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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David J PlantAdam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|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…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Hungry RoscoeThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary= Roscoe is hungry. He dreams of eating fresh fruit When we first meet Birpus and fish rather than the rotten scraps he scavenges from the bins Bulbus they're running for their lives in the park where he livesForest of Fine Repute. When his friend Benjy tells him that Their greatest fear has come about: the animals in the Zoo get fresh food every daySour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, Roscoe has to gosour milk from his nostrils. But he quickly finds that there’s no way the bad-tempered Zoo Keeper will let Roscoe anywhere near the food (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. Determined not to give up) Fortunately, Roscoe tries to disguise himself as they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a tortoise ladder of moss and then as a penguinvines was lowered for them, they escaped. When that doesn’t work, They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the monkeys suggest an alternative idea tangled woods where they lived with devastating consequences for the poor Zoo Keepertheir Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263532</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Bevan and Cally Johnson-IsaacsB0CC9W7GLR|title=Mimi's Magical Fairy Friends Catkin On the Fairy Kitten|rating=2.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Children’s books are wonderful things to read full of vibrant colours and flights of fancy, but they can also be sickly sweet. Designing a book for a young girl does not mean it that has to be bright pink and float into the room on the wings of a Pegasus. It seems that this fact has not stopped countless authors trying to do just this. Some girls may indeed love fairies, mermaids or ponies, but this does not mean that they hate concepts such as rounded characters, plots that make sense, or feelings of empowerment. Even a magical fairy kitten is not enough to disguise a book with no plot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277015</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBeach: The Winter Visitor|author= Mike Brownlow Chris Green and Simon Rickerty |title=Ten Little Dinosaurs Jenny Fionda

|summary=When I was a child Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was ten green bottles standing 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 wallshoreline. Since then Mike Brownlow On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and Simon Rickerty have brought us with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the exploits of ''Ten Little Princesses'' bear was hungry and gave him one apple and ''Ten Little Pirates''then another. Now they invite us He obviously needed to explore be taken home on the prehistoric world of ''Ten Little Dinosaurs''bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334003</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Adrian Reynolds1913839656|title=Ready, Steady, JumpLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee

|summary=If children’s books are a great way of introducing Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the varied world best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of the animal kingdomdungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. There are books on lions, kangaroos, monkeys, aardvarks, ostriches She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and so many othersTodd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. HoweverAt home, children’s books since the days of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘‘Just So Stories’’ have also been confusing kids with animal facts his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that just aren’t truecould be. Are we to believe Grandma thought that an elephant got its trunk by having it pulled on by a crocodile? To compound the issue, author Jeanne Willis is now suggesting that not only do elephants have an elongated nose, but they are also unable to jump – how silly!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440392</amazonuk>might be because he looked different.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Lucas1529504775|title=This is My Rock|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Once you have claimed something as your own, the temptation to not share it is enormous, whether you’re three years old or thirty three! In this story we are introduced to a little goat who has climbed to the top of a mountain, claimed it as his own, and is unwilling to allow anyone else up there with him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263508</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Patricia Hegarty Amy Sparkes and Fhiona Galloway|title=Please: A First Book of MannersKatie Hickey

