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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackie MorrisAdam Stower|title=One CheetahMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray 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 turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One Cherry: A Book of Beautiful NumbersThe Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=Once youWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they've seen anything illustrated by Jackie Morris you know that you'll get a book full of pictures, all re running for their lives in the Forest of which you'd be delighted and proud to hang on your wallsFine Repute. ''One, Cheetah, One CherryTheir greatest fear has come about: A Book of Beautiful Numbers'' the Sour Milk Dragon is no exceptionchasing them. We begin with just the one cherry, so red and shiny you are tempted to see if itHe's realright behind them, but youspewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won're put off by the next picturet end well. ) The one cherry is joined by one cheetah Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and he's got when a proprietorial paw resting across the shoulder ladder of the cherrymoss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. You're not going They climbed up to argue the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with himtheir Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959286</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jimmy Fallon and Miguel OrdonezB0CC9W7GLR|title=Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=35

|summary=What will your baby's first word be? If Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it is up was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the father, shoreline. On top of the answer is Dadaice was a polar bear. Every time Mum has her back turned Dad is repeating As the word Dadaice bumped onto the sand, Dadathe bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, Dada, Dadabut Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. This secret war has waged for centuries He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and Jimmy Fallon given a good meal and Miguel Ordonez have put it somewhere to papersleep. Do What else would you want to know what my children's first word wasdo? Dada, of course. I win!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444931431</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Timo Parvela1913839656|title= Bicycling to the MoonLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating= 43.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Bicycling to Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the Moon is a series best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of short stories which all centre around two main characters: Purdy the cat dungarees and his favourite hat and Dexter the dog who live then gathered together in a sky-blue house on the top of a hillhis button collection to show his grandmother. Purdy is a somewhat selfish cat who demonstrates rather impulsive behaviour She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and is always rushing around, whereas Baxter is much more refined, thoughtful and is careful Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make the right choicesnew friends. Each story works as an individual tale which At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be read out of order; however there is a seasonal progression to the order of the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570324</amazonuk> Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Lloyd1529504775|title=Boris BabysitsThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary= Leaving your child Elsie 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't - he'd been born with someone for the first time is a daunting task for any new parentcerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. You want One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pick someone pay for this task that you can trust; a sensible person who has some experience looking after a babyit as cash was tight at home. Perhaps a parentGradually, sibling or a good friend? The person that you are unlikely David learned to pick is Borisstand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Not only is he irresponsibleMany decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, he also happens to be a monsterthe Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704152</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Fox and Christyan Fox1529504767|title=A Dog Called BearThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Lucy had always wanted a dog Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she'd been preparing for the moment would be greeted when she got to her dreams could come true for a long time: final destination. She needn't have worried though as she'd read all went to the bookshome of Mr and Mrs Russell, bought doggie things and who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her bedroom was plastered with doggie picturesown room - all to herself. One day Gradually she set out relaxed and began to make her dream come true: accosting animals and presenting enjoy her credentials (there really is no other way of explaining it..life.) First up, a frog, who presents She'd help Mrs Russell with the counter arguments baking and when it came to dog ownership Christmas Eve Susan and then makes his own case, adding that he would only need a bath every dayMr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. Lucy's sorry, but she only has a shower..The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571329446</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie1916459943|title=The Detective DogSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=54

|summary=Detective dog NellMuch as mothers love their babies, with her great sense of smell, is there's something they all dread - a rather remarkable dog! squeakily baby. She works very hard from Tuesday He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to Sunday, finding lost things, like a ball down the toiletsleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and solving mysteries such as where is the lost shoe by sniffing it out''wails''. The sea offers to help. Itrocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''s in the shed, actuallyhush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and if you look a little more closely you might start to suspect that actually Nell might have had more to do with these lost things and mysteries than she should have! Anyway, those are her busy days, but on Mondays she goes to school with Peter, and she listens to the children reading her bookssound perfectly. She loves all sorts of booksThe mermaids join in - ''la lou, about dinosaurs and princes and dragons and dogs, and she loves the smell of the booksla lay... '' So when she goes And for a moment it seems to school one Monday have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and finds that all the books are missing, Detective dog Nell is the one they need we know exactly what's going to help find all the bookshappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509801596</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jorg Muhle140639131X|title=Tickle My EarsA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Little Rabbit is Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting ready for bedsquished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. ItShe wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn's getting late, so can you help him? t even get a reply. HePhilippa wasn's going t a bird to need to get his pyjamas 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 his pillow needs fluffing, decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and he might need lollipop stick were both a little stroke on his back, or for his ears amateur to have a ticklestart with but the benefits were obvious. What All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a sleepy little rabbit he is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570766</amazonuk>safe path overnight.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Corderoy and Jane Chapman 1776574338|title=Squish Squash SqueezeLeilong's Too Long! |author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5

