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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean Reidy and Genevieve LeloupAdam Stower|title=Too Pickly!|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=It's [[Too Purply! by Jean Reidy and Genevieve Leloup|Too Purply!]] with food. That about sums it up, but for those of you who haven't already fallen in love with Jean Reidy's tale of getting dressed, ''Too Pickly!'' looks at a little boy (Murray and his hamster) deciding what to eat. Dish by dish, he rejects them for being too pickly, too wrinkly, too burpy, too stringy, and so on, until he finds the one that's just right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807114</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Camilla Reid and Ailie Busby|title=Lulu's LooBun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=We've been here beforeMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, as Lulu introduced us one who is able to her [[Lulu's Shoes by Camilla Reid sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Ailie Busby|shoes]], [[Luluwell, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's Clothes by Camilla Reid and Ailie Busby|clothes]] and [[Lulua bad magician's Christmas by Camilla Reid cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Ailie Busby|Christmas]]. Herethe catflap they both use can chuck them out, she's kind enough to show us all that goes on with her loonot into the regular back garden, nappies but into a world of frightening adventure and pottywhiffs. As before This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, there are plenty of interesting flaps to lift be honest, but he's turned up and things he'll have to explore.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408802651</amazonuk>0008561249
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Gaiman1732898766|title=InstructionsThe Adventures 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=Go through When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the mysterious doorForest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, mind the impspewing hot, trust the wolves and answer the ferrymansour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won's question carefullyt end well. Neil Gaiman takes us on ) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a tour ladder of a fantasy land with a series of instructions moss and vines was lowered for surviving them, they escaped. They climbed up to the adventure. You'll discover wonders beyond your wildest dreams, and return home safelyTree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, a little older Nester Nook and a little wiserGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808641</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tasha Pym and Joel StewartB0CC9W7GLR|title=Have You Ever Seen A Sneep?On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summaryauthor=Ever fallen foul of a Sneep? (No, not [[Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide by Mara Bergman Chris Green and Nick Maland|Oliver Donnington Rimington-Sneep]]). What about a Grullock, Knoo or Loon? One poor little boy tries to go about his daily business, but keeps getting interrupted by these mysterious monsters. You've never heard of them before, you say? He wants to have a word with you then...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055255698X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David McKee|title=Elmer On StiltsJenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=Who doesn't already know Kit and love Elmer 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 a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the patchwork elephant? This time roundshoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, he's helping all his other elephant chums avoid the nasty huntersbear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Throw in Kit was all for making a CD version of run for it, but Teal knew that the story read by Joss Ackland - yes, really - bear was hungry and gave him one apple and you're then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to a real winnersleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708376</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joel Stewart1913839656|title=Dexter Bexley And The Big Blue Beastie On The RoadLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=Dexter Bexley and Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the Big Blue Beastie are hooting best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and hooting his favourite hat and hootingthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Everyone in town is sick She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the back teeth of their incessant hooting, so they kick them out of town. Dexter local community centre and the Beastie hit the road, hooting Todd was pleased about this as they gohe wanted to make new friends. At home, embarking on a rollicking adventure and meeting up with a princess and a dragon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617720</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anthony Browne|title=Me and You|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Once upon a time there his only friend was a little girl called Goldilocks... You know the rest. ''Me his mum and You'' flips the classic fairy tale around, telling it from the three bears' point of viewhe wondered why that could be. Nice idea, non? It is, but calling Grandma thought that it a retelling merely scratches the surface..might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385614896</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Murray1529504775|title=Apple Pie ABCThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Take one traditional rhyme (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 side of the park but David couldn't - he'A d been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was an apple pie, B bit happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for itas cash was tight at home...'') Gradually, mix it David learned to stand up a bit with new words, add a pinch of sweet girl use the bus for support, and a dash of naughty dogwalk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and you've got a recipe for... wellrusted, a unbelievably cliched first line in a review from meto the Repair Shop, but also a super bookhoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408308010</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross1529504767|title=Super Dooper JezebelThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Jezebel is a good girl - so good, Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in fact, that everyone calls 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her Super Dooper Jezebelfinal destination. Sheneedn's neat t have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and tidyMrs Russell, does who couldn't have been kinder to her chores, is perfectly behaved, and is an inspiration to all. The Prime Minister sent her a special medal for being so good, and Jezebel gets She even had her own TV show room - all to show others how herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to behaveenjoy her life. She won't even run, because d help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it's against came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the rules. Sometimes, just sometimes, rules are meant to be broken.Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390169</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|author=Mark Sperring and Miriam Latimer|title=The Sunflower Sword|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=There's a little knight (who looks remarkably like a boy with a colander on his head) who wants to battle with dragons a sword, but his mum says he can't. He's desperate to whoosh and swoosh with a shining blade, so she gives him a sunflower instead, and off he goes to the top of a hill to do battle with not one but three imaginary dragons. There's a roar of fire and billowing smoke, and he finds himself face to face with a real dragon...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390576</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Mitton and Sarah Warburton1916459943|title=Sir Laughalot|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sir Laughalot is a brave knight. He's got all the gear and is desperate to smite a wicked foe, so off he sets on his travels. He meets a fearsome dragon and a whopping great big giant, but each time they end up laughing with one another. Will things change when he tries to rescue the fair damsel from the evil sorceress?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408302748</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSqueakily Baby|author=Ian Whybrow and Caroline Jayne Church|title=Wobble Bear Gets BusyBeth Webb