|summary=Ah, that age old battle, of how to teach your children to be polite. I had a teacher who had magic hands, Elsie and she would only release what she was holding if you remembered her little brother David loved to say please and thank you go to her! This board book introduces the word please in a lovely way, right from a very early age!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869055X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elli Woollard park and Benji Davies |title=The Giant of Jum |rating=5|genre=For Sharing |summary=The Giant of Jum is hungry and it’s making him grumpy. Luckily he remembers his brother telling him a story about a beanstalk and a boy called Jack and this leads watch the Giant to set off to find his own Jackred buses drive past. The boy will, he decides, make a very tasty snack. But things don’t work out as he plans. Instead of eating Elsie would race the children he meets buses along the way side of the park but David couldn't - he ends 'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up helping them, using his extra height to fetch was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a lost ball bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and rescue a cat from a tree. When he finally finds Jack will he really be able was happy to eat Jack up? And if he doesn’t eat Jack, how will he fill his rumbling tummy? You’ll have to read use the book coins from her money box to find out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447254740</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Bob Staake|title=My Pet Book|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I have a deep regard pay for books; they led to my love of reading and later my career it as a Librariancash was tight at home. Over Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the years I have had some books that I have read many times and are firm favouritesbus for support, but would I go so far as to call them my pets? I don’t keep them in a little book house (unless that’s how you describe your bookshelf) and I don’t walk around the street with them on a leadbehind it. Who on Earth would do that?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344231X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Barroux|title=Where's Many decades later, Elsie brought the Elephant?|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We've all had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally''bus, haven't we? They appeal to children and adults now damaged and everyone who has seen ''Where's the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasmrusted, keen to show just how observant they are. We start off with a forest - actually it's the Amazon Rainforest - full of glorious colours and our three friendsRepair Shop, who are hiding in there. Elephant is probably hoping that the easiest to spot, but Snake and Parrot are in experts there too and could make it so that her grandchildren could play with a little concentration you'll find them. When you turn the page you'll scan the trees again and discover their hiding places. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anna Kovecses|title=One Thousand Things|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=When you are just short of two years old there’s a whole lifetime of learning ahead. Where to begin? Well, you could do a lot worse than get Mum or Dad to buy a copy of Anna Kovecses’ ''One Thousand Things''. Don’t believe the mouse on the front cover holding a balloon saying ''learn your first words''. To bill this book as a ‘vocabulary builder’ is to woefully underplay its hand. Study hard and this book will see you safely through nursery and in to reception as an assured four year old who can hold their own in the cut and thrust of classroom debate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806074</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judi Abbot1529504767|title=TrainThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Kids nowadays 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 far too many toys worried though as she went to play with; whilst I had to make do with a piece the home of string tied around a rockMr and Mrs Russell, today’s youth who couldn't have rooms filled with more plastic contraptions than an aging Hollywood Starlet’s cheeksbeen kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. Even She'd help Mrs Russell with all this stuff at hand most parents will tell you that their child will still gravitate more the baking and when it came to a few of their favourite things, ignoring a lot of Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the other offerings availableChristmas tree. Perhaps they have a toy train that they are obsessed by? Train!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1589255429</amazonuk>The best surprise happened the following morning.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carron Brown and Bee Johnson1916459943|title=On the TrainSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=There’s nothing me Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the little ‘un like more than a good transport themed bookwaves sing ''hush, hush''. Tractors remain top Think of my toddler’s pops but trains run gentle wavelets falling onto a close secondsandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. One glimpse of the cover of The mermaids join in - ''On the Trainla lou, la lay...'' and And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his little feet did the happy danceeyes. He hunkered down Then a seagull '''shouts''' and the journey beganwe know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240242X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsola140639131X|title=ColoursA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Lift Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the flaps books are very popular in my house, though I seldom use that term Old Oak Road. She wrote to describe them. Rip the flaps is more apt. I imagine fellow parents reading this review will wince and nod at this point whilst librarians will perspire and reach reflexively for mayor about the sellotapeproblem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn'Colours' by Aino-Maija Metsola is t a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a lift problem which needed solving: she saw the flaps book for benefits of the very younglollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. As Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the title suggests, this edition aims to teach benefits were obvious. All the concept of colour with animals used the added spice of extra pictures hidden behind flapscrossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806090</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Sutton and Brian Lovelock1776574338|title=ConstructionLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn

|summary=I Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live near what is currently a pretty massive building site and I don’t think there is anything particularly magical about at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the noise window and mess that slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a bunch more fun way of huge vehicles make, but try telling that going to school? There is a three year oldproblem, though. The bright yellow colours Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and obvious power of these machines can spark – because he's longer than a child’s imaginationtennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. So, a book The school decides that evokes all this building and construction is hypnotically powerful to he can't be the right childbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922077305</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ella Burfoot1776574028|title=Recipe For A StoryBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott

|summary=I’m sure you I love reading, but have you ever wanted to write a good board book? Would you even know where to start? In this delightful, whimsical look ! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the topicchild who still enjoys board books (er, we learn see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that writing you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a story could be like baking tutu - and becomes a cake, ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with lots of ingredients mixed together in just the right way for a wonderful creationhair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230753035</amazonuk>......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Browne and Hanne Bartholin1838226834|title=Frida and BearCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4.5

|summary=FridaIt 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 elephant, and Bear, trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to thecarnival with his Grandad, umwho told him: ''It'll be brilliant, bearjust remember, are great friends who love to play together. This book teaches us one don't let go of their favourite games and it stems from their mutual love of drawing. If you didn’t think that was a two-player activity think againmy hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140635399X</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Sue Hendra Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Paul LinnetHare|titleauthor=I Need a Wee!Cordellya Smith

