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[[imageCategory:lumplump.jpgNew Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|centertitle=Murray and Bun|linkrating=https://books4.google.com/books?id5|genre=dDc9DQAAQBAJ&printsecConfident Readers |summary=frontcover&dq=lump+lump+Murray is supposed to be 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 his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and+the+blanket+catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of+dreams&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz47visd3QAhVT_WMKHQ8CA8UQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=lump%20lump%20and%20the%20blanket%20of%20dreams&ffrightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=false]]0008561249<hr/>[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Alice Hemming The Adventures of Birpus and Louise ForshawBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Buzz Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Jump! Jump! Indre Ta (Early ReaderIllustrator) |rating=54
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|summary=After hearing a mysterious buzzing When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the kitchenForest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, mum traps a fly in a jarspewing hot, but then she hears the buzzing again..sour milk from his nostrils.what could be going on? Meanwhile, Ken the Kangaroo (who declares himself to be the best Please don't try this at jumpinghome: it won't end well.) Fortunately, is jumping everywhere he can. In this red level book, aimed generally they were nearly at those who have completed their reception year in schoolNobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, there are two simple, sweet stories they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in one bookthe tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, perfect for those who are just learning to readNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862504</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Julia SealB0CC9W7GLR|title=Bamboo On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and I Wish (Early Reader) Jenny Fionda
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|summary=With two stories in one bookKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, there's plenty to like about this simplebored but warm, or frozen cold and funny, early readerbuilding 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. The first storyAs the ice bumped onto the sand, Bamboo, deals the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a cheeky panda who has run off to hidefor it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. Where can he He obviously needed to be? The second story is about taken home on the bus and given a wishing well which is granting wishes left, right good meal and centre! Evaluated as a red level book, it sets itself as being about the right level for those around the end of their reception yearsomewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862512</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Brennan and Jane Tanner1913839656|title= Storm Whale|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= This is one of the most beautiful picture books that I have read for a while. ''Bleak was the day and the wind whipped downWhen I and my sisters walked to town…'' So begins this story of three sisters who set off to walk to the beach together in this stunning and rather special picture book. The cover illustration is reminiscent of traditional family holidays depicting three girls, hand in hand and wearing sunhats disappearing over sand dunes on their way to the beach. The story then departs from a typical seaside theme as the sisters find a stranded whale on the beach and spend the day in desperate attempts to save it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646253</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Barney Saltzberg|title= Chengdu Can Do|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= There's something utterly delightful (and, it must be said, sometimes infuriating, especially when you're in a hurry) about the toddler's determination to be independent. Scrambling along using any handy piece of furniture or, if they don't move fast enough, the family pet as a prop, exploring cupboards full of the most enticing objects, and the daily struggle to get as much dinner in his or her own mouth as on the walls – all that requires grit and a refusal to fail which augurs well for the little oneLet's future. That can-do attitude, so lauded by education, enterprise and big business, is a quality Chengdu the panda has in bucket-loads! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484758471</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCelebrate Being Different|author= Sean Taylor and Kasia Matyjaszek|title=I am Actually a PenguinLainey Dee|rating=43.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Do you know a child who loves to dress up? Well this is the perfect picture book for that child. Quite probably the perfect picture book for the parent of that child too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Barney Saltzberg|title=Chengdu Could Not, Would Not, Fall Asleep|rating=4
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|summary=The list of entertaining things Todd was excited about toddlers does spending the weekend with his grandmother, not include any least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of the following; throwing food against your recently painted walls, nappy deposits, or deciding dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to stay up way past their bedtimeshow his grandmother. There are few things more unsettling She had promised to a parent than a toddler used take him to their routine suddenly deciding the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to stay up way past their bedtime; they scream, they procrastinatemake new friends. At home, they blub and then finally collapse (his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that is just Mum and Dad)could be. The reason Grandma thought that so many children's books are about settling down and going to bed is to avoid the staying up eventuality, so will a book about an insomniac panda work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484775651</amazonuk>it might be because he looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer Coleman1529504775|title=Hidden World: ForestThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=The cover of this book might tell you all that you need Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to know if you're buying a book for a boy who loves noisy vehicles, but if you dismiss it on those grounds you might be making a mistakethe park and watch the red buses drive past. Let me tell you a bit about itElsie 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. It's One