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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah McIntyreAdam Stower|title= Dinosaur PoliceMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary= Help! There’s trouble in Dinoville! A T-Rex Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is causing havoc in the pizza parlour! So starts the silliest able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of dinosaur books that had me giggling until the very last pagetwo. Trevor is But he's a naughty little thingbad magician's cat, ruining all the pizzas for so his favourite bun has been turned into a special orderhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and then running away from the Police before catflap they both use can catch himchuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. It’s This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one kerfuffle after another heremuch bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but somehowhe's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, some wayspewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the show must go ontangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and the town rallies together to make it happenGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140714328X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah McIntyreB0CC9W7GLR|title= Dinosaur PoliceOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating= 45|genre= For Sharing|summary= Help! There’s trouble in Dinoville! A T-Rex is causing havoc in Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was 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 pizza parlour! shoreline. So starts the silliest On top of dinosaur books that had me giggling until the very last pageice was a polar bear. Trevor is a naughty little thing As the ice bumped onto the sand, ruining the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all the pizzas for making a special orderrun for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and then running away from the Police before they can catch gave him. It’s one kerfuffle after apple and then another here, but somehow, some way, . He obviously needed to be taken home on the show must go on, bus and given a good meal and the town rallies together somewhere to make it happensleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140714328X</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carolina Rabei1913839656|title=Crunch!Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary=Crunch is a guinea pig who likes Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his comfy bedgrandmother, but most of all he likes eating - which is probably why he's called Crunchnot least because she made the best beetle juice. He's gorgeously round packed two pairs of dungarees and well-fed but he couldn't help but think that there was something missing from his lifefavourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. One day he was approached by Cheddar, the mouse, who chatted She had promised to take him about to the Friday Night Club at the abundance of food which local community centre and Todd was available pleased about this as he wanted to Crunchmake new friends. Cheddar couldn't believe it At home, his only friend was his mum and thought he wondered why that Crunch probably had enough food to share, but Crunch was having none of thiscould be. His food was HIS food and Grandma thought that it might be because he wasn't sharing it with ''anyone'', even when Cheddar offered him a big friendly hug in returnlooked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846437326</amazonuk>

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Busy Alice in WonderlandThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=''Busy Alice in Wonderland'' is a board book, with paper (or should it be 'board'?) engineering. It would seem Elsie and her little brother David loved to too crass go to describe what can be done with the book as 'pull park and watch the tab'red buses drive past. A pulled tab moves Elsie would race the hedgehog forward, paints buses along the blooms red and puts stripes onto side of the catpark but David couldn's teeth (t - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and all that is on the cover!) even just standing up was very difficult. A finger One day Elsie spotted a bus in a ring moving through a curve drops Alice down the rabbit holetoy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. The potion which Alice drinks quickly reduces her size Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and a turning wheel pours tea out of the potwalk behind it. It's all brilliantly done Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and despite trying my best I couldn't find a single sharp edge or one of rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the pieces of engineering experts there could make it so that I thought would soon need repair. It's a book which you her grandchildren could leave play with a child rather than feeling that it needed to be kept on 'Mummy's shelf'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277694</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Geyer1529504767|title=Go to Sleep, Monty!The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45

|summary=For some children, it does not take them long Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to decide that they want a pether final destination. This means that the next few months and years consist of them slowly breaking down their parents’ resistance until finally a pet enters She needn't have worried though as she went to the home. For some lucky adults this may take the form of a goldfish or a hamsterMr and Mrs Russell, but for many it will be a dogwho couldn't have been kinder to her. You may feel like you have only just managed She even had her own room - all to get your own child potty trained, but now you have herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to start all over again enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with a puppythe baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441100</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Monks1916459943|title=Mungo Monkey goes on a TrainSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=I have spent quite Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a lot of time squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on public transport his blanket and''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, believe hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you me, I have seen a few odd things the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in my time- ''la lou, but I la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have yet to see a family of monkeys catch the trainworked as Baby closes his eyes. However, Mungo is no ordinary monkey as he lives in Then a curious world where you can lift flaps seagull '''shouts''' and see we know exactly what is 's going onto happen next. What can be behind the next one? Perhaps a photo of me looking puzzled as I see a monkey on the train!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405269103</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Pat Hutchins140639131X|title= Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick?A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= RosiePhilippa Pheasant was 's not 'tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the sharpest chuck in the hen houseOld Oak Road. She made her debut over forty years ago in wrote to the mayor about the 1968 publication, problem but didn'Rosie's Walkt even get a reply. Philippa wasn' t a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she stepped out alone blithely unaware saw the benefits of always being the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a hairs breadth away from calamitylittle amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. Well, she's back, All the animals used the crossing and this time she has Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a chicksafe path overnight. Uh-oh as my toddler would say…let's have a look at 'Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918281</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bond and R W Alley1776574338|title=Paddington Goes for GoldLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn

