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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbro Lindgren and Eva ErikssonAdam Stower|title=Max's WagonMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Max had Murray is supposed to be a wagon humble, tidy and he began putting his treasures into it. First it was his bear, then the dogfriendly cat, one who was asleep on the chair is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and looking decidedly disinterested in what was going on, but he played well, whatever takes his partfancy next of the two. Then it was MaxBut he's ball and the contents begin to seem just a little bad magician''precarious'' and were even more s cat, so when Max's car was added to the pilehis favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, but bear sat astride Dog and Max pushed the wagon whilst holding catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the car on top regular back garden, but into a world of the ball with the otherfrightening adventure and whiffs. Then 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 added his cookie and Dog began to look just the tiniest bit ''distracted'' and bear fell out. Dog got bear and brought him back s turned up and he did the same when the car and the ball fell off the wagon (in the literal sense of the phrase). Then the cookie fell out...'ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776570014</amazonuk>0008561249

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Timothy Knapman The Adventures of Birpus and Rosie ReeveBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Mighty SmallWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=Max When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the mouse has a secretForest of Fine Repute. He Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is a superhero! chasing them. He can't run super fasts right behind them, or jump really highspewing hot, or do anything particular sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don'supert try this at home: it won' but stillt end well.) Fortunately, he has they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a cape ladder of moss and he likes vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to wear his underpants over his trousersthe Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, if his mum isn't looking! He is sure that if he just tries hard enough he will figure out what his super power must beNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192737228</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Gillian Tyler B0CC9W7GLR|title=The Bus Is for Us|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=As a child of On the 80s I sometimes yearn for an era free from [[Aliens In Underpants Save Beach: The World by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort|Aliens in Underpants]] or rough [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|Gruffalos]]. An era of Alan and Janet Ahlberg telling [[Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet Ahlberg and Allan Ahlberg|gentle stories]] that had an old fashioned feel, but were still great for the modern kid. Thankfully, I am not the only person out there that craves this as some books are still being produced that describe the simple pleasures such as riding the bus. However, I think that these kids have obviously never tried to catch the Number 9 at rush hour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406337145</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWinter Visitor|author=Kylie Westaway Chris Green and Tom Jellett|title=Whale in the BathJenny Fionda

|summary=It’s bath timeKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, which is often not bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a favourite time snowy beach when a large slab of daysilvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. Really As the ice bumped onto the sand, it’s a sign that the fun is over bear woke and it’s time with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for bath, maybe making a storyrun for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then bed, at least for the little onesanother. The grown ups get He obviously needed to stay up later. Hmpf. But Bruno is not moaning too much about getting in be taken home on the bath, though you get the impression that’s bus and given a battle he’s had, good meal and lost, in the past. The problem is…there’s a whale in the bath. And whales are pretty big so there’s not much room for Bruno somewhere to hop in beside himsleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743318588</amazonuk> What else would you do?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret McAllister and Holly Sterling1913839656|title=15 Things Not to Do with a BabyLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary=There’s a new arrival at homeTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. A foreignerHe packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. An imposter She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. An alien At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. A BABY Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different. What on Earth should you do with it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780506X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Blake1529504775|title=Tell me a Picture - Adventures in Looking at ArtThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|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.

 {{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

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross1916459943|title=The Pet PersonSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Velthuijs140639131X|title=Frog in LoveA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross1776574338|title=I Feel SickLeilong's Too Long! (Little Princess)|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Algy Craig Hall and Ali Pye1776574028|title=The Deep Dark WoodBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5

|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!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Griffiths and Janette Louden1838226834|title=The Jolly Dodgers! Pirates Who PretendedCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall

|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:

{{newreview|author=Walter de la Mare|title=Peacock Pie: 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'll be brilliant, passing away in Twickenham. The reason I say this is that out of the copious poems collected herejust remember, it's as if cities don't exist. Hardly anything let go of the subjects is manmademy hand. 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>

