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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucie FelixAdam Stower|title=Give Murray and TakeBun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Some of the best children's books are the simplest. Do away with pages too full of imagery; begone novelty characters and repeat references Murray is supposed to underpants. Some books don't need this; they are so clean, crisp and simple that they border on being art. A book that can be fun for a childhumble, educate them tidy and look amazing friendly cat, one who is a rare thingable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, but does happen once in a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646040</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate Predergast|title=Dog on a Train: The Special Delivery|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=It's one of those mornings for Boy: late out of bed he grabs at whatever takes his hat and hurtles out fancy next of the house to catch his train - only he drops his hat as two. But he goes through the door and Dog chases after him with the hat in his mouth. They head to the tube station (Dog doesn't forget to wait at the zebra crossing) with boy just twenty or so yards in front, but Dog is losing ground as he has to find someone to carry him on the escalator. He misses Boys a bad magician's train and has to wait for the next onecat, but remembers his manners well enough to stand up so that an old lady can have his seat. Will he catch up with boy when he reaches London Kings Cross?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646083</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mark Griffiths and Maxine Lee-Mackie|title=The Burp that Saved the World|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Have you heard of the world-famous burping twins? They could stun favourite bun has been turned into a rhinohyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, fell a tree and even shatter glass with their burps! They took their fearsome burps with them everywhere the catflap they went, burping in libraries and scaring waiters with their outbursts. As you both use can imaginechuck them out, they were not very popular in their town into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and found that, eventually, the townsfolk asked them to leavewhiffs. Poor Ben and Matt! But thenThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, the world where a troll hunter is faced with something expected – well, one much worse bigger than a couple of burping boys! However will everyone escape from the invasion of the toy-stealing aliens?!Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124797</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood1732898766|title=Walter's Wonderful WebThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=A staple When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of any early sharing library Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is a book about shapeschasing them. Love them or hate He's right behind them, you are going to be reading 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 lot ladder of books that talk about circlesmoss and vines was lowered for them, triangles and squaresthey escaped. Making shapes appealing They climbed up to a young toddler or baby is one thing, but what about the poor adult? Are there not any books out there that have a bit of a story as well as talk about shapes? Usually I would not condone spiders, but Tree Wee homes high up in the case of a spider called Waltertangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, I may just be able to stomach them as he combines shapes with a fun storyNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277104</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola ColtonB0CC9W7GLR|title=A Dublin Fairytale|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=I like a good fairytale, especially when a writer approaches it in a different way. This one is all about a little girl called Fiona who lives in Dublin with her mum. She has a nice red hooded raincoat, if you’re looking for a clue as to which fairytale this might be! Rather than wandering through a deep dark wood to get to Grandma’s house, she walks On the streets of Dublin, past various landmarks, to get to the magical witches’ market and buy all the things she needs to take to Grandma’s house. On her way she does, as you might imagine, meet some interesting challenges!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847177743</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeach: The Winter Visitor|author=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin|title=The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall AsleepChris Green and Jenny Fionda

|summary=Roger the Rabbit wanted Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to fall asleepbe at home, bored but somehow he couldn'twarm, no matter how hard he triedor frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. It wasn't that he didn't do much during On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the dayice. Kit was all for making a run for it, because he ''did'' but sometimes he was so tired Teal knew that he could fall asleep on the swingsbear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger He obviously needed to see Uncle Yawn, who had be taken home on the bus and given a notice outside his house saying ''I can make anyone fall asleep'' good meal and once Roger went home (it was actually quite difficult for him to get there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight somewhere to bed and fell asleepsleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241255163</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Richard Watson1913839656|title=Mad in the BackLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee

|summary=Mum is setting off on a long car journey Todd was excited about spending the weekend with two kids in his grandmother, not least because she made the back - did I hear you groan? best beetle juice. Mum groaned too because she ''knew'' what was going He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to happenshow his grandmother. She told the kids before she set off that they had promised to take him to behave because she couldn't drive properly if the kids were going ''mad in Friday Night Club at the back''. The kids told her not local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to worry - and off they went. Then the kids started ''The Moaning''make new friends. Every parent will know exactly what this means: requests for drinkAt home, food, windows open..his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Then the squabbling starts: accusations Grandma thought that ''HE'' has got my book, ears are bitten by ''HER''. Mum tries diversionary tactics: ''look out of the window - there's a lamp-post''. (Yes MUm - we know desperation when we hear itmight be because he looked different.) And it gets worse. And worse. Then Mum snaps.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125090</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe Greaves and Leslie Sadlier1529504775|title=HareThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Some animals feature large in mythology Elsie and the hare is one of these. The hare we're going her little brother David loved to meet is O'Hare - well, we hope we're going go to meet him: hares are well known for being elusive the park and this one is no exception! watch the red buses drive past. We'll be following him through Elsie would race the buses along the churchyard on a moonlit night - see him leaping in front side of the moon park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and through a summer meadow, where we only catch sight of his hind legs and his earseven just standing up was very difficult. Look on the riverbank - is that him One day Elsie spotted a bus in the water? Then he's in amongst the cabbages toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the farmer is ''not'' going coins from her money box to be pleased about thatpay for it as cash was tight at home. Is he in Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the foxglove patch? We can see the foxbus for support, but and walk behind it looks as though O'Hare has gone. The best sighting we have of him is on Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the corn fieldRepair Shop, where he's leaping through hoping that the stubbleexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646032</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Cotton and Stephen Walton1529504767|title=Counting LionsThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary=There are counting books, good counting books Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and ones where the pictures blow you away, whether you are an adult or a childnervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn''Counting Lions'' falls into the last category. Just t have a look at that lion on worried though as she went to the cover: that's not a black home of Mr and white photograph - thatMrs Russell, who couldn's a drawing and you're going t have been kinder to see another nine of the same glorious qualityher. In She even had her foreword own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to the book, Virginia McKenna says that enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with pictures like these words almost seem unnecessary as we can see all that we need of the unique form baking and beauty of each creaturewhen it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. But there are words tooThe best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Garry Parsons, Patricia Hegarty and Annette Rusling1916459943|title=Ten Spooky SkeletonsSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=With All HallowsMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can' Eve approaching isnt - or won't it about time that you thought about some scary books for kids? - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. Nothing quite says It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing 'I Love You'hush, more than making your toddler burst into a flood of tearshush''. Perhaps you should get them Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a fun book about something a little worrisome – a set of smiley skeletons for instance, rather than completely terrifying them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848574517</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amanda McCardie sandy beach and Salvatore Rubbino|title=A Book of Feelings|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Happy, shy, sad, jealous, angry, loved, grumpy…not you have the names of little dwarvessound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, but just some of the powerful feelings and emotions that affect everyone from time to timela lay... Sam and Kate live with their mum and dad and '' And for a dog with a name that I just adore: Fuzzy Beanmoment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. They have Then a typical family life with all the ups seagull '''shouts''' and downs and warmth and fun and the occasional chaos that comes with the territorywe know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406355992</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrow140639131X|title=Have You Seen Elephant?A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Elephant wants to play hide and seek and Boy agrees that he Elephant should hide first. Elephant is completely fair and warns Boy that hePhilippa Pheasant was 's 'tired'VERY'' goodof nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. Boy's fair too - he says that he'll try his best - and off Elephant goes She wrote to hide. Dog is looking slightly bored - actually hethe mayor about the problem but didn's having t even get a good scratch - as Boy counts to ten and shouts ''Coming! Ready or Not!'' in the tradition of all hide and seek games and Boy and Dog go in search of Elephantreply. Now Elephant Philippa wasn't joking a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when he said that he there was good, because he doesn't so much ''hide'' as ''disguise'' himself within a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the roomsschool crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Boy doesn't spot him, Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but watch Dog! the benefits were obvious. He spots Elephant every time, whether he's an armchair, a duvet, television stand, standard lamp or All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a shedsafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570081</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Fhiona Galloway1776574338|title=BOOLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5

