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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=When you see Murray is supposed to be a new book by Julia Donaldson humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and Axel Scheffler you know iteat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's already set to be a best seller and that youbad magician're in for s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a treat! Here Donaldson takes hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the refrain from ''The Highwayman'' by Alfred Noyes regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and weaves whiffs. This time round it drops them into a story about Viking land, where a rather naughty rat who just cantroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he't stop stealing everyone elses turned up and he's food!ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407124382</amazonuk>0008561249
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rutu Modan1732898766|title=Maya Makes a MessThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=For once it is almost impossible to make a plot summary without giving almost the whole game away – such is When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the brevity Forest of this bright and breezy book for those youngsters still reading with some supervisionFine Repute. Maya 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 nothing she can do when eating lunch is to her parents' taste – her posture, her table manners or her use a ladder of the dog moss and vines was lowered for leftoversthem, they escaped. But lo and behold when they give They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the Queen as an example tangled woods where she might need more decorumthey lived with their Grand Wees, there then comes a summons to dinner from the Queen – who would be more than surprised to see Maya in action…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1935179179</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane HisseyB0CC9W7GLR|title=Little Bear's Trousers|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Little Bear wakes up one sunny morning to discover that he has lost his trousers he feels sure that he will find them quickly with the help of his friends. However, although Old Bear, Camel, and On the others have all seen Little Bear’s trousers no-one knows where they are now. So Little Bear sets off on a journey to visit all his friends in search of his missing trousers. What has happened to them? Will Little Bear and his trousers be reunited?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908177837</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBeach: The Winter Visitor|author=Jane Hissey|title=Old Bear StoriesChris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=The Old Bear stories are delightful. This collection brings together five stories into one book, introducing us Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to Old Bearbe at home, Little Bearbored but warm, Jolly Tall or frozen cold and all building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the other toy friendsshoreline. The toys look like all those lovely old fashioned toys that children used to have, jointed teddy bears and fuzzy rabbits, and On top of the stories too have ice was a sweet, old fashioned appealpolar bear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908759933</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|title=Tales for Great Grandchildren |rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I love old folk tales and fables. The treasure chest of myth and legend contains universal stories As the ice bumped onto the sand, as relevant today as they were in the ancient communities in which they were first told. They speak of love, loss, jealousy, courage, cowardice bear woke and grief. They wonder about with wobbly legs moved from the world in which we liveice. They offer explanations Kit was all for making a run for it, some magical, some plain common sensebut Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. They're joyful. They're sad. And sometimes they're frightening. They have all He obviously needed to be taken home on the light bus and given a good meal and shade that adds up somewhere to the human experiencesleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095692123X</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Pouroulis and Jon Lycett-Smith1913839656|title=MumLet's Cronky CarCelebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=Mum's car is, wellTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the most recent modelbest beetle juice. In fact it's falling apart He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and wouldn't even start if it didn't get a push from Dadthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. The journey She had promised to school in this patchwork car held together by bits of string and willpower is full of uncertainty. When they stop take him to the Friday Night Club at the traffic lights will the car move again - local community centre and when it just dies in traffic what can they do? Then one day something rather magical happensTodd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. They're stalled in trafficAt home, wondering what to do next, when the car drifts into the sky his only friend was his mum and flies them all to the school gateshe wondered why that could be. Suddenly this isn't an old wreck but an adventureGrandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957308701</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David McKee1529504775|title=Elmer, Rose and Super El|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Elmer, the patchwork elephant, his cousin Wilbur and some of their friends were listening to a distant noise. Elmer agreed that it sounded like a herd of elephants but it wasn't ''his'' herd. He and Wilbur set off to find out what was happening. It was the herd of pink elephants, which included Elmer's friend, Rose and Old who was celebrating his hundredth birthday. As Old stood at the top of the cliff all the other elephants began stamping their feet - and the cliff gave way. Old was left stranded on a column of rock which was crumbling ominously. This was a job for Super El.