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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Iain Smyth and Michael TerryAdam Stower|title=The Wide-Mouthed FrogMurray and Bun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Do you know 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 joke about the wide-mouthed frog? You must have heard ittwo. It But he's a classic. Itbad magician's one that you really need to tell in personcat, with your fingers pulling your mouth wide openso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, but to hopefully spark your memoryand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the wide-mouthed frog introduces himself to regular back garden, but into a number world of animals until he finally comes across frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a crocodile who eats wide-mouthed frogsViking land, and the frog does his best to disguise who he where a troll hunter is whilst saying ''Oohexpected – well, you don't see many of those round hereone much bigger than Murray was, do you?'' I'm hardly doing it justiceto be honest, but ithe's very cheesy turned up and funny. Anyway, this is a book of that joke.he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408804964</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ursula Jones and Sarah Gibb1732898766|title=The Princess Who Had No KingdomAdventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=The princess who When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has no kingdom wanders around in a cart pulled by her horse Prettycome about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. She He's very politeright behind them, friendlyspewing hot, and kind-hearted, but she feels like something is lacking because she doesnsour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't have a kingdom of her ownend well. The other royals she meets treat her nicely enough) Fortunately, but there's always they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a feeling that she's not quite as good as ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them because she isn't , they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the princess of anywheretangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160421</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mij Kelly and Louise NisbetB0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Happiest Man in the World or the Mouse Who Made ChristmasWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=Mouse doesn't like anyone Kit and keeps herself Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to herselfbe at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. Her things are her things On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and she is too selfish to share them with anyone elsewobbly legs moved from the ice. One day Kit was all for making a run for it, an old man moves in to Mouse's housebut Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He used obviously needed to be taken home on the happiest man in the world, but now he's sad. He's fed up of having bus and given, given, given all his life a good meal and never got anything back. He just sits quietly and mopes. This makes Mouse miserable, so one day she decides somewhere to cheer him up by giving him a clementinesleep...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340931558</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Bland1913839656|title=The Very Cranky BearLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=MooseTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, Lion, Zebra not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and Sheep head into a cave then gathered together his button collection to get out of the rain, but little do they know that Bear is fast asleep in thereshow his grandmother. When they wake She had promised to take him up, to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he roars at them, chasing them outside, so they decide wanted to cheer him up somehowmake new friends. Zebra paints stripes on him At home, Moose fashions antlers for him his only friend was his mum and Lion sticks a mane of straw on himhe wondered why that could be. Unsurprisingly, this makes Bear even crankier, so Grandma thought that it's down to Sheep to save the day..might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989424</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kes Gray and Lee Wildish1529504775|title=Mum The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Dad GlueKatie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=A young boyElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he's parents are splitting d been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing upwas very difficult. He's going through One day Elsie spotted a bus in the usual emotions that children of divorce go through: worry, feeling unsure, blaming himself, anger, denial, toy shop window which would help David - and then trying was happy to get them use the coins from her money box to stay togetherpay for it as cash was tight at home. His method for this isn't Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the usual response though: he looks bus for glue to stick his mum support, and dad togetherwalk behind it. Thankfully Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, he finds some wise now damaged and kindly advice in rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the processexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340957107</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara Vulliamy1529504767|title=The Bear With Sticky Paws Won't Go To BedChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=It's Pearl's bedtime, but Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she says would be greeted when shegot to her final destination. She needn's really busy t have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and isnMrs Russell, who couldn't going have been kinder to sleepher. She just wants even had her own room - all to play herself. Gradually she relaxed and play and playbegan to enjoy her life. When She'd help Mrs Russell with the bear with sticky paws rings baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the doorbell, he whisks her away decorations on an amazing adventure - although as you might expect, the bear has a little more energy than Pearl and eventually she does get a little sleepyChristmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408300648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Mackey1916459943|title=MikiSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=ItMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's coldso tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, dark he just lies on his blanket and icy''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and Miki and Penguin are trudging through you have the snowsound perfectly. But it The mermaids join in - ''s Midwinter Evela lou, when wishes come truela lay.. They wish .'' And for a tree, lights, someone strong moment it seems to power the lights, and finally have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a star that will shine brightly forever. Miki is taken deep below the ice to find the star, whilst up top Penguin seagull '''shouts''' and new friend Polar Bear start we know exactly what's going to worry about herhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034095065X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Mayo, Geraldine McCaughrean, Rose Impey, Andrew Matthews, Jane Ray, Ian Beck, Angela Barrett, Emma Chichester Clark and Alan Snow140639131X|title=Magical Princess StoriesA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Most little girls would love a pretty pink book all Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about princesses, wouldnthe problem but didn't they? even get a reply. This one has seven retellings Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of traditional fairy tales accompanied by beautiful illustrations the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would make set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a lovely gift for little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a birthday or Christmassafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140830516X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joyce Dunbar and Jimmy Liao1776574338|title=The Monster Who Ate DarknessLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=Jo-Jo is scared that there might be a monster under 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 slide down his bedneck. He It's right! The hungry monster