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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->|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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=The Day Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Crayons QuitSour Milk Dragon|author=Drew Daywalt Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Oliver JeffersIndre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Duncan loves colouring but one day he receives a very surprising stack of letters from his crayons. Some are quite content, but others are really getting fed up. Red When we first meet Birpus and Blue want a break, Bulbus they get used far too much and are nearly worn away. Purple is delighted to be 're running for their lives in the colour Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the wizards and dragons, but he Sour Milk Dragon is rather fussy about staying inside the lineschasing them. Black wants to colour in fun things like beach balls He's right behind them, spewing hot, and yellow and orange cansour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't stop quarrelling over which should be the colour of the sun. Peach has had her wrapper peeled off and try this at home: it won't come out end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at all nowNobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, as she is embarrassed about being nakedthey escaped. Pink however is They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the most upset all. Duncan has never used Pink once. Pink wants to be something funtangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, like a dinosaurNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007513755</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Triassic TerrorsOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Isaac Lenkiewicz Chris Green and Nick CrumptonJenny Fionda
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|summary=Julia Donaldson is probably best known for her collaborations with [[:Category:Axel Scheffler|Axel Scheffler]] on creations such as [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|The Gruffalo]] Kit and [[Stick Man by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|Stick Man]]. In this book she has teamed up with illustratorTeal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, [[:Category:Karen George|Karen George]]bored but warm, in order to present or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a charming yet sleepy character, Lydia Loularge slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. Throughout this delightful picture book, we see Lydia Lou, with her sweep On top of curly brown locksthe ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, sleeping soundly the bear woke and contentedly in her bed with her teddywobbly legs moved from the ice. She is sleeping so soundly that Kit was all for making a run for it appears , but Teal knew that nothing will wake her; not even the sly ghost that creeps into her room with bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the sole intention of making her screambus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447209575</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=The Bunny That CouldnLet't Be Founds Celebrate Being Different|author=Angela MitchellLainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=Princess Lolly is a little girl who is in charge of lots of grown upsTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, which in itself is a lovely start to any booknot least because she made the best beetle juice. But Princess Lolly isn’t a happy bunny because… Johnny Bunny has gone missing! He left her room just as she was waking up, packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and she can’t find then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him anywhere! As anyone would be when a favourite pet has gone missing, she is so, so sad! So she sets hoards of policemen on the case to search the kingdom for him. They search high and low in Friday Night Club at the palace local community centre and the gardens but can’t seem Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to find what they’re looking formake new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861087</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=How to Wash a Woolly MammothThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Michelle Robinson Amy Sparkes and Kate HindleyKatie Hickey
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|summary=Some tasks are just so big Elsie and daunting, you don’t know where her little brother David loved to go to startthe park and watch the red buses drive past. Like washing Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a woolly mammothbus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. I mean Gradually, David learned to stand up, it’s a big job when you think about use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Luckily if you have a woolly mammoth Many decades later, or just like to imagine you doElsie brought the bus, there is this booknow damaged and rusted, a step by step guide to the taskRepair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075802</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Helen Stephens1529504767|title=Jo-Jo The Melon DonkeyChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Jo-Jo is donkey, but he desperately wishes he were something elseSusan 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. His is a life She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of hard work Mr and little comfortMrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. He works She even had her own room - all day hauling melons, tormented by flies, derided by passers-by to herself. Gradually she relaxed and despised by his owner. Finally he finds a friendbegan to enjoy her life. A kind She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and gentle child who looks into his sad eyes and finds beauty rather than just a shaggy old beast. The child runs out each day when it came to buy a melon, Christmas Eve Susan and for a few minutes Jo-Jo knows happiness - but this is no ordinary child, this is Mr Russell put the decorations on the Doge's daughterChristmas tree. Sadly, the Doge does not share his daughter's ability to see the inner beauty of things, scorning Jo-Jo as a lowly beast. His daughter will not give up on her friend though, and when disaster strikes Jo-Jo repays her kindness by saving all of The best surprise happened the people of Venicefollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405263539</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Isabel's Noisy TummySqueakily Baby|author=David McKeeBeth Webb|rating=54
