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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Waddell and Leonie LordAdam Stower|title=The Super Swooper DinosaurMurray 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…
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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=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they'One day, Hal and his little dog, Billy, were out playing when re running for their lives in the sky darkened and.Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He' The next thing Hal knows is that an enormous winged super swooper dinosaur has landed in s right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his garden and wants to playnostrils. Well, you (Please don't really want to argue with a dinosaur that you have only just met so Hal agrees. The first game that the super swooper suggest is Hide-and-seek but it soon becomes apparent that try this at home: it won't be very successful as the dinosaur is too big to hide anywhere in the garden and is easily found by Hal every timeend well. It's time to think of something else but the next idea) Fortunately, dinothey were nearly at Nobby Lob-dancinglolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, is equally unsuccessful when Hal's new playmate ends they escaped. They climbed up dancing on to the roof. Paddling is equally problematic when the super swooper lands Tree Wee homes high up in the little paddling pool tangled woods where they lived with an enormous splash which completely soaks Hal's mum|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408307804</amazonuk>their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Crockett JohnsonB0CC9W7GLR|title=Harold On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and the Purple CrayonJenny Fionda
|rating=5
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|summary=''Harold Kit and the Purple Crayon'' is 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 classic picture book that celebrates the power large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the imaginationshoreline. Harold draws his own journey with On top of the crayonice was a polar bear. When he gets hungryAs the ice bumped onto the sand, he draws himself a picnicthe bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. When he wants to walk through Kit was all for making a forestrun for it, the crayon helps out. His slight figure walks across the plain white pages of the book creating everything but Teal knew that the reader seesbear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. But He obviously needed to be taken home on the things Harold draws don’t always do what he likes, bus and given a good meal and he has to think quickly somewhere to reach the safety of his bed at the end of the talesleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007464371</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mara Bergman and Nick Maland1913839656|title=Snip Snap, look whoLet's back!Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=''Were Todd was excited about spending the people scared? You bet they were!'' So says Mara Bergman when weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the alligator from ''Snip Snap! What’s that?'' returns for further slightly scary funbest beetle juice. The original story is a sure fire hit as a read aloud He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and fans will definitely want then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to try take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this sequelas he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444902474</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross1529504775|title=Fly, Chick, FlyThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Do you have a born worrier in your family? This picture book is for themElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Two of Elsie would race the owlets in buses along the tale leave side of the nest park but David couldn't - he'd been born with excitement cerebral palsy and confidenceeven just standing up was very difficult. The third one is too much of One day Elsie spotted a thinker bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for her own goodit as cash was tight at home. When her parents say she has Gradually, David learned to flystand up, she replies ''If I flyuse the bus for support, the crow might get meand walk behind it.''<br>''If I fly Many decades later, Elsie brought the rain might wet me.''<br>''If I flybus, a train might hit me.''<br>''My sister flew now damaged and never came backrusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.''<br>''Why would I want to fly?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393443</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Smriti Prasadam-Halls and David Wojtowycz1529504767|title=Elephant PantsThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=''Oh, fiddle-dee fickers,''<br>''Where, oh where, oh''<br>''WHERE are my knickers?”'' This is the plaintive cry Susan was very young when she was evacuated from Major Trump that sets the tone at the start of this wonderfully entertaining story London in 1939 and sends Noah and all the animals on the ark into a flapnervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. Major Trump asks Noah She needn't have worried though as she went to help locate the missing undies which are a fetching red pair with white hearts that match his wifehome of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn'st have been kinder to her. Noah calls an ark alert and gathers She even had her own room - all the other animals round in order to line up and display the pants that they are wearingherself. What then follows is a comical parade of animal pairs showing of their weird Gradually she relaxed and wonderful underwearbegan to enjoy her life. There are hippos brandishing stars and stripes pants, flamingos She'd help Mrs Russell with frilly knickers, tigers in super-strength drawers the baking and horses wearing ones that are organic, recycled when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and handmadeMr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. I have only mentioned a few of what is quite a sensational collection of varied underwear The best surprise happened the following morning. Unfortunately, no one is wearing the missing undies but perhaps there is another explanation for where they might be!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408313472</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Mayhew1916459943|title=Katie in LondonSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
|rating=4
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|summary=Katie is visiting London with her little brother Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and her Grandma''wails''. When Grandma gets tired they stop The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a while sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in Trafalgar Square- ''la lou, and whilst Grandma rests on la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a bench Katie seagull '''shouts''' and her brother find themselves we know exactly what's going on a magical adventure with one of the Trafalgar Square lions! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408323850</amazonuk>to happen next.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cressida Cowell and Neal Layton (illustrator)140639131X|title=Cheer Up Your Teddy Bear, Emily Brown!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=Emily Brown and her rabbit, Stanley, are having fun indoors on Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a very grey and rainy dayreply. They meet Philippa wasn't a small, very wet little teddy bear who is singing sad, self-commiserating songs bird to herself about how sad 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 lonely decided that she iswould set up something similar herself. Of course, Emily Her uniform and Stanley feel compelled lollipop stick were both a little amateur to help, so they take start with but the teddy with them to benefits were obvious. All the Outback of Australia, but will they manage to cheer animals used the little teddy crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408308495</amazonuk>to provide a safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tatyana Feeney1776574338|title=Small BunnyLeilong's Blue BlanketToo Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
