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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4|genre=For sharingSharing|summary=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 Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR__NOTOC__|title=On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Kit 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. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanne Partis1913839656|title=WeLet're Not Sleepy!s Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=It's bedtimeTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, but not least because she made the three little kittens aren't sleepybest beetle juice. Mum suggests that they count sheep, so they head out He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the farmyard Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to find sheep to countmake new friends. They find one shaggy sheepdog, two munching cows, three playful foxes At home, his only friend was his mum and so onhe wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192731629</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=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'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 happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Carrie Weston Amy Sparkes and Tim WarnesKatie Hickey|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Bravo, Boris!Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=Miss CluckMuch as mothers love their babies, there's class are going on something they all dread - a camping tripsqueakily baby. They He's so tired but he can't - or won've got a map, butterfly net, binocularst - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and a tent''wails''. The sea offers to help. All It rocks Baby gently and the class are carrying somethingwaves sing ''hush, be it Leticia hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the rabbit, Maxwell the mole or the little micesound perfectly. Boris the grizzly bear gets to carry alllllllll the heavy stuff The mermaids join in - well''la lou, Fergus the fox cub couldnla lay...''t exactly carry And for a great big tent, could he? This being moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a camping trip, the class get up to all sorts of adventures seagull '''shouts''' and into all sorts of scrapes. Luckily, they have Boris on hand we know exactly what's going to help them outhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192789783</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Wildsmith140639131X|title=Cat on the Mat and FriendsA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=The first story in this book Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of four, 'Cat on nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the Matproblem but didn', is t even get a very simple tale in which each sentence is reply. Philippa wasn'the (animal's name) sat t a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the mat', benefits of the first animal being lollipop lady at the cat, school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with accompanying pictures showing but the mat getting more and more crowdedbenefits were obvious. Finally All the cat hisses animals used the crossing and spits and so we return Hedgehog was even trained up to just the cat sitting alone on the mat! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192789813</amazonuk>provide a safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Bonwill and Layn Marlow1776574338|title=Bug Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and BearBei Lynn
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|summary=Bug reallyEvery morning Leilong, really wants the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to play go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a game with Bear, but Bear more fun way of going to school? There is tired and she wants a napproblem, though. Bug follows Bear around everywhere, pestering Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and pleading until, finally, Bear loses her temper and tells Bug – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to go away and leave her alonetraffic regularly gets snarled up. She finally settles down for her nap but then discovers The school decides that she he can't sleep..be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729853</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara Vulliamy1776574028|title=Muffin and the Birthday SurpriseBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=3.54
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|summary=ItI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee''s Fizz and Florais aimed at quite a niche market: it's birthday, so Muffin the bear gets ready for the partychild 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 decides to take them make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a big bag of sugar buns as tutu - and becomes a present''balletphant''. On his walk to the party, Muffin gets The buffalo who has had a little bit peckish bath (complete with yellow duck) and has then dries off with a bit of hair drier becomes a nibble of one bun, then another, then another''fluffalo''. Erk The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it! He puts the empty bag ) The pelican who sits on the pile of presents and enjoys the party gamehis potty changes into a ''sm....... Will '' OK, let's not go there be a way to turn an empty bag into a much-loved present?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408312441</amazonuk> Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Emily Bolam1838226834|title=Where Are My Lambs?Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=When youIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're just coming there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to terms the carnival with this thing called ''readinghis Grandad, who told him: '' thereIt's a big jump to ll be made. Gone are those nice big picture books with not too many words and in their place is something much smaller (and not nearly so easy to handle – you have to do it yourself) with a lot more words and probably brilliant, just a few black and white pictures to break the page up and if youremember, don're lucky to give you a clue as to what those pesky words meant let go of my hand. There's a stepping stone along the way now and it might just help children who find that big leap a little daunting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001965</amazonuk>'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brett McKee and David McKeeB09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Tickle GhostReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=34
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|summary=ItWhen 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's Dylan's bedtimethe future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, but not the Tickle Ghost (very possibly his dad with a sheet) is out ability to use it well. He liked to get himtrick other animals. Cue plenty of giggles and not very much going He was also jealous which was how he came to bedbe in a race with Turtle. Dylan You might think that's mum shouts upstairs for them to be quieter, not a fair contest but when the noise continues, she heads up to sort them outwait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about..Will the Tickle Ghost get her too?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392463</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne PartisRob Keeley|title=My Cat Just SleepsCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=The little girl in this story has a pet cat who she Lily loveseating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, but she's noticed that whilst her cat spends his days sleeping all broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends' cats seem at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to lead much more exciting lives, hunting explain how good they are for you and playing and climbing and fishing.how nice to eat.One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees.she attempts to entice him into doing something activeInfuriated, but he sleeps through it all untilLily checks with the teacher, finally, she realises who explains that even if he is very sleepy he's also warm fruits grow on trees and cuddly vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and affectionate and she loves him very much. But she still wonders what it is that makes him so sleepy..everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192731610</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael ForemanB09FFJF8YS|title=SuperfrogYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=Pond City is a peaceful place in ''For the daytime. Little Frank big, grownup girls out there, the frog loves simply dangling his toes potty masters in the water and watching the world pass by. Howevertraining, come nighttime, things take "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a turn for cry (the worse: the Big Boss oversees a crime wavebig-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride. When the Big Boss' creeps frighten Frank's granny and kidnap some frogspawn she'd been babysitting, enough is enough and Frank turns into Superfrog.