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|summary=Wobble is Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a very busy little bear who has squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just learned lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to walk help. It rocks Baby gently and nowthe waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of coursegentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, wants to walk everywherela lay... '' We see him here walking in And for a moment it seems to wake up have worked as Baby closes his parents, treading on the cat, dancing and falling over, walking on eyes. Then a wall, splashing in a puddle until, of course, by the end of the day he has worn himself out seagull '''shouts''' and is too tired we know exactly what's going to walk up the stairs to bed!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192792628</amazonuk>happen next.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Whybrow and Caroline Jayne Church140639131X|title=Wobble Bear Says YellowA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=Wobble Bear is a delightful little bear who is just starting Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to learn about colourscross the Old Oak Road. He insists through She wrote to the book on calling everything mayor about the problem but didn'yellowt even get a reply. Philippa wasn', whether it is or not, much t a bird to 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 his mummy's frustration start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and my daughter's delight!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019279261X</amazonuk>Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sheryl Webster and Tim Warnes1776574338|title=What Small Rabbit HeardLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=ItEvery 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's cold t even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and windyslide down his neck. Small Rabbit just wants to stay inside, but Big Rabbit insists that it It's fresh, not coldperfect, and theyisn're going on a walk. He's t it? What could be a bit more fun way of going to school? There is a cheeky scamp is Small Rabbitproblem, so when Big Rabbit says ''try to keep up'', Small Rabbit somehow mishears it as 'though. Leilong isn'jump t happy in the mudcity: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. As The school decides that he can't be the walk goes on, Small Rabbit mishears Big Rabbit time and time again, getting up to all sorts of shenanigansbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728679</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Wildsmith1776574028|title=Animal GalleryBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=Starting off I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a crash of rhinoceroses, through tutu - and becomes a corps of giraffes, ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a hover of trout, bath (complete with yellow duck) and ending up then dries off with a dray of squirrels, Brian Wildsmith treats us to 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 beautiful look at collections of animals''sm.......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019272794X</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Killen1838226834|title=Not Me!Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=A group It was one of kids are playing, and making those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an awful messouting with our grandparents. One by one theyThey're asked if they're responsiblethere to undo all the good that parents do, and one by one they deny any involvementso the trips out were always so much fun. But have they been caught red handed, and will it really fall upon Jess the pup A young boy was going to do all the tidying up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248297</amazonuk>}}carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
{{newreview|author=Caryl Hart and Sarah Horne|title=Rhino? What Rhino?|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The rhino was lonely and bored and the zoo''It'll be brilliant, so he squeezes between the bars and heads out into the great, wide world. Being a rhinojust remember, his manners arendon't quite up to scratch, so he gets into all sorts let go of scrapes and japes as he steals peoplemy hand.''s clothes and food. Other poor animals get the blame, so they decide to have a word with the rhino to set him back on the right path.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340981393</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Weale and Margaret ChamberlainB09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Newt In The SuitReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|summary=ThereWhen the world 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. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''s one newt in a suit, and he's looking very dapper' the future. He's joined by two snazzy Rabbit developed intelligence -looking flies in tiesbut, three cockatoos in high-heeled shoesunfortunately, and so on up not the ability to use it well. He liked to tentrick other animals. Yep, this is He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a counting book race with lots of well-dressed animals going Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about their business.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988673</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark MarshallRob Keeley|title=Little Tiger's Big HolidayCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=3.54
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|summary=Little Tiger is going on holiday Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. Whatever will he need? WellShe likes carrots, flying gogglesbroccoli, obviouslycabbage and aubergines. A parachute When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is a mustkeen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Who goes anywhere without stilts? OhInfuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and a helmetvegetables, like carrots, grow in case he goes in a racing carthe ground. Item by itemJordan says, "I did try to tell her, his suitcase gets more Miss!" and more full. His holiday sounds like it's going to be an amazing adventureeveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>186233773X</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynne Rickards and Lee WildishB09FFJF8YS|title=Jacob OYou Can'Reilly Wants A Pett Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=43.5
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|summary=Like many young children, Jacob O'Reilly Wants A Pet. He'd love a dog. A cat would be great. OohFor the big, grownup girls out there, what about gerbils? Or an iguana? He's desperate for an animal to look afterthe potty masters in training, but mum and dad don"You Can't fancy Wear Panties!" is a cry (the idea. Then they suggest that he start a petbig-sitting business, girl kind!) of toilet triumph and all hell breaks loosepersevering panty pride...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034098838X</amazonuk>}}''
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|summary=Elizabeth is a lively little girl. She loves stomping around, making a racket and creating an awful kerfuffle. One day she does the thing that she knows she should never do: she pushes Joe Fitzhugh. Joe tumbles into Jonny, who knocks into another child, and on and on and on. Oh dear, Elizabeth! What have you done?
