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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel SchefflerAdam Stower|title=Zog|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We are devotees of the [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|Gruffalo]]. We have books, noisy books, costumes, jigsaws, sleepsuits and green nail polish. We have scoured coppices for Gruffalo-shaped twigs Murray and bakers’ shops for Gruffalo birthday cakes. We have done the Gruffalo, if not to death, but to the shallow depths of my granddaughter’s infant imagination. We love the Gruffalo for his unique and appealing simplicity, and because he is the most wonderful debunker of monster-fear ever invented.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132334</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amber Stewart and Layn Marlow|title=Too Small for my Big BedBun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=This book Murray is for kids graduating from the cot supposed to their first big bed. Even morebe a humble, tidy and friendly cat, it’s for all those parents one who didn’t anticipate that once in the bedis able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, there’s no going back to the security whatever takes his fancy next of the cot ..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 child catflap they both use can now appear in your bedroomchuck them out, not into the regular back garden, night after night after nightbut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. So this This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is the universal problemexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and here is a supportive and tactful way of addressing it.he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192758403</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elys Dolan1732898766|title=WeaselsThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=54
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|summary=I chose When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they'Weasels' because my sons enjoy books with a bit re running for their lives in the Forest of wicked witFine Repute. Books are my passion, and something my children greatly enjoy as well Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. We have several hundred children He's booksright behind them, and we really value ones that are a bit different spewing hot, sour milk from the normhis nostrils. (Please don'Weaselst try this at home: it won' most certainly qualifies as differentt end well. The premise ) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of the story is that weasels are secretly plotting moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to take over the world. My boys call it World War Weasel. A slight but very humorous mishap really throws a spanner Tree Wee homes high up in the works. The weasels have built a massive machine to secure tangled woods where they lived with their quest for world dominationGrand Wees, but just as the countdown begins the lights go off Nester Nook and the machine status screen clearly tells us ''It's broken''Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631993</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lemony Snicket and Jon KlassenB0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The DarkWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=Lazlo is afraid 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 darkshoreline. Each night he takes On top of the ice was a torch to bed as he knows that polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the dark shares sand, the house bear woke and with him, lurking in all wobbly legs moved from the corners of his homeice. Usually though Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the dark lives in the basement bear was hungry and each morning Lazlo builds up the courage to go to the door of the basement gave him one apple and say ''hi'' then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the dark. But then one night the dark does something different bus and visits Lazlo in his bedroom given a good meal and speaks to him! It has something that it wants to show Lazlo and it is something that will help Lazlo somewhere to overcome his fearsleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316187488</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sylvia Vanden Heede and Marije Tolman1913839656|title=Wolf and DogLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=Wolf and Dog are cousinsTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and whilst Wolf is wild his favourite hat and lives in then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the forestlocal community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, Dog is tame his only friend was his mum and lives in a house with his bosshe wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different. In spite of their differences they somehow develop a friendship, of sorts, sharing everything from food to fleas!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579386</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth Edwards and Hannah Shaw1529504775|title=The Disgusting SandwichToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=What do you do if your sandwich falls on the floor? Do you have a three second rule? Does it depend on how good a sandwich it is?! I stopped worrying so much when my daughter began to crawl Elsie and one day, in a cafe in town, I discovered her under someone else's table eating crumbs and fluff little brother David loved to go to the park and goodness knows what off watch the floor there, with no adverse effects thank goodness! Here in this story Badger, poor Badger, is very, very hungryred buses drive past. He spots a Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'delicious'' looking sandwich, peanut butter on fresh white breadd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. But One day Elsie spotted a bus in the little boy holding toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the sandwich accidentally drops coins from her money box to pay for it in the sandpitas cash was tight at home. A little girl sees Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and she says ''you can't eat walk behind it now. It's disgusting.'' What about badger though? Does he still want Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to eat the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407131451</amazonuk>so that her grandchildren could play with it.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie Blake1529504767|title=Stupid BabyThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=Simon (a rabbit) has a new baby brotherSusan 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. Suddenly Simon is being cautioned for being too noisy. He begins She needn't have worried though as she went to worry that this 'stupid baby'the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who has couldn't have been there for three whole days might actually be staying forever! And that would be horrible! How kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on earth will Simon cope? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579319</amazonuk>the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leonie Lagarde1916459943|title=Things That Go (Squeakily Baby Can See)|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He'Things That Gos so tired but he can't - or won' is one of a series (more t - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on the other books later) of books designed with the youngest readers in mindhis blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It has just twelve pages in a substantial board rocks Baby gently and with a padded cover which will be soft in babythe waves sing ''hush, hush''s hands will wipe clean. It's sturdy but not immune to being pierced if it encounters Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sharp objectsandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. Each double page spread shows a method of transport The mermaids join in black- ''la lou, white and one primary colourla lay... '' There's And for a statement of what moment it is: seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts'It's a bike' along with a very small amount of supplementary text. The picture has simple lines and itwe know exactly what's obvious what it isgoing to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407133292</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Paley-Phillips and Gabriele Antonini140639131X|title=Tamara Small and the Monster's BallA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=On a dark and windy night Tamara Small lies awake in bed, clutching TedPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. There's something stirring in She wrote to the garden and when she and Ted go to look out of mayor about the window thereproblem but didn's something moving around and making t even get a grizzly soundreply. As the pair dash Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back to bed on her tail feathers when there was a monster breaks through problem which needed solving: she saw the window and whisks them away - to benefits of the old village hall which is where lollipop lady at the Annual Monsters' Ball is being heldschool crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. And what a collection of monsters it is! I saw skeletons, goblins, ghosts and ghouls, witches in black pointy hats Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a few other monsters that defy descriptionlittle amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. And what happened All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to Tamara? Well, she had provide a ball..safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861001</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Fulton and Jona Jung1776574338|title=Tabitha Posy Was Ever So NosyLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=ItEvery 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 tower blocks don's a couple t even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of years since I met Julie Fultonthe window and slide down his neck. It's [[Mrs MacCready Was Ever So Greedy by Julie Fulton and Jona Jung|Mrs MacCready]]perfect, who - in case you donisn't know - was ever so greedy. it? Remembering what a glorious romp that was, how What could I resist be a young friend more fun way of Julie's by the name of Tabitha Posygoing to school? WellThere is a problem, I didnthough. Leilong isn't even try.happy in the city: he's always having to 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 traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860978</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Knapman and Sarah Warburton1776574028|title=Dinosaurs in the SupermarketBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=I love a good board book! ''There are dinosaurs in the supermarket!'Bumblebee Grumblebee'<br>'is aimed at quite a niche market: it'Looks for the child who still enjoys board books (er, they’re everywhere!see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''<br>play''If only grownwith words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu -ups noticed themand becomes a ''<br>balletphant''They’d get . The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a frightful scare''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a '' But of course, the grown-ups are so immersed in their grocery shopping, that they don’t notice the dinosaurs hiding crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on the shelves, in amongst the vegetables and behind the display caseshis potty changes into a ''sm...... Only one little boy is observant enough to spot the dinosaurs all around the supermarket and the fact that their antics are causing chaos. If he doesn’t do something soon'' OK, the adults may blame HIM for all the mess appearing on the walls and floors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407114719</amazonuk>let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Lyon and Vanina Starkoff1838226834|title=The Cautionary Tale of Carried Away With the Childe of HaleCarnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=There It was a giant who lived in Hale and if you care to you can visit the cottage and grave one of John Middleton who reputedly topped nine feet tall and had to sleep those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with his feet dangling out of his cottage windowsour grandparents. Rachel Lyon tells the lightly-fictionalised story of how the Childe - as he was known - was taken up by the king, commanded They're there to move to London and given every luxury. For a while he didn't regret leaving Hale at undo all - for once he was dry, slept in a comfortable bed and had clothes which fit him. He mixed with the royal family and the court - and life seemed goodthat parents do, until so the day when the king commanded him to fighttrips out were always so much fun. This A young boy was bad enoughgoing to the carnival with his Grandad, but even then the king's motives were not exactly as you might expect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860951</amazonuk>}}who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan PlenderleithB09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Chicken Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and the EggHare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|summary=Flo When the chicken lived on world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a farm where ''every'' chicken laid one egg ''every'' day, except for Flo, strong web that iseven fire could not burn. She tried everything - you'll Owl had excellent sight so that he could see from the pictures that she really did try present ''everythingand'', but nothing workedthe future. Then one day it rained and all the other chickens went into the coop but there was no room for Flo Rabbit developed intelligence - so there was nothing left for her to do but hide under a tree. , unfortunately, As not the rain came down, so did something else and a really BIG egg landed right next ability to Flouse it well. The He liked to trick other chickens were just a bit sceptical (the egg animals. He was bigger than Flo), but Flo also jealous which was the maternal type and she loved that egg and cared for it all through the yearhow he came to be in a race with Turtle. Then came the night when You might think that's not a predator came calling at the farm fair contest but wait and Flo wouldn't leave her eggsee. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613711</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Courtney DicmasRob Keeley|title=Harold Finds A VoiceCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4
