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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret McAllister and Holly SterlingAdam Stower|title=15 Things Not to Do with a BabyMurray and Bun
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|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…
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|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon
|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=There’s a new arrival at homeWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. A foreignerTheir greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. An imposter He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. An alien (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. A BABY) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. What on Earth should you do They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780506X</amazonuk>their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin BlakeB0CC9W7GLR|title=Tell me a Picture - Adventures in Looking at ArtOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=When did you last read a children's book that absolutely flummoxed you in the way Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it showed or told you something you didn't know? (And please was better to be an adult when you answer thatat home, bored but warm, or else it won't be quite so impressivefrozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline.) Back in 2001, Quentin Blake wasn't a Knight yet – he hadn't even got his CBE – but he did get allowed to put on his own show at On top of the National Gallery, with other people's pictures that contain oddities, stories, unexpected detail – sparks on canvas and paper that would inspire anyone looking, of whatever age, to piece things together, work things out, ''form ice was a narrative''polar bear. The pictures came with no major labelling, no context – just what they heldAs the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and some typically scratched Blake characters discussing with wobbly legs moved from the images as a lead-inice. They were simply hung in alphabetical orderKit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and probably could not have been more differentgave him one apple and then another. This then is He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a picture book of the most literal kind, with 26 storiesgood meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806422</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Wright (editor) and Mique Moriuchi (illustrator)1913839656|title=My Village: Rhymes from Around the WorldLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=I'm thinking that of all Todd was excited about spending the kinds of books that have ability to surpriseweekend with his grandmother, high up on not least because she made the list are poetry booksbest beetle juice. You can generally see the style, idea or genre He packed two pairs of a novel from the cover, dungarees and beyond a few shocks his favourite hat and twists nothing changesthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. But She had promised to take poetry on board, and there are surprises on each page – the concentrated form of the literature surely gives the author more chance to bedazzle, him to pull the rug over Friday Night Club at the readers' eyes local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to generally give something the audience didn't expectmake new friends. And so it is with this bookAt home, for while [[:Category:Michael Rosen|Michael Rosen's]] introduction spoke to us of nursery rhymes, I had already flicked through his only friend was his mum and still was not expecting a spread of them. Even when he itemised the various kinds I didn't foresee finding them all on the pages, although wondered why that is what I gotcould be. Who would have Grandma thought that such a small, succinct and varied little volume would have that much capacity to surprise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806279</amazonuk>it might be because he looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valentina Mendicino1529504775|title=The Really Abominable SnowmanToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=34.5
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|summary=The Really Abominable Snowman, it turns out, is just a Elsie and her little yeti called Milobrother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. He’s not even abominable, never mind really abominable! But that isn Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't what everybody else thinks, they- he're all terrified of him, d been born with cerebral palsy and even though all he wants is just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a friend bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to share his favourite cupcakes with…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406355844</amazonuk>use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler1529504767|title=Charlie Cook's Favourite BookThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=As a parent, you’re always Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in search of it1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. That one, elusive thing; She needn't have worried though as she went to the perfect bedtime story. Well, in Charlie Cook’s Favourite Bookhome of Mr and Mrs Russell, I think we quite possibly who couldn't have itbeen kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. This ten year anniversary edition of She'd help Mrs Russell with the book will hopefully bring baking and when it came to slightly wider attention than some of Donaldson’s more well known titles, as it is a completely charming Christmas Eve Susan and timeless bookMr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447276787</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross1916459943|title=The Pet PersonSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=ChildrenMuch as mothers love their babies, there's stories often turn something they all dread - a familiar idea squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on its headhis blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. In this story it is that It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of pets, for the main characters in the story are gentle wavelets falling onto a family of dogs, sandy beach and one of them would very much like his own pet person! you have the sound perfectly. Will Rex succeed The mermaids join in persuading his parents to get him a person? - ''la lou, la lay...'' And if so, will for a moment it be everything he ever dreamed of?