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394504</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Adele Geras Amy Sparkes and Sophy Williams|title=It's Time For BedKatie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's bedtime for Little Hare but in 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 way side of all small children the park but David couldn't - he looks for ways to delay THAT moment'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. Mouse isn't One day Elsie spotted a bus in bed yet the toy shop window which would help David - and a lullaby has was happy to be sung use the coins from her money box to him. Then pay for it's Bird who also needs a lullaby, as does Frog..cash was tight at home. Eventually Little Hare gets Gradually, David learned to bathtime - but then stand up, use the ducks need a lullaby toobus for support, and walk behind it. And when nearly EVERYONE - animals Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and toys - has had their lullaby - there's rusted, to the inevitable drink of water and Repair Shop, hoping that the last lullaby is for Little Hareexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848122500</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Griffith and Chistine Grove1529504767|title=Esme's EggThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|ratingauthor=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Every day in the laying season Esme the hen laid an egg and every day Farmer Ferguson came along and removed it. Esme tried being a little bit devious but wherever she laid her egg Farmer Ferguson came along and took it away. Nothing daunted, Esme decided that she was going to follow her egg and so began a trip which involved a van and a warehouse and another van Amy Sparkes and finally a supermarket before Farmer Ferguson arrived to take Esme and six chicks back to the farm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905434979</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anna Dewdney|title=Llama Llama Red PyjamaKatie Hickey
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|summary=Every parent will know the bedtime game: it looks 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 though we're all settled down, on she went to the edge home of sleep Mr and itMrs Russell, who couldn's time for Mummy t have been kinder to slip away and get on with her. She even had her own room - all that has to be done, but then.herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. ThereShe's a call: a drink of water still seems to be d help Mrs Russell with the favourite baking and Baby Llama is no exception. Like most children he just wants when it came to hang Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on to his mother for that ''little'' bit longerthe Christmas tree. Only Llama Mama is busy washing up and then The best surprise happened the phone rings... ''She's'' distracted but Baby Llama is ''distraught'' and works himself up into something of a tizzyfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910876</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carrie Weston and Tim Warnes1916459943|title=Boris Saves the ShowSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=Bookbag has enjoyed BorisMuch as mothers love their babies, there' previous adventures in [[Ohs something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, Boris! by Carrie Weston|Oh, Boris!]] he just lies on his blanket and [[Bravo, Boris! by Carrie Weston and Tim Warnes|Bravo, Boris!]] so I was keen to see what Boris was up ''wails''. The sea offers to this time aroundhelp. WeIt rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''re back amongst familiar faceshush, in Miss Cluckhush''s school, . Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and this time Miss Cluck has decided you have the class will put on an end of term showsound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, and that there will be special guests from the Pond Side Nursery coming la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to watch too! have worked as Baby closes his eyes. But Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what role will Boris take in the show?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192758276</amazonuk>'s going to happen next.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Fox and Christyan Fox140639131X|title=Rain or Shine (Snip and Snap)A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=ItPhilippa Pheasant was 's an important lesson 'tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to learn, if youcross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn're growing up in t even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the UK - lollipop lady at the perils of planning an outdoor picnic! school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Snip Her uniform and Snap have decided lollipop stick were both a little amateur to have a picnic, start with but as poor Snip tries to get ready he finds that the changeable weather thwarts his plans at every step! benefits were obvious. Will he ever manage All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to eat his picnic with his friend Snap?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408316129</amazonuk>provide a safe path overnight.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenni Desmond1776574338|title=Red Cat, Blue Cat|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Red Cat and Blue Cat donLeilong't get on. They don't get on at all. They hiss and scratch and stumble and thwump. They fight like... well, cat and cat. Each cat has a secret, though: each cat would quite like to be like the other. Blue Cat would like to be fast and bouncy like Red Cat, and Red Cat would like to be smart and quick-witted like Blue Cat. Blue Cat tries to turn red, by eating red things. Red Cat copies him. Neither changes colour, and neither takes on the characteristics of the other. Who'd have thunk it? They're going to have to come up with another plan.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>160905248X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviews Too Long!|author=Ruth Brown|title=A Dark, Dark TaleJulia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5
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|summary=Once upon a timeEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, there was a darkmakes his way through the city, dark moorpicking up children as he goes. On that moor was Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a dark, dark wood. That wood has more fun way of going to school? There is a darkproblem, darkthough... well, you get Leilong isn't happy in the idea. Darkness is compounded by darkness, city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and we delve deeper – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and deeper into this spooky story, to find what lies at traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the heart of itbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709895</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|author=Adrian Reynolds and Thomas Taylor|title=The Pets You Get!|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A young boy doesn't like the boring guinea pig his sister has. He'd much rather have a dog... no, a grizzly bear... no, a DRAGON! He runs through a number of options for whizz-bang pets that are much more exciting. However, his sister keeps selling the option of the guinea pig. Maybe, just maybe, he'll come to appreciate the little scurrying creature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184270642X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derek Mulveen and Michelle Melville1776574028|title=Oisin the Brave: Moon Adventure|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=After a long day of play Oisin and his friend Orane the Dragon were resting beside the old oak tree and watching the sun go down. They wondered which of the stars would be first to come out to play and it wasn't long before they saw the Big Dipper, the Milky Way and the North Star - that's the one that used to guide explorers home. But then Oisin spotted something very unusual: there was a flashing light coming from the surface of the moon. Before long the two friends had powered up their space ship and they were on their way to the moon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957230001</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Margaret Mahy and Gavin Bishop|title=Mister WhistlerDavid Elliott
