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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily GravettAdam Stower|title=Tidy|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Pete the badger likes ''tidy''. He does it very well. Well, perhaps it's a little bit ''too'' well. He's not content with checking all the flowers in the woodland and removing any which didn't quite match, he insists on brushing fox to remove all the brambles and burrs. I'm not certain that using a hedgehog to do this is really a good idea, but Pete seems to find it effective. All the birds have to be bathed, Murray and their beaks clean and even the rocks are scoured and scrubbed. Leaves are a major problem: just think about all that sweeping up and all the bin bags of leaves which have to be stored. There is an obvious solution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sophy Henn|title= Pass It OnBun

|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary= A small girl wakes up Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one morning, yawns in the morning sun who is able to sleep and eat and eat and then bounces through the day finding joy in everyday situations sleep and encouraging those around her to enjoy them too. Even on gloomy grey days she has , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the happy knack of finding something to smile abouttwo. This is most definitely But he's a bad magician''glass half full'' little person. By s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the end of book catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the reader probably will be too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723299862</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Roger Hargreaves|title= Mr Men Adventure with Dinosaurs|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= The Mr Men and Little Misses are branching out. No longer content with simple stories focussing on just one characterregular back garden, they're getting together with their friends for bigger but into a world of frightening adventure and bolder adventureswhiffs. Of course This time round it would be Little Miss Curious whodrops them into a Viking land, in where a curious way, finds the footprint to begin with. She turns to Mr Clever to find out what it troll hunter is andexpected – well, being cleverone much bigger than Murray was, he tells her immediately: it belongs to a dinosaur. How exciting! The pairbe honest, along with some friends, set out but he's turned up and he'll have to find the dinos.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405283033</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H Shepard1732898766|title=Now We Are Six|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=We can see the signs in [[The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne Adventures of Birpus and E H Shepard|Bulbus: Book One: The House at Pooh Corner]] that Christopher Robin is growing up and now he has school work to do. But he's a lucky little boy as he has Winnie the Pooh to help him. Or is he lucky, given that Winnie is also known as 'the Bear of very little brain'? Actually, Pooh has a message for us in the introduction: he says that he walked through the book one day, looking for his friend Piglet, and sat down on some of the pages by mistake. He hopes that we won't mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280867</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSour Milk Dragon|author=Adam GuillainWynn Everett-Albanese, Charlotte Guillain Michael Albanese and Chris Chatterton |title=Supermarket GremlinsIndre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=Have you ever wandered down the aisle at your local Super Marché When we first meet Birpus and found some frozen peas Bulbus they're running for their lives in the bread section, or a lonely carrot hanging out with Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the cerealSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. What can be the cause of all the mistakesHe's right behind them, spewing hot, spills and wobbly wheels that plague every superstore known to mansour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, women they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and child? Incompetent staff when a ladder of moss and lazy customers dumping stock? vines was lowered for them, they escaped. Nope, these problems are all caused by They climbed up to the sneaky Gremlins who lurk Tree Wee homes high up in every shopthe tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277130</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H ShepardB0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The House at Pooh CornerWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda

|summary=The title of the book comes from the first story, in which Winnie Kit and Piglet build a house Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at Pooh corner for Eeyorehome, bored but perhaps the most famous story in this second book is at chapter sixwarm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the game shoreline. On top of Pooh Sticks is inventedthe ice was a polar bear. We also meet Tigger for As the ice bumped onto the sand, the first time bear woke and as with wobbly legs moved from the first book [[Winnie-ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the-Pooh by A A Milne bear was hungry and E H Shepard|Winnie-gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the-Pooh]] each chapter is a short story in its own right, except for chapters eight bus and nine which have given a degree of continuity as Owl's house is blown down in chapter eight good meal and a new one is found for him at the Wolery in chapter ninesomewhere to sleep. It's still not overly long even if What else would you end up reading both as a bedtime story!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280840</amazonuk>do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Surya Sajnani1913839656|title= Pets A Slide and Play BookLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating= 43.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=''Pets'' is Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two in one, a book 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 local community centre and a gameTodd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and for little ones who can't or won't sit still long enough for a full story, it's a great way to introduce books while keeping he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it funmight be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609929152</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jo Empson1529504775|title= Little Home BirdThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|rating=5|genre= For Sharing|summaryauthor= Little bird loves everything about his home. All his favourite things are there or very nearby; his favourite branch, his favourite view and his favourite music too. All is happy in his little world until autumn draws near and his older brother tells him that they do in fact have two homes Amy Sparkes and the time has come to travel far to the south to move to their second home. Little bird is saddened by this news and knows that he will miss all his special, favourite things. Then little bird has a good idea! He will take his favourite things with him and then wherever he goes it will always feel like home. So we accompany little bird on his long journey and discover how he finds happiness in his new home in ways he had not expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184643890X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Katie Blackburn and Richard Smythe|title=Dozy Bear and the Secret of SleepHickey

