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|isbnauthor=1948124440Rob Keeley|title=What Wonders Await Outdoors |author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4
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|summary=The second book in Justine Avery's Wonders series Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is the perfect antidote keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to long summer days eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with bored children - orthe teacher, indeedwho explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, as we've found recentlylike carrots, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across grow in the worldground. What do you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played withJordan says, repurposed"I did try to tell her, Miss!" and played with again?everyone laughs at poor Lily.|isbn= B09HHN541V
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|isbn=1776572858B09FFJF8YS|title=How Do You Make a Baby?Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Anna Fiske Justine Avery and Don Bartlett (translator)Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=Home and FamilyFor Sharing|summary=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 For the basicsbig, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldntraining, "You Can'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 Make You Laugh (Living Book)|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary=This Living Book Wear Panties!" is on a mission. What's cry (the mission? To make you laughbig-girl kind! I can) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'t think of many better missions than that, can you? Let's see how it does...
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|author=Justine Avery and Daria YudinaNaday Meldova|title=This Book Is AliveEverybody Toots! (Living BookEverybody Potties!)
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|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}}
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Justine Avery and Ema Tepic |title=I Dreamed YouSeema Amjad
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|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}}
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|isbn=1838593187B07GZ81J7C|title=Guess What I Found in When Fred the Playground!Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Victoria ThompsonPeter Cotton
|rating=4.5
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|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.
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|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!)
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|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
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|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukNaday Meldova|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?No, No, No!
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|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.
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|isbn=0993340334194812467X|title=BunnyThe Farm Shop|author=Peter Lynas Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Clare LindleyEma Tepic
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|summary=You might have seen Bunny on Kirelle and her best friend Sam the beach where he livedcat decide to go for a walk. Like many beaches it was full of sand Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Bunny didn't like sand, not least because it got between Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his toes and ''scratched''. What he really liked was juicy green grasssmart grey fur coat. All the other rabbits lived on As they walk to the top of the cliffhill, where Bunny could they see a lot of tasty-looking grassbig barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the cliff was very highstallholders and customers are farmyard animals.There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will they buy?
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|isbn=19258200250995647895|title=Once, I was LovedSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Belinda LandsberryMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=TockSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the toy rabbit, is in a box of toys going River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to the charity shopspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. He realises that he 's not wanted any more, but muses that it wasn't always this way. Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''Once<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom, he says, ''I <br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was lovedfired. She'd love to 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. And he tells us When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of all the children who an adventure that she could never have loved him over the yearsimagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.
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|isbn=09933403421782227741|title=Madeleine Goes to the MoonLittle Gold Ted|author=Peter Lynas Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Charlie RobertsSasha Satha
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|summary=Madeleine is a very lucky girl: in her roomOne day, she has all Gold Ted falls into a girl could ask for in the way of toys, books, games and dolliespuddle. SheIt's quite a very lucky girl in another way too: she has imagination deep puddle and everything in her room can be used the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to take her spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on adventuresthe side of the street. She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she likes Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to be alone, but Madeleinepanic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE''s not alone on all he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the trips she takes. We'll find sewer rat, who plucks him out that yesterday she was told to tidy her roomof the dirty water using his cane, but instead which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of doing that, she went to the moonbroth.
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|isbn=0993340318B08R7LXQ9S|title=Recipe for Making a SnowmanRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Peter Lynas Mayuri Naidoo and Rosie AlabasterCaroline Siegal
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|summary=Who knew it? You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to make a snowman - and thereRemy is feeling miserable. He's no cooking involved! let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, Mumtogether with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, Dad have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and the two children has small eyes. They are absolutely meticulous though: mean but they're going are not stupid. They are careful 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 wind up Remy when nobody can see and picking out then push him just that little bit further when the perfect piece of headgearother kids are around. There's quite a choice availableSo, but the family decide on the bobble hatwhen Remy reacts, presumably to keep it looks as though he was the snowman warminstigator. The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply wonAnd then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't do and a pair with purple and pink stripes are chosenbelieve him when he tries to explain what happened.}}�{{Frontpage|isbn=09933403501471191303|title=The Very Rude ToytoiseInvisible|author=Peter Lynas and Andy S GrayTom Percival
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|summary=It was one This is the story of those blissful days in the forestIsobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because she wanted her parents couldn't afford to make a cakeput the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost. Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs '' The family didn't go to build a nestthe cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Mrs Spider was busily spinning a web Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to catch juicy fliesthe far side of the city. Mrs Squirrel This part of the city was piling up acorns. And Mr Bear sat comfortably in a chaircold, fishing for lunch. What could be better? And then..sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}�{{Frontpage|isbnauthor=1925810097Nick Jones and Si Clark|title=Don't Drink the Pink|author=B C R FeganOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Madeline Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberryobsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. He's always busy in his workshop, creating crazy potionsHer favourite toy is Berisford, and he always has a smile on his faceteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and Madeline's mum thinks says goodnight to the same but gives him bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a pass because he's oldcolourful painted bear that lives at her school. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just great. Particularly even has bears on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions and allows her to choose one as a gift. And he always says the same thing...bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}}
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|isbn=19109893391849766920|title=Loved to BitsEverything is MINE|author=Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonAndrea D'Aquino|rating=4.5
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|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: what else could you be with a name like that? He knows that you'll realise that he's kind, clever and loyal. You'Loved ll also need to Bitsknow that everything is '''MINE'''. And he means ''everything'' is . It begins with the heartwarming story of a boy's love for his bearslipper: mum still has one. Bear Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that he's adventures with boy take him to all kinds of places and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put being generous in their way, from the jungle to the seaallowing that. Inevitably mishaps occur on Then it was the waypork chop. The loss of an arm, a legWell, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery did you see anyone's name on it? 'don't worry, I've got one moreAnd''he left the carrots for Leo. But boy loves him just as he is and wonThat't hear s another example of him being mendedMarcello's generosity. There was the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation to prove ownership. His place, after And talking of ownership the tree would provide allthe sticks he could ever want to chew. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is in Boy's bed.there?
