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[[image:lumplump.jpg|center|link=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDc9DQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=lump+lump+and+the+blanket+of+dreams&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz47visd3QAhVT_WMKHQ8CA8UQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=lump%20lump%20and%20the%20blanket%20of%20dreams&f=false]]<hr/>[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt TavaresAdam Stower|title=Red Murray and LuluBun

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Meet Red Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and Lulueat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. TheyBut he're s a committed couple of cardinalsbad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they have lived for some time in someone's both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, safely in an evergreen treebut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. It seems to This time round it drops them that every year people mention their home in into a Viking land, where a lovely songtroll hunter is expected – well, which tells the tree ''thy leaves are so unchanging''. But one yearmuch bigger than Murray was, just as the seasons turn for the cold of winterto be honest, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406376922</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jim Helmore and Richard Jones1732898766|title= The Snow Lion|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Caro and her mother arrive at their new home in darkness. Once inside, the house is white, bare Adventures of Birpus and empty. Caro wishes that she has someone to play with and feels a little lost and small. Then one day she hears a noise and a gentle voice asking to play. She has a new friend and a very special one. Bulbus: Book One: The Snow Lion has appeared as if by magic to help Caro learn how to make friends of her own and maybe find the courage she has been hiding inside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162230</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSour Milk Dragon|author=Rachel Bright|title=All I Want For ChristmasWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=All I want When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for Christmas is my two front teeth, filed down to a normal sizetheir lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. We all want different things on Their greatest fear has come about: the 25th December; some ask for world peace, whilst others ask for something more achievable like a TamagotchiSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. Whatever you wantHe's right behind them, is it really the true meaning of the season? spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won'All I Want For Christmas'' by Rachel Bright is t end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a nice reminder that the real reason ladder of moss and vines was lowered for Chrimbo is not gift givingthem, but they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the opportunity to spend time tangled woods where they lived with loved onestheir Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331667</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Moira Butterfield and Holly SterlingB0CC9W7GLR|title=Everybody Feels Angry!On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda

|summary=Children don't deal easily with the emotions which flood the brain - Kit and then chaos ensues. You can try discussing the problem before Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it happens or immediately afterwardswas better to be at home, bored but children don't appreciate warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the abstract eithershoreline. What you need is On top of the ice was a specific examplepolar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, an occasion which they'll readily recognise the bear woke and can then see how with wobbly legs moved from the emotion boils up and explodesice. Moira Butterfield has produced Kit was all for making a series of booksrun for it, illustrated by Holly Sterling, which take a couple of times when an emotion takes everything overbut Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. One applies He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a girl good meal and one somewhere to a boy and we see how the situations resolve themselvessleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938556</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler1913839656|title=The Ugly FiveLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary=Creating a popular character is a double edged sword; one side is buckets of cold hard cashTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the other is people demanding that you trot out the same old stuffbest beetle juice. Julia Donaldson He packed two pairs of dungarees and Axel Scheffler created the behemoth that is ''The Gruffalo'' his favourite hat and you could forgive them for producing countless books in this series, but they do notthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Anyone who is a fan of She had promised to take him to the pairing will already know that their other work is also excellent; just ask ''Superworm'' or ''Room on Friday Night Club at the Broom''local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. This is an established author/illustrator partnership At home, his only friend was his mum and any new outing from them is excitinghe wondered why that could be. Even if Grandma thought that is an outing about really ugly animalsit might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407174193</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Richard Byrne1529504775|title= I Want to Go FirstThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=ItElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn's so not fair! Why should Elphie go last, just because t - he's d been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the littlest? This is a question toy shop window which will speak would help David - and was happy to use the heart of many young childrencoins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, especially those with siblings: use the smallest bedroombus for support, hand-me-down books that have been read and reread till their edges are frayed . . walk behind it. but don't worry Many decades later, Elphie has found Elsie brought the solution. Only thing isbus, now damaged and rusted, he's going to need the reader's help to achieve his goalRepair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192749730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alex T Smith1529504767|title= Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers |summary= Mr Penguin is a brand new ''Professional Adventurer''. He has a dashing hat, a large magnifying glass and an important looking office in his igloo to prove it. All he needs now is an adventure to go on. Just as he is beginning to despair of ever being asked to solve a mystery Boudicca Bones from the museum phones and asks for help. Can he and his trusty sidekick, Colin The Christmas Doll (the spider with expertise in martial arts!The Repair Shop Stories) find her missing treasure? Will the adventure become too dangerous for them? And will Mr Penguin ever have time to eat his fish finger sandwich packed lunch?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444932063</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Colleen Jacey Amy Sparkes and Zed Jacey|title=Madge Eekal's ChristmasKatie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary=It Susan was nearly Christmas very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and all the witches except Madge Eekal were busy putting up their festive lights. Madge's pet dragon, Ashon, wanted to know what had happened nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to their fairy lightsher final destination. The truth was that Madge had ''tried'She needn' t have worried though as she went to get them to workthe home of Mr and Mrs Russell, but it seemed that the fairies were on strike: she ''who couldn't'' get them have been kinder to workher. Ashon knew that it would, of course, have been much easier if they She even had electricity, like everyone else her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and that decided Madge - they would make their own electricitybegan to enjoy her life. She knew 'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the perfect spellChristmas tree. Ashon was doubtful.The best surprise happened the following morning.. and rightly so as it turned out|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036530</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Herve Tullet1916459943|title=Say Zoop!Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=2.54