|summary=Creating a fun book for a young toddler or older baby appears easyEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, but is actually tricky picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to pull off wellgo downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. Just shoving It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a few animals or shapes into a cardboard BOO!k is not more fun way of going to capture school? There is a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the imagination; there needs city: he's always having to be colour, fun careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a certain je ne sais quoi tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to stand out from the many other baby booksks on the marketand traffic regularly gets snarled up. Setting a book around Halloween and all things spooky may not seem to fill these criteria, but a little fear The school decides that he can sometimes make a small child surprisingly happy't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691254</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul 1776574028|title=Winnie's Haunted House Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5

|summary= Strange things are happening in Winnie 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 have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the Witchelephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a 's house – 'balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a broken vase, torn curtains, bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a chandelier that suddenly crashes to the ground''fluffalo''. There The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is no obvious explanation so Winnie decides her house must be haunted and reaches her spell book to solve the problema ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm....... As usual the spell only makes matters worse'' OK, at first anyway. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192744062</amazonuk>let's not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd1838226834|title=Goodnight MoonCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall

|summary=Bunny It was cosily tucked up in bedone of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. ItThey's a big roomre there to undo all the good that parents do, painted green (''very'' green) and with lots of things scattered aroundso the trips out were always so much fun. Before Bunny goes to sleep he's A young boy was going to look at them all and then say goodnight to each of them. There are the pictures on the walls (from nursery rhymes and fairy tales), a couple of kittens, a pair of mittens, a doll's house and a young mousecarnival with his Grandad, a comb and a brush and a bowl of mush as well as a quiet old lady who was whispering told him: ''hushIt'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand. You get the idea? We're moving through the objects one by one in gentle rhyme before we start to say goodnight to them all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230764843</amazonuk>'

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Nick Denchfield Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Ant ParkerHare|titleauthor=Charlie Chick Goes to SchoolCordellya Smith|rating=34

|summary=Charlie Chick is always late 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 strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and today is his first day at school'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He's having trouble getting out of bed and then getting liked to breakfast (trailing his toy crocodile, who - if anything - looks more awake than Charlie)trick other animals. The snap, crackle and pop of his favourite cereal frightens him into life - and then He was also jealous which was how he has came to grab his bag and scarf and rush off to school, because the bellbe in a race with Turtle. You might think that's gone not a fair contest but wait and everyone else is already theresee. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144727718X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gemma MerinoRob Keeley|title= The Cow Who Climbed a TreeCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 54|genre= For Sharing|summary=Tina Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is a really curious cow who just wants keen to know everything there is explain how good they are for you and how nice to know abouteat. One day, wellpoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, everythingwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Her sisters think that's just sillyInfuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, and when Tina tells them who explains that she climbed a tree fruits grow on trees and found a dragon they decide vegetables, like carrots, grow in the situation has gotten out of handground. But what will they find when they looking for Jordan says, "I did try to tell her in the woods? You'll just have to read the book to find out, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447214889</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Colin Boyd and Tony RossB09FFJF8YS|title= The Bath MonsterYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summaryauthor=A great book for parents and kids alike, with an excellent premise Justine Avery and brilliantly carried out, I can see this being a popular choice for bedtime reading. Even if your children might not be too fond of the bath for a while afterwards...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442891</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Seb Braun|title=The Tiger Prowls: a pop-up book of wild animalsKate Zhoidik|rating=43.5

|summary=It's a hardback book with a striking cover and when you open it'For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, don"You Can't expect endpapers or gentle introductions: as you lift the cover, Wear Panties!" is a cry (the tiger big-girl kind!) of the title appears:toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''

