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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Digby Dog DeliversThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: A Search and Find BookOne: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Tor FreemanWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Digby Dog When 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 Sour Milk Dragon is off on chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his roundsnostrils. (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, delivering they escaped. They climbed up to the post. But he might need some help finding Tree Wee homes high up in the people his parcels are fortangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, can you help him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230770886</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Pete On the Cat and His Four Groovy ButtonsBeach: The Winter Visitor|author=Eric Litwin Chris Green and James DeanJenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=Pete 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 Cat has put his favourite shirt onshoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, you know the one, bear woke and with four groovy buttons? And he loves wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. But what happens when those buttons start He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to fall off one by onesleep. What else would you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007553676</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Smelly LouieLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Catherine RaynerLainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=Louie is a smelly dogTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, until not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his owner gives grandmother. She had promised to take him a bathto the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. Suddenly everything is wrong At home, his only friend was his mum and Louie doesn't smell like himself any morehe wondered why that could be. Will Grandma thought that it might be because he be able to find his own smell again? Let's hope so!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230742505</amazonuk>looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=The Scarecrows' WeddingToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Julia Donaldson Amy Sparkes and Axel SchefflerKatie Hickey
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|summary=Betty O'Barley Elsie and Harry O'Hay are going her little brother David loved to get married, in fact they're going go to have the best wedding yet, park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the wedding that no one will ever forgetpark but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. So they make One day Elsie spotted a wedding list bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and set off around was happy to use the farm coins from her money box to find the things they needpay for it as cash was tight at home. Harry goes off on his own Gradually, David learned to find pink flowersstand up, but use the question is will he be back in time bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the wedding?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407144413</amazonuk>bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Bear and Bee: Too BusyThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Sergio RuzzierAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=3.5
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|summary=Bear is trying Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to do lots the home of fun thingsMr and Mrs Russell, but theywho couldn'd t have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all be much more fun if only his friend, Bee, would join into herself. Bee, however, has other ideas Gradually she relaxed and is just too busy began to roll down hills or climb up treesenjoy her life. When Bee is finished She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and wants when it came to play with Bear, Bear is trying to sleep!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423159616</amazonuk>Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Ten Little PrincessesSqueakily Baby|author=Mike Brownlow and Simon RickertyBeth Webb|rating=54
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|summary=Ten little princesses are going to a ballMuch as mothers love their babies, but not there's something they all of them may get theredread - a squeakily baby. There are lots of distractions between the castle He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and the dance floor''wails''. Some of them are less than pleasant, like the scary monsters or the poison apple, not The sea offers to mention help. It rocks Baby gently and the huffingwaves sing ''hush, puffing big bad wolf (can see hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a familiar theme emerging?) Others are much more enticingsandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, like la lay...'' And for a frog just begging moment it seems to be kissed or have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a charming prince (on a skateboard, no less)seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408330105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=WolfmanA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Michael Rosen and Chris MouldBriony May Smith
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|summary=People are panickingPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. The police are afraid She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. The army have run away Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Who or what could possibly be so scary? It’s Wolf Man Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. And he’s on All the animals used the loosecrossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Lord of the ForestLeilong's Too Long!|author=Caroline Pitcher Julia Liu and Jackie MorrisBei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=Everything in Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the forest is exciting and new for little tiger city, picking up children as he explores goes. Children who live at the world around him. His mother has told him top of The Lord tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the Forest window and so he watchesslide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, listens and waits though. Leilong isn't happy in the hope of discovering who this mysterious animal may city: he's always having to be. As time passes careful about where he grows puzzled puts his feet and starts – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to ask the other animals such as the Rhino, the Elephant and the Peacock who The Lord of the Forest is and each in turn claims that it is hetraffic regularly gets snarled up. The tiger does not believe them and continues his search. It is not until the tiger is fully grown with a mate and cubs of his own school decides that he finally discovers the identity of can't be the beast he has been searching forbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805469</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=I Heart HolidaysBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Clara VulliamyDavid Elliott
