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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma Chichester-ClarkAdam Stower|title=Mimi Murray and Momo: No More Kissing!Bun
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|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…
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|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
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|summary=Momo 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 one puzzled little monkeychasing them. He'Why does there have to be so much kissing?' he askss right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. We travel with him through the jungle, seeing all the kissing that(Please don't try this at home: it won's going ont end well. ) It seems to especially beFortunately, as Momo notesthey were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, Mummies kissing babiesthey escaped. Momo does not want They climbed up to be kissedthe Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, by his family or by people he doesn't know, but no one seems willing to listen to him..Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392315</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon Volke and FenixB0CC9W7GLR|title=Hullabaloo!On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=In 'Hullabaloo!' 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 reader meets a host shoreline. On top of animals that all seem intent on making the ice was a huge amount of noisepolar bear. First As the ice bumped onto the sand, there is a donkey named Drew who is soon joined by a cockatoo who squawks out 'Boo!' There are also twin chimps called Daisy the bear woke and Maisy enjoying their tea as well as hopping bunnies, with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a calf called Cassie (who moos a lot)run for it, downy ducklings, a kangaroo with her little joey, as well as many many morebut Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. As you can imagine, when they all get together they make an incredible hullabaloo as they get up He obviously needed to their varied antics. It's be taken home on the bus and given a great deal of fun good meal and is a story that builds in such a way that it will really appeal somewhere to young childrensleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849563055</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Adrian Reynolds1913839656|title=ILet'm Sure I Saw A Dinosaurs Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=When a child in a small seaside town is sure he saw a dinosaur he runs to tell Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the fishermanbest beetle juice. The fisherman tells He packed two pairs of dungarees and his mum, who tells the butcher, who tells the baker favourite hat and so onthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother...Before you know it She had promised to take him to the whole town are down on Friday Night Club at the beach, local community centre and more and more people are joining them Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to look for the elusive dinosaurmake new friends. It seems, for a long timeAt home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that the little boy must have imagined itmight be because he looked different...was there really a dinosaur on the beach?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708546</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amber Stewart and Layn Marlow1529504775|title=How Many Sleeps?The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=At the start of this book, a Elsie and her little field mouse, Toast, is really looking forward brother David loved to go to his birthday the park and wants to know watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn'how many sleeps?t - he' d been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. There are still quite One day Elsie spotted a few until bus in the big day, in fact, as his mother tells him, there are too many toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to start counting! However, before long, when he asks his daily question, he is told that there are 'just enough sleeps use the coins from her money box to deliver party invitations to all your friends'pay for it as cash was tight at home. Soon after there are just enough sleeps Gradually, David learned to go and collect party decorationsstand up, then to help decorate use the cake and then eventually there are only enough sleeps to wrap the party treatsbus for support, put the candles on the cake and to get an extra special good night's sleepwalk behind it. However Many decades later, at Elsie brought the same timebus, Toast's father is anxiously asking how many sleeps until his little boy's birthdaynow damaged and rusted, but he does not want it to come too soon as he has an extra special present to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make and he is rapidly running out of timeit so that her grandchildren could play with it. The big question is whether he will finish it in time or will there never be enough sleeps?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192780263</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Walker1529504767|title=I Love My MumThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=3.5
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|summary=Ollie B is a little zebra and Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in this story we see him spending time with his mum, doing chores, playing together 1939 and finally being settled down for the night with a goodnight kissnervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. The text is rhyming She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and very simple so itMrs Russell, who couldn's nice t have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and easy for little ones began to followenjoy her life. The situations shown are easily recognisable She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to small children (Christmas Eve Susan and their parents!) as we watch Ollie and his mum hanging out Mr Russell put the washing, going for a walk together, stopping along decorations on the way to look at creepy crawlies, dancing with shadows, walking on walls.Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007309163</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Wiesner1916459943|title=Art and MaxSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=It can take Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a little while to settle into this booksqueakily baby. The format is unusual for a childrenHe's picture book in that itso tired but he can's a lot like a comic t - or a graphic novelwon't - go to sleep: instead, with many pages made up of panels that progress the storyhe just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The story begins even before sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the first pagewaves sing ''hush, with images on hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the title pages that are already introducing the characters and whatsound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''s going onla lou, la lay... '' When they begin And for a moment it seems to speak they are differentiated only by different fonts, so it took have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a page or so to figure out which lizard was which seagull '''shouts''' and who was saying we know exactly what. Once you figure that out though it's a wonderfully funny storygoing to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392668</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Brennan and Harry Harrison140639131X|title=Chinese Calendar Tales: The Tale of Rhonda RabbitA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Here in this tale we find ourselves back in the year 221BC, and the Emperor Qin Shi Huang is having some rodent issues. As this is from a series of books called Philippa Pheasant was ''The Chinese Calendar Talestired'' I think I was expecting of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the story to relate more Old Oak Road. She wrote to the Chinese zodiac and mayor about the rabbitproblem but didn's place within itt even get a reply. However, this is really just Philippa wasn't a story about bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a very naughty rabbit who keeps eating problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the Emperor's vegetables, his mission to capture school crossing and kill her, decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the unfortunate conclusion benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to this romp of provide a tale.safe path overnight..