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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=For sharing4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=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 catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening 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…__NOTOC__|isbn=0008561249}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Jonathan Shipton The Adventures of Birpus and Francesca ChessaBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Baby Baby Blah Blah Blah!Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Emily loves making lists. When her mummy gets pregnant, Emily makes a list we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of all the good things Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about a new baby, and another list of all : the bad thingsSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. Emily He's worried that sheright behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won's going to have to wear babygros to school t end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and eat left-over squishvines was lowered for them, they escaped. Her daddy decides They climbed up to set her straight about what a new baby will meanthe Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337799</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Shields and Liz PichonB0CC9W7GLR|title=Don't Let Aliens Get My Marvellous Mum!On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=3.5
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|summary=A young girl imagines how awful life would Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be if aliens got her marvellous mumat home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. She pictures all manner On top of ooky space monsters tucking her up in bedthe ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, giving her green eggs the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for breakfastit, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and scaring all gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the other parents at school. She (bus and given a good meal and the readers too) realise just how lucky she is somewhere to have such a lovely mumsleep. Aww, bless!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337780</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eva Montanari1913839656|title=The Alphabet FamilyLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=Mummy A wants to write a storyTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, but not least because she can't think what made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to writeshow his grandmother. She sees what her children (b, c, d had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and so on) are up Todd was pleased about this as he wanted tomake new friends. Some are playing musical instruments, some are running races At home, his only friend was his mum and some are playing in the gardenhe wondered why that could be. With plenty of ideas to hand, Mummy A writes her story, and then tells Grandma thought that it to all her children and Daddy Zmight be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394054</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Poly Bernatene1529504775|title=When Night Didn't ComeThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=One night, after Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the sun has gone to bed, side of the night doesnpark but David couldn't come. There- he's no darkness, no moon d been born with cerebral palsy and no starseven just standing up was very difficult. Someone's going 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 have pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to do something about stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, so Elsie brought the man in charge rouses a group of children bus, now damaged and they do what they can rusted, to bring the nightRepair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham 1529504767|title=Cloud Tea MonkeysThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=Tashi 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 mother live below a tea plantation in Indiafinal destination. Usually Tashi goes along with her mum, and whilst mum picks tea leaves with She needn't have worried though as she went to the other women, Tashi sits under a tree home of Mr and plays with a group of monkeysMrs Russell, sharing her fruit with them, allowing them who couldn't have been kinder to groom her and playing with the little baby monkeys. One morning, Tashi's mum is too poorly to go She even had her own room - all to work, so Tashi struggles with the big tea basket herself. The plantation owner derides her, saying she is too little to pick the tea, and Tashi is worried about how Gradually she relaxed and her mother will cope with no money began to get enjoy her mum a doctor, or to buy foodlife. She shares her worries 'd help Mrs Russell with her monkey friends the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and somehow, at Mr Russell put the decorations on the end of Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the day, Tashi's basket is full of beautiful, fresh, fragrant tea leaves that are a very rare type of tea called 'Cloud Tea'following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406300926</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Conway and Dubravka Kolanovic1916459943|title=The Secret To Teddy's HappinessSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=3.54
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|summary=When the toys discover an old, bedraggled teddy bearMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they rack their brains to find all dread - a way squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to mend sleep: instead, he just lies on his broken heart, to make him smile againblanket and ''wails''. The velvet rabbit who knows everything sea offers to tell them help. It rocks Baby gently and the secret waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of Teddygentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''s happinessla lou, but he wants them la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to do him have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a favour firstseagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337624</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Newton140639131X|title=Crash Bang Donkey!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=34.5
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|summary=Farmer Gruff spends all his time chasing Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the crows from his cornOld Oak Road. Eventually he needs She wrote to sleep, so all the animals tiptoe around, making no noise whatsoever. What's this coming over mayor about the hill with a crash and a bang? Oh no! Itproblem but didn's t even get a donkey with a drumreply. How's Farmer Gruff going to get his sleep? If he can Philippa wasn't sleep, how's he ever going a bird to be able sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to keep start with but the crows from his corn?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337209</amazonuk>benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Sperring and Leo Timmers1776574338|title=GreenLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=Clive loves wearing greenEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's all he ever wears. He thinks he looks mighty snazzyperfect, but his big sister (boo! hiss!) takes every opportunity isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to call him school? There is a cabbage, mossproblem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a sprout or a toadtennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. Clive keeps wearing his green clothes, certain The school decides that hecan'll have t be the last laugh and get one over on his sisterbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394534</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Whybrow and Lynne Chapman1776574028|title=Stinky! Or How The Beautiful Smelly Warthog Found A Friend|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Stinky the warthog lives in a neighbourhood with the Crocodile family, the Monkey family and the Littlebird family. One by one they invite Stinky round to play with their children, but his foul odour and the flies buzzing around him cause all manner of problems. Will he be able to find a friend? ...Well, yes, it says so in the title.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337594</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Preston Rutt and Ben Redlich|title=Tortoise vs. Hare - The Rematch!|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Harry 'The Hurricane' Hare has been licking his wounds since 'Steady' Eddie Tortoise beat him in the famous race. It's time for a rematch, and Harry's been training hard. Eddie couldn't possibly win again, could he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394186</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Allan Manham and Penny Dann|title=The Giant CarrotDavid Elliott
