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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Bond and R W AlleyAdam Stower|title=Paddington Murray and the Disappearing SandwichBun

|summary=Paddington has 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 list - snowy beach when a list large slab of shapes which he has to findsilvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. The first one was easy - it was a rectangle and he spotted that On top of the front door ice was a rectangle as he closed it on his way outpolar bear. There was another shape ticked off as he walked away - all As the paving stones were squares! At ice bumped onto the corner of sand, the road there was a 'Men at Work' sign (or 'roadworks ahead' if you prefer not to be sexist) bear woke and this with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a triangle and thererun for it, round but Teal knew that the roadworks were some cones! bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. There are still quite a few shapes He obviously needed to be taken home on his list though - an oval, a circle, a star, the bus and given a diamond good meal and a heartsomewhere to sleep. It was the heart which What else would prove most difficult to track down and I'm not going to tell you how Paddington did it, but there just ''might'' be a clue in the title.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008159750</amazonuk>do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Seuss1913839656|title=What Pet Should I GetLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee

|summary=What would you doTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, if you found in not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the shed,<br>A brand local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new bookfriends. At home, from an author unfortunately dead?<br>Would you leave his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it alone as a work unfinished,<br>Or release it anyway and make a reputation blemished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008170789</amazonuk>might be because he looked different.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Suzanne Chiew and Caroline Pedler1529504775|title=Badger The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and the Great RescueKatie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary=Upcycling is a great idea, take some old rubbish Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and make yourself a washing line or new tentwatch the red buses drive past. Badger Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and friends have found some odd bits and bobs around even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the forest toy shop window which would help David - and they all have great ideas on how was happy to use them, but where did all this stuff come the coins from? her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Sometimes Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it is best . Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to find out the origins of an item before you repurpose Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it for yourself, you never know who may need so that her grandchildren could play with it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691920</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Eng Gee Fan1529504767|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Frida KahloThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Frida Kahlo Susan was very young when she was born evacuated from London in Mexico1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. When she was a young schoolgirl she contracted polio and was left with a leg which was She needn''skinny t have worried though as a rake'', but she bore went to the problem stoically home of Mr and in some ways delighted in being differentMrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. Then one day Frida was in a bus which crashed into a car. She was badly injured and even when she was over the worst she still had her own room - all to rest in bed and filled the time by drawing pictures, including a self portraitherself. Eventually Gradually she showed relaxed and began to enjoy her pictures to a famous artist - Diego Rivera - who liked life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the pictures, ''baking and'' Frida. They married when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Rivera encouraged Frida's paintingMr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. She exhibited, eventually in New York, to great acclaimThe best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Ana Albero1916459943|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Coco ChanelSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there''I'm bored'', said Frogs something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can'Bored, bored, t - or won'''BORED.''' '' And you can see he ist - go to sleep: chin on elbowinstead, elbow he just lies on knee his blanket and, dare I say, a slightly ''sulkywails'' expression on his face. HeThe sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''s not happy. Mouse has the right Think of it, with his hammock slung in gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the cornfield, but Frog has made up his mindsound perfectly. HeThe mermaids join in - ''s off to the city which is full of exciting thingsla lou, la lay... '' And for a moment it isseems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Everywhere he looks there are wonderful things to do, but thereThen a seagull '''shouts''s only one snag. They all cost money. And as he hasn't got any heand we know exactly what's going to have to get a jobhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784622729</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim Field140639131X|title=Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit's Bad HabbitsA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=When Bear wakes up early from her hibernation, she decides that if she canPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired''t sleep then she might of nearly getting squished as well do something which she's always wanted tried to do - build a snowmancross the Old Oak Road. ItShe wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn's whilst she's doing this that she meets Rabbit, who tells her that he's an Expert in Gravityt even get a reply. Whatever he is, it doesnPhilippa wasn't seem a bird to make him particularly happy as he never smiles sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and isn't exactly big on fundecided that she would set up something similar herself. But there are avalanches around as well as hungry wolves Her uniform and Rabbit soon comes lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the conclusion that it's good animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to have provide a friend on your side - even if you have just stolen their foodsafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444929313</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockroft1776574338|title=Amazing Animal Journeys|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=It's only relatively recently that man has actually moved home at certain points of the year to take advantage of the weather or the availability of food, but wild life has been doing it for much longer and every year billions of animals move from one part of the planet to another - that's birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects. This is known as migration - and it's a real pleasure to see it used other than in the context of sensationalist newspaper headlines. Wildlife expert Chris Packham has written this introduction to the subject and it's been beautifully illustrated by Jason Cockroft. (HeLeilong's the man who did the cover artwork for the final three Harry Potter booksToo Long!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277459</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=T S Eliot Julia Liu and Arthur Robins|title=Skimbleshanks: The Railyway Cat Bei Lynn|rating=4.5

