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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=E T Harper and Dan TaylorAdam Stower|title=Dylan's Amazing Dinosaurs - The TriceratopsMurray and Bun|rating= 34.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Imagination Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one thing; what wonderful adventures you could have should you be who is able to travel to the distant past sleep and eat and eat and sleep and walk amongst , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the dinosaurstwo. Reality is different; running around in bone shaking terror as various man-eating dinos crave your fleshBut he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This has not stopped Dylan embarking on another amazing adventure time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – will well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he survive a velociraptor attack 's turned up and why does he keep doing back?'ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471119408</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roger Hargreaves1732898766|title= My First Mr Men 123The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating= 54|genre= For Sharing|summary= As When we first books go, board books are good because meet Birpus and Bulbus they withstand a bit 're running for their lives in the Forest of bitingFine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, a bit of dribblingspewing hot, a bit of roughness induced by not quite there yet hand-eye coordinationsour milk from his nostrils. And as topics go, counting is great when you (Please don're trying to teach the skill and just need repetition. Plus t try this at home: it doesnwon't require the focus of attention that a proper story mightend well. So ) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a board book ladder of moss and vines was lowered for counting? Perfectthem, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281731</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kes Gray and Jim FieldB0CC9W7GLR|title=Quick Quack QuentinOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Quentin is 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 very downhearted duck because his quack is too quicksnowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. In fact all he can manage is On top of the ice was a ''Quckpolar bear.'' This will never do As the ice bumped onto the sand, so Quentin visits his local doctor to see if there is anything he can give him to make things betterthe bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. SadlyKit was all for making a run for it, although but Teal knew that the Doctor is swiftly able to diagnose Quentin's problem, he cannot provide what he needs. Quentin really needs an ''A'' so waddles off on search of bear was hungry and gave him oneapple and then another. On his journey he visits He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a succession of animals who, whilst being sympathetic to his plight good meal and helpful in their own way, only manage somewhere to subtly change his problem rather than solve itsleep. Therefore, poor Quentin's quest for the missing vowel continues. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444919563</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Sam Usher1913839656|title=We Are Not FROGS!Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyFor Sharing|summary=After Todd was excited about spending the storm weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the frogs best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and the toads all came out onto the lawn his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to play long jumpshow his grandmother. This She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was the frogs' choice pleased about this as they could jump further and the toads just he wanted an easy lifeto make new friends. But - through a series of unfortunate incidents involving lorriesAt home, dogs, children, a cart and an ice cream container, first the toads ended up in the ice cream container and after they sold the frogs down the river in exchange for being put into a muddy ditch, the frogs - all twenty two of them - were in the same prison his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it was only thanks to Mutt the dog that they escapedmight be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125120</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Freedman and Richard Smythe1529504775|title=Beep Beep Beep Time for SleepThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=34.5

|summary=Bedtime books are a great way of winding a toddler down before they Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to sleep, the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but havenDavid couldn't they all - he'd been done before? born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. Coming up with something One day Elsie spotted a little different that encourages a child bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to nod off is not always easy and new ideas can be a little bizarre when you think about pay for itas cash was tight at home. Do bulldozers really need Gradually, David learned to doze off at stand up, use the end of bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the night? At least we will have fun listening bus, now damaged and rusted, to all the machinery as Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it goes off to bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121143</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H Shepard1529504767|title=Winnie-the-PoohThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Fans of lift the flap books may Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have come across Mongo Monkey before worried though as he has a series she went to the home of adventures that always seem Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to entail lifting up some things her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and flapping othersbegan to enjoy her life. The interaction in She'd help Mrs Russell with the books is very enjoyable, but sometimes baking and when it feels like you are just following a monkey came to Christmas Eve Susan and his family around Mr Russell put the decorations on a normal daythe Christmas tree. Couldn't creator Lydia Monks combine this touch and feel element with a story that actually goes somewhere? Perhaps Mungo's day out with his Dad will be keyThe best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278188</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jory John and Benji Davies1916459943|title=I Love You AlreadySqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=You may have met Bear and Duck before; one is Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a recluse who just wants to squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, whilst the other is full of energy he just lies on his blanket and just wants ''wails''. The sea offers to playhelp. The friction between It rocks Baby gently and the two may waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have been resolved by the end of [[Goodnight Already by Jory John and Benji Davies]]sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, but that does not stop Duck from wondering if Bear really likes him or notla lay... '' Do our best friends really And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to tell us they love us, or should we just assume by their actions that they do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008165998</amazonuk>happen next.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonny Lambert140639131X|title=Little WhyA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Many Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of us have felt nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the pain of insistent question asking from Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the car; are we there yet or why is lollipop lady at the sky blue? school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. In 2016 we can attach our children Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to multimedia devices so that they learn all they need to know from start with but the Matrix whilst we get on with drivingbenefits were obvious. However, curious young minds will keep asking questions. Sometimes it is better All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to give them an answer, rather than just telling laterprovide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691831</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Bailey Smith and Sav Akyuz1776574338|title= I Am Bear|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= The first time we meet Bear he is bare! Imagine – a naked animal, in the forest with his bottom on display. Squirrel is so shocked heLeilong's dropped his nuts. Ooh matron. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406359254</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewToo Long!|author=Jo Weaver|title=Little OneJulia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=3.54

