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[[imageCategory:lumplump.jpgNew Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|centertitle=Murray and Bun|linkrating=https://books4.google.com/books?id5|genre=dDc9DQAAQBAJ&printsecConfident Readers |summary=frontcover&dq=lump+lump+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+blanket+catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of+dreams&hlfrightening 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=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz47visd3QAhVT_WMKHQ8CA8UQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=lump%20lump%20and%20the%20blanket%20of%20dreams&f=false]]0008561249<hr/>[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Elliott1732898766|title=Dalmation on a DiggerThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=WhatWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they's all that noise just outside re running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the bedroom window? Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don'DUGGER DUGGER DIGGERt try this at home: it won'' It woke our young pup t end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up! ''DUGGER DUGGER DIGGER''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782025960</amazonuk>in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jorg MuhleB0CC9W7GLR|title=Bathtime for Little RabbitOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=Bathing a child normally goes one of two ways; they love Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether itwas better to be at home, bored but warm, or they hate itfrozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. Very rarely will you find On top of the ice was a child that sits in polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the bath with a nonplussed expression on their facesand, suffering the ridicules of hygiene bear woke and with an air of indifferent sanguinewobbly legs moved from the ice. You are much more likely to have Kit was all for making a child run for it, but Teal knew that splashes water everywhere in the hopes of finding that bear was hungry and gave him one gap in the grouting, or a child that will arch their entire body in the hope that doing so will prevent them touching anything wetapple and then another. A book that teaches He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a toddler how bathtime is meant good meal and somewhere to be may just help your nightly routine, but also greatly entertain everyonesleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571371</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Duncan Beedie1913839656|title=The LumberjackLet's BeardCelebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=Jim Hickory is a Lumberjack of routineTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. Every morning, after he gets up, he does He packed two pairs of dungarees and his limbering up exercises (very important for a lumberjack!), favourite hat and then he eats gathered together his breakfast of pancakes with maple syrup, before finally getting button collection to show his trusty axe and heading out into the forestgrandmother. One day, however, She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this routine becomes interrupted when as he hears someone peck-pecking at his door, only wanted to discover it's a small owl who has been made homeless by Jim's tree fellingmake new friends. Jim allows the owl to set up At home in , his only friend was his big bushy beard, without realising just quite what mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he is letting himself in for…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706880</amazonuk>looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross1529504775|title=Barking for BagelsThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=''Barking for Bagels'' is 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 story side of Schnipp the dog, who loves her owners park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very much, though she does find their snickering a little annoying from time to timedifficult. One day, whilst out for Elsie spotted a walk bus in the parktoy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, she starts David learned to run awaystand up, use the bus for support, and she finds that once she starts running she can't stopwalk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and she runs and she runs until she finds Bessie rusted, to the Bagel lady and thus discovers her new favourite foodRepair Shop, and hoping that the experts there could make it so that her new homegrandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344505X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Antony1529504767|title=Thank You, Mr PandaThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=Mr Panda is back! 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. And this time, rather than his box She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of doughnutsMr and Mrs Russell, he has a large pile of presents for who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all of his friendsto herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. Accompanied by his friend, the ring-tailed Lima, he goes around giving out the presents, whilst Lima helpfully reminds everyone on the receiving end that She''it's d help Mrs Russell with the thought that counts'' since baking and when it turns out that came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Panda is perhaps not Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best judge of gift giving!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492785X</amazonuk>surprise happened the following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Greg Gormley and Steven Lenton1916459943|title=Fairytale Frankie and the Mermaid EscapadeSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=If you think about it enough it is amazing how many characters in fairytales are thickMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. How long would it take you He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to figure out that was not your Nansleep: instead, but a wolf? he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. Or, how many people would decide The sea offers to start eating a house that appears to be made out of gingerbreadhelp. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, but is overseen by what looks like a crazy lady? hush''. Nope, the only reason that fairytale characters make it half the time is because Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sensible sandy beach and brave character saves you have the day; an intelligent brick laying pigsound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, or la lay...'' And for a feisty woodsmanmoment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Your average story dweller needs Then a guardian angel seagull '''shouts''' and this may just come in the form of Fairytale Frankiewe know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408333872</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophy Henn140639131X|title=EdieA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=Edie is a gorgeous little girl and with the sort of nature which we all hope that our children will have in abundance. ShePhilippa Pheasant was 's just so ''helpfultired''of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. For instance, sheShe wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn's gets up extra early herself just so that she can make certain that everybody else in the house gets up in good timet even get a reply. The cymbals