|summary=When Mouse moves into Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his new houseway through the city, picking up children as he thinks itgoes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don's going t even need to be perfectgo downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. But then he finds there It's already quite perfect, isn't it? What could be a collection more fun way of animals going to school? There is a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he'll have s always having to share with: be careful about where he discovers a big brown bear behind the piano puts his feet and – because he's longer than a crocodile crammed in the bath. When a tiger comes whizzing down the bannister it becomes a bit of a squish, a squash tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and a squeezetraffic regularly gets snarled up. The animals donschool decides that he can't know what to do until they hear a rumble under be the floor – it looks like they're going to have an even bigger problembus anymore. Or are they?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691904</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Britta Teckentrup1776574028|title=One is Not a PairBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5

|summary=I was love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the type of child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that would sit indoors on you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a sunny day bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with their head in a puzzle book rather than getting anything important like Vitamin Dhair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) I may be pasty white nowadays, but at least I know my way around The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a good spot-the-difference book when I see one''sm....... '' And I spy with my little eyeOK, one right here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704632</amazonuk>let's not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=T S Eliot and Arthur Robins1838226834|title=Macavity's Not There!: A Lift-Carried Away With the-Flap BookCarnival|author=Ed Boxall

|summary=Looking back, It was one of the first games I've played those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with every baby Iour grandparents. They've encountered is re there to undo all the one where you hide behind your hands and then appear surprised when you drop them and see good that parents do, so the babytrips out were always so much fun. It never fails A young boy was going to get a smile. (I know - it was probably wind...) Macavity has perfected the gamecarnival with his Grandad, because - wherever you look - hewho told him: 's not there. Here at Bookbag Towers we loved [[Macavity'It'll be brilliant, just remember,the Mystery Cat by T S Eliot and Arthur Robins|the full version]] don't let go of T S Eliotmy hand.''s poem, but what about the very youngest children - the ones who really love the idea of someone - or something - not being where you expect them to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571328636</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Lee WildishHare|titleauthor=Treats for a T RexCordellya Smith|rating=34

|summary=One hot summer our family got a new Labrador puppy andWhen the world was made, seeing as I was at home most of the time revising for exams, it animals were given gifts. Bear was decided given strength so that I would be the person to train said doghe could become a protector. After Water Spider received a few months of hard training came a grown dog… strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that was he could see the present ''and'' the worst trained we ever hadfuture. Laddy may have been an expert in play fighting and eatingRabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, but not much elsethe ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. With my spotted history He was also jealous which was how he came to be in animal husbandry I am a race with Turtle. You might think that's not equipped to train any animal a fair contest but wait and especially see. Things are not a T Rex, but perhaps George isalways as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273623</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam Hay and Nick EastRob Keeley|title=Do Not Wash This BearCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4

|summary=Dad Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is not very keen to explain how good at washingthey are for you and how nice to eat. There are those of us One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who would shrug this off and feel happy tells her that at least he gives it a gocarrots grow on trees. Infuriated, but then I guess after a while shrunken T-shirts and dyed vests become a little tiresome! AnywayLily checks with the teacher, one day dad decides who explains that Bear has become a little bit stinky fruits grow on trees and needs to go in the washvegetables, like carrots, and although the child grow 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 machineground. Washing Bear turns out Jordan says, "I did try to be a very big mistaketell her, since some combination of the bubbles Miss!" and the spin setting drastically alter everyone laughs at poor Bear's personality, and when he comes out he is a very decidedly naughty and troublesome Bear!Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405277157</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Brown and Rowena BlythB09FFJF8YS|title=The Mood HooverYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik

|summary=No one could ever have confused Stan with a sunbeam. He was mischievous (well''For the big, grownup girls out there, personallythe potty masters in training, I'd have said 'unpleasant"You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and he had a secret: an invention, in factpersevering panty pride. He'd created '  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a machine which could suck up anything which was happy or fun little girl's final goodbye to nappies and it was called 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'the mood hoover'can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. His sister's bedroom was Neither can the first place he put flowers, nor the machine through its paces and within a matter of moments all fish, nor the girly niceness had been replaced by dull, grey ordinarinessbirds. It didnBoy's certainly can't just work in confined spaces either: the couple admiring a rainbow were surprised to find the vivid colours turned to dullness. You donShe't want s a big girl now and she wants everyone to know what he got up to in the zoo...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910851132</amazonuk>it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Litton Justine Avery and Fhiona GallowayNaday Meldova|title=I Love My DaddyEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5