 And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl''The tiger prowlss final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, stalking through the jungle.her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''<br>she''Paw after heavy paw crunches on can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the forest floorfish, nor the birds.Boy's certainly can't. She'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122158</amazonuk>s a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rob Biddulph Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=GrrrrrEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties! )|rating=54

|summary= Fred has won the contest Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for best bear in the wood for three years in them, find us a rowchild that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. He's the best at everything from catching fish, doing the hula-hoop Funny to talk about and scaring humansjoke about, to that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the all-important growling competitionwrong time. But everything changes In class, say, when another bear arrives everyone will hear it and decides to enter the contesteveryone will laugh. At you. FredJustine Avery's no longer the best bear latest entry in town her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting andgently and calmly, to make matters worsewith the familiar humour attached, he's lost his 'Grrrrr'explains that tooting is perfectly normal. FredEverybody does it: 's going to need help to find his 'GrrrrEverybody Toots' in time for the start of the competition. But will the other animals want to help him look given he's been too busy training to make friends?!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007594127</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane ChapmanB09BG8V3Q6|title=No More CuddlesWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!(Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|summary=Ah, what a problem it can be, to be just so snuggly that people can't stop cuddling you'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! This '' is poor Barrythe latest release in the ''s problemEverybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. A solitary monster by nature, he does like cuddles This series of course, but too much fun picture books aims to take the pain out of anything can become trying, potty training children and so when he is leaped on by all the other little forest animals every single morningreplace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, he wonders if perhaps there is some way to transfer their cuddles to someone else?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691475</amazonuk>as any frustrated parent will tell you. .

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma CarlisleB07GZ81J7C|title=Lion PracticeWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton

|summary=Laura loves practising at being different kinds 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 animalsmyself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. As well as being Fred is a kangaroo snake and an elephant, she's an expert at being even those of us who have a crocodile (much phobia about snakes are going to the other children's dismay warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the swimming pool!) But one day she decides that it's time for lion practicefamily, and this is to the day extent that they would take Fred out with them when her parents think her imagination has gone just they went out for a little too far…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144725743X</amazonuk>walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kristina StephensonJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Molly Maybe's Monsters: The Dappity DooferEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5

|summary=Molly Maybe lives in Smallsbury, a Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn''snoringlyt, boringlyas any parent will tell you. But really, ordinary place'why shouldn' - well, t it is until you discover the town's best kept secret. But before be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we talk have to learn about that, let me tell you about Mollyeverything else when we are small. Why shouldn's treehouset potty training be as much fun as, where she and her dogsay, Waggy Burns, can look out over her neighbours' gardens. Mr Bottomly Brown is doing some digging (it's going to be a pond) learning about why the sun and he's discovered something rather peculiar: it looks like a small statue. Three days later the statue is in place moon take turns in the middle of the pond but that's not what's making Mr Brown angry - there are piles of soil all over his perfect lawn. He's convinced that it's moles, but Molly has spotted a claw and she knows better.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471121070</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily GravettJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Bear and Hare: Where's Bear?No, No, No!|rating=54

|summary=Bear and Hare They say the best picture books are playing hide and seekthe simplest ones. Hare covers his eyesAnd nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, turns to face the wall, counts slowly to ten and then goes looking for Beara Bookbag favourite. Unfortunately he 's tried to hide ''behind'' and ''underNo, No, No!'' is based around the standard lamp and he's not ''exactly'' invisiblesimplest text imaginable. Well, let 's be honest - he looks as though he's wearing a very strange hat. StillNo, we can always have another gono, can't we? This timeno! Okay, after the ritual counting, Bear is behind a (very small) pile of booksokay. OKYes, one more time? This time it's the fish tankyou may. I'd like to be able to say that he was ''behind' That' s it! But, like all the tankbest picture books, but he's visible over, under and through this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the tank. Even inside that it appears on the fish look rather surprisedoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273958</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Corderoy and Tim Warnes194812467X|title=More!The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic

|summary=Archie Kirelle and her best friend Sam the rhino has cat decide to go for a new favourite word - more! Whatever it walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is that Archie likesperfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, he likes it they see a lotbig barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! He just wants more of everything; more storiesBut this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, more bubbles in the bathgoats and chickens, more glitterand even some mice.Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping..but what happens when one day, Archie's idea of 'more' becomes a little too much to handle What will they buy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691343</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Ryan0995647895|title= Captain PugwashSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5

|summary=Captain Pugwash was first published in 1957. It Sadie's mother always said that she was a comic stripdreamer, a TV animation and her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the story series developed into a further twenty four titles. Pugwash is conceited, stupid, podgy, unshaven River Thames at Greenwich and lovableshe loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. His crew are  ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''the laziest afloat<br>'', his enemy, Cut-Throat Jake, is satisfyingly villainous and cabin-boy Tom can always be relied on to save When all the day. Many families will remember these as childhood favourites whether houses cowered in print or on the screen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807283gloom,''</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview|author= David Litchfield|title= The Bear and ''To the PianoMaritime Museum''. |rating= 5 |genre= For Sharing|summary= One day a small bear cub finds something strange in the middle of the woodsHer imagination was fired. Not knowing what it is he tentatively touches it with his paw. It makes an awful sound! However the little bear continues She'd love to visit sail the object over months oceans on an ancient sailing ship and years and gradually the sounds become beautiful and the bear feels happywent back regularly. The other bears love listening to One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the wonderful music that he makes and then one day a father where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and daughter visit missed the forest closing bell and tell the bear he should take his musical talent to the big cityattendant's warning shout. So When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the bear embarks on a journey to seek his fame and fortune. Although the city is all the bear midst of an adventure that she could possibly never have hoped forimagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, something deep inside him is tugging him back homemermaids and treasure. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807178</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matty Long1782227741|title=Super Happy Magic ForestLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha

|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It''The Lord of s quite a deep puddle and the Rings'' has an impressive legacy, both as water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a trilogy drain on the side of books and filmsthe street. Finding himself Its impact on the fantasy genre as a whole is almost immeasurable – down in many ways the genre exists because of these bookssewer, Ted starts to panic. Frodo ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and co. also lives on within alerts the attention of Reg the people sewer rat, who love and cherish plucks him out of the books and the fantasy genre as a wholedirty water using his cane, but how do you spark this enthusiasm in your kids? Matty Long may which might look just have come a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a cunning plannice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192742957</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joan Aiken and Quentin BlakeB08R7LXQ9S|title=Mortimer Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and the Sword ExcaliburCaroline Siegal|rating=4.5

|summary=If you think about all the many unsuitable items that Mortimer the raven has eaten, from staircases to bowler hats, itRemy is feeling miserable. He's surprising that helet himself down ''again''s still in as good a shape as he is. The school bully Jayden, This timetogether with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, Mortimer finds himself left alone with Mrs Jones' sewing machine. I'm still not sure why Mrs Jones ever lets calling him out of her sight, since names because he is short and has an unerring capacity for trouble, yet here we find small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push himjust that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, gobbling down the pink material that is intended for Arabel's new dresswhen Remy reacts, swiftly followed by it looks as though he was the needle! When Mortimer eventually discovers the foot pedal that makes the sewing machine go instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and Arabel are turfed out of the house and allowed teachers don't believe him when he tries to go across the road to the park where a crowd has gathered around an interesting find in a large hole…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806929</amazonuk>explain what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joan Aiken and Quentin Blake1471191303|title=The Spiral StairInvisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=I'm rather fond This is the story of Arabel and MortimerIsobel, a little girl who made a big difference. I like the outlandish situations that they find themselves Isobel lived with her parents ina house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the way Joan Aiken wrote corner of the stories without speaking down bedpost.'' The family didn't go to her readers in any way, inserting humour for the grown ups reading them toocinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Here our terrible twosome have been sent Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to Uncle Urk at the zoo whilst Mr Jones is in hospitalfar side of the city. Aunt EffieThis part of the city was cold, however, has little patience for a noisy ravensad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible. Will Mortimer land them both in trouble? Or will they somehow manage to save the zoo from a scurrilous animal-stealing plot?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806945</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict BlathwaytNick Jones and Si Clark|title=The Little House by the SeaOne Night in Beartown

