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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim HyunAdam Stower|title=Best FriendsMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|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 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
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|summary=Teaching your young child new words is one 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 wonders of parenthoodSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, but once you have grown tired of teaching them mildly rude wordsspewing hot, what is next? sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) ThankfullyFortunately, like with most thing in modern living, there is they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a book to help you that is full ladder of popular moss and useful phrases to use in everyday situationsvines was lowered for them, they escaped. I mean who else is going They climbed up to teach you to say Pardon Methe Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, if you have an accident?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277309</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karma Wilson and Jane ChapmanB0CC9W7GLR|title=Bear CountsOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=If a bear approaches you in the woods Kit and asks you for help counting, the only numbers you will need Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be aware at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of are silvery ice drifted onto the steps you take pegging it in shoreline. On top of the opposite directionice was a polar bear. ThankfullyAs the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear of this story is woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a friendly creature run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and he hangs out mostly with his woodland pals gave him one apple and not terrified humansthen another. Can he help us count He obviously needed to five before be taken home on the terror grips usbus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471125459</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joan Aiken and Quentin Blake1913839656|title=Arabel’s RavenLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=It’s been manyTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, many years since I first met Arabel not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and her pet raven, Mortimer, whilst watching Jackanory on children’s televisionthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Bernard Cribbins used She had promised to take him to read the stories, Friday Night Club at the local community centre and they became firm favourites of mineTodd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. Here I am returning to the first book in the series, well, just a handful of years laterAt home, his only friend was his mum and the story has lost none of its charmhe wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806910</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Kane and Sara Acton1529504775|title=Unexpected Crocodile|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It’s always a worry when a large animal comes to tea. Here we find our characters inviting in a crocodile, who just happens to have dropped by to join Peggy and her family as they entertain the Dawson’s for a barbecue. Why has the crocodile come? And more importantly, will he ever leave?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760111732</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Lucy Tapper Amy Sparkes and Steve Wilson|title=Horace and Hattiepillar (Hedgehugs)Katie Hickey
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|summary=Horace Elsie and Hattie are best friendsher little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. They like to do everything that they can together, from playing hide and seek, to looking for Elsie would race the buses along the first star side of the nightpark but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day when they’re out togetherElsie spotted a bus in the toy 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. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, they find something small and round walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and smooth handing on rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the bottom of a leaf. Whatever experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184886163X</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Knapman and Patrick Benson1529504767|title=SoonThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Raju is a baby elephant who set out on a jungle adventure with his mother. He Susan was very young when she was excited evacuated from London in 1939 and just a little bit frightened: you could see that by the way that he held on nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her tail very tightlyfinal destination. On their way they met crocodilesShe needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who snapped at the pair until mother stamped couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her feet own room - all to frighten them away, hissing snakes herself. Gradually she relaxed and ferocious, frightening tigersbegan to enjoy her life. Mother frightened them off tooShe'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. At each encounter Raju asks: ''When can we go home again?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406351350</amazonuk>The best surprise happened the following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Georgie Birkett1916459943|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>}}{{newreviewSqueakily Baby|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, 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!Beth Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=Crunch is a guinea pig who likes his comfy bedMuch as mothers love their babies, but most of there's something they all he likes eating dread - which is probably why he's called Cruncha squeakily baby. He's gorgeously round and well-fed so tired but he couldncan't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help but think that there was something missing from his life. One day he was approached by Cheddar, It rocks Baby gently and the mousewaves sing ''hush, who chatted to him about hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the abundance of food which was available to Crunchsound perfectly. Cheddar couldnThe mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'t believe ' And for a moment it and thought that Crunch probably had enough food seems to share, but Crunch was having none of thishave worked as Baby closes his eyes. His food was HIS food and he wasnThen a seagull '''t sharing it with shouts''anyone'and we know exactly what', even when Cheddar offered him a big friendly hug in returns going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846437326</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Busy Alice in WonderlandA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''Busy Alice in Wonderlandtired'' is a board book, with paper (or should it be 'board'?) engineeringof nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. It would seem She wrote to too crass to