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|summary=Mister Whistler wakes up I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a 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 head full of singing words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and dancingbecomes a ''balletphant''. A phone call comes from The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his Aunt asking him to come over and help but the song ice cream cone is still humming away in a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his head and his feet are twitching to dancepotty changes into a ''sm....... '' Can he dress himself and get ready to OK, let's not go without the tune interrupting him too much?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>187746791X</amazonuk>there Some people are eating!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Mackey1838226834|title=Miki and Carried Away With the Wishing StarCarnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=Miki and penguin and polar bear It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all share the same birthdaygood that parents do, and they're very excited about each getting a birthday wish when they blow so the trips out their candleswere always so much fun. Penguin goes first, wishing that he were A young boy was going to the biggest penguin of all! Just what will he get up to if carnival with his wish comes true?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444901362</amazonuk>}}Grandad, who told him:
{{newreview|author=Fiona Goble|title=Fiona Goble's Fairy Tale Knits: 20 Enchanting Characters to Make|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary='It's a lovely idea: knitting patterns for twenty fairy tale characters and a brief story to ll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go with them. There's the pleasure of knitting the characters and then of a child playing with them alongside a story and then being able to use their imaginations to built their own storiesmy hand. Best of all, it's done without a battery or a computer/games console in sight. It's a winner all round.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005467</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|authortitle=Jeanne Willis Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Tony RossHare|titleauthor=HippospotamusCordellya Smith
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|summary=Poor hippo has found When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a spot on her bottomstrong web that even fire could not burn. All of her friends have an opinion about what might be wrong with herOwl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, ranging from measles not the ability to hippopox or perhaps an allergy use it well. He liked to cake! trick other animals. They all have suggestions, too, as He was also jealous which was how he came to how hippo be in a race with Turtle. You might get rid of the spot think that's not a fair contest but wait and poor hippo tries them allsee. Will anything ever get rid of that nasty spot?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394032</amazonuk>Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David WiesnerRob Keeley|title=TuesdayCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=What do you call a man who illustrates books in such a way that 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 you can sit and stare at individual pictureshow nice to eat. One day, as much enthralled poor Lily gets tricked by their detail as if they were hung in a gallery? A man Jordan, who has such trust in his readers tells her that he can tell a complex story without a word of text? Or one carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who can produce this wordless book and ensure explains that it appeals to children fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to adults in equal measure? Welltell her, he's called David Wiesner Miss!" and he's a geniuseveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849394474</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T SmithB09FFJF8YS|title=Claude in the Country|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Thank goodness Alex T Smith is doing such a grand job of continuing to feed my Claude habit. Growing up I always had a bit of a thing for Snoopy, but now I do like to steal the Claude stories away from my daughter and curl up to read them myself as they always cheer me up. This time Claude (and Sir Bobblysock, we mustnYou Can't forget himWear Panties! (No More Nappies!) have a grand adventure in the countryside. So what with chickens and sheep and pigs and cowpats...what could possibly go wrong?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444909282</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jackie French Justine Avery and Bruce Whatley|title=Diary of a Christmas WombatKate Zhoidik
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|summary=There is one thing which makes Christmas special for Mothball ''For the Wombat. Presents? No. Fun and games? No. It's carrots. Yes - carrots. Mothball eatsbig, sleepsgrownup girls out there, scratchesthe potty masters in training, occasionally nibbles "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a tasty stem cry (the big-girl kind!) of grass, scratches toilet triumph and sleeps some more. The highlight of her day is when she discovers that people leave carrots out for reindeer (for some, obscure reasonpersevering panty pride...) and provided that she is willing to do battle with said reindeer she can munch away to her heart's content. It's when she discovers that a sleigh is a wonderful place for postprandial nap that she is taken on a very exciting journey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007490712</amazonuk>}}
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|summary=It's amazing what you can do with a Grandpa - some you might well have thought about already, such as cash machine, taxi, dance partner and dictionary, but you might never have thought of using him as a basketball hoop, tailor or butler, but perhaps the most important of all forty in the book is ''friend''. It's a delightful celebration of all that's wonderful about being a grandparent - and a grandchild.
