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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma Chichester ClarkAdam Stower|title=Bears Don't ReadMurray and Bun
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…
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|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon
|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
|rating=4
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|summary=You might think a picture When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of a bear reading a book, on Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the cover of a book itself called Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don'Bears Don’t Readt try this at home: it won'' is confusingt end well.) Fortunately, but it quickly becomes clear. George is a bear doing bear things with his friends they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and family but he’s getting when a bit bored ladder of the same oldmoss and vines was lowered for them, same oldthey escaped. So when he finds a book some poor human type person has dropped he’s a bit excited. The only thing is, he doesn’t know how They climbed up to read it, so he can’t release the exciting adventure that’s cooped Tree Wee homes high up inside. With his fellow bears showing little interest in his findthe tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, he sets off for the town to try to locate someone who can helpNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007425198</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Hoffman and Ros AsquithB0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Great Big Book of FamiliesWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=Dolce Kit and Gabbana would not like this bookTeal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, that much I’m sure or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab ofsilvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. I think it’s ace, though. Families are no longer 2.4 children with a mummy and On top of the ice was a daddypolar bear. To be fair As the ice bumped onto the sand, that wasn’t even the case 30 years ago when I bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a toddlerrun for it, but most books at the time hadn’t clocked Teal knew that the change yet so in literature at least that’s what a family bear washungry and gave him one apple and then another. Not any more. This book, not He obviously needed to be taken home on the first of its kind, I’m sure, but bus and given a very welcome addition good meal and somewhere to the market, highlights and celebrates the diversity of family life in Britain todaysleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805876</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ulf Stark and Eva Eriksson1913839656|title=When Dad Showed Me the Universe|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Dads are wonderful, aren't they? One minute they can be working as a dentist, the next they can be showing you the universe, and even tell you how cold it is. Mind you, mothers can be fabulous too, making sure you're going to be warm enough if you go out to see the universe. But dads are best – they even make sure you get chewing gum as provisions when you're exploring the universe. And what a universe it is – from whatLet's right under your feet to what's right out in the furthest reaches of the night sky…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271819</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCelebrate Being Different|author=Heinz Janisch and Wolf Erlbruch|title=The King and the SeaLainey Dee|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 Alley|title=Paddington at the Zoo|rating=4.5
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|summary=Cast your mind back to the weeks before the ''Paddington'' movie enchanted the world. There Todd was a lot of press at the time excited about how spending the film had such mild peril and sexual innuendo that it was a PG-rated movieweekend with his grandmother, and not a Uleast because she made the best beetle juice. It became headlines due to the unassailable fact that Paddington just never seems to carry any threat to the audience, He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to not have a single daunting bone in show his bodygrandmother. But those larger books can easily be daunting She had promised to the very young people in which you wish take him to instil love of the character, which is where Friday Night Club at the picture book range of stories comes inlocal community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. They're a lot smaller than the chapters in the main novelsAt home, his only friend was his mum 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 bearhe wondered why that could be. Which can only mean one thing – they're equally brilliantGrandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0006647448</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Inkpen1529504775|title=Kipper's ToyboxThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
|rating=4.5
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|summary=There are things in life that make you feel old; when Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the last Premiership footballer born park and watch the same year as you retires, or when their arresting officer looks like they don’t even shavered buses drive past. The fact that Kipper is over 25 years old makes me feel my age; this collection Elsie would race the buses along the side of books always felt a little ageless the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and classiceven just standing up was very difficult. The new 25 year anniversary releases look to cement this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444923773</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Zurine Aguirre|title=Sardines of Love|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is One day Elsie spotted a love story about Lolo bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and Lola, and grandfather and grandmother whose lives revolve around sardines (stay with me!) Lolo goes out fishing was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for sardines, and loves to eat sardines, whilst Lola his wife runs a shop selling sardinesit as cash was tight at home. Lola doesn't like Gradually, David learned to eat sardinesstand up, but she happily cooks them use the bus for her husbandsupport, albeit with a peg on her nose because of the smell! and walk behind it. But one dayMany decades later, Elsie brought the unthinkable happensbus, now damaged and Lola finds rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that she has run out of sardines for Lolothe experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it. What will she do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846437261</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Warnes1529504767|title=I Love You to the Moon The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and BackKatie Hickey
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|summary=I do love a good bear story, Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and the bears in this one are wonderfully appealingnervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. Sweetly drawnShe needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, in a gentle, loving story, this is a perfect who couldn'windingt have been kinder to her. She even had her own room -down' storyall to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. ItShe's loaded d help Mrs Russell with sentiment (I'm sure I'd be crying if I were pregnant!) the baking and is just very sweet when it came to share with small, snuggly, just out of Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the bath toddlers|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869069X</amazonuk>following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean Taylor and Jean Jullien1916459943|title=Hoot Owl, Master of DisguiseSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=54