describe what can be done with the book as 'pull mayor about the tabproblem but didn't even get a reply. A pulled tab moves Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the hedgehog forward, paints benefits of the blooms red and puts stripes onto lollipop lady at the cat's teeth (school crossing and all decided that is on the cover!) A finger in a ring moving through a curve drops Alice down the rabbit holeshe would set up something similar herself. The potion which Alice drinks quickly reduces her size Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a turning wheel pours tea out of little amateur to start with but the potbenefits were obvious. It's all brilliantly done All the animals used the crossing 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 repair. It's a book which you could leave with Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a child rather than feeling that it needed to be kept on 'Mummy's shelf'safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277694</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Geyer1776574338|title=Go to Sleep, MontyLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=For some Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children, it does not take them long as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to decide that go downstairs – they want a pet. This means that simply climb out of the next few months window and years consist of them slowly breaking slide down their parents’ resistance until finally a pet enters the homehis neck. For some lucky adults this may take the form of a goldfish or a hamsterIt's perfect, but for many isn't it will ? What could be a dogmore fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though. You may feel like you have only just managed Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to get your own child potty trained, but now you have be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to start all over again with a puppyand traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441100</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Monks1776574028|title=Mungo Monkey goes on a TrainBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=I have spent love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a lot of time on public transport andniche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, believe you me, I have seen a few odd things in see my time, first sentence) but I has mastered sufficient language skills to have yet to see a family of monkeys catch the train. However, Mungo is no ordinary monkey as he lives in a curious world where realise that you can lift flaps ''play'' with words and see what is going onmake something quite different from each one. What can be behind We have the next one? elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. Perhaps The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a photo of me looking puzzled as I see hair drier becomes a monkey on the train!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405269103</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Pat Hutchins|title= Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick?|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Rosie's not the sharpest chuck in the hen housefluffalo''. She made her debut over forty years ago in the 1968 publication, The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''Rosiecrynoceros's Walk' when she stepped out alone blithely unaware of always being (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a hairs breadth away from calamity''sm...... Well, she's back, and this time she has a chick. Uh-oh as my toddler would say…let's have a look at 'Where OK, Oh Where, is Rosielet's Chick?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918281</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bond and R W Alley1838226834|title=Paddington Goes for GoldCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|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 feet. I am very fond of literary bears, and he is It was one of my favouritesthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. I love his enthusiasmThey're there to undo all the good that parents do, in everything he does, and that he so the trips out were always has a snack to handso much fun. In this particular adventure, Paddington manages A young boy was going to entice the entire Brown familycarnival with his Grandad, and Mrs Birdwho told him: ''It'll be brilliant, to come to a local sports day. There’s everything from the shotput to a three-legged race and even a knitting racejust remember, don't let go of my hand. You can probably imagine the trouble he gets into…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007427735</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Blake and John YeomanB09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Fabulous Foskett Family Circus|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=There are names to conjure with Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Quentin Blake is certainly one of those. His tell-tale illustrations have been part of many a child’s upbringings, not at least for his work in the superb Roald Dahl books. However, can nostalgia and reverence cloud a person’s mind? Are the drawings of Blake strong enough to cope on their own when put alongside words that are not at a Dahl level?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344035X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jack Tickle|title=Silly Dizzy Dinosaur|rating= 4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Reading to children does not have to be a passive experience. Some of the best books have you interacting with the characters found between the pages. Dizzy Dinosaur is not the most sensible of chaps at the best of time, but his errors are only compounded when the reader gets involved. Can we help this clumsy Camarasaurus from falling over too much? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848690452</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHare|author=Mick Inkpen|title=Kipper’s Little FriendsCordellya Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=Mick Inkpen has an enormous amount of talentWhen the world was made, and the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he manages to somehow make could see the simplest of stories endearing present ''and interesting'' the future. HereRabbit developed intelligence - but, on his 25th anniversaryunfortunately, Kipper is back with a new story in which he’s thinking about baby not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He finds out what various different animal babies are called, and then was also jealous which was how he begins came to wonder what he was when he was be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a babyfair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918192</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alice Hemming and Kimberley ScottRob Keeley|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 (spotted bow tie being every day wear if you’re George) 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 and Vincent Bourgeau|title= Help! The Wolf is ComingCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|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