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|summary=Martha I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and her bunny brothers are going on holiday to make something quite different from each one. We have the seaside elephant who dons a tutu - and itbecomes a ''balletphant''s charming. They’re in The buffalo who has had a vintage camper van, bath (complete with yellow duck) and while then dries off with a traffic jam holds them up hair drier becomes a bit, they're soon on the beach and ready to swim'fluffalo''. Well, Martha The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is. But the boys dona ''crynoceros''t want to so instead they have sandcastle building competitions, and (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a picnic and a paddle and some ice creams''sm....... Every time Martha mentions the sea'' OK, a new plan emerges. Will anyone ever let's not go in the water with her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000741921X</amazonuk>there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Danloria: The Secret Forest of Germania Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Gloria D GonsalvesEd Boxall
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|summary=Stan loves to go for walks in the forest It was one of Danloria, located in the seven hills of Germania. He goes those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with his father almost every dayour grandparents. One particular day, Stan's father is ill in bed and canThey't take him out. And that's when Fern appears. Stan notices the plant waving to him and can't help but investigate. Fern has an invitation for Stan. He wants to take him re there to undo all the secret parts of the forest, to a party. Stan has a fabulous timegood that parents do, meeting all so the plants and finding trips out about the various ways in which they benefit humanitywere always so much fun. The following spring, Stan is racking his brains A young boy was going to think of the perfect gift for carnival with his mother's fortieth birthday party when Fern appears again. More friends of the forest supply presents more wonderful than Stan could ever have dreamed of. A firm friendship ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1491876964</amazonuk>}}Grandad, who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Following the TractorOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Susan SteggallCordellya Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=ThereWhen 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 even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''s only one thing that you need to know about this book and that's that it is about a tractor' the future. Not sold? Well Rabbit developed intelligence - but, your under five will be but in case you require further persuasionunfortunately, try this out for size not the ability to use it well. The tractor is red and appears on every page and on one page (could there He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be more joy?), there is also in a blue tractor and a green combine harvesterrace with Turtle. I You might think that've yet to meet s not a child who doesn't like a tractorfair contest but wait and see. My local rhyme time librarian introduced a toy for each verse of Old McDonald then had to invest in additional vehicles for the tractor round Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it was less 'brrmm brrmm here' more 'toddler fisticuffs there'came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804896</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Don't Want To Go To SchoolRob Keeley|authortitle=Stephanie BlakeCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Simon Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is a rabbitkeen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. A cheeky rabbitOne day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. So when his mum tells him he’s starting school Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the morning, he doesn’t accept this. He answers background. ''I’m not going'' he Jordan says. And while , "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at first it seems he’s just being stubborn, over night the truth comes out: he’s actually a little bit scaredpoor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1877579041</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=The Sheep in WolfYou Can's Clothingt Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Bob HartmanJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=From ''For the Montagues and big, grownup girls out there, the Capulets to the Sharks and the Jetspotty masters in training, there are some groups who just can"You Can't mix without fireworks resulting. A sheep making friends with Wear Panties!" is a Wolf was never going to end well. ''The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing'' tells cry (the tale big-girl kind!) of one little lamb who decides to go to Wolf schooltoilet triumph and persevering panty pride. She's bored of the day to day routine of being a sheep. The daily dips, the badminton playing, the endless knitting. Mum's knitting comes in handy though as a wolf suit flies off her needles. This enables Little Sheep, suitably disguised, to trot off to Wolf School and learn that it's ok to be friends with someone who is outwardly quite different to yourself...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745965156</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=Mungo Monkey Goes to SchoolJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Lydia MonksEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Going Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to school talk about and joke about, that is a huge milestone for any child. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and it can be scaryeveryone will laugh. At you. This book works hard to stop it seeming so dauntingJustine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, pitching itself really well to make school feel funwith the familiar humour attached, exciting and like a very appealing adventureexplains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140526909X</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=MineWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Jerome Keane Justine Avery and Susana de DiosSeema Amjad
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|summary=Horse and Fox are really bored. Nothing had happened for ages, until ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the egg arrived''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. In this lovely book, they are forced This series of fun picture books aims to try take the pain out of potty training children and share, but they aren't particularly good at replace itwith some fun. I really love the style of this book, it uses boldIt's a worthy aim, different colour schemes to make it instantly eye catching and engagingas any frustrated parent will tell you. The text has an immediately obvious sense of humour whilst still managing to be simple enough for early readers to grasp .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Bocchi When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Pocchi and the BirdMended|author=Noriko MatsubaraPeter Cotton|rating=34.5
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|summary=Bocchi and Pocchi are a pair of fluffyMeet Fred. Well, colourful socksactually, and the leads in this bookyou'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 suppose talking socks 'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is no different from talking monkeys or talking robots or aliensa snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. This He arrived as a present in a book box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for pre-schoolersa walk. Anything goes And that was where the problem started. And it Fred didn's not like they're not happy, friendly, helpful sockst have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991015</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=My New HomeJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Marta AltesEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=We moved house a lot when I was a child. I became an accomplished letter writer in a desperate attempt to keep in touch with old friends. I wish I had had a book like this one. Can potty training ever be joyous? Itoften isn's hard moving home as a childt, and as much as grown ups can any parent will tell you it's exciting and wonderful and won. But really, why shouldn't it be marvellous ? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have a new pink bedroom it actually leaves you feeling very lost and scared and aloneto learn about everything else when we are small. This story introduces us to a little raccoon who has moved house Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and who is struggling a little bit with missing her old friends and making new ones.the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447206509</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Freddy Justine Avery and the PigNaday Meldova|authortitle=Charlie Higson and Mark ChambersNo, No, No!|rating=4.5
