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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__{{adsense2Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|authortitle=Daniel Cleary The Adventures of Birpus and Kanako UsuiBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=My Friend Fred Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (the PlantIllustrator)
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|summary=I loved comic books as a childWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. As an adult Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. I love He's right behind them even more as wonderful way to encourage literacy in young children, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. ) Unfortunately comic books for children are hard to come by nowFortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and there are very few books in this format when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for children under age 8them, they escaped. Ballooon Toons seems poised They climbed up to change this the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with a delightful new series of children's books printed in comic book style formattheir Grand Wees, but with a sturdy hardback bindingNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052951</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fran Manushkin and Dan YaccarinoB0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Belly BookWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=The formula for Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the perfect children’s picture book may go something like this: Simple Theme + Rhyming Text + Memorable Phrases + Great Illustrations = Happy readersice was a polar bear. In which case As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it would seem , but Teal knew that the authors of 'The Belly Book' have followed this blueprint bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the letter, resulting in bus and given a delightful book that is perfect for cosy snuggle time on the sofagood meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230768040</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellen Crimi-Trent1913839656|title=My School DayLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=The feature that initially attracted me to ''My School Day'' Todd was excited about spending the hugeweekend with his grandmother, interactive clock face on not least because she made the front coverbest beetle juice. Learning He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to tell the time is such an important life skill, but sometimes young children can struggle with Friday Night Club at the conceptlocal community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. A hands-on approach At home, combining the senses of sight his only friend was his mum and touch can he wondered why that could be an effective method of teaching. The child is learning through play and having lots of fun at the same time Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849158533</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tatyana Feeney1529504775|title=Little Owl's Orange ScarfThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Little OwlElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he's Mummy knitted him a scarfd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. A long, itchy, orange scarf, One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and Little Owl does not like was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it! as cash was tight at home. He tries Gradually, David learned to get rid of itstand up, using it as wrapping use the bus for a giftsupport, and hiding walk behind it in a suitcase bound for Peru, but no luck! Mummy finds it every time. Then one dayMany decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, Little Owl goes on a school visit to the zoo and he comes home without his scarfRepair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it. What will Mummy say?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019279454X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Smith1529504767|title=The Hundred Decker BusChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=Can you imagine if one daySusan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, youwho couldn're on the bus t have been kinder to town and suddenly the driver decides her. She even had her own room - all to take a different road? herself. Perhaps he carries on down this road, just Gradually she relaxed and began to see where it might goenjoy her life. I know what IShe'd be doing, help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it isn't sitting happily in my seat waiting came to see where we end up! However, in fiction anything can happen Christmas Eve Susan and in this story, when Mr Russell put the driver heads off decorations on his own little jaunt, his passengers come along quite happily with him!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230754589</amazonuk>the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Shields and Cally Johnson-Isaacs1916459943|title=Elephantantrum!Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ellie is one of 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 ''thosewails'' children. You knowThe sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, the sort you see lying on the floor in the supermarket screaming that they wonhush''t go anywhere until . Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you buy them the pink fairy doll with have the flashing wandsound perfectly. WeThe mermaids join in - ''ve all been therela lou, or at least I la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have an awful memory of trying to fold my daughter back into her pushchair in M&S and her going stiff worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a board seagull '''shouts''' and screaming a high pitched scream for we know exactly what felt like 5 hours rather than 5 minutes! Anyway, Ellie gets whatever she wants when she wants it, and this time she's decided that she wants an elephant. Her dad manages going to get her one, but once the elephant arrives Ellie finds that sometimes getting what you wish for isn't quite what you actually wanted..happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904019</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Dewdney140639131X|title=Llama Llama Shopping DramaA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=It's a few months since we [[Llama Llama Red Pyjama by Anna Dewdney|first met]] Llama Llama. At the time he Philippa Pheasant was suffering from night-time terrors, but today Mama is taking Llama Llama shopping and she promises that there'll be a treat when it's all finished. Llama Llama was happily playing in the sun: he doesn't ''wanttired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to go shopping and cross the trip doesn't begin wellOld Oak Road. ItShe wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn's t even get a big building, with lots of signs and lots of aislesreply. He doesnPhilippa wasn't like a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the music, benefits of the ladies around all small far too sweet lollipop lady at the school crossing and he's staring at their ''knees''decided that she would set up something similar herself. And that's ''before'' he gets Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the agony of trying on sweaters and shoesbenefits were obvious. You know what's going All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to happen, don't you? Well, Llama Llama does it big timeprovide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910906</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo Timmers1776574338|title=BangLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=It all starts with a deer in a bright yellow carEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. He has a stack Children who live at the top of books tied tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the back of window and slide down his carneck. It's perfect, but couldnisn't resist reading one while he drives. It might have been OK if it? What could be a bin had not fallen from the lorry in front more fun way of himgoing to school? There is a problem, but engrossed though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his book feet and – because he never notices until with 's longer than a very loud ''bang'' tennis court – he comes crashing often causes damage without intending to a stopand traffic regularly gets snarled up. This sets off a chain reaction resulting in a ten-car pile up as every car but one comes crashing into the car in front of it. The quick thinking of Mr Gecko means school decides that he is able to stop just in time with a screech of the brakes, but Mr Penguin in the ice cream van is not so lucky, crashing into the gecko and his truck load of multi coloured paint and forcing can't be the Gecko forward to smash into the last car in the pile upbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579181</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin1776574028|title=AkissiBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=54
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|summary=Many parents are becoming upset with the over sexualisation of female characters in children's films and books. I know many are also fed up with the stereotyped princess character. If you are looking for love a good board book for a little girl who doesn! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee''t suit the stereotypes, Akissi is absolutely perfect. In addition to breaking stereo types in childrenaimed at quite a niche market: it's literaturefor the child who still enjoys board books (er, this book gives children a see my first hand look at life in another country. I sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have often read realise that children exposed to stories of other cultures usually grow up more tolerantyou can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Whether it is the stories themselves, or simply We have the type of parent elephant who chooses that type of story, I dondons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''t know. Still I have always gone out of my way to make sure my children have books which depict children from The buffalo who has had a wide variety of locations bath (complete with yellow duck) and culturesthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. This book gives the reader The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a very realistic vision of what life in Africa might be like''sm...... Best of all though, this book lets the children just be children. They don't look like adults and they don't act like adults. I think we need more books like this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190926301X</amazonuk> OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tor Freeman1838226834|title=The Toucan BrothersCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=54
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|summary=I hate to mention illustrations before mentioning the story It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with a childrenour grandparents. They's book, but the illustrations are clearly the first thing you will notice with re there to undo all the book. My childrengood that parents do, drawn by so the illustrations, had this pulled trips out of the box of books it came in and were sitting down reading it before I could even sort through the restalways so much fun. As soon as I saw this, I thought of [[:Category:Richard Scarry|Richard Scarry]]. The illustrations are highly reminiscent of Scarry's work, but if anything these are bolder, brighter and busier. If you have a child who is a visual learner, or who needs plenty of visual cues when reading, this book is definitely one you want A young boy was going to take a closer look at. The expressions on the characters faces are perfect and each page literally seems to come to life carnival with so many activities going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447218639</amazonuk>}}his Grandad, who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|authortitle=Georgie Adams Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Selina YoungHare|titleauthor=Nanny FoxCordellya Smith
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|summary=Everyone knows 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 strong web that foxes eat chickenseven fire could not burn. ItOwl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and''s a storybook standardthe future. But hereRabbit developed intelligence - but, in this storyunfortunately, Arnold not the Fox likes chickens ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be his friends, in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not his dinneralways as they seem. HeI'd rather have a peanut butter sandwich instead!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444008102</amazonuk>ll tell you how it came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia WautersRob Keeley|title=One Night, Far From HereCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=I didn't think they made books like this any more Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. It's very rare to see a book with transparent pages nowadaysShe likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. I have literally searched for years, snapping When her friends at school turn up the odd one from used book sellers. These may have gone out of style now in favour of books with batteriestheir noses, buttons Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and bellshow nice to eat. One day, but these engage a child in a way no battery operated contraption possibly could. Children are fascinated poor Lily gets tricked by the pagesJordan, not just my own childrenwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, but every child I have seen Lily checks with these. This book is wonderful for story timethe teacher, but it is also the type of book who explains that children seek outfruits grow on trees and vegetables, quietly turning the pageslike carrots, lost grow in their own imaginationthe ground. Experts are beginning to recognise playing with books as a crucial step in emergent literacy. This is a book children will turn Jordan says, "I did try to again and againtell her, experiencing a different adventure each time they lose themselves in the pages, and learning that books offer excitement Miss!" and adventureeveryone laughs at poor Lily. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263028</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''
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=Catherine Anholt Justine Avery and Laurence AnholtNaday Meldova|title=BabiesEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, Babiestrumps, Babiesfarts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=This book ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is one of those lovely books that covers an awful lot the latest release in just a few pagesthe ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. Full This series of sweet pictures and gentle rhyming text it takes you on a journey through fun picture books aims to take the sort pain out of things that babies' lives revolve around - food, animals, family, clothes potty training children and playingreplace it with some fun. You can read the text as itIt's written or you may find that your little ones are happy to just look through the booka worthy aim, talking to as any frustrated parent will tell you about what they can see, what it reminds them of, and what they'd like to do that day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314363</amazonuk> .