|summary=Father's Day is Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a great time to really pump up your Dadchild that doesn's egot find them irresistibly funny. If he Funny to talk about and joke about, that is anything like me he already thinks he is a bit of an Adonis; seeing that paunch in . But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the mirror more as relaxed muscle than the beer gut that it iswrong time. To be honestIn class, as a Popsay, I am pretty much content when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with a pinttooting and gently and calmly, a book or a football gamewith the familiar humour attached, but if a child explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does insist on getting their elder a gift, a nice book about the parent/child relationship may just warm the coldest of cockles.it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848691785</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ed VereB09BG8V3Q6|title=Max Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and BirdSeema Amjad

|summary=Ed Vere has a unique style ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of artwork for his fun picture books. The colours are vibrant, the characters are distinctive, the style is a little bit scrappy, in a very charming way. We are big fans in our house so we sat down eagerly aims to read take the latest offeringpain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. Here we have Max, It's a sweet black cat with enormous eyes who meets and befriends a bird. Wellworthy aim, initially his plan is that they play chase and then Max as any frustrated parent will eat up Bird for a tasty snack but Bird has another idea…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241240190</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Morag Hood|title=Colin and Lee, Carrot and Pea|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sometimes people don’t quite fit intell you. Perhaps they are much taller than you, or perhaps they aren’t round enough to roll. Does this mean, then, that if someone is so different you can’t be their friend? When it comes to Colin and Lee, they are about as different as you can get, since one is small and round and green and a pea and the other is, well, a carrot! But does that get in the way of their friendship?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509808949</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Bright and Chris Chatterton B07GZ81J7C|title=There's a Bison Bouncing on When Fred the BedSnake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton

|summary=Becoming a parent gives you many new insights into life; the pleasure in seeing a child smile or the amazement as they start to utter wordsMeet Fred. HoweverWell, actually, the one thing that you really begin 're going to understand is – how much stuff costsbe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. Clothes, food, transport, toys, even furnitureBut I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. It all costs money Fred is a snake and you now even those of us who have a tiny wrecking ball running around the house seemingly doing their best phobia about snakes are going to warm to destroy them allhim. It may seem like harmless fun He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to jump on the bed, but who pays extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for it when it breaks? a walk. The bison? And that was where the problem started. I donFred didn't think sohave any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692358</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex T Smith Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Claude All at Sea Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54

|summary=Claude is a Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small dog who likes wearing a beret and a lovely red jumper. He lives with Mr and Mrs Shinyshoes Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and his best friend is a stripy sock called Sir Bobblysock. the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444903675</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel BrightJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Amazing DaddyNo, No, No!|rating=4.5

|summary=Daddy Panda and Baby Panda They say the best picture books are spending the day togethersimplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, and Baby Panda a Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!'' is thinking about all based around the different reasons why his daddy is brilliantsimplest text imaginable. ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may. These range from how he smells safe and warm to the extra large breakfasts that daddy makes'' That's it! There are lots of commonBut, everyday situationslike all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so little ones will enjoy making comparisons with their own lives, and discussing what makes their daddy amazingmuch bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408331675</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nadia Shireen194812467X|title=The BumblebearFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=54

|summary=Ever a sucker Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a book about a bear, this one has fast become a favourite walk. Kirelle is dressed for meall weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. Norman is an ordinary kind As they walk to the top of bearthe hill, small and cuddly and they see a big fan of honeybarn with a sign outside. He It's a farm shop! But this is such a big fan, in fact, that he comes up farm shop with a cunning plan in order to make his honey hunting much easierdifference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. He decides to dress up as a bee (a giant beeThere are sheep and ducks and cows, from Giant Bee Landgoats and chickens, obviously) and join Bee School where he has the most marvellous time learning about things like buzzing even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and finding smelly flowersSam go shopping. However, although most of the bees are convinced of his bee-ness, there is one rather clever little bee who grows increasingly suspicious of poor Norman…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780080158</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Rayner 0995647895|title=Augustus Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and His SmileAnita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary= Trying to find a tigerSadie's smile is no easy featmother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The chances are that it will be on Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the end of their face and this is a face full off teethgloom, attached ''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to a powerful cat with clawssail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. Personally, I would leave finding One day she fell asleep under a tigerglass case (it's the one where Nelson's smile to someone far more trained that I, or Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the animal themselvesattendant's warning shout. ThankfullyWhen 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 world of dolphins, Augustus is a practical chap pirates, mermaids and he sets out to discover what exactly did happen to his smiletreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692323</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Leonie Lord1782227741|title=Lottie Potter Wants an OtterLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=34

