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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SupertatoAdam Stower|authortitle=Sue HendraMurray and Bun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Oh my goodnessMurray 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 can we do? takes his fancy next of the two. ThereBut he's an evil pea on the loose in the supermarket, causing havoc wherever he goes! He has sticky-plastered poor carrot to the conveyor belt, and drawn a mustache and glasses on broccolibad magician's cat, and poor old cucumber so his favourite bun has been mummified with turned into a bandage! Stillhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, try to calm your frayed nerves because, never fear, Supertato is here to save and the day!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074474</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Chicken Clicking|author=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Chick has a problem. Every nightcatflap they both use can chuck them out, when not into the farmer and his wife are asleepregular back garden, she sneaks but into their house a world of frightening adventure and goes online on their computer to order thingswhiffs. She starts with This time round it drops them into a teapotViking land, and where a motorbike! Soon she's buying diamond watches and a hundred handbagstroll hunter is expected – well, for which the farmer blames his wife - sheone much bigger than Murray was, of course, gets angry and blames his dodgy software since she certainly didn't order those things! Chick starts to buy gifts for all her farm animal friendsbe honest, but all too soon she realises shehe's alone on the farm turned up and in need of a friend. Can she find one online?he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178344052X</amazonuk>0008561249
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=The Secret DinosaurAdventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Giants AwakeBook One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=N S BlackmanWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=When Marlin Maxton goes on a school visit to we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the local museum, he Sour Milk Dragon is looking forward to seeing Protos - the dinosaur that his Uncle Gus remembers so fondlychasing them. But Protos is nowhere to be seen and the museum He's Mr Grubbler seems to be doing right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his utmost nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to take all the fun out of Tree Wee homes high up in the school visit Marlin had been anticipating tangled woods where they lived with such excitement. So Marlin sneaks off to explore by himself..their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992752507</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Light-Fingered LarryOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Jan FearnleyChris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=Larry the Octopus has eight tentaclesKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and each and every one is used to half inch other people's stuffbuilding sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As he travels through Bottlenose Baythe ice bumped onto the sand, he fills his net the bear woke and with more wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and more loot until everyone has just had enoughgave him one apple and then another. Officer Pavani comes He obviously needed to be taken home on the rescue, but will Larry manage bus and given a good meal and somewhere to escapesleep. What else would you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405265388</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=The Lazy FriendLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Ronan BadelLainey Dee
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|summary=In a remote jungleTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, near not least because she made the top best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of the forest canopy, Sloth, Snake, Frog dungarees and his favourite hat and Bird hang out then gathered togetherhis button collection to show his grandmother. Whilst his pals play cards, Sloth does what he does best, sleep. When a lumberjack fells She had promised to take him to the tree that they are sitting in, three of Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends make a hasty escape but Sloth just carries on snoozing. Luckily Snake acts fast At home, his only friend was his mum and slithers aboard the truck carrying their tree trunk away with Sloth still in he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that itmight be because he looked different. Can Snake save the day and get them both back home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>192727141X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|title=Hogs Hate Hugs|author=Tiziana Bendall-Brunello and John Bendall-Brunello|rating=3|genre=For SharingFrontpage|summaryisbn=Little Hog is the cutest little thing you ever did see. And that’s a bad thing. Because he never gets peace. Everyone wants to hug him ALL THE TIME. What’s a poor, over-hugged hog to do? Well, in this case, Little Hog has a solution. He makes a bold sign and hangs it on the tree. ''HOGS HAT HUGS!'' it reads. And that’s that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745965148</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1529504775|title=My Teacher is a Monster! The Toy Bus (No, I Am Not.The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Peter BrownAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=School can be Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the 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 difficult place bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for children, especially if your teacher is a stompingit as cash was tight at home. Gradually, roaring monster like Miss Kirby. Bobby spends most of his time worrying about what David learned to do about his monster of a teacherstand up, and use the best place bus for him to think about support, and walk behind it is in . Many decades later, Elsie brought the park. He goes there one day bus, now damaged and rusted, to contemplate the situation, but who does he meet? Miss Kirby! She isn't stomping or roaring thoughRepair Shop, she is feeding hoping that the ducksexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447257472</amazonuk>
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  {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Greek Myths: The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories of Sun, Stone and Sea)|author=Sally Pomme ClaytonAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=University Challenge questions frequently have me stumped, but it’s ones on Greek mythology that highlight a gap Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in my knowledge 1939 and make me yearn for the classical education that I never had. Who or what is Erato? Should I nervous about how she would be concerned if I meet Kerberos? And why did a delivery company decide greeted when she got to call itself Hermes? Consequently, I had high hopes for her final destination. She needn''Greek Myths: Stories t have worried though as she went to the home of SunMr and Mrs Russell, Stone who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and Seabegan to enjoy her life. She'', a collection of ten myths retold for childrend help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805086</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Sir Scallywag and the Deadly Dragon PooSqueakily Baby|author=Giles Andreae and Korky PaulBeth Webb|rating=54