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|summary=Isabel is Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a very good little girl with a very naughty tummysqueakily baby. It burbles and rumbles and gurgles loudly at school He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and her teacher is not impressed''wails''. Everyone has advice on what to do The sea offers to stop it making such rude noiseshelp. Her mother tells her to eat slower It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, but that doesn’t workhush''. Her father suggests exercise, her doctor medicine, but still, no joy. But, one day on Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a school trip, Isabel’s tummy saves sandy beach and you have the daysound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, and saves her classmatesla lay... '' And after that, well, no one really minds for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a noisy tummy any moreseagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396892</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=The Pet ItchA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Elli Woollard and Elina EllisBriony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=Most children want a pet at some pointPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. Mossy Monster wants She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a pet itch more than anything else in the worldreply. But his family (refreshingly consisting of a Granny, an Uncle and a sister) have all sorts of reasons why he shouldn Philippa wasn't have one and his sister just seems a bird to delight in tormenting him - as sisters do. But Sister comes though in the end with sit back on her tail feathers when there was a crafty plan that will help Mossy get problem which needed solving: she saw the Itch benefits of his dreams, and make sure the grown ups do all lollipop lady at the work as wellschool crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. There is never Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a dull moment in this book little amateur to start with temper tantrums, rude rhymes and absolutely delightful illustrationsbut the benefits were obvious. The best part of all though is All the way animals used the adults are so easily bamboozledcrossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=ABC and DoLeilong's Too Long!|author=Lee Singh Julia Liu and Karen WallBei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=Being able to recognise letters is an essential aspect of emergent literacyEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. I know so many parents and children Children who feel that being able live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to sing their ABC's is go downstairs – they simply climb out of the same as knowing the alphabetwindow and slide down his neck. It 's perfect, isn't. A child must it? What could be able a more fun way of going to recognise the letter forms, in school? upper and lower casesThere is a problem, identify them by name and understand the sound or phoneme made by eachthough. Learning Leilong isn't happy in the alphabet is something that most children will need some help with at home. No matter how good the school your child attends, it is impossible for a teacher city: he's always having to give each child the individual attention required to master this subject easily, be careful about where he puts his feet and failure to do so – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often leads causes damage without intending to lifelong difficulties in literacyand traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405265329</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Ernest and Celestine: The PicnicBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Gabrielle VincentDavid Elliott
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|summary=Ernest, I love a large bear, and Celestine, good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a small mouseniche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have made themselves a beautiful picnicrealise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Everything is packed We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and ready to go for when they get up tomorrow morningbecomes a ''balletphant''. However, when morning comes itThe buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''s raining very heavily. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) Ernest says that unfortunately they canThe pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''t have their picnic after all but poor Celestine is distraughtsm....... '' Is OK, let's not go there any way Ernest can make things up to her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846471672</amazonuk> Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Mary's Hair1838226834|author=Eoin Colfer|rating=5|genretitle=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Mary hates her hair. It has black bits and brown bits, curly bits and straight bits and Mary feels that it looks very much like a bush. Her Daddy says if you don't like something, you should change it (instead of whining about it to your parents when they want to relax with a cup of tea). Mary's Daddy, like many others, should watch what he says to children. Mary follows his advice with hilarious results. First she cuts her hair, but when that doesn't go to plan she decides to dye it. She has learned something from Carried Away With the whole hair cutting experience though, this time she plans to try the dye out on someone else first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122261</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Eleanor's EyebrowsCarnival|author=Timothy Knapman and David TazzymanEd Boxall|rating=4.5
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|summary=Eleanor just can't see the point It was one of eyebrowsthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They don't ''re there to undo all the good that parents do'' anything, so the trips out were always so much fun. They just sit there, ''two silly, scruffy, hairy, little bits of fluff!'' Sadly for Eleanor, her eyebrows overhear her describing them in this way, and they refuse A young boy was going to stay where they aren't wanted and so pack their bags and set off into the big world to find a place where someone will love them!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078410</amazonuk>}}carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Stick ManOtter's First WordsCoat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel SchefflerCordellya Smith
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|summary=Does your child roam When the house dressed as world was made, the Gruffalo? animals were given gifts. Do you know Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the words to present ''Tiddlerand'' off by heart? the future. Have you read and loved [[Stick Man by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|Stick Man]] as we at The Bookbag have? Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, Well, this is one for not the fans, ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a first words book full of wonderful illustrations by Axel Scheffler fair contest but wait and based on the Stick Man storysee. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407137352</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Squiglet PigRob Keeley|authortitle=Joyce Dunbar and Tim HopgoodCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4
