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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lou TreleavenAdam Stower|title= Letter to PlutoMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary= Letter Murray is supposed to Pluto is be a story told through an inter-planetary pen-pal friendship. Set in the year 2317humble, writing with a pen tidy and sending letters has certainly become a dying art-form. Howeverfriendly cat, Jon’s teacherone who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, Mrs Hallwell, decides it is important to keep whatever takes his fancy next of the art of letter writing alivetwo. The only difference is that Jon’s pen-pal lives But he's a long way away. 75 billion km to be precise. On Pluto. At first the idea of writing at all is bad enoughmagician's cat, but when Jon finds out that so his pen-pal is favourite bun has been turned into a girl he nearly quits hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the programme. Encouraged by his teacher’s bribes of merit awards for his best writingcatflap they both use can chuck them out, Jon soon learns that Pluto is not as boringinto the regular back garden, small but into a world of frightening adventure and smelly as he first thoughtwhiffs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862318</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Biddulph |title=Odd Dog Out |rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=As the title suggests this is the story about the 'Odd Dog Out'. All Odd Dog wants This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is to fit in and sheexpected – well, thereforeone much bigger than Murray was, travels around the world to find a place where everyone is just like her. Everything seems perfect until she meets a dog who is behaving differently be honest, but he's turned up and realises that it might actually be a good thing he'll have to stand out from the crowd.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007594151</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Mo O'Hara The Adventures of Birpus and Ada Grey Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=More People to Love Me Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they'More People to Love Me' re running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is a story about a little girl with a huge familychasing them. She has a mummy and a step-mum He's right behind them, spewing hot, a daddy and a step-dad and four brothers and sisterssour milk from his nostrils. She also has lots of grandparents (Please don't try this at home: in factit won't end well.) Fortunately, she has so many grandparents she has to have they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a special name ladder of moss and vines was lowered for some of them – like Grananna, who is her step-dad David's mumthey escaped. Given They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the size of her familytangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, it's not surprising that this little girl struggles to fit everyone on the family tree she draws at school. This upsets her a bit until she realises it's actually better to have a forest than a single treeNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509821295</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katie Cotton and Sarah JacobyB0CC9W7GLR|title= The Road Home|rating= 3.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=The year is winding down, and nature is beginning to turn her thoughts again to winter. As the leaves begin to change, and birds start to fly South, animals throughout On the forest are preparing for this change in seasons. This book follows their trials and tribulations as they all try to take the road that leads them home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808034</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton|title= Shifty McGifty and Slippery SamBeach: The Spooky School|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing |summary= As a teacher and a parent, one of the main aims I have when it comes to reading is to promote a love of reading in all children. This can of course in general be more challenging with boys. Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton have created a wonderful book with two familiar characters at the centre. Their previous tales of Shifty McGifty were shorter books around 35 pages told though rhyme. However, their latest book, The Spooky School, at 124 pages, is perfect for the maturing primary school student (approximately 6-9 years of age). If these children had experienced the earlier books, then there is a feeling that Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam have grown up with them. Although this book will appeal to both boys and girls, boys will particularly enjoy these fun tales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637010</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWinter Visitor|author= Lari Don|title= The Dragon's Hoard|rating= 3.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= If you ask anyone to name a Viking story, legend or tale, my money would be on ''Beowulf''. However, it is not clear whether this was an Anglo-Saxon or Viking tale. Try further Chris Green and search on Amazon for Viking sagas for children and you won't get very far. Until now, that is. Lari Don has written a collection of stories which bring tales from this historical era to life. Most primary schools study Vikings as a topic, so it is surprising that there are so few quality stories around for this age group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806813</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate Prendergast|title=Dog on a Digger: The Tricky IncidentJenny Fionda