doesnperfect, isn't want it? What could be a more fun way of going to eat little boys school? There is a problem, though; he eats darkness. He starts with all Leilong isn't happy in the darkness in Jo-Jocity: he's room, and keeps eating always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and eating until – because he's eaten all the darkness in the world. With no darkness at all, strange things begin longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to happen.and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406315540</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Lucas1776574028|title=PeanutBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=One day, I love a flower opens up and good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a little monkey niche market: it's for the colour of a pea pops out. He soon turns brownchild who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and is make something quite different from each one. We have the size of elephant who dons a nut, so of course he decides hetutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''s a peanut called Peanut. Peanut is The buffalo who has had a nervous little thing: dragonflies are monsters coming to eat him, the rain is the sky falling down, bath (complete with yellow duck) and night is the end of the worldthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. Thankfully, he meets Beetle, The rhinoceros who sets him straight drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a thing or two''sm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406319589</amazonuk>......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{Frontpage
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|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Joel StewartB09MYXSRV4|title=Red Ted Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and the Lost ThingsHare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|summary=Red Ted is handed in to 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 lost property officestrong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, where he meets Crocodile not the ability to use it well. Red Ted is sure Stevie will come He liked to find him, because she loves Red Ted as much as she loves cheesetrick other animals. He then starts was also jealous which was how he came to have be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a nagging doubt - Stevie doesnfair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I't know where he is, so what if she never comes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406310379</amazonuk>ll tell you how it came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=VariousRob Keeley|title=Let's Play PeekaCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees! (Waybuloo)|rating=34
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|summary=Come Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how 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. Infuriated, Lily checks with the land of Nara teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and meet Nok Tokvegetables, De Lilike carrots, Lau Lau and Yojojogrow in the ground. ''Let's Play PeekaJordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!'' accompanies the CBeebies show ''Waybuloo'', " and is aimed everyone laughs at the very youngest childrenpoor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405248173</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=VariousB09FFJF8YS|title=Piplings Come and PlayYou Can't Wear Panties! A Sound Book (WaybulooNo More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=13.5
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|summary=A tie-in with the CBeebies show ''WaybulooFor the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can''. There's nothing really to recommend it as t Wear Panties!" is a standalone book: it's just an introduction to cry (the characters, with annoying (big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and difficult to press) sound-producing buttonspersevering panty pride. Take a look at [[Let's Play Peeka! (Waybuloo) by Various|Let's Play Peeka!]] instead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248181</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview
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|summary=Ooh, it's a book of Mr Benn! Excellent! For those of you not already wrapping yourselves in the comforting blanket of nostalgia, I suppose an introduction is warranted. Mr Benn lives at 52 Festive Road, and enjoys visiting his local fancy dress shop. When he tries on a costume and steps through a secret door, he finds himself transported to a new and exciting world.
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And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Donaldson Justine Avery and Axel SchefflerNaday Meldova|title=Room On The BroomEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=As the witch flies around the countrysideToots, she drops various objectstrumps, which are picked up 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 by one by animalsgo at the wrong time. As thanksIn class, she offers all the animals a liftsay, but when everyone will there be enough room on 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 calmly, with the broom? This book comes with a fantastic interactive CD to stick in your PCfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330508911</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick SharrattB09BG8V3Q6|title=What's In The Witch's KitchenWho Needs Nappies?Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=The witch's kitchen 'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is magical: if you open the fridge door one way, there's something tasty inside. Open it the other way, and there's something scary and gruesome. Dare you look latest release in all the drawers in this delightful pop-up book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140632227X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hilaire Belloc and Mini Grey|title=Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse and Was Eaten By A Lion|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Hilaire Belloc's 'Everybody Potties!'Cautionary Tales For Children'' are rightly lauded as classicsseries from Justine Avery. Mini Grey (also [[Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog by Mini Grey|rightly lauded]]), has illustrated one This series of these fine tales, so that a new generation fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children can discover just what happens when you run away from your nurse and replace it with some fun. It's a lion eats worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. Pay attention kids .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083678</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jan PienkowskiB07GZ81J7C|title=The First ChristmasWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=The First Christmas isMeet Fred. Well, actually, as you might expect, the story 're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of Jesusmyself: I' birth, Gabriel, Mary, Joseph, shepherds, wise men d better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and Herodimmediately became part of the family, presented as to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a picture bookwalk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141500972</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Debi GlioriJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Stormy WeatherEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Can potty training ever be joyous? Itoften isn's bedtime in millions of bedrooms across the worldt, as any parent will tell you. Stories are being readBut really, children are being tucked in, glasses of water why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are being fetchedsmall. Parents (of all animal species) explain what will happen if stormy weather hitsWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, and how they'll keep their children safesay, warm learning about why the sun and cosy.the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747599718</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mandy Stanley Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=TwinkleNo, TwinkleNo, Little Star and Other Nursery FavouritesNo!|rating=3.54
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|summary=Every small child should have book (or They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a few) containing traditional nursery rhymes, and every so often newly illustrated collections are publishedBookbag favourite.