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881888255</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oakley Graham and Fenix1776574338|title=Milly the MeerkatLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=After years Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of no one knowing what a meerkat was tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they seem to be rather fashionable now and this delightful tale is a reworking simply climb out of Aesop's fable about the boy who cried wolfwindow and slide down his neck. Milly was on lookout and was rather boredIt's perfect, so she shouted isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to the others that school? There is a snake was crawling up to problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the baby meerkatscity: he' burrow. Everyone dashed out s always having to help her chase it away be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court he often causes damage without intending to and discovered that she thought her prank was quite funnytraffic regularly gets snarled up. Even when it was explained to her The school decides that she shouldnhe can't do this she did it again – and this time everyone was angrybe the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849563047</amazonuk>
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  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vivian French and Selina Young1776574028|title=The Kitten With No NameBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=I love a good board book! ''The Kitten With No NameBumblebee Grumblebee'' lives under is aimed at quite a hedge niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with his mummywords and make something quite different from each one. ItWe have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant's a very big hedge but it's very cosy and . The Kitten's mummy buffalo who has told him that one day, they will all go had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and live in then dries off with a hair drier becomes a new home with someone ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who will love them both and hug them just the right amountsits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000780</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aesop and Ayano Imai1838226834|title=The Town Mouse and Carried Away With the Country MouseCarnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=3.54
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|summary=Aesop's fable It was one of the town mouse and the country mouse is well knownthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. When visiting They're there to undo all the country mousegood that parents do, town mouse declares that he has so the trips out were always so much nicer food available in his housefun. So country mouse goes A young boy was going to visit him. The food is very fancy and delicious, but the risks in getting it are much greater, and so the country mouse decides to go back to carnival with his quietGrandad, humble home again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881915430</amazonuk>}}who told him:
{{newreview|author=Kveta Pacovska|title=Number Circus: 1 - 10 and Back Again!|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is an unusual counting book which doesn't have a story line, or the usual simplified numbers and related illustrations. 'It seems'll be brilliant, insteadjust remember, like a piece don't let go of art with pictures becoming numbers, or numbers becoming picturesmy hand. It's very interactive, with lots to see and do throughout the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881915295</amazonuk>'
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael EvansB09MYXSRV4|title=Poggle Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and the TreasureHare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|summary=Poggle and his friend Henry are spending a fun day together at When the world was made, the beach playing piratesanimals were given gifts. They have made Bear was given strength so that he could become a pirate ship, eaten protector. Water Spider received a pirate picnic, strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and fought a sea monster! '' the future. Now they're hunting for buried treasure, Rabbit developed intelligence - but rather than a chest full of gold they discover a large, pink egg!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248122</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Linda Newbery|title=Barney the Boat Dog: Very Brave Dog|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Not too long ago Jimunfortunately, Annie and Barney lived in a house by not the canal but after Annie died Jim didn't enjoy living in their house anymore, so he and Barney went ability to live on Jim's narrowboatuse it well. They moved around the canals as they wanted and really had quite a good timeHe liked to trick other animals. There were one or two things He was also jealous which worried Barney but by far the worst was the very scary tunnelhow he came to be in a race with Turtle. It was long You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and dark and water dripped from the roof – and when Barney barked another dog barked back at himsee. Things are not always as they seem. But one day everything went wrong and Barney found himself in the tunnel all on his ownI'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409521982</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juliet David and Helen ProleRob Keeley|title=My Very First Easter - Candle Bible for ToddlersCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=3.54
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|summary=As one of a specially written series of bible stories Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for toddlersyou and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, this board book who tells the Easter story in a very simplified wayher that carrots grow on trees. It would work well for Infuriated, Lily checks with the very young teacher, who you perhaps would explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to experience a taste of bible stories without going into too much detailtell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1859858848</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juliet David and Steve WhitlowB09FFJF8YS|title=The Story of EasterYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|ratingauthor=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This lovely board book of the Easter story gently tells us about Jesus as he rides into Jerusalem on a donkey, shares a meal with his disciples and is betrayed by one of them before facing Pilate and the crowds who condemn him to crucifixion. The story ends with the resurrection Justine Avery and the thought that this is why we celebrate Easter each year.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1859851746</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joanne Partis|title=We're Not Sleepy!Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=It's bedtime'For the big, grownup girls out there, but the three little kittens arenpotty masters in training, "You Can't sleepy. Mum suggests that they count sheep, so they head out to Wear Panties!" is a cry (the farmyard to find sheep to count. They find one shaggy sheepdog, two munching cows, three playful foxes, big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and so onpersevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192731629</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview
|author=Carrie Weston and Tim Warnes
|title=Bravo, Boris!
