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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray 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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=LamelliaThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Kingdom of MushroomsSour Milk Dragon|author=Gloria D GonsalvesWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Lamellia is a kingdom When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of mushrooms lying deep within a forestFine Repute. It Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is ruled by Polipolichasing them. He's right behind them, its big brown king. One dayspewing hot, a group sour milk from his mushroom army finds a human baby abandoned in the forestnostrils. The baby is hungry and crying (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. What will the mushrooms do? Will ) Fortunately, they reject the baby as were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a member ladder of a hostile species? Or will moss and vines was lowered for them, they take care of it and accept it as one of their own? escaped. They choose climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the latter optiontangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, but how will a kingdom of mushrooms take care of a human baby? By working together, of course!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634972</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beatrix Potter and Quentin BlakeB0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Tale of Kitty-in-BootsWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=At night a serious, well-behaved Kit and (let's Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be honest) rather ''superior'' young black cat goes out hunting. Wellat home, if we're being ''totally'' honestbored but warm, there's or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a little bit snowy beach when a large slab of poaching in there toosilvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. By day she is Miss Catherine St QuintinOn top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, although her owner calls her Kittythe bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Other cats call her ''Q'', or ''Squintums''Kit was all for making a run for it, but they are very common cats and Kitty's owner would have been scandalised had she known Teal knew that there the bear was an acquaintancehungry and gave him one apple and then another. The reaction would have been even stronger had she known that Miss Kitty went out in He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a gentleman's Norfolk jacket good meal and fur-lined bootssomewhere to sleep. With a gun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247594</amazonuk>What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Donald and Alex Willmore1913839656|title=The New LibearianLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=For a job that often deals Todd was excited about spending the weekend with wordshis grandmother, Librarian is not an easy thing to spellleast because she made the best beetle juice. I often drop one He packed two pairs of the Rs dungarees and end up with Libarian his favourite hat and that just will not dothen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. One simple spelling mistake can 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 make a word take on a whole new meaning; what would possibly happen if you spelt it Libearian? friends. Is it a mistypeAt home, or does the person behind the Help Desk look a little hairy to you? his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. What big paws you have Libearian – all the better to stamp your books withGrandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862237</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Murphy1529504775|title=Meltdown!The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Before I say a word about this book, I want Elsie and her little brother David loved to offer a few words of reassurance. Firstly, we've all been there, cringing, trying go to pretend that it's not your childthe park and watch the red buses drive past. Secondly, it doesnElsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't mean that you- he're a bad parent - or, if you are, so is everybody elsed been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. Finally there is nothing wrong with your child: they've just got One day Elsie spotted a dose of bus in the terrible twos (or threes) or toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the frightful fourscoins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. It will passGradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Honestly. Right? Are you ready Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to read on now? Good. Just take the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it steadily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406327913</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bhakti Mathur1529504767|title=Amma, Tell Me About Diwali!The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=Klaka had celebrated Diwali Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and it had been great fun - a wonderful, beautiful day and tonight nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the city is lit up by thousands home of Mr and thousands of lightsMrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. Amma and daddy She even had given many gifts her own room - all to their boy herself. Gradually she relaxed and Klaka and his brother had lit the earthen oil lamps known as diyasbegan to enjoy her life. They didnShe't just eat d help Mrs Russell with the baking and have a good time - they also offered their prayers for good fortune, prosperity when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and health to Ganesha, Mr Russell put the God of new beginnings and to Lakshmi, decorations on the Goddess of wealthChristmas tree. But Klaka was curious: ''Amma'' he said, ''tell me about Diwali''The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881502888</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lou Treleaven and Maddie Frost 1916459943|title=The Snowflake Mistake Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=Princess Ellie lives in an ice palace that floats high in Much 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 skywaves sing ''hush, hush''. Her mum is the Snow Queen Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and they you have a very special machine that collects clouds and turns them into snowflakesthe sound perfectly. The machine works perfectly until the day that Princess Ellie is left mermaids join in charge – the machine breaks and Ellie has - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to find another way of making snowflakeshave worked as Baby closes his eyes. Luckily her friends the birds are able Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to helphappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862180</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Oliver Jeffers140639131X|title= An AlphabetA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Some might say you only ever need one alphabet book in Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a homereply. Considering we have half Philippa wasn't a dozen (bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and, as it happens, no decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little ones in amateur to start with but the house) I would counter this with a question: how many words are there in benefits were obvious. All the animals used the world? Because when you only get one for each letter, you may find crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a simple book of 26 entries may not be enoughsafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008182515</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Judith Kerr1776574338|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 thatLeilong's not a problem as these are much better for reading aloud and enjoying together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008183317</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewToo Long!