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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ella BaileyAdam Stower|title=At The Animal BallMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary= The animals are having Murray is supposed to be a ball. Join them as they 'dance humble, tidy androar'friendly cat, 'flutter a fan' then 'tap your toes on the floor'. This one who is flipflap fun in the parlour game tradition of 'headsable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, bodieswell, tails'whatever takes his fancy next of the two. OnMidsummer But he's Eve a veritable menagerie of very cute animals in whatappear to be bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a range of national costumeshyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, are assembling to bounceand the catflap they both use can chuck them out,shimmynot into the regular back garden, swagger but into a world of frightening adventure and strollwhiffs. You can mix the animals up by flipping theflaps 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 watch out! Moving the pages out of sequence also mixes he's turned upthe dance moves. Join in and keep up!he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402306</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Jeanne Willis The Adventures of Birpus and Tony RossBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Slug Needs a HugWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=Growing up, my experience with slugs mainly revolved around spotting them When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the garden and being sent out with the pot Forest of salt to send them to a salty (and frankly, disgusting) death! My mum was forever waging war on these creatures that were hell-bent on eating everything in her garden that she loved bestFine Repute. Since those happy childhood moments, I have had other difficult moments with slugs including the one who dared to Their greatest fear has come into our house, into about: the lounge, and who I trod on in the dark one nightSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. Yuck! All of which means thatHe's right behind them, to be honestspewing hot, I wasn’t sure sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this book would be very enjoyable for me! at home: it won't end well.) Still, I’m never one to say no to something illustrated by Tony RossFortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and he when a ladder of moss and Jeanne Willis make a reliably good teamvines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, so I put my salt pot away Nester Nook and sat down to readGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441194</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah GarlandB0CC9W7GLR|title=Azzi in BetweenOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda

|summary=Our story begins in a country at war. Unfortunately you could probably put a name Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it (although it isn't named) as it happens all too regularly. Our heroine is Azzi, a young girl whose life was not ''too'' affected by the warbetter to be at home, bored but every day it came warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a little closerlarge slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. Her father still worked as On top of the ice was a doctor and her mother made beautiful clothespolar bear. Her grandmother wove warm blanketsAs the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Then the day came when they had to Kit was all for making a run, for their livesit, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and escape was by boat gave him one apple and they became refugeesthen another. The three of them - for Grandma had been left behind - had been luckier than most for they were accepted He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a temporary basis into another country (again it's not named) good meal and they had a home, although it was just one roomsomewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Garland1913839656|title=EddieLet's Tent and How to go Camping|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Mum, Tom, Tilly, Lily and Eddie wanted to go on holiday and camping seemed like the ideal way to go. Lily and Tilly thought it was a brilliant idea and they had some experience, although their 'tent' did look just a little bit like a duvet over a chair. It's surprising what you need for a holiday, but Lily and Tilly had to be told to start again when Mum saw what they'd packed! But finally, Tom began to load the car and off they went.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780408X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCelebrate Being Different|author=David J Plant|title=Hungry Roscoe|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Roscoe is hungry. He dreams of eating fresh fruit and fish rather than the rotten scraps he scavenges from the bins in the park where he lives. When his friend Benjy tells him that the animals in the Zoo get fresh food every day, Roscoe has to go. But he quickly finds that there’s no way the bad-tempered Zoo Keeper will let Roscoe anywhere near the food. Determined not to give up, Roscoe tries to disguise himself as a tortoise and then as a penguin. When that doesn’t work, the monkeys suggest an alternative idea with devastating consequences for the poor Zoo Keeper. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263532</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clare Bevan and Cally Johnson-Isaacs|title=Mimi's Magical Fairy Friends Catkin 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>}} {{newreview|author= Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickerty |title=Ten Little Dinosaurs |rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When I was a child it was ten green bottles standing on the wall. Since then Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickerty have brought us the exploits of ''Ten Little Princesses'' and ''Ten Little Pirates''. Now they invite us to explore the prehistoric world of ''Ten Little Dinosaurs''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334003</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeanne Willis and Adrian Reynolds|title=Ready, Steady, JumpLainey Dee

