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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Pat HutchinsAdam Stower|title= Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick?Murray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary= Rosie's not 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 sharpest chuck in the hen housetwo. She made her debut over forty years ago in the 1968 publication, But he'Rosies a bad magician's Walk' when she stepped 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 alone blithely unaware of always being a hairs breadth away from calamity. Well, she's not into the regular backgarden, but into a world of frightening adventure and this whiffs. This time she has round it drops them into a chick. Uh-oh as my toddler would say…let's have Viking land, where a look at 'Wheretroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, Oh Whereto be honest, is Rosiebut he's Chick?turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444918281</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Michael Bond The Adventures of Birpus and R W AlleyBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Paddington Goes for GoldWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=Rather like a young child, Paddington is a wide-eyed innocent who leaves devastation wherever he goes, yet somehow always manages to land on his feetWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. I am very fond of literary bears, and he Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is one of my favouriteschasing them. I love his enthusiasmHe's right behind them, in everything he doesspewing hot, and that he always has a snack to handsour milk from his nostrils. In (Please don't try this particular adventure, Paddington manages to entice the entire Brown familyat home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and Mrs Birdvines was lowered for them, to come to a local sports daythey escaped. There’s everything from They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the shotput to a three-legged race tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and even a knitting raceGranny Cranny. You can probably imagine the trouble he gets into…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007427735</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Blake and John YeomanB0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Fabulous Foskett Family CircusWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=35

|summary=There are names Kit and Teal were just beginning to conjure with wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and Quentin Blake is certainly one building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of thosesilvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. His tell-tale illustrations have been part On top of many the ice was a child’s upbringingspolar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, not at least for his work in the superb Roald Dahl booksbear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. HoweverKit was all for making a run for it, can nostalgia but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and reverence cloud a person’s mind? gave him one apple and then another. Are the drawings of Blake strong enough He obviously needed to cope be taken home on their own when put alongside words that are not at the bus and given a Dahl levelgood meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344035X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jack Tickle1913839656|title=Silly Dizzy DinosaurLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating= 43.5

|summary=Reading to children does Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not have to be a passive experienceleast because she made the best beetle juice. Some He packed two pairs of the best books have you interacting with the characters found between the pagesdungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Dizzy Dinosaur is not She had promised to take him to the most sensible of chaps Friday Night Club at the best of timelocal community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, but his errors are only compounded when the reader gets involvedfriend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Can we help this clumsy Camarasaurus from falling over too much? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848690452</amazonuk>Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Inkpen1529504775|title=Kipper’s Little FriendsThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Mick Inkpen has an enormous amount of talent, Elsie and he manages her little brother David loved to go to somehow make the simplest park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of stories endearing the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and interestingeven just standing up was very difficult. Here, on his 25th anniversary, Kipper is back with One day Elsie spotted a new story bus in the toy shop window which he’s thinking about baby animalswould help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. He finds out what various different animal babies are calledMany decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and then he begins rusted, to wonder what he was when he was a babythe Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918192</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alice Hemming and Kimberley Scott1529504767|title= A Gold Star for George|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= George the Giraffe is a lovable chappie, that much is evident from the start. He’s smart too, both in brains and attire The Christmas Doll (spotted bow tie being every day wear if you’re GeorgeThe Repair Shop Stories) and right now he’s very excited because the Wildlife Park are having some awards. Gold stars for things like ‘’Most Popular Animal’’, ‘’Best Trick’’ and so on. George ‘’really’’ wants to win one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861710</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cedric Ramadier Amy Sparkes and Vincent Bourgeau|title= Help! The Wolf is Coming!Katie Hickey|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= With every turn of the thick, cardboard pages, the Wolf is getting closer. Eek. Can you escape in time? Maybe if you’re clever and make him trip up on himself by tilting the pages? Might he then slide off?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271843</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt|title= What the Jackdaw Saw|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= The jackdaw is flying over the countryside, the sea, towns and forests inviting all the creatures he meets to his party. He is excited and so busy trying to tell everyone about his party that he does not understand that the other animals are all trying to warn him that he is flying into danger. Will he work out what they are telling him before it is too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447280849</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anita Pouroulis|title= Jules and Nina Dine Out|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Nina and George are Jules’ dogs. Eating out at restaurants used to be a family affair until George blew it. A misunderstanding about a steak apparently. With the exception of her slightly unreliable digestive system, Nina has slightly more refined manners. She continues to dine out until one restaurant manager refuses her admission. Then it’s a long, but dramatic, spell out on the pavement for her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909428345</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alex T Smith|title= Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Little Red is a caring little girl and when she discovers that her Auntie Rosie is unwell and covered in spots she immediately sets off with her basket packed ready to help. However as she makes her way through the African landscape meeting a variety of animals on the way little does she know that lurking in the trees is a lion. A very hungry lion. A very hungry lion with a very naughty plan.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407143905</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clare Foges and Al Murphy|title=Kitchen Disco|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=If the ‘‘Toy Story’’ films taught is nothing else, they taught us that when we are not paying attention, toys come to life. Call me old fashioned, I am not impressed as this is common knowledge, but did you know that fruit also awakens? If you listen closely as you go to sleep you may just hear the soft pulse of some Happy House or Dubstep as down in the kitchen the fruit are having a disco.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571307884</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paula Metcalf and Cally Johnson-Isaacs|title=Rabbits Don’t Lay Eggs!|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= Life’s boring in the burrow so Rupert rabbit decides to tunnel over to the neighbouring farm. There he meets a very bossy duck, Dora, who tells him that only animals who can do a job can live on this farm. What can a rabbit do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282779</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cerrie Burnell and Laura Ellen Anderson|title=Mermaid|rating=3