|rating=4
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|summary=Small Bunny has a blue blanket. He loves Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his blanket very much and takes it everywhere way through the city, picking up children as he goes. It helps him Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to do all go downstairs – they simply climb out of the things he enjoys doing, like swinging window and painting and readingslide down his neck. Of course It's perfect, this means that Blue Blanket gets rather dirtyisn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and so one day Mummy says that both Small Bunny – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and Blue Blanket need to have a wash.traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>019275792X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rob Scotton1776574028|title=Secret Agent Splat!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
|rating=4
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|summary=Splat the Cat has I love a collection of wooden ducks, made by his father, that he good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is very proud of. He keeps them in aimed at quite a display case in niche market: it's for the garden shed and child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has named every one of them. Therefore, mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can imagine his dismay when ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one day he discovers that . We have the red duck is missingelephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The following day he discovers that the blue buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck is missing although the red one has been returned) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. He would have been happy about this apart from the fact that its beak The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is missing. The day after, the blue onea ''crynoceros''s back (minus its beakthink about it!) but the green one is no longer there The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm....... It'' OK, let's certainly a mystery and Splat is determined to get to the bottom of it with a little help from his friend, Seymour. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007463383</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David McKee1838226834|title=Elmer and ButterflyCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4.5
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|summary=One day, Elmer, the patchwork elephant, is out walking when he hears a cry for help. It's his cousin, Wilbur, playing tricks and because was one of this, when Elmer hears a second cry for help he is tempted to ignore itthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. Luckily, he doesnThey't thoughre there to undo all the good that parents do, as this time so the plea is for real as Butterfly is trapped behind a fallen branchtrips out were always so much fun. It does not take Elmer long A young boy was going to set the carnival with his small friend free andGrandad, of course, Butterfly is enormously grateful. Anxious to return the favour, Butterfly promises to repay Elmer one day and tells who told him just to call if help is needed. Elmer thinks that is highly unlikely and, as he goes on his way, he chuckles:
''A butterfly saving and elephantIt'll be brilliant, just remember, thatdon's a good one!t let go of my hand.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709380</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom LichtenheldB09MYXSRV4|title=Wumbers|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Otter''Wumbers'' mixes - as you might have guessed - words s Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and numbers. Think text speak that doesn't horrify stuffy parents. Each page takes in a different scene, with a speech bubble along the lines of ''Look at his 2can ta2!"" It takes a little bit of decoding for its young readers (and rapidly ageing reviewers) but look upon it as a bit of a game, and it's good fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452110220</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHare|author=David Conway and Melanie Williamson|title=The Great Fairy Tale DisasterCordellya Smith|rating=54
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|summary='Once Upon a Time there lived an old Big Bad Wolf. He no longer had any huff and puff to blow down When the Three Little Pigs' house and he'd had enough of falling into hot water.' Wellworld was made, when it's put like that it's no wonder that the Big Bad Wolf decides animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he has had enough of his own particular fairy talecould become a protector. He decides Water Spider received a strong web that he needs a nice relaxing one instead and thinks even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he would fit in well to could see the present ''Cinderellaand''the future. However Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, when a very nervous Cinderella allows him not the ability to use it well. He liked to take her place, trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how hecame to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not too happy to find himself in a dress fair contest but wait and glass slipperssee. It's Things are not good for his macho wolfalways as they seem. I's image at allll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989971</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard ByrneRob Keeley|title=The Really, Really, Really Big DinosaurCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=Finlay Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is what keen to explain how good they are for you might call a ''little'' dinosaur; there are certainly plenty bigger than himand how nice to eat. One day, a big dinosaur walks past and Finlay offers to share his jelly beans poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with him. But the big dinosaur wants all the jelly beans for himself and even though Finlay teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the jelly beans actually belong ground. Jordan says, "I did try to his really big friend and they aren't his to give awaytell her, the big dinosaur just puffs up his chest Miss!" and tells Finlay to let his friend know that he's going to take the jelly beans all for himself anywayeveryone laughs at poor Lily. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192757636</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brett McKee and Ella BurfootB09FFJF8YS|title=Monsters DonYou Can't CryWear Panties!(No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=43.5
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|summary=''Archie awoke with a shout in For the night.''<br>''Only a dreambig, but what a terrible fright.''<br>''Well monsters may roargrownup girls out there, may growl or just sigh,''<br>''But monsters are strongthe potty masters in training, monsters don"You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry(the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''.
