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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= Sean Taylor and Claire AlexanderAdam Stower|title= The SnowbearMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary= There's Murray is supposed to be a sense of wonder humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and stillness about fresh-fallen snow, well, whatever your agetakes his fancy next of the two. Sounds are muffled But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, familiar objects and places are transformedthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, and not into the possibility regular back garden, but into a world of magic hangs in the frosty airfrightening adventure and whiffs. And for Iggy and Martina This time round it drops them into a Viking land, playing outside on just such where a wintertroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's day, reality swiftly turns into enchantment.turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910277398</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Melling1732898766|title= Merry Christmas, Hugless DouglasThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|ratingauthor= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Hugless Douglas is a large, comfy sort of bear who burst onto the picture book scene a few years ago as he searched for just the right sort of hug. His endearingWynn Everett-Albanese, hopeful face Michael Albanese and that chubby (to put it politely) body instantly melted young hearts, and to universal delight we have since been treated to several more of his adventures. Douglas is hugless no longer, you'll be glad to know, but the name stuck, mostly because it's such fun to say Indre Ta (go on, try it!Illustrator) and because he still bumbles through life embracing everything in sight as if cuddles are about to go out of fashion. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444906844</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet|title=Supertato: Evil Pea Rules

|summary=For all When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their heroics and lantern jaws, everyone knows that lives in the good guy is never the best thing about a book or filmForest of Fine Repute. That accolade goes to Their greatest fear has come about: the bad guySour Milk Dragon is chasing them. They are able to chew the scenery and give the type of larger than life performance a hero could only dream ofHe's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. One of the best bad guys in children(Please don's fiction is not a guy t try this at allhome: it won't end well.) Fortunately, but they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a pealadder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. An evil pea. At last this pea is given his opportunity They climbed up to shine, but the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where there is an Evil Peathey lived with their Grand Wees, a Supertato cannot be far behindNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471144062</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Coelho and Fiona LumbersB0CC9W7GLR|title=Luna Loves Library DayOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45

|summary=Luna is always excited when library day comes around, not Kit and Teal were just because she gets beginning to wonder whether it was better to take her books back and borrow some new onesbe at home, bored but also because it's warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the day she spends with her dadice was a polar bear. Once inside As the libraryice bumped onto the sand, magical things occur as the books Luna bear woke and her dad discover seemingly come to lifewith wobbly legs moved from the ice. They spend their time together sharing storiesKit was all for making a run for it, some but Teal knew that are more significant than others, until it's time for Luna to go homethe bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. Yet even once she's He obviously needed to be taken home, she still has her newly borrowed books on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to escape into, and the memories of her day with her dadsleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445483</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alison Ritchie and Marisa Morea1913839656|title= The Twelve Dogs of ChristmasLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating= 43.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Christmas is approaching and one little puppy is very Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his first ever Christmas Daygrandmother. Everywhere She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he looks the preparations are underway with every dog in town helping outwanted to make new friends. However will so many eager assistants joining in the fray help or hinder At home, his only friend was his mum and will everything ever he wondered why that could be ready in time?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471166171</amazonuk>. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Seuss1529504775|title=What Was I Scared Of?The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary=All Hallows' Eve is upon us once more Elsie and that can only mean that we are soon her little brother David loved to go to be surrounded by all types of monsters, ghoulies the park and manifestationswatch the red buses drive past. Fear not, as many Elsie would race the buses along the side of these unsettling creatures will actually be children dressed the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up on another adventure trick or treatingwas very difficult. But what about that pair of seemingly malevolent trousers that walk by themselves? One day Elsie spotted a 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. That is no childGradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, but a pair of haunted kecksand walk behind it. RunMany decades later, runElsie brought the bus, runnow damaged and rusted, but perhaps if you have them a friendly hello these pants may be nicer than you think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008252602</amazonuk>to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Morag Hood1529504767|title=I Am BatThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Bat is a creature with Susan was very definite opinionsyoung when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. He does not like morningsShe needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, for example, but he does like cherrieswho couldn't have been kinder to her. In fact, he really loves cherries, as they are his ''favourite of She even had her own room - all things!'' to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. What do you think might happen if somebody takes BatShe's cherries? d help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. Bat won't be happy, will he?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509834613</amazonuk>The best surprise happened the following morning.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Seuss1916459943|title=I Can Read With My Eyes ShutSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won'The more that you readt - go to sleep: instead,he just lies on his blanket and ''<br>wails''. The more things you will knowsea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''<br>hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The more that you learnmermaids join in - ''la lou,la lay...''<br> And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''The more places youshouts'll go.'' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my childrenwe know exactly what's school library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a good rhyming ode going to the joys of readinghappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008240019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kes Gray and Jim Field140639131X|title=Oi Cat!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=When did childrenPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired's books become so Meta? ' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. Back in She wrote to the day each Thomas the Tank Engine adventure was separate from mayor about the other as if they lived in their own episodic wildness, problem but not todaydidn't even get a reply. In this world Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of Nintendo Switches the lollipop lady at the school crossing and online platforms the average adult is too scared to venture onto, we have metaphysical children booksdecided that she would set up something similar herself. Books that reflect back on previous outings in Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the seriesbenefits were obvious. If you are going to get All the animals used the most out of ''Oi Cat!'', you best know about your ''Oi Frog!'' crossing and ''Oi Dog!'' tooHedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444932519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cath Jones and Chris Jevons1776574338|title=Bonkers about BeetrootLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=54

