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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric Litwin and James DeanAdam Stower|title=Pete the Cat Rocking in My School ShoesMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=My love of Pete the Cat 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 documented here at The Bookbag, as I’ve previously reviewed whatever takes his fancy next of the two of . But he's a bad magician's cat, so his adventures. This latest titlefavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, Pete not into the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes hasn’t let me downregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and I think it’s greatwhiffs. Pete is going to school This time round it drops them into a Viking land, which can be where a bit scarytroll hunter is expected – well, especially when you’re having to do lots of new thingsone much bigger than Murray was, like go to the library or eat in the lunch room. Is Pete scared? Goodness nobe honest, he’s rocking, reading but he's turned up and eating in his school shoes.he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000755365X</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Julie Fulton The Adventures of Birpus and Elina EllisBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Daniel O'Dowd Was Ever So LoudWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=Daniel O’Dowd When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is ever so loudchasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, which shouldn’t come as they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a shock to any ladder of you given that the book is called Daniel O’Dowd moss and vines was Ever So Loudlowered for them, they escaped. Much They climbed up to his teacher’s dismaythe Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Daniel never listens to a word she says because he’s too busy being loud!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861184</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony MeeuwissenB0CC9W7GLR|title=Remarkable AnimalsOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5

|summary=Can I introduce you Kit and Teal were just beginning to the Ally-Topus? He’s ''powerful enough wonder whether it was better to drag a man in to water''be at home, likes to ''hover over fragrant flowers'' bored but seems to be ''extremely shy'' warm, or frozen cold and ''almost impossible to keep in captivity''building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. Sound familiar? Maybe it would help to describe As the ice bumped onto the accompanying picture – an alligator’s headsand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a bird’s body run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and a platypus tail. Still don’t recognise gave him? Maybe we can try one apple and then another animal. What about the Pleevillar? The By-Tollar? No? I’d best stop there. There are one thousand creatures in ''Remarkable Animals'' so we could He obviously needed to be here rather taken home on the bus and given a long timegood meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806325</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Kasia Nowowiejska1913839656|title=Cheep Cheep Pop-Up Fun (Little Snappers)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=The animals on the farm are in a playful mood and some of them are hiding. Duck knows that there's a dotty animal playing peek-a-moo behind the tractor, but who is it? Lift the flap and we can all see that it's laughing cow, with her head popping right out to greet us. Someone is playing the same game with ginger cat - and there's an ''awful'' lot of mud around. Who can it be? Well, when you move the mud out of the way (don't worry - it's a flap - rubber gloves are not required) we can see that itLet's piglet, who's having a wonderful time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848574355</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCelebrate Being Different|author=Jonathan Litton and Fhiona Galloway|title=Egg: An Egg-Citing Easter Eggs-Capade! (My Little World)Lainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary=There's a big hole in Todd was excited about spending the front weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of ''Egg'' dungarees and his favourite hat and - curiously - it's egg-shapedthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Behind She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this hole and on every page there's another egg-shaped hole and they get smaller as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and smaller leaving a neat shape which you he wondered why that could easily balance on egg inbe. The colours shout ''SPRING'' and in case you are in any doubt we're told Grandma thought that it's ''An eggs-citing Easter egg-scapade!'' You get the idea?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848959656</amazonuk>might be because he looked different.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Gunaratnam and Marta Costa1529504775|title=Preposterous RhinocerosThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Reading is easy! Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. You may say that, after all you are reading this Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very reviewdifficult. However, if you had never read One day Elsie spotted a book before bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and someone gave you onewas happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, would you know what David learned to do? When King Lion loses his voicestand up, Preposterous Rhinoceros thinks he can helpuse the bus for support, but and walk behind it takes more than just hope to read a book aloud. Will Rhino figure out what Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to do before the other animals get restless?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861656</amazonuk>Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Scarry1529504767|title=Best Lowly Worm Book Ever!The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Since we Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worn our copy worried though as she went to the home of [[Busiest People Ever by Richard Scarry|Busiest People Ever]] almost Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to shreds it was with great delight that we sat down her. She even had her own room - all to take a look at this book all about Lowly Wormherself. Lowly Worm is already a well known character in our house, Gradually she relaxed and so therebegan to enjoy her life. She's something delightful in having a whole book about him! And what a book! This has a little bit of everything in, from d help Mrs Russell with the Lowly Worm alphabet right at the start, through counting baking and what when it's like at school, came to a delightful chapter all about good manners Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on to the never-ending fun of playing 'where's Lowly Worm'Christmas tree. It's possible this will become our new favourite bedtime read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007581017</amazonuk>The best surprise happened the following morning.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Scarry1916459943|title=A Day at the Fire StationSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=3.54