|summary=ThereElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he's nothing worse than sleep deprivationd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. I remember when my daughter was just One day Elsie spotted a few months old bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and I was getting up with happy to use the coins from her four or five times a night I would sometimes find myself shopping in Tesco with absolutely no recollection of how I got there (or quite what I money box to pay for it as cash was shopping tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for)support, and walk behind it. SadlyMany decades later, this won't help with those squawky newbornsElsie brought the bus, but once your little one gets a bit older this is certainly worth a trynow damaged and rusted, especially if your bedtime routine tends to resemble feeding time at the zoo!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571330193</amazonuk>Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith Kerr1529504767|title=Mog and the Baby The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Other StoriesKatie Hickey

|summary=I've never been a fan of catsSusan 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. IShe needn'm more t have worried though as she went to the home of a dog personMr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. Mog, however, has weaseled She even had her way into my heart, own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and although I certainly wouldn't want her as a pet in my house, we love reading began to enjoy her storieslife. This collection of She''Mog d help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the Baby'', ''Mog's Bad Thing'', and ''Mog decorations on Fox Night'' is perfect for a nice afternoon bumper storytime together with your little one, or you can just read them one by one over three nightsthe Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008157995</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Pindar and Susan Batori1916459943|title=Strictly No CrocsSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=You can’t go wrong with Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a good crocodile storysqueakily baby. Not that these crocodiles are goodHe's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, oh nohe just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, after being banned from attending Zebra’s party they hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have grand plans to sneak the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in and eat everyone there! - ''la lou, la lay...'' Once they are secretly dressed up And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a leopard, a parrot seagull '''shouts''' and a bee (!) their plans don’t go quite as they’d wished…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861877</amazonuk>we know exactly what's going to happen next.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=E T Harper and Dan Taylor140639131X|title=Dylan's Amazing Dinosaurs - The TriceratopsA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating= 34.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Imagination is one thing; what wonderful adventures you could have should you be able Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to travel cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the distant past and walk amongst mayor about the dinosaursproblem but didn't even get a reply. Reality is different; running around in bone shaking terror as various man-eating dinos crave your fleshPhilippa 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 lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. This has not stopped Dylan embarking on another amazing adventure – will he survive Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a velociraptor attack little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and why does he keep doing back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119408</amazonuk>Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roger Hargreaves1776574338|title= My First Mr Men 123Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating= 54|genre= For Sharing|summary= As first books goEvery morning Leilong, board books are good because they withstand a bit of bitingthe brontosaurus school bus, a bit of dribblingmakes his way through the city, a bit picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of roughness induced by not quite there yet hand-eye coordination. And as topics go, counting is great when youtower blocks don're trying t even need to teach go downstairs – they simply climb out of the skill window and just need repetitionslide down his neck. Plus it doesn It's perfect, isn't require the focus it? What could be a more fun way of attention that a proper story might. So a board book for countinggoing to school? Perfect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281731</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kes Gray and Jim Field|title=Quick Quack Quentin|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Quentin There is a very downhearted duck because his quack is too quick. In fact all he can manage is a ''Quck.'' This will never doproblem, so Quentin visits his local doctor to see if there is anything he can give him to make things betterthough. Sadly, although Leilong isn't happy in the Doctor is swiftly able to diagnose Quentincity: he's problem, always having to be careful about where he cannot provide what puts his feet and – because he needs. Quentin really needs an ''A'' so waddles off on search of one. On his journey s longer than a tennis court – he visits a succession of animals who, whilst being sympathetic often causes damage without intending to his plight and helpful in their own way, only manage to subtly change his problem rather than solve ittraffic regularly gets snarled up. Therefore, poor Quentin The school decides that he can's quest for t be the missing vowel continuesbus anymore. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444919563</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Sam Usher1776574028|title=We Are Not FROGS!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott

|summary=Bedtime books are I love a great way of winding good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a toddler down before they go to sleepniche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but havenhas mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play''t they all been done before? Coming up with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a little different that encourages tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a child to nod 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 not always easy and new ideas can be a little bizarre when you ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm. ......'' Do bulldozers really need to doze off at the end of the night? OK, let's not go there At least we will have fun listening to all the machinery as it goes off to bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121143</amazonuk>Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H Shepard1838226834|title=Winnie-the-Pooh|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Is there anyone who doesn't know about Winnie-the-Pooh? You might know him as Pooh Bear and even if you haven't read the stories you'll know about playing Pooh Sticks or The Bear of Very Little Brain. This first book about the bear, originally published in 1926, has been translated into numerous language, including Latin - and that edition featured on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list. It's difficult to believe that Pooh will be ninety in October 2016, not least because he's ageless and the books which feature him are not in Carried Away With the least dated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280832</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCarnival|author= Kristyna Litten|title= Blue and Bertie|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Bertie is a creature of habit. Every day is predictable but Bertie likes the certainty of the routine. I know how he feels. One day, though, something happens. He oversleeps and when he wakes up the others are gone and he is all alone. Although he still ventures out, he gets a little lost and is soon quite upset. Enter Blue who is just like him but oh so different too. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147112374X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lydia Monks|title=Mungo Monkey to the RescueEd Boxall

|summary=Fans It was one of lift those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the flap books may have come across Mongo Monkey before as he has a series of adventures good that parents do, so the trips out were always seem to entail lifting up some things and flapping othersso much fun. The interaction in A young boy was going to the books is very enjoyablecarnival with his Grandad, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, but sometimes it feels like you are just following a monkey and his family around on a normal dayremember, don't let go of my hand. 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 key.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278188</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Jory John Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Benji DaviesHare|titleauthor=I Love You AlreadyCordellya Smith

|summary=You may have met When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and Duck before; one is a recluse who just wants '' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to go use it well. He liked to sleep, whilst the trick other is full of energy and just wants animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to playbe in a race with Turtle. The friction between the two may have been resolved by the end of [[Goodnight Already by Jory John and Benji Davies]], but You might think that does 's not stop Duck from wondering if Bear really likes him or a fair contest but wait and see. Things are notalways as they seem. Do our best friends really have to I'll tell us they love us, or should we just assume by their actions that they do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008165998</amazonuk>you how it came about.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonny LambertRob Keeley|title=Little WhyCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5

|summary=Many of us have felt the pain of insistent question asking from the back of the car; are we there yet or why Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is the sky blue? In 2016 we can attach our children keen to multimedia devices so that explain how good they learn all they need are for you and how nice to know from eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the Matrix whilst we get teacher, who explains that fruits grow on with drivingtrees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. HoweverJordan says, curious young minds will keep asking questions. Sometimes it is better "I did try to give them an answertell her, rather than just telling laterMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848691831</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Bailey Smith and Sav AkyuzB09FFJF8YS|title= I Am Bear|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= The first time we meet Bear he is bareYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies! Imagine – a naked animal, in the forest with his bottom on display. Squirrel is so shocked he's dropped his nuts. Ooh matron. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406359254</amazonuk>}}{{newreview)|author=Jo Weaver|title=Little OneJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik

|summary=There ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a subtle balance needed when finding cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a book little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to read "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to a toddler; one her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that takes into account ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the needs of flowers, nor the childfish, but perhaps also nor the needs of the adultbirds. Boy's certainly can't. Do you really want She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to be stuck reading an ugly book about a pair of underpants for several months? know it!}} {{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Everybody Toots! (Oops we seem to have lost that bookEverybody Potties!) However|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a book with striking visuals child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that strikes a chord 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. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with a parent may not always chime tooting and gently and calmly, with a childthe familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} Is a children's book always meant to be just for kids{{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies?Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1444922734</amazonuk>''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicky Benson and Jonny LambertB07GZ81J7C|title=I Love You More When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MoreMended|author=Peter Cotton

|summary=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 something 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 connoisseur when it comes phobia about snakes are going to warm to books about bearshim. I suppose it probably started He arrived as a present in a box with Winnie the Pooh, holes so that he could breathe and my dad doing all immediately became part of the funny voicesfamily, but even these days I find I am irresistibly drawn to stories the extent that they would take Fred out with bears in, and this one did not disappointthem when they went out for a walk. And that was where the problem started. If youFred didn're looking for a good old pull-at-the-heartstrings read for cozy afternoons with your momentarily quiet little one, then this is a good place to startt have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692110</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ame Dyckman Justine Avery and Zachariah OHoraNaday Meldova|title=Wolfie the BunnyEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5

|summary=Can potty training ever be joyous? It may be that often isn't, as any parent will tell you are on the lookout for a useful picture book that deals with sibling rivalry in a helpful way. It may But really, why shouldn't it be that you ? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have a wolf or rabbit obsessed toddlerto learn about everything else when we are small. Or it may just Why shouldn't potty training be that you like a good story that's as much fun to read. Fortunately for youas, say, this book will cover all of those requirements! Wolfie learning about why the sun and the bunny arrives moon take turns in the Bunny family's lives in a rather suspicious way, when he is left on their doorstep in a basket. Mama and Papa Bunny are immediately charmed by their new baby, but big sister Dot remains alarmed, shouting out 'He's going to eat us all up!' but receiving no response from her smitten parents!sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443863</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean JullienJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=RalfNo, No, No!