|summary=Is there anyone who looks forward to When the potty training stage? Noworld was made, I didn't think the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength sothat he could become a protector. I Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and''m there again at the moment with my little boyfuture. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. Everyone delights He was also jealous which was how he came to be in telling me how boys are a lot harder to train than girlsrace with Turtle. So far they You might think that're right! I was hopeful that this book might help things along s not a little fair contest but, sadly, it succeeded only in making all of us laugh (wait and left us hoping that our small boy didnsee. Things are not always as they seem. I't get any naughty ideas from ll tell you how it!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120872</amazonuk>came about.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma Chichester ClarkRob Keeley|title=Bears Don't ReadCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5

|summary=You might think a picture of a bear reading a book Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, on the cover of a book itself called ''Bears Don’t Read'' is confusingbroccoli, but it quickly becomes clearcabbage and aubergines. George When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is a bear doing bear things with his friends keen to explain how good they are for you and family but he’s getting a bit bored of the same oldhow nice to eat. One day, same old. So when he finds a book some poor human type person has dropped he’s a bit excitedLily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. The only thing isInfuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, he doesn’t know how to read itlike carrots, so he can’t release grow in the exciting adventure that’s cooped up insideground. With his fellow bears showing little interest in his findJordan says, he sets off for the town to "I did try to locate someone who can helptell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007425198</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Hoffman and Ros AsquithB09FFJF8YS|title=The Great Big Book of FamiliesYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5

|summary=Dolce and Gabbana would not like this book''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, that much I’m sure "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) oftoilet triumph and persevering panty pride. I think it’s ace, though.'' 

Families are no longer 2.4 children with And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a mummy little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and a daddy. To be fairgraduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that wasn’t even ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the case 30 years ago when I was a toddlerflowers, but most books at nor the time hadn’t clocked fish, nor the change yet so in literature at least that’s what a family wasbirds. Not any moreBoy's certainly can't. This book, not the first of its kind, I’m sure, but She's a very welcome addition big girl now and she wants everyone to the market, highlights and celebrates the diversity of family life in Britain today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805876</amazonuk>know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ulf Stark Justine Avery and Eva ErikssonNaday Meldova|title=When Dad Showed Me the UniverseEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Dads are wonderfulToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, arenfind us a child that doesn't they? One minute they can be working as a dentistfind them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, the next they can be showing you the universe, and even tell you how cold it that is. Mind you, mothers can be fabulous too, making sure you're going to be warm enough But horribly embarrassing if you let one go out to see at the universewrong time. But dads are best – they even make sure you get chewing gum as provisions In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you're exploring the universe. And what a universe it is – from whatJustine Avery's right under your feet to whatlatest entry in her ''s right out in the furthest reaches of the night sky…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271819</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Heinz Janisch and Wolf Erlbruch|title=The King and the Sea|rating=3|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet the King. HeEverybody Potties!'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, series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and giving it his air; he cannot persuade a cloud to stay gently and enjoy his kingdom; and even he is resigned to a shadow that turns his petitecalmly, glistening gold crown into a large grey shape on with the floorfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. No, the King might think he has Everybody does it all, but he hasn: ''Everybody Toots''t.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1877579947</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bond and R W AlleyB09BG8V3Q6|title=Paddington at the ZooWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|summary=Cast your mind back to ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the weeks before latest release in the ''PaddingtonEverybody Potties!'' movie enchanted the worldseries from Justine Avery. There was a lot This series of press at the time about how the film had such mild peril and sexual innuendo that it was a PG-rated movie, 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 fun picture books can easily be daunting aims to take the very young people in which you wish to instil love of the character, which is where the picture book range pain out of stories comes in. They're a lot smaller than the chapters in the main novels, potty training children and while those main books were still being produced as well they were quite uncommon occurrences, but replace it with the [[Michael Bondsome fun. It's Original Paddington Bear Books in Chronological Order|'proper']] books out the waya worthy aim, these were pretty much all Michael Bond was producing as regards our favourite bearany frustrated parent will tell you. Which can only mean one thing – they're equally brilliant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0006647448</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick InkpenB07GZ81J7C|title=Kipper's ToyboxWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton

