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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=T S Eliot Adam Stower|title=Murray and Arthur RobinsBun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |titlesummary=MacavityMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so 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 frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's Not There!turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: A LiftBook One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-the-Flap BookAlbanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Looking back, one When 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 first games I've played with every baby I've encountered Sour Milk Dragon is the one where you hide behind your hands and then appear surprised when you drop chasing them and see the baby. It never fails to get a smileHe's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (I know - Please don't try this at home: it was probably wind..won't end well.) Macavity has perfected the gameFortunately, because they were nearly at Nobby Lob- wherever you look lolly - he's not there. Here at Bookbag Towers we loved [[Macavity,the Mystery Cat by T S Eliot and Arthur Robins|the full version]] when a ladder of T S Eliot's poemmoss and vines was lowered for them, but what about the very youngest children - they escaped. They climbed up to the ones who really love Tree Wee homes high up in the idea of someone - or something - not being tangled woods where you expect them to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571328636</amazonuk>they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Lee WildishB0CC9W7GLR|title=Treats for a T RexOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=35
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|summary=One hot summer our family got a new Labrador puppy Kit and, seeing as I Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home most , bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the time revising for exams, it was decided that I would be the person to train said dogshoreline. After a few months On top of hard training came the ice was a grown dog… that was polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the worst trained we ever hadice. Laddy may have been an expert in play fighting and eatingKit was all for making a run for it, but not much elseTeal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. With my spotted history in animal husbandry I am not equipped He obviously needed to train any animal be taken home on the bus and especially not given a T Rex, but perhaps George isgood meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273623</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Hay and Nick East1913839656|title=Do Not Wash This Bear|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Dad is not very good at washing. There are those of us who would shrug this off and feel happy that at least he gives it a go, but then I guess after a while shrunken T-shirts and dyed vests become a little tiresome! Anyway, one day dad decides that Bear has become a little bit stinky and needs to go in the wash, and although the child in the story shows dad the very clear label stating ''Do not wash this bear'' he decides to ignore the advice and throws him into the machine. Washing Bear turns out to be a very big mistake, since some combination of the bubbles and the spin setting drastically alter poor BearLet's personality, and when he comes out he is a very decidedly naughty and troublesome Bear!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277157</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCelebrate Being Different|author=Paul Brown and Rowena Blyth|title=The Mood HooverLainey Dee
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|summary=No one could ever have confused Stan Todd was excited about spending the weekend with a sunbeamhis grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He was mischievous (well, personally, I'd have said 'unpleasant') packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and he had a secret: an invention, in factthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. He'd created a machine which could suck up anything which was happy or fun She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and it Todd was called 'the mood hoover'pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. His sister's bedroom At home, his only friend was the first place his mum and he put the machine through its paces and within a matter of moments all the girly niceness had been replaced by dull, grey ordinarinesswondered why that could be. It didn't just work in confined spaces either: the couple admiring a rainbow were surprised to find the vivid colours turned to dullness. You don't want to know what Grandma thought that it might be because he got up to in the zoo..looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910851132</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Fhiona Galloway1529504775|title=I Love My DaddyThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=FatherElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn's Day is a great time to really pump t - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up your Dad's egowas very difficult. If he is anything like me he already thinks he is One day Elsie spotted a bit of an Adonis; seeing that paunch bus in the mirror more as relaxed muscle than toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the beer gut that coins from her money box to pay for it isas cash was tight at home. To be honestGradually, as a PopDavid learned to stand up, use the bus for support, I am pretty much content with a pintand walk behind it. Many decades later, a book or a football gameElsie brought the bus, but if a child does insist on getting their elder a giftnow damaged and rusted, a nice book about to the parent/child relationship may just warm Repair Shop, hoping that the coldest of cocklesexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691785</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ed Vere1529504767|title=Max The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and BirdKatie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ed Vere has a unique style of artwork