|summary=The average toddler has the attention span of the time it takes to …Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby..SQUIRREL! Many modern children He's books are packed full of flapsso tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, textures he just lies on his blanket and gimmicks in the desperate hope that they can draw the reader away from CBeebies for just five minutes''wails''. The sea offers to help. To grab them It rocks Baby gently and keep themthe waves sing ''hush, your book should be short, punchy hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and funyou have the sound perfectly. What you donThe mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...''t want to do is take And for a reasonable idea and play moment it out for page, after page, after pageseems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. WhatThen a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's that ….going to happen next. SQUIRREL!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452164738</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie Blake140639131X|title=I Can't Sleep!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Simon the little rabbit is back! HePhilippa Pheasant was ''s not so little now, and his baby brother (from tired''Stupid Baby by Stephanie Blakeof nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn') has grown t a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up into a toddlersomething similar herself. This time we see Simon Her uniform and Caspar playing happily together lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but then, in the night, poor Caspar realises that he's forgotten his blanket outside! benefits were obvious. What will All the two brothers do? Caspar says he can't sleep without his blanketanimals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight...will Simon be able to help him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571630</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje1776574338|title=Worzel says helloLeilong's Too Long! Will you be my friend?|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=54

|summary=I'd like you to meet WorzelEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, but you'll need to do exactly what I saypicking up children as he goes. Worzel is quite a big dog, but that doesnChildren who live at the top of tower blocks don't mean that he's fierce, or even very braveneed to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. In fact, heIt's frightenedperfect, and little as you are, heisn's frightened t it? What could be a more fun way of yougoing to school? There is a problem, though. HeLeilong isn'd like to meet you thought happy in the city: can you see that nose just poking out from the side of the sofa? Now he's peering over the cushion - always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and finally – because he's risking leaving longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that ''very'' safe place hecan's found, behind t be the sofabus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787111601</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Yarlett1776574028|title=Nibbles: The Dinosaur GuideBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=3.54|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Some of you may already be aware of Nibbles. I love a good board book! He ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a little monster niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that likes to nibble everythingyou can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Nibbles nibbles socks, Nibbles nibbles clocks, but We have the thing that Nibbles likes to nibble most is books! Therefore, putting him in elephant who dons a book is not the safest place as he will try tutu - and eat his way outbecomes a ''balletphant''. Whilst the first book saw the tyke getting into trouble in fairy tales, this time it is non-fiction that The buffalo who has whetted had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his appetite and in particular ice cream cone is a book all ''crynoceros'' (think about dinosaursit!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696914</amazonuk>......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexandre Lacroix and Ronan Badel|title=Dragons: Father and Son|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=You know dragons. They're there to look splendid and fierce, and to burn down human villages in rampages, with or without treasure in mind. But they need to be trained in that. And our father dragon has just tasked his son dragon with that very errand - to go and torch a human house. The lad is reluctant to cook anything more severe than lunch - what could possibly happen?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277231</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David McKee|title= Elmer and the Tune|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Everybody loves a catchy tune, but sometimes you come across one that you just can't get out of your head, no matter how hard you try. And that's what has happened to Elmer and his friends – all over the jungle, folk are humming the same tune, over and over and over again, and passing it on to their friends and neighbours like a musical virus. Anyone who has heard about how the wheels on that wretched bus go round and round eleventy-seven gazillion times on a long car journey will know what we mean. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445467</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Dr Seuss and Tish Rabe|title= Oh Baby, the Places You'll Go|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary=A slightly odd concept to get one's head around, ''Oh Baby, the Places You'll Go'' is both a book within a book, and a book sized advert all in one. Dr Seuss (fun fact: 'Seuss' originally rhymed with 'voice') wrote many, many books in his lifetime, and lots of us will be familiar with his best-known characters such as [[The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss|The Cat in the Hat]] and the copious numbers of adventures he wrote about such as when [[Horton Hears a Who by Dr Seuss|Horton Hears a Who]]. This book is different, because rather than introducing new wild and wacky characters, it brings together existing ones who may never have met each other before. Adapted by Tish Rabe (though very much influenced by Dr Seuss's originals), this book rattles through the different titles and their key characters, knitting them together with the premise that these are all people baby will meet in the future, through the wonder of children's books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008241651</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rachel Bright and Jim Field|title= The Squirrels Who Squabbled|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=First we had a cute little mouse finding his inner beast in [[The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright and Jim Field|The Lion Inside]] and then we had a nervous koala trying to move out of his comfort zone in [[The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright and Jim Field|The Koala Who Could]] and now we have a couple of greedy, fighting squirrels. Whatever next?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408340488</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester Clark1838226834|title= Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of The Wizard of Oz|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The timeless story that we all know as The Wizard of Oz is given a twist in this original interpretation by master story-crafter Michael Morpurgo. It's the tale of a character that seems to be so often overlooked in the well-known story: Dorothy's faithful dog, Toto. We hear the whole story from his point of view, told in first person narrative from the moment the tornado sweeps across Dorothy's Kansas farm. Toto continues to tell Carried Away With the story as it happens to him in a witty and charming manner as their house is lifted into the air and whisked away to the mysterious land of Oz. Of course, Toto and Dorothy meet the absurd but loveable scarecrow without a brain, tin man without a heart and lion who lacks courage, and together they set off along the yellow brick road to find the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, hoping that he might help Toto and Dorothy return home. Along the way, the tin man, scarecrow and lion learn that what they think they are missing might have been there all along. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008134596</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCarnival|author=J M Barrie and Robert Ingpen|title=Peter Pan and WendyEd Boxall

|summary=It's a childhood staple - the story was one of Wendy, John and Michael Darling and their beloved nurse, Nana the Newfoundland dog who took them to school each daythose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. ItThey's George Darlingre there to undo all the good that parents do, their father, who makes so the mistake when he locks Nana in the yard and the children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbelltrips out were always so much fun. There's a wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, the A young boy who never wants was going to grow up, Tinkerbell, the rather unpleasant fairycarnival with his Grandad, Captain Hookwho told him: ''It'll be brilliant, Tiger Lilyjust remember, the lost boys and - of course - Wendy, but then it wouldndon't have been a classic since the original stage production in 1904 and the novel let go of 1911 if it were otherwisemy hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786750856</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Clare Foges Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Al MurphyHare|titleauthor=Bathroom BoogieCordellya Smith

|summary=Every day I leave When the house with world was made, the feeling animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that I left it in he could become a pretty tidy state, but on my return some things always seem out of placeprotector. This is especially true of my bathroomWater Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Why is there toothpaste on Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the mirrorpresent ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, or a flannel on not the floor? ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. It would appear that I may not actually He was also jealous which was how he came to be to blame and in a race with Turtle. You might think that when I'm at work all the bathroom items come out for s not a boogiefair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. Will I ever catch them in the act?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571337317</amazonuk>'ll tell you how it came about.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Fearne Cotton and Sheena DempseyRob Keeley|title= Yoga BabiesCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!