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|summary=''Squiglet Pig'' is based on a real deep sea creature Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, the piglet squidcabbage and aubergines. This When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is one of those creatures keen to explain how good they are for you have and how nice to see to believeeat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. It honestly does look like it always smilingInfuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and very much vegetables, like carrots, grow in the main character in this bookground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405257563</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=WildYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Emily HughesJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=''Wild'' is the story of a girl who has grown up in For the forest with only the animals to care for herbig, but this is where she belongs and she is happy. All of the animals love her and she loves them. She learns how to speak from the birdsgrownup girls out there, what to eat from the bearspotty masters in training, how to play from "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the foxes, and the deer and the rabbit keep her company as she sleeps. She has no clothing, nor does she need it, Her long mane big-girl kind!) of unruly green hair covers the important bits toilet triumph and gives her the appearance of something that has sprung to life from the forest itselfpersevering panty pride. She is creature of pure innocence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263087</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|titleauthor=My ZooJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Rod CampbellEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=My children have always been drawn to Rod Campbell's simple but appealing illustrationsToots, so I was delighted to have a chance to review this booktrumps, even though my boys are now older than the expected age rangefarts. This is Whatever your word for them, find us a very simple book. There are fifteen large die cut animals on a pastel coloured background. The illustrations have a unique quality to them child that I can only describe as ''Rod Campbell'doesn't find them irresistibly funny. The animals all have friendly appearanceFunny to talk about and joke about, and a kind of gentleness to themthat is. The front view of each animal has only the animal's name in bold black print. When But horribly embarrassing if you turn let one go at the page, there is a single sentence about the animal in smaller printwrong time. With a very young babyIn class, the parent can read only the animals namesay, perhaps adding the sound for each animalwhen everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. As the child grows older, the parents can begin reading the extra line on each animalAt you. The fact the animals are larger than usual Justine Avery's latest entry in these pictures, her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and on sturdy pages that are perfect for little handscalmly, means this book would be ideal for babies as young as six months. I feel this would make a lovely first book for young child. As much as we loved [[Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell|Dear Zoo]]with the familiar humour attached, I feel this book explains that tooting is even better for infantsperfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230770924</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean Taylor and Ross CollinsB09BG8V3Q6|title=Robot RumpusWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=My sons tore open ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the parcel with ''Robot RumpusEverybody Potties!'' and were already reading it themselves before I could even get the tape series from the rest Justine Avery. This series of the box, so they had one up on me when we settled down fun picture books aims to read it later as a family. We began looking through the robot models on the inside of take the front pain out of cover, potty training children and as I mentioned which ones I wish we could have, the boys were already laughing replace it with some fun. It's a ''just'' ''wait'' ''and'' ''see'' look on their facesworthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396280</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick InkpenB07GZ81J7C|title=Baggy Brown When Fred the Snake Got Squished and the Royal BabyMended|author=Peter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=Baggy Brown had the best possible start in lifeMeet Fred. He was the first bear off the production line at Better Bears Limited and was destined Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for The Palacereasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. Baggy was to be the bear But I'm getting ahead of Princess Sophinyiniannia - thatmyself: I's Sophie to d better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and me - but life went disastrously wrong for Baggy before he reached the end even those of the conveyor beltus who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. A NOT FOR SALE notice was stuck on his nose and He arrived as a NO 1 tag present in his eara box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, but it to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the NOT FOR SALE notice which proved his undoingproblem started. He Fred didn't line himself up correctly, and fell straight off the end of the conveyor belt and into the big red teddy bear machinehave any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444916467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pranas T NaujokaitisJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Radically Awesome Adventures of the Animal Princess: Balloon ToonsEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=I know so many parents who are completely fed up with the stereotyped role of little girls and especially princesses in stories. If you are looking for stories with a totally different type of princessCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, then this book is for as any parent will tell you. The little princessBut really, or Animal Princess why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as she is known, is most certainly not a damsel in distress. She is an active heroine boldly seeking adventuresay, learning about why the sun and the messier the better. Rather than looking like a beauty pageant winner in a formal gown, the little Animal Princess looks refreshingly child like moon take turns in the illustrations. I am delighted to see a princess drawn with the proportions of an ordinary child rather than a Barbie doll. She also prefers nice comfortable animal pyjamas to ball gowns.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>160905296X</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel Cleary Justine Avery and Kanako UsuiNaday Meldova|title=My Friend Fred (the Plant)No, No, No!