day Elsie spotted a substantiallybus in the toy shop window which would help David -built board book with suitably rounded corners for when it's used as a missile and it has tabs which take you was happy to use the pages coins from her money box to pay for the vehicles we're going to be looking it as cash was tight athome. There's a helicopterGradually, David learned to stand up, a police caruse the bus for support, a fire engine and an ambulancewalk behind it. For a lot of books for Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the youngest children Repair Shop, hoping that would be it - and a lot of children would enjoy looking at the pictures. But - experts there's more..could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937428</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Craig Shuttlewood1529504767|title=Town and Country The Christmas Doll (Turnaround BookThe Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=I know I should 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 been working but I've just spent worried though as she went to the last hour pouring over ''Town home of Mr and Country'Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. On the face of it there's a very simple idea here: on each doubleShe even had her own room -page spread you get examples of what happens in towns all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and what happens in the countryside with regard began to various activities, modes of transport and even things like beaches and snowenjoy her life. You turn She'd help Mrs Russell with the book one way for the country scene baking and then flip when it over for what happens in came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the townChristmas tree. Down The best surprise happened the side of each page there's a list of things for you to find, complete with a thumbnail of what it is you're looking forfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404422</amazonuk>
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{{newreview <!-- remove 11/8 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=B C R Fegan and Lenny Wen1916459943|title=Henry and the Hidden TreasureSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=Henry is Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a careful young mansqueakily baby. He has a lot of treasure and 's so tired but he keeps it very well hidden. We might not call it can'treasuret - or won't - go to sleep: like instead, he just lies on his parents weblanket and 'd probably call it 'pocket moneywails' and suggest that what he's not going . The sea offers to spend he should put in the bankhelp. But Henry's worried It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hehush, hush'' knows that only ''he'' can keep his treasure safe. But what, or who, is he keeping his treasure safe Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''fromla lou, la lay...''? Well, he has And for a little sister called Lucy and despite the fact that his parents think he should be nicer to Lucy, Henry knows that she's really a secret ninja spy sent moment it seems to steal have worked as Baby closes his treasureeyes. IsnThen a seagull ''t that true of 'shouts'all'' little sisters?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995359253</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anna Kovecses|title= Counting Things|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Little Mouse is learning lots of new things in this series of books by the Hungarian illustrator Anna Kovecses, and here we see the delightful little rodent counting its way through the jungle, the farmyard, the countryside and the town. On every page the same question is asked, beginning with know exactly what'How many . . . ?', and the toddler, with the help of an adult or older sibling, will soon learn s going to touch the named items on the page and under the flaphappen next. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alison Jay140639131X|title= Alison Jay's ABC|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= At first glance, this is a beautiful but fairly standard alphabet book: one letter per page with a nice big picture of an apple or a panda front and centre - after all, the ABC format is pretty restrictive, isn't it? And truth be told, that's all most small people will see first time round. But look a little closer . . . |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787410196</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Anna Kovecses|title=Opposite ThingsBriony May Smith
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|summary=Rearing a child is not a competition, but have a conversation with a certain type Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of parent and they won't agree. Their child can speak four languagesnearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. Their child She wrote their first sonnet at to the mayor about the age of threeproblem but didn't even get a reply. Their child can be seen wistfully looking into the middle distance just wanting Philippa wasn't a bird to play sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the bouncy castleschool crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. For me, I am happy, if my child is happy; be that doing sums, or eating play-dohHer uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. However, All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even with a relaxed attitude to educating your kid, it can be fun trained up to learn a little, especially when provide a book is as fun as Little Mouse's ''Opposite Things''safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030381</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Powell1776574338|title= Search and Find: Pride & Prejudice: A Jane Austen Search and Find BookLeilong's Too Long!|rating= 4|genreauthor= Emerging Readers|summary= Search and find books are usually aimed at children. They are a good bit of fun, but they are also a good study tool for adult readers alike. Jane Austen is a fantastic novelist, but her style of writing can be daunting for those not used to such heavy prose. It is very easy to become lost in the myriad of dialogue, characters and events. I find a good plot summary helps when approaching her works, this was especially so in the case of the perplexing Julia Liu and long-winded Emma. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783708271</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bob Shea|title=The Scariest Book EverBei Lynn|rating=3.54
