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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lou Treleaven and Maddie Frost Adam Stower|title=The Snowflake Mistake Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Princess Ellie lives in an ice palace that floats high in the sky. Her mum Murray is the Snow Queen and they have supposed to be a very special machine that collects clouds humble, tidy and turns them into snowflakes. The machine works perfectly until the day that Princess Ellie friendly cat, one who is left in charge – the machine breaks and Ellie has to find another way of making snowflakes. Luckily her friends the birds are able to help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862180</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Oliver Jeffers|title= An Alphabet|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Some might say you only ever need one alphabet book in a home. Considering we have half a dozen (sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, as it happenswell, no little ones in the house) I would counter this with a question: how many words are there in the world? Because when you only get one for each letter, you may find a simple book whatever takes his fancy next of 26 entries may not be enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008182515</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Judith Kerr|title= Mog Time|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=''Mog Time'' is a compendium of six stories about the beloved cat. It is a beautiful, heavy hard back book which means it is perfect for reading together. The pages are large so everyone can crowd round and have a look. It might be a little tricky for smaller hands to manage but that's not a problem as these are much better for reading aloud and enjoying together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008183317</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Allan Plenderleith|title=The Snowman Strikes Back|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=It's not easy being a snowman, you know - particularly when you are made by Ernest Green-Bogle, who delights in tormenting youtwo. Sometimes But he'd make you upside down or looking like s a pig (itbad magician's just plain ''undignified''cat, you know). That's not the worst of it. He so his favourite bun has been known to attack snowman with turned into a hairdryerhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, feed his carrot nose to a rabbit and even encase him in the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a block world of ice. The snow clown was ''not'' funny frightening adventure and the snow ice cream cone even less sowhiffs. But This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one day everything changed when Ernest came home and there much bigger than Murray was a big boy with him. Ernest had a black eye , to be honest, but he's turned up and the big boy was threatening him.he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841613932</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Nick Sharratt The Adventures of Birpus and Pippa Goodhart Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Little Monster Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and the Spooky PartyIndre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=There are spooky things happening When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the world Forest of books for children that can only mean one thing; Halloween Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is around the cornerchasing them. There are books for Christmas He's right behind them, Easter and the August Bank Holidayspewing hot, so why not some for the scary holiday? sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) After allFortunately, themes such as ghosts they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and skeletons are far easier to write about than traffic jams on the M6 when a ladder of moss and spending time with your in-lawsvines was lowered for them, they escaped. One little monster has been invited They climbed up to the type of spooky party that may just entertain your own little monsterTree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277424</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Brownlow and Simon RickertyB0CC9W7GLR|title=Ten Little MonstersOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45

|summary=Halloween is a strange eventKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, it has been increasingly Americanised or frozen cold and sold to children as building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a fun day large slab of scary activities and sweetssilvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. However, if you think about it, dressing your child as an undead bride or blood sucking vampire actually seems On top of the ice was a little oddpolar bear. These are As the same kids that get scared when Brian Blessed shouts on TVice bumped onto the sand, yet they are happy to cover themselves in fake bloodthe bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Creating Kit was all for making a book that is Halloween themed is a balance of making run for it exciting, but not scary; sometimes Teal knew that the books can bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be bothtaken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334038</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brendan Wenzel1913839656|title=They All Saw A CatLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5

