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[[image:lumplump.jpg|center|link=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDc9DQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=lump+lump+and+the+blanket+of+dreams&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz47visd3QAhVT_WMKHQ8CA8UQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=lump%20lump%20and%20the%20blanket%20of%20dreams&f=false]]<hr/>[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Georgiana Deutsch and Ekaterina TrukhanAdam Stower|title= 10, 9, 8... Owls Up Late! Murray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary= It's tough being Murray is supposed to be a mother owl. Rather than just humble, tidy and friendly cat, one or two rambunctious little ones who is able to calm down ready for bedsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, she has ten well, whatever takes his fancy next of them! And therethe two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so much going on in her tree that she must sometimes despair his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of ever getting frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them to sleep. But graduallyinto a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one by onemuch bigger than Murray was, to be honest, the owletsbut he' eyes begin to droop s turned up and they make their way he'll have to their comfy little nest until at last . . . zzzzzz! do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184869704X</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Michelle Robinson The Adventures of Birpus and Claire PowellBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Have You Seen My Giraffe?Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=ImagineWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, if you willspewing hot, a world in which you no longer win goldfish sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at the fairhome: it won't end well.) Fortunately, but you could potentially be coming home with they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a giraffe! ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. This is They climbed up to the situation that Tree Wee homes high up in the family in this story find themselves intangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and it turns out that having a giraffe in your house may not go down too well with your parents!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075993</amazonuk>Granny Cranny.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Puttock and Matt RobertsonB0CC9W7GLR|title=FluffywuffyOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=3.5

|summary=Mr MootKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and his dog Fluffywuffy, are very happy in their quiet little life togetherbuilding 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. But one dayAs the ice bumped onto the sand, Mr Moot's cousin, Clarence, comes knocking at the door bear woke and announces that he has come to stay with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a weekrun for it, or a month, or a year! but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. Clarence turns out He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a most inconsiderate house guestgood meal and somewhere to sleep. Whatever will Mr Moot What else would you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808719</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emilia Dziubak and Przemyslaw Wechterowicz1913839656|title=The Secret Life of a TigerLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary=If David Attenborough has taught us anything is that a lot goes on in Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the natural world that we are unaware best beetle juice. He packed two pairs ofdungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Animals will hunt in interesting ways, or find a mate using secret dances, but did you know that Tigers sometimes sneak up on apes She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and give them Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new haircuts? friends. You will At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be amazed with the revelations found in Emilia Dziubak and Przemyslaw Wechterowicz's book, but I am not convinced . Grandma thought that this kid's book is based on factsit might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191027724X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Bently and Charles Fuge1529504775|title=A Home Full of FriendsThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Bramble Badger was out looking for nuts by the river when the storm broke Elsie and he was so cold that he decided her little brother David loved to go straight hometo the park and watch the red buses drive past. On Elsie would race the way he met a trail buses along the side of devastation: Snuffle Dormousethe park but David couldn's house has been squashed by a falling tree. Shet - he'd like shelter in Bramble's sett, if he has roombeen born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. He's One day Elsie spotted a ''little'' bit reluctant because he thinks his sett is bus in a mess the toy shop window which would help David - and there isn't much space or dinner available, but what can you do when a friend is in need? Next was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it's Tipper the Toad whose as cash was tight at home is full of mud, then Boo the Hedgehog's nest has been covered by leaves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492057X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jill Atkins and Barbara Vagnozzi|title=Peck, Hen, Peck! and Ben's Pet (Early Reader)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It probably sounds obvious, but you really shouldn't keep your pet chickens in a bag! WellGradually, that's what I David learned from this book which tells us first to stand up, use the story of Tom who puts his hen in a bag. The hen pecks through the bag, as hens are wont to dobus for support, and escapes! A simple and somewhat tragic tale! This is swiftly followed by a story about Ben's petwalk behind it. Will it be another henMany decades later, I wondered? NoElsie brought the bus, actuallynow damaged and rusted, after several incorrect guessesto the Repair Shop, we discover hoping that the experts there could make it so that Ben's pet is only a rabbit!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862482</amazonuk>her grandchildren could play with it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Louise Forshaw1529504767|title=Buzz and Jump! Jump! The Christmas Doll (Early ReaderThe Repair Shop Stories) |author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=After hearing a mysterious buzzing 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 kitchenhome of Mr and Mrs Russell, mum traps a fly in a jar, but then she hears the buzzing againwho 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.what could be going on? Meanwhile, Ken She'd help Mrs Russell with the Kangaroo (who declares himself baking and when it came to be Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best at jumping), is jumping everywhere he can. In this red level book, aimed generally at those who have completed their reception year in school, there are two simple, sweet stories in one book, perfect for those who are just learning to readsurprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862504</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Julia Seal1916459943|title=Bamboo and I Wish (Early Reader) Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=54