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|summary=I loved comic They say the best picture books as a child. As an adult. I love them even more as wonderful way to encourage literacy in young children. Unfortunately comic books for children are hard to come by now, and there are very few books in this format for children under age 8the simplest ones. Ballooon Toons seems poised to change And nothing could be truer of this with a delightful new series of children's books printed in comic book style formatlatest from Justine Avery, but with a sturdy hardback bindingBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052951</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellen Crimi-Trent194812467X|title=My School DayThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=4.5
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|summary=The feature that initially attracted me 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 ''My School Day'' was the hugetop of the hill, interactive clock face on the front coverthey see a big barn with a sign outside. Learning to tell the time It's a farm shop! But this is such an important life skill, but sometimes young children can struggle a farm shop with a difference: all the conceptstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. A hands-on approachThere are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, combining the senses of sight and touch can be an effective method of teachingeven some mice. The child is learning through play Excited, Kirelle and having lots of fun at the same timeSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849158533</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Smith0995647895|title=The Hundred Decker BusSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Can you imagine if one day, youSadie're on the bus to town and suddenly the driver decides to take s mother always said that she was a different road? Perhaps he carries dreamer, her mind never on down this road, just to see where it might go. I know what I'd she should be doing, . She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and it isn't sitting happily in my seat waiting she loves to see where we end up! However, in fiction anything can happen and in this story, when the driver heads off on his own little jaunt, his passengers come along quite happily with him!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230754589</amazonuk>}}spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Dewdney1782227741|title=Llama Llama Shopping DramaLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a few months since we [[Llama Llama Red Pyjama by Anna Dewdney|first met]] Llama Llama. At deep puddle and the time he was suffering from night-time terrors, but today Mama water is taking Llama Llama shopping swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and she promises that there'll be around and is sucked down a treat when it's all finisheddrain on the side of the street. Finding himself Llama Llama was happily playing down in the sun: he doesnsewer, Ted starts to panic. 't 'OH HELP ME PLEASE'want'' to go shopping he cries and alerts the trip doesn't begin well. It's a big buildingattention of Reg the sewer rat, with lots who plucks him out of signs and lots of aisles. He doesn't like the musicdirty water using his cane, the ladies around all small far too sweet which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he's staring at their ''knees''. And that's ''before'' he gets to the agony dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of trying on sweaters and shoes. You know what's going to happen, don't you? Well, Llama Llama does it big timebroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910906</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo TimmersB08R7LXQ9S|title=BangRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=54
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|summary=It all starts with a deer in a bright yellow carRemy is feeling miserable. He has a stack of books tied to the back of 's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his carsidekicks Ryan and Brandon, but couldn't resist reading one while he drives. It might have been OK if a bin had not fallen from the lorry in front of laughing at Remy, calling him, but engrossed in his book names because he never notices until with a very loud ''bang'' he comes crashing to a stopis short and has small eyes. This sets off a chain reaction resulting in a ten-car pile up as every car They are mean but one comes crashing into the car in front of itthey are not stupid. The quick thinking of Mr Gecko means he is able They are careful to stop wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just in time with a screech of that little bit further when the brakesother kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, but Mr Penguin in it looks as though he was the ice cream van is not so lucky, crashing instigator. And then he gets into the gecko and his truck load of multi coloured paint trouble at school and forcing the Gecko forward teachers don't believe him when he tries to smash into the last car in the pile upexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579181</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin1471191303|title=AkissiThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=Many parents are becoming upset with This is the over sexualisation story 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 a book for Isobel, a little girl who doesn't suit the stereotypes, Akissi is absolutely perfectmade a big difference. In addition to breaking stereo types Isobel lived with her parents in children's literature, this book gives children a first hand look at life in another country. I have often read that children exposed to stories of other cultures usually grow up more tolerant. Whether it is the stories themselveshouse - a very cold house, or simply the type of parent who chooses that type of story, I donbecause her parents couldn't know. Still I have always gone out of my way afford to make sure my children have books which depict children from a wide variety of locations and cultures. This book gives the reader a very realistic vision of what life in Africa might be like. Best of all though, this book lets put 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>}}heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Georgie Adams Nick Jones and Selina YoungSi Clark|title=Nanny FoxOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Everyone knows that foxes eat chickensMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. It's Her favourite toy is Berisford, a storybook standardteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. But hereEvery night, in this story, Arnold she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the Fox likes chickens bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to be his friendsBee Bear, not his dinnera colourful painted bear that lives at her school. He'd rather have a peanut butter sandwich insteadShe even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444008102</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]