|summary=There is a subtle balance needed when finding a book to read to a toddler; one that takes into account Every morning Leilong, the needs of brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the childcity, but perhaps also picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the needs top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the adultwindow and slide down his neck. Do you really want to It's perfect, isn't it? What could be stuck reading an ugly book about a pair more fun way of underpants for several monthsgoing to school? (Oops we seem to have lost that book!) HoweverThere is a problem, a book with striking visuals that strikes a chord with a parent may not always chime with a childthough. Is a childrenLeilong isn't happy in the city: he's book always meant having to be just for kids?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444922734</amazonuk>careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicky Benson and Jonny Lambert1776574028|title=I Love You More and MoreBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5

|summary=Ilove a good board book! ''m something of Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a connoisseur when niche market: it comes to 's for the child who still enjoys board books about bears. I suppose it probably started with Winnie the Pooh(er, and see my dad doing all the funny voices, first sentence) but even these days I find I am irresistibly drawn has mastered sufficient language skills to stories have realise that you can ''play'' with bears in, words and this make something quite different from each one did not disappoint. If youWe have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''re looking for . The buffalo who has had a good old pull-at-the-heartstrings read for cozy afternoons bath (complete with your momentarily quiet little one, yellow duck) and then this dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a good place to start''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692110</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ame Dyckman and Zachariah OHora1838226834|title=Wolfie Carried Away With the BunnyCarnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4.5

|summary=It may be that you are on the lookout for a useful picture book that deals was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with sibling rivalry in a helpful wayour grandparents. It may be that you have a wolf or rabbit obsessed toddler. Or it may just be that you like a They're there to undo all the good story that's parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun to read. Fortunately for youA young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, this book will cover all of those requirements! Wolfie the bunny arrives in the Bunny familywho told him: ''It's lives in a rather suspicious wayll be brilliant, when he is left on their doorstep in a basket. Mama and Papa Bunny are immediately charmed by their new babyjust remember, but big sister Dot remains alarmed, shouting out don'Het let go of my hand.'s going to eat us all up!' but receiving no response from her smitten parents!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443863</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean JullienB09MYXSRV4|title=RalfOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith

|summary=IWhen 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''m rather partial the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to sausage dogsuse it well. I met one in Japan once who I would quite happily have tucked into my suitcase He liked to sneak back hometrick other animals. Ralf the sausage dog is just as endearing as these pups usually are, although he is He was also just as troublesome. For a little dog, jealous which was how he manages came to take up quite be in a lot of space, make race with Turtle. You might think that's not a lot of noise, fair contest but wait and generally make a nuisance of himself (see. Things are not always as most dogs do really)they seem. Yet when suddenly the family find themselves in great danger, I'll tell you how it is Ralf who saves the day!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808182</amazonuk>came about.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michelle Robinson and Rebecca AshdownRob Keeley|title= Odd SocksCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!