|summary=Sunset Safari Park rarely has any visitors and is in danger of closing downEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. To tackle Children who live at the problem Zebra calls a meeting top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of all the animals window and challenges them to find a way to make the safari park more interestingslide down his neck. Penguin thinks there It's no hope but Zebra has perfect, isn't it? What could be a totally bonkers idea – they'll grow more fun way of going to school? There is a beetrootproblem, though. They Leilong isn'll grow the biggest beetroot t happy in the world! It should city: he's always having to be easy careful about where he puts his feet and – because they have plenty of manure (animal poo) to help it grow. At first it looks like Zebrahe's plan is going longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to workand traffic regularly gets snarled up. One beetroot grows so big The school decides that crowds of people come to see it. There is just one problem – the beetroot keeps growing. Soon there wonhe can't be any room for visitors. Luckily, Zebra has another idea: an equally bonkers but totally brilliant ideathe bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862814</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Madeleine Cook and Samara Hardy1776574028|title=The Turkey That Voted For ChristmasBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=34

|summary=Most right minded people I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a 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 had enough of politics in recent years so the last thing realise that you want to read to your child is can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a book all about an election''balletphant''. At least this election is set on The buffalo who has had a farm, but anyone familiar bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a certain George Orwell novel will know that this does not always turn out for the besthair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) Surely The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a kid''sm.......'' OK, let's book is not going to reflect modern politics? go there I mean, when have we recently seen turkeys voting for Christmas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192765957</amazonuk>Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Jane Neal1838226834|title=Words and Your HeartCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall

|genre=For Sharing |summary=Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-itIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They's-called-this-week-ing – re there to undo all act as proof the good that parents do, so the adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of piffletrips out were always so much fun. In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say A young boy was going to other people is positive. We can examine our world and the sound it makes through communicationcarnival with his Grandad, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, and bit by bit the world can who told him: ''It'll be a better place. And hang the 'nobrilliant, after you' attitude some people would have in response. Therejust remember, Idon've given the entire plot t let go of this book away in my summary, but thathand.''s not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471168530</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt TavaresB09MYXSRV4|title=Red Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and LuluHare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Meet Red and LuluWhen the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. They're Water Spider received a committed couple of cardinals, and they have lived for some time in someone's garden, safely in an evergreen treestrong web that even fire could not burn. It seems to them Owl had excellent sight so that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells he could see the tree present ''thy leaves are so unchangingand''the future. But one yearRabbit developed intelligence - but, just as the seasons turn for the cold of winterunfortunately, not the tree vanishes, taking Lulu ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376922</amazonuk>Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jim Helmore and Richard JonesRob Keeley|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 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. 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>}}{{newreview|author=Rachel Bright|title=All I Want For ChristmasCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5

|summary=All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, filed down to a normal sizecabbage and aubergines. We all want different things on the 25th December; some ask for world peaceWhen her friends at school turn up their noses, whilst others ask Lily is keen to explain how good they are for something more achievable like a Tamagotchiyou and how nice to eat. Whatever you wantOne day, is it really the true meaning of the season? ''All I Want For Christmas'' poor Lily gets tricked by Rachel Bright is a nice reminder Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the real reason for Chrimbo is not gift givingteacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, but grow in the opportunity ground. Jordan says, "I did try to spend time with loved onestell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408331667</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Moira Butterfield and Holly SterlingB09FFJF8YS|title=Everybody Feels AngryYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5

