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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anita Pouroulis and Agata KrawczykAdam Stower|title= Nina The Pretty BallerinaMurray and Bun|rating= 34.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary= Jules Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and dogs Nina sleep and George like to have fun together, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But there are some things dogs don’t get to dohe'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, like play in not into the dressing up boxregular back garden, one but into a world of Jules’ favourite activities. That’s all about to change thoughfrightening adventure and whiffs. But is there This time round it drops them into a reason you rarely see Viking land, where a dog in a tutu? We’re about troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to find out.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909428590</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title= Steve Metzger The Adventures of Birpus and Alison EdgsonBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor= Waiting for SantaWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating= 54|genre= For Sharing|summary= We all know Santa goes to 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 homes Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of children who have been good all yearmoss and vines was lowered for them, but have you ever wondered about our furry friends? Can he detour they escaped. They climbed up to foreststhe Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, parks and woodland? Do bears Nester Nook and mice get treats too?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691424</amazonuk>Granny Cranny.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie BlakeB0CC9W7GLR|title=I Want Spaghetti!On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda

|summary=Simon likes spaghettiKit 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 the ice was a polar bear. In factAs the ice bumped onto the sand, he likes it so much that that's the only thing he wants to eatbear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Simon is also blessed with having no concerns about stating his demandsKit was all for making a run for it, very clearly, nor any qualms about criticising any other food but Teal knew that might be placed in front of the bear was hungry and gave himone apple and then another. He is, as obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you can tell, a typical toddler!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271916</amazonuk>do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Helen Walsh and Sophia Touliatou1913839656|title=Aerodynamics of biscuits Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary= Oliver knows he shouldn't be skulkingTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, sneaking not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and creeping around in then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the middle of Friday Night Club at the night. But even good little boys sometimes do things they shouldn't when they're hungry. And it's just local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as well he doeswanted to make new friends. Without Oliver At home, the pirate mice wouldn't his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be able to use the biscuits they've stolen to build an aerodynamic rocket to take them to the moon. And without Oliver they would still Grandma thought that it might be stranded on the cheesy moon unable to get homebecause he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Murphy, Freddie Hutchins, Neil Dunnicliffe and Stella Gurney1529504775|title=The Big, Big Bing Book!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=We've all seen books described as big. It usually means that the book is a bit bigger than usual, or thicker, or it's a bind up of some previously-published books. That's not the case with ''Toy Bus (The Big, Big Bing Book!'' It could well be bigger than your toddler at nearly two feet high and over fifteen inches wide and weighing in at well over a kilo. You need ''space'' to open it. This is not the book you take along on a trip just chance a little distraction is needed from the Bingster. It might be a book which is pored over - it's almost certainly going to be a book which is ''crawled'' over as that's likely to be the only way that your toddler is going to be able to give the content the attention which they will feel that it so richly deserves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008139598</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRepair Shop Stories)|author=Jane Chapman|title=Is it Christmas Yet?Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Ted is excitedElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Well, letElsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn's be honest t - he's out of control, dashing around the house d been born with cerebral palsy and yelling '''''Faster, Rudolph, Faster'''''even just standing up was very difficult. Poor Rudolph is One day Elsie spotted a bus in Ted's truck the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for the moment, but he's looking it as worried as all the other toyscash was tight at home. Christmas is comingGradually, but David learned to stand up, use the trouble is that bus for support, and walk behind it's not coming fast enough. And then Many decades later, Elsie brought the questions start. Poor Big Bear is bombarded with ''Is it Christmas yet?'' every few minutes. Big Bear's more patient than I could be bus, now damaged and keeps saying ''soon'' in a soothing voice which eventually turns rusted, to a growl. Explaining what needs to be done before Christmas arrives doesn't helpthe Repair Shop, as Ted offers to help. And we all know how much help ''hoping that the experts there could make it so that'' sort of help is..her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691513</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Divya Srinivasan1529504767|title=Little Owl's Colors|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When you pick up a children's book, sometimes things feels a little off. Books for kids can be almost too sickly sweet; the characters have massive eyes and enjoy themselves too much. Who has that much fun in one day? What is wrong with Divya Srinivasan's ''Little Owl's Colors''? Perhaps it is the lack of attention to detail when printing a book for the UK market? Colour me perplexed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0451474562</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Thierry Robberecht Amy Sparkes and Gregoire Mabire|title=The Wolf Who Fell Out of a BookKatie Hickey|rating=45

