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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heinz Janisch and Wolf Erlbruch|title=The King and the Sea|rating=3|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet the King. He's a very good King – or is he? He has to be taught by a cat that there is more to worship – the sun's rays, for one. He is so powerful yet he cannot get a trumpet to play without him being its servant, and giving it his air; he cannot persuade a cloud to stay and enjoy his kingdom; and even he is resigned to a shadow that turns his petite, glistening gold crown into a large grey shape on the floor. No, the King might think he has it all, but he hasn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579947</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Bond and R W AlleyAdam Stower|title=Paddington at the Zoo|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Cast your mind back to the weeks before the ''Paddington'' movie enchanted the world. There was a lot of press at the time about how the film had such mild peril and sexual innuendo that it was a PG-rated movie, Murray and not a U. It became headlines due to the unassailable fact that Paddington just never seems to carry any threat to the audience, and to not have a single daunting bone in his body. But those larger books can easily be daunting to the very young people in which you wish to instil love of the character, which is where the picture book range of stories comes in. They're a lot smaller than the chapters in the main novels, and while those main books were still being produced as well they were quite uncommon occurrences, but with the [[Michael Bond's Original Paddington Bear Books in Chronological Order|'proper']] books out the way, these were pretty much all Michael Bond was producing as regards our favourite bear. Which can only mean one thing – they're equally brilliant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0006647448</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mick Inkpen|title=Kipper's ToyboxBun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=There are things in life that make you feel old; when 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 last Premiership footballer born two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the same year as you retirescatflap they both use can chuck them out, or when their arresting officer looks like they don’t even shavenot into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. The fact that Kipper This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is over 25 years old makes me feel my age; this collection of books always felt a little ageless expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and classic. The new 25 year anniversary releases look he'll have to cement this.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444923773</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zurine Aguirre1732898766|title=Sardines The Adventures of LoveBirpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=This is a love story about Lolo When we first meet Birpus and Lola, and grandfather and grandmother whose Bulbus they're running for their lives revolve around sardines (stay with me!) in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. Lolo goes out fishing for sardinesHe's right behind them, and loves to eat sardinesspewing hot, whilst Lola sour milk from his wife runs a shop selling sardinesnostrils. Lola doesn(Please don't try this at home: it won't like to eat sardinesend well.) Fortunately, but she happily cooks they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them for her husband, albeit with a peg on her nose because of they escaped. They climbed up to the smell! But one day, Tree Wee homes high up in the unthinkable happenstangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Lola finds that she has run out of sardines for LoloGranny Cranny. What will she do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846437261</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim WarnesB0CC9W7GLR|title=I Love You to On the Moon Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and BackJenny Fionda
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|summary=I do love Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and 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 good polar bear story. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the bears in this one are wonderfully appealingice. Sweetly drawn, in Kit was all for making a gentlerun for it, loving story, this is a perfect 'winding-down' storybut Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. It's loaded with sentiment (I'm sure I'd He obviously needed to be crying if I were pregnant!) taken home on the bus and given a good meal and is just very sweet somewhere to share with small, snuggly, just out of the bath toddlers|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869069X</amazonuk>sleep. What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean Taylor and Jean Jullien1913839656|title=Hoot Owl, Master of DisguiseLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=As quick as a shooting starTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, like a wolf in not least because she made the air, who could it be? It’s Hoot Owl! And Hoot Owl is hungrybest beetle juice. Owls are well known for being wise, but what people don’t know is that Hoot Owl is also the Master He packed two pairs of Disguise; a skill which he’s going dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to use show his grandmother. She had promised to use take him to get himself some dinnerthe Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. The question is At home, will it work? And what will his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be eating for dinner? I don’t think you’ll . Grandma thought that it might be able to guess..because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348414</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Copus and Eunyoung Seo1529504775|title=The Hog, the Shrew and the Hullabaloo Toy Bus (A Harry The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Lil Story)Katie Hickey