work well Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her brother, but if not, dragging him out tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of bed usually achieves the desired result. As for her parents, playing her guitar lollipop lady at the school crossing and serenading them usually does the trickdecided that she would set up something similar herself. She's an independent young lady Her uniform and likes lollipop stick were both a little amateur to dress herselfstart with but the benefits were obvious. It's not ''exactly'' school uniform All the animals used the crossing and her mother might well be wondering where some of her clothes have got Hedgehog was even trained up to - but what's provide a girl to do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141365005</amazonuk>safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roger Hargreaves1776574338|title= My Mummy|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= In Leilong''My Mummy'' we learn of all the ways Mummy is wonderful. And, funnily enough, her positive attributes are quite a lot like those singular, nominal traits beheld by certain Little Misses. For example, she is happy like Little Miss Sunshine, she is curious about things like, erm, Little Miss Curious, and she enjoys her cake, just like Little Miss Greedy. Ooops.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285508</amazonuk>}}{{newreviews Too Long!|author=Wendy Meddour and Rebecca Ashdown|title=The Glump Julia Liu and the Peeble Bei Lynn|rating=34
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|summary=When does someone learn Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who they truly are? As a baby, you live at the top of tower blocks don't know what your feet are, so any sense of true self-discovery is going even need to at least wait until you are go downstairs – they simply climb out of nappiesthe window and slide down his neck. As a child you start to see the worldIt's perfect, but most of us only see our part in isn't it. ? Enter your teenage years and twenties and you start What could be a more fun way of going to understand what role you play in life, but do you really know yourselfschool? If you are luckyThere is a problem, very lucky, you may start though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to figure stuff out in your thirties be careful about where he puts his feet and know who you are – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and what you want to dotraffic regularly gets snarled up. Things may have happened a little quicker if you had read more books as a child all about being whomever you want to The school decides that he can't bethe bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807100</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Szirtes and Tim Archbold1776574028|title=How to be a Tiger|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=''Wet again, yet again! Down it drips, little fingertips, tapping and snapping as if the rain were cross.''<br>''See the branches toss? See the puddles grow? Has it stopped raining?NO.'' Yes, sometimes only a quote will do. After all, we do come to poetry for snappy concision, and that's what we get here…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959200</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Ellie Sandall |title=Everybunny Dance David Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=ChildrenI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's book for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have a long history of the lion lying down realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the lamb when most adults understand that the only thing that the lamb would be lying on is the lining of the lionelephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''s stomach. However, there The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is plenty of time to learn a ''crynoceros'' (think about what creature eats what creature and perhaps we should just allow children to imagine that bunnies like to dance the night away and perhaps even get along with it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a fox''sm......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444919865</amazonuk>.'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carna Brooks1838226834|title=What are Aunties Made Of?Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=3.54
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|summary=We It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all know what little boys and girls are made ofthe good that parents do, although I have to confess to having so the trips out were always been just a little bit jealous of the puppy dog tails and quite willing so much fun. A young boy was going to pass on the sugar, spicecarnival with his Grandad, slugs and snails. But what are ''aunties'' made of? Could it bewho told him:
''Smelly old cars and old milk jars?It'll be brilliant, just remember, don'<br>''Or fragrances t let go of lavender and roses in our noses?my hand.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666424</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carol Ann Duffy and Lydia MonksB09MYXSRV4|title=Queen Munch Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Queen NibbleHare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=Queen Munch and Queen Nibble are two very different queensWhen the world was made, in two very different kingdomsthe animals were given gifts. Queen Munch, as you might imagine from her name, really loves her foodBear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Her Saturdays begin with 'The Munching of the Breakfast' which is Water Spider received a grand extravaganza strong web that her people all come and watch involving a grand setting, the Royal Musicians playing even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present 'Queen Munch Tune', dancing and an important reader of '' the menu, a delicious breakfast all finished off with a nice belch from the Queen! future. Queen NibbleRabbit developed intelligence - but, thenunfortunately, is much not the opposite of Queen Munchability to use it well. She is tall and 'He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that'as pale as s not a stick of celery''! fair contest but wait and see. She lives alone, barely eats, but she makes beautiful jewellry from raindropsThings are not always as they seem. One day, Queen Munch invites Queen Nibble over for a visit, and what will happen when these two extremely different rulers come together?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509829261</amazonuk>I'll tell you how it came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian Gough and Jim FieldRob Keeley|title=Rabbit and Bear: The Pest in the Nest|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Rabbit was struggling. There he was having a nice, peaceful sleep in his friend Bear's cave when a terrible noise woke him. Was it thunder? No, it was Bear snoring. Very loudly. Rabbit tried putting his paws over his ears although that's not very successful when you have small paws and very big ears. But there was something good: when Rabbit went outside the cave he realised that spring had sprung. Suddenly he felt ''strong''. After a winter spent in his friend Bear's cave it was time to go home to his burrow. Only there was a surprise lurking there - and it looked suspiciously like a snake.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934260</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jodie Parachini and Daniel Rieley|title= This is a Serious BookCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!
