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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony MeeuwissenAdam Stower|title=Remarkable AnimalsMurray and Bun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Can I introduce you 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 Ally-Topus? He’s two. But he's a bad magician'powerful enough to drag s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a man in to water''hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, likes to ''hover over fragrant flowers'' but seems to be ''extremely shy'' and ''almost impossible to keep in captivity''. Sound familiar? Maybe it would help to describe the accompanying picture – an alligator’s headcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a bird’s body world of frightening adventure and a platypus tailwhiffs. Still don’t recognise him? Maybe we can try another animal. What about the Pleevillar? The By-Tollar? No? I’d best stop there. There are This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one thousand creatures in much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'Remarkable Animals'' so we could be here rather a long time.ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806325</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Jonathan Litton The Adventures of Birpus and Kasia NowowiejskaBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Cheep Cheep PopWynn Everett-Up Fun Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Little SnappersIllustrator)
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|summary=The animals on When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the farm are in a playful mood and some Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them are hiding. Duck knows that there He's a dotty animal playing peek-a-moo right behind the tractorthem, spewing hot, but who is it? sour milk from his nostrils. Lift the flap and we can all see that (Please don't try this at home: itwon's laughing cow, with her head popping right out to greet ust end well. ) Someone is playing the same game with ginger cat Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and there's an ''awful'' lot when a ladder of mud aroundmoss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. Who can it be? Well, when you move They climbed up to the mud out of Tree Wee homes high up in the way (don't worry - it's a flap - rubber gloves are not required) we can see that it's piglettangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, who's having a wonderful timeNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848574355</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Fhiona GallowayB0CC9W7GLR|title=EggOn the Beach: An Egg-Citing Easter Eggs-Capade! (My Little World)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=There's a big hole in the front of ''Egg'' and - curiously - it's egg-shaped. Behind this hole and on every page there's another egg-shaped hole and they get smaller and smaller leaving a neat shape which you could easily balance on egg in. The colours shout ''SPRING'' and in case you are in any doubt we're told it's ''An eggs-citing Easter egg-scapade!'' You get the idea?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848959656</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWinter Visitor|author=Tracy Gunaratnam and Marta Costa|title=Preposterous Rhinoceros|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Reading is easy! You may say that, after all you are reading this very review. However, if you had never read a book before Chris Green and someone gave you one, would you know what to do? When King Lion loses his voice, Preposterous Rhinoceros thinks he can help, but it takes more than just hope to read a book aloud. Will Rhino figure out what to do before the other animals get restless?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861656</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Scarry|title=Best Lowly Worm Book Ever!Jenny Fionda
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|summary=Since we have worn our copy of [[Busiest People Ever by Richard Scarry|Busiest People Ever]] almost Kit and Teal were just beginning to shreds wonder whether it was with great delight that we sat down better to take a look be at this book all about Lowly Worm. Lowly Worm is already a well known character in our househome, bored but warm, or frozen cold and so there's something delightful in having building sand sculptures on a whole book about him! snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. And what On top of the ice was a book! polar bear. This has a little bit of everything in, from As the Lowly Worm alphabet right at ice bumped onto the startsand, through counting the bear woke and what with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it's like at school, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a delightful chapter all about good manners meal and on somewhere to the never-ending fun of playing 'where's Lowly Worm'sleep. It's possible this will become our new favourite bedtime read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007581017</amazonuk>What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Scarry1913839656|title=A Day at the Fire StationLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=We're big fans Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of Richard Scarry in our housedungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Though I have She had promised to admit we don't usually read the story and we tend, instead, take him to just spend our pre-bedtime reading minutes scanning the pages for where Friday Night Club at the cheese car is, or who has stolen the bananas, or what Mr Frumble has crashed into now! This particular Scarry comes local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as a small disappointmenthe wanted to make new friends. At home, then, if his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that's what you're looking for as it focuses solely on the fire station and the activities of the firemen, but the story (if you bother to read it!) is actually quite good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574959</amazonuk>might be because he looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Freedman and Kate Hindley1529504775|title=Oliver The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and PatchKatie Hickey