|genre= For Sharing|summary= Socks Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, eh? They never used to trouble mebroccoli, cabbage and would return from the washing machine in pairsaubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, just as Lily is keen to explain how good they had enteredare for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. I never fully understood Infuriated, Lily checks with the whole Land-of-missing-socks thing. Suki teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and Sosh are Mr and Mrs Sockvegetables, like carrots, a matching pair who live happily together grow in the sock drawerground. They too have never visited the Land-of-missing-socks. See? It's not just me. But something even worse is about Jordan says, "I did try to happen to tear this couple apart. Something quite horrible: Suki has a holetell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443375</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve AntonyB09FFJF8YS|title= Please Mr PandaYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating= 3.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Mr Panda has ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a box cry (the big-girl kind!) of doughnuts toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's 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, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they look greatcannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, such bright colours against his black nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and white monochrome coat. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444916653</amazonuk>she wants everyone to know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang Justine Avery and Yu Yan Chen (translator)Naday Meldova|title=Mr Horton's ViolinEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Meet Mr Horton. He is one of the world's most famous and rich musical instrument playersToots, and has done it all – except, that istrumps, stumble on a music treefarts. You have to stumble on Whatever your word for them, for not carpenters, not sculptors, not even simple woodsmen would give them find us a second look and think of child that doesn't find them as anything specialirresistibly funny. But when Mr Horton does find one he is able Funny to fashion the besttalk about and joke about, most magical violin imaginable out of its wood. The only problem after that is working out who deserves to play it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215459</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang and Yu Yan Chen (translator)|title=The Chief Cellist|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet . But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the Chiefwrong time. A new cellist in a quite horrible orchestraIn class, say, he has suddenly turned their fortunes – when everyone will hear it and his – roundeveryone will laugh. At you. He is now a superstar, and asking for more Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and more grandeur gently and help in his life. But one nightcalmly, when his chauffeur doesn't turn up for him after yet one more sterling performancewith the familiar humour attached, he finds himself alone in a world explains that doesntooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''t care how good a cellist he is, but one where destiny might just depend on him learning the power of teamwork…!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993215440</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bond and R W AlleyB09BG8V3Q6|title=Paddington Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and the Disappearing SandwichSeema Amjad

|summary=Paddington has a list - a list of shapes which he has to find. The first one was easy - it was a rectangle and he spotted that the front door was a rectangle as he closed it on his way out. There was another shape ticked off as he walked away - all the paving stones were squares''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! At '' is the corner of latest release in the road there was a 'Men at Work' sign (or Everybody Potties!'roadworks ahead' if you prefer not series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to be sexist) take the pain out of potty training children and this was a triangle and there, round the roadworks were replace it with some cones! There are still quite a few shapes on his list though - an oval, a circle, a star, a diamond and a heartfun. It was the heart which would prove most difficult to track down and I'm not going to s a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you how Paddington did it, but there just ''might'' be a clue in the title.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008159750</amazonuk> .

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr SeussB07GZ81J7C|title=What Pet Should I GetWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton|rating=34.5

|summary=What would Meet Fred. Well, actually, you do, if '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 found 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 box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the shedfamily,<br>A brand new book, from an author unfortunately dead?<br>Would you leave it alone as to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a work unfinished,<br>walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or release it anyway and make a reputation blemished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008170789</amazonuk>brakes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Suzanne Chiew Justine Avery and Caroline PedlerNaday Meldova|title=Badger and the Great RescueEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Upcycling is a great ideaCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, take some old rubbish and make yourself a washing line or new tentas any parent will tell you. Badger and friends But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have found some odd bits and bobs around the forest and they all to learn about our bodily functions just as we have great ideas on how to use themlearn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, but where did all this stuff come fromlearning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? Sometimes it is best to find out the origins of an item before you repurpose it for yourself, you never know who may need it!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848691920</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Justine Avery and Eng Gee FanNaday Meldova|title=Little PeopleNo, Big Dreams: Frida KahloNo, No!

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Frida Kahlo was born in MexicoThey say the best picture books are the simplest ones. When she was And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a young schoolgirl she contracted polio and was left with a leg which was Bookbag favourite. ''skinny as a rakeNo, No, No!'', but she bore is based around the problem stoically and in some ways delighted in being differentsimplest text imaginable. Then one day Frida was in a bus which crashed into a car ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. She was badly injured and even when she was over the worst she still had to rest in bed and filled the time by drawing picturesYes, including a self portraityou may. Eventually she showed her pictures to a famous artist - Diego Rivera - who liked the pictures, ''and'' Frida. They married and Rivera encouraged Frida That's painting. She exhibitedit! But, eventually in New Yorklike all the best picture books, to great acclaimthis tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Ana Albero194812467X|title=Little PeopleThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Big Dreams: Coco ChanelJustine Avery and Ema Tepic