|summary=Bringing important issues such 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 worried though as race she went to the home of Mr and disability Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to a child’s attention is a vital thing for any parent her. She even had her own room - all to do if they want their child herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to understand the world betterenjoy her life. Why does that person look different She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and should I be scared? The answer is obviously no, but how is a child supposed when it came to know this? Books are a great way of explaining diversity without making Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the lesson too preachy or obviousChristmas tree. Perhaps a story about a mermaid who, when out of The best surprise happened the water, is in a wheelchair?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407145932</amazonuk>following morning.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jory John and Benji Davies1916459943|title=Goodnight AlreadySqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=If you list Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all of my favourite things you may be surprised what one of my top choices is – 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''. LovelyThe sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, blessed sleepy sleephush''. There is nothing quite like the feeling Think of waking up at gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the usual timesound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, only la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to roll over and go back to Slumberville have worked as there is no work todayBaby closes his eyes. If you wake me up too early, I have been described as looking somewhat like Then a grumpy bear, but seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what do you expect if you try 's going to stop someone who is hibernating? Will you learn the lesson of this little duck who would not let a sleeping bear lie?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008101353</amazonuk>happen next.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pip Jones and Laura Hughes140639131X|title=Daddy's SandwichA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=One day, Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a little girl decides bird to make sit back on her daddy tail feathers when there was a sandwichproblem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. It starts out well, Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with two slices of bread, but things soon slip and slide from there into culinary chaos as she searches through the house for all of his favourite things, like biscuits dunked in tea, and his favourite slippers, benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even the remote control!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571311830</amazonuk>trained up to provide a safe path overnight.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Lee Wildish 1776574338|title=Pizza for Pirates Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5

|summary= George has been exploring before. He’s taken spaghetti to Every morning Leilong, the Yetibrontosaurus school bus, marshmallows for makes his way through the Martianscity, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and doughnuts for Dragonsslide down his neck. In his fourth adventure It's perfect, he’s off in search isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a pirate crew problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and he’s again armed with – because he's longer than a tasty snacktennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore. Pizza!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273615</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ella Bailey1776574028|title=At The Animal BallBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott

|summary= The animals are having I love a ball. Join them as they good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee''dance androaris aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can 'flutter 'play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a fantutu - and becomes a ''balletphant' '. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo'tap your toes on the floor'. This The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is flipflap fun in the parlour game tradition of a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a 'heads, bodies, tails'sm. OnMidsummer......'' OK, let's Eve a veritable menagerie of very cute animals in whatappear to be a range of national costumes, not go there Some people 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 upeating!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402306</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross1838226834|title=Slug Needs a HugCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall

|summary=Growing up, my experience with slugs mainly revolved around spotting them in the garden and being sent out with the pot It was one 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 memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with slugs including the one who dared our grandparents. They're there to come into our house, into undo all the loungegood that parents do, and who I trod on in so the dark one nighttrips out were always so much fun. Yuck! All of which means that, A young boy was going to be honestthe carnival with his Grandad, I wasn’t sure this book would who told him: ''It'll be very enjoyable for me! Still, I’m never one to say no to something illustrated by Tony Rossbrilliant, and he and Jeanne Willis make a reliably good teamjust remember, so I put don't let go of my salt pot away and sat down to readhand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441194</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah GarlandB09MYXSRV4|title=Azzi in Between|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Our story begins in a country at war. Unfortunately you could probably put a name to it (although it isnOtter't named) as it happens all too regularly. Our heroine is Azzi, a young girl whose life was not ''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 clothes. Her grandmother wove warm blankets. Then the day came when they had to run, for their lives, and escape was by boat and they became refugees. s Coat: The three of them - for Grandma had been left behind - had been luckier than most for they were accepted on a temporary basis into another country (again it's not named) Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and they had a home, although it was just one room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHare|author=Sarah Garland|title=Eddie'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>}}{{newreview|author=David J Plant|title=Hungry RoscoeCordellya Smith