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|summary=Jack I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the gardener. All his hard work means his vegetable patch is awash with lucious veggies. One daychild who still enjoys board books (er, he decides see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to pull up some carrots have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make soup, but something quite different from each one. We have the biggest carrot just wouldnelephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''t budgesm....... He'' OK, let's going to have to get some chums to help him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843625911</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz1838226834|title=Commotion In The OceanCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=ThereIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They's a commotion in re there to undo all the ocean: the dolphins are squeakinggood that parents do, so the jellyfish are jiggling, and the lobsters are clippetty-clapping snippety-snappingtrips out were always so much fun. Animal by animal, Giles Andreae (best-known for [[Giraffes Can't Dance Magnet Book by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees|Giraffes Can't Dance]]) takes us through A young boy was going to the underwater adventures, carnival with shorthis Grandad, snappy poems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408308452</amazonuk>}}who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|authortitle=Tony Mitton Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Guy Parker-ReesHare|titleauthor=Jolly Olly OctopusCordellya Smith|rating=3.54
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|summary=Jolly Olly Octopus is giggling underneath When the seaworld was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. He Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and''s soon joined by two tickly turtlesthe future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, three smiley seahorsesunfortunately, and so on through not the numbersability to use it well. The large cast of underwater He liked to trick other animals are having . He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a jolly olrace with Turtle. You might think that' time, until s not a shark appearsfair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846166861</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ellie SandallRob Keeley|title=BirdsongCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=One by one the birds land on the branch Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. Each is a different speciesShe likes carrots, each has different plumagebroccoli, cabbage and most importantly each has a different callaubergines. The chorus of birdsong builds When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and up and up until the biggest bird of all lands how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on the branchtrees. Infuriated, Lily checks with his loud shriek. Ahthe teacher, but who's this about to land explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the branch with him?ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405247371</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anu Stohner and Henrike WilsonB09FFJF8YS|title=Charlotte You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and the WolvesKate Zhoidik
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|summary=Hot on ''For the heels of her adventure big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in [[Brave Charlotte by Anu Stohner and Henrike Wilson|Brave Charlotte]]training, the brave little sheep "You Can't Wear Panties!" is back. She's as bold as ever, and the older sheep have stopped worrying about her wild ways. Added into a cry (the mix are a gang big-girl kind!) of teenage sheep who call themselves The Wolves toilet triumph and worry the lambspersevering panty pride. When real wolf howls can be heard, but not by the shepherd or Jack the old sheepdog, it's down to Charlotte to save the day again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802589</amazonuk>}}'
And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Conway Justine Avery and Melanie WilliamsonNaday Meldova|title=The Great Nursery Rhyme DisasterEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Little Miss Muffet is fed up of being constantly scared by a spiderToots, trumps, so she ups sticks and heads farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a different page of the bookchild that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, to see that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the characters of another nursery rhyme wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will let laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her join in. She tries one rhyme after another''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, but things never quite work to planexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. Will she find a nursery rhyme that suits her to a T?Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340945087</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily GravettB09BG8V3Q6|title=Blue ChameleonWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=The chameleon ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is feeling blue because hethe latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's lonely, so he goes and visits a yellow bananaworthy aim, pink cockatoo, swirly snail, brown boot, and so onas any frustrated parent will tell you. Each time, not only does he change his colour to match the object or animal, but he also contorts himself into a shape that matches them .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704247</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Inga MooreB07GZ81J7C|title=Six Dinner Sid - A Highland Adventure|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sid When Fred the cat has six owners in six different houses, and he munches his way through six dinners a day. This big ol' greedyguts has a great life, but then one day his owners all decide they want to go on holiday. They consider putting him in a cattery, but they have strange rules like one meal per cat, not six. They give it some thought, Snake Got Squished and eventually decide to all go on holiday together, taking Sid with them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988940</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMended|author=Michael Foreman|title=Why The Animals Came To Town|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A young boy looks out of his bedroom window and sees a parade of animals walking up his street. They've come to show him the deserts and ice caps, to warn him of the importance of taking care of Earth. Without the animals, he realises the world would be a much more desolate place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406318019</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Wormell|title=One Smart Fish|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Many, many, many years ago, the ocean was full of amazing fish. The most amazing fish was a boring-looking silver fish, who was smarter than all the others. He played chess (against himself), drew pictures and performed plays. One day, he decided to see what life was like on land, so he invented feet and went for a walk. Yep, you've guessed it: it's a picture book about evolution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083546</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jean Reidy and Genevieve Leloup|title=Too Purply!Peter Cotton
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|summary=ItMeet Fred. Well, actually, you's time re going to be meeting Fred-Fred for school, but the young girl and her tortoise donreasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I't want to wear any m getting ahead of their clothesmyself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. They're too purply, too tickly, too puckery, too prickly, 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 onthat he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. You get And that was where the ideaproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Adjectives abound in this fun getting dressed book Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803151</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel IsadoraJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Twelve Dancing PrincessesEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=34
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|summary=Bookbag recently loved Rachel IsadoraCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn's take on [[The Night Before Christmas by Rachel Isadora and Clement Clarke Moore|The Night Before Christmas]]t, which put the classic Christmas poem in an African settingas any parent will tell you. This time roundBut really, she has turned her eye 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 small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the Grimms' ''The Twelve Dancing Princesses''.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0142414506</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela McAllister Justine Avery and Alex T SmithNaday Meldova|title=My Mum Has X-Ray VisionNo, No, No!