|summary=''I'm bored''Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, said Frogthey see a big barn with a sign outside. It''Boreds a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, boredgoats and chickens, '''BOREDand even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.''' ''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Julian Gough Sadie and Jim Fieldthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Rabbit Maureen Duffy and Bear: Rabbit's Bad HabbitsAnita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=When Bear wakes up early from her hibernation, she decides Sadie's mother always said that if she can't sleep then was a dreamer, her mind never on what she might as well do something which should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she's always wanted loves to do - build a snowmanspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. It ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>'s whilst she's doing this that she meets RabbitWhen all the houses cowered in the gloom, who tells her that he's an Expert in Gravity'<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. Whatever he is, it doesnShe't seem d love to make him particularly happy as he never smiles sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and isn't exactly big on funwent back regularly. But there One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are avalanches around as well as hungry wolves on show) and missed the closing bell and Rabbit soon comes to the conclusion that itattendant's good to 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 friend on your side - even if you have just stolen their foodworld of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444929313</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockroft1782227741|title=Amazing Animal JourneysLittle Gold Ted|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summaryauthor=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, amphibiansVanessa Wiercioch, 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. (He's the man who did the cover artwork for the final three Harry Potter books!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277459</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=T S Eliot Poppy Satha and Arthur Robins|title=Skimbleshanks: The Railyway Cat Sasha Satha|rating=4.5

|summary=I have to sayOne day, on opening this book I was tempted to break out Gold Ted falls into song! This a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is due swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a lot drain on the side of my teenage years spent listening the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to, and singing along with Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals (I know..panic.I do apologise!) You'd think being an English graduate I'd take a T.S. Eliot poem more seriously, wouldnOH HELP ME PLEASE't you? But no, it's he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the musical sewer rat, who plucks him out of ''Cats'' that leapt instantly to my mind. Anywaythe dirty water using his cane, if which might look just a bit like an Eliot poem seems an unlikely source for a children's picture book, think again, because this old cricket bat. Reg is a lovely book, both funny to read kind soul and listen to, he dries Ted off and warms him up with lots to see and discussa nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571324835</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane RayB08R7LXQ9S|title=The NutcrackerRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4.5

|summary=ThereRemy is feeling miserable. He's something rather magical about Jane Raylet himself down 's stories. [[The Dolls' House Fairy by Jane Ray|The Dollagain's House Fairy]] continues to be one of my daughter's favourite stories. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, even though she's now a rather grown up nine year oldhave been laughing at Remy, so we opened up this new story with a great deal of anticipationcalling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. It remains close They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the traditional Nutcracker storyother kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and there is a wonderful feel of Christmas throughout. I'm sure you can read it quite happily all year round (I know we will!) but itthe teachers don's particularly special in the run up t believe him when he tries to Christmasexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408336413</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- 15/12 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Graham Jones and Neil Parkinson1471191303|title=Time Travelling Toby and the Battle of BritainThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5

|summary=Toby lives This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in an unremarkable village and goes to an unremarkable school a house - just like a very cold house, because her parents couldn''millionst afford to put the heating on: '' Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of other boys - but he has a secretthe bedpost. We're told it's ''humongous'' and I think that's right. You see, Toby has (wait for it...) two brother, a Mum and a Dad, a Nanma, two dogs, three fish and two rabbits as well as...

The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible. a time machine that looks just like a sports car.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992636507</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jean-Yves Ferri|title= Asterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Asterix is those rarest of book series; one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you are an adult. I used to love Asterix as a child, but now that I reread them I can't help but wonder why, because they are so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was younger. I laughed loud and hard to myself twice within the first two pages of Asterix Nick Jones and the Missing Scroll, so I'd definitely say that this was a hit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510100458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Petr Horacek|title= Blue Penguin|rating= 3|genre= For Sharing|summary= Blue Penguin is about a penguin who is, well, blue. Most penguins are not blue, so he stand out. He's different. They don't think he belongs with them. He's not part of the gang because of the way he looks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358282</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve AntonySi Clark|title=Green Lizards vs Red RectanglesOne Night in Beartown|rating=34

|summary=Young Many children have inquisitive minds an obsession and they do not view the world Sandy Lane, who lives in the same way we doBeartown, is obsessed with bears. Trying to explain abstract concepts to them is almost impossible as they like to know exactly why something does what it doesShe collects books about bears. Why Her favourite toy is the Sky blue? Where do babies come from? Why do people fight wars? Many Berisford, a parent has tried teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and failed says goodnight to tackle these troublesome questionsthe bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, so perhaps a book can help? Or perhaps, you are best off leaving the answer alone for a few years so colourful painted bear that they are more mature?lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444920103</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]