''TwinkleNo, Twinkle Little StarNo, No!'' is part of such a new series called ''Time for a Rhyme'', published by Harper Collins and illustrated by Mandy Stanley known for her [[The Fairy Ball (Lettice) by Mandy Stanley|Lettice]] stories and other picture booksbased around the simplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315635</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Liz Martinez and Mark Beech|title=The Everyday Witch|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Jimmy has heard rumours of everyday witches living amongst us''No, then one day he spots his mother riding a broomstick with Tiddles the cat in towno, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may. Are his eyes deceiving him? Is his mum really a witch?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597022</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Emily Gravett|title=Spells|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A frog discovers a book, but he wishes That's it was a boat! But, so he tears and folds the pages to turn it into like all the boat. He soon tires of that gamebest picture books, and wishes it was a castle, so he tears and folds it again, as well as cutting out a model this tiny snippet of a beautiful princess. As fun as his new game text is, it lacks a certain reality. Spotting veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it's actually a book of spells, he sets about putting together appears on the torn bits of paper, so he can turn himself into a princeoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230531369</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Butterworth194812467X|title=Trixie The Witch's CatFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Trixie loves being Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a witch's catwalk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, but from time to time shethey see a big barn with a sign outside. It's upset by her white pawa farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: witch's cats all the stallholders and customers are supposed to be all blackfarmyard animals. Trixie finally has a brainwave There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and uses magic to turn her white paw blackeven some mice. Excited, but will she really be happy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326794</amazonuk>}}Kirelle and Sam go shopping.
{{newreview|author=Jez Alborough|title=Captain Duck (Duck in the Truck)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Duck runs out of petrol in his truck. Luckily, Goat's house is nearby and Goat uses petrol in his boat! Duck 'borrows' the can of petrol and trots off to fill his truck when the appearance of Frog distracts his attention. Frog and Sheep are ready to go on a boat trip with Goat! As Goat pops back to get something from his shed, Duck jumps in, un-moors the boat and off What will they go, along the river and into the stormy sea: and then the boat runs out of fuel! Will Goat save them? Or will the tide bring them back? And what about the truck that Duck abandoned for his maritime adventurebuy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007302908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Camilla Reid Sadie and Ailie Busbythe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Lulu's ChristmasMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Lulu is getting ready for Christmas and sheSadie'd like you to help her to decorate the tree. After s mother always said that there are cards to make, streamers to put up and then she helps to ice the cake. After that it's time to go outside and have a little bit of fun and build was a snowmandreamer, but it made her hands cold so mind never on what she came back inside again! should be doing. At bedtime She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she hangs up her stocking and leaves a mince pie for Father Christmas and a carrot for his reindeerloves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. In the morning she has some wonderful presents, but the best one of all is the one you might least expect!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599912</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|author=Margaret Mayo''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|title=The Orchard Book of Magical Tales|rating=4''To the Maritime Museum''.5|genre=For Sharing |summary=Is it sensible Her imagination was fired. She'd love to build your house in sail the path of oceans on an enormous ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one-tusked elephant? Or to visit where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the house of Baba Yaga Bony-Legs closing bell and the witch if you 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 to? This beautifully produced collection imagined in a world of folk tales featuring magic will give you the answers to these and many other questions. The collection was first published in 1993dolphins, pirates, mermaids and it had become quite difficult to find, so it's great to see it reissuedtreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846165296</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Child1782227741|title=Who Wants To Be A Poodle? I Don'tLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Trixie Twinkle Toes Trot-One day, Gold Ted falls into a-lot Delight hates being puddle. It's quite a pampered poochdeep puddle and the water is swirling. This primped Poor Ted starts to spin around and preened poodle can think around and is sucked down a drain on the side of nothing she'd rather do that get messy, splash the street. Finding himself down in a muddy puddlethe sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and tear about alerts the park like all attention of Reg the other dogs. Mademoiselle Verity Brulee may take good care sewer rat, who plucks him out of Trixie Twinkle Toesthe dirty water using his cane, but she's which might look just not in tune a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with her needs as a scruffy mutt in the body nice bowl of a poodlebroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384905</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Adrian Reynolds B08R7LXQ9S|title=Bear Flies High|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Michael