|summary=What would happen if a character Susan was very young when she was evacuated from a story fell out of the book London in 1939 and into the real world? nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. IShe needn'm sure this is an issue that many a Jane Austen fan has pondered whilst reading t have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'Pride d help Mrs Russell with the baking and Prejudice'', giving their copy an extra little jiggle when it came to try Christmas Eve Susan and set Mr Darcy free! Here, however, it is Russell put the scary wolf who falls out, but he discovers that decorations on the world he falls into is a lot more scary than the one he's left behind in Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the book!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857144635</amazonuk>following morning.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Oswald and Zoe Waring1916459943|title=Cat and DogSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=Cat always sleeps in the dayMuch as mothers love their babies, and Dog always sleeps at night, but in the evening, when theythere're both awake, s something they always meet for all dread - a scrap! squeakily baby. One day, however, they have a really big argument, bigger than theyHe've ever had before. Will they ever be able to be frenemies again?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784452866</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chris Judge|title=The Snow Beast|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The Beast always loves it when s so tired but he wakes up and finds that therecan's snow on the ground. Every year t - on the first day when thereor won's snow t - the Beast helps the mountain villagers go to put sleep: instead, he just lies on a festival his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to celebratehelp. UnfortunatelyIt rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, therehush''s a problem. When Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the Beast goes to collect his tools they're all gonesound perfectly. He races down the mountain to the villageThe mermaids join in - ''la lou, but every tool has been stolen from there toola lay... '' Some of the villagers are very angry and they decide that And for a moment it must be the work of the abominable Snow Beast and the Beast promises seems to find the monster have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and get everyonewe know exactly what's tools backgoing to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441143</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophy Henn140639131X|title=Pom Pom the ChampionA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Pom Pom is on a winning streak. He first discovered it when mum suggested that they should play a game - and he won! He liked winning. After that he won at all sorts Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of things, including not being the tallest or the shortest, finishing elevenses first, nearly getting ready squished as she tried to go out, and packing his bag at cross the supermarketOld Oak Road. Fortunately there was no prize for packing everything ''safely'' because he certainly wouldnShe wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't have won ''that'' oneeven get a reply. He didnPhilippa wasn't go down too well with the librarian a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when he announced that he there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the winner benefits of the 'first lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to finish reading your book' competitionprovide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723299846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David McKee1776574338|title=Elmer Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and the FloodBei Lynn

|summary=ItEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don's been raining heavily t even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and the elephants are sheltering in a caveslide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a very large cave but Elmer had heard enough more fun way of going to school? bad jokes and complaints about the weather to last him There is a very long timeproblem, though. So - rain or no rain - Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's going for always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a walk. Other caves were full of animals too - and they all wanted Elmer tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to come inside and shelter, but Elmor just kept on walkingtraffic regularly gets snarled up. Predictably the ducks were loving it, but they were the only ones. Then Elmer came across two more elephants who were looking very serious. Young Elephant hadnThe school decides that he can't been seen since be the rain began and they were worried about himbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442042</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucie Felix1776574028|title=Give and Take|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|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 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 child, educate them and look amazing is a rare thing, but does happen once in a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646040</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBumblebee Grumblebee|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 his hat and hurtles out of the house to catch his train - only he drops his hat as 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 Boy's train and has to wait for the next one, 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 WorldDavid Elliott