|author=Allan Plenderleith|title=The Snowman Strikes BackJulia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=It's not easy being a snowmanEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, you know - particularly when you are made by Ernest Green-Boglemakes his way through the city, who delights in tormenting youpicking up children as he goes. Sometimes heChildren who live at the top of tower blocks don'd make you upside t even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down or looking like a pig (ithis neck. It's just plain ''undignified''perfect, you know). Thatisn's not the worst of t it. ? He has been known What could be a more fun way of going to attack snowman with school? There is a hairdryerproblem, feed his carrot nose to a rabbit and even encase him in a block of icethough. The snow clown was Leilong isn't happy in the city: he'nots always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he'' funny s longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and the snow ice cream cone even less sotraffic regularly gets snarled up. But one day everything changed when Ernest came home and there was a big boy with him. Ernest had a black eye and The school decides that he can't be the big boy was threatening himbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613932</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart 1776574028|title=Little Monster and the Spooky PartyBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=There are spooky things happening in I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the world of child who still enjoys board books for children (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can only mean ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one thing; Halloween is around the corner. There are books for Christmas, Easter and the August Bank Holiday, so why not some for the scary holiday? After all, themes such as ghosts and skeletons are far easier to write about than traffic jams on We have the M6 elephant who dons a tutu - and spending time with your in-lawsbecomes a ''balletphant''. One little monster The buffalo who has been invited to the type of spooky party that may just entertain your own little monsterhad a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277424</amazonuk>The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickerty1838226834|title=Ten Little MonstersCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=Halloween is a strange event, it has been increasingly Americanised and sold to children as a fun day It was one of scary activities and sweets. However, if you think about it, dressing your child as those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an undead bride or blood sucking vampire actually seems a little oddouting with our grandparents. These are They're there to undo all the same kids good that get scared when Brian Blessed shouts on TVparents do, yet they are happy to cover themselves in fake bloodso the trips out were always so much fun. Creating a book that is Halloween themed is a balance of making it excitingA young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, but not scary; sometimes the books can who told him: ''It'll be bothbrilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334038</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brendan WenzelB09MYXSRV4|title=They All Saw Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A CatCherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=54
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|summary=If I told you When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''They All Saw A Catand'' is a children's picture book about perceptionthe future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, you might not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be forgiven for thinking that toddlers were taking their pleasures in a little sadly these days: you race with Turtle. You might be slightly mollified when I added in think that it was also about the natural world, but it's much better that I just tell you not a little bit about the content fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'm sure that ll tell you'll understandhow it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452150133</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andrea Beaty and David RobertsRob Keeley|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>}}{{newreview|author= Jools Bentley|title= The Hippopandamouse|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 POOFCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees! 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
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|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When a child her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is very young keen to explain how good they don't have the ability to grasp what their hands are, never mind complex matters of State, but eventually they all must start for you and how nice to learneat. One way to achieve this is day, poor Lily gets tricked by reading fun books about Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the alphabet or numbersteacher, but not all concepts are as clear as letters who explains that fruits grow on trees and numbersvegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. What about the concept of opposites? How do you define Jordan says, "I did try to a 16 month year old why one thing is opposite to the other? Thankfullytell her, you don't need to know the answer as the Hueys are on hand to help in their usual irreverent wayMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007420722</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie BlakeB09FFJF8YS|title=Super RabbitYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=We do love a good Stephanie Blake story ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in our housetraining, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and since wepersevering panty pride.''ve pretty much worn out And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that 'Stupid Baby'she' we were very happy to give Simon's newest adventure a gocan wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Simon Neither can the rabbit is not just any old rabbitflowers, he is Super Rabbitnor the fish, of course, complete with cape nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and mask! He is brave, he is bold, he is adventurous and, oh my goodness, he has got a splinter…she wants everyone to know it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579564</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maudie Powell-Tuck Justine Avery and Richard SmytheNaday Meldova|title=The Messy BookEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=When cat makes Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a big mess, hechild that doesn'd rather come up with any idea than tidy it up! He tries t find them irresistibly funny. Funny to get rid of his mess in various different waystalk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, unsuccessfullysay, until there is no other option but to tidy up properlywhen everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. ItJustine Avery's a latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar scenario for many familieshumour attached, Iexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''m sure, and told here with a great deal of charm!