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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anita PouroulisAdam Stower|title= Nina Goes Barking Mad!Murray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary= Nina Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and George are Jules' dogs. George friendly cat, one who is badly behaved. He once dug up able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the entire front lawntwo. Mum said she wanted to give him away. It But he's a bad magician's Nina who is in cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the dog house though in this edition of catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the Julesregular back garden, Nina and George series. She just won't stop barking. Mum, Jules but into a world of frightening adventure and even George are being driven crazywhiffs. Inspired by This time round it drops them into a TV showViking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, Jules sets out to think like a dog be honest, but he's turned up and pin down what on earth the matter can be.he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909428523</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Alex English The Adventures of Birpus and Duncan BeedieBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Pirates Don't Drive DiggersWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=Ah, that age old dilemma or whether to go into the family business or whether to set out alone and follow your dreams! In this story When we first meet Brad, who has been born into a family of pirates but who dreams Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of life on a building siteFine Repute. His dad (friendly looking pirate though he Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is) has no time for Bradchasing them. He's nonsenseright behind them, and packs him off to sea to learn what pirates dospewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. Is (Please don't try this to be at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a tale ladder of tragedy moss and woe? vines was lowered for them, they escaped. Don't worryThey climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Brad may get to drive a digger after all…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861737</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Smallman and Ada GreyB0CC9W7GLR|title=Poo in On the ZooBeach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda

|summary=If you’re one 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 shoreline. On top of those parents who really can’t stand farting jokesthe ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, or avoids nappy changing discussions the bear woke and with your peers at all costs then step away wobbly legs moved from this review now! the ice. This is Kit was all for making a story that is made run for families who enjoy a funny poo storyit, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and who can bear a few armpit fart noises now gave him one apple and then! another. For this is a book that is entirely about poo, from start to finish, so make sure everyone who needs He obviously needed to be is in taken home on the bus and given a nice clean nappy, then get ready for a treat of a read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691386</amazonuk>good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Silvia Borando1913839656|title= Black Cat, White Cat|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary=Let'Black Cat, White Cat' made me laugh out loud. In a lifetime of consuming literature greedily, I can count on one hand the number of books that have had this effect on me. I couldn't wait to read it with someone else to share the joke. Given that the humour relies on an element of surprise, I'm torn about how much to reveal here so, for the moment, I'll tell you a bit more about the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406363162</amazonuk>}}{{newreviews Celebrate Being Different|author=Hsukung Liu and Xinlin Wang (translator)|title=The Only Pupil in the SchoolLainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary=On Todd was excited about spending the first day of the school term only one pupil appeared and the teachers began to worry about losing their jobs. So they weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made their minds up that they would make their only pupil the best in the school, which - when you think about it - wasn't going to be ''all'' that difficultbeetle juice. They began by trying to persuade her to come to ''their'' classes He packed two pairs of dungarees and when that didn't persuade her they began fighting amongst themselves his favourite hat and didn't notice our heroine creeping awaythen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She went had promised to take him to the forest Friday Night Club at the local community centre and met an old man who taught her lots Todd was pleased about the flowers and the insectsthis as he wanted to make new friends. A chef showed her how to make soup - it At home, his only friend was delicious his mum and warming - and then she had lots of fun (and exercise) with a dog she met in the parkhe wondered why that could be. The further she Grandma thought that it might be because he looked, the more she learned and at the library she drew a book about what she had seen - and it was there that the teachers found herdifferent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215416</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessica Souhami1529504775|title=Rama The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and the Demon KingKatie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary=Rama was a brave Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and good prince, watch the king's favourite sonred buses drive past. He loved his wife, Sita Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and his best friend even just standing up was his brother Lakshmanvery difficult. Everyone loved him, except for one person. His stepmother was jealous One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and she was determined happy to get rid of Rama. Long ago she had saved use the king's life and he had promised coins from her money box to grant her any wishpay for it as cash was tight at home. She asked that he send Rama into Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the forest bus for fourteen years support, and although the king was horrified he had to keep his promisewalk behind it. Rama was sent into Many decades later, Elsie brought the forestbus, but he did not go alonenow damaged and rusted, as Sita and Lakshman went with him and for a while all was well. They fought off to the demons who first appeared and then built a house and led a simple life among Repair Shop, hoping that the forest animalsexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806600</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson1529504767|title=When I Am HappiestThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Syd Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and his Grandad are going on an adventure – through nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the door in Grandadhome of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn's attic t have been kinder to a ship that will sail across an ocean of rooftops her. She even had her own room - all to a magical tropical islandherself. They are going Gradually she relaxed and began to find new wonders at every turn as they explore enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the island baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and make lots of new friends in Mr Russell put the form of decorations on the animals and birdsChristmas tree. In fact, it's such an amazing place that Grandad decides to stay The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jules Nilsson1916459943|title=The Hounds of FalsterboSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won'In between the beach hutst - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''<br>wails''Where the white sands meet . The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the seas,waves sing ''<br>hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The heather meets the sand dunesmermaids join in - ''<br>la lou, la lay...'' And long grasses dance the breezefor a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>'' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve Smallman and Ada Grey140639131X|title= The Hippobottymus|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=The Hippobotymus is a great romp through the jungle using language to create sound and rhythm which is really fun to engage with and read aloud. All the animals are having a great time, singing their song and each adding their own sounds, but just what is it that Hippo did? You’ll just have to read it to find out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848690517</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author= Jeanne Willis and Jenni Desmond|title= The First Slodge|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=The First Slodge thinks everything is his, until he finds out he might be the first Slodge, but that doesn’t make him the only Slodge. Will they learn to share? They might just have to. I found The First Slodge to be a fascinating book. I loved the ideas, and I think it’s great that a picture book is managing to tackle a number of issues all at once like this without losing its own sense of story and purpose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848690398</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alex T Briony May Smith|title=Claude: Lights! Camera! Action!