for his picture booksSusan 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. The colours are vibrant, She needn't have worried though as she went to the characters are distinctivehome of Mr and Mrs Russell, the style is a little bit scrappy, in a very charming waywho couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. We are big fans in our house so we sat down eagerly Gradually she relaxed and began to read the latest offeringenjoy her life. Here we have Max, a sweet black cat She'd help Mrs Russell with enormous eyes who meets the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and befriends a birdMr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. Well, initially his plan is that they play chase and then Max will eat up Bird for a tasty snack but Bird has another idea…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241240190</amazonuk>The best surprise happened the following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Morag Hood1916459943|title=Colin and Lee, Carrot and PeaSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=3.54
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|summary=Sometimes people don’t quite fit inMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. Perhaps they are much taller than you, He's so tired but he can't - or perhaps they aren’t round enough won't - go to rollsleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. Does this mean, then, that if someone is so different you can’t be their friend? The sea offers to help. When it comes to Colin It rocks Baby gently and Leethe waves sing ''hush, they are about as different as you can get, since one is small and round and green and hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a pea sandy beach and you have the other is, wellsound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a carrot! moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. But does that get in the way of their friendship?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509808949</amazonuk>Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Bright and Chris Chatterton 140639131X|title=There's a Bison Bouncing on the BedA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=Becoming a parent gives you many new insights into life; the pleasure in seeing a child smile or the amazement Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as they start she tried to utter wordscross the Old Oak Road. However, She wrote to the one thing that you really begin to understand is – how much stuff costsmayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Clothes, food, transport, toys, even furniturePhilippa wasn't a bird to 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 something similar herself. It all costs money Her uniform and you now have lollipop stick were both a tiny wrecking ball running around little amateur to start with but the house seemingly doing their best to destroy them allbenefits were obvious. It may seem like harmless fun All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to jump on the bed, but who pays for it when it breaks? The bison? I don't think soprovide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692358</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T Smith 1776574338|title=Claude All at Sea Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=Claude is a small dog Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who likes wearing live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a beret and more fun way of going to school? There is a lovely red jumperproblem, though. He lives with Mr Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and Mrs Shinyshoes – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and his best friend is a stripy sock called Sir Bobblysocktraffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444903675</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Bright1776574028|title=Amazing DaddyBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=Daddy Panda and Baby Panda are spending I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the day togetherchild who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and Baby Panda is thinking about all the make something quite different reasons why his daddy is brilliantfrom each one. These range from how he smells safe We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and warm to the extra large breakfasts that daddy makes! becomes a ''balletphant''. There are lots of common, everyday situations, so little ones will enjoy making comparisons The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with their own lives, yellow duck) and discussing what makes their daddy amazingthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.....|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331675</amazonuk>..'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nadia Shireen1838226834|title=The BumblebearCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=54
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|summary=Ever a sucker for a book about a bear, this It was one has fast become a favourite for me. Norman is of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an ordinary kind of bear, small and cuddly and a big fan of honey. He is such a big fan, in fact, that he comes up outing with a cunning plan in order to make his honey hunting much easierour grandparents. He decides They're there to dress up as a bee (a giant beeundo all the good that parents do, from Giant Bee Land, obviously) and join Bee School where he has so the most marvellous time learning about things like buzzing and finding smelly flowerstrips out were always so much fun. However, although most of A young boy was going to the bees are convinced of carnival with his bee-nessGrandad, there is one rather clever little bee who grows increasingly suspicious told him: ''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of poor Norman…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780080158</amazonuk>my hand.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Rayner B09MYXSRV4|title=Augustus Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and His SmileHare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary= Trying to find When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a tiger's smile is no easy featstrong web that even fire could not burn. The chances are Owl had excellent sight so that it will be on he could see the end of their face present ''and this is a face full off teeth'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, attached not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a powerful cat race with clawsTurtle. Personally, I would leave finding a tigerYou might think that's smile to someone far more trained that I, or the animal themselvesnot a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. Thankfully, Augustus is a practical chap and he sets out to discover what exactly did happen to his smileI'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692323</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne Willis and Leonie LordRob Keeley|title=Lottie Potter Wants an OtterCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=34