|summary=Have you heard of the world-famous burping twins? I love a good board book! They could stun ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a rhinoniche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, fell a tree and even shatter glass with their burps! They took their fearsome burps see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with them everywhere they went, burping in libraries words and scaring waiters with their outburstsmake something quite different from each one. As you can imagine, they were not very popular in their town We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and found that, eventually, the townsfolk asked them to leavebecomes a ''balletphant''. Poor Ben The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and Matt! But then, the world dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is faced with something much worse than a couple of burping boys''crynoceros'' (think about it! ) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'' However will everyone escape from the invasion of the toy-stealing aliens?OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124797</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood1838226834|title=Walter's Wonderful WebCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall

|summary=A staple It was one of any early sharing library is a book about shapesthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. Love them or hate them, you are going They're there to be reading a lot of books undo all the good that talk about circlesparents do, triangles and squaresso the trips out were always so much fun. Making shapes appealing A young boy was going 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 spiderscarnival with his Grandad, but in the case of a spider called Walterwho told him: ''It'll be brilliant, I may just be able to stomach them as he combines shapes with a fun storyremember, don't let go of my hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277104</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola ColtonB09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Dublin FairytaleCherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith

|summary=I like a good fairytaleWhen the world was made, especially when the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a writer approaches it in protector. Water Spider received a different waystrong web that even fire could not burn. This one is all about a little girl called Fiona who lives in Dublin with her mumOwl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. She has a nice red hooded raincoatRabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, if you’re looking for a clue as not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which fairytale this might was how he came to be! in a race with Turtle. Rather than wandering through You might think that's not a deep dark wood to get to Grandma’s house, she walks the streets of Dublin, past various landmarks, to get to the magical witches’ market fair contest but wait and buy all the things she needs to take to Grandma’s housesee. On her way she does, Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you might imagine, meet some interesting challenges!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847177743</amazonuk>how it came about.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carl-Johan Forssen EhrlinRob Keeley|title=The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall AsleepCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54

|summary=Roger the Rabbit wanted to fall asleep Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, but somehow he couldn'tcabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, no matter Lily is keen to explain how hard he triedgood they are for you and how nice to eat. It wasn't One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that he didn't do much during carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the dayteacher, because he ''did'' but sometimes he was so tired who explains that he could fall asleep fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the swingsground. One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to see Uncle YawnJordan says, who had a notice outside his house saying ''"I can make anyone fall asleep'' and once Roger went home (it was actually quite difficult for him did try to get there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to bed tell her, Miss!" and fell asleepeveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241255163</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Richard WatsonB09FFJF8YS|title=Mad in the BackYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik

|summary=Mum ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is setting off on a long car journey with two kids in cry (the back big- did I hear you groan? Mum groaned too because she girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''knew  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl'' what was going s final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to happen. She told the kids before "proper" pants by following her around as she set off proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that they had to behave because she couldn't drive properly if the kids were going ''mad in the backshe''. The kids told her not to worry can wear super- and off duper proper pants, while they wentcannot. Then Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the kids started birds. Boy's certainly can'The Moaning't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Every parent will know exactly what this means: requests Whatever your word for drinkthem, foodfind us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, windows openthat is.But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time.In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Then the squabbling starts: accusations that Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''HEEverybody Potties!'' has got my bookseries takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, ears are bitten by ''HER''explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Mum tries diversionary tacticsEverybody does it: ''look out of the window - there's a lamp-postEverybody Toots''. (Yes MUm - we know desperation when we hear it.) And it gets worse. And worse. Then Mum snaps.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125090</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe Greaves and Leslie SadlierB09BG8V3Q6|title=HareWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|summary=Some animals feature large in mythology and the hare is one of these. The hare we're going to meet is O'Hare - well, we hope we're going to meet him: hares are well known for being elusive and this one is no exceptionWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! We'll be following him through the churchyard on a moonlit night - see him leaping in front of the moon - and through a summer meadow, where we only catch sight of his hind legs and his ears. Look on the riverbank - ' is that him in the water? Then he's latest release in amongst the cabbages - the farmer is ''notEverybody Potties!'' going series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to be pleased about thattake the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. Is he in the foxglove patch? We can see the foxIt's a worthy aim, but it looks as though O'Hare has goneany frustrated parent will tell you. The best sighting we have of him is on the corn field, where he's leaping through the stubble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646032</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Katie Cotton When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Stephen WaltonMended|titleauthor=Counting LionsPeter Cotton