|summary=I have to sayEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, on opening this book I was tempted picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to break go downstairs – they simply climb out into song! This is due to a lot of my teenage years spent listening to, the window and singing along with Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals (I knowslide down his neck...I do apologise!) YouIt'd think being an English graduate Is perfect, isn'd take t it? What could be a T.S. Eliot poem more seriously, wouldn't youfun way of going to school? But noThere is a problem, itthough. Leilong isn's t happy in the musical of city: he''Cats'' that leapt instantly s always having to my mind. Anyway, if an Eliot poem seems an unlikely source for a childrenbe careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's picture book, think again, because this is longer than a lovely book, both funny tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to read and listen to, and with lots to see and discusstraffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571324835</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Ray1776574028|title=The NutcrackerBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5

|summary=ThereI love a good board book! 's something rather magical about Jane Ray's stories. [[The DollsBumblebee Grumblebee'' House Fairy by Jane Ray|The Dollis aimed at quite a niche market: it's House Fairy]] continues for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to be one of my daughterhave realise that you can ''play's favourite stories, even though she's now a rather grown up nine year old, so we opened up this new story with a great deal of anticipationwords and make something quite different from each one. It remains close to We have the traditional Nutcracker story, elephant who dons a tutu - and there is becomes a wonderful feel of Christmas throughout''balletphant''. IThe 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''m sure you can read (think about it quite happily all year round (I know we will!) but it The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'' OK, let's particularly special in the run up to Christmas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408336413</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreview <!-- 15/12 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Graham Jones and Neil Parkinson1838226834|title=Time Travelling Toby and Carried Away With the Battle of BritainCarnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4.5

|summary=Toby lives in an unremarkable village and goes to It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an unremarkable school - just like ''millions'' of other boys - but he has a secretouting with our grandparents. WeThey're told it's ''humongous'' and I think there to undo all the good that's rightparents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. You seeA young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, Toby has (wait for it...) two brother, a Mum and a Dad, a Nanma, two dogs, three fish and two rabbits as well as...who told him:

... a time machine that looks ''It'll be brilliant, just like a sports carremember, don't let go of my hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992636507</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jean-Yves FerriB09MYXSRV4|title= Asterix Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating= 54|genre= For Sharing|summary=Asterix is those rarest of book series; one designed for kids which is actually 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 funnier when you are an adultfire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. I used He was also jealous which was how he came to love Asterix as be in a child, but now race with Turtle. You might think that I reread them I can't help s not a fair contest but wonder why, because wait and see. Things are not always as they are so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was youngerseem. I laughed loud and hard to myself twice within the first two pages of Asterix and the Missing Scroll, so I'd definitely say that this was a hitll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510100458</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Petr HoracekRob Keeley|title= Blue PenguinCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 34|genre= For Sharing|summary= Blue Penguin is about a penguin who is Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, wellbroccoli, bluecabbage and aubergines. Most penguins When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are not bluefor you and how nice to eat. One day, so he stand outpoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. He's different. They don't think he belongs Infuriated, Lily checks with them. He's not part of the gang because of teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the way he looksground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358282</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve AntonyB09FFJF8YS|title=Green Lizards vs Red RectanglesYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5

|summary=Young children have inquisitive minds and they do not view ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the world potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the same way we dobig-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride. Trying to explain abstract concepts to them is almost impossible as they like to know exactly why something does what ''  And so it does. Why is the Sky blue? Where do babies come ! This latest book from? Why do people fight wars? Many Justine Avery celebrates a parent has tried little girl's final goodbye to nappies and failed pull-ups and graduation to tackle these troublesome questions"proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, so perhaps a book while they cannot. Neither can help? Or perhapsthe flowers, nor the fish, you are best off leaving nor the answer alone for birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a few years so that they are more mature?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444920103</amazonuk>big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lauren ChildJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title= Charlie and Lola: One ThingEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating= 54|genre= For Sharing|summary= I am yet to meet Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't like Charlie find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and Lolajoke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and Lauren Child doesneveryone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery't disappoint at all in this s latest book entry in the her ''Everybody Potties!'' seriestakes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, which combines numbers with the usual warm familiar humour and fun of this brother and sister double actattached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408339005</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane HisseyB09BG8V3Q6|title=Old Bear's Bedtime StoriesWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|summary=I'm not sure you ever grow out 'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of Old Bear stories. I just curled up in a blanket fun picture books aims to read this latest collection take the pain out of stories, potty training children and when Ireplace it with some fun. It'd finished my nine year old daughter sneaked over and took the book upstairs to read it by herself! Here we have twenty one stories and poemss a worthy aim, all fairly short so useful when as any frustrated parent will tell you need a quick bedtime! . All your old favourites are here - Bramwell Bear and Duck and Little Bear, just waiting for you to snuggle up and read about their latest adventures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910706159</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Karen Owen When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Evgenia GolubevaMended|titleauthor=As Quiet as a MousePeter Cotton