|summary= Roscoe is hungry. He dreams of eating fresh fruit and fish rather than When the rotten scraps he scavenges from world was made, the bins in the park where animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he livescould become a protector. When his friend Benjy tells him Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the animals in present ''and'' the Zoo get fresh food every dayfuture. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, Roscoe has not the ability to gouse it well. But He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he quickly finds came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that there’s no way the bad-tempered Zoo Keeper will let Roscoe anywhere near the food. Determined 's not to give up, Roscoe tries to disguise himself as a tortoise fair contest but wait and then see. Things are not always as a penguinthey seem. When that doesn’t work, the monkeys suggest an alternative idea with devastating consequences for the poor Zoo Keeper I'll tell you how it came about. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263532</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clare Bevan and Cally Johnson-IsaacsRob Keeley|title=Mimi's Magical Fairy Friends Catkin the Fairy KittenCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|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=54

|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When I was a child it was ten green bottles standing her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the wall. Since then Mike Brownlow teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and Simon Rickerty have brought us vegetables, like carrots, grow in the exploits of ''Ten Little Princesses'' and ''Ten Little Pirates''ground. Now they invite us Jordan says, "I did try to explore the prehistoric world of ''Ten Little Dinosaurs''tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334003</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Adrian ReynoldsB09FFJF8YS|title=Ready, Steady, JumpYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik

|summary=If children’s books are ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a great way of introducing cry (the varied world big-girl kind!) of the animal kingdomtoilet triumph and persevering panty pride. There are books on lions''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, kangaroosher cat, monkeysher stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, aardvarkswhile they cannot. Neither can the flowers, ostriches and so many others. Howevernor the fish, children’s books since nor the days of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘‘Just So Stories’’ have also been confusing kids with animal facts that just aren’t truebirds. Boy's certainly can't. Are we to believe that an elephant got its trunk by having it pulled on by She's a crocodile? To compound the issue, author Jeanne Willis is big girl now suggesting that not only do elephants have an elongated nose, but they are also unable and she wants everyone to jump – how sillyknow it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440392</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David LucasJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=This is My RockEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Once you have claimed something as Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your ownword for them, the temptation find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to not share it talk about and joke about, that is enormous. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, whether you’re three years old or thirty threewhen everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties! In this story we are introduced to a little goat who has climbed to '' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the top of a mountainfamiliar humour attached, claimed it as his own, and explains that tooting is unwilling to allow anyone else up there with himperfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263508</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Hegarty and Fhiona GallowayB09BG8V3Q6|title=Please: A First Book of MannersWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|summary=Ah, that age old battle, of how to teach your children to be polite. I had a teacher who had magic hands, and she would only release what she was holding if you remembered to say please and thank you to her''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! This board book introduces '' is the word please latest release in a lovely way, right the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from a very early age!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869055X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elli Woollard and Benji Davies |title=The Giant Justine Avery. This series 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 fun picture books aims to take the Giant to set off to find his own Jack. The boy will, he decides, make a very tasty snack. But things don’t work pain out as he plans. Instead of eating the potty training children he meets along the way he ends up helping them, using his extra height to fetch a lost ball and rescue replace it with some fun. It's a cat from a tree. When he finally finds Jack will he really be able to eat Jack up? And if he doesn’t eat Jackworthy aim, how as any frustrated parent will he fill his rumbling tummy? You’ll have to read the book to find outtell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447254740</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bob StaakeB07GZ81J7C|title=My Pet BookWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton

|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I have a deep regard for books; they led to my love 'm getting ahead of reading and later my career as myself: I'd better tell you a Librarianbit more about Fred. Over the years I Fred is a snake and even those of us who have had some books that I have read many times and a phobia about snakes are firm favourites, but would I go so far as going to warm to call them my pets? him. I don’t keep them He arrived as a present in a little book house (unless that’s how you describe your bookshelf) box with holes so that he could breathe and I don’t walk around immediately became part of the family, to the street extent that they would take Fred out with them on when they went out for a leadwalk. Who on Earth would do And that?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344231X</amazonuk>was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=BarrouxJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Where's the Elephant?Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54

