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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica MeserveAdam Stower|title=Bedtime Without ArthurMurray and Bun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Arthur Murray is supposed to be a very special bear. Using braveryhumble, tidy and friendly cat, strength one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and karate, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he keeps Bella safe from monsters when she sleeps. One day's a bad magician's cat, Arthur goes missingso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Bella has to face the monsters on her owncatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Will Arthur turn up? Will Bella ever get This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a good nighttroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's sleep again?turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842709437</amazonuk>0008561249
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Fardell1732898766|title=Jeremiah Jellyfish Flies High!|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Jeremiah Jellyfish is drifting aimlessly through life. He's bored The Adventures of doing nothing in the great big jellyfish shoal. With a bit of geeing up from his granddad, he strikes out on his own, meets a high-powered businessman, swaps jobs, Birpus and becomes an executive in a rocket plane company. As jellyfish do, obviously.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390142</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Camilla Reid and Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Foreman|title=The Littlest Dinosaur Albanese and the Naughty RockIndre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=After When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the littlest dinosaur's [[The Littlest Dinosaur by Michael Foreman|earlier]] [[The Littlest DinosaurSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's Big Adventure by Michael Foreman|adventures]]right behind them, Camilla Reid takes hold of the writing reinsspewing hot, whilst Michael Foreman offers up sour milk from his beautiful illustrations as alwaysnostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. This time) Fortunately, the dinosaur is in they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a bit ladder of a bad mood, being rude to his dad, shouting at his siblingsmoss and vines was lowered for them, and ruining his mealthey escaped. His mum sends him They climbed up to sit on the naughty rockTree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, but he's in for quite a surprise when he gets there..Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880266X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Reidy and Genevieve LeloupB0CC9W7GLR|title=Too Pickly!On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's [[Too Purply! by Jean Reidy Kit and Genevieve Leloup|Too Purply!]] with food. That about sums Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it upwas better to be at home, bored but for those warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of you who haven't already fallen in love with Jean Reidy's tale silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of getting dressedthe ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, ''Too Pickly!'' looks at a little boy (the bear woke and his hamster) deciding what to eatwith wobbly legs moved from the ice. Dish by dish, he rejects them Kit was all for making a run for being too pickly, too wrinkly, too burpy, too stringyit, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and so then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on, until he finds the one that's just rightbus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807114</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Reid and Ailie Busby1913839656|title=LuluLet's LooCelebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=We've been here beforeTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, as Lulu introduced us to her [[Lulu's Shoes by Camilla Reid not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and Ailie Busby|shoes]], [[Lulu's Clothes by Camilla Reid his favourite hat and Ailie Busby|clothes]] and [[Lulu's Christmas by Camilla Reid and Ailie Busby|Christmas]]then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Here, she's kind enough She had promised to take him to show us all that goes on with her loo, nappies the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and pottyTodd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. As before At home, there are plenty of interesting flaps to lift his only friend was his mum and things to explorehe wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802651</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|author=Neil Gaiman|title=Instructions|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Go through the mysterious door, mind the imp, trust the wolves and answer the ferryman's question carefully. Neil Gaiman takes us on a tour of a fantasy land with a series of instructions for surviving the adventure. You'll discover wonders beyond your wildest dreams, and return home safely, a little older and a little wiser.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808641</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tasha Pym and Joel Stewart1529504775|title=Have You Ever Seen A Sneep?|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Ever fallen foul of a Sneep? The Toy Bus (No, not [[Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide by Mara Bergman and Nick Maland|Oliver Donnington Rimington-Sneep]]The Repair Shop Stories). 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 StiltsAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Who doesnElsie 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 already know and love Elmer the patchwork elephant? This time round, - he's helping all his other elephant chums avoid the nasty huntersd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. Throw One day Elsie spotted a bus in a CD version of the story read by Joss Ackland - yes, really toy shop window which would help David - and you're on was happy to use the coins from her money box to a real winnerpay for it as cash was tight at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708376</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joel Stewart|title=Dexter Bexley And The Big Blue Beastie On The Road|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Dexter Bexley and Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the Big Blue Beastie are hooting bus for support, and hooting and hootingwalk behind it. Everyone in town is sick to Many decades later, Elsie brought the back teeth of their incessant hootingbus, so they kick them out of town. Dexter now damaged and rusted, to the Beastie hit Repair Shop, hoping that the road, hooting as they go, embarking on a rollicking adventure and meeting up experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with a princess and a dragonit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617720</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Browne1529504767|title=Me The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and YouKatie Hickey