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442425</amazonuk>seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Velthuijs140639131X|title=Frog in LoveA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=Frog has been feeling Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a little strangereply. He finds himself wanting Philippa wasn't a bird to laugh and cry sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the same time, school crossing and his heart is beating strangelydecided that she would set up something similar herself. Pig declares that Frog must have Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a cold, little amateur to start with but Hare suggests that perhaps Frog is in lovethe benefits were obvious. But who can Frog possibly be in love with?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441453</amazonuk>All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross1776574338|title=I Feel SickLeilong's Too Long! (Little Princess)|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5
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|summary=I should think most parents Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of small children are familiar with fake sicknesses, in an attempt tower blocks don't even need to get go downstairs – they simply climb out of nursery/school/the dentist or whatever other trauma you are heartlessly inflicting on themwindow and slide down his neck. I remember my daughter aged about three trying It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to convince me that she had school? There is a broken legproblem, pointing though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to the broken one and then limping on the other! Here we see the Little Princess insisting traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that she is terribly, dreadfully sick. Especially when she has been asked to do something she doesnhe can't want to dobe the bus anymore. Then she feels really terrible!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441151</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Algy Craig Hall and Ali Pye1776574028|title=The Deep Dark WoodBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=Children I love a fairytale. Forestsgood board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, monsters, Little Red Riding Hoodsee my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. They open up We have the elephant who dons a world of possible adventures, wonder tutu - and mysterybecomes a ''balletphant''. The Deep Dark Wood taps into that format brilliantly, taking ideas buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and myths already deeply ingrained into our culture and creating then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a really fun story for children ''crynoceros'' (and adultsthink about it!) to engage with The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408325152</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Griffiths and Janette Louden1838226834|title=The Jolly Dodgers! Pirates Who PretendedCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=I’ll get started It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with this point; our grandparents. They're there to undo all the layout of this book is utterly wonderful. It’s got a great subject mattergood that parents do, pirates are so the trips out were always popular both so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with adults and childrenhis Grandad, and the story of a group of pirates who don’t really want to be pirates but who are being forced into it by their pushy wives, is a terribly entertaining one. But it is the layout, style and all the extras which are working the hardest in this book's favour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908702125</amazonuk>}}told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel SchefflerB09MYXSRV4|title=Tales from Acorn WoodOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: Hide-A Cherolachian Tortoise and-Seek PigHare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=54
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|summary=Pig and Hen decide to play hide-and-seek and whilst Pig counts to tenWhen the world was made, Hen goes off to hidethe animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Pig thinks Owl had excellent sight so that shehe could see the present ''and''s found Hen straight away when she spots a yellow beak behind the gatefuture. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, but when we lift not the gate flap we discover that the yellow beak belongs ability to use it well. He liked to Blackbird, who happily joins in the hunt for Hentrick other animals. Could that He was also jealous which was how he came to be Hen hiding in a tent? race with Turtle. ThereYou might think that's not a long brown ear peeping out from behind the flap, fair contest but when it's lifted, we discover Rabbit, who joins the two hunterswait and see. She was having a drink when she was found, but she brings her mug along with herThings are not always as they seem. Before Hen is eventually found weI've collected quite a few seekers!