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|summary=Ghost is a bit of a scaredy-cat! After spilling some orange juice on Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his sheetway through the city, picking up children as he stays goes. Children who live at home, naked, and we as readers head the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out into of the woods to tell him whatwindow and slide down his neck. It's thereperfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though. Whilst Leilong isn't happy in the city: he tries 's always having to persuade us that the woods are super scary be careful about where he puts his feet and full of bad things, – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that wehe can'd t be much better off staying in and cleaning the bathroom, we get to see what's really going on in the woods, and try to persuade ghost to come out with us…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484730461</amazonuk>bus anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bethan Woollvin1776574028|title=RapunzelBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=Ah Rapunzel, how well we all know about her long golden hair and her difficult-to-escape towerI love a good board book! Here, however, the story ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is told with aimed at quite a twist, because there is no handsome Prince niche market: it's for the child who comes riding by to save Rapunzel from her incarceration. Nostill enjoys board books (er, instead we see Rapunzel is smart enough my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to figure her own way out, defeating the witch, and going on to a successful witch-hunting career.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509842675</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Puttock and Daniel Egneus|title= The Thing|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= One day have realise that you can ''the Thingplay'' falls with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the sky elephant who dons a tutu - and four strangers stumble across it. At first they are confused. What is becomes a ''the Thingballetphant''? What does it do? What is it for? Then the four of them decide to work together to look after . The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and care for 'then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''the Thingfluffalo''. Soon word spreads about The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''the Thingcrynoceros'' and others come from far and wide to find out more. Gradually (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a media circus builds up around ''the Thing''sm...... Throughout all of this ''the Thing'' remains silent. Then just as suddenly and silently as it arrived ''the Thing OK, let'' departs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283718</amazonuk>s not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bond and R W Alley1838226834|title=Best-loved Paddington StoriesCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=With the sad passing It was one of Michael Bond those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there is no time like to undo all the present to revisit some of good that parents do, so the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddingtontrips out were always so much fun. As A young boy was going to the character has proved so timeless regular re-issues of the books have appeared and carnival with his Grandad, who told him: ''Best-loved Paddington StoriesIt'll be brilliant, just remember, don' brings three t let go of these stories togethermy hand. Does this collection really reflect the best that the bear has to offer or are they just three random tales stuck together with marmalade?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008245037</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title= Heather Pindar Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Sarah JenningsHare|titleauthor=WishkerCordellya Smith
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|summary= There are few children's series 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 have been as long lasting as Judith Kerrhe could see the present 's 'and'Mog'' books and even though the cat may no longer future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with us, there is Turtle. You might think that's not a huge back catalogue of old stories fair contest but wait and images that could be repurposedsee. In the wrong hands reusing old Mog images would Things are not always as they seem like a crass cash in, but done right, they could still hold the same sentimental appeal that the daft old cat has for so many people. Which way does I''My First Mog ABC'' fall?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008245509</amazonuk>ll tell you how it came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tracey Corderoy and Jorge MartinRob Keeley|title= Fairy Tale PetsCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Bob is neat. He lives in a neat and tidy house with Rex his friendly and really quite neat dog. All is well in their neat and happy world except for one thing. Bob needs a job. He decides to be a pet-sitter and is looking forward to looking after cute little hamsters and bunnies. What actually arrives is unfortunately something quite different and poor Bob is quite unprepared for the chaos that ensues when his ''pets'' misbehave. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848694415</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mini Grey|title=The Bad Bunnies' Magic Show|rating=4.5
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|summary=In a slight change to the scheduling Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, the Great Hypno Lily is unavailable keen to explain how good they are for tonight's magic showyou and how nice to eat.One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees..but not to worryInfuriated, ready to step into Lily checks with the breach are Mr Abra teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and Mr Cadabravegetables, like carrots, a pair of innocent looking bunniesgrow in the ground. Their show promises to be fast and dangerousJordan says, and it certainly turns out "I did try to be bothtell her, though perhaps not quite in the way the bunnies imaginedMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471157601</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Jarman and Lynne ChapmanB09FFJF8YS|title=Class One Farmyard FunYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=When Class One go on a trip to ''For the farmbig, grownup girls out there, the day is not plain sailing. The teacher's traumas donpotty masters in training, "You Can't revolve around the usual 'who will be sick on Wear Panties!" is a cry (the coach' issues however, and instead relate to one rather grumpy farmyard animal big- the bullgirl kind! All sorts ) of trauma ensues when the bull escapes from his field, toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'' And so it takes is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a lot of the children working together little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to be able "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to catch him back in his field