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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel Bright and Jim FieldAdam Stower|title= The Lion InsideMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary= Books about scary beasts that turn out Murray is supposed to be not a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so scary are immensely popularhis favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and I blame Disney for how much 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 time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a hit this troll hunter is expected – well, one is sure much bigger than Murray was, to be. The reason is sitting quietly on top of a rock on page five. Whyhonest, hello Mr Lion.but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408331608</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth Lucas1732898766|title=Peekaboo 1 2 3The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=3.54

|summary=WeWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're waiting running for their lives in the start Forest of the Animal Antics race and everyone (well ''nearly'' everyone, but more of that later) is wondering who is going to winFine Repute. At the moment is looks as though Their greatest fear has come about: the lineup Sour Milk Dragon is a crab and two mice, but more - ''lots'' more - entrants are hidden behind the flapschasing them. Lift the first flap and thereHe's 'One polar bear on a pogo stick'right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. Under the second we have (Please don'two turkeys on a tandemt try this at home: it won't end well. ) At number three there are 'three gorillas in Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a gondola'. You're probably getting the idea by now! The crab ladder of moss and the mice are still runningvines was lowered for them, but they're not going escaped. They climbed up to have a chance as we move through the numbers individually Tree Wee homes high up to twenty and then in tens up to fiftythe tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and then a giant leap to a hundred - with the way the entrants are travelling getting more and more outrageous by the minuteGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692293</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=BarrouxB0CC9W7GLR|title=Where's On the Starfish?Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45

|summary=There's 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 snowy beach when a whale. A large whale. And there's a lot slab of fishsilvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. A ''lot'' On top of fishthe ice was a polar bear. They're there in every shape and size you can imagine and in amongst them are As the ice bumped onto the Starfishsand, the Jellyfish bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the Clownfishice. On the first page Kit was all for making a run for it's actually quite difficult to find those three in amongst all the others, but if you persist you will find themTeal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. It will still He obviously needed to be quite difficult taken home on the following page, but there's bus and given a little something creeping in that's not quite so pleasant. There's an empty plastic bottle good meal and an old tin can. Actually, the fish are quite interested. It's a little easier somewhere to spot our three fish on the next page, because there isn't quite so much spacesleep. The rubbish has grown, What else would you see.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280085</amazonuk>do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Gravett1913839656|title=TidyLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5

|summary=Pete Todd was excited about spending the badger likes ''tidy''. He does it very well. Wellweekend with his grandmother, perhaps it's a little bit ''too'' wellnot least because she made the best beetle juice. He's not content with checking all the flowers in the woodland packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and removing any which didn't quite match, he insists on brushing fox then gathered together his button collection to remove all the brambles and burrsshow his grandmother. I'm not certain that using a hedgehog She had promised to take him to do the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this is really a good idea, but Pete seems as he wanted to find it effectivemake new friends. All the birds have to be bathedAt home, his only friend was his mum and their beaks clean and even the rocks are scoured and scrubbedhe wondered why that could be. Leaves are a major problem: just think about all Grandma thought that sweeping up and all the bin bags of leaves which have to it might be stored. There is an obvious solutionbecause he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273982</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sophy Henn1529504775|title= Pass It OnThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|genre= For Sharing|summary= A small girl wakes up one morning, yawns in Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the morning sun park and then bounces through watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day finding joy Elsie spotted a bus in everyday situations the toy shop window which would help David - and encouraging those around was happy to use the coins from her money box to enjoy them toopay for it as cash was tight at home. Even on gloomy grey days she has Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the happy knack of finding something bus, now damaged and rusted, to smile about. This is most definitely a ''glass half full'' little person. By the end of book Repair Shop, hoping that the reader probably will be too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723299862</amazonuk>experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roger Hargreaves1529504767|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 character, they're getting together with their friends for bigger and bolder adventures. Of course it would be Little Miss Curious who, in a curious way, finds the footprint to begin with. She turns to Mr Clever to find out what it is and, being clever, he tells her immediately: it belongs to a dinosaur. How exciting! Christmas Doll (The pair, along with some friends, set out to find the dinos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283033</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRepair Shop Stories)|author=A A Milne Amy Sparkes and E H Shepard|title=Now We Are SixKatie Hickey

