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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gill LinderAdam Stower|title=Little Sapling|rating=2.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Little Sapling is growing up, bit by bit. Like any plant, she stretches out into the sunlight. She competes with bindweed, Murray and then is transplanted by a forester. On the way, she comes into contact with a number of animals, like Rabbit and Hedgehog.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312721</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Xavier Deneux|title=My CircusBun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=An utterly gorgeous board book that everyone will love Murray is supposed to pore overbe a humble, from 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 very youngest right on 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807009</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Roffey1732898766|title=Bedtime (SlipThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and-Slide BooksIndre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they''Bedtime'' is a pull-re running for their lives in the-tabs book Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about - unsurprisingly - bedtime: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. Page by page reveals child after child rubbing their eyes He's right behind them, changing into their pyjamasspewing hot, kissing mummy goodnightsour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and cuddling vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with teddy. Each pulled tab changes that picturetheir Grand Wees, much like a before Nester Nook and after shotGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599386</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Helmore and Karen WallB0CC9W7GLR|title=Hold On Tight, Stripy Horse!the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=Stripy Horse Kit and his friends live in 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 bric-snowy beach when a-brac shoplarge slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. One day, they discover that it's raining ''inside'' On top of the ice was a polar bear. Ella As the ice bumped onto the sand, the pink flamingo umbrella, keeps them dry bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a bitrun for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then she's caught by another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a gust of wind good meal and Stripy Horse is pulled up into the airsomewhere to sleep. Will they discover the source of the rain? Will the shop ever get dry again? And what's the deal with that weathervane parrot that keeps spouting proverbs What else would you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248262</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Shipton and Francesca Chessa1913839656|title=Baby Baby Blah Blah Blah!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Emily loves making lists. When her mummy gets pregnant, Emily makes a list of all the good things about a new baby, and another list of all the bad things. Emily's worried that sheLet's going to have to wear babygros to school and eat left-over squish. Her daddy decides to set her straight about what a new baby will mean.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337799</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCelebrate Being Different|author=Gillian Shields and Liz Pichon|title=Don't Let Aliens Get My Marvellous Mum!Lainey Dee
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|summary=A young girl imagines how awful life would be if aliens got her marvellous mumTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. She pictures all manner He packed two pairs of ooky space monsters tucking her up in bed, giving her green eggs for breakfast, dungarees and his favourite hat and scaring all then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the other parents Friday Night Club at school. She (the local community centre and the readers too) realise just how lucky she is Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to have such a lovely make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mumand he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different. Aww, bless!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337780</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eva Montanari1529504775|title=The Alphabet FamilyToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=34.5
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|summary=Mummy A wants Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to write a story, the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but she canDavid couldn't think what to write. She sees what her children (b, c, - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and so on) are even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy touse the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Some are playing musical instruments Gradually, David learned to stand up, some are running racesuse the bus for support, and some are playing in the gardenwalk behind it. With plenty of ideas to hand Many decades later, Mummy A writes her storyElsie brought the bus, now damaged and then tells rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it to all so that her children and Daddy Zgrandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394054</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Poly Bernatene1529504767|title=When Night Didn't ComeThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=One night, after 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 sun has gone to bedhome of Mr and Mrs Russell, the night doesnwho couldn't comehave been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. There's no darkness, no moon Gradually she relaxed and no starsbegan to enjoy her life. Someone She's going to have to do something about it, so d help Mrs Russell with the man in charge rouses a group of children baking and they do what they can when it came to bring Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the nightfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham 1916459943|title=Cloud Tea MonkeysSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=Tashi and her mother live below a tea plantation in India. Usually Tashi goes along with her mumMuch as mothers love their babies, and whilst mum picks tea leaves with the other women, Tashi sits under a tree and plays with there's something they all dread - a group of monkeys, sharing her fruit with them, allowing them to groom her and playing with the little squeakily baby monkeys. One morning, TashiHe's mum is too poorly to so tired but he can't - or won't - go to worksleep: instead, so Tashi struggles with the big tea basket herselfhe just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The plantation owner derides her, saying she is too little sea offers to pick help. It rocks Baby gently and the teawaves sing ''hush, and Tashi is worried about how she and her mother will cope with no money to get her mum a doctor, or to buy foodhush''. She shares her worries with her monkey friends Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and somehow, at you have the end of the daysound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, Tashila lay...'s basket is full of beautiful, fresh, fragrant tea leaves that are ' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a very rare type of tea called seagull '''shouts'''Cloud Teaand we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406300926</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Conway and Dubravka Kolanovic140639131X|title=The Secret To Teddy's HappinessA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=34.5
