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|author= Justine Avery and Daria YudinaRob Keeley|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh (Living Book)Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!

|genre= For Sharing|summary=This Living Book is on a mission Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. What's the mission? To make you laugh! I can't think of many better missions than thatShe likes carrots, broccoli, can you? Let's see how it doescabbage and aubergines... .... well, it opens When her friends at school turn up with a terrible joke. A groany joketheir noses, an eye-roll joke. The joke isn't very funny but it Lily is funny keen to see explain how enthusiastic good they are for you and how generously this book wants nice to make you laugh - ''Oheat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, I'm terrible at jokeswho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Some books are so good at themInfuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I always wanted did try to help someone laughtell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.'' |isbn= 194812453XB09HHN541V

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Daria YudinaB09FFJF8YS|title=Baby Trolls Get a Bad Rap You Can't Wear Panties! (Underrated Babies Book 1No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=43.5

|summary= Horatio''For the big, grownup girls out there, Saul the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and Grizelda are three baby trolls who are fed up that everyone forgets about baby trollspersevering panty pride. They are ignored in books ''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and TV shows pull-ups and films in favour of their very scary grown ups. Our three heroes want equal rights for baby trolls. They want graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to be seen and heard her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while theycannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can've started t. She's a petition about it that they want you big girl now and she wants everyone to sign. But how should they go about know it? |isbn= B07XGN4LGY!

|author=Justine Avery and Daria YudinaNaday Meldova|title=This Book Is AliveEverybody Toots! (Living BookEverybody Potties!)

|summary= Books Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn''want'' you to read t find them! They're not intimidating or standoffish or particular about readersirresistibly funny. Books ''want'' Funny to be readtalk about and joke about, that is. This is But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the key message in wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest offering, entry in her ''This Book Is AliveEverybody Potties!''. By anthropomorphising the relationship between book series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and young readercalmly, she's sending an invitation to all - pick me upwith the familiar humour attached, read me, be my friend, we can go on a journey togetherexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. ItEverybody does it: ''Everybody Toots's a great message, don't you think?!|isbn= 1948124416B09C2RVJ2W}}

|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Justine Avery and Ema Tepic |title=I Dreamed YouSeema Amjad

|summary=It is always a pleasure to review a new book by Justine Avery and ''I Dreamed YouWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' carries on is the tradition beautifully. This little book is latest release in the perfect exemplar of our category name, ''For SharingEverybody Potties!''series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It is a mother's love letter to her childa worthy aim, told in rhyme formas any frustrated parent will tell you. .|isbn=1948124505}}

|isbn=1838593187B07GZ81J7C|title=Guess What I Found in When Fred the Playground!Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Victoria ThompsonPeter Cotton

|summary=Tilly is excitedMeet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. SheBut I's just come dashing out m getting ahead of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and myself: I'd better tell you a big grin on her facebit more about Fred. Dad's come to collect her Fred is a snake and her brother and he ''has'' even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to try warm to guess what she found him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the playground todayfamily, although she concedes to the extent that he will never guessthey would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. Dad wants to know how school And that was, but ''obviously'' that's not importantwhere the problem started. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (IsnFred didn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuffhave any road sense. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guessOr brakes.

|isbnauthor=1686751680Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarres|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Which child doesn't think that their mother is, well, ''weird''Can potty training ever be joyous? It might be that in the morning their mother doesnoften isn't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows that that is when , as any parent will tell you're at your brightest with lots to say? ''Why'' then does Mummy stick her fingers in her ears? Then there's doing yoga in front of the television. But really, which could be worrying if it wasnwhy shouldn't so funnyit be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. We wonWhy shouldn't go into too potty training be as much detail fun as, say, learning about what goes on in why the bathroom sun and the colour changes which have occured when Mummy emerges and frankly, the less said the better about her reactions to your artistic efforts on moon take turns in the wall. I mean, what else would you use paint forsky?|isbn= B098BJZYHH

|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukNaday Meldova|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?No, No, No!

|summary=''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But nowThey say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, it's time, to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br>a Bookbag favourite.