|summary=There 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 phobia about snakes are things going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in life a box with holes so that make you feel old; when he could breathe and immediately became part of the last Premiership footballer born family, to the same year as you retires, or extent that they would take Fred out with them when their arresting officer looks like they don’t even shavewent out for a walk. The fact And that Kipper is over 25 years old makes me feel my age; this collection of books always felt a little ageless and classicwas where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. The new 25 year anniversary releases look to cement thisOr brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444923773</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zurine AguirreJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Sardines of LoveEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=This is a love story about Lolo and LolaCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, and grandfather and grandmother whose lives revolve around sardines (stay with me!) Lolo goes out fishing for sardinesas any parent will tell you. But really, and loves why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to eat sardines, whilst Lola his wife runs a shop selling sardineslearn about everything else when we are small. Lola doesnWhy shouldn't like to eat sardinespotty training be as much fun as, but she happily cooks them for her husbandsay, albeit with a peg on her nose because of learning about why the sun and the smell! But one day, moon take turns in the unthinkable happens, and Lola finds that she has run out of sardines for Lolo. What will she dosky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846437261</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim WarnesJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=I Love You to the Moon and BackNo, No, No!|rating=54

|summary=I do love a good bear story, and They say the bears in this one best picture books are wonderfully appealingthe simplest ones. Sweetly drawnAnd nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, in a gentleBookbag favourite. ''No, loving storyNo, this No!'' is a perfect based around the simplest text imaginable. 'winding-down' storyNo, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may. It's loaded with sentiment (I'm sure I That'd be crying if I were pregnants it!) and is just very sweet to share with smallBut, snugglylike all the best picture books, just out this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the bath toddlersinside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184869069X</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean Taylor and Jean Jullien194812467X|title=Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=As quick as a shooting star, like a wolf in the air, who could it be? It’s Hoot Owl! And Hoot Owl is hungry. Owls are well known for being wise, but what people don’t know is that Hoot Owl is also the Master of Disguise; a skill which he’s going to use to use to get himself some dinner. The question is, will it work? And what will he be eating for dinner? I don’t think you’ll be able to guess...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348414</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFarm Shop|author=Julia Copus and Eunyoung Seo|title=The HogDevon Avery, the Shrew Justine Avery and the Hullabaloo (A Harry and Lil Story)|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Harry the hog is just trying to get to sleep, when he hears a terrifying noise outside. It frightens him so much that he has to call his best friend Lil the shrew over to try and help him find out what the noise was. As the night goes on, they hear many a wild thing, but none of the noises are what Harry heard. 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>}}{{newreview|author=Eric Litwin and James Dean|title=Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|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 in My School Shoes hasn’t let me down, and I think it’s great. Pete is going to school, which can be a bit scary, especially when you’re having to do lots of new things, like go to the library or eat in the lunch room. Is Pete scared? Goodness no, he’s rocking, reading and eating in his school shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000755365X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julie Fulton and Elina Ellis|title=Daniel O'Dowd Was Ever So LoudEma Tepic

|summary=Daniel O’Dowd Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever so loud, which shouldn’t come as a shock in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to any the top of you given that the book hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is called Daniel O’Dowd was Ever So Louda farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Much to his teacher’s dismayExcited, Daniel never listens to a word she says because he’s too busy being loud!Kirelle and Sam go shopping. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861184</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Meeuwissen0995647895|title=Remarkable AnimalsSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=Can I introduce you to the Ally-Topus? He’s Sadie''powerful enough to drag s mother always said that she was a man in to water''dreamer, likes her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''hover over fragrant flowersHer class had gone one rainy afternoon'' but seems to be <br>''extremely shyWhen all the houses cowered in the gloom,'' and <br>''almost impossible to keep in captivityTo the Maritime Museum''. Sound familiar? Maybe it would help Her imagination was fired. She'd love to describe sail the accompanying picture – oceans on an alligator’s head, a bird’s body ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a platypus tail. Still don’t recognise him? Maybe we can try another animal. What about glass case (it's the Pleevillar? The By-Tollar? No? I’d best stop there. There are one thousand creatures in where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant'Remarkable Animalss warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don'' so we t make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could be here rather never have imagined in a long timeworld of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Kasia Nowowiejska1782227741|title=Cheep Cheep Pop-Up Fun (Little Snappers)Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha

|summary=The animals on the farm are in One day, Gold Ted falls into a playful mood and some of them are hidingpuddle. Duck knows that thereIt's quite a dotty animal playing peek-deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a-moo behind drain on the side of the tractor, but who is it? street. Finding himself Lift down in the flap and we can all see that it's laughing cowsewer, with her head popping right out Ted starts to greet uspanic. Someone is playing the same game with ginger cat - and there's an ''awfulOH HELP ME PLEASE'' lot he cries and alerts the attention of mud around. Who can it be? WellReg the sewer rat, when you move the mud who plucks him out of the way (don't worry - it's dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a flap - rubber gloves are not required) we can see that it's piglet, who's having kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a wonderful timenice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848574355</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Fhiona GallowayB08R7LXQ9S|title=EggRemy: An Egg-Citing Easter Eggs-Capade! (My Little World)A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=ThereRemy is feeling miserable. He's a big hole in the front of let himself down ''Eggagain'' and - curiously - it's egg-shaped. The school bully Jayden, Behind this hole together with his sidekicks Ryan and on every page there's another egg-shaped hole Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they get smaller and smaller leaving a neat shape which you could easily balance on egg inare not stupid. The colours shout ''SPRING'' They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and in case you then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are in any doubt we're told around. So, when Remy reacts, itlooks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don's ''An eggs-citing Easter egg-scapade!'' You get the idea?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848959656</amazonuk>t believe him when he tries to explain what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Gunaratnam and Marta Costa1471191303|title=Preposterous Rhinoceros|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Reading is easy! You may say that, after all you are reading this very review. However, if you had never read a book before and someone gave you one, would you know what to do? When King Lion loses his voice, Preposterous Rhinoceros thinks he can help, but it takes more than just hope to read a book aloud. Will Rhino figure out what to do before the other animals get restless?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861656</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Invisible|author=Richard Scarry|title=Best Lowly Worm Book Ever!Tom Percival

|summary=Since we have worn our copy This is the story of [[Busiest People Ever by Richard Scarry|Busiest People Ever]] almost to shreds it was with great delight that we sat down to take Isobel, a little girl who made a look at this book all about Lowly Wormbig difference. Lowly Worm is already Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a well known character in our very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and so therecrept up the corner of the bedpost.'s something delightful in having a whole book about him! ' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. And what a book! This has a little bit of everything in, from Then the day came when they couldn't afford the Lowly Worm alphabet right at rent for the start, through counting house and what it's like at school, they had to a delightful chapter all about good manners and on move to the never-ending fun far side of playing 'where's Lowly Worm'the city. It's possible this will become our new favourite bedtime read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007581017</amazonuk>This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard ScarryNick Jones and Si Clark|title=A Day at the Fire StationOne Night in Beartown|rating=3.54

|summary=We're big fans of Richard Scarry in our house. Though I Many children have to admit we don't usually read the story an obsession and we tend, instead, to just spend our pre-bedtime reading minutes scanning the pages for where the cheese car isSandy Lane, or who has stolen the bananas, or what Mr Frumble has crashed into now! This particular Scarry comes as a small disappointmentlives in Beartown, then, if that's what you're looking for as it focuses solely on the fire station and the activities of the firemen, but the story (if you bother to read it!) is actually quite good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574959</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Claire Freedman and Kate Hindley|title=Oliver and Patch|rating=4obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Moving house Her favourite toy is never easyBerisford, especially when you're a childteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Oliver has moved from the countryside to the cityEvery night, she looks out of her bedroom window and he finds that not only is he having says goodnight to adapt to his new surroundings, but he's also dealing with terrible loneliness, as he misses all his friends dreadfully. One day, when Oliver can't the bear being shut up inside any longer, he ventures out into the big city..statue outside.will he manage Every morning she says hello to find Bee Bear, a friend?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857079549</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tatyana Feeney|title=Small Elephant's Bath Time|rating=4colourful painted bear that lives at her school.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Water is the funnest, and Small Elephant knows it. But the one time he’s not the biggest fan of aqua is when it’s bath time. Ewww. Bor-ring. He will do anything to avoid having to get into the tub and Mummy She even has to take drastic measures.bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192737376</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} {{newreview|author=Rob Biddulph|title=Blown Away|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=If you thought penguins didn’t fly, think again. Penguin Blue is up in the sky but it’s not what you might think – thanks Move on to a fun kite and a cheeky gust of wind, he’s soaring up, up and away from the home, and as his friends try to help they get pulled up and away too. Uh oh. Where will the wind take these South Pole creatures? 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007593821</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]