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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate PrendergastAdam Stower|title=Dog on a Digger: The Tricky IncidentMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=I'm going Murray is supposed to tell you be a story about Doghumble, Mantidy and friendly cat, Lady one who is able to sleep and the Pup. They all work on an industrial site - in fact Dog eat and Man live there in a caravan and Man drives the sort of digger which is dreamed about by boys large eat and small. Lady sleep and the Pup run the snack bar and one day as they're all having something to eat, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the Pup goes missingtwo. Man and Lady search everywhere but itBut he's Doga bad magician's sharp ears which finally track him down - caught in cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a branch over hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a fast-flowing streamworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. And This time round it's Dog who works out how drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to rescue him. I needed 88 words to tell you that storybe honest, but Kate Prendergast does it without using a single one - he's turned up and she tells it in a far more engaging way than I could ever manage.he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910646148</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sebastien Braun1732898766|title=Can You Say It Too? Brrr! Brrr!The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=What most parents donWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they't tell you is that they only have children re running for their own entertainment – lives in the little tykes can be hilarious funnyForest of Fine Repute. One fun area Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is when a baby starts to learn words – DaDachasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, MaMasour milk from his nostrils. Soon they pick up seemingly random words – Light! Yallow! (I think that is meant to be helloPlease don't try this at home: it won't end well.). Once Fortunately, they start looking intently were nearly at your lips as you speak you can start to guide Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them to words that you want them to use, they escaped. For exampleThey climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, what language skills would they require if they visited Antarctica?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637177</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothee de MonfreidB0CC9W7GLR|title=A Day With DogsOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45

|summary=I couldn't resist a book entitled ''A Day With Dogs''Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, not least because it's my idea of heavenbored but warm, or frozen cold and I building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was intrigued by a polar bear. As the subtitle ''What Do Dogs Do All Day?'' Well, when you open ice bumped onto the book you'll get an answer to that questionsand, although it certainly won't be the one that you're expecting: these dogs are in cars, on skis, in bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the kitchenice. Kit was all for making a run for it, at but Teal knew that the doctor bear was hungry and gave him one apple and in lots more placesthen another. There's He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a hint good meal and somewhere to the style of the book in the dedication: ''for [[:Category:Richard Scarry|Richard Scarry]]''sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570987</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yu-hsuan Huang1913839656|title=Sing Along With Me: We Wish You a Merry ChristmasLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary=I'm not normally a great fan of Christmas-themed books: after Todd was excited about spending the day they're a bit old hat - for the adults if weekend with his grandmother, not for least because she made the children, but just occasionally something comes along that's so well done that an exception can be madebest beetle juice. As soon as I touched ''We Wish You a Merry Christmas'' I could feel the quality: it's a chunky board book with added extrasHe packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. The fun starts on She had promised to take him to the cover: there's a slider (look for the red ring with Friday Night Club at the yellow arrows) which makes a penguin (I think!) local community centre and a fox appear Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and disappear from behind a Christmas treehe wondered why that could be. As the animals move you can see pictures of two more animals playing in the snowGrandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857636782</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Lamellia: The Kingdom of MushroomsToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Gloria D GonsalvesAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary=Lamellia is a kingdom Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of mushrooms lying deep within a forest. It is ruled by Polipoli, its big brown kingthe park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day, a group from his mushroom army finds Elsie spotted a human baby abandoned bus in the forest. The baby is hungry toy shop window which would help David - and cryingwas happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. What will Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the mushrooms do? Will they reject the baby as a member of a hostile species? Or will they take care of it bus for support, and accept walk behind it as one of their own? They choose . Many decades later, Elsie brought the latter optionbus, now damaged and rusted, but how will a kingdom of mushrooms take care of a human baby? By working togetherto the Repair Shop, of course!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634972</amazonuk>hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beatrix Potter and Quentin Blake1529504767|title=The Tale of Kitty-in-BootsChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45