|summary=Purchasing One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a new pet deep puddle and the water is a complex enough business without trying swirling. Poor Ted starts to use alliteration, so reading spin around and around and is sucked down a book about pet purchases and tongue twisters can get trickydrain on the side of the street. Finding himself The adult can end up tripping over their own words when reading out loud down in the sewer, Ted starts to their childpanic. The kid may find this funny''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, but does it make for which might look just a pleasurable read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007501331</amazonuk>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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire PhillipB08R7LXQ9S|title=Convertible Submarine Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=They told me life would be easy reviewing books; grab itRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, read it together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, review it. What they did not say that I would have to do is also play with itbeen laughing at Remy, build it and sit in it! There calling him names because he is a thin line between an interactive book short and a toyhas small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. When this thin line involves a book that you They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can convert into a play mat see and also a submarinethen push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it is hard to understand what it is looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at all. Welcome to the world of school and the teachers don''Convertible Submarine''t believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782099980</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg McLaren1471191303|title=Life is MagicThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=It This is not often that you pick up a book and feel the warmth and magic come story of itIsobel, a little girl who made a big difference. It is extremely rare Isobel lived with her parents in adult fictiona house - a very cold house, but in childrenbecause her parents couldn's books you find it more often if you only look. 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 of these books you should treasure it as it is something that may be read t afford to your grandchildren in put the future. heating on:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443383</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Chae Strathie and Nicola O'Byrne|title= Gorilla Loves Vanilla|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= One day, I imagine it's probably a sunny Saturday, all Ice curled across the animals are heading to Sam's Sundaes for special treats. A bit like inside of the wonder that is ''Marble Slab'' (google it), Sam can create any flavour 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 window and again Sam gets it right. But then Gorilla arrives and all crept up 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 corner of 4 stories in one board bookthe bedpost. They are ''very The family didn'' short stories which make them a great introduction t go to Mog for those whose attention span is only for a few minutes before the temptation to chew cinema or 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>}}{{newreview|author=Matt Robertson|title=Super Stan|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Stan is no ordinary little brother, oh no, because Stan can run faster holidays but they had each other and throw further and jump higher than his big brother Jackthey were happy. Stan can also fly, of course! Poor Jack finds that even Then the day came when he is helpful and kind, his little superhero brother can go one better, so when Jack finds someonethey couldn's wallet on t afford the rent for the floor house and returns it, Stan captures a burglar in his car & carries they had to move to the car to far side of the police! city. So when it is Jack's birthday he is hopeful that perhaps for just one day, he will be the special one in This part of the familycity was cold, sad and Stan won't do anything to spoil his funlonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408337282</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie Fulton Nick Jones and Elina EllisSi Clark|title=Bossy Jonathan Fossy (The Ever So Series)One Night in Beartown

|summary=Jonathan Fossy was ever so bossy, demanding that his Mum bring him chocolate and gum and then paint his bedroom bright blue. He made demands of everyone, including the neighbours (a ten feet wide boat with a cabin for him) and you might wonder why ''anyone'' put up with it. (I had in mind a sharp slap across the back of a couple of bare legs, but that's probably illegal, albeit effective, 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 in a most effective way and was a decidedly more pleasant young man thereafter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861869</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jeanne Willis Many children have an obsession and Tony Ross|title= Lucinda Belinda Melinda McCool|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Lucinda Belinda is extremely beautiful and she feels it's her duty to bring beauty to the world. And if this means telling others to sort out their eyebrowsSandy Lane, lose their big behinds, file their nails or just up their grooming generally then so be it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442026</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michelle Robinson|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 lives in your bedroom. On the downsideBeartown, space is too far to reach out for a hugobsessed with bears. So, the boys blast off to see Dad's workplace before bed timeShe collects books about bears. Not only is this topical when the International Space Station currently orbits with a British astronaut on board, there Her favourite toy is an introductory letter from the great man himselfBerisford, Tim Peake. Sounds like a winning formula when for so many tots space is the favourite frontierteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. I was eager to read this with my three year old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141365625</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|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 coverEvery night, the front she looks out of 'There's a Tiger in the Garden' gives cause her bedroom window and says goodnight to linger. Here is a taste of the splendid illustrations to come – verdant foliage, bright dragonflies, and, of course, a bright orange tigerbear statue outside. Should you not be convinced Every morning she says hello to pick it up by the visuals aloneBee Bear, 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 and More Lost Stories|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Going back and revisiting characters once an author has died is not always the best idea, too often the result smacks of a cash in colourful painted bear that does not have any of the charm of the original. However, revisiting lesser works by the author is a different thinglives at her school. If a fan She even has all the writer's books, but never managed to get their hands bears on their obscure short stories or tales written for magazines, a new collection may just work. Even for as eccentric an author as Dr Seuss.her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008131279</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}{{newreview|author=Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet|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 and he's back for another battle against his arch enemy the evil pea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121003</amazonuk>}}Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]