 {{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

|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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Offill and Chris AppelhansRob Keeley|title=SparkyCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5

|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

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=Margaret Wild Justine Avery and Deborah NilandNaday Meldova|title=This Little Piggy Went DancingEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=34

|summary=There are classics of the nursery rhyme oeuvre and This Little Piggy is certainly one of Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them. Who , find us a child that doesn't remember someone ticking of each of their fingers or toes as they explained find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the whereabouts of our porcine palswrong time. In class, say, only to be tickled when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the end? Howeverfamiliar humour attached, this explains that tooting is 2014 perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and there must be a way Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to improve take the rhyme; perhaps the pigs are eating something different or like pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a different activity? worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. Or perhaps we should just leave well alone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743315112</amazonuk>.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|authortitle=Kim Kane When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Sara ActonMended|titleauthor=Esther's RainbowPeter Cotton

|summary=ThereMeet Fred. Well, actually, you's something rather magical about rainbowsre going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. Even now But I find 'm getting ahead of myself: I get 'd better tell you a little bit excited when I see one more about Fred. Fred is a snake and will rush over even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to the window warm to see how big it is, him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and where immediately became part of the pot of gold might be! In this rainbow storyfamily, Esther spies to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a rainbow on walk. And that was where the floorproblem started. When she touches it, itFred didn's soft and warm and smells slightly like honeyt have any road sense. After the rainbow goes away she finds herself noticing, throughout the week, the different rainbow colours in her every day lifeOr brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743313705</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=B J NovakJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Book With No PicturesEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54

|summary=My favourite moments of reviewing books are ones Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just like this; when I decide as we have to take a chance on a book that I have no idea learn about but which looks like it might be just a little bit interesting, and it turns out they everything else when we aresmall. The Book With No Pictures by B J Novak isnWhy shouldn't just a little bit interestingpotty training be as much fun as, say, it is staggeringly original learning about why the sun and so much fun.the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0803741715</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreview|author=Emily Gravett|title=Bear and Hare: Snow!|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Emily Gravett is, let's face it'No, always good. There are books upon books which are well written and well thought out for the preschool marketNo, but I canNo!''t help but feel like very young tots are often an after thought. Gravett, however, takes her sweet and witty style and gives it to just this market, and she is repeatedly excellent at it. There is just as much thought in her work as with any picture book for a slightly older reader, but it speaks to small ones in particular and I cannot do anything other than applaud her for thatbased around the simplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273230</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Dylan Thomas and Peter Bailey|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 for Dylan Thomas'No, no, always snowy and full of adventureno! Okay, okay. 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 joyYes, you may.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013467</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Kelly L Bingham and Paul O Zelinsky|title=CircleThat's it! But, Square, Moose|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=If you have children you have no doubt read loads of books about shapes; the circle, the square, the dodecahedron. They are like all variations of the same things – this wheel is round like a circlebest picture books, this bread reminds me tiny snippet of text is a square, what veritable tardis - so much bigger on earth is a dodecahedron? Why not spice the book up by throwing in a moose, but not just any moose. This is a moose inside that brings chaos to everything he touches and must be chased from it appears on the book!outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783441860</amazonuk>1638820457

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicki Greenberg 194812467X|title=The Naughtiest ReindeerFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic

|summary=If you made Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of Father Christmas’s reindeer line upthe hill, you would find it pretty tricky to find the naughtiest one among them as they are so well behavedsee a big barn with a sign outside. However, there It's a farm shop! But this is one reindeer who is so naughty that she does not get asked to pull a farm shop with a difference: all the sleigh very oftenstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. On certain occasions needs must There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and when Rudolf is ill on Christmas Eveeven some mice. Excited, the only help comes in the form of his little sister Ruby – dear oh deerKirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743313047</amazonuk>}}

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evangeline Lilly and Johnny Fraser-Allen0995647895|title=The Squickerwonkers|rating=4|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Selma is a young girl who finds a strange attraction on the edge of a fair – a large gypsy caravan-styled contraption, which she enters, alone but for her shiny red balloon. She appears to be alone, until nine marionette puppets suddenly appear on the stage within, and a disembodied voice introduces them all to her. They are the Squickerwonkers, Sadie and as we are about to see, they can reveal someone's entire character with the simplest of actions…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295457</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSea Dogs|author=Tom Moorhouse Maureen Duffy and David Roberts|title=The Adventures of Mr ToadAnita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=Poop poop! Here comes MrSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. Toad! The irrepressible Mr. Toad returns, accompanied, of course, She lives by Ratty, Mole and Badger in this cheerful picture book version of The Wind in the Willows. The well-known highlights of the classic tale; the yellow caravan, the beautiful car, the shame of Toad's prison stay and his daring escape plus The Weasels River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Stoats are all included and, accompanied by charming illustrations, this is a wonderful way to introduce young children to a classicMaritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738674</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|author=Max Velthuijs''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|title=Frog is a Hero|rating=4''To the Maritime Museum''.5|genre=For Sharing |summary=Always a sucker for a story with a hero, I thoroughly enjoyed this book with Frog as the unlikely heroHer imagination was fired. ItShe's a very rainy day. At first d love to sail the rain, for Frog at least, is lovely oceans on an ancient sailing ship and he goes outside dancingwent back regularly. But then One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it starts to get a little bit too heavy even for him. Worried about how his friends 's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are coping with on show) and missed the adverse weather, Frog decides to go closing bell and see them and with everyonethe attendant's houses leakingwarning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, a plan must be formed!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441445</amazonuk>mermaids and treasure.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Faye Hanson1782227741|title=The WonderLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=54

