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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham OakleyAdam Stower|title=The Church MouseMurray and Bun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Arthur the church mouse lives in peace with Sampson the meek church Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, but he gets lonely from time one who is able to timesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. He hits on But he's a great idea: hebad magician'll invite all s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the other mice regular back garden, but into a world of the town to come frightening adventure and live with whiffs. This time round it drops them. The parson agreesinto a Viking land, as long as they agree to do where a few odd jobs around the place. Then troll hunter is expected – well, one daymuch bigger than Murray was, to be honest, a burglar breaks in but he's turned up and therehe's no-one around ll have to stop him but Arthur, Sampson and the mice...do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1840116102</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janet Charters and Michael Foreman1732898766|title=The GeneralAdventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=General Jodhpur keeps his soldiers busy, polishing When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their boots and practising shootinglives in the Forest of Fine Repute. He wants to become Their greatest fear has come about: the most famous general in the whole worldSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. One day, he He's thrown off right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his horsenostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and discovers the joys when a ladder of lying in the grassmoss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. On his walk home, he gets a chance They climbed up to smell the flowersTree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and soon sets about putting his soldiers to more peaceful activitiesGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763648752</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Jackson and Keith GravesB0CC9W7GLR|title=Desert RoseOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=Desert Rose is mucking out the pig stallsKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when she stumbles across a giant gold nuggetlarge slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. She decides to buy As the ice bumped onto the fattest hog in Texassand, so she can win first prize at the state fair - bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a gal's gotta have a dream. However, she gets one highfalutin hog who won't do as run for it's told, so she ropes in all but Teal knew that the other inhabitants of Laredo bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to help her out, be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and win the prizesomewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802198</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Ray1913839656|title=Snow WhiteLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=Jane Ray has taken Todd was excited about spending the classic fairy tale of Snow Whiteweekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the dwarves best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and the wicked queen, his favourite hat and created beautiful three-dimensional tableauxthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. It's a much-loved story that everyone is familiar with, She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this is a great opportunity as he wanted to rediscover a classic in an interesting make new wayfriends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311839</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Van Dusen1529504775|title=The Circus Ship|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When a circus ship sinks off the coast of Maine, the animals escape and make their home in a nearby town. They soon enchant the locals, who in turn decide to protect the animals from the greedy circus-owner. Very loosely based on the sinking of the ''Royal Tar'' in 1836, ''Toy Bus (The Circus Ship'' is a fun picture book that animal-lovers will enjoy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>076363090X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRepair Shop Stories)|author=Rachel Isadora Amy Sparkes and Clement Clarke Moore|title=The Night Before Christmas|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Everyone knows and loves Clement Clarke Moore's poem ''A Visit From St Nicholas''. Even if you don't go the whole hog, gathering the family round by the log fire, and reading it together, its opening line of '''Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...'' fills you with a warm glow. You can practically smell the mulled wine and hear the snores of Auntie Gertrude during the Queen's Speech. It's an absolute classic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399254080</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Sapp|title=Christmas Is...|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Christmas is looming and thus the market for picture books featuring santas, presents and Christmas trees. It's hard to come up with anything new here, and it's rather not the point - is it? Christmas is, after all, about annually repeated celebration of traditional rituals that add delight and nourishment to the spiritual, emotional and social fabric of life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007303750</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jill Tomlinson and Paul Howard|title=The Penguin Who Wanted To Find OutKatie Hickey
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|summary=Otto Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the penguin lives on his father's feet at park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the bottom side of the world. He's an inquisitive little thing and wants to know why they havenpark but David couldn't fallen off the world. His dad explains that they won- he't Because I say sod been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. Otto One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and his friend Leo gradually expand their horizons was happy to use the coins from their fathers' feet - they meet other penguin chicksher money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, get David learned to know their aunts who watch them when their fathers are awaystand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and eventually grow feathers so they're big enough rusted, to toboggan on their bellies and swim in the seaRepair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140523041X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick O'Brien1529504767|title=You Are The First Kid On MarsChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=It is a sci-fi future Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of no danger whatsoever, with no technological breakdown, Mr and no fatal meteor strikeMrs Russell, but that of course is only who couldn't have been kinder to be expected for this markether. I say it more She even had her own room - all to highlight how well the book has been illustratedherself. Digital airbrush techniques Gradually she relaxed and more have taken began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the