|summary=Ah, Claude! How I do enjoy reading these funny little stories about this sweet doggy! This time Claude finds himself embroiled in shenanigans on a film set, helping with wigs and make up and a film star gorilla! Claude is as endearing Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as ever, and Mr Bobblysock continues she tried to enchant us with his hot flushes and requirements for a little lie downcross the Old Oak Road.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926470</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= W Awdry|title= Three Cheers for Thomas She wrote to the mayor about the Tank Engine|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= I donproblem but didn't like Thomas the Tank Engineeven get a reply. He may be Philippa wasn't a 'really useful' engine but he is also over exposed and (Surely? Please?) at commercial saturation point. Why then do I have bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a copy problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of 'Three Cheers for Thomas the Tank Engine' lollipop lady at my side? Well, for the same reason school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a pack of Thomas, Percy and James socks, infant size 3-5, ended up in my shopping basket at little amateur to start with but the weekendbenefits were obvious. Yes, All the animals used the owner of those titchy feet is my toddler boy crossing and boy, does he love ThomasHedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405276053</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Ellwand1776574338|title=Wake Up, AlfredLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn

|summary=It's Alfred's birthday! We don't know how old he isEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, because once dogs have reached full size they tend to look much makes his way through the same for quite a few yearscity, picking up children as he goes. And talking Children who live at the top of looks, Alfred does look rather splendid – hetower blocks don's a Great Dane in gorgeous condition. But – back t even need to the book! We see go downstairs – in a series they simply climb out of black and white photographs – Alfred being woken up (he wears a nightcap), looking outside his kennel to see what the postman has brought him, opening his presents, laying the table before his friends arrive (window and being just a little bit naughty by balancing a tea cup and saucer on slide down his headneck...) It's perfect, putting the bunting up for the party, making the cake, having isn't it? What could be a much-needed bath (after making a bit more fun way of going to school? There is a mess with problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the cake), choosing which hat city: he's going always having to wear be careful about where he puts his feet and then having great fun with his friends – there are seven dogs, two mice because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and a cattraffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646016</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean Taylor and Chris Garbutt 1776574028|title=It's a Groovy World, Alfredo! Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott

|summary= Cool boogie-style. I love a good board book! Speedy Heebie-Jeebies. Silky-smooth moving and grooving. These are ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the three dances child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that Marty tries to teach his friend, Alfredo. But Alfredo you can't dance'play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Every time he tries We have the same thing happens – he goes Jump, Jump, Jump elephant who dons a tutu - and looks like becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck ) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a trampoline''sm...... Alfredo is worried that everyone will laugh at him. But he doesn't need to worry because he' OK, let's about to introduce his own form of groovy dancing – the Jump-Jump-Jumping Jivenot go there Some people are eating! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406324132</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Silvia Borando, Elisabetta Pica and Lorenzo Clerici 1838226834|title=The White BookCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=54

|summary= A little boy stands in front It was one of a white wall, paint brush in handthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. He looks concerned where he should start. We turn They're there to undo all the page and he smiles because he now has a column of pink paint down good that parents do, so the side of the pagetrips out were always so much fun. We turn A young boy was going to the page and carnival with his smile widens as his paint expands across the page to reveal the white outline of a bird. There are six birds on the next page and he is smiling broadly. ButGrandad, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, when we turn the page againjust remember, his smile has gone – the birds have left the pink wall and are flying off across the page. And so the story continues with a new colour and a new animal on the next page don't let go of this unique wordless picture bookmy hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406363170</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title= Baby TouchOtter's Coat: Busy BabyThe Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Children grow up fast enough without encouraging your baby to drive When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a carstrong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, but this has not stopped ‘‘Busy Baby’’ as he is behind the wheel of a roadster that has a lovely feel ability to use itwell. He liked to trick other animals. Try and keep up with Baby as He was also jealous which was how he takes you on a trip across the rolling hills came to be in a land full of animals of all texturesrace with Turtle. Baby Racers You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and lions? see. Things are not always as they seem. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, thankfully this is all part of a ‘‘Baby Touch’’ range of booksI'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723299072</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Britta TeckentrupRob Keeley|title=Take a SquareCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4

|summary=Sometimes it Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is hard keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to determine eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who is enjoying reading a sharing book the most; the adult or the childtells her that carrots grow on trees. A book can look greatInfuriated, or have an interesting art style that draws Lily checks with the mature reader inteacher, but does the baby care? Unless it is colourful with plenty going who explains that fruits grow ontrees and vegetables, toddlers are not really bothered that their mum or dad are getting a fun nostalgia blast from like carrots, grow in the bookground. If you are going Jordan says, "I did try to design a book for youngsterstell her, first make sure that it appeals to them Miss!" and then think about the parent latereveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191027707X</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David McKeeB09FFJF8YS|title= ElmerYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|rating= 5|genreauthor= For Sharing|summary= Everyone knows the story of Elmer , the elephant who is ‘’not’’ elephant colour, Justine Avery and this board book allows him to be introduced to an even younger audience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442689</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kim Hyun|title=Best FriendsKate Zhoidik