|summary=At night a serious, well-behaved Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and (let's nervous about how she would be honest) rather ''superior'' young black cat goes out hunting. Well, if we're being ''totally'' honest, there's a little bit of poaching in there too. By day greeted when she is Miss Catherine St Quintin, although her owner calls got to her Kittyfinal destination. Other cats call her ''Q'', or ''Squintums'She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, but they are very common cats and Kittywho couldn's owner would t have been scandalised had she known that there was an acquaintancekinder to her. The reaction would have been She even stronger had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she known that Miss Kitty went out in a gentlemanrelaxed and began to enjoy her life. She's Norfolk jacket d help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and fur-lined bootsMr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. With a gunThe best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247594</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Donald and Alex Willmore1916459943|title=The New LibearianSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=For Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a job that often deals with wordssqueakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, Librarian is not an easy thing he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to spellhelp. I often drop one of It rocks Baby gently and the Rs and end up with Libarian and that just will not dowaves sing ''hush, hush''. One simple spelling mistake can make Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a word take on a whole new meaning; what would possibly happen if sandy beach and you spelt it Libearian? have the sound perfectly. Is it a mistypeThe mermaids join in - ''la lou, or does the person behind the Help Desk look la lay...'' And for a little hairy moment it seems to you? have worked as Baby closes his eyes. What big paws you have Libearian – all the better Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to stamp your books withhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862237</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Murphy140639131X|title=Meltdown!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Before I say a word about this book, I want Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to offer a few words of reassurancecross the Old Oak Road. Firstly, we've all been there, cringing, trying She wrote to pretend that itthe mayor about the problem but didn's not your childt even get a reply. Secondly, it doesnPhilippa wasn't mean that you're a bad parent - or, if you are, so is everybody else. Finally bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there is nothing wrong with your childwas a problem which needed solving: they've just got a dose she saw the benefits of the terrible twos (or threes) or lollipop lady at the frightful foursschool crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. It will passHer uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. Honestly. Right? Are you ready All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to read on now? Good. Just take it steadilyprovide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406327913</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bhakti Mathur1776574338|title=Amma, Tell Me About DiwaliLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn

|summary=Klaka had celebrated Diwali and it had been great fun - a wonderfulEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, beautiful day and tonight makes his way through the city is lit , picking up by thousands and thousands of lightschildren as he goes. Amma and daddy had given many gifts Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to their boy and Klaka go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his brother had lit the earthen oil lamps known as diyasneck. They didnIt's perfect, isn't just eat and have it? What could be a good time - they also offered their prayers for good fortune, prosperity and health to Ganesha, the God more fun way of new beginnings and going to Lakshmischool? There is a problem, the Goddess of wealththough. But Klaka was curiousLeilong isn't happy in the city: ''Amma'' he said, ''tell me s always having to be careful about Diwaliwhere he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881502888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lou Treleaven and Maddie Frost 1776574028|title=The Snowflake Mistake Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott

|summary=Princess Ellie lives in an ice palace that floats high in the sky. Her mum I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is the Snow Queen and they have aimed at quite a very special machine that collects clouds and turns them into snowflakes. The machine works perfectly until niche market: it's for the day that Princess Ellie is left in charge – the machine breaks and Ellie child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills 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 have realise that you only ever need can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one alphabet book in a home. Considering we We have half the elephant who dons a dozen (tutu - and, as it happens, no little ones in the house) I would counter this with becomes 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 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 Timeballetphant'' is a compendium of six stories about the beloved cat. It is The buffalo who has had a beautiful, heavy hard back book which means it is perfect for reading together. The pages are large so everyone can crowd round bath (complete with yellow duck) and have then dries off with a look. It might be hair drier becomes 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'fluffalo''.|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, rhinoceros who delights in tormenting you. Sometimes he'd make you upside down or looking like drops his ice cream cone is a pig (it's just plain 'crynoceros'undignified'', you know(think about it!). That's not the worst of it. He has been known to attack snowman with a hairdryer, feed The pelican who sits on his carrot nose to a rabbit and even encase him in potty changes into a block of ice. The snow clown was ''notsm.......'' funny and the snow ice cream cone even less so. But one day everything changed when Ernest came home and OK, let's not go there was a big boy with him. Ernest had a black eye and the big boy was threatening him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613932</amazonuk>Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart 1838226834|title=Little Monster and Carried Away With the Spooky PartyCarnival|author=Ed Boxall

|summary=There are spooky things happening in the world It was one of books for children that can only mean one thing; Halloween is around the cornerthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. There are books for Christmas, Easter and They're there to undo all the August Bank Holidaygood that parents do, so why not some for the scary holiday? trips out were always so much fun. After all, themes such as ghosts and skeletons are far easier A young boy was going to write about than traffic jams on the M6 and spending time carnival with your in-laws. One little monster has been invited to the type his Grandad, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of spooky party that may just entertain your own little monstermy hand. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277424</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Mike Brownlow Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Simon RickertyHare|titleauthor=Ten Little MonstersCordellya Smith