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|summary=''Here is MayflyToots, trumps, farts.Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn''<br>''It is her first day on eartht find them irresistibly funny.''<br>''It is also her last'' This is the way that this wonderful book starts Funny to talk about and the reader is left in no doubt joke about, that a mayfly's life is quite an extraordinary . But horribly embarrassing if you let one. We go on to discover all at the amazing things that the mayfly is able to see and do in this one special daywrong time. It will see eggs hatchIn class, lambs trying to standsay, taste honey on plants when everyone will hear it and feel the warmth of the sun as well as the summer raineveryone will laugh. At you. These are just some of the things that the mayfly will experience Justine Avery's latest entry in this one remarkable day. The day ends her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the mayfly laying her own eggs and leaving them to hatchfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842706063</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mandy SutcliffeB09BG8V3Q6|title=Belle & Boo Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and the Birthday SurpriseSeema Amjad
|rating=4.5
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|summary=What a lovely story''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! Belle and Boo are always together. Belle '' is a little girl and Boo is her rabbit. One day Belle is very busy preparing for a birthday. Together they make a card, and some cakes, and set up a picnic the latest release in the garden. But who's birthday is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408316080</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Caryl Hart and Leonie Lord|title=Whiffy Wilson|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Wilson is a terribly dirty little wolf who never washes, or brushes his hair, or changes his underwear'Everybody Potties! His mum seems at a loss, demanding that he has a bath or he can't go out ' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to play but Wilson, take the naughty wolf, just runs away pain out of potty training children and hides! replace it with some fun. It is only when he meets a little girl called Dotty that he does anything about how stinky he is. She thinks he's a monster he's so smellyworthy aim, and when that makes him feel sad Dotty says they can soon sort things out and takes him home for a bath!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140830919X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jo Empson|title=Rabbityness|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Rabbit is a very rabbity rabbitas any frustrated parent will tell you. He loves doing rabbity things like hopping and jumping, washing his ears and burrowing. He also likes doing unrabbity things too, like painting, and making music, filling the woods where he lives with music and colour! But one day, Rabbit disappears. Where has he gone? The other rabbits find everything has become grey and silent without Rabbit. They find that Rabbit left behind some gifts, lots of things to make colour and music with. Together they all begin to discover that they enjoy doing unrabbity things, and that doing these things makes them think of Rabbit and they feel happy .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846434823</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David McKeeB07GZ81J7C|title=DenverWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton
|rating=4.5
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|summary=DenverMeet Fred. Well, who was extremely richactually, lived in Berton Manoryou're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. He was so rich that he was able to employ But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a chauffeur, bit more about Fred. Fred is a cook snake and some gardeners. When he invited friends even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to dinner he was able to employ more people warm to serve all of the foodhim. This was very good for the village of Berton He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he was paying could breathe and immediately became part of the people who live there. Not only thatfamily, he always did his shopping in Berton, presented prizes at to the local school and, at Christmas, dressed up as Santa and handed extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out presentsfor a walk. It seems quite obvious And that many people in was where the village were able to benefit from his wealthproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393893</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Satoshi KitamuraJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Pot-San's Tabletop Tales|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We love all things Japanese in our house having visited the country a few times and come home laden with books and movies and general cute knick-knacks galoreEverybody Pees! So I was excited to read this story to my little girl all about Pot-san, a teapot, and his other tabletop friends who have lots of adventures together(Everybody Potties!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393788</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ronda Armitage and Arthur Robins|title=Small Knight and George and the Pirates|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Small Knight and George (a little red dragon) live together in an old castle, a rather crumbling old castle that's in desperate need of repair. There's no money to fix things up however, so Mum and Dad Knight decide to send Small Knight off with a treasure map to be a pirate, to get them some treasure so they can fix up the castle! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408312735</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Cabrera|title=Fetch|rating=4.5
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|summary=Fetch is a little black dog who one day turns up in the village and proves to Can potty training ever be very useful to everyone. He fetches things at home for Rosajoyous? It often isn't, he fetches newspapers at the newsstand and parcels at the post office. He's helpful wherever he goesas any parent will tell you. But one dayreally, Fetch has disappeared...what could he why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have gone to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn'fetch' this time..t potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408313871</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick SharrattJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Fancy Dress FarmyardNo, No, No!