|summary=With two stories in one bookMuch as mothers love their babies, there's plenty something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to like about this simplesleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and funny, early reader''wails''. The first story, Bamboo, deals with a cheeky panda who has run off sea offers to hidehelp. Where can he be? The second story is about a wishing well which is granting wishes left, right 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 year.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862512</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Brennan It rocks Baby gently and Jane Tanner|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. waves sing ''Bleak was the day and the wind whipped downWhen I and my sisters walked to town…hush, hush'' So begins this story . Think of three sisters who set off to walk to the gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach together in this stunning and rather special picture bookyou have the sound perfectly. The cover illustration is reminiscent of traditional family holidays depicting three girlsmermaids join in - ''la lou, hand in hand and wearing sunhats disappearing over sand dunes on their way to the beachla lay... '' The story then departs from And for a typical seaside theme moment it seems to have worked as the sisters find Baby closes his eyes. Then a stranded whale on the beach seagull '''shouts''' and spend the day in desperate attempts we know exactly what's going to save ithappen next. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646253</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Barney Saltzberg140639131X|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 A Practical Present for the little one'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>}}{{newreviewPhilippa Pheasant|author= Sean Taylor and Kasia Matyjaszek|title=I am Actually a PenguinBriony May Smith

|genre= For Sharing|summary= Do you know Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a child who loves bird to dress sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up? Well this is something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the perfect picture book for that childbenefits were obvious. Quite probably All the perfect picture book for animals used the parent of that child toocrossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barney Saltzberg1776574338|title=Chengdu Could Not, Would Not, Fall AsleepLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn

|summary=The list of entertaining things about toddlers does not include any of Every morning Leilong, the following; throwing food against your recently painted wallsbrontosaurus school bus, nappy depositsmakes his way through the city, or deciding to stay picking up way past their bedtimechildren as he goes. There are few things more unsettling Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to a parent than a toddler used to their routine suddenly deciding to stay up way past their bedtime; go downstairs – they scream, they procrastinate, they blub simply climb out of the window and then finally collapse (and that is just Mum and Dad)slide down his neck. The reason that so many childrenIt's books are about settling down and perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to bed school? There is to avoid the staying up eventuality, so will a book about an insomniac panda work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484775651</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer Coleman|title=Hidden World: Forest|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Sometimesproblem, less is morethough. But a wood doesn Leilong isn't understand that, does it – it just stretches on happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and on, expanding outwards and outwards, and upwards and upwards – itbecause he's quite longer than a galling thing for a young person tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to understandand traffic regularly gets snarled up. This book reverts to the very basic detail The school decides that will let the very young student get a grip on the life in the forest, whether they he can actually see it for 't be the trees in real life or not…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>bus anymore.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carles Ballasteros1776574028|title=Nee Nah! Nee Nah! To the Rescue: Press the tabs, hear the sounds (Sound of the City)Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott

|summary=The cover of this I love a good board book might tell you all that you need to know if you! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee''re buying is aimed at quite a book niche market: it's for a boy the child who loves noisy vehiclesstill enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but if has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you dismiss it on those grounds you might be making a mistakecan ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Let me tell you We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a bit about it. It's a substantially-built board book with suitably rounded corners for when it's used as a missile and it has tabs which take you to the pages for the vehicles weballetphant''re going to be looking at. There's The buffalo who has had a helicopter, bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a police car, hair drier becomes a fire engine and an ambulance''fluffalo''. For The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a lot of books for the youngest children that would be ''crynoceros'' (think about it - and !) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a lot of children would enjoy looking at the pictures''sm....... '' But - thereOK, let's more...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937428</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Craig Shuttlewood1838226834|title=Town and Country (Turnaround Book)Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=54