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|summary=Purchasing a new pet is a complex enough business without trying to use alliteration Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, so reading a book about pet purchases cabbage and tongue twisters can get trickyaubergines. The adult can end When her friends at school turn up tripping over their own words when reading out loud noses, Lily is keen to their childexplain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. The kid may find this funnyJordan says, "I did try to tell her, but does it make for a pleasurable read?Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007501331</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=Claire PhillipJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Convertible Submarine Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=They told me life would be easy reviewing books; grab itToots, read ittrumps, review itfarts. What they did not say Whatever your word for them, find us a child that I would have doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to do talk about and joke about, that is also play with it. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, build when everyone will hear it and sit everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in ither ''Everybody Potties! There is a thin line between an interactive book '' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and a toy. When this thin line involves a book that you can convert into a play mat gently and also a submarinecalmly, with the familiar humour attached, it explains that tooting is hard to understand what perfectly normal. Everybody does it is at all. Welcome to the world of the : ''Convertible SubmarineEverybody Toots''.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782099980</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg McLarenB09BG8V3Q6|title=Life is MagicWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=It ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is not often that you pick up a book and feel the warmth and magic come of it. It is extremely rare latest release in adult fiction, but in childrenthe ''Everybody Potties!''s books you find it more often if you only lookseries from Justine Avery. Great illustrations and wonderful stories can combine to make a book that will entrance both a youngster and adult as they read together. When you find one This series of these fun picture books you should treasure it as it is something that may be read aims to your grandchildren in take the future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443383</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Chae Strathie pain out of potty training children and Nicola O'Byrne|title= Gorilla Loves Vanilla|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= One day, I imagine replace itwith some fun. It's probably a sunny Saturdayworthy aim, all the animals are heading to Sam's Sundaes for special treats. A bit like the wonder that is ''Marble Slab'' (google it), Sam can create as any flavour frustrated parent will tell you desire. Blue cheese flavour for Mouse? Easy. Worm flavour for Chicken? Ick…but not problem. Mud flavour for Hippo, fish finger flavour for Cat, time and again Sam gets it right. But then Gorilla arrives and all the animals strain to hear what this big beast will request…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407148109</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Judith Kerr|title= Mog and Me and other Stories|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=''Mog and Me'' is a set of 4 stories in one board book. They are ''very'' short stories which make them a great introduction to Mog for those whose attention span is only for a few minutes before the temptation to chew on the book become overwhelming. This book, then, is perfect. Great sturdy design with pages so stiff even an older child would have to try hard to destroy. Glossy sheet that can withstand a bit of dribbling. And bright, bold illustrations that are not too complicated for tiny eyes .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008171173</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt RobertsonB07GZ81J7C|title=Super StanWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=Stan is no ordinary little brotherMeet Fred. Well, oh noactually, because Stan can run faster and throw further and jump higher than his big brother Jackyou're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Stan can also fly, Fred is a snake and even those of course! us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. Poor Jack finds He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that even when he is helpful could breathe and kind, his little superhero brother can go one better, so when Jack finds someone's wallet on immediately became part of the floor and returns itfamily, Stan captures a burglar in his car & carries the car to the police! extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. So when it is Jack's birthday he is hopeful And that perhaps for just one day, he will be was where the special one in the family, and Stan wonproblem started. Fred didn't do anything to spoil his funhave any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408337282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie Fulton Justine Avery and Elina EllisNaday Meldova|title=Bossy Jonathan Fossy Everybody Pees! (The Ever So SeriesEverybody Potties!)