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|summary=When Freddy send a pig to school in his place, wearing his school uniform and not looking entirely dissimilar to him, he thinks he's hit upon They say the best picture books are the perfect plan! The pig can work all day in school whilst he stays at home and plays his console game and eats and eatssimplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, and no one will ever know!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112373X</amazonuk>}}a Bookbag favourite.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=The Almost Fearless Hamilton SquidleggerFarm Shop|author=Timothy Basil EringDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Little froglet Hamilton Squidlegger prides himself 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 braverysmart grey fur coat. Armed As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a big barn with his wooden sword a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and shieldcows, he loves to battle imaginary monstersgoats and chickens, such as the skelecragon, bracklesneed and fire-breathing frackensnappereven some mice. Hamilton fears nothing. Nothing that isExcited, except BEDTIME. As soon as the sun goes down he jumps from his own mud bed and clambers in with mum Kirelle and dadSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353795</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=That's What Makes a Hippopotamus Smile!Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Sean Taylor Maureen Duffy and Laurent CardonAnita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=All hippopotamuses want to do is play in Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the bath River Thames at Greenwich and eat salady thingsshe loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. If you follow these instructions then any hippopotamus who turns up at your house will be thrilled to call you their friend; just don't forget to open the door very w i d e when they arrive, otherwise they'll never get in!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804551</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Katie's Picture ShowLittle Gold Ted|author=James MayhewVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=Can there be One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a better way of bringing the world of art deep puddle and the classic masterpieces alive for children than the charming Katie series? This particular story water is the one that started it all twenty five years ago swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and this celebratory issue has been beautifully re-illustrated by [[:Category:James Mayhew|James Mayhew]] throughout around and is also in sucked down a slightly larger format too. As drain on the tiny figure side of Katie stands dwarfed on the steps of street. Finding himself down in the grand National Gallery with her Grandmasewer, her happy attitude and cheerful disregard for rules such as Ted starts to panic. ''Please do not touchOH HELP ME PLEASE'' teaches children not to be afraid he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of art and gently encourages the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a curious attitude not only to paintings but to all their surroundingsbit like an old cricket bat. The formal atmosphere of an art gallery Reg is made more engaging and child friendly as the paintings come to life with a friendly tiger, tea kind soul and cakes he dries Ted off and warms him up with a new playmate for Katienice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833240X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A Big Day for Migsbook about believing in yourself|author=Jo HodgkinsonMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4.5
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|summary=ItRemy is feeling miserable. He's summer which means new let himself down ''again''. The school uniforms are in the shopsbully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, new stationery calling him names because he is on every shelf, short and for those starting school for the first time, there's a wealth of Starting school books to ease the transitionhas small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. This is a fun new addition They are careful to the shelves wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that ticks all little bit further when the boxes: colourfulother kids are around. So, inventivewhen Remy reacts, sweet it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and, best of all, told in rhyme. I love rhymethe teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440384</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=The Flying Bath|author=Julia Donaldson and David Roberts|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingFrontpage|summaryisbn=It’s long been accepted that when you go to school and your parents are at work, your toys come alive and have adventures until you return. EVERYBODY knows that. But have you ever thought about the other things in your house and whether they have a second life? Here’s a hint: they DO. Welcome to the Flying Bath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230742602</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1471191303|title=Milly and the MermaidsThe Invisible|author=Maudie Smith and Antonia WoodwardTom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=Mermaids are This is the story of Isobel, a great way to stretch young imaginationslittle girl who made a big difference. Imagine living in an underwater world, swimming Isobel lived with the fishes her parents in a pleasant way (rather than in house - a Mafioso way). This is exactly the type of excitement that Milly longs for in ‘Milly and the Mermaids’ by Maudie Smith and Antonia Woodward. When very cold house, because her parents take her on a trip couldn't afford to put the seaside, all she can think of is finding a Mermaid, but do they really exist?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006932</amazonuk>}}heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Marshmallows for MartiansNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Lee Wildish, Adam Guillain and Charlotte GuillainOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=What kid doesn't like sweets or aliens? This book combines the two as George packs up Many children have an obsession and leaves his house on Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a mission to Mars to find teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out what sweets aliens love best. He builds a spaceship of her bedroom window and takes off, meeting some very surprising aliens along says goodnight to the waybear statue outside. From the first pageEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, I knew I would enjoy this story and I wasn't disappointed a colourful painted bear that lives at all. I laughed throughout and looked forward to turning each page to find out what happened nexther school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405266813</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]