|rating=4
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|summary=Miss Cluck's class are going on a camping trip. They've got a map, butterfly net, binoculars, and a tent. All the class are carrying something, be it Leticia the rabbit, Maxwell the mole or the little mice. Boris the grizzly bear gets to carry alllllllll the heavy stuff - well, Fergus the fox cub couldn't exactly carry a great big tent, could he? This being a camping trip, the class get up to all sorts of adventures and into all sorts of scrapes. Luckily, they have Boris on hand to help them out.
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{{newreview
|author=Brian Wildsmith
|title=Cat on the Mat and Friends
|rating=4
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|summary=The first story in this book of four, 'Cat on the Mat', is a very simple tale in which each sentence is 'the (animal's name) sat on the mat', the first animal being the cat, with accompanying pictures showing the mat getting more and more crowded. Finally the cat hisses and spits and so we return to just the cat sitting alone on the mat!
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{{newreview
|author=Ann Bonwill and Layn Marlow
|title=Bug and Bear
|rating=4
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|summary=Bug really, really wants to play a game with Bear, but Bear is tired and she wants a nap. Bug follows Bear around everywhere, pestering and pleading until, finally, Bear loses her temper and tells Bug to go away and leave her alone. She finally settles down for her nap but then discovers that she can't sleep...
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{{newreview
|author=Clara Vulliamy
|title=Muffin and the Birthday Surprise
|rating=3.5
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|summary=It's Fizz and Flora's birthday, so Muffin the bear gets ready for the party, and decides to take them a big bag of sugar buns as a present. On his walk to the party, Muffin gets a little bit peckish and has a bit of a nibble of one bun, then another, then another. Erk! He puts the empty bag on the pile of presents and enjoys the party game. Will there be a way to turn an empty bag into a much-loved present?
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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=Francesca Simon Justine Avery and Emily BolamNaday Meldova|title=Where Are My Lambs?Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=When youToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn're just coming t find them irresistibly funny. Funny to terms with this thing called talk about and joke 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 'reading'Everybody Potties!' there's a big jump to be made. Gone are those nice big picture books series takes aim at any shame associated with not too many words tooting and in their place is something much smaller (gently and not nearly so easy to handle – you have to do it yourself) calmly, with a lot more words and probably just a few black and white pictures to break the page up and if youfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots're lucky to give you a clue as to what those pesky words mean. There's a stepping stone along the way now and it might just help children who find that big leap a little daunting.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444001965</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brett McKee and David McKeeB09BG8V3Q6|title=The Tickle Ghost|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=It's Dylan's bedtime, but the Tickle Ghost Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (very possibly his dad with a sheetEverybody Potties!) is out to get him. Cue plenty of giggles and not very much going to bed. Dylan's mum shouts upstairs for them to be quieter, but when the noise continues, she heads up to sort them out. ...Will the Tickle Ghost get her too?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392463</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joanne Partis|title=My Cat Just SleepsJustine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=The little girl ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in this story has a pet cat who she loves, but shethe ''Everybody Potties!'s noticed that whilst her cat spends his days sleeping all her friends' cats seem series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to lead much more exciting lives, hunting take the pain out of potty training children and playing and climbing and fishing..replace it with some fun.she attempts to entice him into doing something active, but he sleeps through it all until, finally, she realises that even if he is very sleepy heIt's also warm and cuddly and affectionate and she loves him very mucha worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. But she still wonders what it is that makes him so sleepy...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192731610</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael ForemanB07GZ81J7C|title=Superfrog!|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Pond City is a peaceful place in the daytime. Little Frank the frog loves simply dangling his toes in the water and watching the world pass by. However, come nighttime, things take a turn for the worse: the Big Boss oversees a crime wave. When Fred the Big Boss' creeps frighten Frank's granny and kidnap some frogspawn she'd been babysitting, enough is enough Snake Got Squished and Frank turns into Superfrog.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392099</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMended|author=Giles Andreae and Emma Dodd|title=I Love My MummyPeter Cotton
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|summary=Mummies are good Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for lots 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 a snake and even those of things - wiping noses, singing us who have 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 immediately became part of the carfamily, helping to the extent that they would take Fred out with wee-wee's! them when they went out for a walk. This sweet story tells us And that was where the best things about mummies from a babyproblem started. Fred didn's point of viewt have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309572</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil Griffiths Justine Avery and Peggy CollinsNaday Meldova|title=Fatou, Fetch the WaterEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
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|summary=is waylaid by various friends who Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have gifts and messages for Fatou to take for her motherlearn about everything else when we are small. As the gifts pile up in FatouWhy shouldn's armst potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the messages for her mother crowd her head Fatou, somehow, forgets to get any water!moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905434162</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil Griffiths Justine Avery and Judith BlakeNaday Meldova|title=Itchy BearNo, No, No!
