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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&hl=en&safrightening 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=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=Kate Jane Neal1732898766|title=Words The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Your HeartIndre Ta (Illustrator)

|genre=For Sharing |summary=Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-itWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that re running for their lives in the adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot Forest of piffleFine Repute. In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to other people Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is positivechasing them. We can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laughHe's right behind them, sing and be happy togetherspewing hot, and bit by bit the world can be a better placesour milk from his nostrils. And hang the (Please don'no, after yout try this at home: it won' attitude some people would have in responset end well. ) ThereFortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, I've given they escaped. They climbed up to the entire plot of this book away Tree Wee homes high up in my summarythe tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, but that's not really an issueNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471168530</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt TavaresB0CC9W7GLR|title=Red On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and LuluJenny Fionda|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Meet Red Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and Lulubuilding sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. They're On top of the ice was a committed couple of cardinalspolar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and they have lived with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for some time in someone's gardenit, safely in an evergreen treebut Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. It seems He obviously needed to them that every year people mention their be taken home in on the bus and given a lovely song, which tells the tree ''thy leaves are so unchanging''good meal and somewhere to sleep. But one year, just as the seasons turn for the cold of winter, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376922</amazonuk>What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jim Helmore and Richard Jones1913839656|title= The Snow LionLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating= 3.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Caro and her mother arrive at their new home in darkness. Once insideTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the house is white, bare and emptybest beetle juice. Caro wishes that she has someone to play with He packed two pairs of dungarees and feels a little lost his favourite hat and small. Then one day she hears a noise and a gentle voice asking then gathered together his button collection to playshow his grandmother. She has a new friend had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and a very special one. The Snow Lion has appeared Todd was pleased about this as if by magic to help Caro learn how he wanted to make new friends of her own . At home, his only friend was his mum and maybe find the courage she has been hiding insidehe wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162230</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Bright1529504775|title=All I Want For ChristmasThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, filed down Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to a normal sizethe park and watch the red buses drive past. We all want different things on Elsie would race the 25th December; some ask for world peace, whilst others ask for something more achievable like a Tamagotchi. Whatever you want, is it really buses along the true meaning side of the season? park but David couldn't - he'All I Want For Christmas'' by Rachel Bright is d been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a nice reminder that bus in the toy 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, David learned to stand up, use the real reason bus for Chrimbo is not gift givingsupport, and walk behind it. Many decades later, but Elsie brought the opportunity bus, now damaged and rusted, to spend time the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with loved onesit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331667</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Moira Butterfield and Holly Sterling1529504767|title=Everybody Feels Angry!The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Children donSusan 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 deal easily with have worried though as she went to the emotions which flood the brain - home of Mr and then chaos ensues. You can try discussing the problem before it happens or immediately afterwardsMrs Russell, but children donwho couldn't appreciate the abstract eitherhave been kinder to her. What you need is a specific example, an occasion which they'll readily recognise and can then see how the emotion boils up and explodesShe even had her own room - all to herself. Moira Butterfield has produced a series of books, illustrated by Holly Sterling, which take a couple of times when an emotion takes everything overGradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. One applies to a girl She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and one when it came to a boy Christmas Eve Susan and we see how Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the situations resolve themselvesfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938556</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler1916459943|title=The Ugly FiveSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=Creating Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a popular character is a double edged sword; one side is buckets of cold hard cash, the other is people demanding that you trot out the same old stuffsqueakily baby. Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler created the behemoth that is He's so tired but he can'The Gruffalot - or won'' and you could forgive them for producing countless books in this seriest - go to sleep: instead, but they do not. Anyone who is a fan of the pairing will already know that their other work is also excellent; he just ask lies on his blanket and ''Superwormwails'' or . The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''Room on the Broomhush, hush''. This is an established author/illustrator partnership Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and any new outing from them is excitingyou have the sound perfectly. Even if that is an outing about really ugly animals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407174193</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Richard Byrne|title= I Want to Go First|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary=ItThe mermaids join in - 's so not fair! Why should Elphie go last, just because he's the littlest? This is a question which will speak to the heart of many young childrenla lou, especially those with siblings: the smallest bedroom, hand-me-down books that have been read and reread till their edges are frayed la lay. . . but don't worry, Elphie has found the solution. Only thing is, he's going to need the reader's help And for a moment it seems to achieve have worked as Baby closes his goaleyes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192749730</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alex T Smith|title= Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers |summary= Mr Penguin is Then a brand new seagull ''Professional Adventurer'shouts'''. He has a dashing hat, a large magnifying glass and an important looking office in his igloo we know exactly what's going to prove it. All he needs now is an adventure to go onhappen next. 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 spider with expertise in martial arts!) 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colleen Jacey and Zed Jacey140639131X|title=Madge Eekal's ChristmasA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=It Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly Christmas and all getting squished as she tried to cross the witches except Madge Eekal were busy putting up their festive lightsOld Oak Road. MadgeShe wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn's pet dragon, Ashon, wanted to know what had happened to their fairy lightst even get a reply. The truth was that Madge had Philippa wasn''tried'' to get them t a bird to work, but it seemed that the fairies were sit back on strikeher tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she ''couldn't'' get them to work. Ashon knew that it would, saw the benefits of course, have been much easier if they had electricity, like everyone else the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that decided Madge - they she would make their own electricityset up something similar herself. She knew Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the perfect spellbenefits were obvious. Ashon All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was doubtful..even trained up to provide a safe path overnight. and rightly so as it turned out|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036530</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Herve Tullet1776574338|title=Say ZoopLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=2.54