|summary=WeMuch as mothers love their babies, there're big fans of Richard Scarry in our houses something they all dread - a squeakily baby. Though I have to admit we don He's so tired but he can't - or won't usually read the story and we tend, - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to just spend our pre-bedtime reading minutes scanning help. It rocks Baby gently and the pages for where the cheese car iswaves sing ''hush, or who has stolen hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the bananassound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, or what Mr Frumble has crashed into now! This particular Scarry comes la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a small disappointment, then, if thatseagull '''shouts'''s and we know exactly 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 s going to read it!) is actually quite good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574959</amazonuk>happen next.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Freedman and Kate Hindley140639131X|title=Oliver and PatchA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Moving house is never easy, especially when youPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired''re a childof nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. Oliver has moved from She wrote to the countryside to mayor about the city, and he finds that not only is he having to adapt to his new surroundings, problem but hedidn's also dealing with terrible loneliness, as he misses all his friends dreadfullyt even get a reply. One day, when Oliver canPhilippa wasn't bear being shut a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up inside any longer, he ventures out into something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the big citybenefits were obvious...will he manage All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to find provide a friend?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857079549</amazonuk>safe path overnight.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tatyana Feeney1776574338|title=Small ElephantLeilong's Bath TimeToo Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5

|summary=Water is Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the funnestcity, and Small Elephant knows itpicking up children as he goes. But Children who live at the one time he’s not top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the biggest fan window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of aqua going to school? There is when it’s bath timea problem, though. Ewww. Bor-ring. He will do anything to avoid Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to get into the tub be careful about where he puts his feet and Mummy has – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to take drastic measuresand traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192737376</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rob Biddulph1776574028|title=Blown AwayBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=54

|summary=If you thought penguins didn’t fly, think again. Penguin Blue I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is up in aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the sky child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but it’s not what has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you might think – thanks to a fun kite can ''play'' with words and a cheeky gust of wind, he’s soaring up, up and away make something quite different from each one. We have the home, elephant who dons a tutu - and as his friends try to help they get pulled up becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and away too. Uh ohthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. Where will the wind take these South Pole creatures? The answer, in this amazingly fun book, rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is to a lush, tropical island''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm..... It’s full of friendly creatures and wondrous green foliage like none they’ve ever seen before. But it’s rather hot and far from home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007593821</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Walliams and Tony Ross1838226834|title=The Queen's Orang-UtanCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=54

|summary=The Queen felt trapped in the palace It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all those stuffed animals which she has been given on foreign tours. There are mountains of them and every night she would dream of escaping. When her birthday drew near the family dutifully asked her what she would like as a presentgood that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. The Prince A young boy was thinking of a gold, diamond encrusted stairlift whilst going to the Duke was considering a great big bottle of brandy. The Royal Baby had some decorated thimbles in mindcarnival with his Grandad, but the Queen became just a little snappish as she explained that what she really wanted was who told him: 'One's own orang-utanIt'. And she didnll be brilliant, just remember, don't mean a stuffed one, eitherlet go of my hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008135134</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve JenkinsB09MYXSRV4|title=Actual Size|rating=5|genre=ChildrenOtter's Non-Fiction|summary=There’s an enormous disembodied eye staring at me. At 30cm it’s as big as a dinner plate Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and it’s in my living room. Which is no bad thing because if I met it in the sea then I’d really be in trouble. Fortunately the eye is contained on page four of the intriguing and really rather splendid, book 'Actual Size'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805949</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHare|author=Kate Leake |title=Don't Chew the Royal ShoeCordellya Smith

|summary=Dogs, love ‘em or loath ‘emWhen the world was made, they get underfoot and have a tendency to chew on things that are left around the houseanimals were given gifts. One set of dogs Bear was given strength so that you would expect are better trained are the Royal Corgis, they wouldn’t dare chew on he could become a royal shoeprotector. It turns out Water Spider received a strong web that they might even fire could notburn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, but that won’t stop Chipsunfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other royal dog and animals. He was also jealous which was how he likes nothing better than getting his gnashers round came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a boot or twofair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407139355</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura Vaccaro SeegerRob Keeley|title=BullyCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54