|summary=By the seaMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, on the Isle of Mull, there was a ruined cottage, but it wasn't entirely uninhabited. The roof had fallen in and the windows were empty but that didn't stop the mice finding snug and dry homes in the walls. Rabbits enjoyed the weeds in the garden and the doorway to the cottage was used as a shelter by the sheep when it rained. Sparrows nested under the roof and a stray cat slept in the pile of leaves in the fireplace. Then one day Finn came along. He was a fisherman and he began to repair the house. He worked too - catching fish and taking tourists to see the seals and Fingal's cave. But what about the birds and animals who had lived lives in the cottage before Finn came along?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780273142</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Catherine Storr|title= Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Polly opens the door one day to find a large black wolf standing on the doorstep. With no preamble whatsoever, not even a cursory helloBeartown, the wolf informs Polly that he intends to eat her up. Incredibly Polly invites the wolf into her home and even into the kitchen! What can she be thinking of? Well, young Polly is clever, resourceful, independent and charming. The wolf is a wolf of very little brain. Therefore it is not long before she is able to outwit the wolf and send him packing. This first story is very short but sets the scene for the ongoing battle of wits between Polly and the wolf that will continue for the remaining twelve short stories in this charming and entertaining book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141360232</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David McPhail|title=NO!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=A boy - we never learn his name - leaves home obsessed with a letter to postbears. If we look carefully we get a hint She collects books about who the letter bears. Her favourite toy is going toBerisford, but getting to the post box is not going to be easy, because the boy lives in a war zoneteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. There are planes dropping bombsEvery night, tanks taking she looks out buildings, soldiers carrying bayonets kicking down doors of her bedroom window and a policeman with truncheon aloft and vicious dog at his side. The boy walks through it all as though completely unmoved, but when he reaches the postbox there's a bully lounging there and the first thing that he does is says goodnight to knock the boy's hat offbear statue outside. Our hero has had enough - and we know just what he Every morning she says...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807135</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David McKee|title= Melric and the Dragon|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= There's a hoard of dragons loose in the kingdom! Crikey! Luckily the King has a whole army of soldiers with nothing else on their plate (except quite a few jam sandwiches) so he has plenty of troops hello to send on Bee Bear, a search and destroy mission.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441623</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mick Inkpen|title= Kipper's Beach Ball|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= It's play time colourful painted bear that lives at the beach for Kipper and Tiger in this magical book about living in the moment because it might be over before you know ither school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444924028</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} {{newreview|author= Jenna Harrington and Finn Simpson|title= Katie McGinty Wants a Pet|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Katie McGinty wants a pet. Really, really, REALLY wants a pet. Daddy says no, not yet, not until she's bigger. So she waits. And she waits. And then the time comes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691408</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Julian Clary and David Roberts|title= The Bolds|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The Bolds, Mr and Mrs and their two small children, live in an ordinary semi-detached house in suburban Teddington. They have jobs; Mrs Bold designs and sells flamboyant hats and Mr Bold writes jokes for Christmas crackers. But they are most definitely not an ordinary family. Oh no! They are in fact hyenas. So far they have managed to successfully pretend Move on to be human beings. Although very hairy and prone to laughing a lot they have kept the truth (and their tails!) a secret from everyone. But their grumpy next door neighbour, Mr McNumpty, is growing suspicious and then a trip to the local safari park has repercussions. Will the Bolds' carefully long kept secret be revealed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443057</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]