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|summary=Milo suspects his mum has x-ray vision. She can see through They say the ceiling downstairs when he's jumping on her bed. She can see through best picture books are the outside wall when he's making potions in the garden in her saucepanssimplest ones. Is she really a superhero? Milo puts her to the test...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105388</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Yolen and Mark Teague|title=How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=[[How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen|How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?]] was a witty and visually creative tale of Very Bad Bedtime Behaviour for modern children enamoured And nothing could be truer of dinosaurs. 'How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?' continues the formula, this time with table manners.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007216092</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Lum and Sue Hellard|title=Princesses Are Not Perfect|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Princesses Allielatest from Justine Avery, Mellie and Libby love baking, gardening and building respectively. The day before the big summer party, they suddenly fancy a change and all swap jobs. With a hundred punnets of blueberries to pick, a hundred cupcakes to make, and a hundred chairs to build, the children are going to be awfully disappointed if the princesses' new-found interests aren't successfulBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599297</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janet Charters and Michael Foreman194812467X|title=The GeneralFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=General Jodhpur keeps Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his soldiers busy, polishing their boots and practising shootingsmart grey fur coat. He wants As they walk to become the most famous general in top of the whole worldhill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. One day, heIt's thrown off his horsea farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and discovers the joys of lying in the grasseven some mice. On his walk home, he gets a chance to smell the flowersExcited, Kirelle and soon sets about putting his soldiers to more peaceful activitiesSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763648752</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Ray0995647895|title=Snow WhiteSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=Jane Ray has taken the classic fairy tale of Snow White, the dwarves and the wicked queen, and created beautiful three-dimensional tableaux. ItSadie's mother always said that she was a much-loved story that everyone is familiar withdreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and this is a great opportunity she loves to rediscover a classic in an interesting new wayspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311839</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Isadora and Clement Clarke Moore1782227741|title=The Night Before ChristmasLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Everyone knows and loves Clement Clarke MooreOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's poem ''A Visit From St Nicholas''quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Even if you don't go Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the whole hog, gathering side of the family round by street. Finding himself down in the log firesewer, and reading it together, its opening line of Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE''Twas he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the night before Christmassewer rat, when all through who plucks him out of the housedirty water using his cane, not which might look just a creature was stirring, not even bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a mouse...'' fills you kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a warm glow. You can practically smell the mulled wine and hear the snores nice bowl of Auntie Gertrude during the Queen's Speech. It's an absolute classicbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399254080</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen SappB08R7LXQ9S|title=Christmas Is...Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=34
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|summary=Christmas Remy is looming feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and thus the market for picture books featuring santasBrandon, have been laughing at Remy, presents calling him names because he is short and Christmas treeshas small eyes. It's hard They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to come wind up with anything new here, Remy when nobody can see and it's rather not then push him just that little bit further when the point - is it? Christmas isother kids are around. So, after allwhen Remy reacts, about annually repeated celebration of traditional rituals that add delight it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and nourishment the teachers don't believe him when he tries to the spiritual, emotional and social fabric of lifeexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007303750</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Tomlinson and Paul Howard1471191303|title=The Penguin Who Wanted To Find OutInvisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=Otto This is the penguin lives on his father's feet at the bottom story of the world. He's an inquisitive Isobel, a little thing and wants to know why they haven't fallen off the worldgirl who made a big difference. His dad explains that they won't Because I say so. Otto and his friend Leo gradually expand their horizons from their fathers' feet Isobel lived with her parents in a house - they meet other penguin chicksa very cold house, get to know their aunts who watch them when their fathers are away, and eventually grow feathers so theybecause her parents couldn're big enough t afford to toboggan put the heating on their bellies and swim in the sea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140523041X</amazonuk>}}:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim Helmore Nick Jones and Karen WallSi Clark|title=Oh No, Monster Tomato!One Night in Beartown
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|summary=Marvin is entering the Great Grislygust Grow-OffMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, but just like himwho lives in Beartown, his tomatoes aren't growing very bigis obsessed with bears. He takes the only sensible course of action: he sings his tomatoes She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a songteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. The results are spectacularEvery night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Victory is surely within his graspEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140524741X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}