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|summary=King Colin has spent his fortune on Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a giant sweet machinesqueakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, which he guzzles from each just lies on his blanket and every day''wails''. The entire kingdom has grown fat sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and lazythe waves sing ''hush, except hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for Sir Scallywaga moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. It Then a seagull '''shouts'''s lucky somebody in the castle still has their wits about them, because Baron Greedyguts has heard all about their sweet machine, and hewe know exactly what's coming going to get it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718197364</amazonuk>happen next.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Bob and RobA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Sue PickfordBriony May Smith
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|summary=Rob is Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a burglar who is very, very bad. Bob is his dog, who is very, very goodreply. Well, as good as Philippa wasn't a dog whose owner is bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a burglar can beproblem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804098</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Cantankerous King ColinLeilong's Too Long!|author=Phil Allcock Julia Liu and Steve StoneBei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=King Colin definitely got Every 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't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the wrong side window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the bed this morning. He’s being very crotchety city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and rude, but whenever anyone tells him off – because he's longer than a tennis court – he ignores themoften causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. After all, a king The school decides that he can do what he wants't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861133</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Hocus Pocus DiplodocusBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Steve Howson and Kate DaubneyDavid Elliott|rating=54
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|summary=Magic I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a lot of funniche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but did has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you ever can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about how it started? Pre-David Blaine? Pre-Dynamo? Pre-Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee? You need to look much further back than the 80s to find the answer, you know, because the first magician was in the days of the dinosaurs!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm...... Meet Hocus Pocus Diplodocus.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861125</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{Frontpage
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|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Nine Words MaxOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Dan Bar-El and David HuyckCordellya Smith|rating=54
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|summary=Some children talk lots and some talk quite littleWhen the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Some jabber away incessantly, while others prefer contemplative reflection Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. It’s Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the same present ''and'' the world overfuture. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, and it’s true whoever you areunfortunately, from an average Joe not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a member of the Royal Familyrace with Turtle. Prince Max is You might think that's not a talker, full of fun, interesting facts fair contest but wait and observations he’s keen to share with everyone around himsee. His brothers, on the other hand, Things are boys of fewer words, and don’t have much time for Max’s waffling onnot always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1770495622</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=None The Number (The Hueys)Rob Keeley|authortitle=Oliver JeffersCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=''A Counting Adventure!'' the subtitle of this book boasts Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. How exciting! I love numbers and countingShe likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and so does a little boy I knowaubergines. This one’s a bit old When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for him just yet – he’s the wrong side of 24 months – but I can’t wait you and how nice to share it eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with him the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the futureground. The item of question here is whether 0 is a number. After allJordan says, "I did try to tell her, a number is something you can countMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily. And if there’s 1 of something and you take 1 away, you’re left with a different number: 0|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007420692</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=The Very Noisy HouseYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Julie Rhodes Justine Avery and Korky PaulKate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=I might live in the middle of the country now, with nothing but pheasants and ''For the odd wild turkey for neighboursbig, but I remember well what it’s like to live in the hustle and bustle. In factgrownup girls out there, unless you too have lived on the main artery of Mexico City potty masters in a single glazed apartmenttraining, you’re going to come 2nd in the '"You Can'Who’s lived in t Wear Panties!" is a noisier house?cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'' competition. Well, it would have been second, but after reading this, I think we’d both have to bump down a spot, because nothing, and I mean nothing, compares to this house.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805345</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview
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|summary=What a lovely book! Betsy is a big grown up girl so it’s time to start school, but that’s a scary thing to do. There are so many other boys and girls there, and she doesn't know any of them. Will she make it through the first day with no tears?