Rosen builds on the success of [[The Bear in the Cave by Michael Rosen and Adrian Reynolds|The Bear Remy: A book about believing in the Cave]] with Bear Flies High. This sequel follows the same poetic formula of the original, with its ask and answer ''I'm a bear on a beach. On a beach? On a beach...'' Everything is as it was first time round, but this time Bear decides he wants to fly like the seagulls, so his friends take him to the amusement park. What follows is a gentle tale of a day out, of being scared and exhilarated by rides, and of imagining oneself soaring higher and higher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597979</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewyourself|author=Spike Milligan|title=The Magical World of Milligan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Some people you just have to love. It's the law. Spike Milligan was always fantastic, and he's much missed. He's got the perfect mix of nonsense, heart, Mayuri Naidoo and surreal humour. He speaks to people of all ages, and he's just plain lovely. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jill Marshall and Sam Childs|title=Kave-Tina RoxCaroline Siegal
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|summary=Kave-Tina Rox lives Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with her Mughis sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, Pug have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and brother Dave-Kave in a cavehas small eyes. Her Mug tries to brush her hair and make her look pretty, They are mean but Kave-Tina's having none of itthey are not stupid. When the Caveman Games come They are careful to town, Dave-Kave doesn't let her join in with any of wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the gamesother kids are around. So, because she's just a girlwhen Remy reacts, but Kave-Tina's having none of itlooks as though he was the instigator. She shows sheAnd then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don's perfectly capable of joining in, and indeed of doing it better than Dave-Kave and his matest believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340957123</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mwenye Hadithi and Adrienne Kennaway1471191303|title=Cross CrocodileThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=There's no water on This is the Great African Plainsstory of Isobel, and Cross Crocodile sits beneath the mango tree, guzzling the sweet fruit and snapping at anoyone a little girl who dares to come near made a big difference. Isobel lived with her. One dayparents in a house - a very cold house, monkey hits on a great idea for how the other animals can get because her parents couldn't afford to put the fruit...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970324</amazonuk>}}heating on:
{{newreview|author=Sam Lloyd|title=Inspector Croc Investigates|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=All is peaceful in Whoops-a-Daisy World, until ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the phone rings at corner of the police stationbedpost. Someone has knocked over Rory Lion's paint, ridden their bike through Fix-It Fox's concrete and stomped all over Farmer Moo's crops. There's only one thing for it: Inspector Croc is going to have to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846169453</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Susannah Corbett The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and Lynne Chapman|title=Dragonthey were happy. Then the day came when they couldn's Dinner|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A hungry dragon heads into t afford the woods to see what he can catch rent for his lunch. He's soon chasing after a bear, fox, cat the house and other animals, desperately trying they had to move to munch them. When the dragon comes across a mouse, he soon discovers that far side of the most unlikely animal might just fight backcity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340944226</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Lechner|title=The Clever Stick|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=The clever stick has all manner This part of wonderful ideas and things he wants to share with the world, but he has no mouth. He wants to write poetrycity was cold, help others sad and tell roses how lovely they look, but he can't. With a heavy heart (I think sticks have hearts even if they don't have mouths) he drags himself home, lonely and discovers that he does have a way of expressing himself after allIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406322237</amazonuk>
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|summary=When the girl leaves for school Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in the morningBeartown, her toys do what all toys do during the day: they hang out is obsessed with each other as friends dobears. A-OneShe collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, the drummer boya teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, is at pains to point she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the other toys that he rulesbear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that he's number one, and that the others are no good, hopeless and uselesslives at her school. He tricks Maddy into giving him her hat, Sally into giving up She even has bears on her rucksack and Sid into giving up his scarf. He's a bit of a meanie is A-One.bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140631465X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{newreview|author=Colin McNaughton and Emma Chichester-Clark|title=Not Last Night But The Night Before|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Not last night but the night before, a large cast of characters came knocking at the door. The three little pigs, Goldilocks, the man in the moon and many others come rushing in, knocking the young boy over and barely paying him any attention. They each shoot straight upstairs and before he has time Move on to think, there's yet another knock at the door, and another, and another. What are the parcels, balloons and cakes they're carrying with them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406304263</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]