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{{newreview|author=Philip C Stead and Erin E Stead|title=Bear Has And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a Story little girl's final goodbye to Tell|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Winter is drawing closer, nappies and pull-ups and Bear has a story to tell his friends. Unfortunately, everyone is too busy graduation to hear Bear's story "proper" pants by following her around as they are all trying she proudly explains to get ready for winter. Bear slowly, kindlyher dog, helps them all to get ready until all his friends are asleep or awayher cat, her stuffed rabbit and so there is no one left to tell his story to. Will anyone want to listen when winter is finally over and theyher baby sibling that ''she're all awake again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395187</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elisabeth Beresford|title=The Snow Womble|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Bloomsbury have been doing a fabulous job bringing the equally fabulous Wombles to a new - and hopefully more environmentally aware - children. And they haven't forgotten either Christmas or the littlest members of the family. Here is a little story with a wintry theme featuring our favourite ecocan wear super-lovers-not-fighers in picture book format. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408834243</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David McKee|title=Not Nowduper proper pants, Bernard|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Do you always have time for your little ones? When while they ask you a questioncannot. Neither can the flowers, do you always stop and listen or are you, like most parentsnor the fish, prone to nor the birds. Boy'not just now, sweethearts certainly can' or the t. She'just s a minute, darling' response? Poor Bernard has two busy parents, big girl now and when he brings them his very serious problem they unfortunately don't take the time she wants everyone to listen, with disastrous consequencesknow it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394679</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul Stewart Justine Avery and Chris RiddellNaday Meldova|title=A Little Bit of WinterEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=We [[RabbitToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn's Wish by Paul Stewart t find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and Chris Riddell|already know]] joke about, that Rabbit and Hedgehog are best friends despite is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the fact that Rabbit is awake all day wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and Hedgehog is awake at nighteveryone will laugh. At you. Now thereJustine Avery's going to be a new challenge for the friendship. Itlatest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!''s nearly winter series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and Hedgehog is ready to go to sleep until spring but Rabbit will be awake gently and coping calmly, with the worst familiar humour attached, explains that the weather can throw at him - and trying to find food even when the ground tooting is covered in snowperfectly normal. Hedgehog has a request - heEverybody does it: ''d like Rabbit to save him a little bit of winter because he doesnEverybody Toots't know what it's like.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0862649986</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oliver JeffersB09BG8V3Q6|title=This Moose Belongs To Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Wilfred owns a moose. His moose’s name ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is Marcel and most of the time Marcel follows Wilfred’s rather lengthy rules on how to be latest release in the perfect pet''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. However some This series of fun picture books aims to take the rules are rather too demanding for an independent moose pain out of potty training children and Marcel develops a tendency to take Wilfred on very long walksreplace it with some fun. One day on It's a particularly lengthy walk they meet an old lady who greets Marcel enthusiasticallyworthy aim, 'Rodrigo! You’re back!' Does the moose really belong to Wilfred? How can he prove that Marcel is his perfect pet?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007263872</amazonuk>as any frustrated parent will tell you. .
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|authortitle=Mij Kelly When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mary McQuillanMended|titleauthor=A Bed of Your OwnPeter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=Suzy Sue has brushed her teethMeet Fred. Well, picked up her teddy and clambered into her bedactually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. She is ready to fall asleep any moment until she realises that something is not quite right: '' But I'm squished. getting ahead of myself: I'm squashedd better tell you a bit more about Fred. I'm uncomfy! she said Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him.<br>''I think there's something wrong He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with my bedthem when they went out for a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999284</amazonuk>t have any road sense. Or brakes.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leo TimmersJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Magical Life of Mr RennyEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Our story begins with the words ''This is not an apple'Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn' below a painting of a bright greent, juicy-looking appleas any parent will tell you. The apple in question has been painted by Mr Renny who is such a good painter that whatever he paints looks But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just like the real thingas we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Unfortunately for Mr Renny thoughWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, no-one wants to buy his paintings from him and so one daysay, a mysterious man in a bowler hat comes along learning about why the sun and offers Mr Renny the chance to have everything he paints become real. Will this be moon take turns in the making of Mr Rennysky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1877579203</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rod CampbellJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Dear Zoo Touch and FeelNo, No, No!