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{{newreview|title=DylanAnd so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's Amazing Dinosaurs 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 Tyrannosaurus Rexbirds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=E T Harper Justine Avery and Dan TaylorNaday Meldova|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Everyone love dinosaursToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that is as long as they stay millions of years in the past doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and don’t suddenly turn up in the park next time I am having a picnic. Dylan is a character who certainly loves dinosaursjoke about, enough so that he is able to travel back in . But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time to answer any questions he may have about their existence. Seems a little dangerous to meIn class, say, especially when he comes up against the king of lizards everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in E T Harper her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and Dan Taylor’sgently and calmly, ‘Dylan's Amazing Dinosaurs - with the Tyrannosaurus Rex’familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471119343</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Children are NaughtyWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Vincent Cuvellier Justine Avery and Aurelie GuillereySeema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=Children are naughty. You don't have to tell me that'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. I have two monsters, one This series of whom I found this very morning standing on top fun picture books aims to take the pain out of the toilet potty training children and putting nappy cream all over himself (fully clothed, of course!) I only left the bathroom for replace it with some fun. It's a moment! Anywayworthy aim, this story tells as any frustrated parent will tell you all about the naughty antics that children can get up to, with everything from biting to throwing food on the floor! . Prepare yourself, things could get messy...!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263265</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Have You Seen My Dragon?When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Steve LightPeter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=You’d think Meet Fred. Well, actually, 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 dragon would be hard to losebit more about Fred. This one Fred is bright green a snake and hiding in the city streets. A little boy sets out even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to find him. Visiting all He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the dragon’s favourite hauntsfamily, to the boy counts objects, from one to twenty, as he goesextent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. Follow his route, enjoy And that was where the journey and practise your counting skillsproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353817</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Short GiraffeJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Neil Flory and Mark ClearyEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Anyone who has Can potty training ever been be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to a Wedding and saw the photographer trying learn about our bodily functions just as we have to wrangle the bride and groom’s families together for a group shot will know all learn about the perils of mass photographyeverything else when we are small. Neil Flory’s new children’s bookWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, ‘The Short Giraffe’ suggests that say, learning about why the issue is not only human based, but also happens sun and the moon take turns in the animal kingdom.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743361564</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Two GiantsJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Michael ForemanNo, No, No!
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|summary=In this reissue of a book first published in 1967, They say the Two Giants live in a nice world where things best picture books are lovely and they get along brilliantlythe simplest ones. What fun it must And nothing could be to have your best friend around all the time. Untiltruer of this latest from Justine Avery, that is, they have a fight. Before they can think about reconciling, they are separated and forced to live apart. Their animosity growsBookbag favourite. Will it be possible for them to ever be friends again? Could something as simple and insignificant as sharing a pair of socks make it all ok?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406351768</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Teddy Bedtime|author=Georgie Birkett|rating=5 |genre=For Sharing|summary=I haven’t much hands on experience with young children and bedtime''No, but from various alleys and avenues of my family I have a seen a few do and do nots. One thing I have learnt is that routine can be a vital tool in getting a child to bed. Whilst one set of Nephews come up to you and ask to go to bed at 7pmNo, the other are bouncing off the walls at 1am. Children’s books can be a great way to entertain and teach younger children a bedtime routine and No!''Teddy'' ''Bedtime'' by Georgie Birkett may just be is based around the best example I have seensimplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440414</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Hilda and the Black Hound|author=Luke Pearson|rating=4''No, no, no! Okay, okay.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Hilda and the Black Hound is the fourth book in the “Hildafolk” seriesYes, each of which is a self-contained tale about a highly inquisitive little girl and her adventures. This time Hilda joins the Sparrow Scouts and befriends a house spirit whilst in the meantime a mysterious beast stalks the town of Trolbergyou may.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263184</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=BabyThat's Got The Blues|author=Carol Diggory Shields|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been toting my baby in my arms, pushing him in his buggy or carrying him in his baby back pack and strangers have remarked ''ooh – lovely! I wish I was a babyit!'' WellBut, do you think babies have it easy? Really? Well, listen up because like all the apple cheekedbest picture books, down in the mouth hero this tiny snippet of ''Baby’s Got The Blues'' text is going to set you righta veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406351547</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=Little Frog's Tadpole TroubleThe Farm Shop|author=Tatyana FeeneyDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=34
