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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Oliver JeffersAdam Stower|title=WhatMurray 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 Opposite?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: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary= When a child is very young we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they don't have re running for their lives in the ability to grasp what their hands are, never mind complex matters Forest of State, but eventually they all must start to learnFine Repute. One way to achieve this is by reading fun books Their greatest fear has come about : the alphabet or numbersSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, but not all concepts are as clear as letters and numbersspewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. What about the concept of opposites? (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) How do you define to Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a 16 month year old why one thing is opposite to the other? ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. Thankfully, you don't need They climbed up to know the answer as Tree Wee homes high up in the Hueys are on hand to help in tangled woods where they lived with their usual irreverent wayGrand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007420722</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie BlakeB0CC9W7GLR|title=Super RabbitOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda

|summary=We do love a good Stephanie Blake story in our house, Kit and since we've pretty much worn out ''Stupid Baby'' we Teal were very happy just beginning to give Simon's newest adventure wonder whether it 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 shoreline. On top of the ice was a gopolar bear. Simon As the rabbit is not just any old rabbitice bumped onto the sand, he is Super Rabbitthe bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, of course, complete with cape but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and mask! then another. He is brave, he is bold, he is adventurous obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and, oh my goodness, he has got given a splinter…!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579564</amazonuk>good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maudie Powell-Tuck and Richard Smythe1913839656|title=The Messy BookLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary=When cat makes a big messTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, he'd rather come up with any idea than tidy it up! not least because she made the best beetle juice. He tries packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to get rid of show his mess in various different ways, unsuccessfully, until there is no other option but grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to tidy up properlymake new friends. It's a familiar scenario for many families, I'm sureAt home, his only friend was his mum and told here with a great deal of charm!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869279X</amazonuk>he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Goodreau1529504775|title=The World-Famous Book of Magical NumbersToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary= If you are very lucky, 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 act side of reading feels the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just like magicstanding up was very difficult. 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 pay for it as cash was tight at home. You pick Gradually, David learned to stand up a book , use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and your imagination takes you on adventures you rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could never have play with it.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in the real world1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. You should try and start this magic She needn't have worried though as early as possible she went to the home of Mr and one way is to use interactive booksMrs Russell, babies love who couldn't have been kinder to grab tabs or lift flapsher. You may She even stumble across a book had her own room - all about numbers that provides this magical feeling for your childto herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704640</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Melling1916459943|title=D is for DuckSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=DuckMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the magicianwaves sing ''hush, is giving hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a demonstration of his magical skillssandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, conjuring up la lay...'' And for a wide variety of items from moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his top hateyes. Things begin normally enough with Then a bunny, but with lizards seagull '''shouts''' and lions and dragons following on soon after duck finds that perhaps his magic is getting a little out of hand!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444931091</amazonuk>we know exactly what's going to happen next.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lou Kuenzler and David Wojtowycz140639131X|title=Eat Your PeopleA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Monty Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the monster is having his dinnerOld Oak Road. He is eating all of his vegetables without any problems at all, She wrote to the mayor about the problem but when it comes to eating up his people he really isndidn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't happy, declaring them a bird to be chewy 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 crunchy decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and full of bones! lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. In a funny twist on All the animals used the picky eater story, this is crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a lighthearted way of broaching the tricky 'eat your vegetables' issue!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509801596</amazonuk>safe path overnight.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Hissey1776574338|title= Happy Birthday Old BearLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= It's Old Bear's birthdayEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, and so all makes his way through the other toys are planning somethingcity, picking up children as he goes. In fact lots Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of somethings: gifts, a cake, a proper celebrationthe window and slide down his neck. It's wonderful. Elsie the elephant has even perfect, isn''made'' him t it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a presentproblem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the talented little thing. But then, as we soon find out, Elsie is good at many thingscity: wrapping presents, baking cakes, blowing up balloons, singing. Ithe's a lovely sunny day, so the toys gather outside but just as they finish setting things up, always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and just as Old Bear arrives, disaster strikes! Can the toys have – because he's longer than a happy ending tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and find time to finish Old Beartraffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can's party?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910706728</amazonuk>t be the bus anymore.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie Morris1776574028|title=One Cheetah, One Cherry: A Book of Beautiful NumbersBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott

|summary=Once youI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee've seen anything illustrated by Jackie Morris you know that you'll get is aimed at quite a book full of picturesniche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, all of which see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that youcan ''play''d be delighted with words and proud to hang on your wallsmake something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''One, Cheetah, One Cherry: A Book of Beautiful Numbersballetphant'' is no exception. We begin The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with just the one cherry, so red yellow duck) and shiny you are tempted to see if itthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo's real, but you're put off by the next picture. The one cherry rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is joined by one cheetah and hea ''crynoceros''s got (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a proprietorial paw resting across the shoulder of the cherry''sm....... '' YouOK, let're s not going to argue with him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959286</amazonuk>go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jimmy Fallon and Miguel Ordonez1838226834|title=Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=34

|summary=What will your babyIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They's first word be? If it is up re there to undo all the fathergood that parents do, so the answer is Dadatrips out were always so much fun. Every time Mum has her back turned Dad is repeating the word Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada. This secret war has waged for centuries and Jimmy Fallon and Miguel Ordonez have put it to paper. Do you want to know what my children's first word A young boy was? Dada, of course. I win!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444931431</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Timo Parvela|title= Bicycling going to the Mooncarnival with his Grandad, who told him:|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Bicycling to the Moon is a series of short stories which all centre around two main characters: Purdy the cat and Dexter the dog who live together in a sky-blue house on the top of a hill. Purdy is a somewhat selfish cat who demonstrates rather impulsive behaviour and is always rushing around''It'll be brilliant, whereas Baxter is much more refinedjust remember, thoughtful and is careful to make the right choices. Each story works as an individual tale which could be read out don't let go of order; however there is a seasonal progression to the order of the bookmy hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570324</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam LloydB09MYXSRV4|title=Boris BabysitsOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith

|summary= Leaving your child with someone for When the world was made, the first time is a daunting task for any new parentanimals were given gifts. You want to pick someone for this task Bear was given strength so that you can trust; he could become a sensible person who has some experience looking after protector. Water Spider received a babystrong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Perhaps a parentRabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, sibling or a good friend? The person that you are unlikely not the ability to use it well. He liked to pick is Boristrick other animals. Not only is He was also jealous which was how he irresponsible, he also happens came to be in a monsterrace with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704152</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diane Fox and Christyan FoxRob Keeley|title=A Dog Called BearCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54

|summary=Lucy had always wanted a dog Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and she'd been preparing for the moment when aubergines. When her dreams could come true friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for a long time: she'd read all the books, bought doggie things you and her bedroom was plastered with doggie pictureshow nice to eat. One day she set out to make , poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her dream come true: accosting animals and presenting her credentials (there really is no other way of explaining it.that carrots grow on trees..) First upInfuriated, a frogLily checks with the teacher, who presents the counter arguments to dog ownership explains that fruits grow on trees and then makes his own casevegetables, adding that he would only need a bath every daylike carrots, grow in the ground. Lucy's sorryJordan says, "I did try to tell her, but she only has a shower..Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571329446</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Sara OgilvieB09FFJF8YS|title=The Detective DogYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5

|summary=Detective dog Nell''For the big, grownup girls out there, with her great sense of smellthe potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a rather remarkable dogcry (the big-girl kind! She works very hard from Tuesday to Sunday, finding lost things, like a ball down the ) of toilet, triumph and solving mysteries such as where is the lost shoe by sniffing it outpersevering panty pride. It's in the shed, actually, and if you look '  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little more closely you might start girl's final goodbye to suspect that actually Nell might have had more nappies and pull-ups and graduation to do with these lost things and mysteries than she should have! Anyway, those are "proper" pants by following her busy days, but on Mondays around as she goes proudly explains to school with Peterher dog, and she listens to the children reading her books. She loves all sorts of bookscat, about dinosaurs her stuffed rabbit and princes and dragons and dogsher baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, and she loves the smell of the bookswhile they cannot. So when she goes to school one Monday and finds that all Neither can the books are missingflowers, Detective dog Nell is nor the one they need to help find all fish, nor the booksbirds. Boy's certainly can't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509801596</amazonuk>She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jorg MuhleJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Tickle My EarsEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5

|summary=Little Rabbit Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is getting ready for bed. It's getting lateBut horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, so can when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you help him? He. Justine Avery's going to need to get his pyjamas on, latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and his pillow needs fluffingcalmly, and he might need a little stroke on his backwith the familiar humour attached, or for his ears to have a tickleexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. What a sleepy little rabbit he isEverybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776570766</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Corderoy and Jane Chapman B09BG8V3Q6|title=Squish Squash SqueezeWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|summary=When Mouse moves into his new house, he thinks it's going to be perfect. But then he finds there's already quite a collection of animals heWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!''ll have to share with: he discovers a big brown bear behind is the piano and a crocodile crammed latest release in the bath''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. When a tiger comes whizzing down This series of fun picture books aims to take the bannister it becomes a bit pain out of a squish, a squash potty training children and a squeezereplace it with some fun. The animals donIt't know what to do until they hear s a rumble under the floor – it looks like they're going to have an even bigger problemworthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. . Or are they?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691904</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Britta TeckentrupB07GZ81J7C|title=One is Not a PairWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton

|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I was the type 'm getting ahead of child that would sit indoors on myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a sunny day with their head in snake and even those of us who have a puzzle book rather than getting anything important like Vitamin Dphobia about snakes are going to warm to him. I may be pasty white nowadaysHe arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, but at least I know my way around a good spot-to the-difference book extent that they would take Fred out with them when I see onethey went out for a walk. And I spy with my little eye, one right herethat was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704632</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=T S Eliot Justine Avery and Arthur RobinsNaday Meldova|title=Macavity's Not ThereEverybody Pees!: A Lift-the-Flap Book(Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Looking backCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, one of the first games I've played with every baby I've encountered is the one where you hide behind your hands and then appear surprised when as any parent will tell you drop them and see the baby. It never fails But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to get a smile. (I know - it was probably wind..learn about everything else when we are small.) Macavity has perfected the game, because - wherever you look - heWhy shouldn's not there. Here at Bookbag Towers we loved [[Macavityt potty training be as much fun as,the Mystery Cat by T S Eliot and Arthur Robins|the full version]] of T S Eliot's poemsay, but what learning about why the very youngest children - sun and the ones who really love moon take turns in the idea of someone - or something - not being where you expect them to besky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571328636</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain Justine Avery and Lee WildishNaday Meldova|title=Treats for a T RexNo, No, No!|rating=34

|summary=One hot summer our family got a new Labrador puppy and, seeing as I was at home most of They say the time revising for exams, it was decided that I would be best picture books are the person to train said dogsimplest ones. After a few months And nothing could be truer of hard training came this latest from Justine Avery, a grown dog… that was Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!'' is based around the worst trained we ever hadsimplest text imaginable. Laddy  ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may have been an expert in play fighting and eating.'' That's it! But, but not much else. With my spotted history in animal husbandry I am not equipped to train any animal and especially not a T Rexlike all the best picture books, but perhaps George this tiny snippet of text isa veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405273623</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Hay and Nick East194812467X|title=Do Not Wash This BearThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic

|summary=Dad is not very good at washing. There are those of us who would shrug this off Kirelle and feel happy that at least he gives it a her best friend Sam the cat decide to go, but then I guess after for 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 walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in the wash, her bright yellow wellies and although the child Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the story shows dad top of the very clear label stating hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It''Do not wash s a farm shop! But this bear'' he decides to ignore is a farm shop with a difference: all the advice stallholders and throws him into the machinecustomers are farmyard animals. Washing Bear turns out to be a very big mistakeThere are sheep and ducks and cows, since some combination of the bubbles goats and the spin setting drastically alter poor Bear's personalitychickens, and when he comes out he is a very decidedly naughty even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and troublesome Bear!Sam go shopping. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277157</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Paul Brown Sadie and Rowena Blyththe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=The Mood HooverMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice

|summary=No one could ever have confused Stan with Sadie's mother always said that she was a sunbeamdreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. He was mischievous (wellShe lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to 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, personally, I'd have said 'unpleasant<br>''To the Maritime Museum'') and he had a secret: an invention, in fact. Her imagination was fired. HeShe'd created love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a machine which could suck up anything which was happy or fun and glass case (it was called 's the mood hoover'. His sisterone where Nelson's bedroom was Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the first place he put the machine through its paces closing bell and within a matter of moments all the girly niceness had been replaced by dull, grey ordinariness. It didnattendant't just work in confined spaces either: the couple admiring a rainbow were surprised to find the vivid colours turned to dullnesss warning shout. You When she woke (hard floors don't want to know what he got up to make comfy beds) she was in the zoo..midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910851132</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Fhiona Galloway1782227741|title=I Love My DaddyLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5