|summary=He's a bit of a 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 you and how nice to eat. wellOne day, a bullypoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, reallywho tells her that carrots grow on trees. The farm animals want to play Infuriated, Lily checks with himthe teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, but he just calls them nameslike carrots, grow in the ground. He proceeds Jordan says, "I did try to insult each one until a brave little goat stands up to him tell her, Miss!" and calls HIM a bullyeveryone laughs at poor Lily. How will Bully react to that?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783442131</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophy HennB09FFJF8YS|title=Pom Pom Gets the GrumpsYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5

|summary=Uh oh. Pom Pom is in a BAD MOOD. Nothing is going right today''For the big, grownup girls out there, the world is against himpotty masters in training, and everyone "You Can't Wear Panties!" is just rubbing him up a cry (the wrong waybig-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride. Harrumph!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723294763</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=Timothy Knapman Justine Avery and Rosie ReeveNaday Meldova|title=Mighty SmallEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Max the mouse has a secretToots, trumps, farts. He is Whatever your word for them, find us a superhero! He canchild that doesn't run super fastfind them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, or jump really highthat is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, or do anything particular when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her 'super' but stillEverybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, he has a cape and he likes to wear his underpants over his trouserswith the familiar humour attached, if his mum isnexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''t looking! He is sure that if he just tries hard enough he will figure out what his super power must be.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192737228</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Gillian Tyler B09BG8V3Q6|title=The Bus Is for UsWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|summary=As a child of ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the 80s I sometimes yearn for an era free ''Everybody Potties!'' series from [[Aliens In Underpants Save The World by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort|Aliens in Underpants]] or rough [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|Gruffalos]]Justine Avery. An era This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of Alan potty training children 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 kidreplace it with some fun. ThankfullyIt's a worthy aim, 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 busany frustrated parent will tell you. However, I think that these kids have obviously never tried to catch the Number 9 at rush hour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406337145</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kylie Westaway and Tom JellettB07GZ81J7C|title=Whale in When Fred the Bath|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=It’s bath time, which is often not a favourite time of day. Really, it’s a sign that the fun is over and it’s time for bath, maybe a story, Snake Got Squished and then bed, at least for the little ones. The grown ups get to stay up later. Hmpf. But Bruno is not moaning too much about getting in the bath, though you get the impression that’s a battle he’s had, 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 to hop in beside him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743318588</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMended|author=Margaret McAllister and Holly Sterling|title=15 Things Not to Do with a BabyPeter Cotton

|summary=There’s Meet Fred. Well, actually, you'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 a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a new arrival at homephobia about snakes are going to warm to him. A foreignerHe arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. An imposter And that was where the problem started. An alien Fred didn't have any road sense. A BABY Or brakes. What on Earth should you do with it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780506X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Quentin BlakeJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Tell me a Picture - Adventures in Looking at Art|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=When did you last read a children's book that absolutely flummoxed you in the way it showed or told you something you didn't know? (And please be an adult when you answer that, or else it won't be quite so impressive.) 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 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 a narrative''. The pictures came with no major labelling, no context – just what they held, and some typically scratched Blake characters discussing the images as a lead-in. They were simply hung in alphabetical order, and probably could not have been more different. This then is a picture book of the most literal kind, with 26 stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Danielle Wright (editor) and Mique Moriuchi Everybody Pees! (illustratorEverybody Potties!)|title=My Village: Rhymes from Around the World

|summary=The Really Abominable SnowmanCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it turns out, is be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just a little yeti called Miloas we have to learn about everything else when we are small. He’s not even abominable, never mind really abominable! But that isnWhy shouldn't what everybody else thinkspotty training be as much fun as, they're all terrified of himsay, even though all he wants is a friend to share his favourite cupcakes with…learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406355844</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Donaldson Justine Avery and Axel SchefflerNaday Meldova|title=Charlie Cook's Favourite BookNo, No, No!|rating=54

|summary=As They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a parentBookbag favourite. ''No, you’re always in search of it. That oneNo, elusive thing; No!'' is based around the perfect bedtime storysimplest text imaginable. Well ''No, no, no! Okay, in Charlie Cook’s Favourite Bookokay. Yes, I think we quite possibly have you may.'' That's it. This ten year anniversary edition of ! But, like all the book will hopefully bring it to slightly wider attention than some best picture books, this tiny snippet of Donaldson’s more well known titles, as it text is a completely charming and timeless bookveritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447276787</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross194812467X|title=The Pet PersonFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic

|summary=Children's stories often turn Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a familiar idea on its headwalk. In this story it Kirelle is that of pets, dressed for the main characters 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 story are a family top of dogsthe hill, and one of them would very much like his own pet personthey see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! Will Rex succeed in persuading his parents to get him But this is a farm shop with a person? And if sodifference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will it be everything he ever dreamed ofthey buy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442425</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Velthuijs0995647895|title=Frog in LoveSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=Frog has been feeling Sadie's mother always said that she was a little strangedreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. He finds himself wanting She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to laugh and cry spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the same timehouses cowered in the gloom, ''<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 glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and his heart is beating strangelythe attendant's warning shout. Pig declares When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that Frog must she could never have imagined in a coldworld of dolphins, but Hare suggests that perhaps Frog is in lovepirates, mermaids and treasure. But who can Frog possibly be in love with?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441453</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross1782227741|title=I Feel Sick! (Little Princess)Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5

|summary=I should think most parents of small children are familiar with fake sicknessesOne day, in an attempt Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to get out spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of nursery/school/the dentist or whatever other trauma you are heartlessly inflicting on themstreet. I remember my daughter aged about three trying to convince me that she had a broken legFinding himself down in the sewer, pointing Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the broken one and then limping on attention of Reg the other! Here we see sewer rat, who plucks him out of the Little Princess insisting that she is terriblydirty water using his cane, dreadfully sickwhich might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Especially when she has been asked to do something she doesn't want to doReg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth. Then she feels really terrible!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441151</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Algy Craig Hall and Ali PyeB08R7LXQ9S|title=The Deep Dark Wood|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Children love a fairytale. Forests, monsters, Little Red Riding Hood. They open up a world of possible adventures, wonder and mystery. The Deep Dark Wood taps into that format brilliantly, taking ideas and myths already deeply ingrained into our culture and creating a really fun story for children (and adults) to engage with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408325152</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Neil Griffiths Mayuri Naidoo and Janette Louden|title=The Jolly Dodgers! Pirates Who PretendedCaroline Siegal

|summary=I’ll get started with this point; the layout of this book Remy is utterly wonderfulfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. It’s got a great subject matterThe school bully Jayden, pirates are always popular both together with adults his sidekicks Ryan and childrenBrandon, 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 further when the story of a group of pirates who don’t really want to be pirates but who other kids are being forced into it by their pushy wivesaround. So, when Remy reacts, is a terribly entertaining one. But it is looks as though he was the layout, style instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and all the extras which are working the hardest in this bookteachers don's favourt believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908702125</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter de la Mare1471191303|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>}}{{newreviewInvisible|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|title=Tales from Acorn Wood: Hide-and-Seek PigTom Percival

|summary=Pig and Hen decide to play hideThis is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house -and-seek and whilst Pig counts to tena very cold house, Hen goes off because her parents couldn't afford to hide. Pig thinks that sheput the heating on: ''s found Hen straight away when she spots a yellow beak behind Ice curled across the inside of the gate, but when we lift window and crept up the gate flap we discover that corner of the yellow beak belongs bedpost.'' The family didn't go to Blackbird, who happily joins in the hunt for Hencinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Could that be Hen hiding in a tent? There's a long brown ear peeping out from behind Then the flap, but day came when itthey couldn's lifted, we discover Rabbit, who joins t afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the two hunterscity. She This part of the city was having a drink when she was foundcold, but she brings her mug along with hersad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible. Before Hen is eventually found we've collected quite a few seekers!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273435</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Offill Nick Jones and Chris AppelhansSi Clark|title=Sparky!One Night in Beartown|rating=4.5

|summary=There are so many books about unusual pets, that I was a little wary when first opening this book. On one hand, it’s a subject which I think works really well and is always popular. On the other hand, is it over done? I needn’t Many children have worried, this book is really ever so slightly different. It’s aimed at an older readerobsession and Sandy Lane, I’d say primary school age, and who lives in the end it makes for a pretty poignant read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014862</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Margaret Wild and Deborah Niland|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 doesn't remember someone ticking of each of their fingers or toes as they explained the whereabouts of our porcine palsBeartown, 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>}}{{newreview|author=Kim Kane and Sara Acton|title=Esther's Rainbow|rating=4obsessed with bears.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=There's something rather magical She collects books about rainbowsbears. Even now I find I get a little bit excited when I see one and will rush over to the window to see how big it Her favourite toy isBerisford, and where the pot of gold might be! In this rainbow story, Esther spies a rainbow on the floorteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. When Every night, she touches it, it's soft looks out of her bedroom window and warm and smells slightly like honeysays goodnight to the bear statue outside. After the rainbow goes away Every morning she finds herself noticingsays hello to Bee Bear, throughout the week, the different rainbow colours in a colourful painted bear that lives at her every day lifeschool.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743313705</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]