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|genre= For Sharing|summary= If you want a silly book Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, this Lily is not the one keen to explain how good they are for youand how nice to eat. This isOne day, as the title sayspoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, a ''serious book''who tells her that carrots grow on trees. And just so there's no doubtInfuriated, it shows you all Lily checks with the things you won't find teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in this book (because they are silly and this is serious)the ground. So we see pictures of donkeys pulling silly faces Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and doing backflips but only as a warning. They are examples to show us what we ''won't'' find in this book. For they are silly things (yuck)everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571329462</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Philip and Ella BaileyB09FFJF8YS|title=I DonYou Can't Know What to Call My CatWear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=Getting ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a new pet cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'' And so it is rife with things ! 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 you have to do''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Where will they sleep? What will they eat? AndNeither can the flowers, of coursenor the fish, what on Earth are you going to call them? Giving a pet nor the right name when they are tiny birds. Boy's certainly can be an issue in itself – 't. She's a cute fluffy dog can grow into a massive hound called Fluffy, or you could call your male cat Claire. Perhaps big girl now and she wants everyone to know it would help if the animal itself could tell you what name they want?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124134</amazonuk>!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ariane Hofmann-Maniyar Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=That's Not How You Do ItEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties! )
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|summary=Lucy the cat knows how to do everything. YesToots, she is one of those dreadful know-it-alls who can build a towertrumps, play the xylophonefarts. Whatever your word for them, eat with find us a knife child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and fork..joke about, that is.But horribly embarrassing if you name it, she can do it! Everyone knows that she's the best let one go at all of these things, so she's the one they go to if they need helpwrong time. One dayIn class, howeversay, therewhen everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's a new panda latest entry in townher ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, Toshiwith the familiar humour attached, and Lucy watches him and sees explains that he doesntooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''t know how to do anything right at all! |isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} His music {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is strange, and he eats differently to everyone else, and he canthe latest release in the ''t make paper stars, only some weird-looking birdEverybody Potties! Lucy finds this more and more frustrating until she suddenly can't contain herself any longer ' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and she tells Toshi that hereplace it with some fun. It's doing everything wrong…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846439280</amazonuk>a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Rebecca Lisle When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Richard WatsonMended|titleauthor=Stone UnderpantsPeter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=Poor Pod has a chilly bottom! Meet Fred. His leafy clothing is just not cutting itWell, actually, and he needs you're going to find an alternativebe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But what can he use to make himself some pants? This is a madcap story that will see Pod wearing everything from stone pants to feather pants, to even, in desperation I suspect, some pants made from spider's webs! Will he ever manage to find something suitable to make his pants from?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862210</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kyo Maclear and Julia Sarda|title=The Liszts|rating=3|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=When you read enough childrenm getting ahead of myself: I's books d better tell you start to be able to pick up patterns in the genrea bit more about Fred. There are books that are aimed at the child alone Fred is a snake and alienate the adult and there are even those that cater for both. Perhaps the oddest grouping is those children's books that of us who have a phobia about snakes are seemingly designed for adults going to enjoy and do not appeal warm to childrenhim. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445157</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kurt Vonnegut and Ivan Chermayeff|title= Sun Moon Star|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= In his own delightfully imaginative way Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of the birth of Christ He arrived as a present in this unique a box with holes so that he could breathe and long out of print children's book. Told from the perspective immediately became part of the new born infant in his first hours of birthfamily, this charming little story feels different to other children's Christmas books whilst at the same time goes back to extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the basics in exploring the true nature of Christmasproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609807243</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwen Jackson Justine Avery and Lissa CalvertNaday Meldova|title=Lump Lump and the Blanket of Dreams: Inspired by Navajo Culture and FolkloreEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=In the fir tree in the forest there were two holes: in the small hole at the top Blue