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184869279X</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah GoodreauB09BG8V3Q6|title=The World-Famous Book of Magical NumbersWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary= If you are very lucky, ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the act of reading feels just like magic. You pick up a book and your imagination takes you on adventures you could never have latest release in the real world''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. You should try This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and start this magic replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as early as possible and one way is to use interactive books, babies love to grab tabs or lift flapsany frustrated parent will tell you. You may even stumble across a book all about numbers that provides this magical feeling for your child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704640</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David MellingB07GZ81J7C|title=D is for DuckWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=DuckMeet Fred. Well, the magicianactually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is giving a demonstration snake and even those of his magical skills, conjuring up us who have a wide variety of items from his top hatphobia about snakes are going to warm to him. Things begin normally enough with He arrived as a present in a bunny, but box with lizards holes so that he could breathe and lions and dragons following on soon after duck finds immediately became part of the family, to the extent that perhaps his magic is getting they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a little out of hand!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444931091</amazonuk>walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lou Kuenzler Justine Avery and David WojtowyczNaday Meldova|title=Eat Your PeopleEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Monty the monster is having his dinner. He is eating all of his vegetables without any problems at all, but when it comes to eating up his people he really Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't happy, declaring them to be chewy and crunchy and full of bones! In a funny twist on the picky eater storyas any parent will tell you. But really, this is a lighthearted way of broaching the tricky why shouldn'eat your vegetables' issue!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509801596</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Hissey|title= Happy Birthday Old Bear|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= It's Old Bear's birthday, and so t it be? We all the other toys have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are planning something. In fact lots of somethings: gifts, a cake, a proper celebrationsmall. ItWhy shouldn's wonderful. Elsie the elephant has even ''made'' him a present, the talented little thing. But then, t potty training be as much fun as we soon find out, Elsie is good at many things: wrapping presentssay, baking cakes, blowing up balloons, singing. It's a lovely sunny day, so learning about why the toys gather outside but just as they finish setting things up, sun and just as Old Bear arrives, disaster strikes! Can the toys have a happy ending and find time to finish Old Bear's partymoon take turns in the sky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910706728</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackie MorrisJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=One CheetahNo, One Cherry: A Book of Beautiful NumbersNo, No!
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|summary=Once you've seen anything illustrated by Jackie Morris you know that you'll get a book full They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of picturesthis latest from Justine Avery, all of which you'd be delighted and proud to hang on your wallsa Bookbag favourite. ''OneNo, CheetahNo, One Cherry: A Book of Beautiful NumbersNo!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable. ''No, no exception, no! Okay, okay. We begin with just the one cherryYes, so red and shiny you are tempted to see if itmay.'' That's realit! But, but you're put off by like all the next best picture. The one cherry books, this tiny snippet of text is joined by one cheetah and he's got a proprietorial paw resting across veritable tardis - so much bigger on the shoulder of inside that it appears on the cherry. You're not going to argue with himoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910959286</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jimmy Fallon and Miguel Ordonez194812467X|title=Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada |rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=What will your baby's first word be? If it is up to the father, the answer is Dada. 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 was? Dada, of course. I win!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444931431</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Farm Shop|author= Timo Parvela|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 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, whereas Baxter is much more refinedDevon Avery, thoughtful Justine Avery 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>}}{{newreview|author=Sam Lloyd|title=Boris BabysitsEma Tepic
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|summary= Leaving your child with someone Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for the first time a walk. Kirelle is a daunting task dressed for any new parentall weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. You want As they walk to pick someone for this task that you can trust; the top of the hill, they see a sensible person who has some experience looking after big barn with a babysign outside. Perhaps It's a farm shop! But this is a parent, sibling or farm shop with a good friend? The person that you difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are unlikely to pick is Borissheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Not only is he irresponsibleExcited, he also happens to be a monsterKirelle and Sam go shopping. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704152</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Diane Fox Sadie and Christyan Foxthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=A Dog Called BearMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=Lucy had Sadie's mother always wanted said that she was a dog dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and sheloves 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,''<br>''d been preparing for To the moment when her dreams could come true for a long time: sheMaritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd read all love to sail the books, bought doggie things oceans on an ancient sailing ship and her bedroom was plastered with doggie pictureswent back regularly. One day she set out to make her dream come true: accosting animals and presenting her credentials fell asleep under a glass case (there really is no other way of explaining it...'s the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) First up, a frog, who presents and missed the counter arguments to dog ownership closing bell and then makes his own case, adding that he would only need a bath every daythe attendant's warning shout. LucyWhen she woke (hard floors don's sorry, but t make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she only has could never have imagined in a showerworld of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571329446</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie1782227741|title=The Detective DogLittle Gold Ted|ratingauthor=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Detective dog Nell, with her great sense of smell, is a rather remarkable dog! She works very hard from Tuesday to Sunday, finding lost things, like a ball down the toiletVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and solving mysteries such as where is the lost shoe by sniffing it out. It's in the shed, actually, 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 books. She loves all sorts of books, about dinosaurs and princes and dragons and dogs, and she loves the smell of the books. So when she goes to school one Monday and finds that all the books are missing, Detective dog Nell is the one they need to help find all the books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509801596</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jorg Muhle|title=Tickle My EarsSasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=Little Rabbit is getting ready for bedOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's getting late, so can you help him? He's going quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to need to get his pyjamas spin around and around and is sucked down a drain onthe side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''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 pillow needs fluffingcane, and he which might need look just a little stroke on his back, or for his ears to have a ticklebit like an old cricket bat. What Reg is a sleepy little rabbit kind soul and he is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570766</amazonuk>dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Corderoy and Jane Chapman B08R7LXQ9S|title=Squish Squash Squeeze! |rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|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 he'll have to share withRemy: he discovers a big brown bear behind the piano and a crocodile crammed A book about believing in the bath. When a tiger comes whizzing down the bannister it becomes a bit of a squish, a squash and a squeeze. The animals don't know what to do until they hear a rumble under the floor – it looks like they're going to have an even bigger problem. Or are they?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691904</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewyourself|author=Britta Teckentrup|title=One is Not a Pair|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I was the type of child that would sit indoors on a sunny day with their head in a puzzle book rather than getting anything important like Vitamin D. I may be pasty white nowadays, but at least I know my way around a good spot-the-difference book when I see one. And I spy with my little eye, one right here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704632</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=T S Eliot Mayuri Naidoo and Arthur Robins|title=Macavity's Not There!: A Lift-the-Flap BookCaroline Siegal
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|summary=Looking backRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, one of the first games I've played together with every baby I've encountered his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is the one where you hide behind your hands short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then appear surprised push him just that little bit further when you drop them and see the babyother kids are around. It never fails to get a smile. (I know - So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was probably windthe instigator...) Macavity has perfected the game, because - wherever you look - And then he's not there. Here gets into trouble at Bookbag Towers we loved [[Macavity,the Mystery Cat by T S Eliot school and Arthur Robins|the full version]] of T S Eliotteachers don's poem, but t believe him when he tries to explain 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>happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Lee Wildish1471191303|title=Treats for a T RexThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=35
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|summary=One hot summer our family got This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a new Labrador puppy andvery cold house, seeing as I was at home most because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the time revising for exams, it was decided that I would be window and crept up the corner of the person bedpost.'' The family didn't go to train said dogthe cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. After a few months of hard training Then the day came a grown dog… that was when they couldn't afford the rent for the worst trained we ever house and they hadto move to the far side of the city. Laddy may have been an expert in play fighting This part of the city was cold, sad and eating, but not much else. With my spotted history in animal husbandry I am not equipped to train any animal lonely and especially not a T Rex, but perhaps George isIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273623</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam Hay Nick Jones and Nick EastSi Clark|title=Do Not Wash This BearOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Dad Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is not very good at washingobsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. There are those of us who would shrug this off and feel happy that at least he gives it a goHer favourite toy is Berisford, but then I guess after a while shrunken T-shirts and dyed vests become a little tiresome! Anywayteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, one day dad decides that Bear has become a little bit stinky she looks out of her bedroom window and needs says goodnight to go in the wash, and although the child in the story shows dad the very clear label stating ''Do not wash this bear'' he decides to ignore the advice and throws him into the machinestatue outside. Washing Bear turns out Every morning she says hello to be a very big mistake, since some combination of the bubbles and the spin setting drastically alter poor Bee Bear's personality, and when he comes out he is a very decidedly naughty and troublesome Bearcolourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405277157</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]