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|summary=Once upon a time there Susan was a little girl called Goldilocksvery young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. You know the rest Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She''Me d help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and You'' flips Mr Russell put the classic fairy tale around, telling it from decorations on the three bears' point of viewChristmas tree. Nice idea, non? It is, but calling it a retelling merely scratches The best surprise happened the surface..following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385614896</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Murray1916459943|title=Apple Pie ABCSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=Take one traditional rhyme (Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won'A was an apple piet - go to sleep: instead, B bit it.he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing '')hush, mix it up a bit with new words, add a pinch hush''. Think of sweet girl and gentle wavelets falling onto a dash of naughty dog, sandy beach and youhave the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''ve got a recipe forla lou, la lay... well, '' And for a unbelievably cliched first line in moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a review from me, but also a super bookseagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408308010</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross140639131X|title=Super Dooper JezebelA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=Jezebel is a good girl - so good, in fact, that everyone calls her Super Dooper Jezebel. ShePhilippa Pheasant was ''tired''s neat and tidy, does her chores, is perfectly behaved, and is an inspiration of nearly getting squished as she tried to allcross the Old Oak Road. The Prime Minister sent her a special medal for being so good, and Jezebel gets her own TV show She wrote to show others how to behave. She wonthe mayor about the problem but didn't even run, because itget a reply. Philippa wasn's against t a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the rulesbenefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Sometimes, just sometimes, rules are meant Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to be broken.start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390169</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Sperring and Miriam Latimer1776574338|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. HeLeilong'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>}} {{newreviewToo Long!|author=Tony Mitton Julia Liu and Sarah Warburton|title=Sir LaughalotBei Lynn
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|summary=Sir Laughalot is a brave knightEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. He Children who live at the top of tower blocks don's got all t even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the gear window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is desperate to smite a wicked foeproblem, so off though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he sets on puts his travels. He meets feet and – because he's longer than a fearsome dragon tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and a whopping great big giant, but each time they end traffic regularly gets snarled up laughing with one another. Will things change when The school decides that he tries to rescue can't be the fair damsel from the evil sorceress?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408302748</amazonuk>bus anymore.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Whybrow and Caroline Jayne Church1776574028|title=Wobble Bear Gets BusyBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=Wobble I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a very busy little bear niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has just learned mastered sufficient language skills to walk have realise that you can ''play'' with words and now, of course, wants to walk everywheremake something quite different from each one. We see him here walking in to wake up his parents, treading on have the cat, dancing elephant who dons a tutu - and falling over, walking on becomes a wall, splashing in ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a puddle until, of course, by the end of the day he has worn himself out bath (complete with yellow duck) and is too tired to walk up the stairs to bed!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192792628</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Whybrow and Caroline Jayne Church|title=Wobble Bear Says Yellow|rating=4then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Wobble Bear The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a delightful little bear who is just starting to learn ''crynoceros'' (think about colours. it!) He insists through the book The pelican who sits on calling everything his potty changes into a ''sm.......'yellow' OK, whether it is or not, much to his mummylet's frustration and my daughter's delightnot go there Some people are eating!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019279261X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sheryl Webster and Tim Warnes1838226834|title=What Small Rabbit HeardCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=Itwas one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They's cold and windy. Small Rabbit just wants re there to stay inside, but Big Rabbit insists undo all the good that it's fresh, not cold, and they're going on a walk. He's a bit of a cheeky scamp is Small Rabbitparents do, so when Big Rabbit says ''try to keep up'', Small Rabbit somehow mishears it as ''jump in the mud''trips out were always so much fun. As A young boy was going to the walk goes on, Small Rabbit mishears Big Rabbit time and time againcarnival with his Grandad, getting up to all sorts of shenanigans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728679</amazonuk>}}who told him:
{{newreview|author=Brian Wildsmith|title=Animal Gallery|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Starting off with a crash of rhinoceroses, through a corps of giraffes, a hover of trout''It'll be brilliant, and ending up with a dray of squirrelsjust remember, Brian Wildsmith treats us to a beautiful look at collections don't let go of animalsmy hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019272794X</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola KillenB09MYXSRV4|title=Not Me!Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|summary=A group of kids are playingWhen 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 ''and making an awful mess. One by one they're asked if they're responsiblethe future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and one by one see. Things are not always as they deny any involvementseem. But have they been caught red handed, and will I'll tell you how it really fall upon Jess the pup to do all the tidying up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248297</amazonuk>came about.