|genre= For Sharing|summary= Radio host Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, TV presenterbroccoli, fashion designercabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, author – Lily is there anything Fearne Cotton can't do? Based keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the content of this bookteacher, we can undoubtedly add Yogi to who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ongoing list of talentsground. Jordan says, because it's hard "I did try to imagine any other way in which this came into beingtell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445645</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Claire Freedman and Jane MasseyB09FFJF8YS|title= Florence FrizzballYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating= 43.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Florence Frizzball has ''For the frizziestbig, curliestgrownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, most out "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of control mop of hair youtoilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''ve ever seen  And so it is! And 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 longs for smoothproudly explains to her dog, sleekher cat, brushable locks like all her friendsstuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. As a kidNeither can the flowers, I remember being chased round nor the garden by my motherfish, brandishing nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a hair brush big girl now and trying she wants everyone to get me to sit still know it!}} {{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and have my frizz sorted outNaday Meldova|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. To say I identified with Florence would be an understatementWhatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. As the tale goes onFunny to talk about and joke about, though, we see another side to that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the storywrong time. Florence gets what she wantsIn class, say, but when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her dream comes true she quickly learns that maybe she was wanting all ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the wrong thingsfamiliar humour attached, and explains that actually her frizzball tooting is part of her identityperfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4. 5|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>1471144542</amazonuk>For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Phil Allcock and Richard WatsonB07GZ81J7C|title= Clumpety Bump|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Clumpety Bump likes apples. Nothing wrong with that, after all: they're tasty and full of goodness. But you don't get delicious, juicy treats like that unless you deserve them, and naughty Clumpety is a bit too keen on saying ''I can't be bothered'' when his friend Wally asks for help. So, after several disasters, Wally decides he'd be better off leaving Clumpety at home and using his tractor instead. Unfortunately, things don't turn out too well, and our two heroes learn that if you want to be properly happy, other people need to be happy too. Selfishness just makes everyone sad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jackie Morris and James Mayhew|title= Mrs Noah's Pockets|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= The heavy rains, Noah building his ark and the animals going in two by two to be saved. This most familiar of stories has been retold time and time again but not like this. This time there is twist and someone else quietly takes centre stage. When Mr Noah builds Fred the ark, he makes two lists - one for all the animals who will come on board and one for those troublesome creatures he will leave behind. Meanwhile, Mrs Noah gets out her sewing machine Snake Got Squished and makes a coat with very deep pockets. Lots of pockets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095909X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMended|author=Lisa Papp|title=Madeleine Finn and the Library DogPeter Cotton

|summary=Madeleine Finn doesnMeet Fred. Well, actually, you't like re going to read be meeting Fred- not anythingFred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. ItBut I's not really her fault, m getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you knowa bit more about Fred. Her teacher tries Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to encourage her, but some of the other kids giggle when she makes mistakeswarm to him. And they pull faces He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the type which family, to the extent that they would have given me my head in my hands to play take Fred out with them when I was a child. The words just don't seem to come they went out right for hera walk. The other children are getting gold stars (I've ''never'' liked And that system) but all Madeleine gets is a heart sticker which tells her to keep tryingwas where the problem started. SheFred didn's got plenty of thoset have any road sense. All week she tries her best but doesn't get the star she longs forOr brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646326</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rose BlakeJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title= Going to SchoolEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Sidney Gibbons is always in trouble andCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, to make matters worse, he insists on blaming the mess he makes on his invisible friend – Kevinas any parent will tell you. ThisBut really, however, changes when Sidney actually meets Kevin and discovers what why shouldn't it is like be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be on as much fun as, say, learning about why the receiving end of bad behaviour. In a magical world of make-believe, Sidney finally comes to realise that he's been selfish sun and resolves to put things right for both his invisible chum and his very own mum.the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008207410</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rob BiddulphJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=SunkNo, No, No!|rating=54

|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''Hoist the ColoursNo, No, No! Set '' is based around the Sailsimplest text imaginable. ''No, no, no! It's time to hit the treasure trailOkay, okay. Yes, you may.'' Penguin Blue and his friends are prepared to sail the seven seas in search of gold but they become unstuck when a rip in their ship means they That're suddenly SUNKs it! Luck isBut, howeverlike all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on their side and they find a handy desert island in the nick of time. Here they make a special new friend and ultimately find a treasure inside that's worth much more than goldit appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008207402</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Rekulak and Kim Smith194812467X|title=The X-Files: Earth Children are Weird. A Picture BookFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=4.5

|summary=We know that Dana Scully Kirelle and Fox Mulder didn't know each other as children, her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for they met much later on, at work a walk. Kirelle is dressed for the FBI. But if they had, they may well have camped all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in the back yardhis smart grey fur coat. They made have read scary stories As they walk to each other, but one thing is for sure – Mulder's imagination would have seen aliens everywhere. He would have seen mystery in the deep impression in top of the yardhill, horror in the shadows, and the unexplained in any vaguely mysterious noisethey see a big barn with a sign outside. For thatIt's what happens on the pages of a farm shop! But this picture book – but that's not ''is a farm shop with a difference: all'' that happens – the truth is something much more peculiar…stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1683690273</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Akala Sadie and Sav Akyuzthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=You Can do AnythingMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice

|summary= If you think about rappingSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what comes to mind? she should be doing. The hard streets of She lives by the East Coast River Thames at Greenwich and West Coast of America as they brag about what cars they own and women they date? Rap is like any musical form; it varies greatlyshe loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. There is loads of Gangster Rap, but what about  ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the pop of Will Smithgloom, or ''<br>''To the Grime of Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the UK? oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. Just have One day she fell asleep under a look at glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the 80s for loads of unqualified people having a dabble in closing bell and the format attendant's warning shout. When she woke (Wham! Raphard floors don't make comfy beds). Rap she was in the midst of itself is nothing but an adventure that she could never have imagined in a way to project a message and if this message is about trying hard world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and succeeding, it could just be suitable for a kid's booktreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192747800</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jon Burgerman1782227741|title= Rhyme CrimeLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating= 54|genre= For Sharing|summary= Sometimes books for sharing need to be calm One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and gentle, soporific even, to lure little ones under the duvet and off to sleepwater is swirling. And sometimes books need Poor Ted starts to be utterly zany, full spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of bright coloursthe street. Finding himself down in the sewer, daft doodle-style illustrations Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and crazy rhymes for alerts the attention of Reg the child to shout sewer rat, who plucks him out loud. Please, dear parentof the dirty water using his cane, do not try to read this wonderful book to your offspring within which might look just a bit like an hour or two old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of lights outbroth. Seriously, be warned - You Will Regret It. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192749501</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Georgiana Deutsch and Ekaterina TrukhanB08R7LXQ9S|title= 10, 9, 8... Owls Up Late! |rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= It's tough being a mother owl. Rather than just one or two rambunctious little ones to calm down ready for bed, she has ten of them! And there's so much going on Remy: A book about believing in her tree that she must sometimes despair of ever getting them to sleep. But gradually, one by one, the owlets' eyes begin to droop and they make their way to their comfy little nest until at last . . . zzzzzz! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869704X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewyourself|author=Michelle Robinson Mayuri Naidoo and Claire Powell|title=Have You Seen My Giraffe?Caroline Siegal|rating=4.5

|summary=ImagineRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, if you will together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, a world in which you no longer win goldfish have been laughing at the fairRemy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but you could potentially be coming home with a giraffe! This is the situation they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the family in this story find themselves inother kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and it turns out that having a giraffe in your house may not go down too well with your parents!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075993</amazonuk>the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Puttock and Matt Robertson1471191303|title=FluffywuffyThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=3.5

|summary=Mr MootThis is the story of Isobel, and his dog Fluffywuffy, are very happy in their quiet a little life togethergirl who made a big difference. But one dayIsobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, Mr Mootbecause her parents couldn's cousin, Clarence, comes knocking at t afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the door window and announces that he has come crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to stay for a week, the cinema or a month, or a year! on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Clarence turns out Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to be a most inconsiderate house guestthe far side of the city. Whatever will Mr Moot do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808719</amazonuk>This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emilia Dziubak Nick Jones and Przemyslaw WechterowiczSi Clark|title=The Secret Life of a TigerOne Night in Beartown

|summary=If David Attenborough has taught us anything is that a lot goes on in the natural world that we are unaware of. Animals will hunt in interesting waysMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, or find a mate using secret dances, but did you know that Tigers sometimes sneak up on apes and give them new haircuts? You will be amazed with the revelations found who lives in Emilia Dziubak and Przemyslaw Wechterowicz's bookBeartown, but I am not convinced that this kid's book is based on factsobsessed with bears. She collects books about bears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191027724X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter Bently and Charles Fuge|title=A Home Full of Friends|rating=4Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Bramble Badger was Every night, she looks out looking for nuts by the river when the storm broke of her bedroom window and he was so cold that he decided says goodnight to go straight homethe bear statue outside. On the way he met Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a trail of devastation: Snuffle Dormouse's house has been squashed by a falling treecolourful painted bear that lives at her school. She'd like shelter in Bramble's sett, if he even has room. He's a ''little'' bit reluctant because he thinks his sett is in a mess and there isn't much space or dinner available, but what can you do when a friend is in need? Next it's Tipper the Toad whose home is full of mud, then Boo the Hedgehog's nest has been covered by leaves.bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144492057X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]