|summary=I'm rather partial to sausage dogsThey say the best picture books are the simplest ones. I met one in Japan once who I would quite happily have tucked into my suitcase to sneak back homeAnd nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. Ralf the sausage dog is just as endearing as these pups usually are ''No, No, although he No!'' is also just as troublesomebased around the simplest text imaginable. For a little dog ''No, no, he manages to take up quite a lot of spaceno! Okay, make a lot of noiseokay. Yes, and generally make a nuisance of himself (as most dogs do really)you may. Yet when suddenly '' That's it! But, like all the family find themselves in great dangerbest picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it is Ralf who saves appears on the day!outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847808182</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michelle Robinson and Rebecca Ashdown194812467X|title= Odd SocksThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Socks, eh? They never used to trouble me, Kirelle and would return from her best friend Sam the washing machine cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in pairs, just her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they had entered. I never fully understood walk to the whole Land-top of-missing-socks thing. Suki and Sosh are Mr and Mrs Sockthe hill, they see a big barn with a matching pair who live happily together in the sock drawersign outside. They too have never visited the Land-of-missing-socks. See? It's not just mea farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. But something There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even worse is about to happen to tear this couple apartsome mice. Something quite horrible: Suki has a holeExcited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443375</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve Antony0995647895|title= Please Mr PandaSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating= 3.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Mr Panda has Sadie's mother always said that she was a box of doughnuts and they look greatdreamer, such bright colours against his black her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and white monochrome coatshe loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. |amazonuk=''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<amazonukbr>1444916653''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=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang and Yu Yan Chen (translator)1782227741|title=Mr Horton's ViolinLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Meet Mr HortonOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. He is one of the worldIt's most famous quite a deep puddle and rich musical instrument players, the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and has done it all – except, that is, stumble sucked down a drain on a music treethe side of the street. Finding himself You have down in the sewer, Ted starts to stumble on them, for not carpenters, not sculptors, not even simple woodsmen would give them a second look panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and think alerts the attention of them as anything special. But when Mr Horton does find one he is able to fashion Reg the bestsewer rat, most magical violin imaginable who plucks him out of its woodthe dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. The only problem after that Reg is working out who deserves to play it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215459</amazonuk>a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang and Yu Yan Chen (translator)B08R7LXQ9S|title=The Chief CellistRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=Paddington has a list - a list of shapes which he has to findRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, The first one was easy - it was a rectangle together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he spotted that the front door was a rectangle as he closed it on his way outis short and has small eyes. There was another shape ticked off as he walked away - all the paving stones were squares! At the corner of the road there was a 'Men at Work' sign (or 'roadworks ahead' if you prefer They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to be sexist) wind up Remy when nobody can see and this was a triangle and there, round then push him just that little bit further when the roadworks were some cones! There other kids are still quite a few shapes on his list though - an ovalaround. So, a circlewhen Remy reacts, a star, a diamond and a heart. It it looks as though he was the heart which would prove most difficult to track down instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and Ithe teachers don'm not going t believe him when he tries to tell you how Paddington did it, but there just ''might'' be a clue in the titleexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008159750</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Seuss1471191303|title=What Pet Should I GetThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=3.5

|summary=What would you doThis is the story of Isobel, if you found 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 shed,<br>heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.''A brand new book, from an author unfortunately dead?<br>Would you leave it alone as a work unfinishedThe 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,<br>Or release it anyway sad and lonely and make a reputation blemished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008170789</amazonuk>Isobel felt invisible.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Suzanne Chiew Nick Jones and Caroline PedlerSi Clark|title=Badger and the Great RescueOne Night in Beartown

|summary=Upcycling Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is a great ideaobsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, take some old rubbish and make yourself a washing line or new tentteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Badger Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and friends have found some odd bits and bobs around says goodnight to the forest and they all have great ideas on how bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to use themBee Bear, but where did all this stuff come from? Sometimes it is best to find out the origins of an item before you repurpose it for yourself, you never know who may need ita colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848691920</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]