could make it so that her every day lifegrandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743313705</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B J Novak1529504767|title=The Book With No PicturesChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=My favourite moments of reviewing books are ones just like this; Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when I decide she got to take a chance on a book that I her final destination. She needn't have no idea about but which looks like it might be just a little bit interestingworried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and it turns out they arebegan to enjoy her life. The Book With No Pictures by B J Novak isn She't just a little bit interesting, d help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it is staggeringly original came to Christmas Eve Susan and so much funMr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0803741715</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Gravett1916459943|title=Bear and Hare: Snow!Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=54
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|summary=Emily Gravett isMuch as mothers love their babies, letthere's face it, always goodsomething they all dread - a squeakily baby. There are books upon books which are well written and well thought out for the preschool market, He's so tired but I he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help but feel like very young tots are often an after thought. Gravett, however, takes her sweet It rocks Baby gently and witty style and gives it to just this marketthe waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and she is repeatedly excellent at ityou have the sound perfectly. There is just as much thought The mermaids join in her work as with any picture book - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a slightly older reader, but moment it speaks seems to small ones in particular have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and I cannot do anything other than applaud her for thatwe know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273230</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dylan Thomas and Peter Bailey140639131X|title=A Child’s Christmas in Wales|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Christmas time growing up in a Welsh seaside town was magical Practical Present for Dylan Thomas, always snowy and full of adventure. From attempting to extinguish house fires with snowballs to hippo footprints in the snow his childhood in the snow was a time of wonder and pure joy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013467</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPhilippa Pheasant|author=Kelly L Bingham and Paul O Zelinsky|title=Circle, Square, MooseBriony May Smith
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|summary=If you have children you have no doubt read loads Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of books about shapes; nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the circle, Old Oak Road. She wrote to the square, mayor about the dodecahedronproblem but didn't even get a reply. They are all variations of the same things – this wheel is round like Philippa wasn't a circle, this bread reminds me of a square, what bird to sit back on earth is her tail feathers when there was a dodecahedron? Why not spice problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the book school crossing and decided that she would set up by throwing in something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a moose, little amateur to start with but not just any moosethe benefits were obvious. This is All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a moose that brings chaos to everything he touches and must be chased from the book!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441860</amazonuk>safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicki Greenberg 1776574338|title=The Naughtiest ReindeerLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=If you made all of Father Christmas’s reindeer line upEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, you would find it pretty tricky to find makes his way through the naughtiest one among them city, picking up children as they are so well behavedhe goes. However, there is one reindeer Children who is so naughty that she does not get asked live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to pull go downstairs – they simply climb out of the sleigh very oftenwindow and slide down his neck. On certain occasions needs must and when Rudolf It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is ill on Christmas Evea problem, the only help comes though. Leilong isn't happy in the form of city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his little sister Ruby feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – dear oh deerhe often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743313047</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kristina Stephenson1776574028|title=Sir Charlie Stinky Socks: The Pirate's CurseBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sir Charlie Stinky SocksI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: the Pirateit's Curse passed for the grandchild test. The oldest granddaughterchild who still enjoys board books (er, aged 7, chose it for the teatime read as shesee my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play''d already enjoyed another in this serieswith words and make something quite different from each one. She took We have the lead in turning the pages, opening the giant flaps elephant who dons a tutu - and pointing out details of the plot becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and jokesthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The varied typefaces and sizes made rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it easy for her beginner reader brother to join in and the lively story line frequently attracted the attention of the third child !) The pelican who was sitting sits on the other side of the table absorbed in his potty changes into a project of her own''sm....|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268093</amazonuk>...'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evangeline Lilly and Johnny Fraser-Allen1838226834|title=The SquickerwonkersCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=Poop poop! Here comes Mr. Toad! The irrepressible Mr. Toad returns, accompanied, It was one of course, by Ratty, Mole and Badger in this cheerful picture book version of The Wind in the Willowsthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. The well-known highlights of They're there to undo all the classic tale; the yellow caravangood that parents do, so the beautiful car, trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the shame of Toad's prison stay and carnival with his daring escape plus The Weasels and The Stoats are all included andGrandad, accompanied by charming illustrations, this is a wonderful way to introduce young children to a classic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738674</amazonuk>}}who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Faye HansonB09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The WonderReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=54
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|summary=Don't judge a book by its coverWhen the world was made, they saythe animals were given gifts. It Bear was the beautiful cover given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that made me want to try this gorgeous book and still I was even fire could not prepared for the stunning illustrations burn. Owl had excellent sight so that make up he could see the journey into present ''and'' the imagination of future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the little boy ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in this thoughtful storya race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783701145</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Trudi EsbergerRob Keeley|title=The Boy Who Lost His BumbleCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=A little boy Lily loves his garden eating fruit and he particularly loves the bees that visit it each dayvegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. He When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is so fascinated keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by his buzzy friends Jordan, who tells her that he gives them each names and records their habits and characteristicscarrots grow on trees. Then Infuriated, Lily checks with the weather changesteacher, it grows cold who explains that fruits grow on trees and his bees disappearvegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Where can they be? Will they come back? The boy is puzzled and saddened by their departure Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and tries hard to encourage his missing friends to returneveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846436613</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony RossB09FFJF8YS|title=RitaYou Can's Rhinot Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=Rita really wants a pet''For the big, but when she asks her Mum for one she isn’t so keen. They’re smelly and greedy and take lots of hard work. Eventually she relentsgrownup girls out there, and gives Rita a jar with a flea the potty masters in ittraining, his name "You Can't Wear Panties!" is Harold. Obviously, Rita isn’t happy with this so she decides to take matters into her own hands. What will she do, and how will she manage to hide a Rhino from her petcry (the big-fearing mother?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440252</amazonuk>}}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|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.
''No, No, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable.
''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.''
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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}}