I hope you haven't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bed. If you're a parent at leastNo, you'll know how it is to persuade an excited small person that yesNo, it is in fact time for bed. No!''What Wonders DoYou See...'' sets out to cater to these children. Instead of trying to persuade them that night time is calm time, it takes a slightly different tack. It tells them that sleep is actually an exciting time: a time of dreams in which imagination takes over and has no limit. But the trick in accessing this wonderful and exciting world is to get calm and relaxed first so that you can easily fall asleep and open based around the door to itsimplest text imaginable. |isbn=194812422X }}

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <''No, no, no!-- Peter Lynas and Clare Lindley -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0993340334Okay, okay.jpg|link=http://wwwYes, you may.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993340334/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]''

What will they buy?}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"0995647895|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=[[Bunny Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by Peter Lynas the River Thames at Greenwich and Clare Lindley]]===she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] You might have seen Bunny on the beach where he lived. Like many beaches it was full of sand and Bunny didn't like sand, not least because it got between his toes and ''scratchedHer class had gone one rainy afternoon''. What he really liked was juicy green grass. All the other rabbits lived on the top of the cliff, where Bunny could see a lot of tasty-looking grass. But the cliff was very high. [[Bunny by Peter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]] <!-- Belinda Landsberry --br>|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1925820025.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925820025/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Once, I was Loved by Belinda Landsberry]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Tock, the toy rabbit, is in a box of toys going to the charity shop. He realises that he's not wanted any more, but muses that it wasn't always this way. ''Once'', he says, ''I was loved''. And he tells us of When all the children who have loved him over the years. [[Once, I was Loved by Belinda Landsberry|Full Review]] <!-- Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0993340342.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993340342/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeleine is a very lucky girl: in her room, she has all a girl could ask for houses cowered in the way of toysgloom, books, games and dollies. She's a very lucky girl in another way too: she has imagination and everything in her room can be used to take her on adventures. She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she likes to be alone, but Madeleine's not alone on all the trips she takes. We'll find out that yesterday she was told to tidy her room, but instead of doing that, she went to the moon. [[Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]] <!-- Peter Lynas and Andy S Gray --br>|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0993340350.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993340350/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Very Rude Toytoise by Peter Lynas and Andy S Gray]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] It was one of those blissful days in the forest. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to make a cake. Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to build a nest. Mrs Spider was busily spinning a web to catch juicy flies. Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. And Mr Bear sat comfortably in a chair, fishing for lunch. What could be better? And then... [[The Very Rude Toytoise by Peter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]] <!-- Peter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0993340318.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993340318/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Recipe for Making a Snowman by Peter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Who knew it? You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to make a snowman - and there's no cooking involved! Mum, Dad and the two children are absolutely meticulous though: they're going to get everything right, even down to doing some mining to get the coal for the eyes, searching through the bits 'n bobs jar for buttons for the snowman's coat and picking out the perfect piece of headgear. There's quite a choice available, but the family decide on the bobble hat, presumably to keep To the snowman warm. The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply wonMaritime Museum't do and a pair with purple and pink stripes are chosen. [[Recipe for Making a Snowman by Peter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|Full Review]] <!-- Fegan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1925810097.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925810097/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Don't Drink the Pink by B C R Fegan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]

Madeline is very fond of Grandfather GilderberryHer imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. He 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 always busy warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in his workshopthe midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, creating crazy potionsmermaids and treasure.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and he always has Sasha Satha|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a smile on his facepuddle. Madeline's dad thinks heIt's quite a bit bonkers deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and Madelineis sucked down a drain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. 's mum thinks 'OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the same but gives sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a pass because he's bit like an oldcricket bat. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry Reg is just great. Particularly on her birthday when a kind soul and he unfailingly arrives dries Ted off and warms him up with a selection nice bowl of potions broth.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and allows her Caroline Siegal|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to choose one wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as a giftthough he was the instigator. And then he always says gets into trouble at school and the same thingteachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference.. [[Don Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't Drink afford to put the Pink by B C R Fegan|Full Review]]heating on:

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And so begins the latest picture book from Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk. It's a clarion call to children to use their imaginations and not logic alone when it comes to solving problems.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1948124440|title=What Wonders Await Outdoors|author=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk|rating=4|genre=For Sharing| stylesummary="verticalThe second book in Justine Avery's Wonders series is the perfect antidote to long summer days with bored children -align: top; text-align: left;"or, indeed, as we've found recently, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across the world. What do you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played with, repurposed, and played with again?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=[[Loved It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.}}{{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Daria Yudina|title= This Book Wants to Bits by Teresa Heapy and Katie Cleminson]]Make You Laugh (Living Book)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=This Living Book is on a mission. What's the mission? To make you laugh! I can't think of many better missions than that, can you? Let's see how it does...