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|summary=[[Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell]], They say the original lift best picture books are the flap storysimplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, is one of our most a Bookbag favourite books. If asked I would give it 5 stars ''No, 6 starsNo, maybe even 10 starsNo! It's incredibly readable, interactive and a fun story to share over and over and over again. Now ' is based around the story has been modernised to give each page a sensory patch, where you and baby can touch and feel the different animalssimplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230757871</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Helen Stephens|title=How to Hide a Lion|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Lions - dangerous? Pah. They're so gentle that a little could have one as a pet. That's exactly what Iris does when a lion wanders into townNo, no, no! Okay, okay. Her parents wouldn't see things as she doesYes, so Iris decides to hide the lion around the houseyou may.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121618</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Gwen Millward|title=Bear and Bird|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Bear and bird are best friends. They do everything together. They work together, play together, collect firewood together. However, one eveningThat's it! But, Bird burns like all the firewoodbest picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so Bear sighs and heads out to collect some more. When he doesn't return for hours, Bird worries, and heads out to find his best friendmuch bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405254270</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Willis-Crowley194812467X|title=Mary Had A Little LambThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Mary Had A Little Lamb is Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a much-loved nursery rhymewalk. We Kirelle is dressed for all know 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 story top of its fleece as white as snowthe hill, and that it followed Mary to school one daythey see a big barn with a sign outside. Kate Willis-Crowley takes It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the nursery rhyme, stallholders and presents it in its purest formcustomers are farmyard animals. There's no twistare sheep and ducks and cows, no unusual rewritinggoats and chickens, it's simply the sweet rhyme of a girl and her lamb that is familiar to alleven some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999764</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|title=My Happy Life|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Dani can't sleep she doesn't count sheep, she counts all the times that she's been happy! And Dani has been happy a lot of times. She's happy because she's about to start school, though she's nervous about making new friends. But then she meets Ella, and Ella becomes the very best friend she could ever have wished for. They have so much fun together, but then one day Ella tells Dani that she is moving house, and suddenly Dani isn't happy any more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467804</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Valerie Thomas Sadie and Korky Paulthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Winnie's Dinosaur DayMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Winnie and Wilbur are Sadie's mother always happy to queue up with everyone else to visit their favourite museumsaid that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. There are so many things to look at and play with but best of all is the dinosaur room. Winnie is fascinated She lives by the dinosaurs River Thames at Greenwich and tells Wilbur that she would love loves to see a real one. One time when they visit, they discover that it is actually Dinosaur Week and that there is an exciting competition to make a model spend hours at The Maritime Museum or draw a picture to show what the museum's dinosaur skeleton would have looked like when it was alivegazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192794019</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|author=Mario Ramos''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|title=I Am So Strong|rating=4''To the Maritime Museum''.5|genre=For Sharing |summary=There's no hiding the fact that the wolf is a bullyHer imagination was fired. After heShe's had his meal (obviously it was a good one) he goes for a walk in the woods d love to aid sail the digestion oceans on an ancient sailing ship and to find out what everyone thinks of himwent back regularly. First he meets One day she fell asleep under a little rabbit, who agrees that glass case (it's the wolf is the strongest around here. Full of the joy of being him he strides one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and gets pretty much the same response from Red Riding Hood, missed the three little pigs closing bell and the seven dwarfsattendant's warning shout. In fact this must be the best day ever for the wolf - until he meets When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the little toad midst of some sort' an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and finds that he's met his matchtreasure. I'm not going to tell you how - you'll have to read the book to find out!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0958278776</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell1782227741|title=Rabbit's WishLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=RabbitOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's best friend quite a deep puddle and the water is Hedgehog but they don't get swirling. Poor Ted starts to spend spin around and around and is sucked down a lot drain on the side of time together because Rabbit is awake during the day and Hedgehog is awake at nightstreet. Finding himself One day Rabbitt made a wish that Hedgehog could stay up all day with him - and it came true, but not down in the way Rabbit was expectingsewer, Ted starts to panic. There was a downpour ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and Rabbit's burrow was flooded. The hill on alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which he lived was turned into might look just a bit like an island as the lake rose