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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 BetweenThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=54
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|summary=Our story begins in Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a country at warwalk. Unfortunately you could probably put a name to it (although it isn't named) Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as it happens all too regularlyever in his smart grey fur coat. Our heroine is AzziAs they walk to the top of the hill, they see a big barn with a young girl whose life was not sign outside. It''too'' affected by the war, but every day it came s a farm shop! But this is a little closer. Her father still worked as farm shop with a doctor difference: all the stallholders and her mother made beautiful clothescustomers are farmyard animals. Her grandmother wove warm blankets. Then the day came when they had to runThere are sheep and ducks and cows, for their livesgoats and chickens, and escape was by boat and they became refugeeseven some mice. 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) Excited, Kirelle and they had a home, although it was just one roomSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Garland0995647895|title=Eddie's Tent Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and How to go CampingAnita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=Mum, Tom, TillySadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, Lily and Eddie wanted to go her mind never on holiday what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and camping seemed like the ideal way she loves to gospend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Lily and Tilly thought it was a brilliant idea and they ''Her class had some experiencegone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom, although their 'tent' did look just a little bit like a duvet over a chair<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. ItShe'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's surprising what you need for a holiday, but Lily Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and Tilly had to be told to start again when Mum saw what theythe attendant'd packed! s warning shout. But finallyWhen she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, Tom began to load the car mermaids and off they wenttreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780408X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David J Plant1782227741|title=Hungry RoscoeLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary= Roscoe One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is hungryswirling. He dreams of eating fresh fruit Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and fish rather than is sucked down a drain on the rotten scraps he scavenges from the bins in side of the park where he livesstreet. When his friend Benjy tells him that the animals Finding himself down in the Zoo get fresh food every daysewer, Roscoe has Ted starts to gopanic. But ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he quickly finds that there’s no way cries and alerts the attention of Reg the bad-tempered Zoo Keeper will let Roscoe anywhere near sewer rat, who plucks him out of the fooddirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Determined not to give up, Roscoe tries to disguise himself as Reg is a tortoise kind soul and then as he dries Ted off and warms him up with a penguin. When that doesn’t work, the monkeys suggest an alternative idea with devastating consequences for the poor Zoo Keepernice bowl of broth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263532</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Bevan and Cally Johnson-IsaacsB08R7LXQ9S|title=Mimi's Magical Fairy Friends Catkin the Fairy KittenRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=2.54
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|summary=Children’s books are wonderful things to read full of vibrant colours Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and flights of fancyBrandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they can also be sickly sweetare not stupid. Designing a book for a young girl does not mean it that has They are careful to be bright pink wind up Remy when nobody can see and float into then push him just that little bit further when the room on the wings of a Pegasus. It seems that this fact has not stopped countless authors trying to do just thisother kids are around. Some girls may indeed love fairiesSo, mermaids or ponieswhen Remy reacts, but this does not mean that they hate concepts such it looks as rounded characters, plots that make sense, or feelings of empowermentthough he was the instigator. Even a magical fairy kitten is not enough And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to disguise a book with no plotexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277015</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickerty 1471191303|title=Ten Little Dinosaurs The Invisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=When I was This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a child it was ten green bottles standing very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on : ''Ice curled across the inside of the wall. Since then Mike Brownlow window and Simon Rickerty have brought us crept up the exploits corner of the bedpost.''Ten Little Princesses The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn' t afford the rent for the house and ''Ten Little Pirates''. Now they invite us had to move to explore the prehistoric world far side of ''Ten Little Dinosaurs''the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334003</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne Willis Nick Jones and Adrian ReynoldsSi Clark|title=Ready, Steady, Jump|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=If children’s books are a great way of introducing the varied world of the animal kingdom. There are books on lions, kangaroos, monkeys, aardvarks, ostriches and so many others. However, children’s books since the days of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘‘Just So Stories’’ have also been confusing kids with animal facts that just aren’t true. Are we to believe that an elephant got its trunk by having it pulled on by a crocodile? To compound the issue, author Jeanne Willis is now suggesting that not only do elephants have an elongated nose, but they are also unable to jump – how silly!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440392</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Lucas|title=This is My RockOne Night in Beartown
|rating=4
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|summary=Once you Many children have claimed something as your ownan obsession and Sandy Lane, the temptation to not share it who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is enormousBerisford, whether you’re three years old or thirty three! In this story we are introduced to a little goat who has climbed teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the top of bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a mountain, claimed it as his own, and is unwilling to allow anyone else up there with himcolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263508</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]