|summary=Teaching your young child new words is one of ''For the wonders of parenthoodbig, but once you have grown tired of teaching them mildly rude wordsgrownup girls out there, what is next? Thankfully, like with most thing the potty masters in modern livingtraining, there "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a book to help you that is full cry (the big-girl kind!) of popular toilet triumph and useful phrases to use in everyday situationspersevering panty pride. I mean who else is going to teach you to say Pardon Me, if you have an accident?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277309</amazonuk>''}}{{newreview|author=Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman|title=Bear Counts|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=If a bear approaches you in the woods and asks you for help counting, the only numbers you will need to be aware of are the steps you take pegging And so it in the opposite direction. Thankfully, the bear of this story is ! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a friendly creature little girl's final goodbye to nappies and he hangs out mostly with his woodland pals pull-ups and not terrified humans. Can he help us count graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to five before the terror grips us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471125459</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joan Aiken and Quentin Blake|title=Arabel’s Raven|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=It’s been manyher dog, her cat, many years since I first met Arabel her stuffed rabbit and her pet ravenbaby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, Mortimer, whilst watching Jackanory on children’s televisionwhile they cannot. Bernard Cribbins used to read Neither can the storiesflowers, and they became firm favourites of mine. Here I am returning to nor the first book in fish, nor the series, well, just birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a handful of years later, big girl now and the story has lost none of its charm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806910</amazonuk>she wants everyone to know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim Kane Justine Avery and Sara ActonNaday Meldova|title=Unexpected CrocodileEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=It’s always a worry when a large animal comes to teaToots, trumps, farts. Here we Whatever your word for them, find our characters inviting in us a crocodile, who just happens child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to have dropped by to join Peggy talk about and her family as they entertain joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the Dawson’s for a barbecuewrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Why has Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the crocodile come? And more importantlyfamiliar humour attached, will he ever leave?explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760111732</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Tapper and Steve WilsonB09BG8V3Q6|title=Horace and Hattiepillar Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (HedgehugsEverybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|summary=Horace and Hattie are best friends''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. They like This series of fun picture books aims to do everything that they can together, from playing hide and seek, to looking for take the first star pain out of the nightpotty training children and replace it with some fun. One day when they’re out togetherIt's a worthy aim, they find something small and round and smooth handing on the bottom of a leafas any frustrated parent will tell you. Whatever could it be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184886163X</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Timothy Knapman When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Patrick BensonMended|titleauthor=SoonPeter Cotton

|summary=Raju Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a baby elephant snake and even those of us who set out on have a jungle adventure with his motherphobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He was excited and just arrived as a present in a little bit frightened: you box with holes so that he could see that by breathe and immediately became part of the family, to the way extent that he held on to her tail very tightlythey would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. On their way they met crocodiles, who snapped at And that was where the pair until mother stamped her feet to frighten them away, hissing snakes and ferocious, frightening tigersproblem started. Mother frightened them off tooFred didn't have any road sense. At each encounter Raju asks: ''When can we go home again?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406351350</amazonuk>Or brakes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Georgie BirkettJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|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>}}{{newreview|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 parlourEverybody Pees! 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(Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5

|summary=Crunch is a guinea pig who likes his comfy bedCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, but most of all he likes eating - which is probably why he's called Crunch. He's gorgeously round and well-fed but he couldnshouldn't help but think that there was something missing from his life. One day he was approached by Cheddar, the mouse, who chatted it be? We all have to him learn about the abundance of food which was available our bodily functions just as we have to Crunchlearn about everything else when we are small. Cheddar couldnWhy shouldn't believe it and thought that Crunch probably had enough food to sharepotty training be as much fun as, say, but Crunch was having none of this. His food was HIS food learning about why the sun and he wasn't sharing it with ''anyone'', even when Cheddar offered him a big friendly hug the moon take turns in return.the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846437326</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|author=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Busy Alice in WonderlandNo, No, No!|rating=4.5

|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''Busy Alice in WonderlandNo, No, No!'' is a board book, with paper (or should it be 'board'?) engineeringbased around the simplest text imaginable. It would seem to too crass to describe what can be done with the book as  'pull the tab'. A pulled tab moves the hedgehog forwardNo, no, paints the blooms red and puts stripes onto the cat's teeth (and all that is on the coverno!) A finger in a ring moving through a curve drops Alice down the rabbit holeOkay, okay. The potion which Alice drinks quickly reduces her size and a turning wheel pours tea out of the potYes, you may. It'' That's it! But, like all brilliantly done and despite trying my the best I couldn't find picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a single sharp edge or one of veritable tardis - so much bigger on the pieces of engineering that I thought would soon need repair. It's a book which you could leave with a child rather than feeling inside that it needed to be kept appears on 'Mummy's shelf'the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447277694</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Geyer194812467X|title=Go to SleepThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Monty!Justine Avery and Ema Tepic