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|summary=I’m Kirelle and her best friend Sam the little sistercat decide to go for a walk. I never had 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 deal with the threat top of an impending arrival to unsettle my worldthe hill, but I can’t imagine it’s always funthey 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 aresheep and ducks and cows, of coursegoats and chickens, lots of books on the subject, seeing as it’s a big topic that affects lots of families every dayand even some mice. Excited, but here’s a new book on the marketKirelle and Sam go shopping. Can it add anything to the existing stack of ''Becoming a big sibling'' books?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192735543</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Macavity,the Mystery Cat|author=T S Eliot and Arthur Robins|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=There’s nothing my little boy likes more than to sit down with a tome of good poetry. Currently he is reading T.S. Eliot. Well, that’s what I What will be telling them down at playgroup anyway. No need to add that it’s not ‘The Wasteland’. The poem in this volume is actually just one from ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ and features the inimitable scoundrel of the title, ''Macavity''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571308139</amazonuk>they buy?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=The Queen's HatSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Steve AntonyMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=A naughty gust of wind comes along and blows the Queen’s hat right off Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her headmind never on what she should be doing. Her Majesty simply cannot be seen bare headed, She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and so she follows it in hot pursuitloves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444919148</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|title=The Farmer's Away! Baa! Neigh!'When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|author=Anne Vittur Kennedy''To the Maritime Museum''. |rating=5|genre=For Sharing |summary=Flobba dobHer imagination was fired. Eh-oh. Or should I just stop She'd love to sail the words completely oceans on an ancient sailing ship and communicate with went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a swanee whistle? From glass case (it's the Flowerpot Men to the Teletubbies via one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the Clangers, the substitution of ‘real’ words with made up language and sounds has always been controversial. So I’ll level with you straight away closing bell and spoil the ‘surprise’ of attendant''The Farmer’s Away! Baa! Neigh!'' by revealing that, bar the title, there are no proper words in this books warning shout. When this book is described as being told 'she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the animals’ own words'' it means quite literally midst of an adventure that. Barks. Hisses. Neighs. Cheeps. And lots she could never have imagined in a world of them. For 32 pagesdolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356530</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Eric the Boy Who Lost His GravityLittle Gold Ted|author=Jenni DesmondVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Everyone gets angry sometimesOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of the street. Finding himself Maybe all it takes is someone queue-jumpingdown in the sewer, or in Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the case attention of my toddlerReg the sewer rat, all it takes is who plucks him out of the wrong colour cupdirty water using his cane, or someone playing with the one toy in the world that which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he wants right at that moment! The challenge for children growing dries Ted off and warms him up (and for adults too sometimes!) is how to deal with that anger. This story is about what happens when a little boy called Eric gets angrynice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609053486</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=How to Catch a StarRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Oliver JeffersMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=The boy makes various attempts to catch his starRemy is feeling miserable. He spends most of the day waiting for a star to appear, and when one finally does he tries climbing a tree, or dragging his father's lifebelt to lasso the star let himself down''again''. Each attempt, howeverThe school bully Jayden, fails. Finallytogether with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, down by the shorehave been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he sees a star that is short and has fallen into the seasmall eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. He walks along the beach, hoping They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the star will wash up on the sand andother kids are around. So, finallywhen Remy reacts, it does! They boy looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the star walk away together, hand in handteachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007536593</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=RexThe Invisible|author=Simon JamesTom Percival
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|summary=Angus Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is not like other aliensobsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. He Her favourite toy is a peace-loving little fellowBerisford, who likes nothing better than sitting in his garden watching the flowers grow and sipping a nice cup of teateddy bear passed down by her grandmother. UnfortunatelyEvery night, one day, a strange spaceship crash lands in his garden she looks out of her bedroom window and out pops a cheeky, hyperactive green alien called Alvin who is rather a show-offsays goodnight to the bear statue outside. It’s time for Angus Every morning she says hello to teach Alvin Bee Bear, a lesson about mannerscolourful painted bear that lives at her school. Can the two aliens put their differences aside and become friends in the end?She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847803040</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
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