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 {{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, so he squeezes between the bars and heads out into the great, wide world. Being a rhino, his manners aren't quite up to scratch, so he gets into all sorts of scrapes and japes as he steals people'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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew Weale and Margaret ChamberlainRob Keeley|title=The Newt In The SuitCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4
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|summary=There's one newt in a suit, Lily loves eating fruit and he's looking very dappervegetables. He's joined by two snazzy-looking flies in tiesShe likes carrots, three cockatoos in high-heeled shoesbroccoli, cabbage and so on aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to teneat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. YepInfuriated, this is a counting book Lily checks with lots of well-dressed animals going about their businessthe teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340988673</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark MarshallB09FFJF8YS|title=Little TigerYou Can's Big Holidayt Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=Little Tiger is going on holiday. Whatever will he need? Well''For the big, grownup girls out there, flying gogglesthe potty masters in training, obviously. A parachute "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a must. Who goes anywhere without stilts? Oh, and a helmet, in case he goes in a racing car. Item by item, his suitcase gets more cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and more fullpersevering panty pride. His holiday sounds like it's going to be an amazing adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>186233773X</amazonuk>}}'
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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. Ooh, what about gerbils? Or an iguana? He's desperate for an animal to look after, but mum and dad don't fancy the idea. Then they suggest that he start a pet-sitting business, and all hell breaks loose...
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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=Mara Bergman Justine Avery and Cassia ThomasNaday Meldova|title=Lively ElizabethEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Elizabeth is a lively little girlToots, trumps, farts. She loves stomping aroundWhatever your word for them, making find us a racket child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and creating an awful kerfufflejoke about, that is. One day she does But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the thing that she knows she should never do: she pushes Joe Fitzhughwrong time. Joe tumbles into JonnyIn class, who knocks into another childsay, when everyone will hear it and on everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and on gently and oncalmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Oh dear, ElizabethEverybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''! What have you done?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340988045</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie Bethel and Alexandra ColomboB09BG8V3Q6|title=Litterbug Doug Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (A Michael Recycle AdventureEverybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=Litterbug Doug lives on a hill, just outside a beautiful town. His home ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is an absolute dump, with rubbish strewn everywhere, rats scurrying through the mess, and he wonlatest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'t tidy up his bloomin' bedroomseries 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 disgusting. Utterly utterly disgustinga worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. His mess spreads and spreads and spreads and spreads. Thankfully, Michael Recycle is on hand to teach Doug the error of his ways .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394151</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy M George and Rachel SwirlesB07GZ81J7C|title=The Elves and When Fred the Shoemaker|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=The shoemaker grows older Snake Got Squished and older. Where he once made the finest shoes in town, he's now struggling to make ends meet. With only enough money for the leather for one pair of shoes, he's on his last legs. 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>}} {{newreviewMended|author=Kari-Lynn Winters and Christina Leist|title=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
|rating=4
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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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{{Frontpage
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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]]