|summary=If I told you that ''They All Saw A Cat'' is a children's picture book Todd was excited about perceptionspending the weekend with his grandmother, you might be forgiven for thinking that toddlers were taking their pleasures a little sadly these days: you might be slightly mollified when I added in that it not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was also pleased about the natural worldthis as he wanted to make new friends. At home, but it's much better his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that I just tell you a little bit about the content and I'm sure could be. Grandma thought that you'll understandit might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452150133</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrea Beaty and David Roberts1529504775|title= Ada Twist, Scientist|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The first thing you must know about Ada Marie is the way she said nothing until the day she was three. Now that's a way to pique your interest from the start. After all what sort of child does not speak until she turns three? In this case it's a very smart little girl.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721372</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author= Jools Bentley|title= The HippopandamouseAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= When the princess comes to your shop, everyone stands to attention, and Fluffley's Fine Toys is no exception. In preparation, the staff work hard to ensure everything is perfect. The floor is clean, the shelves neat and tidy, a place for everything and everything in its place. And if anything doesn't meet these exacting stands then POOF! It's off to the Unstitcher room. There is no room for anything less than perfection here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447288904</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Oliver Jeffers|title=What's the Opposite?|rating=4

|summary= When a child is very young they donElsie 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 have - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the ability toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to grasp what their hands are, never mind complex matters of State, but eventually they all must start use the coins from her money box to learnpay for it as cash was tight at home. One way Gradually, David learned to achieve this is by reading fun books about stand up, use the alphabet or numbersbus for support, but not all concepts are as clear as letters and numberswalk behind it. What about Many decades later, Elsie brought the concept of opposites? How do you define to a 16 month year old why one thing is opposite bus, now damaged and rusted, to the other? ThankfullyRepair Shop, you don't need to know the answer as hoping that the Hueys are on hand to help in their usual irreverent wayexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007420722</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie Blake1529504767|title=Super RabbitThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=We do love a good Stephanie Blake story Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in our house, 1939 and since we've pretty much worn out ''Stupid Baby'' we were very happy nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to give Simon's newest adventure a goher final destination. Simon She needn't have worried though as she went to the rabbit is not just any old rabbit, he is Super Rabbit, home of courseMr and Mrs Russell, complete who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with cape the baking and mask! when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. He is brave, he is bold, he is adventurous and, oh my goodness, he has got a splinter…!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579564</amazonuk>The best surprise happened the following morning.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maudie Powell-Tuck and Richard Smythe1916459943|title=The Messy BookSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=When cat makes Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a big messsqueakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, hejust lies on his blanket and ''d rather come up with any idea than tidy it up! wails''. He tries The sea offers to get rid help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of his mess gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in various different ways- ''la lou, unsuccessfully, until there is no other option but la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to tidy up properlyhave worked as Baby closes his eyes. ItThen a seagull '''shouts''s a familiar scenario for many families, I'm sure, and told here with a great deal of charm!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869279X</amazonuk>we know exactly what's going to happen next.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Goodreau140639131X|title=The World-Famous Book of Magical NumbersA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary= If you are very lucky, Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the act of reading feels just like magicmayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. You pick up Philippa wasn't a book and your imagination takes you bird to sit back on adventures you could never have in her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the real worldlollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. You should try Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start this magic as early as possible and one way is to use interactive books, babies love to grab tabs or lift flapswith but the benefits were obvious. You may All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even stumble across trained up to provide a book all about numbers that provides this magical feeling for your childsafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704640</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Melling1776574338|title=D is for DuckLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5

|summary=DuckEvery morning Leilong, the magicianbrontosaurus school bus, is giving a demonstration of makes his magical skillsway through the city, conjuring picking up a wide variety children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of items from the window and slide down his top hatneck. Things begin normally enough with It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a bunnymore fun way of going to school? There is a problem, but with lizards though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and lions – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and dragons following on soon after duck finds traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that perhaps his magic is getting a little out of hand!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444931091</amazonuk>he can't be the bus anymore.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lou Kuenzler and David Wojtowycz1776574028|title=Eat Your PeopleBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5