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392099</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=Giles Andreae Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and Emma Doddjoke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=I Love My MummyWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Mummies are good for lots of things - wiping noses, singing ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the car, helping with wee-wee's'Everybody Potties! '' series from Justine Avery. This sweet story tells us series of fun picture books aims to take the best things about mummies from a babypain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's point of viewa worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309572</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Griffiths and Peggy CollinsB07GZ81J7C|title=Fatou, Fetch When Fred the WaterSnake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=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 bit more about Fred. Fred is waylaid by various friends a snake and even those of us who have gifts a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and messages for Fatou immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for her mothera walk. As And that was where the gifts pile up in Fatouproblem started. Fred didn's arms, and the messages for her mother crowd her head Fatou, somehow, forgets to get t have any water!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905434162</amazonuk>road sense. Or brakes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil Griffiths Justine Avery and Judith BlakeNaday Meldova|title=Itchy BearEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Poor bear has an itchCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. An But really, why shouldn't it be? We all-over sort of itch. And everywhere he goes have to try and learn about our bodily functions just as we have a good scratch it seems heto learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn's disturbing someone! Will he ever find anywhere for a satisfying scratcht potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky?!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905434111</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elena Pasquali and Sophie Windham194812467X|title=The Three Trees: A Traditional FolktaleFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=There are three trees standing side by side on a hill. They dream together of what they hope to become in Kirelle and her best friend Sam the future; one wishes cat decide to become a chest go 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 heavenwalk. The first Kirelle is cut down dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and made into a trough, but then it turns Sam is perfectly turned out it is a trough as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the stable where Mary gives birth to Jesus, so it becomes top of the manger for him. The second is made into a simple fishing boathill, but then it is the boat which Jesus goes in when there is they see a big storm and he calms the wavesbarn with a sign outside. The third tree It's a farm shop! But this is cut down and forgotten in a yard until one day it is made into farm shop with a crossdifference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. It isThere are sheep and ducks and cows, of coursegoats and chickens, the cross Jesus is crucified on and becomes the symbol of hopeeven some mice. Excited, forever pointing to heavenKirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745961703</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T Smith0995647895|title=Claude in the City|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Claude is a sweet little dog who wears a beret and whose best friend is a sock called Sir Bobblysock. They live with Mr and Mrs Shinyshoes, and when Mr and Mrs Shinyshoes go out, Claude and Sir Bobblysock go out and have their own adventures which, in this book, involve capturing a thief in an art gallery Sadie and solving a medical mystery in the local hospital. Claude, who reminds me a little bit of Snoopy, is very endearing and it's amazing how much personality an old sock can have!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340998997</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSea Dogs|author=Kali Stileman|title=Peely WallyMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=When Peely Wally lays an egg, sheSadie's so excited mother always said that she jumps up and downwas a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. Oh no! The egg rolls out of She lives by the branch River Thames at Greenwich and lands on Jemima Giraffe! Her egg rolls from animal she loves to animal on an amazing adventure, until finally the egg makes it safely home againspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849410828</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Inkpen1782227741|title=Rollo and Ruff Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and the Little Fluffy BirdSasha Satha
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|summary=Somebody has been chewing RolloOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's mat..quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling.Poor Ted starts to spin around and somebody has taken Rollo's little red ball...around and somebody has been leaving wet footprints all over is sucked down a drain on the floorside of the street. Finding himself But who could it be? Mick Inkpendown in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE''s latest book introduces us to three new characters: Rollo he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the catsewer rat, LFB (as she's referred to in who plucks him out of the bookdirty water using his cane, standing for little fluffy bird) which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and Ruff the ratwarms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989580</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Bedford and Rosalind BeardshawB08R7LXQ9S|title=Mole's BabiesRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Morris the mole Remy is about to become a first time dadfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, Excited together with his sidekicks Ryan and eager to be a good parent Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he goes looking around the farmyard is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the best way to make his babies happyother kids are around. He tries to hop like a bunnySo, splash like a duckwhen Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and flap like a bird, but each attempt fails and Morris becomes worried about how the teachers don't believe him when he will ever manage tries to make his little babies happyexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405254181</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Georgie Adams1471191303|title=The Railway Rabbits: Fern and the Dancing HareInvisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=In this third episode of the delightful 'The Railway Rabbits' series Barley This is taking his five children to meet his parents for the first time. Their motherstory of Isobel, Mellow, is staying at home to look after the burrow and, as she wryly comments, tidy up the mess that five young rabbits have lefta little girl who made a big difference. SmartIsobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, tidy and clean behind the ears the rabbits head off to meet Blackberry and Primrose Longears. The journey because her parents couldn't afford to put 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>}}heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Yeoman Nick Jones and Quentin BlakeSi Clark|title=The Heron and the CraneOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Heron Many children have an obsession and Crane live at opposite ends of the swamp. One day Crane decides that he Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is lonely and he would like to get marriedobsessed with bears. Heron seems the only suitable potential mate, and so he makes his way over to proposeShe collects books about bears. HeronHer favourite toy is Berisford, taken completely a teddy bear passed down by surpriseher grandmother. Every night, reacts badly she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to this sudden proposal and rejects Crane, rather insultingly. Poor Cranethe bear statue outside. As he makes his way home, Heron is overcome with guilt and decides perhaps Every morning she would like says hello to marry him after allBee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849392005</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}