|summary=I know I should have been working but I've just spent the last hour pouring over ''Town and Country''. On the face It was one of it there's a very simple idea herethose memories we treasure from our childhoods: on each double-page spread you get examples of what happens in towns and what happens in the countryside an outing with regard our grandparents. They're there to various activitiesundo all the good that parents do, modes of transport and even things like beaches and snow. You turn so the book one way for the country scene and then flip it over for what happens in the towntrips out were always so much fun. Down A young boy was going to the side of each page therecarnival with his Grandad, who told him: ''It's a list of things for you to findll be brilliant, just remember, complete with a thumbnail don't let go of what it is youmy hand.''re looking for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404422</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 11/8 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=B C R Fegan and Lenny WenB09MYXSRV4|title=Henry Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and the Hidden TreasureHare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Henry is a careful young manWhen the world was made, the animals were given gifts. He has Bear was given strength so that he could become a lot of treasure and he keeps it very well hiddenprotector. We might not call it 'treasure': like his parents we'd probably call it 'pocket money' and suggest Water Spider received a strong web that what he's even fire could not going to spend he should put in the bankburn. But Henry's worried and ''Owl had excellent sight so that hecould see the present '' knows that only and''he'' can keep his treasure safethe future. But whatRabbit developed intelligence - but, or whounfortunately, is he keeping his treasure safe ''from''? Well, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he has came to be in a little sister called Lucy and despite the fact that his parents race with Turtle. You might think he should be nicer to Lucy, Henry knows that she's really not a secret ninja spy sent to steal his treasurefair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. IsnI't that true of ''all'' little sisters?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995359253</amazonuk>ll tell you how it came about.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna KovecsesRob Keeley|title= Counting ThingsCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!

|summary=Rearing a child is not a competition Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, but have a conversation with a certain type of parent cabbage and they won't agreeaubergines. Their child can speak four languages. Their child wrote When her friends at school turn up their first sonnet at the age of threenoses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. Their child can be seen wistfully looking into the middle distance just wanting to play One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on the bouncy castletrees. For meInfuriated, I am happyLily checks with the teacher, if my child is happy; be who explains that doing sumsfruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, or eating play-dohgrow in the ground. HoweverJordan says, even with a relaxed attitude "I did try to educating your kidtell her, it can be fun to learn a little, especially when a book is as fun as Little Mouse's ''Opposite Things''Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786030381</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah PowellB09FFJF8YS|title= Search and Find: Pride & Prejudice: A Jane Austen Search and Find BookYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|ratingauthor= 4|genre= 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 Justine Avery and events. I find a good plot summary helps when approaching her works, this was especially so in the case of the perplexing and long-winded Emma. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783708271</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bob Shea|title=The Scariest Book EverKate Zhoidik