|summary=Rather like a young childEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, Paddington is a wide-eyed innocent who leaves devastation wherever picking up children as he goes, yet somehow always manages to land on his feet. I am very fond Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of literary bears, the window and he is one of my favouritesslide down his neck. I love his enthusiasmIt's perfect, in everything he does, and that he always has isn't it? What could be a snack more fun way of going to hand. school? In this particular adventure, Paddington manages to entice the entire Brown family, and Mrs BirdThere is a problem, to come to a local sports daythough. There’s everything from Leilong isn't happy in the shotput city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a three-legged race tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and even a knitting racetraffic regularly gets snarled up. You The school decides that he can probably imagine 't be the trouble he gets into…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007427735</amazonuk>bus anymore.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Blake and John Yeoman1776574028|title=The Fabulous Foskett Family CircusBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=34

|summary=There are names I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is 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 conjure have realise that you can ''play'' with words and Quentin Blake is certainly make something quite different from each one of those. His tellWe have the elephant who dons a tutu -tale illustrations have been part of many and becomes a child’s upbringings, not at least for his work in the superb Roald Dahl books''balletphant''. However, can nostalgia The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and reverence cloud then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a person’s mind? ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) Are the drawings of Blake strong enough to cope The pelican who sits on their own when put alongside words that his potty changes into a ''sm.......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are not at a Dahl level?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344035X</amazonuk>eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jack Tickle1838226834|title=Silly Dizzy DinosaurCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating= 4.5

|summary=Reading to children does not have to be a passive experience. Some It was one of the best books have you interacting those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the characters found between good that parents do, so the pagestrips out were always so much fun. Dizzy Dinosaur is not A young boy was going to the most sensible of chaps at the best carnival with his Grandad, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of time, but his errors are only compounded when the reader gets involvedmy hand. Can we help this clumsy Camarasaurus from falling over too much? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848690452</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick InkpenB09MYXSRV4|title=Kipper’s Little FriendsOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Mick Inkpen has an enormous amount of talentWhen the world was made, and he manages to somehow make the simplest of stories endearing and interesting. Here, on his 25th anniversary, Kipper is back with a new story in which he’s thinking about baby animalswere given gifts. He finds out what various different animal babies are called, and then he begins to wonder what he Bear was when given strength so that he was could become a babyprotector.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918192</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alice Hemming and Kimberley Scott|title= A Gold Star for George|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= George the Giraffe is Water Spider received a lovable chappie, strong web that much is evident from the starteven fire could not burn. He’s smart too, both in brains and attire (spotted bow tie being every day wear if you’re George) and right now he’s very excited because Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the Wildlife Park are having some awards. Gold stars for things like ‘’Most Popular Animal’’, ‘’Best Trick’’ present ''and so on. George ‘’really’’ wants to win one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861710</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cedric Ramadier and Vincent Bourgeau|title= Help! The Wolf is Coming!|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= With every turn of the thick, cardboard pages, '' the Wolf is getting closerfuture. 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 Rabbit developed intelligence - but, the seaunfortunately, towns and forests inviting all not the creatures he meets ability to his partyuse it well. He is excited and so busy trying liked to tell everyone about his party that he does not understand that the trick other animals are all trying . He was also jealous which was how he came to warn him be in a race with Turtle. You might think that he is flying into danger's not a fair contest but wait and see. Will he work out what Things are not always as they are telling him before seem. I'll tell you how it is too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447280849</amazonuk>came about.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anita PouroulisRob Keeley|title= Jules and Nina Dine OutCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!

|summary=If the ‘‘Toy Story’’ films taught Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is nothing else, keen to explain how good they taught us that when we are not paying attention, toys come for you and how nice to lifeeat. Call me old fashionedOne day, I am not impressed as this is common knowledgepoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, but did you know who tells her that fruit also awakens? If you listen closely as you go to sleep you may just hear carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the soft pulse of some Happy House or Dubstep as down teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the kitchen the fruit are having a discoground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571307884</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Metcalf and Cally Johnson-IsaacsB09FFJF8YS|title=Rabbits Don’t Lay EggsYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik

|summary= Life’s boring in ''For the burrow so Rupert rabbit decides to tunnel over to big, grownup girls out there, the neighbouring farm. There he meets a very bossy duckpotty masters in training, Dora, who tells him that only animals who can do "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a job can live on this farmcry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride. What can a rabbit do?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282779</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cerrie Burnell And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and Laura Ellen Anderson|title=Mermaid|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Bringing important issues such as race pull-ups and disability graduation to a child’s attention is a vital thing for any parent "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to do if her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they want their child to understand cannot. Neither can the world better. Why does that person look different and should I be scared? The answer is obviously noflowers, but how is a child supposed to know this? Books are a great way of explaining diversity without making nor the lesson too preachy or obvious. Perhaps a story about a mermaid whofish, when out of nor the water, is in birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a wheelchair?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407145932</amazonuk>big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jory John Justine Avery and Benji DaviesNaday Meldova|title=Goodnight AlreadyEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=If you list all of my favourite things you may be surprised what one of my top choices is – sleepToots, trumps, farts. LovelyWhatever your word for them, blessed sleepy sleepfind us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. There Funny to talk about and joke about, that is nothing quite like the feeling of waking up . But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the usual wrong time. In class, say, only to roll over when everyone will hear it and go back to Slumberville as there is no work todayeveryone will laugh. If At you wake me up too early. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, I have been described as looking somewhat like a grumpy bearwith the familiar humour attached, but what do you expect if you try to stop someone who explains that tooting is hibernating? Will you learn the lesson of this little duck who would not let a sleeping bear lie?perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008101353</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pip Jones and Laura HughesB09BG8V3Q6|title=Daddy's SandwichWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|summary=One day, a little girl decides to make her daddy a sandwich''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. It starts out well, with two slices This series of bread, but things soon slip and slide from there into culinary chaos as she searches through fun picture books aims to take the house for all pain out of his favourite things, like biscuits dunked in tea, potty training children and his favourite slippersreplace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, and even the remote control!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571311830</amazonuk>as any frustrated parent will tell you. .

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title= Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Lee Wildish Mended|titleauthor=Pizza for Pirates Peter Cotton

|summary= George has been exploring beforeMeet Fred. He’s taken spaghetti Well, actually, you're going to the Yeti, marshmallows be meeting Fred-Fred for the Martians, 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 doughnuts for Dragonseven those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. In his fourth adventure, he’s off He arrived as a present in search of a pirate crew box with holes so that he could breathe and he’s again armed immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a tasty snackwalk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes. Pizza!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273615</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ella BaileyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=At The Animal BallEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary= The animals are having a ball. Join them as they 'dance androarCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, 'flutter a fan' then 'tap your toes on the floor'as any parent will tell you. This is flipflap fun in the parlour game tradition of 'headsBut really, bodies, tailswhy shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. OnMidsummerWhy shouldn's Eve a veritable menagerie of very cute animals in whatappear to t potty training be a range of national costumesas much fun as, are assembling to bouncesay,shimmy, swagger learning about why the sun and stroll. You can mix the animals up by flipping moon take turns in theflaps but watch out! Moving the pages out of sequence also mixes upthe dance moves. Join in and keep up!sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402306</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne Willis Justine Avery and Tony RossNaday Meldova|title=Slug Needs a HugNo, No, No!

|summary=Growing up, my experience with slugs mainly revolved around spotting them in They say 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 come into our house, into the lounge, and who I trod on in picture books are the dark one nightsimplest ones. Yuck! All And nothing could be truer of which means that, to be honest, I wasn’t sure this book would be very enjoyable for me! Stilllatest from Justine Avery, 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 readBookbag favourite.|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 war. Unfortunately you could probably put a name to it (although it isn't named) as it happens all too regularly. Our heroine is Azzi'No, No, a young girl whose life was not No!''toois based around the simplest text imaginable. '' affected by the warNo, 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 runno, for their livesno! Okay, and escape was by boat and they became refugeesokay. 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) and they had a homeYes, although it was just one roomyou may.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Garland|title=EddieThat's Tent and How to go Camping|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Mumit! But, Tomlike all the best picture books, Tilly, Lily and Eddie wanted to go this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on holiday and camping seemed like the ideal way to go. Lily and Tilly thought inside that 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 appears on the car and off they wentoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184780408X</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David J Plant194812467X|title=Hungry RoscoeThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic

|summary= Roscoe is hungry. He dreams of eating fresh fruit Kirelle and fish rather than the rotten scraps he scavenges from the bins in the park where he lives. When his her best friend Benjy tells him that Sam the animals in the Zoo get fresh food every day, Roscoe has cat decide 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 for a tortoise and then as a penguinwalk. When that doesn’t work, the monkeys suggest an alternative idea with devastating consequences Kirelle is dressed for the poor Zoo Keeper. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263532</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clare Bevan all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Cally Johnson-Isaacs|title=Mimi's Magical Fairy Friends Catkin the Fairy Kitten|rating=2Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Children’s books are wonderful things As they walk to read full the top of vibrant colours and flights of fancythe hill, but they can also be sickly sweet. Designing see 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 big barn with a Pegasussign outside. It seems that this fact has not stopped countless authors trying to do just 's a farm shop! But thisis a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. Some girls may indeed love fairiesThere are sheep and ducks and cows, mermaids or poniesgoats and chickens, but this does not mean that they hate concepts such as rounded charactersand even some mice. Excited, plots that make sense, or feelings of empowerment. Even a magical fairy kitten is not enough to disguise a book with no plotKirelle and Sam go shopping.|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 What will they invite us to explore the prehistoric world of ''Ten Little Dinosaurs''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334003</amazonuk>buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Jeanne Willis Sadie and Adrian Reynoldsthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Ready, Steady, JumpMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice

|summary=If children’s books are Sadie's mother always said that she was a great way of introducing the varied world of the animal kingdomdreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. There are books on lions, kangaroos, monkeys, aardvarks, ostriches She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and so many othersshe loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. However ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom, children’s books since ''<br>''To the days of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘‘Just So Stories’’ have also been confusing kids with animal facts that just aren’t trueMaritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. Are we She'd love to believe that sail the oceans on an elephant got its trunk by having ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it pulled 's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on by a crocodile? show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. To compound When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the issue, author Jeanne Willis is now suggesting midst of an adventure that not only do elephants she could never have an elongated noseimagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, but they are also unable to jump – how silly!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440392</amazonuk>mermaids and treasure.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Lucas1782227741|title=This is My RockLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha

|summary=Once you have claimed something as your ownOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the temptation water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to not share it spin around and around and is enormoussucked down a drain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, whether you’re three years old or thirty three! In this story we are introduced to a little goat who has climbed Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the top attention of a mountainReg the sewer rat, claimed it as who plucks him out of the dirty water using his owncane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and is unwilling to allow anyone else he dries Ted off and warms him up there with hima nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263508</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Hegarty and Fhiona GallowayB08R7LXQ9S|title=PleaseRemy: A First Book of Mannersbook about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4.5

|summary=AhRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, that age old battle together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, of how calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to teach your children to be politewind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. I had a teacher who had magic handsSo, when Remy reacts, and she would only release what she it looks as though he was holding if you remembered to say please the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and thank you the teachers don't believe him when he tries to her! This board book introduces the word please in a lovely way, right from a very early age!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869055X</amazonuk>explain what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elli Woollard and Benji Davies 1471191303|title=The Giant of Jum Invisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=I have This is the story of Isobel, a deep regard for books; they led to my love of reading and later my career as little girl who made a Librarianbig difference. Over the years I have had some books that I have read many times and are firm favourites, but would I go so far as to call them my pets? I don’t keep them Isobel lived with her parents in a little book house (unless that’s how you describe your bookshelf) and I don’t walk around the street with them on - a lead. Who on Earth would do that?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344231X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Barroux|title=Where's the Elephant?|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We've all had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally''very cold house, havenbecause her parents couldn't we? They appeal afford to children and adults and everyone who has seen ''Where's put the Elephant?heating on: '' has jumped in with great enthusiasm, keen to show just how observant they are. We start off with a forest - actually it's Ice curled across the Amazon Rainforest - full inside 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 window and with a little concentration you'll find them. When you turn crept up the page you'll scan corner of the trees again and discover their hiding placesbedpost. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anna Kovecses|title=One Thousand Things|rating=5|genre=ChildrenThe family didn's Non-Fiction|summary=When you are just short of two years old there’s a whole lifetime of learning ahead. Where t go to begin? Well, you could do a lot worse than get Mum the cinema or Dad to buy a copy of Anna Kovecses’ on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn''One Thousand Things''. Don’t believe t afford the mouse on rent for the front cover holding a balloon saying ''learn your first words''. To bill this book as a ‘vocabulary builder’ is house and they had to woefully underplay its hand. Study hard and this book will see you safely through nursery and in move 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 side of string tied around a rock, today’s youth have rooms filled with more plastic contraptions than an aging Hollywood Starlet’s cheeksthe city. Even with all this stuff at hand most parents will tell you that their child will still gravitate more to a few This part of their favourite thingsthe city was cold, ignoring a lot of the other offerings availablesad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible. Perhaps they have a toy train that they are obsessed by? Train!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1589255429</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carron Brown Nick Jones and Bee JohnsonSi Clark|title=On the TrainOne Night in Beartown

|summary=There’s nothing me Many children have an obsession and the little ‘un like more than a good transport themed bookSandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Tractors remain top of my toddler’s pops but trains run Her favourite toy is Berisford, a close secondteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. One glimpse of the cover Every night, she looks out of ''On the Train'' her bedroom window and his little feet did says goodnight to the happy dancebear statue outside. He hunkered down and the journey beganEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178240242X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]