|summary=There 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 snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a whole host box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of things the family, to the extent that Elephants are excellent at; they reportedly never forget and would take Fred out with them when they can hold loads of water in their trunk. One thing they are not known went out for is being quieta walk. However, their erstwhile natural enemy, And that was where the mouse is – hence someone is as quiet as a mouseproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Can these two great animal tribes put aside their differences so that you can teach a nelly to tread carefully?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861729</amazonuk>Or brakes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel PostgateJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Clangers: The Brilliant SurpriseEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=There is no such thing Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as nostalgia anymore any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as all the classic children's TV shows of the past we have been pulled out of retirement, dusted off and made anewto learn about everything else when we are small. 'Why shouldn'The Clangers'' are one of the latest IPs to t potty training be visited by as much fun as, say, learning about why the resurrectionists sun and the new show has proved very popular. It has now spawned spin off toys and books, but how do you write a book about a bunch of creatures that we cannot understandmoon take turns in the sky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241195985</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ailsa BurrowsJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Jar of HappinessNo, No, No!

|summary=What would you do if you knew They say the best picture books are the recipe for happiness? I'm sure you simplest ones. And nothing could make a fortune, selling it by the jar, though it's questionable be truer of course as to whether such profiteering this latest from the sale of emotions would make you happy! Meg, the little girl in this storyJustine Avery, makes up her own special blend of happiness in a jarBookbag favourite. ''No, and she takes it everywhereNo, using it to cheer up her friends and family. But what will happen when Meg canNo!''t find is based around the jar?simplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846437288</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anne Booth and Sam Usher|title=Refuge|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A donkey tells the story of how he was led by the man whilst he carried the woman''No, no, all the way to Bethlehemno! Okay, where the baby was bornokay. Soon afterYes, the shepherds came and then the kingsyou may. But then the man had a dream - a dream of danger - and he knew that it was time for them all to leave. They left some gold for the innkeeper (they were not staying in the stable because they were ''poor'') and went through the quiet streets ''hoping for the kindness of strangers'', which they found. Finally they came to another land - to Egypt - and found refuge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085763741X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catherine Barr and Francesca Chessa|title=ElliotThat's Arctic Surprise|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Ever since I was a child it! But, like all the environment has been at the forefront best picture books, this tiny snippet of teaching. It text is hoped a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that each generation will finally be it appears on the one to tackle the encroaching global warming crisis. The problem is that books about green impacts can be very earnest and not as fun as a Gruffalo or Aliens in Underpantsoutside. How can you get a child to think about the shrinking icecaps in the Arctic when they could be discovery where Wally is hiding? Perhaps if you throw in a Christmas surprise or two?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806686</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lindsay Mattick and Sophie Blackall194812467X|title=Finding Winnie: The Story of the Real Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-PoohFarm Shop|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summaryauthor=A little boy called Cole wanted a story. He particularly wanted a true story and it had to be about a bear. It was getting late, but Mummy said that she would do her best. Her story began about a hundred years before Cole was born and it was about a man called Harry Colebourn who lived in Winnipeg. He was a vet and was on his way to Europe to look after the horses of the soldiers fighting in the Great War when he met a trapper with a baby bear: his head might have said that there was nothing he could do, but his heart told him to get hold of the bear and he gave the trapper $20. Winnipeg, as he named the bear, went on the train with Captain Coulbourn and his troopDevon Avery, across the ocean and finally arrived in England.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408340232</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Claire Freedman Justine Avery and Ben Cort|title=Aliens Love DinopantsEma Tepic

|summary=Who would have thought that underpants would have been such lucrative business, but Claire Freedman has proved that this is certainly Kirelle and her best friend Sam the case with cat decide to go for a series of books that have seen aliens, dinosaurs, pirates walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and even Santa getting involved Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in undergarment actionhis smart grey fur coat. Where can you go after all these legendary figures? A mash-up book As they walk to the top of course! What would happen if the hill, they see a group of pants loving aliens met big barn with a group of pants loving dinosaurs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120945</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Billy Coughlan and Villie Karabatzia|title=Not Without My Whale|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=sign outside. It feels at times that children's books a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are the last place left that the surreal can thrivefarmyard animals. Whilst adult fiction is dominated by the gritty There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and realisticchickens, children still get the chance to read about flights of fancyand even some mice. Why do I want to read about the latest Scandinavian murder when I can read about one boy and his whale? Surely a whale is too bigExcited, smelly Kirelle and wet to take into schoolSam go shopping. What will they buy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861826</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Plenderleith0995647895|title=The Tiny TreeSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice

|summary=Deep down in the woods there Sadie's mother always said that she was a tiny pine treedreamer, stranded in a clearing and surrounded by BIG pine treesher mind never on what she should be doing. She dreamed of being a big tree lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and hoped that one day she would be beautifully dressed and surrounded by laughter and love. loves to spend hours at The other trees thought that she was being sillyMaritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Actually, they were quite  ''nastyHer class had gone one rainy afternoon'' to her and rather too full of themselves. Then one day the big machine came and started cutting down trees - and Tiny Tree was cut down by mistake. But who is going to want a tiny Christmas tree?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613924</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview|author= Anita Pouroulis and Agata Krawczyk|title= Nina The Pretty Ballerina|rating= 3|genre= For Sharing|summary= Jules and dogs Nina and George like to have fun together. But there are some things dogs don’t get to do, like play ''When all the houses cowered in the dressing up boxgloom, one of Jules’ favourite activities. That’s all about to change though. But is there a reason you rarely see a dog in a tutu? We’re about to find out.|amazonuk=''<amazonuk>1909428590</amazonukbr>}}''To the Maritime Museum''. {{newreview |author= Steve Metzger and Alison Edgson|title= Waiting for Santa|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= We all know Santa goes Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the homes of children who have been good all year, but have you ever wondered about our furry friends? Can he detour to forests, parks oceans on an ancient sailing ship and woodland? Do bears and mice get treats too?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691424</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephanie Blake|title=I Want Spaghetti!|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Simon likes spaghettiwent back regularly. In fact, he likes One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it so much that that's the only thing he wants to eatone where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. Simon is also blessed with having no concerns about stating his demands, very clearly, nor any qualms about criticising any other food When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that might be placed she could never have imagined in front a world of him. He isdolphins, as you can tellpirates, a typical toddler!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271916</amazonuk>mermaids and treasure.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Helen Walsh and Sophia Touliatou1782227741|title=Aerodynamics of biscuits Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha

|summary= Oliver knows he shouldnOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It't be skulking, sneaking s quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and creeping around in and is sucked down a drain on the middle side of the nightstreet. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. But even good little boys sometimes do things they shouldn't when they're hungry. And itOH HELP ME PLEASE''s just as well he does. Without Olivercries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the pirate mice wouldn't be able to use the biscuits they've stolen to build dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an aerodynamic rocket to take them to the moonold cricket bat. And without Oliver they would still be stranded on the cheesy moon unable to get homeReg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Murphy, Freddie Hutchins, Neil Dunnicliffe and Stella GurneyB08R7LXQ9S|title=The Big, Big Bing Book!Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=We've all seen books described as bigRemy is feeling miserable. It usually means that the book is a bit bigger than usual, or thicker, or itHe's a bind up of some previously-published books. Thatlet himself down ''s not the case with again''. The Bigschool bully Jayden, Big Bing Book!'' It could well be bigger than your toddler together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at nearly two feet high Remy, calling him names because he is short and over fifteen inches wide and weighing in at well over a kilohas small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. You need ''space'' They are careful to open it. This is not the book you take along on a trip wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just chance a that little distraction is needed from bit further when the Bingsterother kids are around. It might be a book which is pored over - So, when Remy reacts, it's almost certainly going to be a book which is ''crawled'' over looks as thatthough he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don's likely t believe him when he tries 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 deservesexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008139598</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Chapman1471191303|title=Is it Christmas Yet?The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5

|summary=Ted This is excitedthe story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. WellIsobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, letbecause her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: 's be honest - he's out Ice curled across the inside of control, dashing around the house window and yelling crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn'''Faster, Rudolph, Faster'''''. Poor Rudolph is in Ted's truck for t go to the moment, cinema or on holidays but he's looking as worried as all the they had each other toysand they were happy. Christmas is coming, but Then the trouble is that itday came when they couldn's not coming fast enough. And then t afford the rent for 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 house and keeps saying ''soon'' in a soothing voice which eventually turns they had to a growl. Explaining what needs move to be done before Christmas arrives doesn't help, as Ted offers to helpthe far side of the city. And we all know how much help ''that'' sort This part of help is.the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691513</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Divya SrinivasanNick Jones and Si Clark|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 One Night 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>}}{{newreview|author=Thierry Robberecht and Gregoire Mabire|title=The Wolf Who Fell Out of a BookBeartown

|summary=What would happen if Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a character from a story fell teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of the book her bedroom window and into says goodnight to the real world? I'm sure this is an issue that many a Jane Austen fan has pondered whilst reading ''Pride and Prejudice'', giving their copy an extra little jiggle bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to try and set Mr Darcy free! HereBee Bear, however, it is the scary wolf who falls out, but he discovers a colourful painted bear that the world he falls into is a lot more scary than the one he's left behind in the booklives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1857144635</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]