|summary=If children’s books are a great way of introducing Todd was excited about spending the varied world of weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the animal kingdombest beetle juice. There are books on lions, kangaroos, monkeys, aardvarks, ostriches He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and so many othersthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. However, children’s books since She had promised to take him to the days of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘‘Just So Stories’’ have also been confusing kids with animal facts that just aren’t true. Are we to believe that an elephant got its trunk by having it pulled on by a crocodile? To compound Friday Night Club at 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>}}{{newreview|author=David Lucas|title=This is My Rock|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Once you have claimed something local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as your own, the temptation he wanted to not share it is enormous, whether you’re three years old or thirty three! make new friends. In this story we are introduced to a little goat who has climbed to the top of a mountainAt home, claimed it as his own, only friend was his mum and is unwilling to allow anyone else up there with himhe wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263508</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Hegarty and Fhiona Galloway1529504775|title=Please: A First Book of MannersThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Ah, that age old battle, of how Elsie and her little brother David loved to teach your children go to be politethe park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. I had One day Elsie spotted a teacher who had magic hands, bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and she would only release what she was holding if you remembered happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to say please stand up, use the bus for support, and thank you walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to her! This board book introduces the word please in a lovely wayRepair Shop, right from a very early age!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869055X</amazonuk>hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elli Woollard and Benji Davies 1529504767|title=The Giant of Jum Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=I 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 a deep regard for books; they led worried though as she went to my love the home of reading Mr and later my career as a LibrarianMrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. Over the years I have She even had some books that I have read many times her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and are firm favourites, but would I go so far as began to call them my pets? enjoy her life. I don’t keep them in a little book house (unless that’s how you describe your bookshelf) She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and I don’t walk around Mr Russell put the street with them decorations on a leadthe Christmas tree. Who on Earth would do that?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344231X</amazonuk>The best surprise happened the following morning.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barroux1916459943|title=Where's the Elephant?|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We've all had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally'', haven't we? They appeal to children and adults and everyone who has seen ''Where's the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasm, 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 friends, who are hiding in there. Elephant is probably the easiest to spot, but Snake and Parrot are in there too and 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>}}{{newreviewSqueakily Baby|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>}}{{newreview|author=Judi Abbot|title=Train|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Kids nowadays have far too many toys to play with; whilst I had to make do with a piece of string tied around a rock, today’s youth have rooms filled with more plastic contraptions than an aging Hollywood Starlet’s cheeks. Even with all this stuff at hand most parents will tell you that their child will still gravitate more to a few of their favourite things, ignoring a lot of the other offerings available. Perhaps they have a toy train that they are obsessed by? Train!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1589255429</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Carron Brown and Bee Johnson|title=On the TrainBeth 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 is a perfect No!'winding-down' storyis based around the simplest text imaginable. It 's loaded with sentiment (I'm sure I'd be crying if I were pregnantNo, no, no!) and is just very sweet to share with smallOkay, snugglyokay. Yes, just out of the bath toddlersyou may.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869069X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sean Taylor and Jean Jullien|title=Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=As quick as a shooting starThat's it! But, like a wolf in all the airbest picture books, 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 this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that Hoot Owl is also it appears on 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..outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406348414</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Copus and Eunyoung Seo194812467X|title=The Hog, the Shrew 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>}}{{newreviewFarm Shop|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 downDevon Avery, Justine Avery 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 RhinocerosThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5

|summary=Reading This is easy! You may say thatthe story of Isobel, after all you are reading this very reviewa little girl who made a big difference. HoweverIsobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, if you because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had never read a book before each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and someone gave you one, would you know what they had to do? When King Lion loses his voice, Preposterous Rhinoceros thinks he can help, but it takes more than just hope move to read a book aloudthe far side of the city. Will Rhino figure out what to do before This part of the other animals get restless?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861656</amazonuk>city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard ScarryNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Best Lowly Worm Book Ever!One Night in Beartown|rating=54

|summary=Since we Many children have worn our copy of [[Busiest People Ever by Richard Scarry|Busiest People Ever]] almost to shreds it was an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with great delight that we sat down to take a look at this book all bears. She collects books about Lowly Wormbears. Lowly Worm Her favourite toy is already Berisford, a well known character in our houseteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and so there's something delightful in having a whole book about him! And what a book! This has a little bit of everything in, from says goodnight to the Lowly Worm alphabet right at the startbear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, through counting and what it's like a colourful painted bear that lives at her school, to a delightful chapter all about good manners and . She even has bears on to the never-ending fun of playing 'where's Lowly Worm'. It's possible this will become our new favourite bedtime readher bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007581017</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]