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|summary=Moving house is never easy, especially when you're a childElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Oliver has moved from Elsie would race the buses along the countryside to side of the city, and he finds that not only is he having to adapt to his new surroundings, park but David couldn't - he's also dealing d been born with terrible loneliness, as he misses all his friends dreadfullycerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One dayElsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, when Oliver can't bear being shut David learned to stand up inside any longer, he ventures out into use the big citybus 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..will he manage to find a friend?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857079549</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tatyana Feeney1529504767|title=Small Elephant's Bath TimeThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Water is the funnest, Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and Small Elephant knows itnervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. But She needn't have worried though as she went to the one time he’s not the biggest fan home of aqua is when it’s bath time. EwwwMr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. Bor She even had her own room -ringall to herself. He will do anything Gradually she relaxed and began to avoid having to get into enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the tub baking and Mummy has when it came to take drastic measuresChristmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192737376</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rob Biddulph1916459943|title=Blown AwaySqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=54
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|summary=If you thought penguins didn’t flyMuch as mothers love their babies, think againthere's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. Penguin Blue is up in the sky He's so tired but it’s not what you might think – thanks he can't - or won't - go to a fun kite and a cheeky gust of windsleep: instead, he’s soaring up, up he just lies on his blanket and away from the home, and as his friends try ''wails''. The sea offers to help they get pulled up . It rocks Baby gently and away toothe waves sing ''hush, hush''. Uh oh Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. Where will the wind take these South Pole creatures? The answer, mermaids join in this amazingly fun book- ''la lou, is la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a lush, tropical island. It’s full of friendly creatures seagull '''shouts''' and wondrous green foliage like none they’ve ever seen before. But it’s rather hot and far from homewe know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007593821</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Walliams and Tony Ross140639131X|title=The Queen's Orang-UtanA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=The Queen felt trapped in Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the palace with all those stuffed animals which she has been given on foreign toursOld Oak Road. There are mountains of them and every night she would dream of escaping. When her birthday drew near She wrote to the mayor about the family dutifully asked her what she would like as problem but didn't even get a presentreply. The Prince Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was thinking of a gold, diamond encrusted stairlift whilst problem which needed solving: she saw the Duke was considering a great big bottle benefits of brandy. The Royal Baby had some decorated thimbles in mind, but the Queen became just a little snappish as she explained lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that what she really wanted was 'One's own orang-utan'would set up something similar herself. And she didn't mean Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a stuffed one, either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008135134</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve Jenkins|title=Actual Size|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There’s an enormous disembodied eye staring at me. At 30cm it’s as big as a dinner plate and it’s in my living room. Which is no bad thing because if I met it in little amateur to start with but the sea then I’d really be in troublebenefits were obvious. Fortunately All the eye is contained on page four of animals used the intriguing crossing and really rather splendid, book 'Actual Size'Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805949</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Leake 1776574338|title=DonLeilong't Chew the Royal Shoes Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=DogsEvery morning Leilong, love ‘em or loath ‘emthe brontosaurus school bus, they get underfoot and have a tendency to chew on things that are left around makes his way through the housecity, picking up children as he goes. One set Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of dogs that you would expect are better trained are the Royal Corgis, they wouldn’t dare chew on a royal shoewindow and slide down his neck. It turns out that they might not's perfect, but that won’t stop Chipsisn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the other royal dog city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he likes nothing better 's longer than getting his gnashers round a boot or twotennis court – he 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>1407139355</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Vaccaro Seeger1776574028|title=BullyBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=54
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|summary=HeI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's a bit of a... wellfor the child who still enjoys board books (er, a bully, really. The farm animals want see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play '' with him, but he just calls them names. He proceeds to insult words and make something quite different from each one until . We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a brave little goat stands up to him bath (complete with yellow duck) and calls HIM then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a bully''sm. How will Bully react to that?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442131</amazonuk>......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophy Henn1838226834|title=Pom Pom Gets Carried Away With the GrumpsCarnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=54
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|summary=Uh ohIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. Pom Pom is in a BAD MOODThey're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. Nothing is A young boy was going right today, to the world is against himcarnival with his Grandad, and everyone is just rubbing who told him up the wrong way. Harrumph!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723294763</amazonuk>}}:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|authortitle=Timothy Knapman Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Rosie ReeveHare|titleauthor=Mighty SmallCordellya Smith