|summary=I'm going Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to tell you a story about Dogbe at home, Manbored but warm, Lady or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the Pupshoreline. They all work on an industrial site - in fact Dog and Man live there in On top of the ice was a caravan and Man drives the sort of digger which is dreamed about by boys large and smallpolar bear. Lady and As the ice bumped onto the Pup run sand, the snack bar bear woke and one day as they're all having something to eat, with wobbly legs moved from the Pup goes missingice. Man and Lady search everywhere but it's Dog's sharp ears which finally track him down - caught in Kit was all for making a branch over a fast-flowing stream. And run for it's Dog who works out how to rescue , but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave himone apple and then another. I He obviously needed 88 words to tell you that story, but Kate Prendergast does it without using be taken home on the bus and given a single one - good meal and she tells it in a far more engaging way than I could ever managesomewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646148</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sebastien Braun1913839656|title=Can You Say It Too? Brrr! Brrr!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=What most parents donLet't tell you is that they only have children for their own entertainment – the little tykes can be hilarious funny. One fun area is when a baby starts to learn words – DaDa, MaMa. Soon they pick up seemingly random words – Light! Yallow! (I think that is meant to be hello). Once they start looking intently at your lips as you speak you can start to guide them to words that you want them to use. For example, what language skills would they require if they visited Antarctica?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637177</amazonuk>}}{{newreviews Celebrate Being Different|author=Dorothee de Monfreid|title=A Day With DogsLainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary=I couldn't resist a book entitled ''A Day With Dogs''Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because it's my idea she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of heaven, dungarees and his favourite hat and I was intrigued by the subtitle ''What Do Dogs Do All Day?'' then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Well, when you open the book you'll get an answer She had promised to take him to that question, although it certainly won't be the one that you're expecting: these dogs are in cars, on skis, in Friday Night Club at the kitchenlocal community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, at the doctor his only friend was his mum and in lots more placeshe wondered why that could be. There's a hint to the style of the book in the dedication: ''for [[:Category:Richard Scarry|Richard Scarry]]''Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570987</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yu-hsuan Huang1529504775|title=Sing Along With Me: We Wish You a Merry ChristmasThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=I'm not normally a great fan 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 Christmas-themed books: after the day theypark but David couldn're a bit old hat t - for the adults if not for the children, but he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just occasionally something comes along that's so well done that an exception can be madestanding up was very difficult. As soon as I touched ''We Wish You One day Elsie spotted a Merry Christmas'' I could feel bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the quality: coins from her money box to pay for it's a chunky board book with added extrasas cash was tight at home. The fun starts on Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the cover: there's a slider (look bus for the red ring with the yellow arrows) which makes a penguin (I think!) support, and a fox appear and disappear from walk behind a Christmas treeit. As Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the animals move you can see pictures of two more animals playing in Repair Shop, hoping that the snowexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857636782</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Lamellia: The Kingdom of MushroomsChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Gloria D GonsalvesAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45

|summary=Lamellia is a kingdom Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and 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 home of mushrooms lying deep within a forest. It is ruled by PolipoliMr and Mrs Russell, its big brown kingwho couldn't have been kinder to her. One day, a group from his mushroom army finds a human baby abandoned in the forest She even had her own room - all to herself. The baby is hungry Gradually she relaxed and cryingbegan to enjoy her life. What will She'd help Mrs Russell with the mushrooms do? Will they reject the baby as a member of a hostile species? Or will they take care of baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and accept it as one of their own? They choose Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the latter option, but how will a kingdom of mushrooms take care of a human baby? By working together, of course!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634972</amazonuk>following morning.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beatrix Potter and Quentin Blake1916459943|title=The Tale of Kitty-in-BootsSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=At night a seriousMuch as mothers love their babies, wellthere's something they all dread -behaved and (leta squeakily baby. He's be honest) rather so tired but he can't - or won'superiort - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails'' young black cat goes out hunting. Well, if weThe sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing 're being 'hush, hush'totally'' honest, there's . Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a little bit of poaching in there toosandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. By day she is Miss Catherine St QuintinThe mermaids join in - ''la lou, although her owner calls her Kittyla lay... Other cats call her ''Q And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '', or 'shouts'Squintums'', but they are very common cats and Kitty's owner would have been scandalised had she known that there was an acquaintance. The reaction would have been even stronger had she known that Miss Kitty went out in a gentlemanwe know exactly what's Norfolk jacket and fur-lined boots. With a gungoing to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247594</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Donald and Alex Willmore140639131X|title=The New Libearian|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=For a job that often deals with words, Librarian is not an easy thing to spell. I often drop one of the Rs and end up with Libarian and that just will not do. One simple spelling mistake can make a word take on a whole new meaning; what would possibly happen if you spelt it Libearian? Is it a mistype, or does the person behind the Help Desk look a little hairy to you? What big paws you have Libearian – all the better to stamp your books with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862237</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Jill Murphy|title=Meltdown!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 aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the Snow Queen and they child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have a very special machine realise that collects clouds you can ''play'' with words and turns them into snowflakesmake something quite different from each one. The machine works perfectly until We have the day that Princess Ellie is left in charge – the machine breaks elephant who dons a tutu - 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 becomes a home''balletphant''. Considering we have half The buffalo who has had a dozen bath (complete with yellow duck) and, as it happens, no little ones in the house) I would counter this then dries off with a question: how many words are there in the world? Because when you only get one for each letter, you may find hair drier becomes 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 Timefluffalo'' . The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a compendium of six stories ''crynoceros'' (think 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 pelican who sits on his potty changes into a look''sm..... It might be a little tricky for smaller hands to manage but that..'' OK, let's not a problem as these go there Some people are much better for reading aloud and enjoying together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008183317</amazonuk>eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Plenderleith1838226834|title=The Snowman Strikes BackCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=It's not easy being a snowman, you know - particularly when you are made by Ernest Green-Bogle, who delights in tormenting youwas one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. Sometimes he'd make you upside down or looking like a pig (it's just plain ''undignified'They're there to undo all the good that parents do, you know). That's not so the worst of ittrips out were always so much fun. He has been known A young boy was going to attack snowman the carnival with a hairdryerhis Grandad, feed his carrot nose to a rabbit and even encase who told him in a block of ice. The snow clown was : ''notIt'll be brilliant, just remember, don' funny and the snow ice cream cone even less sot let go of my hand. But one day everything changed when Ernest came home and there was a big boy with him. Ernest had a black eye and the big boy was threatening him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613932</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart B09MYXSRV4|title=Little Monster Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and the Spooky PartyHare|author=Cordellya Smith