|summary=For some children, it does not take them long Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to decide that they want go for a petwalk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. This means that As they walk to the next few months and years consist top of them slowly breaking down their parents’ resistance until finally the hill, they see a big barn with a pet enters the homesign outside. For some lucky adults It's a farm shop! But this may take the form of is a goldfish or farm shop with a hamsterdifference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, but for many it will be a dogand even some mice. You may feel like you have only just managed to get your own child potty trainedExcited, but now you have to start all over again with a puppyKirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441100</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Monks0995647895|title=Mungo Monkey goes on a TrainSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=I have spent quite Sadie's mother always said that she was a lot of time dreamer, her mind never on public transport what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and, believe you me, I have seen a few odd things she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in my timethe gloom, but I have yet ''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to see a family of monkeys catch sail the trainoceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. However, Mungo is no ordinary monkey as he lives in One day she fell asleep under a curious world glass case (it's the one where you can lift flaps Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and see what is going onmissed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. What can be behind When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the next one? Perhaps midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a photo world of me looking puzzled as I see a monkey on the train!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405269103</amazonuk>dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Pat Hutchins1782227741|title= Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick?Little Gold Ted|rating= 4|genreauthor= 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, she's back, and this time she has a chick. Uh-oh as my toddler would say…let's have a look at 'Where, Oh WhereVanessa Wiercioch, is Rosie's Chick?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918281</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Bond Poppy Satha and R W Alley|title=Paddington Goes for GoldSasha Satha

|summary=Rather like One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a young child, Paddington deep puddle and the water is a wide-eyed innocent who leaves devastation wherever he goes, yet somehow always manages swirling. Poor Ted starts to land on his feet. I am very fond of literary bears, spin around and around and he is one sucked down a drain on the side of my favouritesthe street. Finding himself I love his enthusiasm, down in everything he doesthe sewer, and that he always has a snack Ted starts to handpanic. In this particular adventure''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, Paddington manages to entice who plucks him out of the entire Brown familydirty water using his cane, and Mrs Bird, to come to which might look just a local sports daybit like an old cricket bat. There’s everything from the shotput to Reg is a three-legged race kind soul and he dries Ted off and even warms him up with a knitting racenice bowl of broth. You can probably imagine the trouble he gets into…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007427735</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Blake and John YeomanB08R7LXQ9S|title=The Fabulous Foskett Family CircusRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=34

|summary=There are names to conjure with and Quentin Blake Remy is certainly one of thosefeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, His tell-tale illustrations together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been part of many a child’s upbringingslaughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not at least for his work in stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the superb Roald Dahl booksother kids are around. HoweverSo, when Remy reacts, can nostalgia it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and reverence cloud a person’s mind? Are the drawings of Blake strong enough teachers don't believe him when he tries to cope on their own when put alongside words that are not at a Dahl level?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344035X</amazonuk>explain what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jack Tickle1471191303|title=Silly Dizzy DinosaurThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating= 4.5

|summary=Reading to children does not have to be This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a passive experiencebig difference. Some Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the best books have you interacting with window and crept up the characters found between corner of the pagesbedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Dizzy Dinosaur is not Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the most sensible far side of chaps at the best city. This part of timethe city was cold, but his errors are only compounded when the reader gets involvedsad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible. Can we help this clumsy Camarasaurus from falling over too much? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848690452</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mick InkpenNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Kipper’s Little FriendsOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5

|summary=Mick Inkpen has Many children have an enormous amount of talent, obsession and he manages to somehow make the simplest of stories endearing and interesting. HereSandy Lane, on his 25th anniversarywho lives in Beartown, Kipper is back obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a new story in which he’s thinking about baby animalsteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. He finds Every night, she looks out what various different animal babies are called, of her bedroom window and then he begins says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to wonder what he was when he was Bee Bear, a babycolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444918192</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]