|summary=Halloween is When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a strange event, it has been increasingly Americanised and sold to children as protector. Water Spider received a fun day of scary activities strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and sweets'' the future. HoweverRabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, if you think about not the ability to use it, dressing your child as an undead bride or blood sucking vampire actually seems a little oddwell. He liked to trick other animals. These are the same kids that get scared when Brian Blessed shouts on TV, yet they are happy He was also jealous which was how he came to cover themselves be in fake blooda race with Turtle. Creating a book You might think that is Halloween themed is 's not a balance of making it exciting, fair contest but wait and see. Things are not scary; sometimes the books can be bothalways as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334038</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brendan WenzelRob Keeley|title=They All Saw A CatCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54

|summary=If I told you that ''They All Saw A Cat'' is a children's picture book about perception Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, 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 was also about the natural worldbroccoli, but it's much better that I just tell you a little bit about the content cabbage and I'm sure that you'll understandaubergines.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452150133</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|title= Ada TwistWhen her friends at school turn up their noses, Scientist|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The first thing Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you must know about Ada Marie is the way she said nothing until the day she was three. Now that's a way and how nice to pique your interest from the starteat. 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 shopOne day, everyone stands to attentionpoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, and Fluffley's Fine Toys is no exceptionwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. In preparationInfuriated, Lily checks with the staff work hard to ensure everything is perfect. The floor is cleanteacher, the shelves neat who explains that fruits grow on trees and tidyvegetables, a place for everything and everything like carrots, grow in its placethe ground. And if anything doesn't meet these exacting stands then POOFJordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss! It's off to the Unstitcher room. There is no room for anything less than perfection here" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447288904</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oliver JeffersB09FFJF8YS|title=WhatYou Can's the Opposite?t Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=43.5

|summary= When a child is very young they don't have 'For the ability to grasp what their hands arebig, never mind complex matters of Stategrownup girls out there, but eventually they all must start to learn. One way to achieve this is by reading fun books about the alphabet or numbers, but not all concepts are as clear as letters and numbers. What about the concept of opposites? How do you define to a 16 month year old why one thing is opposite to the other? Thankfullypotty masters in training, you don"You Can't need to know Wear Panties!" is a cry (the answer as the Hueys are on hand to help in their usual irreverent waybig-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007420722</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephanie Blake|title=Super Rabbit|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We do love And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a good Stephanie Blake story in our houselittle 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 since weher baby sibling that ''ve pretty much worn out she''Stupid Babycan wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can' we were very happy to give Simont. She's newest adventure a go. Simon the rabbit is not just any old rabbit, he is Super Rabbit, of course, complete with cape big girl now and maskshe wants everyone to know it! He is brave, he is bold, he is adventurous and, oh my goodness, he has got a splinter…!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579564</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maudie Powell-Tuck Justine Avery and Richard SmytheNaday Meldova|title=The Messy BookEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|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

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David MellingB07GZ81J7C|title=D is for DuckWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton

|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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lou Kuenzler Justine Avery and David WojtowyczNaday Meldova|title=Eat Your PeopleEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5

|summary=Monty the monster is having his dinnerCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. He is eating all of his vegetables without any problems at allBut really, but when why shouldn't it comes be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to eating up his people he really isnlearn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't happypotty training be as much fun as, declaring them to be chewy say, learning about why the sun and crunchy and full of bones! In a funny twist on the picky eater story, this is a lighthearted way of broaching moon take turns in the tricky 'eat your vegetables' issue!sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509801596</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane HisseyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title= Happy Birthday Old BearNo, No, No!|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= It's Old Bear's birthday, and so all They say the other toys best picture books are planning somethingthe simplest ones. In fact lots And nothing could be truer of somethings: gifts, a cakethis latest from Justine Avery, a proper celebrationBookbag favourite. It 's wonderful. Elsie the elephant has even 'No, No, No!'made'' him a present, is based around the talented little thingsimplest text imaginable. But then ''No, as we soon find outno, Elsie is good at many things: wrapping presentsno! Okay, baking cakes, blowing up balloonsokay. Yes, singingyou may. It'' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a lovely sunny day, veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the toys gather outside but just as they finish setting things up, and just as Old Bear arrives, disaster strikes! Can the toys have a happy ending and find time to finish Old Bear's party?.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910706728</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie Morris194812467X|title=One CheetahThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, One Cherry: A Book of Beautiful NumbersJustine Avery and Ema Tepic

|summary=Once you've seen anything illustrated by Jackie Morris you know that you'll get Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a book full of pictures, walk. Kirelle is dressed for all of which you'd be delighted weathers in her bright yellow wellies and proud Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to hang on your wallsthe top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. ''One, Cheetah, One Cherry: A Book of Beautiful Numbers'It' s a farm shop! But this is no exception. We begin a farm shop with just a difference: all the one cherrystallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, so red goats and shiny you are tempted to see if it's realchickens, but you're put off by the next pictureand even some mice. The one cherry is joined by one cheetah Excited, Kirelle and he's got a proprietorial paw resting across the shoulder of the cherry. You're not going to argue with himSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959286</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Jimmy Fallon Sadie and Miguel Ordonezthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5