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273435</amazonuk>ll tell you how it came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Offill and Chris AppelhansRob Keeley|title=SparkyCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=There are so many books about unusual pets Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, that I was a little wary when first opening this bookcabbage and aubergines. On one handWhen her friends at school turn up their noses, it’s a subject which I think works really well Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and is always popularhow nice to eat. On the other handOne day, is it over done? I needn’t have worriedpoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, this book is really ever so slightly differentwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. It’s aimed at an older readerInfuriated, I’d say primary school ageLily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the end it makes for a pretty poignant readground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014862</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Wild and Deborah NilandB09FFJF8YS|title=This Little Piggy Went Dancing|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=There are classics of the nursery rhyme oeuvre and This Little Piggy is certainly one of them. Who doesnYou Can't remember someone ticking of each of their fingers or toes as they explained the whereabouts of our porcine pals, only to be tickled at the end? However, this is 2014 and there must be a way to improve the rhyme; perhaps the pigs are eating something different or like a different activity? Or perhaps we should just leave well alone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743315112</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Kim Kane Justine Avery and Sara Acton|title=Esther's RainbowKate Zhoidik|rating=43.5
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|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 'For the window to see how big it is, and where grownup girls out there, the pot of gold might bepotty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties! In this rainbow story, Esther spies " is a rainbow on cry (the floorbig-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride. 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>}}'
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=Emily GravettJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Bear and Hare: SnowEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=Emily Gravett isToots, let's face ittrumps, always goodfarts. There are books upon books which are well written and well thought out Whatever your word for the preschool marketthem, but I canfind us a child that doesn't help but feel like very young tots are often an after thoughtfind them irresistibly funny. Gravett, however, takes her sweet and witty style Funny to talk about and gives it to just this marketjoke about, and she that is repeatedly excellent . But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear itand everyone will laugh. At you. There is just as much thought Justine Avery's latest entry in her work as ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with any picture book for a slightly older readertooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, but it speaks to small ones in particular and I cannot do anything other than applaud her for explains thattooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273230</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dylan Thomas and Peter BaileyB09BG8V3Q6|title=A Child’s Christmas in WalesWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Christmas time growing up ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in a Welsh seaside town was magical for Dylan Thomas, always snowy and full the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of adventure. From attempting fun picture books aims to extinguish house fires with snowballs to hippo footprints in the snow his childhood in take the snow was a time pain out of wonder potty training children and pure joyreplace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|authortitle=Kelly L Bingham When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Paul O ZelinskyMended|titleauthor=Circle, Square, MoosePeter Cotton
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|summary=If Meet Fred. Well, actually, you have children 're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you have no doubt read loads of books a bit more about shapes; the circle, the square, the dodecahedronFred. They are all variations of the same things – this wheel Fred is round like a circle, this bread reminds me snake and even those of us who have a square, what on earth is phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a dodecahedron? Why not spice the book up by throwing present in a moosebox with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, but not just any mooseto the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. This is a moose And that brings chaos to everything he touches and must be chased from was where the book!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441860</amazonuk>problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicki Greenberg Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Naughtiest ReindeerEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=If Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you made all of Father Christmas’s reindeer line up. But really, you would find why shouldn't it pretty tricky be? We all have to find the naughtiest one among them learn about our bodily functions just as they are so well behaved. However, there is one reindeer who is so naughty that she does not get asked we have to pull the sleigh very often. On certain occasions needs must and learn about everything else when Rudolf is ill on Christmas Eve, the only help comes in the form of his little sister Ruby – dear oh deerwe are small.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743313047</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kristina Stephenson|title=Sir Charlie Stinky Socks: The PirateWhy shouldn's Curse|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sir Charlie Stinky Socks: the Pirate's Curse passed the grandchild test. The oldest granddaughtert potty training be as much fun as, aged 7, chose it for the teatime read as she'd already enjoyed another in this series. She took the lead in turning the pagessay, opening learning about why the giant flaps sun and pointing out details of the plot and jokes. The varied typefaces and sizes made it easy for her beginner reader brother to join moon take turns in and the lively story line frequently attracted the attention of the third child who was sitting on the other side of the table absorbed in a project of her own.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405268093</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Evangeline Lilly Justine Avery and Johnny Fraser-AllenNaday Meldova|title=The SquickerwonkersNo, No, No!