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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=Ellie Bethel Justine Avery and Alexandra ColomboNaday Meldova|title=Litterbug Doug Everybody Toots! (A Michael Recycle AdventureEverybody Potties!)
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|summary=Litterbug Doug lives on a hillToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, just outside find us a beautiful townchild that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. His home Funny to talk about and joke about, that is an absolute dump. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, with rubbish strewn everywhere, rats scurrying through the messsay, when everyone will hear it and he woneveryone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery't tidy up his bloomins latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!' bedroom. It's disgusting. Utterly utterly disgusting. His mess spreads series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and spreads gently and spreads and spreads. Thankfullycalmly, with the familiar humour attached, Michael Recycle explains that tooting is on hand to teach Doug the error of his waysperfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845394151</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy M George and Rachel SwirlesB09BG8V3Q6|title=The Elves Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and the ShoemakerSeema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=The shoemaker grows older and older. Where he once made ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the finest shoes latest release in town, hethe ''Everybody Potties!''s now struggling series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to make ends meet. With only enough money for take the leather for one pair pain out of shoes, hepotty training children and replace it with some fun. It's on his last legsa worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. He leaves the leather on the table, ready to assemble the next morning, but when he comes down, the elves have made the most beautiful shoes ever .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394135</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|authortitle=Kari-Lynn Winters When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Christina LeistMended|titleauthor=On My WalkPeter Cotton|rating=34.5
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|summary=A little girl is Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a walk with her mummy and her dogbit more about Fred. They hear Fred is a horse saying clippity-clop snake and even those of us who have a frog saying frippity-fropphobia about snakes are going to warm to him. They enjoy all the sights He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and sounds immediately became part of the beautiful summer's dayfamily, until it starts to rain, drippity-drop, drippity-dropthe extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1896580610</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David LucasJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Something To DoEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=The little bear is booooredCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. HeBut really, why shouldn's desperate for something t it be? We all have to dolearn 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, but he lives in a monochrome line worldsay, with nothing around except learning about why the horizon, and a couple of simple seagulls. He sun and the big bear go on an adventure to amuse and entertain themselves, and then create new surroundings by drawing them with a stick.moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1862337268</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy HusbandJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Dear MissNo, No, No!
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|summary=It's Michael's first day back at school and he really doesn't fancy sitting through maths and double geography. He writes a letter to his teacher, explaining that They say the best picture books are the secret service have recruited him to rescue a missing explorersimplest ones. Letter after letter And nothing could be truer of his adventures followthis latest from Justine Avery, until Miss counters with a letter of her own..Bookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845393732</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Gill Linder|title=Little Sapling|rating=2.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Little Sapling is growing up''No, bit by bit. Like any plantNo, she stretches out into the sunlight. She competes with bindweed, and then No!'' is transplanted by a forester. On based around the way, she comes into contact with a number of animals, like Rabbit and Hedgehogsimplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312721</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Xavier Deneux|title=My Circus|rating=4''No, no, no! Okay, okay.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=An utterly gorgeous board book that everyone will love to pore overYes, from the very youngest right on upyou may.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807009</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Maureen Roffey|title=Bedtime (Slip-and-Slide Books)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=''Bedtime'That' s it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a pullveritable tardis -so much bigger on the-tabs book about - unsurprisingly - bedtime. Page by page reveals child after child rubbing their eyes, changing into their pyjamas, kissing mummy goodnight, and cuddling up with teddy. Each pulled tab changes inside that picture, much like a before and after shotit appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747599386</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Helmore and Karen Wall194812467X|title=Hold On TightThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Stripy Horse!Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Stripy Horse Kirelle and his friends live in a bric-her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a-brac shopwalk. One day, they discover that it's raining ''inside''. Ella, the pink flamingo umbrella, keeps them dry Kirelle is dressed for a bit, but then she's caught by a gust of wind all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Stripy Horse Sam is pulled up into the airperfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. Will As they discover walk to the source top of the rain? Will the shop ever get dry again? And whathill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the deal with that weathervane parrot that keeps spouting proverbs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248262</amazonuk>}}stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.