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|isbn=08748697221849767009|title=When Spring Comes It Isn't Rude to the DMZbe Nude|author=Uk-Bae LeeRosie Haine
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|summary=There is a place on this earth that, at the time This could have been one of writing, is resplendent with life. In those books which 'preaches to the spring seals gambol in choir': the river – not venturing too far, for fear of being slashed open on only people who'll buy it are the razor wire people who know that nudity is OK and the humans have put in place. In the autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, for they ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will spawn and die if avoid it like they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among avoid the hills – if hot-and-bothered person in the landmines men left behind do supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not prevent them from doing sowearing clothes. This is It's a snapshot celebration of life in the DMZ, the demilitarized zone between the two countries bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with Korea in their name, disabilities and itmarkings. They's the worldre fine. In fact, they's least welcome wildlife sanctuaryre wonderful.
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|isbnauthor=1419731408Blake Nuto and Charlotte Ager|title=Sweep: The Story Child of a Girl and her Monster|author=Jonathan AuxierGalaxies
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|summary=Nan is a climber, the best chimney sweep in London. She is growing fast, so what will happen What does it mean to her when she gets too big to climbbe alive? What are we made of, when people realise she is a girland where are we going? Everything changes, when she ''Child of Galaxies'' is stuck in a chimney, set on fire, and saved by lovely children's picture book that deals with all the big questions. Written as a golem. A story of outcastspoem, and friendships, told through two talesthe lyrical words don't shy away from darkness, nor talk down to the girl and the sweepchildren you are reading to, and but rather than work beautifully together with the girl and her monster. Both intertwined beautifully so that you have illustrations to create a fairy tale within a fairy tale. Moments of sadness slip easily into glorious happinesspowerful, then swiftly into heart-breaking tragedy. This is a heart-warming and engaging read for both young and olduplifting reading experience.|isbn=1912497425
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|isbn=17868943271948124572|title=The Truth PixieThink Outside the Box|author=Matt Haig Justine Avery and Chris MouldLiuba Syrotiuk|rating=54
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|summary=Poor old Truth Pixie. She's cursed! She can't speak unless itWhenever you find a problem <br>''Wherever there's a puzzle to tell the truth. You might solve <br>''However you get stuck in a sticky situation <br>''Just think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes outside the truth isnbox''t nice And so begins the latest picture book from Justine Avery and sometimes a white lie is okay and sometimes itLiuba Syrotiuk. It's better a clarion call to say nothing at all. You might not want children to attract the attention of the school bully by calling him mean use their imaginations and nasty, for example, or you might not want logic alone when it comes to tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awfulsolving problems.
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|isbn=17858999531948124440|title=The Frog Who Was BlueWhat Wonders Await Outdoors|author=Faiz KermaniJustine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk
|rating=4
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|summary=The second book in Justine Avery''Biriwita s Wonders series is the blue frog longs perfect antidote to be accepted at Croak Collegelong summer days with bored children - or, indeed, as we've found recently, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across the most famous school for frogs 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=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 Malawiour 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 the other students all turn their backs was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.}}{{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Daria Yudina|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh (Living Book)|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary=This Living Book is on hima mission. He is just too differentWhat'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...
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|author=Justine Avery and Daria Yudina
|title=Baby Trolls Get a Bad Rap (Underrated Babies Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary= Horatio, Saul and Grizelda are three baby trolls who are fed up that everyone forgets about baby trolls. They are ignored in books and TV shows and films in favour of their very scary grown ups. Our three heroes want equal rights for baby trolls. They want to be seen and heard and they've started a petition about it that they want you to sign. But how should they go about it?
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