[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] ''Loved to Bits'' is the heartwarming story of a boy's love for his bear. Bear's adventures with boy take him to all kinds of places and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put in their way, from the jungle to the sea. Inevitably mishaps occur on the way. The loss of an armwell, it opens up with a legterrible joke. A groany joke, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery ''don't worry, I've got one more''-roll joke. But boy loves him just as he is and wonThe joke isn't hear of him being mended. His place, after all, very funny but it is in Boy's bed. [[Loved funny to Bits by Teresa Heapy see how enthusiastic and Katie Cleminson|Full Review]] <!-- Lee -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0874869722.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0874869722/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[When Spring Comes how generously this book wants to the DMZ by Ukmake you laugh -Bae Lee]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] There is a place on this earth that''Oh, I'm terrible at the time of writing, is resplendent with lifejokes. In the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, for fear of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in placeSome books are so good at them. In the autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and die if they reach their birthing groundsI always wanted to help someone laugh. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. This is a snapshot of life in the DMZ, the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their name, and it's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Uk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]  |-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|194812453X[[image:1419731408.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1419731408/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{Frontpage | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|author===[[Sweep: The Story of a Girl Justine Avery and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier]]===Daria Yudina[[image:5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Nan is Baby Trolls Get a climber, the best chimney sweep in London. She is growing fast, so what will happen to her when she gets too big to climb, when people realise she is a girl? Everything changes, when she is stuck in a chimney, set on fire, and saved by a golem. A story of outcasts, and friendships, told through two tales, the girl and the sweep, and the girl and her monster. Both intertwined beautifully so that you have a fairy tale within a fairy tale. Moments of sadness slip easily into glorious happiness, then swiftly into heart-breaking tragedy. This is a heart-warming and engaging read for both young and old. [[Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier|Full Review]] <!-- Haig -->Bad Rap (Underrated Babies Book 1)|-| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|4[[image:1786894327.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786894327 /ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] For Sharing| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig Horatio, Saul and Chris Mould]]=== [[image:5starGrizelda are three baby trolls who are fed up that everyone forgets about baby trolls.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. She's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to tell the truth. You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the truth isn't nice They are ignored in books and sometimes a white lie is okay TV shows and sometimes it's better to say nothing at all. You might not want to attract the attention films in favour of the school bully by calling him mean and nasty, for example, or you might not want to tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awfulvery scary grown ups. [[The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]] <!-- Kermani -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785899953.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785899953/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] ''Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak College, the most famous school Our three heroes want equal rights for frogs in Malawi, but the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!'' Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, all the Lake Ticklewater frogs are bluebaby trolls. They think nothing of it. So, when Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, the first Ticklewater frog want to manage such a feat, he is filled with excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and family. [[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani|Full Review]] <!-- Pickles -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1787112926.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787112926/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Pets|Pets]] When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles seen and Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was a rather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting people. He's a bit better now heard and something which he really enjoys is going for a walk. Itthey's not just a case of attaching a lead and heading for your favourite spot - there are ve started a lot of other things to think petition about first. [[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will it that they want you come too? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|Full Review]] <!-- Owen -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:199999650Xto sign.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/199999650X/ref=nosimBut how should they go about it?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|B07XGN4LGY===[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]  ''The Owen family were feeling sad. There used to be five of them. There was Mum, Dad and three children: Abi, Jenny and Joe. But then Abi died. Now there were only four of them. Life felt very strange without their sister, and they were all very unhappy.'' How does a family cope with the loss of a beloved child and sibling?[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen|Full Review]]