|summary=There are counting booksMeet Fred. Well, good counting books and ones where the pictures blow you awayactually, whether you are an adult or a child'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'Counting Lions'' falls into the last categoryd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Just Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a look at that lion on the cover: that's not phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a black and white photograph - box with holes so that's a drawing he could breathe and you're going to see another nine immediately became part of the same glorious quality. In her foreword family, to the book, Virginia McKenna says extent that they would take Fred out with pictures like these words almost seem unnecessary as we can see all them when they went out for a walk. And that we need of was where the unique form and beauty of each creatureproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. But there are words tooOr brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garry Parsons, Patricia Hegarty Justine Avery and Annette RuslingNaday Meldova|title=Ten Spooky SkeletonsEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=With All HallowsCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn' Eve approaching isnt, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about time that you thought our bodily functions just as we have to learn about some scary books for kids? Nothing quite says 'I Love Youeverything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, more than making your toddler burst into a flood of tears. Perhaps you should get them a fun book learning about something a little worrisome – a set of smiley skeletons for instance, rather than completely terrifying themwhy the sun and the moon take turns in the sky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848574517</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda McCardie Justine Avery and Salvatore RubbinoNaday Meldova|title=A Book of Feelings|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= HappyNo, shyNo, sad, jealous, angry, loved, grumpy…not the names of little dwarves, but just some of the powerful feelings and emotions that affect everyone from time to time. Sam and Kate live with their mum and dad and a dog with a name that I just adore: Fuzzy Bean. They have a typical family life with all the ups and downs and warmth and fun and the occasional chaos that comes with the territory.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406355992</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Barrow|title=Have You Seen Elephant?No!|rating=4.5

|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 he's ''VERY'' good. Boy's fair too - he says that he'll try his They say the best - and off Elephant goes to hidepicture books are the simplest ones. Dog is looking slightly bored - actually he's having And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a good scratch - as Boy counts to ten and shouts Bookbag favourite. ''Coming! Ready or NotNo, No, No!'' in is based around the tradition of all hide and seek games and Boy and Dog go in search of Elephantsimplest text imaginable. Now Elephant wasn 't joking when he said that he was good'No, because he doesn't so much ''hide'' as ''disguise'' himself within the rooms. Boy doesn't spot himno, but watch Dogno! He spots Elephant every timeOkay, okay. Yes, whether heyou may.'' That's an armchairit! But, a duvetlike all the best picture books, television stand, standard lamp or this tiny snippet of text is a shedveritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776570081</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Fhiona Galloway194812467X|title=BOO!The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=4.5

|summary=Creating Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a fun book walk. Kirelle is dressed for a young toddler or older baby appears easy, but all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is actually tricky perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to pull off wellthe top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. Just shoving It's a few animals or shapes into a cardboard BOOfarm shop!k But this is not going to capture a farm shop with a difference: all the imagination; there needs to be colourstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, fun and a certain je ne sais quoi to stand out from the many other baby booksks on the marketeven some mice. Setting a book around Halloween Excited, Kirelle and all things spooky may not seem to fill these criteria, but a little fear can sometimes make a small child surprisingly happySam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691254</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Valerie Thomas Sadie and Korky Paul the Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Winnie's Haunted House Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary= Strange things are happening in Winnie the WitchSadie's house – mother always said that she was a broken vase, torn curtainsdreamer, and a chandelier that suddenly crashes to the ground. There is no obvious explanation so Winnie decides her house must mind never on what she should be haunted doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and reaches her spell book she loves to solve the problem. As usual the spell only makes matters worse, spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at first anywayCutty Sark. |amazonuk=''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<amazonukbr>0192744062''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''</amazonukbr>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'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 Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When 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, mermaids and treasure.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd1782227741|title=Goodnight MoonLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha

|summary=Bunny was cosily tucked up in bedOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a big room, painted green (''very'' green) deep puddle and with lots of things scattered aroundthe water is swirling. Before Bunny goes Poor Ted starts to sleep he's going to look at them all spin around and around and then say goodnight to each is sucked down a drain on the side of themthe street. Finding himself There are the pictures on down in the walls (from nursery rhymes and fairy tales)sewer, a couple of kittens, a pair of mittens, a dollTed starts to panic. 's house and a young mouse, a comb and a brush and a bowl of mush as well as a quiet old lady who was whispering 'OH HELP ME PLEASE'hush''. You get he cries and alerts the idea? We're moving through attention of Reg the objects one by one in gentle rhyme before we start to say goodnight to them all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230764843</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Denchfield and Ant Parker|title=Charlie Chick Goes to School|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Charlie Chick is always late and today is his first day at school. He's having trouble getting sewer rat, who plucks him out of bed and then getting to breakfast (trailing the dirty water using his toy crocodilecane, who - if anything - looks more awake than Charlie)which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. The snap, crackle Reg is a kind soul and pop of his favourite cereal frightens him into life - and then he has to grab his bag and scarf and rush dries Ted off to school, because the bell's gone and everyone else is already there..warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144727718X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gemma MerinoB08R7LXQ9S|title= The Cow Who Climbed a Tree|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Tina is a really curious cow who just wants to know everything there is to know Remy: A book about, well, everything. Her sisters think that's just silly, and when Tina tells them that she climbed a tree and found a dragon they decide the situation has gotten out of hand. But what will they find when they looking for her believing in the woods? You'll just have to read the book to find out. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447214889</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewyourself|author= Colin Boyd Mayuri Naidoo and Tony Ross|title= The Bath Monster|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=A great book for parents and kids alike, with an excellent premise 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 animalsCaroline Siegal

|summary=ItRemy is feeling miserable. He's a hardback book let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with a striking cover his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when you open it, don't expect endpapers or gentle introductions: as you lift the coverother kids are around. So, the tiger of the title appears: ''The tiger prowlswhen Remy reacts, stalking through it looks as though he was the jungleinstigator.And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don''<br>''Paw after heavy paw crunches on the forest floort believe him when he tries to explain what happened.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122158</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rob Biddulph 1471191303|title=Grrrrr! The Invisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary= Fred has won This is the contest for best bear story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the wood for three years in a row. Heheating on: ''s Ice curled across the best at everything from catching fish, doing inside of the hula-hoop window and scaring humans, to crept up the corner of the all-important growling competitionbedpost. But everything changes when another bear arrives and decides '' The family didn't go to enter the contestcinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Fred Then the day came when they couldn's no longer t afford the rent for the best bear in town house and, they had to make matters worse, he's lost his 'Grrrrr'. Fred's going move to need help to find his 'Grrrr' in time for the start far side of the competitioncity. But will This part of the other animals want to help him look given he's been too busy training to make friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007594127</amazonuk>city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane ChapmanNick Jones and Si Clark|title=No More Cuddles!One Night in Beartown|rating=4.5

|summary=AhMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, what a problem it can bewho lives in Beartown, to be just so snuggly that people can't stop cuddling you! This is poor Barry's problemobsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. A solitary monster Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by nature, he does like cuddles of courseher grandmother. Every night, but too much she looks out of anything can become trying, her bedroom window and so when he is leaped on by all says goodnight to the other little forest animals every single bear statue outside. Every morningshe says hello to Bee Bear, he wonders if perhaps there is some way to transfer their cuddles to someone else?a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848691475</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]