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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard ByrneAdam Stower|title=We're in the Wrong Book!Murray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Rarely do you read Murray is supposed to be a book written for adults that breaks 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 fourth wall, but not a month goes past that I dontwo. But he't stumble across s a childrenbad magician's book that cat, so his favourite bun has characters talking to been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the readerregular back garden, or jumping from book to bookbut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Done This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, the idea of leaping from genre one much bigger than Murray was, to genre within the refines of the same text is a great way of introducing youngsters be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to different types of reading material. Done averagely and it feels more like an author ticking off that pesky fourth wall breaking book for their resume. do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192743171</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Airlie Anderson1732898766|title=Cat's ColoursThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=Great Britain can feel like a grey country sometimes, especially on a cold winterWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they's day when re running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the fog Sour Milk Dragon is thick in the airchasing them. You can barely see your own hand in front of youHe's right behind them, spewing hot, never mind the fertile landscapesour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. ) Bringing a little colour into a grey world is like bringing a little joy inFortunately, so perhaps you can find they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a little happiness following Cat as she looks ladder of moss and vines was lowered for some colour? them, they escaped. You may even discover a wonderful surprise at They climbed up to the end of Tree Wee homes high up in the adventuretangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846437601</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rachel Bright and Jim FieldB0CC9W7GLR|title= On the Beach: The Lion InsideWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Books about scary beasts that turn out Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be not so scary are immensely popularat home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and I blame Disney building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for how much of making a hit this run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one is sure apple and then another. He obviously needed to be. The reason is sitting quietly taken home on top of the bus and given a rock on page five. Why, hello Mr Liongood meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331608</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth Lucas1913839656|title=Peekaboo 1 2 3Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee

|summary=We're waiting for Todd was excited about spending the start of weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the Animal Antics race and everyone (well ''nearly'' everyone, but more of that later) is wondering who is going to winbest beetle juice. At the moment is looks as though the lineup is a crab He packed two pairs of dungarees and two mice, but more - ''lots'' more - entrants are hidden behind the flaps. Lift the first flap his favourite hat and there's 'One polar bear on a pogo stick'then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Under She had promised to take him to the second we have 'two turkeys on a tandem'. At number three there are 'three gorillas in a gondola'. You're probably getting Friday Night Club at the idea by now! The crab local community centre and the mice are still running, but they're not going to have a chance Todd was pleased about this as we move through the numbers individually up he wanted to twenty and then in tens up to fiftymake new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and then a giant leap to a hundred - with the way the entrants are travelling getting more and more outrageous by the minutehe wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692293</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barroux1529504775|title=Where's the Starfish?The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary=There's a whaleElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. A large whale. And there's a lot Elsie would race the buses along the side of fish. A the park but David couldn't - he'lot'' of fishd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. They're there in every shape and size you can imagine and One day Elsie spotted a bus in amongst them are the Starfish, the Jellyfish toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the Clownfishcoins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. On the first page it's actually quite difficult Gradually, David learned to find those three in amongst all stand up, use the othersbus for support, but if you persist you will find themand walk behind it. It will still be quite difficult on Many decades later, Elsie brought the following pagebus, but there's a little something creeping in that's not quite so pleasant. There's an empty plastic bottle now damaged and an old tin can. Actuallyrusted, the fish are quite interested. It's a little easier to spot our three fish on the next pageRepair Shop, because hoping that the experts there isn't quite could make it so much space. The rubbish has grown, you seethat her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280085</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Gravett1529504767|title=TidyThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Pete 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 worried though as she went to the badger likes ''tidy'home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. He does She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it very wellcame to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. WellThe best surprise happened the following morning.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, perhaps itthere's something they all dread - a little bit ''too'' wellsqueakily baby. He's not content with checking all the flowers in the woodland and removing any which didnso tired but he can't - or won't quite match- go to sleep: instead, he insists just lies on brushing fox to remove all the brambles his blanket and burrs''wails''. I'm not certain that using a hedgehog The sea offers to do this is really a good idea, but Pete seems to find it effectivehelp. All It rocks Baby gently and the birds have to be bathedwaves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and their beaks clean and even you have the rocks are scoured and scrubbedsound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay... '' Leaves are And for a major problem: just think about all that sweeping up and all the bin bags of leaves which moment it seems to have to be storedworked as Baby closes his eyes. There is an obvious solutionThen a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273982</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sophy Henn140639131X|title= Pass It OnA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|genre= For Sharing|summary= A small girl wakes up one morning, yawns in Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the morning sun and then bounces through mayor about the day finding joy in everyday situations and encouraging those around her problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to enjoy them too. Even sit back on gloomy grey days her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she has saw the happy knack benefits of finding the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something to smile aboutsimilar herself. This is most definitely Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a ''glass half full'' little personamateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. By All the end of book animals used the reader probably will be too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723299862</amazonuk>crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roger Hargreaves1776574338|title= Mr Men Adventure with DinosaursLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating= 54|genre= For Sharing|summary= The Mr Men Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and Little Misses are branching outslide down his neck. No longer content with simple stories focussing on just one character It's perfect, theyisn're getting together with their friends for bigger and bolder adventures. Of course t it would ? What could be Little Miss Curious who, in a curious more fun wayof going to school? There is a problem, finds though. Leilong isn't happy in the footprint city: he's always having to begin with. She turns to Mr Clever to find out what it is be careful about where he puts his feet and, being clever, – because he's longer than a tennis court – he tells her immediately: it belongs often causes damage without intending to a dinosaurand traffic regularly gets snarled up. How exciting! The pair, along with some friends, set out to find school decides that he can't be the dinosbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H Shepard1776574028|title=Now We Are SixBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=54|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=We can see the signs in [[The House I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at Pooh Corner by A A Milne and E H Shepard|The House at Pooh Corner]] that Christopher Robin is growing up and now he has school work to do. But hequite a niche market: it's a lucky little boy as he for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has Winnie the Pooh mastered sufficient language skills to help himhave realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Or is he lucky, given that Winnie is also known as We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant'the Bear of very little brain'? . Actually, Pooh The buffalo who has had a message for us in the introduction: he says that he walked through the book one day, looking for bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his friend Piglet, and sat down ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on some of the pages by mistakehis potty changes into a ''sm....... '' He hopes that we wonOK, let't mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280867</amazonuk>s not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Chris Chatterton 1838226834|title=Supermarket GremlinsCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall

|summary=Have you ever wandered down It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the aisle at your local Super Marché and found some frozen peas in good that parents do, so the bread section, or a lonely carrot hanging trips out with the cerealwere always so much fun. What can be A young boy was going to the cause of all the mistakescarnival with his Grandad, spills and wobbly wheels that plague every superstore known to manwho told him: ''It'll be brilliant, women and child? Incompetent staff and lazy customers dumping stock? Nopejust remember, these problems are all caused by the sneaky Gremlins who lurk in every shopdon't let go of my hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277130</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A A Milne Cherolachian Tortoise and E H ShepardHare|titleauthor=The House at Pooh CornerCordellya Smith|rating=54

|summary=The title of When the book comes from world was made, the first story, in which Winnie and Piglet build animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received 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 inventedstrong web that even fire could not burn. We also meet Tigger for Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the first time present ''and as with '' the first book [[Winniefuture. Rabbit developed intelligence -but, unfortunately, not the-Pooh by A A Milne and E H Shepard|Winnie-the-Pooh]] each chapter is a short story ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in its own right, except for chapters eight and nine which have a degree of continuity as Owlrace with Turtle. You might think that's house is blown down in chapter eight not a fair contest but wait and a new one is found for him at the Wolery in chapter ninesee. Things are not always as they seem. ItI's still not overly long even if ll tell you end up reading both as a bedtime story!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280840</amazonuk>how it came about.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Surya SajnaniRob Keeley|title= Pets A Slide and Play BookCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!

|summary=There's nothing worse than sleep deprivation Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. I remember when my daughter was just a few months old She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and I was getting aubergines. When her friends at school turn up with her four or five times a night I would sometimes find myself shopping in Tesco with absolutely no recollection of their noses, Lily is keen to explain how I got there (or quite what I was shopping good they are for)you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. SadlyInfuriated, this won't help Lily checks with those squawky newbornsthe teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, but once your little one gets a bit older this is certainly worth a "I did tryto tell her, especially if your bedtime routine tends to resemble feeding time Miss!" and everyone laughs at the zoo!poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571330193</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith KerrB09FFJF8YS|title=Mog and the Baby You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Other StoriesKate Zhoidik|rating=3.5