antiseptic sheen off baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the whole experience, but have still allowed for a great detail in decorations on the machinery, and also a lovely warmth in Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the face of the lad we're empathising withfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399246347</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Abbott Nez 1916459943|title=Cromwell Dixon's Sky-CycleSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=Meet Cromwell DixonMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's a real tinkererso tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, forever in hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a barn or somewhere building something manically unusualsandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. Luckily The mermaids join in - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with that word - he's around at the birth of powered flight'la lou, la lay... '' Will And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his plans for eyes. Then a pedalled air machine work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Helmore and Karen Wall140639131X|title=Oh No, Monster Tomato!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Marvin is entering the Great Grislygust Grow-Off, but just like him, his tomatoes aren't growing very big. He takes the only sensible course of action: he sings his tomatoes a song. The results are spectacular. Victory is surely within his grasp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524741X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Iain Smyth and Michael Terry|title=The Wide-Mouthed FrogBriony May Smith
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|summary=Do you know the joke about the wide-mouthed frog? You must have heard it. ItPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired's a classic. It's one that you really need of nearly getting squished as she tried to tell in person, with your fingers pulling your mouth wide open, but cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to hopefully spark your memory, the wide-mouthed frog introduces himself to a number of animals until he finally comes across a crocodile who eats wide-mouthed frogs, and mayor about the frog does his best to disguise who he is whilst saying ''Ooh, you donproblem but didn't see many of those round here, do you?'' I'm hardly doing it justice, but it's very cheesy and funny. Anyway, this is even get a book of that jokereply.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408804964</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ursula Jones and Sarah Gibb|title=The Princess Who Had No Kingdom|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The princess who has no kingdom wanders around in a cart pulled by her horse Pretty. She's very polite, friendly, and kind-hearted, but she feels like something is lacking because she doesn Philippa wasn't have a kingdom of her own. The other royals she meets treat bird to sit back on her nicely enough, but tail feathers when there's always was a feeling that problem which needed solving: she's not quite as good as them because she isn't saw the princess benefits of anywhere.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160421</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mij Kelly and Louise Nisbet|title=The Happiest Man in the World or lollipop lady at the Mouse Who Made Christmas|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Mouse doesn't like anyone school crossing and keeps herself to decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her things are her things uniform and she is too selfish lollipop stick were both a little amateur to share them start with anyone elsebut the benefits were obvious. One day, an old man moves in to Mouse's house. He All the animals used to be the happiest man in the world, but now he's sad. He's fed crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up of having given, given, given all his life and never got anything back. He just sits quietly and mopes. This makes Mouse miserable, so one day she decides to cheer him up by giving him provide a clementine..safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340931558</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Bland1776574338|title=The Very Cranky BearLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=MooseEvery morning Leilong, Lionthe brontosaurus school bus, Zebra and Sheep head into a cave to get out of makes his way through the raincity, but little do they know that Bear is fast asleep in there. When they wake him picking up, children as he roars goes. Children who live at them, chasing them outside, so the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they decide to cheer him up somehowsimply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. Zebra paints stripes on him It's perfect, Moose fashions antlers for him and Lion sticks isn't it? What could be a mane more fun way of straw on himgoing to school? There is a problem, though. Unsurprisingly, this makes Bear even crankier, so it Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's down always having to Sheep be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to save and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the day..bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989424</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kes Gray and Lee Wildish1776574028|title=Mum and Dad GlueBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=A young boyI love a good board book! 's parents are splitting up. He'Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's going through for the usual emotions child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that children of divorce go through: worry, feeling unsure, blaming himself, anger, denial, you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then trying to get them to stay togetherdries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. His method for this isn The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros''t the usual response though: he looks for glue to stick (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his mum and dad togetherpotty changes into a ''sm....... Thankfully'' OK, he finds some wise and kindly advice in the process.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340957107</amazonuk>let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara Vulliamy1838226834|title=The Bear Carried Away With Sticky Paws Won't Go To Bedthe Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=Itwas one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They's Pearl's bedtimere there to undo all the good that parents do, but she says she's really busy and isn't so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to sleep. She just wants to play and play and play. When the bear carnival with sticky paws rings the doorbellhis Grandad, he whisks her away on an amazing adventure - although as you might expect, the bear has a little more energy than Pearl and eventually she does get a little sleepy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408300648</amazonuk>}}who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Mayo, Geraldine McCaughrean, Rose Impey, Andrew Matthews, Jane Ray, Ian Beck, Angela Barrett, Emma Chichester Clark and Alan SnowB09MYXSRV4|title=Magical Princess Stories|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Most little girls would love a pretty pink book all about princesses, wouldnOtter't they? This one has seven retellings of traditional fairy tales accompanied by beautiful illustrations s Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and would make a lovely gift for a birthday or Christmas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140830516X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHare|author=Joyce Dunbar and Jimmy Liao|title=The Monster Who Ate DarknessCordellya Smith