{{newreview|author=Jonathan Shipton and Francesca Chessa|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 she'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 What will mean.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337799</amazonuk>they buy?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Gillian Shields Sadie and Liz Pichonthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Don't Let Aliens Get My Marvellous Mum!Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=A young girl imagines how awful life would Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be if aliens got her marvellous mumdoing. She pictures all manner of ooky space monsters tucking her up in bed, giving her green eggs for breakfast, and scaring all lives by the other parents River Thames at school. She (Greenwich and the readers too) realise just how lucky she is loves to have such a lovely mumspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Aww, bless!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337780</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|author=Eva Montanari''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|title=The Alphabet Family|rating=3''To the Maritime Museum''.5|genre=For Sharing |summary=Mummy A wants to write a story, but she canHer imagination was fired. She't think what d love to writesail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. She sees what her children One day she fell asleep under a glass case (b, c, d and so it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are onshow) are up toand missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. Some are playing musical instruments, some are running races, and some are playing When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the garden. With plenty midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of ideas to handdolphins, Mummy A writes her storypirates, mermaids and then tells it to all her children and Daddy Ztreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394054</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Poly Bernatene1782227741|title=When Night Didn't ComeLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=One nightday, after Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the sun has gone water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to bed, spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of the night doesn't comestreet. There's no darknessFinding himself down in the sewer, no moon and no starsTed starts to panic. Someone's going to have to do something about it'OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, so who plucks him out of the man in charge rouses dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a group nice bowl of children and they do what they can to bring the nightbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394925</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham B08R7LXQ9S|title=Cloud Tea MonkeysRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Tashi and her mother live below a tea plantation in IndiaRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, Usually Tashi goes along together with her mumhis sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, and whilst mum picks tea leaves with the other womenhave been laughing at Remy, Tashi sits under a tree calling him names because he is short and plays with a group of monkeys, sharing her fruit with them, allowing them has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to groom her wind up Remy when nobody can see and playing with then push him just that little bit further when the little baby monkeysother kids are around. One morning, Tashi's mum is too poorly to go to workSo, so Tashi struggles with the big tea basket herself. The plantation owner derides herwhen Remy reacts, saying she is too little to pick it looks as though he was the tea, and Tashi is worried about how she and her mother will cope with no money to get her mum a doctor, or to buy foodinstigator. She shares her worries with her monkey friends And then he gets into trouble at school and somehow, at the end of the day, Tashi's basket is full of beautiful, fresh, fragrant tea leaves that are a very rare type of tea called 'Cloud Teateachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406300926</amazonuk>
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|title=The Invisible
|author=Tom Percival
|rating=5
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|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on:
{{newreview|author=David Conway and Dubravka Kolanovic|title=The Secret To Teddy's Happiness|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When 'Ice curled across the inside of the toys discover an old, bedraggled teddy bear, they rack their brains to find a way to mend his broken heart, to make him smile again. The velvet rabbit who knows everything offers to tell them window and crept up the secret corner of Teddythe bedpost.''s happiness, but he wants them to do him a favour first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337624</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Jill Newton|title=Crash Bang Donkey!|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Farmer Gruff spends all his time chasing The family didn't go to the crows from his corncinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Eventually he needs to sleep, so all Then the animals tiptoe around, making no noise whatsoever. Whatday came when they couldn's this coming over t afford the rent for the hill with a crash house and a bang? Oh no! It's a donkey with a drum. How's Farmer Gruff going they had to get his sleep? If he can't sleep, how's he ever going move to be able to keep the crows from his corn?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337209</amazonuk>far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark Sperring Nick Jones and Leo TimmersSi Clark|title=GreenOne Night in Beartown
|rating=4
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|summary=Clive loves wearing greenMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. It's all he ever wearsShe collects books about bears. He thinks he looks mighty snazzyHer favourite toy is Berisford, but his big sister (boo! hiss!) takes every opportunity to call him a cabbageteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, mossshe looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a sprout or a toadcolourful painted bear that lives at her school. Clive keeps wearing his green clothes, certain that he'll have the last laugh and get one over She even has bears on his sister.her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845394534</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{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 a neighbourhood with the Crocodile family, the Monkey family and the Littlebird family. One by one they invite Stinky round Move on 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>}} {{newreview|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>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]