|summary=The average toddler has Every morning Leilong, the attention span of brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the time it takes to …city, picking up children as he goes..SQUIRREL! Many modern children Children who live at the top of tower blocks don's books are packed full t even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of flaps, textures the window and gimmicks in the desperate hope that they can draw the reader away from CBeebies for just five minutesslide down his neck. To grab them and keep themIt's perfect, your book should isn't it? What could be shorta more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, punchy and funthough. What you donLeilong isn't want happy in the city: he's always having to do is take be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a reasonable idea tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and play it out for page, after page, after pagetraffic regularly gets snarled up. WhatThe school decides that he can's that ….t be the bus anymore. SQUIRREL!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452164738</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie Blake1776574028|title=I Can't Sleep!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5

|summary=Simon the little rabbit is backI love a good board book! He''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's not so little nowfor the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and his baby brother (make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''Stupid Baby by Stephanie Blakeballetphant'') . The buffalo who has grown up into had a toddler. This time we see Simon bath (complete with yellow duck) and Caspar playing happily together but then, in the night, poor Caspar realises that hedries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''s forgotten . The rhinoceros who drops his blanket outsideice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it! ) What will the two brothers do? Caspar says he canThe pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''t sleep without his blanketsm.......will Simon be able to help him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571630</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje1838226834|title=Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend?Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=54

|summary=IIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They'd like you re there to meet Worzelundo all the good that parents do, but you'll need to do exactly what I sayso the trips out were always so much fun. Worzel is quite a big dogA young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, but that doesnwho told him: 't mean that he's fierce, or even very brave. In fact, heIt's frightenedll be brilliant, and little as you arejust remember, hedon's frightened t let go of youmy hand. He'd like to meet you though: can you see that nose just poking out from the side of the sofa? Now he's peering over the cushion - and finally he's risking leaving that ''very'' safe place he's found, behind the sofa.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787111601</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma YarlettB09MYXSRV4|title=NibblesOtter's Coat: The Dinosaur GuideReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=3.54|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Some of you may already be aware of NibblesWhen the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. He is Water Spider received a little monster strong web that likes to nibble everythingeven fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Nibbles nibbles socksRabbit developed intelligence - but, Nibbles nibbles clocksunfortunately, but not the thing that Nibbles likes ability to use it well. He liked to nibble most is books! trick other animals. Therefore, putting him He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a book is race with Turtle. You might think that's not the safest place a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as he will try and eat his way outthey seem. Whilst the first book saw the tyke getting into trouble in fairy tales, this time I'll tell you how it is non-fiction that has whetted his appetite and in particular a book all came about dinosaurs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696914</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexandre Lacroix and Ronan BadelRob Keeley|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 GoCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!

