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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Murray is waylaid by various friends supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who have gifts is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and messages for Fatou to take for her mother, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. As the gifts pile up in FatouBut he's a bad magician's armscat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the messages for her mother crowd her head Fatoucatflap they both use can chuck them out, somehownot into the regular back garden, forgets 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 get any water!do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905434162</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Neil Griffiths The Adventures of Birpus and Judith BlakeBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Itchy BearWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Poor bear When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has an itchcome about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. An all-over sort of itchHe's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. And everywhere he goes to (Please don't try and have a good scratch this at home: it seems hewon's disturbing someone! t end well.) Will he ever find anywhere Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for a satisfying scratch?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905434111</amazonuk>them, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Van AllsburgB0CC9W7GLR|title=The Mysteries of Harris Burdick|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Thirty years ago, Harris Burdick walked into a book publisher's office with samples of his work. He had fourteen stories ready for publication, but just brought one picture and caption from each. Burdick was never heard of again. The publisher spent many years trying to track down Burdick, showing On the pictures to people - many of whom were inspired to write their own stories. (Shh about ''Beach: The rights of Chris Van Allsburg to be identified as...'').|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184939279X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWinter Visitor|author=Richard Scarry|title=Best Bedtime Stories EverChris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=Richard Scarry's style is instantly recognisableKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. I grew up reading his books so this collection is On top of the ice was a trip down memory lane! polar bear. Here there are six stories, about Huckle As the ice bumped onto the catsand, Lowly the worm, Mr Raccoon bear woke and Mr Frumble with wobbly legs moved from the pigice. Kit was all for making a run for it, plus a counting section at but Teal knew that the backbear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. The stories are He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a mix of the usual text plus picture format as well as those full page spreads that Scarry is known for where he labels different parts of the picture good meal and there are hundreds of little details somewhere to spotsleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007413564</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Joslin and Anna Luraschi1913839656|title=Simon and the Easter Miracle: A Traditional Tale for EasterLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=Simon is on his way to market Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his eggsgrandmother, wine and bread to sellnot least because she made the best beetle juice. On He packed two pairs of dungarees and his way he gets caught up in a crowd watching soldiers forcing a man favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to carry show his cross out of the citygrandmother. When the man is unable She had promised to carry his cross any longer the soldiers look around for someone else take him to do so, and they pick on Simon. After carrying the cross to Friday Night Club at the place of crucifixion Simon hurries back local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to get his goods, but he finds they've been spilt, broken and trampledmake new friends. He returns At home, dejectedhis only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. The next morning, however, Grandma thought that it might be because he discovers there has been a miracle and there are 12 white doves and Spring has come early to warm his cropslooked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745960545</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elena Pasquali and Sophie Windham1529504775|title=The Three Trees: A Traditional Folktale|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=There are three trees standing side by side on a hill. They dream together of what they hope to become in the future; one wishes to become a chest for the finest treasures, one wishes to be a ship carrying a mighty King, and the last wants to stay on the hillside quietly pointing up to heaven. The first is cut down and made into a trough, but then it turns out it is a trough in the stable where Mary gives birth to Jesus, so it becomes the manger for him. The second is made into a simple fishing boat, but then it is the boat which Jesus goes in when there is a big storm and he calms the waves. Toy Bus (The third tree is cut down and forgotten in a yard until one day it is made into a cross. It is, of course, the cross Jesus is crucified on and becomes the symbol of hope, forever pointing to heaven.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745961703</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRepair Shop Stories)|author=Nick Butterworth|title=Tales From Percy's Park: After the StormAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=One day, after a particularly wild Elsie and windy evening, Percy the Park Keeper discovers on his check around her little brother David loved to go to the park that an old oak tree has fallen down in and watch the stormred buses drive past. All Elsie would race the buses along the side of the animals who lived park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the tree ask Percy toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to help them find a new pay for it as cash was tight at home. He loads them Gradually, David learned to stand up in his wheelbarrow , use the bus for support, andwalk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, after a bit of an adventurenow damaged and rusted, they finally find a new place for Percy to rebuild their homesthe Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007155158</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T Smith1529504767|title=Claude in the CityThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Morris the mole is Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to become a first time dadher final destination. Excited and eager She needn't have worried though as she went to be a good parent he goes looking around the farmyard home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to see the best way her. She even had her own room - all to make his babies happyherself. He tries Gradually she relaxed and began to hop like a bunny, splash like a duck, enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and flap like a bird, but each attempt fails when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Morris becomes worried about how he will ever manage to make his little babies happyMr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405254181</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Georgie Adams1916459943|title=The Railway Rabbits: Fern and the Dancing Hare|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=In this third episode of the delightful 'The Railway Rabbits' series Barley is taking his five children to meet his parents for the first time. Their mother, Mellow, is staying at home to look after the burrow and, as she wryly comments, tidy up the mess that five young rabbits have left. Smart, tidy and clean behind the ears the rabbits head off to meet Blackberry and Primrose Longears. The journey to the big burrow under the castle is full of adventure – and there's even more when they reach the big burrow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001582</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSqueakily Baby|author=Emily Gravett|title=Wolf Won't BiteBeth Webb
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|summary=Those three little pigs have captured the big bad wolf and are showing off Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all the tricks they dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can get him 't - or won't - go to do. They make him stand sleep: instead, he just lies on a stool, his blanket and wolf won't bite'wails''. The sea offers to help. They can ride him like a horse It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, but wolf wonhush''t bite. He jumps through hoops Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and dancesyou have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, looking more la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and more frustrated with the pigswe know exactly what' shenaniganss going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704255</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Judge140639131X|title=The Lonely BeastA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=The beast likes Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to gardencross the Old Oak Road. And drink teaShe wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. And readPhilippa wasn'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. And bake cakesHer uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. But he lives by himself, All the animals used the crossing and he is lonely. So one day he decides Hedgehog was even trained up to go on provide a journey to try to discover whether there are any other beasts in the worldsafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392552</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Yeoman and Quentin Blake1776574338|title=The Heron Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and the CraneBei Lynn
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|summary=Heron and Crane Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at opposite ends the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the swamp. One day Crane decides that he is lonely window and he would like to get marriedslide down his neck. Heron seems the only suitable potential mateIt's perfect, and so he makes his isn't it? What could be a more fun way over of going to propose. school? Heron, taken completely by surprise, reacts badly to this sudden proposal and rejects CraneThere is a problem, rather insultinglythough. Poor Crane. As Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he makes puts his way home, Heron is overcome with guilt feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides perhaps she would like to marry him after allthat he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392005</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Rayner1776574028|title=Norris: the Bear Who SharedBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=Norris I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a bear – a large, brown bear. Heniche market: it's also a very wise bear because he knows something which will always be useful to him. He knows about sharing. It all began when he saw the plorringe on the tree and he knew that plorringes are the best fruit of all. All he had to do was to wait for the fruit child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to fallhave realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. In We have the meantime Tulip elephant who dons a tutu - and Violet discovered the plorringe toobecomes a ''balletphant''. They The buffalo who has had a sniff at it – bath (complete with yellow duck) and it was gorgeous – and even then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a squeeze which showed that ''crynoceros'' (think about it was soft and fluffy – but what were they to do about Norris !) The pelican who was sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'much' OK, let' bigger than them and could easily run away with the fruit?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846163099</amazonuk>s not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Smee1838226834|title=Funny FaceCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=The It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy is playing was going to the carnival with his ballGrandad, when along comes a bear who steals it. The big meanie! He takes the only sensible action when faced with a big scary beartold him: he sticks his tongue out and pulls a funny face!