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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim Kane Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and Sara Actonhe'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Unexpected CrocodileThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=It’s always a worry when a large animal comes to tea. Here When we find our characters inviting in a crocodile, who just happens to have dropped by to join Peggy first meet Birpus and her family as Bulbus they entertain 're running for their lives in the Dawson’s for a barbecueForest of Fine Repute. Why Their greatest fear has come about: the crocodile come? Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing 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. And more importantlyThey climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, will he ever leave?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760111732</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Tapper and Steve WilsonB0CC9W7GLR|title=Horace On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Hattiepillar (Hedgehugs)Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=Horace Kit and Hattie are best friends. They like Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to do everything that they can togetherbe at home, bored but warm, from playing hide or frozen cold and seekbuilding sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, to looking for the first star of bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the nightice. One day when they’re out togetherKit was all for making a run for it, they find something small but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and round gave him one apple and smooth handing then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bottom of bus and given a leafgood meal and somewhere to sleep. Whatever could it beWhat else would you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184886163X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Knapman and Patrick Benson1913839656|title=SoonLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=Raju is a baby elephant who set out on a jungle adventure Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his mothergrandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He was excited packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and just a little bit frightened: you could see that by the way that he held on then gathered together his button collection to her tail very tightlyshow his grandmother. On their way they met crocodiles, who snapped She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the pair until mother stamped her feet local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to frighten them awaymake new friends. At home, hissing snakes his only friend was his mum and ferocious, frightening tigershe wondered why that could be. Mother frightened them off tooGrandma thought that it might be because he looked different. At each encounter Raju asks: ''When can we go home again?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406351350</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Georgie Birkett1529504775|title= Teddy Picnic|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Picnics are fun, whether they’re at the beach, at the bottom of the garden or even on a rug in the living room. And no one knows how to picnic like teddy bears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441607</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author= Sarah McIntyre|title= Dinosaur Police|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Help! There’s trouble in Dinoville! A T-Rex is causing havoc in the pizza parlour! So starts the silliest of dinosaur books that had me giggling until the very last page. Trevor is a naughty little thing, ruining all the pizzas for a special order, Amy Sparkes and then running away from the Police before they can catch him. It’s one kerfuffle after another here, but somehow, some way, the show must go on, and the town rallies together to make it happen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140714328X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Carolina Rabei|title=Crunch!Katie Hickey
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|summary=Crunch is a guinea pig who likes his comfy bed, but most of all he likes eating - which is probably why he's called CrunchElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. HeElsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn's gorgeously round and wellt -fed but he couldn't help but think that there d been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was something missing from his lifevery difficult. One day he Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was approached by Cheddar, happy to use the mouse, who chatted coins from her money box to him about the abundance of food which pay for it as cash was available to Crunchtight at home. Cheddar couldn't believe it and thought that Crunch probably had enough food Gradually, David learned to sharestand up, use the bus for support, but Crunch was having none of thisand walk behind it. His food was HIS food Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and he wasn't sharing rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with ''anyone'', even when Cheddar offered him a big friendly hug in returnit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846437326</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Busy Alice in WonderlandThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Busy Alice Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in Wonderland'' is a board book, with paper (or should it 1939 and nervous about how she would be 'board'?) engineeringgreeted when she got to her final destination. It would seem to too crass She needn't have worried though as she went to describe what can be done with the book as 'pull the tab'. A pulled tab moves the hedgehog forwardhome of Mr and Mrs Russell, paints the blooms red and puts stripes onto the catwho couldn's teeth (and all that is on the cover!) A finger in a ring moving through a curve drops Alice down the rabbit holet have been kinder to her. The potion which Alice drinks quickly reduces She even had her size and a turning wheel pours tea out of the potown room - all to herself. It's all brilliantly done Gradually she relaxed and despite trying my best I couldn't find a single sharp edge or one of the pieces of engineering that I thought would soon need repairbegan to enjoy her life. ItShe's a book which you could leave d help Mrs Russell with a child rather than feeling that the baking and when it needed came to be kept Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on 'Mummy's shelf'the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277694</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Geyer1916459943|title=Go to Sleep, Monty!Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=For some childrenMuch as mothers love their babies, it does not take them long to decide that there's something they want all dread - a petsqueakily 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. This means that It rocks Baby gently and the next few months and years consist waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of them slowly breaking down their parents’ resistance until finally gentle wavelets falling onto a pet enters sandy beach and you have the homesound perfectly. For some lucky adults this may take the form of a goldfish or a hamsterThe mermaids join in - ''la lou, but la lay...'' And for many a moment it will be a dogseems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. You may feel like you have only just managed Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to get your own child potty trained, but now you have to start all over again with a puppyhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441100</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Monks140639131X|title=Mungo Monkey goes on a TrainA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=I have spent quite 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 lot of time on public transport and, believe you me, I have seen reply. Philippa wasn't a few odd things in my time, but I have yet bird to see sit back on her tail feathers when there was a family problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of monkeys catch the trainlollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. However, Mungo is no ordinary monkey as he lives in Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a curious world where you can lift flaps and see what is going onlittle amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. What can be behind All the animals used the next one? Perhaps crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a photo of me looking puzzled as I see a monkey on the train!