her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and lock him upher baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. All things consideredNeither can the flowers, this probably isn't nor the best book for any teachers to read aloud fish, nor the day before a school trip.birds.Boy's certainly can't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444927159</amazonuk>She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antje DammJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Waiting for GoliathEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Bear 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 waiting for Goliath. That's Bear on But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the cover wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and it was what first drew me to this bookeveryone will laugh. At you. He looks so Justine Avery's latest entry in her 'forlorn'Everybody Potties!' that I wanted to know what the problem was. He's not exactly forlorn, but he has been waiting series takes aim at the bus stop since dawn any shame associated with tooting and he might be getting just a little bit bored. He lies down (legs dangling down gently and tummy flat on calmly, with the seat) and familiar humour attached, explains to everyone that Goliath tooting is his best friendperfectly normal. Robin wanted to know if Goliath is as strong as Bear and Bear says that he is. HeEverybody does it: ''s smart too. He can count to eighteen. BearEverybody Toots's obviously been at the stop for quite a while as the spring flowers have fallen from the trees. He's there through the dark too - he just curls up and sleeps on the seat.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>177657141X</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Reece WykesB09BG8V3Q6|title=I Dare You|rating=2.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Some children's books require a robust sense of humour from a parent, or at least the ability to look the other way when a book is being naughty. There are more books on pants and poo than could fill a landfill, but when is something too far for a children's book? Bragging? Lying? CannibalismWho Needs Nappies?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445378</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNot Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Chris Hadfield Justine Avery and The Fan Brothers|title=The Darkest DarkSeema Amjad
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|summary=Back in the nineteen sixties in a cottage on Stag Island in Southern Ontario, Canada there was a boy called Chris who loved playing with rockets. Actually they were made out of cardboard boxes, but they were rockets to Chris and he and his dog would play space games all day. He really didn't have time for anything else and he certainly didn't have time to sleep. Well, actually, thereWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!''s a secret here: Chris was afraid of is the latest release in the dark and everyone knows that when it's 'Everybody Potties!'very'' dark series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the worst sort pain out of aliens come into the bedroom. Night after night his parents worked very hard to get him to sleep in his own bedroom potty training children and replace it was only the threat that if Chris didnwith some fun. It't get into his own bed and go to sleep everyone would be too tired to go next door the following evening to watch something special on televisions a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. There was only the one television on the island, you see.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150982409X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate MilnerB07GZ81J7C|title=My Name is not Refugee|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A child's mother tells her child that they will have to leave this town: it's not safe for them any longer. She explains what will happen. The child can pack his own bag, but he has to remember that he must only take what he can carry. Initially it will be exciting and they can't live in a place where there's no water in When Fred the taps and the rubbish just piles up in the streets. It's going to be an adventure, but sometimes they're going to be on their own and it will get a bit boring, but sometimes they'll be with other people and he must remember to hold on to an adult's hand. They'll see lots of cars and lorries and sleep in some strange places. They'll hear people speaking in strange languages and taste new foods. Eventually they'll get to somewhere where they are safe Snake Got Squished and can unpack. The strange words will start to make sense. He'll be called Refugee, but he has to remember that Refugee is not his name.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370065</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMended|author=Oliver Jeffers|title=The Great Paper CaperPeter Cotton
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|summary=Something terrible is happening in the forestMeet Fred. Branches from trees are going missing overnightWell, actually, and nobody knows whatyou's re going onto be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Everyone living in the forest gathers together to look at the crime scene, Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to try warm to discover what has happenedhim. Initially He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they blame each other, but after discovering everyone there has would take Fred out with them when they went out for a solid alibi they continue their investigations to try and find walk. And that was where the culpritproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007182333</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maudie Smith Justine Avery and Paul HowardNaday Meldova|title=The Dressing-Up DadEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Danny and his dad both love dressing up! Whatever the eventCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, or reason, they are readyas any parent will tell you. IndeedBut really, they donwhy shouldn't really need a reason, but it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just happily dress up together at home, or as we have to learn about everything else when they go out, as spacemen, a knight and a dragon, sea creatures and wizardswe are small...you name it, they can dress up Why shouldn't potty training be as it! Danny loves having so much fun with his dadas, but then one day he does start to wonder what it would be like to have a normal, ordinary dadsay, learning about why the sun and so for his birthday he decides to ask his dad to dress up as an ordinary dad!the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019274979X</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mac Barnett Justine Avery and Jon KlassenNaday Meldova|title=TriangleNo, No, No!