|summary=What will your babySadie's first word mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be? If it is up to the father, the answer is Dadadoing. Every time Mum has her back turned Dad is repeating She lives by the word Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada. This secret war has waged for centuries and Jimmy Fallon River Thames at Greenwich and Miguel Ordonez have put it she loves to paperspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Do you want to know what my children ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''s first word was? Dada, of course. I win!|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1444931431''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview|author= Timo Parvela|title= Bicycling to ''To the Moon|rating= 4Maritime Museum''.5|genre= For Sharing |summary= Bicycling Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the Moon is oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a series of short stories which all centre around two main characters: Purdy glass case (it's the cat one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and Dexter missed the dog who live together in a sky-blue house on closing bell and the top of a hillattendant's warning shout. Purdy is a somewhat selfish cat who demonstrates rather impulsive behaviour and is always rushing around, whereas Baxter is much more refined, thoughtful and is careful to When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the right choices. Each story works as midst of an individual tale which adventure that she could be read out of order; however there is never have imagined in a seasonal progression to the order world of the bookdolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570324</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Lloyd1782227741|title=Boris BabysitsLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha

|summary= Leaving your child with someone for One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the first time water is a daunting task for any new parentswirling. You want Poor Ted starts to pick someone for this task that you can trust; spin around and around and is sucked down a sensible person who has some experience looking after a babydrain on the side of the street. Finding himself Perhaps a parentdown in the sewer, sibling or a good friend? The person that you are unlikely Ted starts to pick is Borispanic. Not only is ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he irresponsiblecries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he also happens to be dries Ted off and warms him up with a monsternice bowl of broth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704152</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Fox and Christyan FoxB08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A Dog Called Bearbook about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=54

|summary=Lucy had always wanted a dog Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and she'd Brandon, have been preparing for the moment when her dreams could come true for a long time: she'd read all the bookslaughing at Remy, bought doggie things calling him names because he is short and her bedroom was plastered with doggie pictureshas small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. One day she set out They are careful to make her dream come true: accosting animals wind up Remy when nobody can see and presenting her credentials (there really is no then push him just that little bit further when the other way of explaining it..kids are around.) First upSo, a frogwhen Remy reacts, who presents it looks as though he was the counter arguments to dog ownership and instigator. And then makes his own case, adding that he would only need a bath every day. Lucygets into trouble at school and the teachers don's sorry, but she only has a shower..t believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571329446</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie1471191303|title=The Detective DogInvisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=Detective dog Nell, with her great sense This is the story of smellIsobel, is a rather remarkable dog! She works very hard from Tuesday to Sunday, finding lost things, like little girl who made a ball down the toilet, and solving mysteries such as where is the lost shoe by sniffing it outbig difference. It's Isobel lived with her parents 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! Anywayhouse - a very cold house, those are because her busy days, but parents couldn't afford to put the heating on Mondays she goes to school with Peter, and she listens to : ''Ice curled across the children reading her books. She loves all sorts inside of books, about dinosaurs and princes and dragons and dogs, the window and she loves crept up the smell corner of the booksbedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. So Then the day came when she goes to school one Monday and finds that all they couldn't afford the books are missing, Detective dog Nell is rent for the one house and they need had to move to help find all the booksfar side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509801596</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jorg MuhleNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Tickle My EarsOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5

|summary=Little Rabbit is getting ready for bed. It's getting late, so can you help him? He's going to need to get his pyjamas on, Many children have an obsession and his pillow needs fluffingSandy Lane, and he might need a little stroke on his backwho lives in Beartown, or for his ears to have a tickleis obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. What Her favourite toy is Berisford, a sleepy little rabbit he is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570766</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tracey Corderoy and Jane Chapman |title=Squish Squash Squeeze! |rating=4teddy bear passed down by her grandmother.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Mouse moves into his new houseEvery night, he thinks it's going to be perfect. But then he finds there's already quite a collection she looks out of animals he'll have her bedroom window and says goodnight to share with: he discovers a big brown the bear behind the piano and a crocodile crammed in the bathstatue outside. When a tiger comes whizzing down the bannister it becomes a bit of a squishEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a squash and a squeezecolourful painted bear that lives at her school. 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 She even bigger problem. Or are they?has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848691904</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]