|summary=WeCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn've all had great fun with books such t, as ''Where's Wally''any parent will tell you. But really, havenwhy shouldn't weit be? They appeal We all have to children and adults and everyone who has seen ''Where's the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasm, keen learn about our bodily functions just as we have to show just how observant they learn about everything else when we aresmall. We start off with a forest - actually itWhy shouldn's t potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the Amazon Rainforest - full of glorious colours sun and our three friends, who are hiding in there. Elephant is probably the easiest to spot, but Snake and Parrot are moon take turns 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.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KovecsesJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|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? WellNo, No, 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=TrainNo!|rating=54

|summary=Kids nowadays have far too many toys to play with; whilst I had to make do with They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a piece of string tied Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!'' is based around a rockthe simplest text imaginable. ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, today’s youth have rooms filled with more plastic contraptions than an aging Hollywood Starlet’s cheeksyou may. Even with '' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this stuff at hand most parents will tell you that their child will still gravitate more to a few tiny snippet of their favourite things, ignoring text is a lot of veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the other offerings availableoutside. Perhaps they have a toy train that they are obsessed by? Train!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1589255429</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carron Brown and Bee Johnson194812467X|title=On the TrainThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic

|summary=There’s nothing me Kirelle and her best friend Sam the little ‘un like more than cat decide to go for a good transport themed bookwalk. Tractors remain Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of my toddler’s pops but trains run the hill, they see a big barn with a close secondsign outside. One glimpse of the cover of It''On s a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the Train'' stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and his little feet did the happy danceeven some mice. He hunkered down Excited, Kirelle and the journey beganSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240242X</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsola0995647895|title=ColoursSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=Lift Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, 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. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the flaps books are very popular houses cowered in my housethe gloom, though I seldom use that term ''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to describe them. Rip sail the flaps is more apt. I imagine fellow parents reading this review will wince and nod at this point whilst librarians will perspire oceans on an ancient sailing ship and reach reflexively for the sellotapewent back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it'Colourss the one where Nelson' by Aino-Maija Metsola is a lift s Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the flaps book for closing bell and the very youngattendant's warning shout. As When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the title suggests, this edition aims to teach the concept midst of colour with the added spice an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of extra pictures hidden behind flapsdolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806090</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Sutton and Brian Lovelock1782227741|title=ConstructionLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha

|summary=I live near what is currently One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a pretty massive building site deep puddle and I don’t think there the water is anything particularly magical about the noise swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and mess that is sucked down a bunch drain on the side of huge vehicles makethe street. Finding himself down in the sewer, but try telling that Ted starts to a three year oldpanic. The bright yellow colours ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and obvious power alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of these machines can spark the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a child’s imaginationbit like an old cricket bat. So, Reg is a book that evokes all this building kind soul and he dries Ted off and construction is hypnotically powerful to the right childwarms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922077305</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ella BurfootB08R7LXQ9S|title=Recipe For Remy: A Storybook about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=I’m sure you love readingRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but have you ever wanted they are not stupid. They are careful to write a book? Would you even know where to start? In this delightful, whimsical look at wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the topicother kids are around. So, we learn that writing a story could be like baking a cakewhen Remy reacts, with lots of ingredients mixed together in just it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the right way for a wonderful creationteachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230753035</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Browne and Hanne Bartholin1471191303|title=Frida and BearThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5

|summary=FridaThis is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the elephant, window and Bear, crept up the corner of the, um, bear, are great friends who love bedpost.'' The family didn't go to play togetherthe cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. This book teaches us one of their favourite games Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and it stems from their mutual love they had to move to the far side of drawingthe city. If you didn’t think that This part of the city was a two-player activity think againcold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140635399X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Hendra Nick Jones and Paul LinnetSi Clark|title=I Need a Wee!One Night in Beartown

|summary=Is there anyone Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who looks forward to the potty training stage? Nolives in Beartown, I didn't think so. I'm there again at the moment is obsessed with my little boybears. Everyone delights in telling me how boys are a lot harder to train than girlsShe collects books about bears. So far they're right! I was hopeful that this book might help things along a little butHer favourite toy is Berisford, sadly, it succeeded only in making all of us laugh (and left us hoping that our small boy didn't get any naughty ideas from it!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120872</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Emma Chichester Clark|title=Bears Don't Read|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=You might think a picture of a teddy bear reading a bookpassed down by her grandmother. Every night, on the cover she looks out of a book itself called ''Bears Don’t Read'' is confusing, but it quickly becomes clear. George is a bear doing bear things with his friends her bedroom window and family but he’s getting a bit bored of says goodnight to the same old, same oldbear statue outside. So when he finds a book some poor human type person has dropped he’s a bit excited. The only thing is, he doesn’t know how Every morning she says hello to read itBee Bear, so he can’t release the exciting adventure that’s cooped up insidea colourful painted bear that lives at her school. With his fellow She even has bears showing little interest in his find, he sets off for the town to try to locate someone who can help.on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007425198</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]