|summary=Monty the monster is having his dinner. I love a good board book! He ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is eating all of his vegetables without any problems aimed at allquite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but when it comes has mastered sufficient language skills to eating up his people he really isnhave realise that you can ''play''t happy, declaring them to be chewy with words and crunchy and full of bones! make something quite different from each one. In We have the elephant who dons a funny twist on the picky eater story, this is tutu - and becomes a lighthearted way of broaching the tricky 'eat your vegetables' issue!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509801596</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Hissey|title= Happy Birthday Old Bear|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Itballetphant's Old Bear's birthday, . The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and so all the other toys are planning something. In fact lots of somethings: gifts, then dries off with a cake, hair drier becomes a proper celebration. It's wonderful'fluffalo''. Elsie the elephant has even The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''madecrynoceros'' him (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a present, the talented little thing''sm...... But then, as we soon find out, Elsie is good at many things: wrapping presents, baking cakes, blowing up balloons, singing. It's a lovely sunny day, so the toys gather outside but just as they finish setting things up, and just as Old Bear arrives' OK, disaster strikes! Can the toys have a happy ending and find time to finish Old Bearlet's party?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910706728</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie Morris1838226834|title=One Cheetah, One Cherry: A Book of Beautiful NumbersCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall

|summary=Once you've seen anything illustrated by Jackie Morris you know that you'll get a book full It was one of pictures, all of which youthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They'd be delighted and proud re there to hang on your walls. ''One, Cheetah, One Cherry: A Book of Beautiful Numbers'' is no exception. We begin with just undo all the one cherrygood that parents do, so red and shiny you are tempted to see if it's real, but you're put off by the next picturetrips out were always so much fun. The one cherry is joined by one cheetah and he's got a proprietorial paw resting across the shoulder of the cherry. You're not A young boy was going to argue the carnival with his Grandad, who told him.:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959286</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jimmy Fallon and Miguel Ordonez|title=Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada |rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=What will your baby's first word It'll be? If it is up to the fatherbrilliant, the answer is Dada. Every time Mum has her back turned Dad is repeating the word Dadajust remember, 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 childrendon's first word was? Dada, t let go of coursemy hand. I win!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444931431</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Timo ParvelaB09MYXSRV4|title= Bicycling to the Moon|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Bicycling to the Moon is a series of short stories which all centre around two main charactersOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: 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 A Cherolachian Tortoise and is always rushing around, whereas Baxter is much more refined, thoughtful and is careful to make the right choices. Each story works as an individual tale which could be read out of order; however there is a seasonal progression to the order of the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570324</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHare|author=Sam Lloyd|title=Boris BabysitsCordellya 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 Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and BirdCaroline Siegal|rating=4.5

|summary=Ed Vere has a unique style of artwork for his picture booksRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, The colours are vibranttogether with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, the characters are distinctivehave been laughing at Remy, the style calling him names because he is a little bit scrappy, in a very charming wayshort and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. We They are big fans in our house so we sat down eagerly careful to read wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the latest offeringother kids are around. Here we have MaxSo, when Remy reacts, a sweet black cat with enormous eyes who meets it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and befriends a birdthe teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Morag Hood1471191303|title=Colin and Lee, Carrot and PeaThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=3.5

|summary=Sometimes people don’t quite fit inThis is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Perhaps they are much taller than youIsobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or perhaps on holidays but they had each other and they aren’t round enough to rollwere happy. Does this mean, then, that if someone is so different you can’t be their friend? When it comes to Colin Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and Lee, they are about as different as you can gethad to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, since one is small sad and round lonely 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>Isobel felt invisible.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul Bright Nick Jones and Chris Chatterton Si Clark|title=There's a Bison Bouncing on the BedOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5

|summary=Becoming a parent gives you many new insights into life; the pleasure Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in seeing a child smile or the amazement as they start to utter words. HoweverBeartown, the one thing that you really begin to understand is – how much stuff costsobsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. ClothesHer favourite toy is Berisford, fooda teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, transport, toys, even furniture. It all costs money she looks out of her bedroom window and you now have a tiny wrecking ball running around says goodnight to the house seemingly doing their best to destroy them allbear statue outside. It may seem like harmless fun Every morning she says hello to jump on the bedBee Bear, but who pays for it when it breaks? The bison? I don't think soa colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848692358</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]