Bird livedCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, but the big holeas any parent will tell you. But really, in the ground below the fir tree was the home of Mother Bear and her little bear, Lump Lump. It was coming why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to the time learn about everything else when bears should be hibernating, but Lump Lump wanted to run in the forest and eat more honeywe are small. Somehow he didnWhy shouldn't think that sleeping could potty training be ''that'' as much fun. Blue Bird sang him a song about a blanket of dreams and Lump Lump ''had'' to have one. There was a snag though - before the blanket could be woven Lump Lump had to collect the white light of morningas, the red light of eveningsay, learning about why the falling rain sun and the rainbow for Spider Woman to weave into his blanket.moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1460299299</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary Sheppard Justine Avery and Tim BudgenNaday Meldova|title=As Nice as Pie No, No, No!|rating=54
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|summary=The day that you build that bird table and set out some nuts you They say the best picture books are unwittingly creating a millstone for your own neck. From now on your inner voice is going to keep telling you to keep the food topped upsimplest ones. What will happen to those poor little birdies should they go without, will you And nothing could be to blame for their hunger? Worse than the voice in your head is if the birds themselves started to demand more food. Could you deal with a cheeky chaffinch or a rabid robin? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862229</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lina Sunderland and Daniel Egneus|title= Raven Child and the Snow Witch|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= A beautiful story truer of hope, family and love. In the frozen north and safe away this latest from the icy wildernessJustine Avery, young Anya lives a happy care-free life in the Snow GardenBookbag favourite. She plays ''No, No, she No!'' is at one with based around the animals and she dreamssimplest text imaginable. On one day ''No, no, no different from any other! Okay, Anya’s mother sets off on a journey to the glacier to collect a special flower to plant in the Snow Garden. Anya waits for her mother’s return and keeps busy throughout the day. After a long while of waiting Anya falls asleep and dreams of a terrible event involving the most dreadful enchantress of them all – the Snow Witchokay. From here onYes, Anya becomes determined to find and save her mother but she has no idea what lies aheadyou may. Can Anya pit her wills against the frozen wilderness, the wild wolves and ultimately the Snow Witch herself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704187</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Surya Sajnani|title= Farm''|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= In this sturdyThat's it! But, interactive board book little ones have clues to animals you might find on like all the farmbest picture books, and can then slide the pieces this tiny snippet of picture round text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the facing page to uncover inside that it appears on the answeroutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178493660X</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Surya Sajnani194812467X|title= Hush...Little Bear is SleepingThe Farm Shop|ratingauthor= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= In this somewhat ironic interactive board book, Baby Bear is trying to sleep but other animals around him keep making a noise. I say ironic because this would otherwise be a perfect bedtime story, but because it's a ''press and listen'' book with sound effects on every pageDevon Avery, it's far too much fun and more likely to get them engaged and playing than carefully drifting off to slumber.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784936626</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer Justine Avery and Oliver Jeffers|title=Imaginary FredEma Tepic
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|summary=Fred is an imaginary Kirelle and her best friendSam the cat decide to go for a walk. He really loves being an imaginary friend, Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and he throws himself into Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his role wholeheartedly whenever he is 'summoned' by a childsmart grey fur coat. The problem is that his children always end up finding a real friend, and then As they don't need him, and slowly he fades away until walk to the wind whisks him away into top of the clouds where he waits until he is summoned once morehill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. When he becomes SamIt's friend he thinks that a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all his dreams have come true - they like the same thingsstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, they have so much fun togethergoats and chickens, but Fred has a funny feeling in his imaginary tummy that one dayand even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam won't need him any more either…go shopping. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>000812616X</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuval Zommer0995647895|title=One Hundred SausagesSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Mmm, sausages! Everyone knows that dogs have special hearing when it comes to the discussion of whatSadie's for dinnermother always said that she was a dreamer, especially when it comes to sausagesher mind never on what she should be doing. My mum used She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to hide spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the worming tablets houses cowered in sausages as our dog would eat the sausage so fast he wouldngloom,'t notice '<br>''To the tabletMaritime Museum''. Well, most times! Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. Anyway, this book is all about One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one particular dogwhere Nelson's love of sausages, Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and what happens when he is falsely accused of stealing all of the townattendant's sausages!