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|summary=There's a party at They say the best picture books are the farmyard and it's going to simplest ones. And nothing could be fancy dresstruer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. Let's turn the pages together and find out who has come dressed as what!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140711591X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonny Duddle194812467X|title=The Pirates Next DoorFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Matilda lives Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the little seaside town top of Dull-on-Sea where the average age is 67hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. The house next door has been empty since she was It's a baby and she ''longs'' for farm shop! But this is a family farm shop with a girl of her own age to move in but instead a family of pirates move into difference: all the decrepit old house - complete with their pirate shipstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, treasure chestsgoats and chickens, barrels of grog and Jim Lad who is in Matilda's class at schooleven some mice. The neighbours - wellExcited, the town - are not pleased, so what will the pirate family do to win them round? Meanwhile, Matilda is having a lot of funKirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848773927</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Melling0995647895|title=Hugless Douglas Sadie and the Big SleepSea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Douglas is excited! HeSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on his way for a sleepover and his friend Rabbit's housewhat she should be doing. First there is the packing, then there's She lives by the journey to get there River Thames at Greenwich and on his way Douglas runs into rather a lot of little sheep who decide she loves to tag along for the sleepover toospend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Rabbit's house ends up being very crowded, but they manage to come up with an acceptable solution for everyone, after only a little bit of trouble!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444901486</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Elliott1782227741|title=Cub's First SummerLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the first day of summer, water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and when Cub wakes up, Mum suggests is sucked down a walk in drain on the side of the forest togetherstreet. Finding himself As Cub and Mum explore Cub bombards his mum with questions (down in true toddler fashion!) about the heatsewer, about Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the length attention of Reg the dayssewer rat, about who plucks him out of the flowers and the birdsdirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. They spend Reg is a happy day together, enjoying the delights of summer until the sky grows darker kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a thunderstorm approachesnice bowl of broth. Quickly, they run back home and as the storm rages they enjoy one more pleasure, snuggling up together for sleepy time!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849566100</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge BlochB08R7LXQ9S|title=Reach for the Stars Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Other Advice for Life's JourneyCaroline Siegal
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|summary=A young boy Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and RogerBrandon, his doghave been laughing at Remy, receive some traditional advice about how calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they should live their livesare not stupid. We've all heard the sentiments (They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and being honest - not always in then push him just that little bit further when the best of circumstances) many times but Serge Bloch gives us his interpretation of other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the words which we hear so ofteninstigator. Boy (for And then he has no other name) is told that he has his whole life ahead of him - gets into trouble at school and gazes at the future through a telescope. Itteachers don's the first of almost thirty delightful illustrations designed t believe him when he tries to make us think about explain what we're sayinghappened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1402797591</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jez Alborough1471191303|title=Six Little ChicksThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=It's a beautiful day and Hen has already given birth to five fine chicks. She still has one more egg to hatch though so she still needs to sit on that while the other chicks explore and play outside. She This is just settling down when she hears Owl’s loud 'To-wit-to-woo!' telling them that the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big, bad fox is on the prowldifference. She dashes out to see all Isobel lived with her chicks playing happily with no wolf parents in sight so she warns them to stay close and goes back to her egg. Not long after, Goose comes along with a similar warning but still there is no fox. Finally though, the fox does arrive and although the chicks are now hiding in the hen house, he entices them to 'come closer'. It looks as if time may be up for these sweet little creatures. Luckily though, the fifth chick had been kicking - a stick whichvery cold house, in the little onesbecause her parents couldn' attempts t afford to get away, flies up in put the air and manages to land in the fox's mouth wedging it open. This is very fortunate as it is just in time for them to see their sixth little brother or sister be born!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857530305</amazonuk>}}heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Saviour Pirotta Nick Jones and Cecilia JohanssonSi Clark|title=Grimm's Fairy Tales: RumplestiltskinOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=We're back with Big Bear Many children have an obsession and little bear again and this timeSandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, Big Bear is teaching little bear all obsessed with bears. She collects books about the animals from little bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear's big ''Book About Animals'' as they are settling passed down for bed one by her grandmother. Every night. But Big Bear keeps mixing them up , she looks out of her bedroom window and once again little says goodnight to the bear has statue outside. Every morning she says hello to keep putting him straight: 'This is Bee Bear, a fishcolourful painted bear that lives at her school. It She even has very soft fur. If you give it a cuddle, you'll hear it go 'purr'… 'Hang bears on a minute! A fish can't do that. If it's purry and furry, it must be a... *open flap* CATher bedroom wallpaper!'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340989890</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}