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|summary=Harry Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the hog is buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just trying standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to get use the coins from her money box to sleeppay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, when he hears a terrifying noise outside. It frightens him so much that he has David learned to call his best friend Lil stand up, use the shrew over to try bus for support, and help him find out what the noise waswalk behind it. As Many decades later, Elsie brought the night goes onbus, they hear many a wild thingnow damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, but none of hoping that the noises are what Harry heardexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it. Will they ever find out what it was? Will they ever get any sleep? You’ll just have to read and see for yourself!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571316964</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Litwin and James Dean1529504767|title=Pete the Cat Rocking in My School ShoesThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=My love of Pete the Cat is well documented here at The Bookbag, as I’ve previously reviewed two of his adventures. This latest title, Pete the Cat Rocking Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in My School Shoes hasn’t let me down, 1939 and I think it’s great. Pete is going to school, which can nervous about how she would be a bit scary, especially greeted when you’re having she got to do lots her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of new thingsMr and Mrs Russell, like go who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the library or eat in decorations on the lunch roomChristmas tree. Is Pete scared? Goodness no, he’s rocking, reading and eating in his school shoes The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000755365X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Fulton and Elina Ellis1916459943|title=Daniel O'Dowd Was Ever So LoudSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=Daniel O’Dowd is ever Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so loudtired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, which shouldn’t come as a shock he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to any help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you given that have the book is called Daniel O’Dowd was Ever So Loudsound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay. Much ..'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his teacher’s dismay, Daniel never listens eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to a word she says because he’s too busy being loud!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861184</amazonuk>happen next.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Meeuwissen140639131X|title=Remarkable AnimalsA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=Can I introduce you to the Ally-Topus? He’s Philippa Pheasant was ''powerful enough to drag a man in to watertired'', likes 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 reply. Philippa wasn'hover over fragrant flowers'' but seems t a bird to be ''extremely shy'' 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 ''almost impossible to keep in captivity''decided that she would set up something similar herself. Sound familiar? Maybe it would help Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to describe start with but the accompanying picture – an alligator’s head, a bird’s body and a platypus tailbenefits were obvious. Still don’t recognise him? Maybe we can try another animal. What about All the animals used the Pleevillar? The By-Tollar? No? I’d best stop there. There are one thousand creatures in ''Remarkable Animals'' so we could be here rather crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a long timesafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806325</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Kasia Nowowiejska1776574338|title=Cheep Cheep Pop-Up Fun (Little Snappers)Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=The animals on Every morning Leilong, 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 brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the tractorcity, but picking up children as he goes. Children who is it? Lift live at the flap and we can all see that ittop of tower blocks don's laughing cow, with her head popping right t even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out to greet usof the window and slide down his neck. Someone is playing the same game with ginger cat - and thereIt's an perfect, isn''awful'' lot of mud around. t it? Who can it What could bea more fun way of going to school? WellThere is a problem, when you move though. Leilong isn't happy in the mud out of the way (doncity: he't worry - its always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a flap - rubber gloves are not required) we tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can see that it's piglet, who's having a wonderful timet be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848574355</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Fhiona Galloway1776574028|title=Egg: An Egg-Citing Easter Eggs-Capade! (My Little World)Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=ThereI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's a big hole in for the front of child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''Eggplay'' with words and - curiously - it's egg-shapedmake something quite different from each one. Behind this hole and on every page there's another eggWe have the elephant who dons a tutu -shaped hole and they get smaller and smaller leaving becomes a neat shape which you could easily balance on egg in''balletphant''. The colours shout buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''SPRINGfluffalo'' and in case you are in any doubt we. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros''re told (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a 's 'sm.......'An eggs-citing Easter egg-scapade!' OK, let' s not go there You get the idea?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848959656</amazonuk>Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Tracy Gunaratnam Ed Boxall|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Marta CostaHare|titleauthor=Preposterous RhinocerosCordellya Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=Reading is easy! When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. You may say Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that, after all you are reading this very revieweven fire could not burn. However, if you Owl had never read a book before excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and someone gave you one, would you know what to do? '' the future. When King Lion loses his voiceRabbit developed intelligence - but, Preposterous Rhinoceros thinks he can helpunfortunately, but not the ability to use it takes more than just hope to read a book aloudwell. Will Rhino figure out what He liked to do before the trick other animals get restless?