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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony RossAdam Stower|title=I Feel Sick! (Little Princess)|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I should think most parents of small children are familiar with fake sicknesses, in an attempt to get out of nursery/school/the dentist or whatever other trauma you are heartlessly inflicting on them. I remember my daughter aged about three trying to convince me that she had a broken leg, pointing to the broken one Murray and then limping on the other! Here we see the Little Princess insisting that she is terribly, dreadfully sick. Especially when she has been asked to do something she doesn't want to do. Then she feels really terrible!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441151</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Algy Craig Hall and Ali Pye|title=The Deep Dark WoodBun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Children love Murray is supposed to be a fairytalehumble, 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. Forests But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, monstersand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, Little Red Riding Hood. They open up not into the regular back garden, but into a world of possible adventures, wonder frightening adventure and mysterywhiffs. The Deep Dark Wood taps This time round it drops them into that format brilliantlya Viking land, taking ideas and myths already deeply ingrained into our culture and creating where a really fun story for children (troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and adults) he'll have to engage with.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408325152</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Griffiths and Janette Louden1732898766|title=The Jolly Dodgers! Pirates Who PretendedAdventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=I’ll get started with this point; When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the layout Forest of this book Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is utterly wonderfulchasing them. It’s got a great subject matter He's right behind them, spewing hot, pirates are always popular both with adults and childrensour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and the story of when a group ladder of pirates who don’t really want to be pirates but who are being forced into it by their pushy wivesmoss and vines was lowered for them, is a terribly entertaining onethey escaped. But it is They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the layouttangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, style Nester Nook and all the extras which are working the hardest in this book's favourGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908702125</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter de la MareB0CC9W7GLR|title=Peacock PieOn the Beach: A Book of Rhymes|rating=3|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=It was a surprise for me to read online that Walter de la Mare spent so much of his life in and around London – born at least in what is now the borough of Greenwich, passing away in Twickenham. The reason I say this is that out of the copious poems collected here, it's as if cities don't exist. Hardly anything of the subjects is manmade. The concentration is fully on the idyllic and pastoral, and in following on so closely in the footsteps of his debut collection, 'Songs of Childhood' from 1902, still very, very much Victorian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313892</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWinter Visitor|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|title=Tales from Acorn Wood: Hide-Chris Green and-Seek PigJenny Fionda
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|summary=Pig Kit and Hen decide Teal were just beginning to play hide-and-seek and whilst Pig counts wonder whether it was better to tenbe at home, bored but warm, Hen goes off to hide. Pig thinks that she's found Hen straight away or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when she spots a yellow beak behind large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the gate, but when we lift the gate flap we discover that the yellow beak belongs to Blackbird, who happily joins in the hunt for Henshoreline. Could that be Hen hiding in On top of the ice was a tent? polar bear. There's a long brown ear peeping out from behind As the ice bumped onto the flapsand, but when it's lifted, we discover Rabbit, who joins the two huntersbear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. She Kit was having all for making a drink when she was foundrun for it, but she brings her mug along with herTeal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. Before Hen is eventually found we've collected quite He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a few seekers!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273435</amazonuk>good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Offill and Chris Appelhans1913839656|title=Sparky!|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=There are so many books about unusual pets, that I was a little wary when first opening this book. On one hand, it’s a subject which I think works really well and is always popular. On the other hand, is it over done? I needn’t have worried, this book is really ever so slightly different. It’s aimed at an older reader, I’d say primary school age, and in the end it makes for a pretty poignant read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014862</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Margaret Wild and Deborah Niland|title=This Little Piggy Went DancingLainey 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 and I cannot do anything other than applaud her for thathave worked as Baby closes his eyes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273230</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dylan Thomas Then a seagull '''shouts''' and Peter Bailey|title=A Child’s Christmas in Wales|rating=4.5|genre=Childrenwe know exactly what's Non-Fiction|summary=Christmas time growing up in a Welsh seaside town was magical for Dylan Thomas, always snowy and full of adventure. From attempting to extinguish house fires with snowballs going to hippo footprints in the snow his childhood in the snow was a time of wonder and pure joyhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kelly L Bingham and Paul O Zelinsky140639131X|title=Circle, Square, MooseA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony 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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{{Frontpage
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|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evangeline Lilly and Johnny Fraser-AllenB09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The SquickerwonkersReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=Selma is When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a young girl who finds protector. Water Spider received a strange attraction on strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the edge of a fair – a large gypsy caravanfuture. Rabbit developed intelligence -styled contraptionbut, which she entersunfortunately, alone but for her shiny red balloon not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. She appears He was also jealous which was how he came to be alone, until nine marionette puppets suddenly appear on the stage within, in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and a disembodied voice introduces them all to hersee. They Things are the Squickerwonkers, and not always as we are about to see, they can reveal someoneseem. I's entire character with the simplest of actions…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295457</amazonuk>ll tell you how it came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Moorhouse and David RobertsRob Keeley|title=The Adventures of Mr ToadCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Poop poop! Here comes Mr Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. Toad! The irrepressible MrShe likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. Toad returnsWhen her friends at school turn up their noses, accompanied, of courseLily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by RattyJordan, Mole and Badger in this cheerful picture book version of The Wind in the Willowswho tells her that carrots grow on trees. The well-known highlights of the classic tale; the yellow caravanInfuriated, Lily checks with the beautiful carteacher, the shame of Toad's prison stay and his daring escape plus The Weasels and The Stoats are all included who explains that fruits grow on trees andvegetables, like carrots, accompanied by charming illustrationsgrow in the ground. Jordan says, this is a wonderful way "I did try to introduce young children to a classictell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192738674</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{Frontpage