|genre= For Sharing|summary=A slightly odd concept to get one's head around, ''Oh Baby Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, the Places You'll Go'' is both a book within a bookbroccoli, cabbage and a book sized advert all in oneaubergines. Dr Seuss (fun fact: 'Seuss' originally rhymed with 'voice') wrote many, many books in his lifetimeWhen her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you 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]]how nice to eat. This book is differentOne day, because rather than introducing new wild and wacky characterspoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, it brings together existing ones who may never have met each other beforetells her that carrots grow on trees. Adapted by Tish Rabe (though very much influenced by Dr Seuss's originals)Infuriated, this book rattles through Lily checks with the different titles teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and their key charactersvegetables, like carrots, knitting them together with the premise that these are all people baby will meet grow in the futureground. Jordan says, through the wonder of children's books"I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008241651</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rachel Bright and Jim FieldB09FFJF8YS|title= The Squirrels Who SquabbledYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating= 3.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=First we had a cute little mouse finding his inner beast ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in [[The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright and Jim Field|The Lion Inside]] and then we had training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a nervous koala trying to move out cry (the big-girl kind!) of his comfort zone in [[The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright toilet triumph and Jim Field|The Koala Who Could]] and now we have a couple of greedy, fighting squirrelspersevering panty pride. Whatever next?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408340488</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester Clark|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 And so it is given ! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a twist in this original interpretation by master story-crafter Michael Morpurgo. Itlittle girl's the tale of a character that seems final goodbye to be so often overlooked in the wellnappies and pull-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 ups and graduation to tell the story "proper" pants by following her around as it happens she proudly explains 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 courseher dog, Toto and Dorothy meet the absurd but loveable scarecrow without a brainher cat, tin man without a heart her stuffed rabbit and lion who lacks courageher baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, and together while they set off along cannot. Neither can the yellow brick road to find the Wonderful Wizard of Ozflowers, hoping that he might help Toto and Dorothy return home. Along nor the wayfish, nor the tin man, scarecrow birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and lion learn that what they think they are missing might have been there all along. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008134596</amazonuk>she wants everyone to know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J M Barrie Justine Avery and Robert IngpenNaday Meldova|title=Peter Pan and WendyEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=ItToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn's a childhood staple - the story of Wendy, John t find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and Michael Darling and their beloved nursejoke about, Nana that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the Newfoundland dog who took them to school each daywrong time. It's George DarlingIn class, their fathersay, who makes the mistake when he locks Nana in the yard everyone will hear it and the children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbelleveryone will laugh. At you. ThereJustine Avery's a wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Panlatest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the boy who never wants to grow upfamiliar humour attached, Tinkerbell, the rather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, the lost boys and - of course - Wendy, but then explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it wouldn: 't have been a classic since the original stage production in 1904 and the novel of 1911 if it were otherwise.'Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786750856</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Foges and Al MurphyB09BG8V3Q6|title=Bathroom BoogieWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5

|summary=Every day I leave ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the house with latest release in the feeling that I left it in a pretty tidy state, but on my return some things always seem out of place''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This is especially true series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of my bathroompotty training children and replace it with some fun. Why is there toothpaste on the mirror, or a flannel on the floor? It would appear that I may not actually be to blame and that when I'm at work all the bathroom items come out for s a boogieworthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. Will I ever catch them in the act?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571337317</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Fearne Cotton and Sheena Dempsey|title= Yoga Babies|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Radio host, TV presenter, fashion designer, author – is there anything Fearne Cotton can't do? Based on the content of this book, we can undoubtedly add Yogi to the ongoing list of talents, because it's hard to imagine any other way in which this came into being.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445645</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Claire Freedman and Jane MasseyB07GZ81J7C|title= Florence Frizzball|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Florence Frizzball has the frizziest, curliest, most out of control mop of hair you've ever seen! And she longs for smooth, sleek, brushable locks like all her friends. As a kid, I remember being chased round the garden by my mother, brandishing a hair brush and trying to get me to sit still and have my frizz sorted out. To say I identified with Florence would be an understatement. As the tale goes on, though, we see another side to the story. Florence gets what she wants, but when her dream comes true she quickly learns that maybe she was wanting all the wrong things, and that actually her frizzball is part of her identity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471144542</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Phil Allcock and Richard Watson|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 the ark, he makes two lists - one for all Fred 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 Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is that a lot goes on in the natural world that we are unaware ofobsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Animals will hunt in interesting waysHer favourite toy is Berisford, or find a mate using secret dancesteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, but did you know that Tigers sometimes sneak up on apes she looks out of her bedroom window and give them new haircuts? You will be amazed with says goodnight to the revelations found in Emilia Dziubak and Przemyslaw Wechterowicz's bookbear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, but I am not convinced a colourful painted bear that this kid's book is based lives at her school. She even has bears on facts.her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191027724X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]