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|summary=Jo-Jo is scared When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that there might be he could become a monster under his bedprotector. He Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and's right! The hungry monster doesn't want the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to eat little boys though; he eats darknessuse it well. He liked to trick other animals. He starts was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with all the darkness in Jo-JoTurtle. You might think that's room, and keeps eating not a fair contest but wait and eating until he's eaten all the darkness in the world. With no darkness at all, strange things begin to happensee. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406315540</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David LucasRob Keeley|title=PeanutCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4
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|summary=One day, a flower opens up Lily loves eating fruit and a little monkey the colour of a pea pops outvegetables. He soon turns brownShe likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and is the size of a nutaubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, so of course he decides he's a peanut called Peanut. Peanut Lily is a nervous little thing: dragonflies keen to explain how good they are monsters coming for you and how nice to eat him. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the rain is the sky falling downteacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and night is vegetables, like carrots, grow in the end of the worldground. ThankfullyJordan says, he meets Beetle"I did try to tell her, who sets him straight about a thing or twoMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406319589</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Joel StewartB09FFJF8YS|title=Red Ted and the Lost Things|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Red Ted is handed in to a lost property office, where he meets Crocodile. Red Ted is sure Stevie will come to find him, because she loves Red Ted as much as she loves cheese. He then starts to have a nagging doubt - Stevie doesnYou Can't know where he is, so what if she never comes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406310379</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Various|title=Let's Play Peeka! (Waybuloo)Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=Come to ''For the land of Nara and meet Nok Tokbig, grownup girls out there, De Lithe potty masters in training, Lau Lau and Yojojo. ''Let"You Can's Play Peekat Wear Panties!'' accompanies " is a cry (the CBeebies show ''Waybuloobig-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'', and is aimed at the very youngest children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248173</amazonuk>}}
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|summary=As the witch flies around the countrysideToots, she drops various objectstrumps, which are picked up farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one by one by animalsgo at the wrong time. As thanksIn class, she offers all the animals a liftsay, but when everyone will there be enough room on hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the broom? This book comes with a fantastic interactive CD to stick in your PCfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330508911</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick SharrattB09BG8V3Q6|title=What's In The Witch's KitchenWho Needs Nappies?Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=The witch's kitchen 'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is magical: if you open the fridge door one way, therelatest release in the ''Everybody Potties!''s something tasty insideseries from Justine Avery. Open it This series of fun picture books aims to take the other way, pain out of potty training children and therereplace it with some fun. It's something scary and gruesomea worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. . Dare you look in all the drawers in this delightful pop-up book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140632227X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilaire Belloc and Mini GreyB07GZ81J7C|title=Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse and Was Eaten By A Lion|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Hilaire Belloc's ''Cautionary Tales For Children'' are rightly lauded as classics. Mini Grey (also [[Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog by Mini Grey|rightly lauded]]), has illustrated one of these fine tales, so that a new generation of children can discover just what happens when you run away from your nurse When Fred the Snake Got Squished and a lion eats you. Pay attention kids.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083678</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMended|author=Jan Pienkowski|title=The First ChristmasPeter Cotton
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|summary=The First Christmas isMeet Fred. Well, actually, as you might expect, the story 're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of Jesusmyself: I' birth, Gabriel, Mary, Joseph, shepherds, wise men 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 warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and Herodimmediately became part of the family, presented as to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a picture bookwalk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141500972</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Debi GlioriJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Stormy WeatherEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Can potty training ever be joyous? Itoften isn's bedtime in millions of bedrooms across the worldt, as any parent will tell you. Stories are being readBut really, children are being tucked in, glasses of water why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are being fetchedsmall. Parents (of all animal species) explain what will happen if stormy weather hitsWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, and how they'll keep their children safesay, warm learning about why the sun and cosy.the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747599718</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mandy Stanley Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=TwinkleNo, TwinkleNo, Little Star and Other Nursery FavouritesNo!|rating=3.54
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|summary=Every small child should have book (or They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a few) containing traditional nursery rhymes, and every so often newly illustrated collections are publishedBookbag favourite.