higher and higherold cricket bat. His first thought as for Hedgehog Reg is a kind soul and he shouted to see if he was OK - but Hedgehog had worried about Rabbit dries Ted off and he'd swum across to make certain that ''he'' was alright. They had warms him up with a wonderful time but Rabbit worried that it was his wish that had caused the problemnice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842700898</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Curtises, James and NickB08R7LXQ9S|title=WofflesRemy: A Fishy Adventurebook about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Woffles Remy is a big, shiny black Labrador with a very long, pink tongue and he is one happy dogfeeling miserable. Once heHe's greeted you with a yodel and a wuff (and I suspect that there might be a generous lick in there too) helet himself down ''again''ll tell you all about his wonderful life. The school bully Jayden, What pleases together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is that he lives in the countryside - it's very green, you know short and there's a complete lack of coffee shops and other things for which he has no timesmall eyes. He has lots of friends, They are mean but his bestie is Pip the Border Terrier and today they're off on an adventure down 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 lake which is being restocked for other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the fishermeninstigator. And - on a boiling hot day what's better than a dip in the lake then he gets into trouble at school and using that long tongue to extract a few sandwiches from the fishermenteachers don's hampers?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957105800</amazonuk>t believe him when he tries to explain what happened.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler1471191303|title=SuperwormThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=Superworm This is long and strong and he's a real hero as far as all of his insect friends are concerned. He always comes to the rescue when there is trouble. When Baby Toad is in danger story of being run over on a major roadIsobel, he turns himself into a lasso and scoops the baby away from the oncoming wheels. Another time, Beetle falls into little girl who made a well and Superworm transforms himself into a fishing line in order to save himbig difference. In fact, Superworm can pretty much turn himself into anything and that makes him a very useful and helpful friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132040</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Mayhew|title=Katie and the Starry Night|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Katie goes out Isobel lived with her Grandma to museums and art galleries interesting things always seem to happen whenever Grandma takes parents in a house - a little nap! This time Katie and Grandma have come to see an exhibition of Van Gogh paintingsvery cold house, and as Grandma rests Katie climbs into because her parents couldn''The Starry Night'' painting and begins her adventure!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304651</amazonuk>}}t afford to put the heating on:
{{newreview|author=Clara Vulliamy|title=Muffin ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the Expedition|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Muffin corner of the bear has a hankering for an expedition, so he packs three honey sandwiches and some grapesbedpost. He shoots past Fizz, Flora and the three chicks, explaining that he's going to a very special place. He wanders around, trying to find something fun to do on his expedition, and then is treated to his friends joining him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408312433</amazonuk>}}'
{{newreview|author=Miriam Moss The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and Joanna Mockler|title=Wibble Wobble, My Loose Tooth|rating=4they were happy.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I don Then the day came when they couldn't know about your family, but my five year old is desperate afford the rent for a wobbly tooth! She has already written to the tooth fairy several times house and they've built up quite a relationship with discussions about why no money is left if there are no teeth, what had to move to the fairies do with all those teeth and it is certainly a hot topic far side of conversation in our house as we receive regular updates about whose tooth came out at school! the city. Indeed, This part of the other day her best friend lost his first tooth and when I told my daughter about this she burst into tears claimingcity was cold, dramatically, that her teeth would ''never'' fall out sad and she'd never get any big teeth! Well, as you can probably imagine, any story about wobbly teeth was going to go down well in our house lonely and this is certainly a good one!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140831956X</amazonuk>Isobel felt invisible.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle Robinson Nick Jones and Lauren TobiaSi Clark|title=How to Find a Fruit BatOne Night in Beartown|rating=3.54
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|summary=A young girl heads out on Many children have an expedition to find a fruit bat. After allobsession and Sandy Lane, who better to eat all the fruit that she doesn't want to eat? She gets her cardboard box boat readylives in Beartown, packing it is obsessed with everything she'll need (including fruit for the fruit bat)bears. She collects books about bears. On Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her expeditiongrandmother. Every night, she runs into all sorts looks out of excitement her bedroom window and adventuresays goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, then sails home in time for suppera colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408308541</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{newreview|author=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross|title=Mammoth Pie|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''On top of a mountain there lived a fat mammoth.''<br>''Down in the valley there lived a thin caveman.''<br>''The caveman was hungry. Very, very hungry.''<br>''He saw the mammoth and licked his lips.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842707574</amazonuk>}}Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]