|summary=FatherOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's Day quite a deep puddle and the water is a great time swirling. Poor Ted starts to really pump up your Dad's ego. If he is anything like me he already thinks he spin around and around and is sucked down a bit drain on the side of an Adonis; seeing that paunch in the mirror more as relaxed muscle than the beer gut that it isstreet. Finding himself To be honestdown in the sewer, as a PopTed starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, I am pretty much content with a pintwho plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a book or bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a football game, but if a child does insist on getting their elder a gift, kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice book about the parent/child relationship may just warm the coldest bowl of cocklesbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691785</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ed VereB08R7LXQ9S|title=Max and Bird|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Ed Vere has a unique style of artwork for his 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 to read the latest offering. Here we have Max, a sweet black cat with enormous eyes who meets and befriends a bird. 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>}}{{newreview|author=Morag Hood|title=Colin and Lee, Carrot and Pea|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sometimes people don’t quite fit in. 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 Remy: A book 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 believing in the way of their friendship?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509808949</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewyourself|author=Paul Bright Mayuri Naidoo and Chris Chatterton |title=There's a Bison Bouncing on the Bed|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|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 words. However, the one thing that you really begin to understand is – how much stuff costs. Clothes, food, transport, toys, even furniture. It all costs money and you now have a tiny wrecking ball running around the house seemingly doing their best to destroy them all. It may seem like harmless fun to jump on the bed, but who pays for it when it breaks? The bison? I don't think so.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692358</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alex T Smith |title=Claude All at Sea |rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Claude is a small dog who likes wearing a beret and a lovely red jumper. He lives with Mr and Mrs Shinyshoes and his best friend is a stripy sock called Sir Bobblysock. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444903675</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rachel Bright|title=Amazing DaddyCaroline Siegal|rating=4.5

|summary=Daddy Panda and Baby Panda are spending the day together, and Baby Panda Remy is thinking about all the different reasons why his daddy is brilliantfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, These range from how together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he smells safe is short and warm has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the extra large breakfasts that daddy makes! There other kids are lots of commonaround. So, everyday situations, so little ones will enjoy making comparisons with their own liveswhen Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and discussing the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what makes their daddy amazinghappened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331675</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nadia Shireen1471191303|title=The BumblebearInvisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=Ever a sucker for a book about a bear, this one has fast become a favourite for me. Norman This is an ordinary kind the story of bearIsobel, small and cuddly and a little girl who made a big fan of honeydifference. He is such a big fan, in fact, that he comes up Isobel lived with a cunning plan her parents in order to make his honey hunting much easier. He decides to dress up as a bee (house - a giant beevery cold house, from Giant Bee Land, obviously) because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and join Bee School where he has crept up the most marvellous time learning about things like buzzing and finding smelly flowers. However, although most corner 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>}}{{newreview|author=Catherine Rayner |title=Augustus and His Smile|rating=4bedpost.5''|genre=For Sharing|summary= Trying The family didn't go to find a tiger's smile is no easy featthe cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. The chances are that it will be on Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the end of their face house and this is a face full off teeth, attached they had to a powerful cat with claws. Personally, I would leave finding a tiger's smile move to someone the far more trained that I, or side of the animal themselvescity. ThankfullyThis part of the city was cold, Augustus is a practical chap and he sets out to discover what exactly did happen to his smile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692323</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeanne Willis sad and Leonie Lord|title=Lottie Potter Wants an Otter|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Purchasing a new pet is a complex enough business without trying to use alliteration, so reading a book about pet purchases lonely and tongue twisters can get tricky. The adult can end up tripping over their own words when reading out loud to their childIsobel felt invisible. The kid may find this funny, but does it make for a pleasurable read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007501331</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claire PhillipNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Convertible Submarine One Night in Beartown

|summary=They told me life would be easy reviewing books; grab it, read it, review it. What they did not say that I would Many children have to do is also play with itan obsession and Sandy Lane, build it and sit who lives in it! There is a thin line between an interactive book and a toy. When this thin line involves a book that you can convert into a play mat and also a submarineBeartown, it is hard to understand what it is at allobsessed with bears. Welcome to the world of the ''Convertible Submarine''She collects books about bears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782099980</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Meg McLaren|title=Life Her favourite toy is Magic|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=It is not often that you pick up Berisford, a book and feel the warmth and magic come of itteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. It is extremely rare in adult fictionEvery night, but in children's books you find it more often if you only look. Great illustrations she looks out of her bedroom window and wonderful stories can combine says goodnight to make a book that will entrance both a youngster and adult as they read togetherthe bear statue outside. When you find one of these books you should treasure it as it is something that may be read Every morning she says hello to your grandchildren in the future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443383</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Chae Strathie and Nicola O'Byrne|title= Gorilla Loves Vanilla|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= One dayBee Bear, I imagine it's probably a sunny Saturday, all the animals are heading to Sam's Sundaes for special treats. A bit like the wonder colourful painted bear that is ''Marble Slab'' (google it), Sam can create any flavour you desirelives at her school. 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…She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407148109</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} {{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 Move 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>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]