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405269103</amazonuk>safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Pat Hutchins1776574338|title= Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick?|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Rosie's not the sharpest chuck in the hen house. She made her debut over forty years ago in the 1968 publication, 'Rosie's Walk' when she stepped out alone blithely unaware of always being a hairs breadth away from calamity. Well, sheLeilong's back, and this time she has a chick. Uh-oh as my toddler would say…let's have a look at 'Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918281</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewToo Long!|author=Michael Bond Julia Liu and R W Alley|title=Paddington Goes for GoldBei Lynn
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|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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Blake and John Yeoman1776574028|title=The Fabulous Foskett Family CircusBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=34
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|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!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jack Tickle1838226834|title=Silly Dizzy DinosaurCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating= 4.5
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|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>''
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{{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
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|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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anita PouroulisRob Keeley|title= Jules and Nina Dine OutCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!
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|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
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{{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
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|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!)
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|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
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|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. .
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title= Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Lee Wildish Mended|titleauthor=Pizza for Pirates Peter Cotton
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ella BaileyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=At The Animal BallEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne Willis Justine Avery and Tony RossNaday Meldova|title=Slug Needs a HugNo, No, No!
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|summary=Growing up, my experience with slugs mainly revolved around spotting them in They say the garden and being sent out with best picture books are the pot simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of salt to send them to this latest from Justine Avery, a salty (and franklyBookbag favourite. ''No, disgusting) deathNo, No! My mum was forever waging war on these creatures that were hell-bent on eating everything in her garden that she loved best'' is based around the simplest text imaginable. Since those happy childhood moments ''No, no, I have had other difficult moments with slugs including the one who dared to come into our houseno! Okay, into the loungeokay. Yes, and who I trod on in the dark one nightyou may. Yuck'' That's it! All of which means thatBut, to be honestlike all the best picture books, 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 tiny snippet of text is a reliably good team, veritable tardis - so I put my salt pot away and sat down to readmuch bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783441194</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Garland194812467X|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, 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. 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 home, although it was just one room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFarm Shop|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 finallyDevon Avery, Tom began to load the car Justine Avery and off they went.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780408X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David J Plant|title=Hungry RoscoeEma Tepic
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|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>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Jeanne Willis Sadie and Adrian Reynoldsthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Ready, Steady, JumpMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Lucas1782227741|title=This is My RockLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|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>
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{{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
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|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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elli Woollard and Benji Davies 1471191303|title=The Giant of Jum Invisible|author=Tom Percival
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|genre=For Sharing |summary=The Giant of Jum This is hungry and it’s making him grumpy. Luckily he remembers his brother telling him a the story about of Isobel, a beanstalk and little girl who made a boy called Jack and this leads the Giant to set off to find his own Jackbig difference. The boy will, he decides, make Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very tasty snack. But things don’t work out as he plans. Instead cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of eating the children he meets along window and crept up the way he ends up helping them, using his extra height corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to fetch a lost ball the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and rescue a cat from a treethey were happy. When he finally finds Jack will he really be able Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to eat Jack up? And if he doesn’t eat Jack, how will he fill his rumbling tummy? You’ll have move to read the book to find outfar side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447254740</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bob StaakeNick Jones and Si Clark|title=My Pet BookOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary=I Many children have a deep regard for books; they led to my love of reading an obsession and later my career as a LibrarianSandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. Over the years I have had some She collects books that I have read many times and are firm favouritesabout bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, but would I go so far as to call them my pets? I don’t keep them in a little book house (unless that’s how you describe your bookshelf) teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and I don’t walk around says goodnight to the street with them on bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a leadcolourful painted bear that lives at her school. Who She even has bears on Earth would do that?her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178344231X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]