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|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukRob Keeley|title=Think Outside the BoxCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4
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|summary=''Whenever 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 find a problem <br>''Wherever there's a puzzle and how nice to solve <br>''However you get stuck eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside the box'' And so begins the latest picture book from Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiukground. It's a clarion call Jordan says, "I did try to children to use their imaginations tell her, Miss!" and not logic alone when it comes to solving problemseveryone laughs at poor Lily.|isbn=1948124572B09HHN541V
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|isbn=1948124440B09FFJF8YS|title=What Wonders Await OutdoorsYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukKate Zhoidik|rating=43.5
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|summary=The second book in Justine Avery's Wonders series is 'For the perfect antidote to long summer days with bored children - orbig, indeedgrownup girls out there, 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 withpotty masters in training, 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=ItCan'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 t Wear Panties!" is a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet cry (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house beforebig-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''persevering panty pride. 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 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...
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|author=Justine Avery and Daria YudinaNaday Meldova|title=This Book Is AliveEverybody Toots! (Living BookEverybody Potties!)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|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
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|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!)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|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!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|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
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|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
|genre=For Sharing
|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
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|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
|rating=4
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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
|rating=5
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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
|rating=4
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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 workshopHer favourite toy is Berisford, creating crazy potionsa teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and he always says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has a smile bears on his faceher bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1849766920|title=Everything is MINE|author=Andrea D'Aquino|rating=4. Madeline5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: what else could you be with a name like that? He knows that you's dad thinks ll realise that he's a bit bonkers kind, clever and Madelineloyal. You'll also need to know that everything is '''MINE'''s . And he means ''everything''. It begins with the slipper: mum thinks the same but gives him a pass because still has one. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that he's oldbeing generous in allowing that. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just great Then it was the pork chop. Particularly Well, did you see anyone's name on her birthday when it? ''And'' he unfailingly arrives with a selection left the carrots for Leo. That's another example of potions and allows her Marcello's generosity. There was the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation to choose one as a giftprove ownership. And talking of ownership the tree would provide all the sticks he always says the same thing..could ever want to chew. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?
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|isbn=19109893391849767009|title=Loved It Isn't Rude to Bitsbe Nude|author=Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonRosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=This could have been one of those books which ''Loved preaches to Bitsthe choir': the only people who' ll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the heartwarming story of a boyones who ''know''s love for his bear. Bearthat it's adventures with boy take him to all kinds of places and together shameful will avoid it like they fight avoid the hot-and defeat every obstacle put -bothered person in their way, from the jungle supermarket who is coughing fit to the seabust. Inevitably mishaps occur on the wayBut... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. The loss It's a celebration of an arm, a leg, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with a cheery ''don't worry, I've got one more''disabilities and markings. But boy loves him just as he is and wonThey't hear of him being mendedre fine. His placeIn fact, after all, is in Boythey's bedre wonderful.
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|isbnauthor=0874869722Blake Nuto and Charlotte Ager|title=When Spring Comes to the DMZ|author=Uk-Bae LeeChild of Galaxies
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=There What does it mean to be alive? What are we made of, and where are we going? ''Child of Galaxies'' is a place on this earth lovely children's picture book that, at the time of writing, is resplendent deals with life. In all 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 placebig questions. In the autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful Written as well they mighta poem, for they will spawn and die if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them lyrical words don't shy away from doing so. This is a snapshot of life in darkness, nor talk down to the DMZchildren you are reading to, but rather than work beautifully together with the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their nameillustrations to create a powerful, and it's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuaryuplifting reading experience.|isbn=1912497425
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|isbn=14197314081948124572|title=Sweep: The Story of Think Outside the Box|author=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=''Whenever you find a problem <br>''Wherever there's a puzzle to solve <br>''However you get stuck in a Girl sticky situation <br>''Just think outside the box'' And so begins the latest picture book from Justine Avery and her MonsterLiuba 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=Jonathan AuxierJustine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk|rating=54
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|summary=Nan The second book in Justine Avery's Wonders series is a climber, the best chimney sweep in London. She is growing fastperfect antidote to long summer days with bored children - or, so what will happen to her when she gets too big to climbindeed, when people realise she is a girl? Everything changesas we've found recently, for those long lockdown days when she an awful pandemic is stuck in a chimney, set on fire, and saved by a golemrolling across the world. A story of outcasts, What do you do when every book has been read and friendshipsevery toy has been played with, told through two talesrepurposed, 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.played with again?
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|isbn=17868943271776572858|title=The Truth PixieHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Matt Haig Anna Fiske and Chris MouldDon 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 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.
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|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 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...
.... well, it opens up with a terrible joke. A groany joke, an eye-roll joke. The joke isn't very funny but it is funny to see how enthusiastic and how generously this book wants to make you laugh - ''Oh, I'm terrible at jokes. Some books are so good at them. I always wanted to help someone laugh.''
|isbn= 194812453X
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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=Poor old Truth Pixie. She's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to tell the truth Horatio, Saul and Grizelda are three baby trolls who are fed up that everyone forgets about baby trolls. 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 allfilms in favour of their very scary grown ups. You might not Our three heroes want to attract the attention of the school bully by calling him mean and nasty, equal rights for example, or you might not baby trolls. They want to tell someone be seen and heard and they've started a petition about it that they want you think their brand new haircut looks awfulto sign.But how should they go about it? |isbn= B07XGN4LGY}}
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