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|summary=Harold is a parrot Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, quite a talented parrot in factcabbage and aubergines. He When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is able keen to mimic almost anything with great accuracy. From the washing machine explain how good they are for you and how nice to the toaster, the vacuum cleaner to the phone Harold delights in imitating every single sound he hears in the apartment in which he liveseat. One day Harold decides , poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that he has tired of all these familiar sounds and ventures out into the big city where is he delighted to discover a whole range of exciting new sounds for him to copycarrots grow on trees. However something is worrying Harold; despite all Infuriated, Lily checks with the many sounds he makes he is worried teacher, who explains that he does not have a sound of his ownfruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Surely he must have a voice Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and if he does what does it sound like?everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846435498</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte MiddletonB09FFJF8YS|title=ChristopherYou Can's Bicyclet Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=Something is going on ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in the shedtraining, "You Can't Wear Panties! Christopher Nibble " is a cry (the guinea pigbig-girl kind!) wonders what his dad is doing in there, banging of toilet triumph and crashing about. And his mum too has some secret sewing project going onpersevering panty pride. What on earth could they be up to? Worry not, for all is revealed when Christopher is presented with his very own brand new recycled bicycle!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192758357</amazonuk>''}}
And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo EmpsonJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Never EverEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=The little girl in this story is firmly convinced of the fact that nothing everToots, trumps, EVER happens to herfarts. Nothing interesting anywayWhatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. We meet her walking through the countryside with her stuffed rabbitFunny to talk about and joke about, moaning about that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the lack of excitement in her lifewrong time. Yet whilst she's complainingIn class, say, whatwhen everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's that we can see? In the field of pigs behind latest entry in her there's one with wings, flying in the sky'Everybody Potties! Has she noticed? No, she hasn't! She continues to walk on, telling us how there is never, ever ' series takes aim at any excitement shame associated with tooting and of course there are more gently and more things happening around her calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that shetooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''s just not noticing. Will she ever discover that her life is perhaps one of the most exciting in the world?!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184643551X</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony RossB09BG8V3Q6|title=Prince CharmlessWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Prince Charmless was probably born complaining and every day there ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is something new to complain aboutthe latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. Amongst his complaints are that he wants to be a panda rather than a prince; he wants to live in a big, gold palace instead This series of a silly, silver, little one; and he wants fun picture books aims to get up in take the middle pain out of the night rather than in the morningpotty training children and replace it with some fun. If he can find something to complain aboutIt's a worthy aim, he as any frustrated parent will, and Prince Charmless does not worry about upsetting people when he does complaintell you. Unsurprisingly, the palace staff has had enough and all decide to leave .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395128</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|authortitle=Tamsyn Murray When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Judi AbbotMended|titleauthor=Snug as a BugPeter Cotton
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|summary=When George looked out the window at the rainMeet Fred. Well, actually, he was you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit reluctant to go outmore about Fred. That was until his mum told him that they would be taking lots Fred is a snake and even those of extra cuddles that would keep us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him lovely and warm. In fact, he would be as 'snug He arrived as a bug rolled up present in a rug'. Added to box with holes so that he would be 'like two cosy bats in thick woolly hats' could breathe and even 'as hot as three pigs in big purple wigs'. This list immediately became part of how snug he will be keeps being added the family, to all the way up to ten extent that they would take Fred out with them when Mum tells George they went out for a walk. And that he will be was where the problem started. Fred didn'tucked up liket have any road sense. Or brakes.. Ten toasty geese all sharing one fleece'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne Willis Justine Avery and Tony RossNaday Meldova|title=The Wind in the WallowsEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
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|summary=ICan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn'm always ready for a fun story when I see that [[:Category:Jeanne Willis|Jeanne Willis]] and [[:Category:Tony Ross|Tony Ross]] 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 come together to do another picture booklearn about everything else when we are small. This is a particularly Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun one to shareas, say, especially with kids who enjoy anything to do with farts learning about why the sun and stinkyness and, most importantly, the tussle over who is responsible for moon take turns in the terrible smell!sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849394539</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite.