|summary=Ghost is a bit of a scaredy-cat! After spilling some orange juice on his sheet''For the big, he stays at homegrownup girls out there, nakedthe potty masters in training, and we as readers head out into the woods to tell him what"You Can's there. Whilst he tries to persuade us that t Wear Panties!" is a cry (the woods are super scary and full big-girl kind!) of bad things, toilet triumph and that wepersevering panty pride.'d 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>}}{{newreview|author=Bethan Woollvin|title=Rapunzel|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Ah Rapunzel, how well we all know about her long golden hair And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and her difficultpull-ups and graduation to-escape tower! Here, however, the story is told with a twist, because there is no handsome Prince who comes riding "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to save Rapunzel from her incarceration. Nodog, instead we see Rapunzel is smart enough to figure her own way out, defeating the witchcat, her stuffed rabbit 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 her baby sibling that ''the Thingshe'' falls from the sky and four strangers stumble across it. At first can wear super-duper proper pants, while they are confusedcannot. What is ''Neither can the Thing''? What does it do? What is it for? Then flowers, nor the four of them decide to work together to look after and care for '''fish, nor the Thingbirds. Boy's certainly can't. Soon word spreads about ''the Thing'She' s a big girl now and others come from far and wide she wants everyone to find out more. Gradually a media circus builds up around ''the Thing''. Throughout all of this ''the Thing'' remains silent. Then just as suddenly and silently as know it arrived ''the Thing'' departs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283718</amazonuk>!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Bond Justine Avery and R W AlleyNaday Meldova|title=Best-loved Paddington StoriesEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=With 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 sad passing of Michael Bond there is no wrong time like the present to revisit some of the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddington. As the character has proved so timeless regular re-issues of the books have appeared In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Best-loved Paddington StoriesEverybody Potties!'' brings three of these stories together. Does this collection really reflect the best that the bear has to offer or are they just three random tales stuck together series takes aim at any shame associated with marmalade?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008245037</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Heather Pindar tooting and Sarah Jennings|title=Wishker|rating=4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Mirabel is a small girl who wants rather a lot from life gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is sadly frustrated when everyone says no to herperfectly normal. Then a stray cat appears in her garden. HeEverybody does it: ''Everybody Toots's a rather special cat with wish-granting whiskers. All Mirabel's problems will be instantly solved. Or so she thinks…!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184886244X</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith KerrB09BG8V3Q6|title=My First Mog ABCWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|summary= There are few children's series that have been as long lasting as Judith Kerr's Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''MogEverybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books and even though aims to take the cat may no longer be with us, there is a huge back catalogue pain out of old stories potty training children and images that could be repurposedreplace it with some fun. In the wrong hands reusing old Mog images would seem like It's a crass cash inworthy aim, but done right, they could still hold the same sentimental appeal that the daft old cat has for so many peopleas any frustrated parent will tell you. Which way does ''My First Mog ABC'' fall?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008245509</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tracey Corderoy and Jorge MartinB07GZ81J7C|title= Fairy Tale Pets|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Bob is neat. He lives in a neat When Fred the Snake Got Squished 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>}}{{newreviewMended|author=Mini Grey|title=The Bad Bunnies' Magic ShowPeter Cotton

|summary=In a slight change Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to the scheduling, the Great Hypno is unavailable be meeting Fred-Fred for tonightreasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I's magic showd better tell you a bit more about Fred...but not Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to worry, ready warm to step into the breach are Mr Abra and Mr Cadabra, a pair of innocent looking bunnieshim. Their show promises to be fast He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and dangerousimmediately became part of the family, and it certainly turns out to be both, though perhaps not quite in the way extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the bunnies imagined!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471157601</amazonuk>problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Jarman Justine Avery and Lynne ChapmanNaday Meldova|title=Class One Farmyard FunEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=3.54

|summary=When Class One go on a trip to the farmCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, the day is not plain sailingas any parent will tell you. The teacherBut really, why shouldn's traumas dont it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't revolve around the usual 'who will potty training be sick on the coach' issues howeveras much fun as, say, and instead relate to one rather grumpy farmyard animal - the bull! All sorts of trauma ensues when learning about why the bull escapes from his field, sun and it takes a lot of the children working together to be able to catch him back moon take turns in his field and lock him up. All things considered, this probably isn't the best book for any teachers to read aloud the day before a school trip...sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927159</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antje DammJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Waiting for GoliathNo, No, No!

|summary=Bear is waiting for GoliathThey say the best picture books are the simplest ones. That's Bear on the cover and it was what first drew me to And nothing could be truer of this booklatest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. He looks so  ''forlornNo, No, No!'' that I wanted to know what is based around the problem wassimplest text imaginable. He ''s not exactly forlornNo, no, no! Okay, but he has been waiting at the bus stop since dawn and he might be getting just a little bit boredokay. He lies down (legs dangling down and tummy flat on the seat) and explains to everyone that Goliath is his best friendYes, you may. Robin wanted to know if Goliath is as strong as Bear and Bear says that he is. He's smart too. He can count to eighteen. Bear' That's obviously been at it! But, like all the stop for quite best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a while as veritable tardis - so much bigger on the spring flowers have fallen from the trees. He's there through the dark too - he just curls up and sleeps inside that it appears on the seatoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>177657141X</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Reece Wykes194812467X|title=I Dare YouThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=2.54