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|summary=As quick Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a shooting starsqueakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, like a wolf in he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the airwaves sing ''hush, who could it be? It’s Hoot Owl! And Hoot Owl is hungryhush''. Owls are well known for being wise, but what people don’t know is that Hoot Owl is also the Master Think of Disguise; gentle wavelets falling onto a skill which he’s going to use to use to get himself some dinnersandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The question ismermaids join in - ''la lou, will it work? la lay...'' And what will he be eating for dinner? I don’t think you’ll be able a moment it seems to guess.have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348414</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Copus and Eunyoung Seo140639131X|title=The Hog, the Shrew and the Hullabaloo (A Harry and Lil Story)Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Harry Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the hog is just trying Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to sleep, sit back on her tail feathers when he hears there was a terrifying noise outside. It frightens him so much that he has to call his best friend Lil problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the shrew over to try school crossing and help him find out what the noise wasdecided that she would set up something similar herself. As the night goes on, they hear many Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a wild thing, little amateur to start with but none of the noises are what Harry heardbenefits were obvious. Will they ever find out what it All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was? Will they ever get any sleep? You’ll just have even trained up to read and see for yourself!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571316964</amazonuk>provide a safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Litwin and James Dean1776574338|title=Pete the Cat Rocking in My School ShoesLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=My love of Pete Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the Cat is well documented here at The Bookbagcity, picking up children as I’ve previously reviewed two he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his adventuresneck. This latest title It's perfect, Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes hasn’t let me down, and I think it’s great. Pete is isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school, which can be ? There is a bit scaryproblem, especially when you’re though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to do lots of new things, like go be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to the library or eat in the lunch roomand traffic regularly gets snarled up. Is Pete scared? Goodness no, he’s rocking, reading and eating in his The school shoesdecides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000755365X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Fulton and Elina Ellis1776574028|title=Daniel O'Dowd Was Ever So LoudBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
|rating=4
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|summary=Daniel O’Dowd I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is ever so loudaimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, which shouldn’t come as a shock see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to any of have realise that you given that can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the book elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is called Daniel O’Dowd was Ever So Louda ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm....... Much to his teacher’s dismay'' OK, Daniel never listens to a word she says because he’s too busy being loudlet's not go there Some people are eating!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861184</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Meeuwissen1838226834|title=Remarkable Animals|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Can I introduce you to Carried Away With the Ally-Topus? He’s ''powerful enough to drag a man in to water'', 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 head, a bird’s body and a platypus tail. 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 one thousand creatures in ''Remarkable Animals'' so we could be here rather a long time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806325</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCarnival|author=Jonathan Litton and Kasia Nowowiejska|title=Cheep Cheep Pop-Up Fun (Little Snappers)Ed Boxall
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|summary=The animals on the farm are in a playful mood and some It was one of them are hidingthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. Duck knows that They're there's a dotty animal playing peek-a-moo behind to undo all the tractorgood that parents do, but who is it? Lift so the flap and we can all see that it's laughing cow, with her head popping right trips out to greet uswere always so much fun. Someone is playing A young boy was going to the same game carnival with ginger cat - and there's an his Grandad, who told him: ''awfulIt'' lot of mud around. Who can it ll be? Wellbrilliant, just remember, when you move the mud out of the way (don't worry - itlet go of my hand.'s a flap - rubber gloves are not required) we can see that it's piglet, who's having a wonderful time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848574355</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Fhiona GallowayB09MYXSRV4|title=EggOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: An Egg-Citing Easter Eggs-Capade! (My Little World)A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith
|rating=4
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|summary=There's When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a big hole in strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the front of present ''Eggand'' and - curiously the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it's egg-shapedwell. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. Behind this hole and on every page thereYou might think that's another egg-shaped hole not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they get smaller and smaller leaving a neat shape which you could easily balance on egg inseem. The colours shout ''SPRING'I' and in case ll tell you are in any doubt we're told how it's ''An eggs-citing Easter egg-scapade!'' You get the idea?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848959656</amazonuk>came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tracy Gunaratnam and Marta CostaRob Keeley|title=Preposterous RhinocerosCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Reading is easy! You may say thatLily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, after all Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you are reading this very reviewand how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. HoweverInfuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, if you had never read a book before who explains that fruits grow on trees and someone gave you onevegetables, would you know what to do? When King Lion loses his voicelike carrots, Preposterous Rhinoceros thinks he can helpgrow in the ground. Jordan says, but it takes more than just hope "I did try to read a book aloudtell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily. Will Rhino figure out what to do before the other animals get restless?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848861656</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard ScarryB09FFJF8YS|title=Best Lowly Worm Book EverYou Can't Wear Panties!(No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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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 ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in our housetraining, and so there"You Can's something delightful in having t Wear Panties!" is a whole book about himcry (the big-girl kind! ) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'' And what a bookso it is! This has latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little bit of everything ingirl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, from the Lowly Worm alphabet right at the starther cat, through counting her stuffed rabbit and what ither baby sibling that ''she''s like at schoolcan wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, to a delightful chapter all about good manners and on to nor the never-ending fun of playing 'wherebirds. Boy's Lowly Wormcertainly can't. ItShe's possible this will become our new favourite bedtime reada big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007581017</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard ScarryJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=A Day at the Fire StationEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=3.54