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|summary=Jonathan Fossy was Can potty training ever so bossybe joyous? It often isn't, demanding that his Mum bring him chocolate and gum and then paint his bedroom bright blueas any parent will tell you. He made demands of everyoneBut really, including the neighbours (a ten feet wide boat with a cabin for him) and you might wonder why shouldn''anyone'' put up with t itbe? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. (I had in mind a sharp slap across the back of a couple of bare legs, but thatWhy shouldn's probably illegalt potty training be as much fun as, albeit effectivesay, these days.) Finally PC Moran hatched a dastardly plan: I'm not going to tell you what it was, but suffice it to say that he got his comeuppance learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in a most effective way and was a decidedly more pleasant young man thereafter.the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848861869</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jeanne Willis Justine Avery and Tony RossNaday Meldova|title= Lucinda Belinda Melinda McCoolNo, No, No!|rating= 54|genre= For Sharing|summary= Lucinda Belinda is extremely beautiful and she feels it's her duty to bring beauty to They say the best picture books are the worldsimplest ones. And if nothing could be truer of this means telling others to sort out their eyebrowslatest from Justine Avery, lose their big behindsa Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, file their nails or just up their grooming generally then No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable. ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.'' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so be much bigger on the inside that itappears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783442026</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michelle Robinson194812467X|title= Goodnight Spaceman|rating= 3.5|genre= For Sharing|summary='Goodnight Spaceman' is a warm and tender look at space exploration told through the eyes of two young boys who have an astronaut for a Dad. On the upside, this seems to mean that you get to keep moon rock in your bedroom. On the downside, space is too far to reach out for a hug. So, the boys blast off to see Dad's workplace before bed time. Not only is this topical when the International Space Station currently orbits with a British astronaut on board, there is an introductory letter from the great man himself, Tim Peake. Sounds like a winning formula when for so many tots space is the favourite frontier. I was eager to read this with my three year old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141365625</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Farm Shop|author= Lizzy Stewart|title= There's a Tiger in the Garden|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Though it's said that you should never judge a book by a cover, the front of 'There's a Tiger in the Garden' gives cause to linger. Here is a taste of the splendid illustrations to come – verdant foliage, bright dragonflies, andDevon Avery, of course, a bright orange tiger. Should you not be convinced to pick it up by the visuals alone, the gorgeous embossing adds a further dimension. Lovely pop-out richness you can feel. What a great start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808069</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dr Seuss|title=Horton and the Kwuggerbug Justine Avery and More Lost StoriesEma Tepic
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|summary=Going back Kirelle and revisiting characters once an author has died is not always the her best idea, too often friend Sam the result smacks of cat decide to go for a cash walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in that does not have any of his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the charm top of the originalhill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. However, revisiting lesser works by the author It's a farm shop! But this is a different thing. If farm shop with a fan has difference: all the writer's booksstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, but never managed to get their hands on their obscure short stories or tales written for magazinesgoats and chickens, a new collection may just workand even some mice. Even for as eccentric an author as Dr SeussExcited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008131279</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet0995647895|title=Supertato Veggies Assemble|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= In the fight of good versus evil many superheroes stand out. Batman. Spiderman. And now, straight from the aisles of the supermarket, we have Supertato. He's a cape wearing, belt toting spud. Variety unknown. What I do know is that he's a huge hit in my toddler's nursery class Sadie and he's back for another battle against his arch enemy the evil pea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121003</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSea Dogs|author=Will Mabbitt Maureen Duffy and Fred Blunt|title=This Is Not A Bedtime StoryAnita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=Anyone who has read Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the same story over River Thames at Greenwich and over again she loves to their child will have felt spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the crushing feeling of mundanityMaritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. ItShe's very tempting d love to hide that bland, but popular, book sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and explain to your child that it must be lostwent back regularly. The adult may feel like this, but once One day she fell asleep under a child gets a little older, they too may feel glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the sameattendant's warning shout. Why not interject When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a little more action into a tired story world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and make it anew?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014135738X</amazonuk>treasure.