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|summary=Max When the mouse has world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a secretprotector. He is Water Spider received a superhero! strong web that even fire could not burn. He canOwl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''t run super fast, or jump really high, or do anything particular and'super' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but still, he has a cape and he likes unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to wear his underpants over his trousers, if his mum isn't looking! trick other animals. He is sure that if was also jealous which was how he just tries hard enough he will figure out what his super power must came to bein a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192737228</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Rosen and Gillian Tyler Rob Keeley|title=The Bus Is for UsCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=As a child of the 80s I sometimes yearn Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for an era free from [[Aliens In Underpants Save The World by Claire Freedman you and Ben Cort|Aliens in Underpants]] or rough [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|Gruffalos]]how nice to eat. An era of Alan and Janet Ahlberg telling [[Each Peach Pear Plum One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Janet Ahlberg and Allan Ahlberg|gentle stories]] Jordan, who tells her that had an old fashioned feelcarrots grow on trees. Infuriated, but were still great for Lily checks with the modern kid. Thankfullyteacher, I am not the only person out there who explains that craves this as some books are still being produced that describe the simple pleasures such as riding fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the busground. HoweverJordan says, "I think that these kids have obviously never tried did try to catch the Number 9 tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at rush hourpoor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406337145</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kylie Westaway and Tom JellettB09FFJF8YS|title=Whale in the BathYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=It’s bath time, which is often not a favourite time of day. Really, it’s a sign that ''For the fun is over and it’s time for bath, maybe a storybig, and then bedgrownup girls out there, at least for the little ones. The grown ups get to stay up later. Hmpf. But Bruno is not moaning too much about getting potty masters in the bathtraining, though you get the impression that’s a battle he’s had, and lost, in the past. The problem is…there’s "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a whale in cry (the bath. And whales are pretty big so there’s not much room for Bruno to hop in beside him-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743318588</amazonuk>}}''
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|summary=The Really Abominable SnowmanToots, it turns outtrumps, is just a little yeti called Milofarts. He’s not even abominableWhatever your word for them, never mind really abominable! But find us a child that isndoesn't what everybody else thinks, they're all terrified of him, even though all he wants is a friend find them irresistibly funny. Funny to share his favourite cupcakes with…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406355844</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julia Donaldson talk about and Axel Scheffler|title=Charlie Cook's Favourite Book|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=As a parentjoke about, you’re always in search of itthat is. That But horribly embarrassing if you let one, elusive thing; go at the perfect bedtime storywrong time. WellIn class, in Charlie Cook’s Favourite Booksay, I think we quite possibly have when everyone will hear itand everyone will laugh. This ten year anniversary edition of 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 book will hopefully bring it to slightly wider attention than some of Donaldson’s more well known titlesfamiliar humour attached, as it explains that tooting is a completely charming and timeless bookperfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447276787</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony RossB09BG8V3Q6|title=The Pet Person|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Children's stories often turn a familiar idea on its head. In this story it is that of pets, for the main characters in the story are a family of dogs, and one of them would very much like his own pet personWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties! Will Rex succeed in persuading his parents to get him a person? And if so, will it be everything he ever dreamed of?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442425</amazonuk>}}{{newreview)|author=Max Velthuijs|title=Frog in LoveJustine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Frog has been feeling a little strange''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. He finds himself wanting This series of fun picture books aims to laugh and cry at take the same time, pain out of potty training children and his heart is beating strangelyreplace it with some fun. Pig declares that Frog must have It's a coldworthy aim, but Hare suggests that perhaps Frog is in loveas any frustrated parent will tell you. But who can Frog possibly be in love with?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441453</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony RossB07GZ81J7C|title=I Feel Sick! (Little Princess)When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=I should think most parents of small children are familiar with fake sicknessesMeet Fred. Well, actually, in an attempt you're going to get out be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of nursery/school/the dentist or whatever other trauma myself: I'd better tell you are heartlessly inflicting on thema bit more about Fred. I remember my daughter aged Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about three trying snakes are going to convince me warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that she had a broken leghe could breathe and immediately became part of the family, pointing to the broken one and then limping on extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the other! Here we see the Little Princess insisting that she is terribly, dreadfully sickproblem started. Especially when she has been asked to do something she doesn Fred didn't want to dohave any road sense. Or brakes. Then she feels really terrible!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441151</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Algy Craig Hall Justine Avery and Ali PyeNaday Meldova|title=The Deep Dark WoodEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Children love a fairytaleCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. ForestsBut really, monsters, Little Red Riding Hoodwhy shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. They open up a world of possible adventuresWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, wonder and mystery. The Deep Dark Wood taps into that format brilliantlysay, taking ideas and myths already deeply ingrained into our culture and creating a really fun story for children (learning about why the sun and adults) to engage with.the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408325152</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil Griffiths Justine Avery and Janette LoudenNaday Meldova|title=The Jolly DodgersNo, No, No! Pirates Who Pretended