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140881871X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Candace Ryan and Mike LoweryB09MYXSRV4|title=Ribbit Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|summary=Frog When 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 bunny are best friends'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, but from time not the ability to use it well. He liked to time they fall outtrick other animals. However, after He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a bit of race with Turtle. You might think that's not a sulk fair contest but wait and a bit of a think, see. Things are not always as they soon remember why they were best friends againseem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408814412</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mick InkpenRob Keeley|title=KipperCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=Kipper's blanket stinks Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, his ball is chewed broccoli, cabbage and his bone is soggyaubergines. He's in the mood for some tidying When her friends at school turn uptheir noses, so he tosses them Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and gets everything spick and spanhow nice to eat. Sans blanketOne day, his basket is suddenly very uncomfortablepoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, so he looks around to see how animals get comfywho tells her that carrots grow on trees. You know KipperInfuriated, right? You've read Lily checks with the books teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and seen the TV series narrated by Martin Clunes. You'd like a dogvegetables, like a dogcarrots, like a dog like Kippergrow in the ground. Now we're treated Jordan says, "I did try to a 21 year anniversary edition of the original booktell her, complete with a 10 episode DVDMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444902733</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mara Bergman and Nick MalandB09FFJF8YS|title=Oliver You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and the Noisy BabyKate Zhoidik
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|summary=We've met Oliver Donnington Rimington-Sneep before - he has had [[Oliver Who Would Not Sleep by Mara Bergman and Nick Maland|trouble sleeping]] and [[Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide by Mara Bergman and Nick Maland|travelled far and wide]]. This time'For the big, he's suffering with a noisy baby. He does what every sensible older brother does: he goes and plays with his toysgrownup girls out there, retreating into his imagination and flying around the worldpotty masters in training, taking in all "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the sights big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and soundspersevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340997451</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=Jeanne Willis Justine Avery and Margaret ChamberlainNaday Meldova|title=The Tale of Georgie GrubEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Georgie Grub flat out refuses to have Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a bathchild that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. His mother is fed up of trying Funny to get him cleantalk about and joke about, so she throws in the towel and leaves him to his filththat is. As But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the week goes on, he gets dirtier and dirtierwrong time. People hold their noses when he walks byIn class, his teacher throws him out of schoolsay, when everyone will hear it and Georgie ends up scrabbling around in binseveryone will laugh. Happy ending? Oh no no noAt you. Georgie Grub gets his comeuppance, Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and quite right toocalmly, with the mucky pupfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849392137</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David MellingB09BG8V3Q6|title=The Kiss That MissedWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=The king ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in an awful rush, and doesnthe ''Everybody Potties!''t even have time series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to read take the prince a bedtime storypain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. He blows him It's a kissworthy aim, but it misses! So, he dispatches his knight to track it down, and an elaborate and bizarre adventure ensuesas any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999853</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|authortitle=Jeanne Willis When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Tony RossMended|titleauthor=Susan LaughsPeter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=ThereMeet Fred. Well, actually, you's something re going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very satisfying quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about a good picture bookFred. With Fred is a pre-schooler at home with me all day we get through snake and even those of us who have a lot of books, so I've seen hundreds, from dazzlingly brilliant through phobia about snakes are going to warm to terribly dullhim. There are times when my daughter at I look at each other at the end of He arrived as a book and shrug present in disbelief a box with holes so that a publisher thought it worth printinghe could breathe and immediately became part of the family, and there are times to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when we read something over and over (and over!) because it's so goodthey went out for a walk. This particular book is one of And that was where the brilliant ones Iproblem started. Fred didn'm happy to say, and let me tell you why.t have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709909</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francesca Simon Justine Avery and Tony RossNaday Meldova|title=Horrid Henry's Thank You Letter|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I'm sure most of us have, at one time or another, found ourselves being forced to write a huge pile of thank you letters to distant relatives, perhaps even for gifts that we weren't all that excited to receive in the first placeEverybody Pees! This is the predicament that Henry finds himself in, and rather than knuckle down to get them over and done with he, of course, procrastinates as much as possible before coming up with an ingenious, money-making scheme(Everybody Potties!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001051</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Malcolm Fawbert|title=Tales from Thimble Hall: Mrs Stopper's Bottle)
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|summary=One night Evie and JacobCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, who lived at Thimble Hallas any parent will tell you. But really, asked their mother for a story why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about a bottle and strangely enough, she knew a rather good one which was our bodily functions just as we have to learn about a everything else when we are small shop not far from where they lived.Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>160860344X</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hans Christian Andersen, Naomi Lewis Justine Avery and Christian BirminghamNaday Meldova|title=The Snow QueenNo, No, No!