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|summary=WeToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn're big fans of Richard Scarry in our houset find them irresistibly funny. Though I have Funny to admit we don't usually read the story talk about and we tendjoke about, instead, to just spend our pre-bedtime reading minutes scanning the pages for where the cheese car that is, or who has stolen . But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the bananaswrong time. In class, or what Mr Frumble has crashed into now! This particular Scarry comes as a small disappointmentsay, then, if thatwhen everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's what youlatest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!''re looking for as it focuses solely on the fire station series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the activities of the firemenfamiliar humour attached, but the story (if you bother to read explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it!) is actually quite good: ''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-UtanNo, No, No!|rating=54
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|summary=The Queen felt trapped in They say the palace with all those stuffed animals which she has been given on foreign tours. There best picture books 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 presentsimplest ones. The Prince was thinking And nothing could be truer of a goldthis latest from Justine Avery, diamond encrusted stairlift whilst the Duke was considering a great big bottle of brandyBookbag favourite. The Royal Baby had some decorated thimbles in mind ''No, but No, No!'' is based around the Queen became just a little snappish as she explained that what she really wanted was simplest text imaginable. 'One's own orang-utan'No, no, no! Okay, okay. And she didn't mean a stuffed oneYes, eitheryou may.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008135134</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve Jenkins|title=Actual Size|rating=5|genre=ChildrenThat'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 ! But, like all the sea then I’d really be in trouble. Fortunately best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the eye is contained inside that it appears on page four of the intriguing and really rather splendid, book 'Actual Size'outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805949</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Leake 194812467X|title=Don't Chew the Royal ShoeThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Dogs, love ‘em or loath ‘em, they get underfoot Kirelle and have her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a tendency walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to chew on things that are left around the house. One set top of dogs that you would expect are better trained are the Royal Corgishill, they wouldn’t dare chew on see a big barn with a royal shoesign outside. It turns out that they might not's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, but that won’t stop Chipsand even some mice. Excited, the other royal dog Kirelle and he likes nothing better than getting his gnashers round a boot or twoSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407139355</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophy Henn0995647895|title=Pom Pom Gets Sadie and the GrumpsSea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=Uh oh. Pom Pom is in Sadie's mother always said that she was a BAD MOODdreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. Nothing is going right today, She lives by the world is against him, River Thames at Greenwich and everyone is just rubbing him up the wrong wayshe loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Harrumph!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723294763</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Knapman and Rosie Reeve1782227741|title=Mighty SmallLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Max One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the mouse has a secretwater is swirling. He Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a superhero! drain on the side of the street. Finding himself He candown in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. 't run super fast, or jump really high, or do anything particular 'superOH HELP ME PLEASE'' but still, he has a cape cries and he likes to wear his underpants over alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his trouserscane, if his mum isn't looking! He which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is sure that if a kind soul and he just tries hard enough he will figure out what his super power must bedries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192737228</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Gillian Tyler B08R7LXQ9S|title=The Bus Is for UsRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4.5
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|summary=As a child of the 80s I sometimes yearn for an era free from [[Aliens In Underpants Save Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The World by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort|Aliens in Underpants]] or rough [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|Gruffalos]]. school bully Jayden, An era of Alan together with his sidekicks Ryan and Janet Ahlberg telling [[Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet Ahlberg Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and Allan Ahlberg|gentle stories]] that had an old fashioned feel, has small eyes. They are mean but were still great for the modern kidthey are not stupid. Thankfully, I am not the only person out there that craves this as some books They are still being produced careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that describe little bit further when the simple pleasures such other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as riding though he was the businstigator. However, I think that these kids have obviously never tried And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to catch the Number 9 at rush hourexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406337145</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kylie Westaway and Tom Jellett1471191303|title=Whale in the BathThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=It’s bath time, which This is often not a favourite time the story of day. ReallyIsobel, it’s a sign that the fun is over and it’s time for bath, maybe little girl who made a story, and then bed, at least for the little ones. The grown ups get to stay up laterbig difference. Hmpf. But Bruno is not moaning too much about getting Isobel lived with her parents in the bath, though you get the impression that’s a battle he’s hadhouse - a very cold house, and lost, in because her parents couldn't afford to put 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>}}heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danielle Wright (editor) Nick Jones and Mique Moriuchi (illustrator)Si Clark|title=My Village: Rhymes from Around the WorldOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=The Really Abominable SnowmanMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, it turns outwho lives in Beartown, is just obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a little yeti called Miloteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. He’s not even abominableEvery night, never mind really abominable! But that isn't what everybody else thinks, they're all terrified she looks out of himher bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even though all he wants is a friend to share his favourite cupcakes with…has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406355844</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]