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Inkpen and Mick InkpenB07GZ81J7C|title=Zoe When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Beans: Hello OscarMended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=Zoe and her dogMeet Fred. Well, Beansactually, are in the garden when Beans sniffs out 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 guinea pigbit more about Fred. Fortunately Beans Fred is a very unaggressive-looking dog snake and even those of us who seems unlikely have a phobia about snakes are going to finish off any small rodent in one excited bitewarm to him. His curiosity allows He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the story family, to accumulate an ever-more exciting set of roaming pets the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for Zoe to discover, including, surprisingly, a chameleonwalk. By And that was where the time Zoe gets to shouting out her name to a parrot, who insists on calling her Oscar, Beans has disappeared through a hole in the fenceproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. That’s when Oscar, the owner of all these wonderful animals, crawls backwards through the fence and how the friends meet, so I’m guessing this is the first of a series of stories featuring Zoe and OscarOr brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447210263</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe Inkpen Justine Avery and Mick InkpenNaday Meldova|title=Zoe and Beans: Look at meEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=This is the first board book in a Zoe and Beans series in developmentCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, so why shouldn't it will be played with and handled by very young children? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Babies and toddlers will like Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the cheery pics, friendly faces sun and Beans, the faithful playmate-dog. I loved Beans. He conveyed all moon take turns in the resignation of a household mutt dominated by an ever-demanding toddler.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230766544</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natalie MarshallJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=MonsterNo, No, Be GoodNo!|rating=4.5
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|summary=No-one need be frightened of these beasties, and it’s not a story about conquering fears. Instead, these They say the best picture books are miscreant monsters who are put in their places with some very firm guidancethe simplest ones. Children will recognise the orders instantly, for parents come out with them in varying tones And nothing could be truer of tirednessthis latest from Justine Avery, resignation or irritation on a daily basis. In fact, I have the sneaky feeling that the author is on the side of the adultsBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609053141</amazonuk>}}
''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.''
That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|isbn=1638820457}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lane Smith194812467X|title=It's a Little BookThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=54
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|summary=Lane Smith's blockbuster hit 'It's A Book' spent six months on 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 New York Times bestsellers listhill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. Her new 'It's a Little Book' provides farm shop! But this is a very similar story, but on farm shop with a level better suited to very young childrendifference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. Both books feature a very computer-literate donkey There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and a quiet thoughtful monkey. In both bookschickens, donkey has never seen a book before and has all sorts of questions to which monkey always replies ''no'' or ''it's a book''even some mice. Donkey doesn't seem able to quite figure out why monkey is so interested in this thing with no whistles Excited, Kirelle and bells or lights or action, or to understand why monkey likes this strange thing so much - until monkey shows him the magic of books as wellSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023076875X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|authortitle=Mark Sperring Sadie and Sarah Warburtonthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Mabel Maureen Duffy and MeAnita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Good children’s books open new windows Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on the worldwhat she should be doing. This title did just thatShe lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kara Lebihan and Deborah Allwright1782227741|title=Mrs Vickers' Favourite KnickersLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=3.54
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|summary=Mrs Vickers' Favourite Knickers have an adventure of their ownOne day, flying high above town over the sea, before finally making Gold Ted falls into a rather unusual landing right back were they started frompuddle. Children of It's quite a certain age love knickers, deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and I'm certain this book would be is sucked down a smash hit with a nursery or reception classdrain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, and even children up Ted starts to about 7or 8 are likely to enjoy reading this oncepanic. This book is quite short, ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and ideal for children with very short alerts the attention spansof Reg the sewer rat, and considering who plucks him out of the subject matter dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is almost certain to hold the attention of a large group kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of children easilybroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405253959</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harriet Ziefert and Simms TabackB08R7LXQ9S|title=Quack Like a Duck!Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=You mustnRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again't be shy if you're going to read this book. The school bully Jayden, It's together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the sort of book you can whisper on a train to a fidgety babyother kids are around. So, or that you pack in your nappy bag for quiet times when you're out Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and about. This is the sort of book that is going teachers don't believe him when he tries to require some very loud moo-ing, so consider yourselves warned!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052609</amazonuk>explain what happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Byrne1471191303|title=Penguins Can't Fly!The Invisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=Gregory This is the Gull and Hudson the penguin were both born on the same day and have been great friends ever sincestory of Isobel, doing everything together. In the lovely illustrations, we can see them having a bath, fishing, sledging, skating and giving each other thoughtful and special giftslittle girl who made a big difference. However, when Gregory sees some other some gulls having fun flying over the beach, he naturally decides to join Isobel lived with her parents in. So does Hudson but of course there is a problem! However hard Hudson flaps his little wings, he just can’t fly. He tries everything but the result is always the same; he never manages to leave the ground. Naturally, he is house - a very sad especially when all the gulls laugh unkindly. Just when he is feeling very low thoughcold house, something happens because her parents couldn't afford to Gregory when he dives deep into put the water and gets caught up in a fishing net. Hudson may not be able to fly but he can swim and this means that he is the best bird to help his friend. After this, it never seems to matter that he can't fly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395136</amazonuk>}}heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandrine Dumas RoyNick Jones and Si Clark|title= Hot AirOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=This is a story with Many children have an environmental messageobsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, but at times it seems more like an environmental message is obsessed with a storybears. She collects books about bears. The story itself Her favourite toy is terribly limitedBerisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. It begins with the ice caps meltingEvery night, the sun growing too hot she looks out of her bedroom window and drought. There are no humans in this book, so the animals get together says goodnight to find out what the problem isbear statue outside. They decide that cows are the reason the world is growing warmer and try Every morning she says hello to find Bee Bear, a solutioncolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907912223</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}