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861656</amazonuk>. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in 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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard ScarryRob Keeley|title=Best Lowly Worm Book EverCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=Since we have worn our copy of [[Busiest People Ever by Richard Scarry|Busiest People Ever]] almost to shreds it was with great delight that we sat down to take a look at this book all about Lowly Worm. Lowly Worm is already a well known character in our house, Lily loves eating fruit and so there's something delightful in having a whole book about him! And what a book! This has a little bit of everything invegetables. She likes carrots, from the Lowly Worm alphabet right at the startbroccoli, through counting cabbage and what it's like aubergines. When her friends at schoolturn up their noses, Lily is keen to a delightful chapter all about explain how good manners they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on to trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the never-ending fun of playing 'where's Lowly Worm'ground. It's possible this will become our new favourite bedtime readJordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007581017</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard ScarryB09FFJF8YS|title=A Day at the Fire StationYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=We're 'For the big fans of Richard Scarry , grownup girls out there, the potty masters in our house. Though I have to admit we dontraining, "You Can't usually read Wear Panties!" is a cry (the story big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and we tendgraduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, insteadher cat, to just spend our preher stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-bedtime reading minutes scanning duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the pages for where flowers, nor the cheese car isfish, or who has stolen nor the bananas, or what Mr Frumble has crashed into birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl nowand she wants everyone to know it! This particular Scarry comes as a small disappointment}} {{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, thenfarts. Whatever your word for them, if find us a child thatdoesn's what you're looking for as it focuses solely on the fire station t find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and the activities of the firemenjoke about, but the story (that is. But horribly embarrassing if you bother to read let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear itand 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 familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is actually quite goodperfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007574959</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Freedman and Kate HindleyB09BG8V3Q6|title=Oliver Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and PatchSeema Amjad
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|summary=Moving house ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is never easy, especially when youthe latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!''re a childseries from Justine Avery. Oliver has moved from the countryside This series of fun picture books aims to take the city, pain out of potty training children and he finds that not only is he having to adapt to his new surroundings, but hereplace it with some fun. It's also dealing with terrible lonelinessa worthy aim, as he misses all his friends dreadfullyany frustrated parent will tell you. One day, when Oliver can't bear being shut up inside any longer, he ventures out into the big city...will he manage to find a friend?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857079549</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tatyana FeeneyB07GZ81J7C|title=Small Elephant's Bath TimeWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=Water is the funnestMeet Fred. Well, actually, and Small Elephant knows ityou're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But the one time he’s not the biggest fan I'm getting ahead of aqua myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is when it’s bath time. Ewww. Bor-ringa snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He will do anything to avoid having arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to get into the tub and Mummy has to extent that they would take drastic measuresFred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192737376</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rob BiddulphJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Blown AwayEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=If Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you thought penguins didn’t fly. But really, think againwhy 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. Penguin Blue is up in the sky but it’s not what you might think – thanks to a Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun kite and a cheeky gust of windas, he’s soaring upsay, up and away from learning about why the home, sun and as his friends try to help they get pulled up and away too. Uh oh. Where will the wind moon take these South Pole creaturesturns in the sky? The answer, in this amazingly fun book, is to a lush, tropical island. 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007593821</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Walliams Justine Avery and Tony RossNaday Meldova|title=The Queen's Orang-Utan|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The Queen felt trapped in the palace with 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 present. The Prince was thinking of a gold, diamond encrusted stairlift whilst the Duke was considering a great big bottle of brandy. The Royal Baby had some decorated thimbles in mindNo, but the Queen became just a little snappish as she explained that what she really wanted was 'One's own orang-utan'. And she didn't mean 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 the sea then I’d really be in trouble. Fortunately the eye is contained on page four of the intriguing and really rather splendidNo, book 'Actual Size'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805949</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Leake |title=Don't Chew the Royal ShoeNo!