|summary=Some childrenKirelle 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 top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's books require a robust sense of humour from farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a parent, or at least difference: all the ability to look the other way when a book is being naughtystallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are more books on pants sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and poo than could fill a landfilleven some mice. Excited, but when is something too far for a children's book? Bragging? LyingKirelle and Sam go shopping. What will they buy? Cannibalism?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445378</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Chris Hadfield Sadie and The Fan Brothersthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=The Darkest DarkMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=Back in the nineteen sixties in a cottage on Stag Island in Southern Ontario, Canada there Sadie's mother always said that she was a boy called Chris who loved playing with rockets. Actually they were made out of cardboard boxesdreamer, but they were rockets to Chris and he and his dog would play space games all dayher mind never on what she should be doing. He really didn't have time for anything else She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and he certainly didn't have time she loves to sleepspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Well, actually, there's a secret here: Chris was afraid of the dark and everyone knows that when it 's 'Her class had gone one rainy afternoon'very'' dark the worst sort of aliens come into the bedroom. Night after night his parents worked very hard to get him to sleep in his own bedroom and it was only the threat that if Chris didn'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 television. There was only the one television on the island, you see.|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>150982409X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate Milner|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 all the taps and the rubbish just piles up houses cowered in the streets. It's going to be an adventuregloom, 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<br>'s hand. They'll see lots of cars and lorries and sleep in some strange places. TheyTo the Maritime Museum'll hear people speaking in strange languages and taste new foods. Eventually they'll get to somewhere where they are safe and can unpack. The strange words will start to make sense.

HeHer imagination was fired. She'll be called Refugee, but he has d love to remember sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that Refugee is not his nameshe could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oliver Jeffers1782227741|title=The Great Paper CaperLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5

|summary=Something terrible One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is happening in the forestswirling. Branches from trees are going missing overnight, Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and nobody knows what's going is sucked down a drain onthe side of the street. Finding himself Everyone living down in the forest gathers together sewer, Ted starts to look at panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the crime scenedirty water using his cane, and to try to discover what has happenedwhich might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Initially they blame each other, but after discovering everyone there has Reg is a solid alibi they continue their investigations to try kind soul and he dries Ted off and find the culpritwarms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007182333</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maudie Smith and Paul HowardB08R7LXQ9S|title=The Dressing-Up DadRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=Danny Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and his dad both love dressing up! Whatever the eventBrandon, or reasonhave been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are readynot stupid. Indeed, they don't really need a reason, but They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just happily dress up together at homethat little bit further when the other kids are around. So, or when they go outRemy reacts, it looks as spacemen, a knight and a dragon, sea creatures and wizards..though he was the instigator.you name it, they can dress up as it! Danny loves having so much fun with his dad, but And then one day he does start to wonder what it would be like to have a normal, ordinary dad, gets into trouble at school and so for his birthday the teachers don't believe him when he decides tries to ask his dad to dress up as an ordinary dad!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019274979X</amazonuk>explain what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen1471191303|title=TriangleThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=45

|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a story about Trianglelittle girl who made a big difference. One day he goes out of his Isobel lived with her parents in a house and walks - a long way 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.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and play a sneaky trick on his friend, Squarethey were happy. ItThen the day came when they couldn's quite a long walk, past lots t afford the rent for the house and lots they had to move to the far side of triangles, and then lots the city. This part of shapes with no namethe city was cold, sad and then lots lonely and lots of squaresIsobel felt invisible. What will happen after he's played his trick on Square, though? Will Triangle get his comeuppance?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376671</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam UsherNick Jones and Si Clark|title=SunOne Night in Beartown

|summary=It was the hottest day of the yearMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. HotterHer favourite toy is Berisford, if such a thing is possibleteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, than broccoli soup, the Atacama Desert she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the surface of the sunbear statue outside. Grandad decreed that it was the perfect day for an adventure and began packing the picnic basket with all sorts of useful things: water, biscuitsEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a telescope, camera, sun protection, fruit, sandwiches, toys and lots, lots more. How are a boy and his grandad to know what they're going to need? Grandad was the navigator and the boy was the lookoutcolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178370795X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]