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|summary=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 top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.
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|summary=Daisy Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the duckling is having too much fun exploring the riverbank River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to listen to Mamma Duckspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Mamma has told her to stay close, but where is ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the fun houses cowered in that? After allthe gloom, there are lots of interesting creatures living in ''<br>''To the river and Daisy wants to make friends with themMaritime Museum''. Then, of course, there are the giant lily pads Her imagination was fired. Daisy loves She'd love to bounce sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the lily pads. one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant'Bouncy, bouncy bouncys warning shout. Bong bong! When she woke (hard floors don'' But when Daisy stops playingt make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, she notices somethingmermaids and treasure. She is all alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843622726</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=SAMI1782227741|title=Flip-A-Shape: Go!Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Packed One day, Gold Ted falls into this sturdy sixteen-page board book youa puddle. It'll find s quite a fun way for toddlers deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to develop colour spin around and around and shape recognitionis sucked down a drain on the side of the street. Finding himself In down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''Go!OH HELP ME PLEASE'' the theme is transport he cries and you'll see alerts the yellow blade attention of Reg the digger becomes sewer rat, who plucks him out of the sail on dirty water using his cane, which might look just a boat as the book is openedbit like an old cricket bat. Similarly a circle of a bicycle wheel becomes a balloon as the page Reg is turned over. The blue square of a train cab becomes the purple body of kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a lorry. The yellow rectangle nice bowl of a bus becomes the red body of a pull-truckbroth. I'm sure that you get the picture!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609053389</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katherine LodgeB08R7LXQ9S|title=Let's Find Mimi In the CityRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Mimi the Mouse Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and her family has small eyes. They are going on an adventure in 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 big cityother kids are around. So, visiting shopswhen Remy reacts, cafes and parks along it looks as though he was the wayinstigator. Mimi wears a bright red bow on top of her head And then he gets into trouble at school and a pair of pretty pink fairy wings on her back, so you would think she would stand out in a crowdthe teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened. But does she?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444909711</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Rickerty1471191303|title=Monkey NutThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=Two curious This is the story of Isobel, a little spiders find girl who made a monkey nut lying big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on : ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the groundcorner of the bedpost. They don’t know what it is, '' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they do know that they both want it had each other and that they don’t want to sharewere happy. But what is this strange, knobbly object? Is it a chair? A musical instrument? Maybe a boat? Whatever it is, Then the two little spiders are not the only ones interested. A much bigger, hairier spider is lurking in day came when they couldn't afford the shadows, waiting rent for the chance house and they had to move to grab the monkey nut for himselffar side of the city. This part of the city was cold, but will he succeed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075764</amazonuk>sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David McKeeNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Elmer and Aunt ZeldaOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Elmer the patchwork elephant was reminded by his cousin Wilbur that they had promised to visit Aunt ZeldaMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is getting old and a little bit deafobsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Their visit Her favourite toy is peppered with misheard words and misunderstandings but there’s an obvious affection between the two generationsBerisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Aunt Zelda is very proud of the two youngstersEvery night, and Elmer and Wilbur just love Zelda for what she is. There’s never hint looks out of impatience or frustration, no matter how wrong Zelda hears what her bedroom window and says goodnight to the two young elephants have bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to say. But - just in case Elmer was feeling Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at all superior - he finds when he gets home that he’s been rather forgetful tooher school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842707515</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}