|summary=Children don't deal easily with 'For the emotions which flood big, grownup girls out there, the brain - and then chaos ensues. potty masters in training, "You can try discussing the problem before it happens or immediately afterwards, but children donCan't appreciate Wear Panties!" is a cry (the abstract eitherbig-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride. What you need ''  And so it is ! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a specific examplelittle 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, an occasion which her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they'll readily recognise and cannot. Neither can then see how the emotion boils up and explodes. Moira Butterfield has produced a series of booksflowers, illustrated by Holly Sterlingnor the fish, which take a couple of times when an emotion takes everything overnor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. One applies to She's a big girl now and one she wants everyone to a boy and we see how the situations resolve themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938556</amazonuk>know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Donaldson Justine Avery and Axel SchefflerNaday Meldova|title=The Ugly FiveEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Creating Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a popular character is a double edged sword; one side is buckets of cold hard cashchild that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, the other that is people demanding that . But horribly embarrassing if you trot out let one go at the same old stuffwrong time. Julia Donaldson In class, say, when everyone will hear it and Axel Scheffler created the behemoth that is everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''The GruffaloEverybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and you could forgive them for producing countless books in this seriesgently and calmly, but they do not. Anyone who is a fan of with the pairing will already know familiar humour attached, explains that their other work tooting is also excellent; just ask perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''SuperwormEverybody Toots'' or ''Room on the Broom''. This is an established author/illustrator partnership and any new outing from them is exciting. Even if that is an outing about really ugly animals.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407174193</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Richard ByrneB09BG8V3Q6|title= I Want to Go FirstWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=It's so not fair'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! Why should Elphie go last, just because he's ' is the latest release in the littlest? ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This is a question which will speak series of fun picture books aims to take the heart pain out of many young potty training children, especially those and replace it with siblings: the smallest bedroom, hand-me-down books that have been read and reread till their edges are frayed some fun. . . but donIt't worrys a worthy aim, Elphie has found the solutionas any frustrated parent will tell you. Only thing is, he's going to need the reader's help to achieve his goal .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192749730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alex T SmithB07GZ81J7C|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 When Fred the museum phones and asks for help. Can he Snake Got Squished 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>}}{{newreviewMended|author=Colleen Jacey and Zed Jacey|title=Madge Eekal's ChristmasPeter Cotton

|summary=It was nearly Christmas and all the witches except Madge Eekal were busy putting up their festive lightsMeet Fred. Madge's pet dragonWell, Ashonactually, wanted you're going to know what had happened to their fairy lightsbe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. The truth was that Madge had But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'tried'' to get them d better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to work, but it seemed that the fairies were on strike: she ''couldn't'' get them warm to workhim. Ashon knew He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that it would, he could breathe and immediately became part of coursethe family, have been much easier if they had electricity, like everyone else and to the extent that decided Madge - they would make their own electricitytake Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. She knew And that was where the perfect spellproblem started. Ashon was doubtful.Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes. and rightly so as it turned out|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036530</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Herve TulletJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Say ZoopEverybody Pees!(Everybody Potties!)|rating=2.54

|summary=The average toddler has the attention span of the time it takes to …..SQUIRREL! Many modern childrenCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn's books are packed full of flapst, textures and gimmicks in the desperate hope that they can draw the reader away from CBeebies for just five minutesas any parent will tell you. To grab them and keep themBut really, your book should why shouldn't it be short, punchy and fun? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. What you donWhy shouldn't want to do is take a reasonable idea and play it out for pagepotty training be as much fun as, after pagesay, after page. What's that ….. SQUIRREL!learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1452164738</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie BlakeJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=I Can't SleepNo, No, No!|rating=4.5

|summary=Simon They say the little rabbit is back! Hebest picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''s not so little nowNo, No, and his baby brother (from No!''Stupid Baby by Stephanie Blakeis based around the simplest text imaginable. '') has grown up into a toddlerNo, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may. This time we see Simon and Caspar playing happily together but then'' That's it! But, in like all the nightbest picture books, poor Caspar realises this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that he's forgotten his blanket it appears on the outside! What will the two brothers do? Caspar says he can't sleep without his blanket...will Simon be able to help him?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776571630</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje194812467X|title=Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend?The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=54