|summary=I've never been a fan of cats. I'm more of a dog person. MogFor the big, howevergrownup girls out there, has weaseled her way into my heartthe potty masters in training, and although I certainly wouldn"You Can't want her as Wear Panties!" is a pet in my house, we love reading her stories. This collection cry (the big-girl kind!) of ''Mog toilet triumph and the Babypersevering panty pride.'', ''Mog  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's Bad Thing''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 ''Mog on Fox Nightshe'' is perfect for a nice afternoon bumper storytime together with your little onecan wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, or you nor the birds. Boy's certainly can just read them one by one over three nights't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008157995</amazonuk>She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heather Pindar Justine Avery and Susan BatoriNaday Meldova|title=Strictly No CrocsEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=You can’t Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong with a good crocodile storytime. Not that these crocodiles are goodIn class, oh nosay, after being banned from attending Zebra’s party they have grand plans to sneak 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 tooting and gently and eat everyone therecalmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''! |isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} Once they are secretly dressed up as a leopard, a parrot and a bee {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!) their plans don’t go quite as they’d wished…|amazonukauthor= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=<amazonuk>1848861877</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=E T Harper and Dan TaylorB07GZ81J7C|title=Dylan'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 to travel to When Fred the distant past Snake Got Squished 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 – will he survive a velociraptor attack and why does he keep doing back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119408</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMended|author= Roger Hargreaves|title= My First Mr Men 123Peter Cotton|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= As first books goMeet Fred. Well, board books are good because they withstand a bit of biting, a bit of dribblingactually, a bit of roughness induced by not quite there yet hand-eye coordination. And as topics go, counting is great when you're trying going to teach the skill and just need repetitionbe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. Plus it doesn But I't require the focus m getting ahead of attention that myself: I'd better tell you a proper story mightbit more about Fred. So Fred is a board book for counting? Perfect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281731</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kes Gray snake and Jim Field|title=Quick Quack Quentin|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Quentin is even those of us who have a very downhearted duck because his quack is too quickphobia about snakes are going to warm to him. In fact all he can manage is He arrived as a present in a ''Quck.'' This will never do, box with holes so Quentin visits his local doctor to see if there is anything that he can give him could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to make things betterthe extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. Sadly, although And that was where the Doctor is swiftly able to diagnose Quentin's problem, he cannot provide what he needsstarted. Quentin really needs an Fred didn''A'' so waddles off on search of onet have any road sense. On his journey he visits a succession of animals who, whilst being sympathetic to his plight and helpful in their own way, only manage to subtly change his problem rather than solve it. Therefore, poor Quentin's quest for the missing vowel continuesOr brakes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444919563</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo Justine Avery and Sam UsherNaday Meldova|title=We Are Not FROGSEverybody Pees!(Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Bedtime books are a great way of winding a toddler down before they go to sleep, but havenCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't they all been done before? Coming up with something a little different that encourages a child to nod off is not always easy and new ideas can be a little bizarre when , as any parent will tell you think about it. Do bulldozers But really need to doze off at the end of the night, why shouldn't it be? At least we will We all have fun listening to all the machinery learn about our bodily functions just as it goes off we have to bedlearn about everything else when we are small.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121143</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A A Milne and E H Shepard|title=Winnie-the-Pooh|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Is there anyone who doesnWhy shouldn't know about Winnie-the-Pooh? You might know him potty training be as much fun 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 1926say, has been translated into numerous language, including Latin - and that edition featured on learning about why 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 sun and the books which feature him are not moon take turns in the least dated.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280832</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kristyna LittenJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|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 dayNo, though, something happens. He oversleeps and when he wakes up the others are gone and he is all alone. Although he still ventures outNo, 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 RescueNo!

|summary=Fans of lift They say the flap best picture books may have come across Mongo Monkey before as he has are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a series of adventures that always seem to entail lifting up some things and flapping othersBookbag favourite. The interaction in  ''No, No, No!'' is based around the books is very enjoyablesimplest text imaginable. ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, but sometimes it feels like you are just following a monkey and his family around on a normal daymay. Couldn't creator Lydia Monks combine ' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this touch and feel element with tiny snippet of text is a story veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that actually goes somewhere? Perhaps Mungo's day out with his Dad will be keyit appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405278188</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jory John and Benji Davies194812467X|title=I Love You AlreadyThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic

|summary=You may have met Bear Kirelle and Duck before; one is a recluse who just wants 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 sleepthe top of the hill, whilst they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the other is full of energy stallholders and just wants to playcustomers are farmyard animals. The friction between the two may have been resolved by the end of [[Goodnight Already by Jory John There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and Benji Davies]]chickens, but that does not stop Duck from wondering if Bear really likes him or notand even some mice. Do our best friends really have to tell us they love usExcited, or should we just assume by their actions that Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will they dobuy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008165998</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonny Lambert0995647895|title=Little WhySadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=Many of us have felt Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the pain of insistent question asking from River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the back of houses cowered in the car; are we there yet or why is gloom,''<br>''To the sky blue? Maritime Museum''. In 2016 we can attach our children Her imagination was fired. She'd love to multimedia devices so that they learn all they need to know from sail the Matrix whilst we get oceans on with drivingan ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. However, curious young minds will keep asking questionsOne 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. Sometimes it is better to give them When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an answeradventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, rather than just telling laterpirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691831</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Bailey Smith and Sav Akyuz1782227741|title= I Am BearLittle Gold Ted|ratingauthor= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= The first time we meet Bear he is bare! Imagine – a naked animalVanessa Wiercioch, 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 OnePoppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=3.54

|summary=There is One day, Gold Ted falls into a subtle balance needed when finding puddle. It's quite a book to read deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a toddler; one that takes into account drain on the needs side of the childstreet. Finding himself down in the sewer, but perhaps also Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the needs attention of Reg the adult. Do you really want to be stuck reading an ugly book about a pair sewer rat, who plucks him out of underpants for several months? (Oops we seem to have lost that book!) Howeverthe dirty water using his cane, which might look just a book with striking visuals that strikes bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a chord kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a parent may not always chime with a childnice bowl of broth. Is a children's book always meant to be just for kids?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444922734</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicky Benson and Jonny LambertB08R7LXQ9S|title=I Love You More Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and MoreCaroline Siegal|rating=4.5

|summary=IRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''m something of a connoisseur when it comes to books about bears. The school bully Jayden, I suppose it probably started together with Winnie the Pooh, his sidekicks Ryan and my dad doing all the funny voicesBrandon, but even these days I find I am irresistibly drawn to stories with bears inhave been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and this one did has small eyes. They are mean but they are not disappointstupid. If you're looking for a good old pull-at-They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the-heartstrings read for cozy afternoons with your momentarily quiet little oneother kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then this is a good place he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to startexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692110</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ame Dyckman and Zachariah OHora1471191303|title=Wolfie the BunnyThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5

|summary=It may be that you are on This is the lookout for story of Isobel, a useful picture book that deals with sibling rivalry in little girl who made a helpful waybig difference. It may be that you have Isobel lived with her parents in a wolf or rabbit obsessed toddler. Or it may just be that you like house - a good story thatvery cold house, because her parents couldn's fun t afford to read. Fortunately for you, this book will cover all put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of those requirements! Wolfie the bunny arrives in window and crept up the corner of the Bunny bedpost.'' The familydidn's lives in a rather suspicious way, when he is left t go to the cinema or on their doorstep in a basketholidays but they had each other and they were happy. Mama Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and Papa Bunny are immediately charmed by their new babythey had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, but big sister Dot remains alarmed, shouting out 'He's going to eat us all up!' but receiving no response from her smitten parents!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443863</amazonuk>sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean JullienNick Jones and Si Clark|title=RalfOne Night in Beartown

|summary=I'm rather partial to sausage dogs. I met one Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Japan once who I would quite happily have tucked into my suitcase to sneak back home. Ralf the sausage dog is just as endearing as these pups usually areBeartown, although he is also just as troublesomeobsessed with bears. For a little dogShe collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, he manages to take up quite a lot of spaceteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, make a lot she looks out of noise, her bedroom window and generally make a nuisance of himself (as most dogs do really). Yet when suddenly the family find themselves in great danger, it is Ralf who saves the day!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808182</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michelle Robinson and Rebecca Ashdown|title= Odd Socks|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Socks, eh? They never used says goodnight to trouble me, and would return from the washing machine in pairs, just as they had enteredbear statue outside. I never fully understood the whole Land-of-missing-socks thing. Suki and Sosh are Mr and Mrs SockEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a matching pair who live happily together in the sock drawercolourful painted bear that lives at her school. They too have never visited the Land-of-missing-socks. See? It's not just me. But something She even worse is about to happen to tear this couple apart. Something quite horrible: Suki has a hole.bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443375</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} {{newreview|author= Steve Antony|title= Please Mr Panda|rating= 3|genre= For Sharing|summary= Mr Panda has a box of doughnuts and they look great, such bright colours against his black and white monochrome coat. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444916653</amazonuk>}}Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]