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|summary=What happens when They say the wind blows off your hat, and you chase it along the beach? This sweet, short little book has only one word (and that comes on best picture books are the very last page)simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, but it still manages to tell an imaginative story!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467553</amazonuk>}}a Bookbag favourite.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Melling194812467X|title=The Scallywags Blow Their TopFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=The Scallywags, Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for those who do not know, are a bunch of wolves who walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in their [[The Scallywags by David Melling|previous escapade]] had his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to learn the top of the hill, they see a few manners in order to get along big barn with the other animalsa sign outside. This time theyIt're taking part in s a play, farm shop! But this is a fairy tale story along farm shop with a difference: all the other animals, stallholders and the wolves customers are playing the part of the dragonfarmyard animals. Of course, things There are destined to go badly sheep and ducks and inside the dragon costume their tempers begin to fray until finallycows, as the costume ripsgoats and chickens, the wolves are sent home in disgraceand even some mice. On the way home they all start blaming each other until they seeExcited, quite by surprise, that waiting by their house is a little sheep..Kirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988150</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Mwenye Hadithi Sadie and Adrienne Kennawaythe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Running RhinoMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=Rhino runs everywhereSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. And as he runsShe lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom, he leaves a wake of devastation in his path''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. The other animals are fed up of this rampant running She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and so Lion confronts him, telling him he must stopwent back regularly. Rhino refuses One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and challenges anyone to try missed the closing bell and stop himthe attendant's warning shout. Out When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of all the animals it is little Tickbird who takes up his challengedolphins, pirates, with interesting results!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989378</amazonuk>mermaids and treasure.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria L Thompson and Ben The Illustrator1782227741|title=Midnight MischiefLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=3.54
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|summary=James One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is fast asleepswirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, when his bear wakes him up Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and points him in alerts the direction attention of an astronaut coming alive from one Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his posterscane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. James Reg is suddenly whisked away on a trip into deep space, because aliens have stolen Pluto kind soul and he dries Ted off and are using it as warms him up with a footballnice bowl of broth. Will James be able to save the day or will he fall foul of those pesky aliens?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956565107</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Georgie AdamsB08R7LXQ9S|title=The Railway RabbitsRemy: Berry Goes to WinterlandA book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4.5
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|summary=In this storyRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, the young rabbits calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are very excited careful to wind up Remy when they nobody can see snow for and then push him just that little bit further when the first timeother kids are around. They have great fun slidingSo, when Remy reacts, building snow rabbits and falling over. When it is time to go home looks as though, they realise that Berry has disappeared he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and before long, a search party is set upthe teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001574</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara Vulliamy1471191303|title=The Bear with Sticky Paws and the New BabyInvisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=When Pearl's new baby brother arrives, she resents the fact that he This is the baby and that she is supposed to be the grown-up sister. She tries to persuade her mum that she is still story of Isobel, a little girl who made a baby too but with no successbig difference. It is at this time that the Bear Isobel lived with Sticky Paws arrives and they decide to play at being babies. The bear excels at making her parents in a mess while eating without house - a spoonvery cold house, getting Pearl because her parents couldn't afford to dress him and scribbling all over her pictures. It is through all put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of these activities that Pearl comes to realise that she can do so much more than any baby the window and perhaps she is quite happy being that little bit more grown crept up after all. By the time corner of the bear leaves, she has completely revised her opinion of her little brother and presents him with a beautifully drawn picture that has no scribbles at allbedpost.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408300664</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bob Hartman Nick Jones and JagoSi Clark|title=Mr Aesop's Story ShopOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Meet JakeMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, Super Magic Lightning Boyis obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, the fastest kid in towna teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and his sidekick Dixie Thunder Pawssays goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, the meanest cat arounda colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848860609</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}