|summary=There are spooky things happening in When the world of books for children 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 can only mean one thing; Halloween is around he could see the present ''and'' the cornerfuture. There are books for Christmas Rabbit developed intelligence - but, Easter and the August Bank Holidayunfortunately, so why not some for the scary holiday? ability to use it well. After all, themes such as ghosts and skeletons are far easier He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to write about than traffic jams on the M6 and spending time be in a race with your in-lawsTurtle. One little monster has been invited to the type of spooky party You might think that may just entertain your own little monster'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>1405277424</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike Brownlow and Simon RickertyRob Keeley|title=Ten Little MonstersCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4

|summary=Halloween is a strange event Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, it has been increasingly Americanised cabbage and sold aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to children as a fun day of scary activities explain how good they are for you and sweetshow nice to eat. HoweverOne day, if you think about itpoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, dressing your child as an undead bride or blood sucking vampire actually seems a little oddwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. These are Infuriated, Lily checks with the same kids teacher, who explains that get scared when Brian Blessed shouts fruits grow on TVtrees and vegetables, yet they are happy to cover themselves like carrots, grow in fake bloodthe ground. Creating a book that is Halloween themed is a balance of making it excitingJordan says, "I did try to tell her, but not scary; sometimes the books can be bothMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334038</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brendan WenzelB09FFJF8YS|title=They All Saw A CatYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5

|summary=If I told you that ''They All Saw A Cat'' is a children's picture book about perceptionFor the big, grownup girls out there, 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 the potty masters in that it was also about the natural worldtraining, but it"You Can's much better that I just tell you t Wear Panties!" is a little bit about cry (the content big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and Ipersevering panty pride.'m sure that you'll understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452150133</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|title= Ada Twist, Scientist|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The first thing you must know about Ada Marie And so it is the way she said nothing until the day she was three. Now that! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's a way final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to pique your interest from the start. After all what sort of child does not speak until "proper" pants by following her around as 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 proudly explains to your shopher dog, everyone stands to attentionher cat, her stuffed rabbit and Fluffleyher baby sibling that ''she''s Fine Toys is no exceptioncan wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. In preparationNeither can the flowers, nor the staff work hard to ensure everything is perfect. The floor is cleanfish, nor the shelves neat and tidy, a place for everything and everything in its placebirds. And if anything doesnBoy's certainly can't meet these exacting stands then POOF! It. She's off a big girl now and she wants everyone to the Unstitcher room. There is no room for anything less than perfection here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447288904</amazonuk>know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Oliver JeffersJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=What's the Opposite?Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary= When Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child is very young they donthat doesn't have find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the ability to grasp what their hands arewrong time. In class, never mind complex matters of Statesay, but eventually they all must start to learnwhen everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. One way to achieve this is by reading fun books about Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the alphabet or numbersfamiliar humour attached, but not all concepts are as clear as letters explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and numbersSeema Amjad|rating=4. What about the concept of opposites5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? How do you define to a 16 month year old why one thing Not Me!'' is opposite to the other? Thankfully, you donlatest release in the ''Everybody Potties!''t need series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to know take the answer pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as the Hueys are on hand to help in their usual irreverent wayany frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007420722</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie BlakeB07GZ81J7C|title=Super RabbitWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton|rating=4.5