|summary=Don't judge One day, Gold Ted falls into a book by its cover, they saypuddle. It was 's quite a deep puddle and the beautiful cover that made me want water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to try this gorgeous book spin around and still I was not prepared for around and is sucked down a drain on the stunning illustrations that make up side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the journey into attention of Reg the imagination sewer rat, who plucks him out of the little boy in this thoughtful storydirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783701145</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Trudi EsbergerB08R7LXQ9S|title=The Boy Who Lost His BumbleRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4.5

|summary=A little boy loves Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his garden sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he particularly loves the bees that visit it each day. He is so fascinated by his buzzy friends that he gives them each names short and records their habits has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and characteristicsthen push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. Then the weather changesSo, when Remy reacts, it grows cold and his bees disappearlooks as though he was the instigator. Where can they be? Will they come back? The boy is puzzled and saddened by their departure And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries hard to encourage his missing friends to returnexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846436613</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross1471191303|title=Rita's RhinoThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=Rita really wants a pet, but when she asks her Mum for one she isn’t so keen. They’re smelly and greedy and take lots This is the story of hard work. Eventually she relentsIsobel, and gives Rita a jar with little girl who made a flea in it, his name is Haroldbig difference. Obviously, Rita isn’t happy Isobel lived with this so she decides to take matters into her own hands. What will she doparents in a house - a very cold house, and how will she manage because her parents couldn't afford to hide a Rhino from her pet-fearing mother?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440252</amazonuk>}}put the heating on:

{{newreview|author=Linda Newbery|title=The Brockenspectre|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Tommi lives up in ''Ice curled across 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 inside 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 window and critical crept up the corner of Mammi and his childrenthe bedpost.''

After an argument one day, Pappi strides out of The family didn't go to the house cinema or on holidays but they had each other and onto they were happy. Then the mountain. And he doesnday came when they couldn't return.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857551566</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Toby Forward afford the rent for the house and Ruth Brown|title=The Quayside Cat|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sometimes it's good they had to be wrong. I'd been keen move to review ''The Quayside Cat'' almost entirely because of the beautiful colour palette far side of the front cover – and also because I spend quite a lot of time hanging around on quaysidescity. But then I began to get cold feet – had I been guilty This part of the classic adult sincity was cold, choosing a book because it appealed to me sad and lonely and with no thought of whether the children would like it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441046</amazonuk>Isobel felt invisible.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul ThurlbyNick Jones and Si Clark|title=NumbersOne Night in Beartown

|summary=Is it art or Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is it pedagogy? That’s a weighty question to start a review of a children’s picture bookobsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. When the book in question Her favourite toy is 'Numbers' Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by Paul Thurlby thoughher grandmother. Every night, it’s central she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to whether you will love this volume or notthe bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444918753</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}

{{newreview|title=The Illustrated Old Possum|author=T S Eliot and Nicolas Bentley|rating=4|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=This title is clearly of importance to the house of Faber. To this day their puff mentions it was one of their first childrens' books, after the author sent his publisher's son, his godson, some writings based Move on jellicle cats and some of their scrapes. It's clearly a book that's important to Andrew Lloyd Webber, too, but we'll gloss speedily over that. It's a book that was important to me as well – I certainly had a copy, a thin, barely illustrated, old-fashioned style paperback of it once I had seen the musical. And with the excellent writing here and the ability of it to delight so many people of so many ages, it has the power to be important to a future generation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]