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|summary=When Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the toys discover an old, bedraggled teddy bear, they rack their brains Old Oak Road. She wrote to find the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a way to mend his broken heart, to make him smile againreply. The velvet rabbit who knows everything offers Philippa wasn't a bird to tell them sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the secret benefits of Teddy's happiness, 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 start with but he wants them the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to do him provide a favour firstsafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337624</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Newton1776574338|title=Crash Bang Donkey!|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Farmer Gruff spends all his time chasing the crows from his corn. Eventually he needs to sleep, so all the animals tiptoe around, making no noise whatsoever. WhatLeilong's this coming over the hill with a crash and a bang? Oh noToo Long! It's a donkey with a drum. How's Farmer Gruff going to get his sleep? If he can't sleep, how's he ever going to be able to keep the crows from his corn?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337209</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Sperring Julia Liu and Leo Timmers|title=GreenBei Lynn
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|summary=Clive loves wearing green. It's all he ever wears. He thinks he looks mighty snazzyEvery morning Leilong, but his big sister (boo! hiss!) takes every opportunity to call him a cabbagethe brontosaurus school bus, moss, a sprout or a toad. Clive keeps wearing makes his green clothesway through the city, certain that picking up children as hegoes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don'll have t even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the last laugh window and get one over on slide down his sisterneck.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394534</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Whybrow and Lynne Chapman|title=Stinky! Or How The Beautiful Smelly Warthog Found A Friend|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Stinky the warthog lives in It's perfect, isn't it? What could be 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 more fun way of problems. Will he be able going to find school? There is a friend? ...Wellproblem, yes, it says so in the title.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337594</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Preston Rutt and Ben Redlich|title=Tortoise vsthough. Hare - The Rematch!|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Harry Leilong isn'The Hurricane' Hare has been licking his wounds since 'Steady' Eddie Tortoise beat him t happy in the famous race. Itcity: he's time for a rematch, always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and Harry– because he's been training hardlonger than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. Eddie couldn The school decides that he can't possibly win again, could he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394186</amazonuk>be the bus anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Manham and Penny Dann1776574028|title=The Giant CarrotBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David 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, so she ups sticks and heads for a different page of the booktrumps, to see if the characters of another nursery rhyme will let her join infarts. She tries one rhyme after anotherWhatever your word for them, but things never quite work to plan. Will she find us a nursery rhyme child that suits her doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to a T?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340945087</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emily Gravett|title=Blue Chameleon|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The chameleon is feeling blue because he's lonely, so he goes talk about and visits a yellow bananajoke about, pink cockatoothat is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, swirly snail, brown bootsay, when everyone will hear it and so oneveryone will laugh. Each timeAt you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, not only does he change his colour to match with the object or animalfamiliar humour attached, but he also contorts himself into a shape explains that matches themtooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230704247</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Inga MooreB09BG8V3Q6|title=Six Dinner Sid - A Highland AdventureWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|ratingauthor=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sid the cat has six owners in six different houses, Justine Avery 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, and eventually decide to all go on holiday together, taking Sid with them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988940</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Foreman|title=Why The Animals Came To TownSeema Amjad|rating=34.5
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|summary=A young boy looks ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of his bedroom window potty training children and sees a parade of animals walking up his streetreplace it with some fun. TheyIt've come to show him the deserts and ice capss a worthy aim, to warn him of the importance of taking care of Earthas any frustrated parent will tell you. Without the animals, he realises the world would be a much more desolate place .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406318019</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris WormellB07GZ81J7C|title=One Smart Fish|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Many, many, many years ago, When Fred 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 Snake Got Squished and went for a walk. Yep, you've guessed it: it's a picture book about evolution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083546</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMended|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 the ceiling downstairs when he's jumping on her bed. She can see through They say the outside wall when he's making potions in best picture books are the garden in her saucepanssimplest ones. Is she really And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a superhero? Milo puts her to the test..Bookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105388</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}}