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|summary=Poop poop! Here comes Mr. Toad! The irrepressible Mr. Toad returns, accompanied, of course, by Ratty, Mole and Badger in this cheerful They say the best picture book version of The Wind in books are the Willowssimplest ones. The well-known highlights And nothing could be truer of the classic tale; the yellow caravan, the beautiful carthis latest from Justine Avery, the shame of Toad's prison stay and his daring escape plus The Weasels and The Stoats are all included and, accompanied by charming illustrations, this is a wonderful way to introduce young children to a classicBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738674</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross194812467X|title=Rita's RhinoThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=54
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|summary=Rita really wants a pet, but when she asks Kirelle and her Mum best friend Sam the cat decide to go for one she isn’t so keena walk. They’re smelly Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and greedy and take lots Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of hard work. Eventually she relentsthe hill, and gives Rita they see a jar big barn with a flea in it, his name sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is Harold. Obviously, Rita isn’t happy a farm shop 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 pet-fearing mother?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440252</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Linda Newbery|title=The Brockenspectre|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Tommi lives up in difference: all the mountains with his parents stallholders and his baby sistercustomers are farmyard animals. Mamma is artistic There are sheep and paints beautiful designs on chairs ducks and stools cows, goats and planters for tourists to buy. Pappi is a mountain guide and Tommi's hero - brave chickens, 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 homeeven some mice. Pappi is only truly happy by himselfExcited, out amongst the peaks. After just a day or two at home without guiding work, he becomes irritable and critical of Mammi Kirelle and his childrenSam go shopping.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|authortitle=Toby Forward Sadie and Ruth Brownthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=The Quayside CatMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=Sometimes itSadie's good to mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be wrongdoing. I'd been keen to review ''The Quayside Cat'' almost entirely because of She lives by the beautiful colour palette of the front cover – River Thames at Greenwich and also because I she loves to spend quite a lot of time hanging around on quaysideshours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. 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>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=The Illustrated Old PossumLittle Gold Ted|author=T S Eliot Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Nicolas BentleySasha Satha
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|summary=We all know that at this time of year there are oh-so-many Christmas One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and Santa related stories the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to choose fromspin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of the street. How do you pick which ones Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to buy or read? Wellpanic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the answer to that is if you’ve got small boys or girls who tend towards potty humourdirty water using his cane, then this which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is the book for youa kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007542828</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Polly Parrot Picks a PirateRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Peter Bently Mayuri Naidoo and Penny DannCaroline Siegal
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|summary=Anyone who Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has anything small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to do with wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little children will know that you can never have too many piratesbit further when the other kids are around. There are pirate costumesSo, pirate television showswhen Remy reacts, and here we have another pirate bookit looks as though he was the instigator. In this fun And then he gets into trouble at school and entertaining tale, we find out how Polly the parrot goes about choosing a pirate as her petteachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447223438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=The Owl and the Pussy-catInvisible|author=Edward Lear, Charlotte Voake and Julia DonaldsonTom Percival
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|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a poem which has always resonated big difference. Isobel lived with meher parents in a house - a very cold house, because there is something about it which is nothing short her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of magicalthe bedpost. It taps into that part of children which still love nursery rhymes, '' The family didn't go to the cinema or to pretend on holidays but they had each other and they fly to were happy. Then the moon day came when they go couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to sleepthe far side of the city. This edition is beautifully laid outpart of the city was cold, sad and I would happily buy it in a heartbeatlonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>072329321X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Katie's London ChristmasNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=James MayhewOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=We Many children have never been strict an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about Christmas in our housebears. It's usually my husband who starts itHer favourite toy is Berisford, with a carol or two during the summer! It's hard to resist that Christmas urge if you're a die-hard fan of the season! I have a friend who keeps all teddy bear passed down by her Christmas related stories safely in a cupboardgrandmother. Every night, brought she looks out in a special basket only during the season itself. We, meanwhile, have Christmas stories all year round because, honestly, who doesn't like a bit of Father Christmas magic now her bedroom window and then?! Anyway, this is all says goodnight to say that here is a Christmas story that some purists will tuck away until Christmas Eve but we have quite happily read during Halloween! Katie is back, and heading back the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to LondonBee Bear, but this time she's on a mission to help Father Christmas..colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408326418</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]