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|summary=This is a story about TriangleThey say the best picture books are the simplest ones. One day he goes out And nothing could be truer of his house and walks this latest from Justine Avery, a long way to go and play a sneaky trick on his friendBookbag favourite. ''No, No, SquareNo!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable. It ''s quite a long walkNo, past lots and lots of trianglesno, and then lots of shapes with no name! Okay, and then lots and lots of squaresokay. Yes, you may. What will happen after he'' That's played his trick it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on Square, though? Will Triangle get his comeuppance?the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406376671</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Usher194812467X|title=SunThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=It was Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the hottest day top of the yearhill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. Hotter, if such It's a thing farm shop! But this is possible, than broccoli soup, a farm shop with a difference: all the Atacama Desert stallholders and the surface of the suncustomers are farmyard animals. Grandad decreed that it was the perfect day for an adventure There are sheep and ducks and began packing the picnic basket with all sorts of useful things: watercows, biscuitsgoats and chickens, a telescope, camera, sun protection, fruit, sandwichesand even some mice. Excited, toys Kirelle and lots, lots moreSam go shopping. How are a boy and his grandad to know what What will they're going to needbuy? Grandad was the navigator and the boy was the lookout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178370795X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Williams0995647895|title=Grandpa Diet Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and DiabetesAnita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=NickSadie's Mum is an accident and emergency nurse and life can get mother always said that she was a bit hectic at timesdreamer, particularly when her mind never on what she has to arrange for someone to look after Nick and his twin sister Emmashould be doing. One day in She lives by the school holidays Grandpa 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 houses cowered in the pleasure of looking after gloom,''<br>''To the kids and Nick thought this Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was coolfired. Grandpa used She'd love to be sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a bit of a rocker, you see, glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and thatthe attendant's the sort of music he always has playingwarning shout. He might have a stick but Nick sure that he doesnWhen she woke (hard floors don't really need it - it's there just make comfy beds) she was in case. He does the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a problem though world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and Mum explains it by saying that Grandpa has to eat at the right time every day because he has diabetestreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667641</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet1782227741|title=Supertato Run Veggies RunLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=IOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It've heard s quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of these so called superfoodsthe street. Finding himself down in the sewer, they are reported Ted starts to boost your immune system panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and flush alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out areas of your body that have gone unnoticed for decadesthe dirty water using his cane, but does this make them super? In my mind to be which might look just a superfood you need to do something spectacular; lift bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a car from a trapped child, or leap over kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a building in one bound. The vegetable and fruit in my house can't do any nice bowl of this, but then they aren't Supertato; a spectacular spud that, more than once, has saved the day with his powersbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121038</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr SeussB08R7LXQ9S|title=Dr Seuss's ABCRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=No one who has read his work can deny that Dr Seuss had a powerful imaginationRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, He was able to pluck from together with his brainpan not only interesting takes on old ideassidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but also new creatures they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and worlds then push him just that had never been seen beforelittle bit further when the other kids are around. His books are often madder than a box of March haresSo, when Remy reacts, but even it looks as though he must have had his limits? The humble ABC book (dare I say was the dull ABC book), surely instigator. And then he could not bring his sense of anarchic fun to this staple of gets into trouble at school and the childrenteachers don's education market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007487754</amazonuk>t believe him when he tries to explain what happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nosy Crow1471191303|title=British Museum: ABCThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=45
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|summary=Learning your ABCs This is also seemingly learning the same items appearing over and over againstory of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. A is not only A – it is also AppleIsobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost. B is Ball, C is Car'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. It is almost as if there are only 26 objects in Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the world house and they happen had to start with different letters move to the far side of the alphabetcity. In factThis part of the city was cold, apart from Xylophone sad and X-Ray, there are loads of things that you could choose to put in an ABC book, if only you had a vast repository of objects lonely and art that you could choose from …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638165</amazonuk>Isobel felt invisible.
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{{newreview <!-- remove 17/5 -->Frontpage|titleauthor=Go To Sleep!Nick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Marion AdamsOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=''It was midnight on the wild moorsMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. The round white moon peeped over the cloudsShe collects books about bears. The barn owl flew from tree to tree without making Her favourite toy is Berisford, a soundteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. The cool Every night breeze rustled through , she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the gorse bushesbear statue outside.''Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}}