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|summary=Poor bear has an itchThey say the best picture books are the simplest ones. An all-over sort And nothing could be truer of itchthis latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. And everywhere he goes to try and have a good scratch it seems he's disturbing someone! Will he ever find anywhere for a satisfying scratch?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905434111</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Chris Van Allsburg|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'No, but just brought one picture and caption from each. Burdick was never heard of again. The publisher spent many years trying to track down BurdickNo, showing the pictures to people - many of whom were inspired to write their own stories. (Shh about No!''The rights of Chris Van Allsburg to be identified as...'')is based around the simplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184939279X</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Richard Scarry|title=Best Bedtime Stories Ever|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Richard Scarry's style is instantly recognisable. I grew up reading his books so this collection is a trip down memory lane! Here there are six stories'No, about Huckle the catno, Lowly the wormno! Okay, Mr Raccoon and Mr Frumble the pigokay. Yes, plus a counting section at the backyou may. The stories are 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 and there are hundreds of little details to spot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007413564</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Mary Joslin and Anna Luraschi|title=Simon and That's it! But, like all the Easter Miracle: A Traditional Tale for Easter|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Simon is on his way to market with his eggsbest picture books, wine and bread to sell. On his way he gets caught up in a crowd watching soldiers forcing a man to carry his cross out this tiny snippet of the city. When the man text is unable to carry his cross any longer the soldiers look around for someone else to do a veritable tardis - so, and they pick much bigger on Simon. After carrying the cross to inside that it appears on the place of crucifixion Simon hurries back to get his goods, but he finds they've been spilt, broken and trampled. He returns home, dejected. The next morning, however, he discovers there has been a miracle and there are 12 white doves and Spring has come early to warm his cropsoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0745960545</amazonuk>1638820457
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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 waves. The third tree is cut down and forgotten in barn with a yard until one day it is made into a crosssign outside. It is, of course, the cross Jesus is crucified on and becomes the symbol of hope, forever pointing to heaven.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745961703</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Butterworth|title=Tales From Percy's Parka farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: After all the Storm|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=One day, after a particularly wild stallholders and windy evening, Percy the Park Keeper discovers on his check around the park that an old oak tree has fallen down in the storm. All of the customers are farmyard animals who lived in the tree ask Percy to help them find a new home. He loads them up in his wheelbarrow There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats andchickens, after a bit of an adventureand even some mice. Excited, they finally find a new place for Percy to rebuild their homesKirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007155158</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Alex T Smith|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 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>What will they buy?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kali Stileman0995647895|title=Peely WallySadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen 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>}}
{{newreview|author=Julia Jarman and Adrian Reynolds''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|title=''When Baby Lost Bunnyall the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|rating=4''To the Maritime Museum''. |genre=For Sharing |summary=A little boy goes for a walk with his mum, dad, baby brother Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and dogwent back regularly. Along One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the way baby is trying very hard to tell them all something, but they misunderstand him over closing bell and over again until, frustrated, he starts to crythe attendant's warning shout. Suddenly his big brother figures out what When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the problem is midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and is able to make his baby brother smile againtreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160618</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
|rating=4
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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
|rating=4
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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:
{{newreview|author=Emily Gravett|title=Wolf Won't Bite|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Those three little pigs have captured 'Ice curled across the big bad wolf inside of the window and are showing off all crept up the corner of the tricks they can get him to dobedpost. They make him stand on a stool, and wolf won't bite. They can ride him like a horse, but wolf won't bite. He jumps through hoops and dances, looking more and more frustrated with the pigs' shenanigans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704255</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Chris Judge|title=The Lonely Beast|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The beast likes family didn't go to gardenthe cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. And drink teaThen the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. And read. And bake cakes. But he lives by himselfThis part of the city was cold, sad and he is lonelyand Isobel felt invisible. So one day he decides to go on a journey to try to discover whether there are any other beasts in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392552</amazonuk>
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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}}
{{newreview|author=Catherine Rayner|title=Norris: the Bear Who Shared|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Norris is a bear – a large, brown bear. He'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 Move 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 to fall. In the meantime Tulip and Violet discovered the plorringe too. They had a sniff at it – and it was gorgeous – and even a squeeze which showed that it was soft and fluffy – but what were they to do about Norris who was ''much'' bigger than them and could easily run away with the fruit?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846163099</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]