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Knapman and Laura Hughes1782227741|title=Goodnight TigerLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It was the middle of the night, but Emily could ''not'' sleep for s quite a deep puddle and the noisewater is swirling. There was bellowing Poor Ted starts to spin around and stomping around and growling and trumpeting. Brave girl that she was, she got out of bed and looked out is sucked down a drain on the side of the window, thinking that the animals had escaped from the zoo, but the street was empty. Finding himself Then she checked all down in the usual hiding places as well as her toy box - and suddenly realised that the noises were coming from the animals in her wallpapersewer, Ted starts to panic. Emily's not just brave - she's resourceful too OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and she set about settling alerts the jungle down for attention of Reg the night. And one solution turns sewer rat, who plucks him out to work of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just perfectlya 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 broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691866</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michelle Robinson and Emily FoxB08R7LXQ9S|title= Elephant's Pyjamas|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= I've read a lot of stories recently Remy: A book about animals who don't have many friends, at least at the beginning of their tale. For this age group it's pretty much a given that by the last page they'll have lots of lovely companions with whom to spend their days. Elephant is not one of those unlucky souls, though. He has TONS of friends and he's just been invited to a party with all of them. Lucky thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007580037</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewbelieving in yourself|author= Fabi Santiago|title= Tiger in a Tutu|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Everyone should have the chance to dance, non? Especially in such a wonderful city as Paris, bursting as it is with artists and appreciators of the arts. It is with a sad heart, then, that I must tell you about Max. Every day, he goes to ballet school, and every day he is turned away. Not only is he lacking the requisite attire, but he's a boy, Mayuri Naidoo and a tiger. And apparently that is not allowed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833688X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alex T Smith|title=Claude Going for Gold!Caroline Siegal|rating=4.5
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|summary=IRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''ve been a fan of Claude from the beginning. The school bully Jayden, He charmed me from the start, together with his plump tummysidekicks Ryan and Brandon, little legshave been laughing at Remy, red jumper calling him names because he is short and rather fetching berethas small eyes. I can't help They are mean but love a dog who wears a beret! He also has a charming best friend, Sir Bobblysock, (who is indeed a woolly sock) who always makes me laughthey are not stupid. In this particular book they They are off on another hunt for an adventure, careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and although it seems for a while then push him just that there is simply no fun to be had outside of little bit further when the house they finally fallother kids are around. So, literallywhen Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into a Very Exciting Sports Competition!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926489</amazonuk>trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Docherty and Mark Beech1471191303|title=Do You Remember?The Invisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=We have various picture books in our house that have a tendency to leave me a little blurry eyedThis is the story of Isobel, whilst my children remain entirely nonplussed! Aimed at sparking some parental emotion, the stories behind them are often a little lacking. This book, however, works for both children and grown ups, in girl who made a really lovely waybig difference. Beginning Isobel lived with her parents in a small childhouse - a very cold house, because her parents couldn's cry t afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.''I can The family didn't do it!'go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn' t afford the mum in rent for the story reminisces about all the many different (house and funny) things that her child has learned they had to move to do over the yearsfar side of the city. This part of the city was cold, encouraging her that she has always got there in the endsad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571321143</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pippa Goodhart Nick Jones and Sam UsherSi Clark|title=What Will Danny Do Today?One Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary=Every day we face a multitude of choicesMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, from what to wear and what to eat to what to do when we get home who lives in the evening. This book Beartown, is all about making decisions, but in a very simple and fun way that encourages discussion obsessed with your toddlerbears. The character we are deciding for is a little boy called Danny, and we follow him through the course of one day, thinking She collects books about what he will decide on each pagebears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405275103</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stella J Jones and Alison Edgson|title= The Very Grumpy Day|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Happiness Her favourite toy is contagiousBerisford, but did you ever consider that grumpiness might be too? If you look at Bear, it's quite plain to seea teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. He's not having a good dayEvery night, and when he takes it she looks out on Mole, it spreads quickly through the forest, with Hedgehog and Fox and the squirrels of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the owls all getting a tastebear statue outside. What Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a horrible, grumpy day for everyonecolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184869203X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} {{newreview|author= Eric Carle|title= Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Babies have mothers, mothers who may well be reading these books with them. And their mothers have mothers, or they used Move on to at any rate. But what about other animals. Does a kangaroo have a mother? How about lions and dolphins?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007106165</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]