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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|author=Faye HansonJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The WonderEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=DonToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't judge a book by its coverfind them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, they say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. It was the beautiful cover that made me want to try this gorgeous book Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and still I was not prepared for calmly, with the stunning illustrations familiar humour attached, explains that make up the journey into the imagination of the little boy in this thoughtful storytooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783701145</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Trudi EsbergerB09BG8V3Q6|title=The Boy Who Lost His BumbleNeeds Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=A little boy loves his garden and he particularly loves ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the bees that visit it each day''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. He is so fascinated by his buzzy friends that he gives them each names This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and records their habits and characteristicsreplace it with some fun. Then the weather changesIt's a worthy aim, it grows cold and his bees disappearas any frustrated parent will tell you. Where can they be? Will they come back? The boy is puzzled and saddened by their departure and tries hard to encourage his missing friends to return .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846436613</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony RossB07GZ81J7C|title=Rita's RhinoWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=Rita really wants a petMeet Fred. Well, actually, but when she asks her Mum you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for one she isn’t so keenreasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. They’re smelly and greedy and take lots But I'm getting ahead of hard workmyself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Eventually she relents, Fred is a snake and gives Rita even those of us who have a jar with phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a flea present in it, his name is Harold. Obviously, Rita isn’t happy a box with this holes so she decides that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take matters into her own handsFred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes. What will she do, and how will she manage to hide a Rhino from her pet-fearing mother?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440252</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda NewberyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The BrockenspectreEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857551566</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Toby Forward and Ruth Brown|title=The Quayside Cat|rating=3.5
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|summary=Sometimes itCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn's good to be wrongt, as any parent will tell you. IBut really, why shouldn'd been keen t it be? We all have to review learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn''The Quayside Cat'' almost entirely because of t potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the beautiful colour palette of the front cover – sun and also because I spend quite a lot of time hanging around on quaysides. 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 moon take turns in the children would like itsky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783441046</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul ThurlbyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=NumbersNo, No, No!
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|summary=Is it art or is it pedagogy? That’s a weighty question to start a review of a children’s They say the best picture bookbooks are the simplest ones. When the book in question is 'Numbers' by Paul Thurlby thoughAnd nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, it’s central to whether you will love this volume or nota Bookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918753</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=Polly Parrot Picks a PirateThe Farm Shop|author=Peter Bently Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Penny DannEma Tepic
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|summary=Anyone who has anything 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 do the top of the hill, they see a big barn with little children will know that you can never have too many piratesa 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 pirate costumessheep and ducks and cows, pirate television showsgoats and chickens, and here we have another pirate bookeven some mice. In this fun Excited, Kirelle and entertaining tale, we find out how Polly the parrot goes about choosing a pirate as her petSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447223438</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Katie's London ChristmasLittle Gold Ted|author=James MayhewVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=We have never been strict about Christmas in our houseOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's usually my husband who quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts it, with to spin around and around and is sucked down a carol or two during drain on the side of the summer! street. Finding himself Itdown in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE's hard to resist that Christmas urge if you're a die-hard fan he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the season! I have a friend sewer rat, who keeps all her Christmas related stories safely in a cupboard, brought plucks him out in a special basket only during of the season itself. Wedirty water using his cane, meanwhile, have Christmas stories all year round because, honestly, who doesn't like which might look just a bit of Father Christmas magic now and then?! Anyway, this is all to say that here like an old cricket bat. Reg is a Christmas story that some purists will tuck away until Christmas Eve but we have quite happily read during Halloween! Katie is back, kind soul and he dries Ted off and heading back to London, but this time she's on warms him up with a mission to help Father Christmas..nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326418</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=How the Library (Not the Prince) Saved RapunzelRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Wendy Meddour Mayuri Naidoo and Rebecca AshdownCaroline Siegal|rating=4.5
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|summary=When IRemy is feeling miserable. He'm not reading books, or being a mum, I'm busy being a librarian, so of course I wanted to read this book! Poor Rapunzel is s let himself down in the dumps. As the story tells us, ''she had nowhere to go, she had nothing to proveagain''. The school bully Jayden, If this were an adult story she'd be diagnosed together with depressionhis sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but since we're in the realm of pictures books we merely see a queue of people who drop by to visit Rapunzel, asking her they are not stupid. They are careful to let down her hair so that they wind up Remy when nobody can deliver things to her or come by see and visit who fail completely to entice her out of her flatthen push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, or for her to let down her hair it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to let them inexplain what happened. What is it she is waiting for? Is she just on hold until her handsome prince comes by?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804322</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Robert Crowther's Pop up Dinosaur AlphabetThe Invisible|author=Robert CrowtherTom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=ABC books could stand for A Boring ConceptThis is the story of Isobel, but you might want to wait until you find out what the D is before making a decisionlittle girl who made a big difference. In this case D stands for Dinosaurs and there is nothing boring about them. There is also nothing boring about popIsobel lived with her parents in a house -ups. The two together may just join up a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to make something pretty special. Use this book to learn your basic alphabet and gain put the some pretty intellectual knowledge heating on dinosaurs; from Allosaurus to Zapalasaurus.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348643</amazonuk>}}:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dog on StiltsNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=James Thorp and Angus MackinnonOne Night in Beartown|rating=34
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|summary=Once you Many children have reached adulthoodan obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, never try and understand what is going on obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a child’s imaginationteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Whilst they can sit on the floor Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and talk says goodnight to their imaginary friends, from the age of 20+ this is suddenly frowned uponbear statue outside. 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 booksEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, then you can come up with an idea as strange as a dog who likes to use stiltscolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909428051</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}