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783705752</amazonuk>warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don'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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet1782227741|title=Gordon's Great EscapeLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=The life of the humble balloon is one full of fear and dangers. Imagine going out of the house each One day and all that protects your vulnerable self is , Gold Ted falls into a thin sheet of taut rubberpuddle. Even if you do get to survive into your dotage, this It's quite a deep puddle and the water is not a long timeswirling. Who has not left a balloon alone for a week or so, it Poor Ted starts to sag spin around and around and go wrinkly until it is nothing more than sucked down a floppy bag. Depressing as this may be, Gordon the balloon looks drain on the bright side of life and is determined the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to enjoy every moment he haspanic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471143635</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Caryl Hart and Ed Eaves|title= How to Save a Superhero|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= It's just an ordinary day for Albie – 'OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he's playing with cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his toys cane, which might look just a bit like any little boyan old cricket bat. However little does Reg is a kind soul and he know that his day is going to be super in more ways than one. This is another fantastic adventure in the next in the series dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of books by Carol Hart and Ed Eavesbroth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114478X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul B08R7LXQ9S|title=Winnie Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Wilbur Meet Santa Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Winnie Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Wilbur Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are writing their letters careful to Santa. Wilbur wants lots of things including a wind up mouse, tins of sardines, Remy when nobody can see and a cuddly blanketthen push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. WinnieSo, howeverwhen Remy reacts, just wants a lovely surprise. When Christmas Eve arrives that is what she gets – but it's not exactly looks as though he was the surprise that Santa had in mindinstigator. He And then he gets stuck in their chimney for so long that he might not have time to deliver all into trouble at school and the presents. Luckily Winnie and Wilbur find teachers don't believe him in time and, for once, Winnie's magic seems when he tries to be workingexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192747371</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Walliams and Tony Ross 1471191303|title=There's a Snake in My School! The Invisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=With This is the onset story of TVIsobel, the internet and colourful books we take for granted that we know what different animals look like. A giraffe has a long neck, little girl who made a lion has big teeth and a Dodo does not look like much anymoredifference. However, imagine Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a time before all this technologyvery cold house, the closest you would get because her parents couldn't afford to an exotic animal might be put the assorted stuffed creatures in a local Natural History Museum. Perhaps heating on: ''Ice curled across the children inside of Juliette MacIver the window and Sarah Daviscrept up the corner of the bedpost.' ' The family didn'That's Not a Hippopotamus!'' learned from some poor taxidermy, as t go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they sure doncouldn't know what a Hippo looks likeafford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271967</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice PattulloNick Jones and Si Clark|title=An Animal ABCOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary= If you Many children have ever tried to print a design using traditional methods such as screen printing or block printingan obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, you will know how tricky a feat this isobsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Making a simple black and white design Her favourite toy is tough enough as you try and spread the paint evenly and avoid bleedingBerisford, but multicolours are even more complexa teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. You have to remove your screen and add anotherEvery night, then make sure the new colour sits exactly where it should. When it goes wrong it she looks amateurish out of her bedroom window and you have says goodnight to start again. Do it right and it can look as wonderful as ''An Animal ABC'' by Alice Pattullo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653133</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Steve Antony|title= The Queen's Present|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= We join the story on Christmas Evebear statue outside. The Queen hasn't finished her shopping yetEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, which is probably unlikely for a grandmother and great grandmother, but then I suppose most people in colourful painted bear that position don't have a job ruling the country so she can be forgivenlives at her school. She's shopping for the little prince and princess, but in a surprisingly unpatriotic moment she realises the UK just won't do, and she needs to venture further afield. If only there was someone with access to airborne transport who could whisk even has bears on her away to the likes of France and Egypt and Italy and China at the drop of a hat (or the tug of a reign).bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444925636</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]