|summary=I'd like you Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to meet Worzel, but you'll need to do exactly what I saygo for a walk. Worzel Kirelle is quite a big dog, but that doesn't mean that he's fierce, or even very brave. In fact, he's frightened, dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and little Sam is perfectly turned out as you are, he's frightened of youever in his smart grey fur coat. He'd like As they walk to meet you though: can you see that nose just poking out from the side top of the sofa? Now hehill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's peering over a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the cushion - stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and finally he's risking leaving that ''very'' safe place he's foundchickens, and even some mice. Excited, behind the sofaKirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787111601</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Yarlett0995647895|title=Nibbles: The Dinosaur GuideSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Some of you may already be aware of Nibbles. He is a little monster that likes to nibble everything. Nibbles nibbles socks, Nibbles nibbles clocks, but the thing that Nibbles likes to nibble most is books! Therefore, putting him in a book is not the safest place as he will try and eat his way out. Whilst the first book saw the tyke getting into trouble in fairy tales, this time it is non-fiction Sadie's mother always said that has whetted his appetite and in particular she was a book all about dinosaurs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696914</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|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 fiercedreamer, and to burn down human villages in rampages, with or without treasure in her mind. But they need to never on what she should be trained in thatdoing. And our father dragon has just tasked his son dragon with that very errand - She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to go and torch a human house. spend hours at 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= 4Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Everybody loves a catchy tune, but sometimes you come across ''Her class had gone one that you just canrainy afternoon'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</amazonukbr>}}{{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, When all the houses cowered in the Places You'll Go'' is both a book within a bookgloom, and a book sized advert all in one. Dr Seuss (fun fact: 'Seuss' originally rhymed with <br>'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 To 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 SeussMaritime Museum'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 Her imagination was fired. She'd love to move out of his comfort zone in [[The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and Jim Field|The Koala Who Could]] and now we have a couple of greedy, fighting squirrelswent back regularly. 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 is given One day she fell asleep under a twist in this original interpretation by master story-crafter Michael Morpurgo. Itglass case (it's the tale of a character that seems to be so often overlooked in the well-known story: Dorothyone where Nelson's faithful dog, Toto. We hear Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the whole story from his point of view, told in first person narrative from the moment closing bell and the tornado sweeps across Dorothyattendant's Kansas farmwarning shout. Toto continues to tell the story as it happens to him When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in a witty and charming manner as their house is lifted into the air and whisked away to the mysterious land midst of Oz. Of course, Toto and Dorothy meet the absurd but loveable scarecrow without an adventure that she could never have imagined in 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 world of Ozdolphins, hoping that he might help Toto and Dorothy return home. Along the way, the tin manpirates, scarecrow mermaids and lion learn that what they think they are missing might have been there all alongtreasure. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008134596</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J M Barrie and Robert Ingpen1782227741|title=Peter Pan Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and WendySasha Satha

|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a childhood staple - deep puddle and the story of Wendy, John water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and Michael Darling around and their beloved nurse, Nana is sucked down a drain on the side of the Newfoundland dog who took them to school each daystreet. Finding himself It's George Darling, their father, who makes the mistake when he locks Nana down in the yard and the children are whisked away sewer, Ted starts to Neverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbellpanic. There's a wonderful mix 'OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of charactersReg the sewer rat, from Peter Pan, the boy who never wants to grow up, Tinkerbell, plucks him out of the rather unpleasant fairydirty water using his cane, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, the lost boys which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and - of course - Wendy, but then it wouldn't have been warms him up with a classic since the original stage production in 1904 and the novel nice bowl of 1911 if it were otherwisebroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786750856</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Foges and Al MurphyB08R7LXQ9S|title=Bathroom BoogieRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=Every day I leave the house with the Remy is feeling that I left it in a pretty tidy statemiserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, but on my return some things always seem out of place. This together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is especially true of my bathroomshort and has small eyes. Why is there toothpaste on the mirror, or a flannel on the floor? It would appear that I may They are mean but they are not actually be stupid. They are careful to blame wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when I'm Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at work all school and the bathroom items come out for a boogieteachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened. Will I ever catch them in the act?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571337317</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fearne Cotton and Sheena Dempsey1471191303|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>}}{{newreviewThe Invisible|author= Claire Freedman and Jane Massey|title= Florence FrizzballTom Percival|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Florence Frizzball has This is the frizziest, curliest, most out story of control mop of hair you've ever seen! And she longs for smooth, sleekIsobel, brushable locks like all her friends. As a kid, I remember being chased round the garden by my mother, brandishing little girl who made a hair brush and trying to get me to sit still and have my frizz sorted outbig difference. To say I identified Isobel lived with Florence would be an understatement. As the tale goes onher parents in a house - a very cold house, though, we see another side because her parents couldn't afford to put 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. heating on:|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 'Ice curled across the inside of the window and full crept up the corner of goodnessthe bedpost. 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 The family didn'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 go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and using his tractor insteadthey were happy. Unfortunately, things don Then the day came when they couldn't turn out too well, afford the rent for the house and our two heroes learn that if you want they had to be properly happy, other people need move 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 far side of stories has been retold time and time again but not like thisthe city. This time there is twist and someone else quietly takes centre stage. When Mr Noah builds part of the arkcity was cold, he makes two lists - one for all the animals who will come on board sad and one for those troublesome creatures he will leave behind. Meanwhile, Mrs Noah gets out her sewing machine lonely and makes a coat with very deep pockets. Lots of pocketsIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095909X</amazonuk>