|summary=We do love a good Stephanie Blake story in our houseMeet Fred. Well, actually, and since weyou've pretty much worn out ''Stupid Babyre going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I' we were very happy to give Simon's newest adventure d better tell you a gobit more about Fred. Simon the rabbit Fred is not just any old rabbit, he is Super Rabbit, a snake and even those of course, complete with cape and mask! us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He is brave, arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he is bold, he is adventurous could breathe andimmediately became part of the family, oh my goodness, he has got to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a splinter…!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579564</amazonuk>walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maudie Powell-Tuck Justine Avery and Richard SmytheNaday Meldova|title=The Messy BookEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=When cat makes a big messCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, hewhy shouldn'd rather come up with any idea than tidy t it up! He tries be? We all have to get rid of his mess in various different ways, unsuccessfully, until there is no other option but learn about our bodily functions just as we have to tidy up properlylearn about everything else when we are small. ItWhy shouldn's a familiar scenario for many familiest potty training be as much fun as, I'm suresay, learning about why the sun and told here with a great deal of charm!the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184869279X</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah GoodreauJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The World-Famous Book of Magical NumbersNo, No, No!|rating=4.5

|summary= If you They say the best picture books are very lucky, the act simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of reading feels just like magicthis latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. You pick up a book and your imagination takes you on adventures you could never have in  ''No, No, No!'' is based around the real worldsimplest text imaginable. You should try and start this magic as early as possible and one way is to use interactive books ''No, no, no! Okay, babies love to grab tabs or lift flapsokay. You Yes, you may even stumble across .'' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a book all about numbers veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that provides this magical feeling for your childit appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783704640</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Melling194812467X|title=D is for DuckThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=4.5

|summary=Duck, Kirelle and her best friend Sam the magician, cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is giving a demonstration perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of his magical skillsthe hill, conjuring up they see a big barn with a wide variety of items from his top hatsign outside. Things begin normally enough It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a bunnydifference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, but with lizards goats and lions chickens, and dragons following on soon after duck finds that perhaps his magic is getting a little out of hand!even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444931091</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Lou Kuenzler Sadie and David Wojtowyczthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Eat Your PeopleMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=Monty the monster is having his dinnerSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. He is eating all of his vegetables without any problems She 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 allthe houses cowered in the gloom, but when it comes to eating up his people he really isn't happy, declaring them '<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to be chewy sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and crunchy and full of bones! went back regularly. In One day she fell asleep under a funny twist glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the picky eater story, this is a lighthearted way of broaching closing bell and the tricky attendant'eat your vegetabless warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don' issue!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509801596</amazonuk>t make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Hissey1782227741|title= Happy Birthday Old BearLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's Old Bear's birthday, quite a deep puddle and so all the other toys are planning somethingwater is swirling. In fact lots Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of somethings: giftsthe street. Finding himself down in the sewer, a cake, a proper celebrationTed starts to panic. It's wonderful. Elsie the elephant has even 'OH HELP ME PLEASE'made'' him a present, he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the talented little thing. But thensewer rat, as we soon find who plucks him outof the dirty water using his cane, Elsie which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg 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 kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up, and just as Old Bear arrives, disaster strikes! Can the toys have with a happy ending and find time to finish Old Bear's party?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910706728</amazonuk>nice bowl of broth.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie MorrisB08R7LXQ9S|title=One Cheetah, One CherryRemy: A Book of Beautiful Numbersbook about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=Once youRemy is feeling miserable. He've seen anything illustrated by Jackie Morris you know that yous let himself down 'll get a book full of pictures, all of which you'd be delighted and proud to hang on your walls. again''One. The school bully Jayden, Cheetah, One Cherry: A Book of Beautiful Numbers'' is no exception. We begin together with just the one cherryhis sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, so red calling him names because he is short and shiny you has small eyes. They are mean but they are tempted not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see if and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it's real, but you're put off by looks as though he was the next pictureinstigator. The one cherry is joined by one cheetah And then he gets into trouble at school and he's got a proprietorial paw resting across the shoulder of the cherry. Youteachers don're not going t believe him when he tries to argue with himexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959286</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jimmy Fallon and Miguel Ordonez1471191303|title=Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=35

|summary=What will your baby's first word be? If it This is up to the fatherstory of Isobel, the answer is Dadaa little girl who made a big difference. Every time Mum has Isobel lived with her back turned Dad is repeating 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 word Dada, Dada, Dada, Dadacinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. This secret war has waged Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for centuries the house and Jimmy Fallon and Miguel Ordonez have put it they had to move to paperthe far side of the city. Do you want to know what my children's first word This part of the city was? Dadacold, of coursesad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible. I win!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444931431</amazonuk>