''TwinkleNo, Twinkle Little StarNo, No!'' is part of such a new series called ''Time for a Rhyme'', published by Harper Collins and illustrated by Mandy Stanley known for her [[The Fairy Ball (Lettice) by Mandy Stanley|Lettice]] stories and other picture booksbased around the simplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315635</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Butterworth194812467X|title=Trixie The Witch's CatFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Trixie loves being Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a witch's catwalk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, but from time to time shethey see a big barn with a sign outside. It's upset by her white pawa farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: witch's cats all the stallholders and customers are supposed to be all blackfarmyard animals. Trixie finally has a brainwave There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and uses magic to turn her white paw blackeven some mice. Excited, but will she really be happy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326794</amazonuk>}}Kirelle and Sam go shopping.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Camilla Reid Sadie and Ailie Busbythe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Lulu's ChristmasMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Lulu is getting ready for Christmas and sheSadie'd like you to help her to decorate the tree. After s mother always said that there are cards to make, streamers to put up and then she helps to ice the cake. After that it's time to go outside and have a little bit of fun and build was a snowmandreamer, but it made her hands cold so mind never on what she came back inside again! should be doing. At bedtime She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she hangs up her stocking and leaves a mince pie for Father Christmas and a carrot for his reindeerloves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. In the morning she has some wonderful presents, but the best one of all is the one you might least expect!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599912</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Child1782227741|title=Who Wants To Be A Poodle? I Don'tLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Trixie Twinkle Toes Trot-a-lot Delight hates being a pampered pooch. This primped and preened poodle can think of nothing she'd rather do that get messyOne day, splash in Gold Ted falls into a muddy puddle, and tear about the park like all the other dogs. Mademoiselle Verity Brulee may take good care of Trixie Twinkle Toes, but sheIt's just not in tune with her needs as quite a scruffy mutt in deep puddle and the body of a poodlewater is swirling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Rosen Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and Adrian Reynolds |title=Bear Flies High|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Michael Rosen builds is sucked down a drain on the success side of [[The Bear in the Cave by Michael Rosen and Adrian Reynolds|The Bear street. Finding himself down in the Cave]] with Bear Flies Highsewer, Ted starts to panic. This sequel follows the same poetic formula of the original, with its ask and answer ''I'm a bear on a beach. On a beach? On a beach...OH HELP ME PLEASE'' Everything is as it was first time round, but this time Bear decides he wants to fly like cries and alerts the attention of Reg the seagullssewer rat, so his friends take who plucks him to out of the amusement parkdirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. What follows Reg is a gentle tale of a day out, of being scared kind soul and exhilarated by rides, he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of imagining oneself soaring higher and higherbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597979</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Spike MilliganB08R7LXQ9S|title=The Magical World of Milligan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Some people you just have to love. It's the law. Spike Milligan was always fantastic, and he's much missed. He's got the perfect mix of nonsense, heart, and surreal humour. He speaks to people of all ages, and he's just plain lovely. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Jill Marshall Mayuri Naidoo and Sam Childs|title=Kave-Tina RoxCaroline Siegal
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|summary=Kave-Tina Rox lives Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with her Mughis sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, Pug have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and brother Dave-Kave in a cavehas small eyes. Her Mug tries to brush her hair and make her look pretty, They are mean but Kave-Tina's having none of itthey are not stupid. When the Caveman Games come They are careful to town, Dave-Kave doesn't let her join in with any of wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the gamesother kids are around. So, because she's just a girlwhen Remy reacts, but Kave-Tina's having none of itlooks as though he was the instigator. She shows sheAnd then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don's perfectly capable of joining in, and indeed of doing it better than Dave-Kave and his matest believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340957123</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mwenye Hadithi and Adrienne Kennaway1471191303|title=Cross CrocodileThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=There's no water on This is the Great African Plainsstory of Isobel, and Cross Crocodile sits beneath the mango tree, guzzling the sweet fruit and snapping at anoyone a little girl who dares to come near made a big difference. Isobel lived with her. One dayparents in a house - a very cold house, monkey hits on a great idea for how the other animals can get because her parents couldn't afford to put the fruit...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970324</amazonuk>}}heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Rosen Nick Jones and Bob GrahamSi Clark|title=I'm Number OneNight in Beartown
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|summary=When the girl leaves for school Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in the morningBeartown, her toys do what all toys do during the day: they hang out is obsessed with each other as friends dobears. A-OneShe collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, the drummer boya teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, is at pains to point she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the other toys that he rulesbear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that he's number one, and that the others are no good, hopeless and uselesslives at her school. He tricks Maddy into giving him her hat, Sally into giving up She even has bears on her rucksack and Sid into giving up his scarf. He's a bit of a meanie is A-One.bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140631465X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}