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|summary=I’ll get started with this point; They say the best picture books are the layout simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this book latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!'' is utterly wonderfulbased around the simplest text imaginable. It’s got a great subject matter ''No, no, pirates are always popular both with adults and childrenno! Okay, 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 wivesokay. Yes, is a terribly entertaining oneyou may. '' That's it! But it is , like all the layoutbest picture books, style and all this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the extras which are working inside that it appears on the hardest in this book's favouroutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908702125</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter de la Mare194812467X|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, 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>}}{{newreviewFarm Shop|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|title=Tales from Acorn Wood: Hide-Devon Avery, Justine Avery and-Seek PigEma Tepic|rating=54
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|summary=Pig Kirelle and Hen her best friend Sam the cat decide to play hide-go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and-seek and whilst Pig counts Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to tenthe top of the hill, Hen goes off to hidethey see a big barn with a sign outside. Pig thinks that sheIt's found Hen straight away when she spots a yellow beak behind farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all 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 Henstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. Could that be Hen hiding in a tent? There's a long brown ear peeping out from behind the flapare sheep and ducks and cows, but when it's liftedgoats and chickens, we discover Rabbit, who joins the two huntersand even some mice. She was having a drink when she was foundExcited, but she brings her mug along with herKirelle and Sam go shopping. Before Hen is eventually found we've collected quite a few seekers!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273435</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Jenny Offill Sadie and Chris Appelhansthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Sparky!Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=There are so many books about unusual pets, Sadie's mother always said that I she was a little wary when first opening this bookdreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. On She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one handrainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom, it’s ''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a subject which I think works really well glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and is always popularthe attendant's warning shout. On When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the other hand, is it over done? I needn’t midst of an adventure that she could never have worried, this book is really ever so slightly different. It’s aimed at an older readerimagined in a world of dolphins, I’d say primary school agepirates, mermaids and in the end it makes for a pretty poignant readtreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014862</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Wild and Deborah Niland1782227741|title=This Little Piggy Went DancingGold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=34
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|summary=There are classics of One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the nursery rhyme oeuvre water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and This Little Piggy is certainly one sucked down a drain on the side of themthe street. Finding himself Who doesndown in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. 't remember someone ticking 'OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of each of their fingers or toes as they explained Reg the whereabouts sewer rat, who plucks him out of our porcine pals, only to be tickled at the end? Howeverdirty water using his cane, this which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is 2014 a kind soul and there must be he dries Ted off and warms him up with 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>nice bowl of broth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Kane and Sara ActonB08R7LXQ9S|title=Esther's RainbowRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4.5
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|summary=ThereRemy is feeling miserable. He's something rather magical about rainbowslet himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, Even now I find I get a together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit excited further when I see one and will rush over to the window to see how big it isother kids are around. So, and where the pot of gold might be! In this rainbow storywhen Remy reacts, Esther spies a rainbow on it looks as though he was the floorinstigator. When she touches it, it's soft And then he gets into trouble at school 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 lifeteachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743313705</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B J Novak1471191303|title=The Book With No PicturesInvisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=My favourite moments This is the story of reviewing books are ones just like this; when I decide to take Isobel, a little girl who made a chance on big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a book that I have no idea about but which looks like it might be just house - a little bit interestingvery cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and it turns out they arewere happy. The Book With No Pictures by B J Novak isn Then the day came when they couldn't just a little bit interestingafford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, it is staggeringly original sad and lonely and so much funIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0803741715</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily GravettNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Bear and Hare: Snow!One Night in Beartown|rating=54
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|summary=Emily Gravett isMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, let's face itwho lives in Beartown, always goodis obsessed with bears. There are She collects books upon books which are well written and well thought out for the preschool marketabout bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, but I can't help but feel like very young tots are often an after thoughta teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. GravettEvery night, however, takes she looks out of her sweet bedroom window and witty style and gives it says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to just this marketBee Bear, and she is repeatedly excellent a colourful painted bear that lives at ither school. There is just as much thought in She even has bears on 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 that.bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273230</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]