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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pip Jones and Laura HughesAdam Stower|title=Daddy's SandwichMurray and Bun

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=One dayMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, a little girl decides one who is able to make her daddy a sandwichsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. It starts 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 well, with two slices of breadnot into the regular back garden, but things soon slip into a world of frightening adventure and slide from there whiffs. This time round it drops them into culinary chaos as she searches through the house for all of his favourite thingsa Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, like biscuits dunked in teaone much bigger than Murray was, and his favourite slippersto be honest, but he's turned up and even the remote control!he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571311830</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Lee Wildish 1732898766|title=Pizza for Pirates |rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= George has been exploring before. He’s taken spaghetti to the Yeti, marshmallows for the Martians, and doughnuts for Dragons. In his fourth adventure, he’s off in search The Adventures of a pirate crew Birpus and he’s again armed with a tasty snack. Pizza!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273615</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Ella Bailey|title=At The Animal BallWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary= The animals are having a ball. Join them as When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they 'dance androar', 'flutter a fan' then 'tap your toes on the floor'. This is flipflap fun re running for their lives in the parlour game tradition Forest of 'heads, bodies, tails'Fine Repute. OnMidsummer's Eve a veritable menagerie of very cute animals in whatappear to be a range of national costumes, are assembling to bounce,shimmy, swagger and stroll. You can mix the animals up by flipping theflaps but watch out! Moving the pages out of sequence also mixes upthe dance moves. Join in and keep up!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402306</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross|title=Slug Needs a Hug|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Growing up, my experience with slugs mainly revolved around spotting them in the garden and being sent out with the pot 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 best. 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 this book would be very enjoyable for me! Still, I’m never one to say no to something illustrated by Tony Ross, and he and Jeanne Willis make a reliably good team, so I put my salt pot away and sat down to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441194</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Garland|title=Azzi in Between|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Our story begins in a country at warsour milk from his nostrils. Unfortunately you could probably put a name to it (although it isnPlease don't named) as try this at home: it happens all too regularly. Our heroine is Azzi, a young girl whose life was not won''too'' affected by the war, but every day it came a little closer. Her father still worked as a doctor and her mother made beautiful clothest end well. ) Her grandmother wove warm blankets. Then the day came when they had to runFortunately, for their lives, and escape was by boat and they became refugees. The three of them were nearly at Nobby Lob- for Grandma had been left behind lolly - had been luckier than most for they were accepted on a temporary basis into another country (again it's not named) and they had when a home, although it was just one room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Garland|title=Eddie's Tent ladder of moss 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 vines 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 lowered for a holidaythem, but Lily and Tilly had to be told to start again when Mum saw what they'd packed! escaped. But finally, Tom began They climbed up to load the car and off they went.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780408X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|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 Tree Wee homes high up in the park tangled woods 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 they lived 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 fancytheir Grand Wees, but they can also be sickly sweet. Designing a book for a young girl does not mean it that has to be bright pink Nester Nook 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 plotGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277015</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickerty B0CC9W7GLR|title=Ten Little Dinosaurs On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and 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 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 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 OwlThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Master of DisguiseJustine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=54

|summary=As quick 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 a shooting star, like a wolf ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the airhill, who could it be? It’s Hoot Owlthey see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! And Hoot Owl But this is hungrya farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. Owls There are well known for being wisesheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, 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 and even some dinnermice. The question isExcited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will it work? And what will he be eating for dinnerthey buy? I don’t think you’ll be able to guess...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348414</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Copus and Eunyoung Seo0995647895|title=The Hog, the Shrew Sadie and the Hullabaloo (A Harry Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Lil Story)Anita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=Harry Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the hog is just trying River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to get to sleep, when he hears a terrifying noise outsidespend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. It frightens him so much that he has to call his best friend Lil  ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the shrew over to try and help him find out what gloom,''<br>''To the noise Maritime Museum''. Her imagination wasfired. As She'd love to sail the night goes oceans on, they hear many an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a wild thing, but none of glass case (it's the noises one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are what Harry heardon show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. Will they ever find out what it When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was? Will they ever get any sleep? You’ll just in the midst of an adventure that she could never have to read imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and see for yourself!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571316964</amazonuk>treasure.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Litwin and James Dean1782227741|title=Pete the Cat Rocking in My School ShoesLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=54

|summary=My love of Pete One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the Cat water is well documented here at The Bookbag, as I’ve previously reviewed two swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of his adventuresthe street. This latest titleFinding himself down in the sewer, Pete Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes hasn’t let me downsewer rat, and I think it’s great. Pete is going to schoolwho plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which can be might look just a bit scary, especially when you’re having to do lots of new things, like go to the library or eat in the lunch rooman old cricket bat. Is Pete scared? Goodness no, he’s rocking, reading Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and eating in his school shoeswarms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000755365X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Fulton and Elina EllisB08R7LXQ9S|title=Daniel O'Dowd Was Ever So LoudRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=Daniel O’Dowd Remy is ever so loudfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, which shouldn’t come as a shock have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to any of you given wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the book is called Daniel O’Dowd other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was Ever So Loudthe instigator. Much And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to his teacher’s dismay, Daniel never listens to a word she says because he’s too busy being loud!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861184</amazonuk>explain what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Meeuwissen1471191303|title=Remarkable AnimalsThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5

|summary=Can I introduce you to This is the Allystory of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house -Topus? He’s ''powerful enough to drag a man in to water''very cold house, likes to because her parents couldn''hover over fragrant flowers'' but seems t afford to be ''extremely shyput the heating on: '' Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.''almost impossible to keep in captivity The family didn''. Sound familiar? Maybe it would help t go to describe the accompanying picture – an alligator’s head, a bird’s body cinema or on holidays but they had each other and a platypus tailthey were happy. Still don’t recognise him? Maybe we can try another animal Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. What about This part of 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 timecity was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Litton Nick Jones and Kasia NowowiejskaSi Clark|title=Cheep Cheep Pop-Up Fun (Little Snappers)One Night in Beartown

|summary=The animals on the farm are in a playful mood Many children have an obsession and some of them are hiding. Duck knows that there's a dotty animal playing peek-a-moo behind the tractorSandy Lane, but who lives in Beartown, is it? Lift the flap and we can all see that it's laughing cow, obsessed with her head popping right out to greet usbears. She collects books about bears. Someone Her favourite toy is playing the same game with ginger cat - and there's an ''awful'' lot of mud aroundBerisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Who can it be? WellEvery night, when you move the mud she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the way (don't worry - it's bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a flap - rubber gloves are not required) we can see colourful painted bear that it's piglet, who's having a wonderful timelives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848574355</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} {{newreview|author=Jonathan Litton and Fhiona Galloway|title=Egg: An Egg-Citing Easter Eggs-Capade! (My Little World)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=There's a big hole in the front of ''Egg'' and - curiously - it's egg-shaped. Behind this hole and Move on every page there's another egg-shaped hole and they get smaller and smaller leaving a neat shape which you could easily balance on egg in. The colours shout ''SPRING'' and in case you are in any doubt we're told it's ''An eggs-citing Easter egg-scapade!'' You get the idea?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848959656</amazonuk>}}to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]