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|summary=Dogs, love ‘em or loath ‘em, they get underfoot and have a tendency to chew on things that They say the best picture books are left around the housesimplest ones. One set And nothing could be truer of dogs that you would expect are better trained are the Royal Corgis, they wouldn’t dare chew on a royal shoe. It turns out that they might notthis latest from Justine Avery, but that won’t stop Chips, the other royal dog and he likes nothing better than getting his gnashers round a boot or twoBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407139355</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Knapman and Rosie Reeve194812467X|title=Mighty SmallThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Max Kirelle and her best friend Sam the mouse has cat decide to go for a secretwalk. He 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 the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a superherofarm shop! He can't run super fastBut this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, or jump really highgoats and chickens, or do anything particular 'super' but stilland even some mice. Excited, he has a cape Kirelle and he likes to wear his underpants over his trousers, 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 beSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192737228</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Michael Rosen Sadie and Gillian Tyler the Sea Dogs|titleauthor=The Bus Is for UsMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=As Sadie's mother always said that she was a child of the 80s I sometimes yearn for an era free from [[Aliens In Underpants Save The World by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort|Aliens in Underpants]] or rough [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|Gruffalos]]dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. An era of Alan and Janet Ahlberg telling [[Each Peach Pear Plum She lives by Janet Ahlberg the River Thames at Greenwich 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 she loves to catch the Number 9 spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at rush hourCutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406337145</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret McAllister and Holly Sterling1782227741|title=15 Things Not to Do with a BabyLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=There’s One day, Gold Ted falls into a new arrival at homepuddle. A foreignerIt's quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. An imposterPoor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of the street. An alienFinding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. A BABY''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. What on Earth should you do Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780506X</amazonuk>a nice bowl of broth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin BlakeB08R7LXQ9S|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 Remy: A 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 about believing 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>}}{{newreviewyourself|author=Danielle Wright (editor) Mayuri Naidoo and Mique Moriuchi (illustrator)|title=My Village: Rhymes from Around the WorldCaroline Siegal
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|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The Really Abominable Snowmanschool bully Jayden, it turns out 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 a that little yeti called Milobit further when the other kids are around. He’s not even abominableSo, when Remy reacts, never mind really abominable! But that isnit looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't what everybody else thinks, they're all terrified of believe him, even though all when he wants is a friend tries to share his favourite cupcakes with…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406355844</amazonuk>explain what happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler1471191303|title=Charlie Cook's Favourite BookThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=As This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a parenthouse - a very cold house, you’re always in search 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 itthe bedpost. That one, elusive thing; '' The family didn't go to the perfect bedtime storycinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Well, in Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book, I think we quite possibly have it Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This ten year anniversary edition part of the book will hopefully bring it to slightly wider attention than some of Donaldson’s more well known titlescity was cold, as it is a completely charming sad and lonely and timeless bookIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447276787</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne Willis Nick Jones and Tony RossSi Clark|title=The Pet PersonOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Children's stories often turn a familiar idea on its headMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. In this story it Her favourite toy is that of petsBerisford, for the main characters in the story are a family teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of dogs, her bedroom window and one of them would very much like his own pet person! Will Rex succeed in persuading his parents says goodnight 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 Love|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Frog has been feeling a little strangethe bear statue outside. He finds himself wanting Every morning she says hello to laugh and cry at the same timeBee Bear, and his heart is beating strangely. Pig declares that Frog must have a cold, but Hare suggests colourful painted bear that perhaps Frog is in lovelives at her school. But who can Frog possibly be in love with?She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783441453</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]