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=We can see the signs Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in [[The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne and E H Shepard|The House at Pooh Corner]] that Christopher Robin is growing up 1939 and now he has school work nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to doher final destination. But heShe needn's a lucky little boy t have worried though as he has Winnie she went to the Pooh home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to help himenjoy her life. Or is he lucky, given that Winnie is also known as She'd help Mrs Russell with the Bear of very little brain'? Actually, Pooh has a message for us in baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the introduction: he says that he walked through the book one day, looking for his friend Piglet, and sat down decorations on some of the pages by mistakeChristmas tree. He hopes that we won't mindThe best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280867</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Chris Chatterton 1916459943|title=Supermarket GremlinsSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=Have you ever wandered down the aisle at your local Super Marché and found some frozen peas in the bread sectionMuch as mothers love their babies, or there's something they all dread - a lonely carrot hanging out with the cerealsqueakily baby. What He's so tired but he can be the cause of all the mistakes't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, spills he just lies on his blanket and wobbly wheels that plague every superstore known ''wails''. The sea offers to manhelp. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, women and child? hush''. Incompetent staff Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and lazy customers dumping stock? you have the sound perfectly. NopeThe mermaids join in - ''la lou, these problems are all caused by the sneaky Gremlins who lurk in every shopla lay...'' 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 happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277130</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H Shepard140639131X|title=The House at Pooh Corner|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The title of the book comes from the first story, in which Winnie and Piglet build a house at Pooh corner for Eeyore, but perhaps the most famous story in this second book is at chapter six, when the game of Pooh Sticks is invented. We also meet Tigger for the first time and as with the first book [[Winnie-the-Pooh by A A Milne and E H Shepard|Winnie-the-Pooh]] each chapter is a short story in its own right, except for chapters eight and nine which have a degree of continuity as Owl's house is blown down in chapter eight and a new one is found for him at the Wolery in chapter nine. It's still not overly long even if you end up reading both as a bedtime story!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280840</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Surya Sajnani|title= Pets A Slide and Play Book|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary=''Pets'' is two in one, a book and a game, and for little ones who can't or won't sit still long enough Practical Present for a full story, it's a great way to introduce books while keeping it fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609929152</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPhilippa Pheasant|author= Jo Empson|title= Little Home Bird|rating=5|genre= For Sharing|summary= 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 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 SleepBriony May Smith

|summary=TherePhilippa Pheasant was ''tired''s nothing worse than sleep deprivationof nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. I remember when my daughter was just a few months old and I was getting up with her four or five times She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a night I would sometimes find myself shopping in Tesco with absolutely no recollection of how I got there (or quite what I was shopping for)reply. Sadly, this wonPhilippa wasn't help with those squawky newborns, but once your little one gets a bit older this is certainly worth bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a try, especially if your bedtime routine tends to resemble feeding time problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the zoo!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571330193</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Judith Kerr|title=Mog school crossing and the Baby and Other Stories|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I've never been a fan of catsdecided that she would set up something similar herself. I'm more of a dog person. Mog, however, has weaseled her way into my heart, Her uniform and although I certainly wouldn't want her as lollipop stick were both a pet in my house, we love reading her storieslittle amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. This collection of ''Mog and All the animals used the Baby'', ''Mog's Bad Thing'', crossing and ''Mog on Fox Night'' is perfect for Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a nice afternoon bumper storytime together with your little one, or you can just read them one by one over three nightssafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008157995</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Pindar and Susan Batori1776574338|title=Strictly No CrocsLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn

|summary=You can’t go wrong with a good crocodile story. Not that these crocodiles are goodEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, oh nomakes his way through the city, after being banned from attending Zebra’s party they have grand plans to sneak in and eat everyone there! Once they are secretly dressed picking up children as a leopard, a parrot and a bee (!) their plans don’t go quite as they’d wished…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861877</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=E T Harper and Dan Taylor|title=Dylanhe goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don's Amazing Dinosaurs - The Triceratops|rating= 3.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Imagination is one thing; what wonderful adventures you could have should you be able t even need to travel to the distant past and walk amongst the dinosaurs. Reality is different; running around in bone shaking terror as various man-eating dinos crave your flesh. This has not stopped Dylan embarking on another amazing adventure go downstairs – will he survive a velociraptor attack and why does he keep doing back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119408</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Roger Hargreaves|title= My First Mr Men 123|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= As first books go, board books are good because they withstand a bit simply climb out of biting, a bit of dribbling, a bit of roughness induced by not quite there yet hand-eye coordination. And as topics go, counting is great when you're trying to teach 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 the Matrix whilst we get eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on with drivingtrees. HoweverInfuriated, curious young minds will keep asking questions. Sometimes it is better to give them an answerLily checks with the teacher, rather than just telling later.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691831</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ben Bailey Smith who explains that fruits grow on trees and Sav Akyuz|title= I Am Bear|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= The first time we meet Bear he is bare! Imagine – a naked animalvegetables, like carrots, grow in the forest with his bottom on displayground. Squirrel is so shocked he's dropped his nuts. Ooh matronJordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406359254</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo WeaverB09FFJF8YS|title=Little OneYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine 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

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Meet the ChiefRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, A new cellist in a quite horrible orchestratogether with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has suddenly turned their fortunes – and his – roundsmall eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. He is now a superstar, They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and asking for more and more grandeur and help in his lifethen push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. But one nightSo, when his chauffeur doesnRemy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't turn up for believe him after yet one more sterling performancewhen he tries to explain what happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is the story of Isobel, he finds himself alone a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a world that doesnhouse - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't care how good a cellist he is, but one where destiny might just depend afford to put the heating on him learning : ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the power corner of teamwork…the bedpost.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215440</amazonuk>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.