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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=You Can Do It, Bert!Adam Stower|authortitle=Ole KonneckeMurray and Bun
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|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…
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|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon
|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
|rating=4
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|summary=It's very rare that I get my hands on a Gecko Press picture book When we first meet Birpus and find I donBulbus they't like it. They seem to publish lots re running for their lives in the Forest of unusual, entertaining books that become firm favourites on our bookshelvesFine Repute. This one Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is no exceptionchasing them. Bert is a plump little birdieHe's right behind them, standing on a branchspewing hot, facing sour milk from his big daynostrils. Can he? (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Will he? Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. Should he jump?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271037</amazonuk>They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Betty Goes BananasOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Steve AnthonyChris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=This is 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 simple, repetitive book with snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a circular tale: Betty wants somethingpolar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, she doesn’t get it the bear woke and so she cries and kicks and screams until someone helps herwith wobbly legs moved from the ice. If that makes you think that tantrums are being rewarded, in Kit was all for making a way you’d be rightrun for it, but Mr Toucan, her repeated saviour, is keen to show her how to do things rather than just do them for herTeal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. Teach a man He obviously needed to fish be taken home on the bus and he’ll never go hungry, teach given a chimp good meal and somewhere to peel a banana and she’ll be happy, for a while at leastsleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738151</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=The New Small PersonLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lauren ChildLainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=Elmore Green is an only child, and very happy Todd was excited about it he is toospending the weekend with his grandmother, thank you very muchnot least because she made the best beetle juice. And He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then a small person arrives in gathered together his button collection to show his house grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and everything is just wrong. What is Todd was pleased about this as he supposed wanted to do?! The small person gets biggermake new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and Elmore just isn’t sure how he is supposed to deal with wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that itmight be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723293619</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=This Book Just Ate My DogThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Richard ByrneAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Bella decides Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to take her dog for a walk across the page park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of this the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very naughty book, when what does difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the book do? It eats coins from her dog! The cheek! Various people and vehicles go in after money box to pay for itas cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, but none of them come back out again! There's nothing use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, Bella will just have to sort the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it out herself...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192737287</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Where Bear?The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Sophy HennAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Where Bear? is a delightful picture book that is sure Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to charmher final destination. A bear She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and a boy live happily together but both baby bears and baby boys grow upMrs Russell, and over time the bear grows too big for the humanwho couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room -sized houseall to herself. Sad Gradually she relaxed and began to lose his friend, but determined enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to find a nice new home for him, Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the boy offers up suggestion after suggestionChristmas tree. Some bears live in zoos, or forests or perform in a circus The best surprise happened the following morning. What about one of those places? With each ''No'' from the bear comes a defeated response from our boy ''Then where bear?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723288917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=You Are (Not) SmallSqueakily Baby|author=Anna Kang and Christopher WeyantBeth Webb
|rating=4
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|summary=Meet little purple critterMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He is small. Big orange critter tells him 's so. And indeedtired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he is smaller than big orange critter, just a fraction of lies on his sizeblanket and ''wails''. But wait The sea offers to help. What if he’s not small It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, but big orange critter is hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the weirdo? What is he’s big? Did you ever think of thatsound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, Mr big orange critter?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918303</amazonuk>la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=The SomethingA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Rebecca CobbBriony May Smith
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''The Somethingtired'' is one of those great books which instantly captures your imagination with 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 very simple ideareply. The premise is that Philippa wasn't a boy loses his ball bird to sit back on her tail feathers when it falls down there was a small hole underneath problem which needed solving: she saw the cherry tree in his back garden. What could be inside benefits of the lollipop lady at the hole? He asks his friends school crossing and family decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and they all come up lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with lots of different suggestions, but will he ever find out what it actually is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230764827</amazonuk>the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Digby Dog Delivers: A Search and Find BookLeilong's Too Long!|author=Tor FreemanJulia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=Digby Dog is off on Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his roundsway through the city, delivering picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the post. But he might top of tower blocks don't even need some help finding to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the people window and slide down his parcels are forneck. 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 city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can you help him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230770886</amazonuk>'t be the bus anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy ButtonsBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Eric Litwin and James DeanDavid Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=Pete I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the Cat child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has put his favourite shirt on, mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you know can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the one, 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 four groovy buttons? And he loves a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.... But what happens when those buttons start to fall off one by one?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007553676</amazonuk>...'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Smelly LouieCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Catherine RaynerEd Boxall|rating=54
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|summary=Louie is a smelly dog, until his owner gives him a bathIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. Suddenly everything is wrong and Louie doesnThey't smell like himself any morere there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. Will he be able A young boy was going to find the carnival with his own smell again? Let's hope so!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230742505</amazonuk>}}Grandad, who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Bear Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Bee: Too BusyHare|author=Sergio RuzzierCordellya Smith|rating=3.54
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|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear is trying to do lots of fun things, 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 ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but they'd all be much more fun if only his friend, Beeunfortunately, would join in not the ability to use it well. Bee, however, has He liked to trick other ideas and is just too busy animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to roll down hills or climb up treesbe in a race with Turtle. When Bee is finished You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and wants to play with Bear, Bear is trying to sleep!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423159616</amazonuk>see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ten Little PrincessesRob Keeley|authortitle=Mike Brownlow and Simon RickertyCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=Ten little princesses Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are going for you and how nice to a balleat. One day, but not all of them may get therepoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. There are lots of distractions between Infuriated, Lily checks with the castle teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and the dance floor. Some of them are less than pleasantvegetables, like the scary monsters or the poison applecarrots, not to mention grow in the huffing, puffing big bad wolf (can see a familiar theme emerging?) Others are much more enticingground. Jordan says, like a frog just begging "I did try to be kissed or a charming prince (on a skateboardtell her, no less)Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408330105</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreview|title=Wolfman|author=Michael Rosen and Chris Mould|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=People are panicking. The police are afraid. The army have run away. Who or what could possibly be so scary? It’s Wolf Man. And he’s on the loose.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewB09FFJF8YS|title=Lord of the ForestYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Caroline Pitcher Justine Avery and Jackie MorrisKate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=Everything in ''For the forest is exciting and new for little tiger as he explores the world around him. His mother has told him of The Lord of the Forest and so he watchesbig, listens and waits in the hope of discovering who this mysterious animal may be. As time passes he grows puzzled and starts to ask the other animals such as the Rhinogrownup girls out there, the Elephant and the Peacock who The Lord of the Forest is and each potty masters in turn claims that it training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is he. 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 that he finally discovers cry (the identity big-girl kind!) of the beast he has been searching fortoilet triumph and persevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805469</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=Danloria: The Secret Forest of Germania Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Gloria D GonsalvesEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
|rating=4
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|summary=Stan loves to go for walks in the forest of DanloriaToots, trumps, located in the seven hills of Germaniafarts. He goes with his father almost every day. One particular dayWhatever your word for them, Stan's father is ill in bed and can't take him out. And find us a child that's when Fern appears. Stan notices the plant waving to him and candoesn't help but investigatefind them irresistibly funny. Fern has an invitation for Stan. He wants Funny to take him to the secret parts of the forest, to a party. Stan has a fabulous time, meeting all the plants talk about and finding out joke about the various ways in which they benefit humanity. The following spring, Stan that is racking his brains to think of the perfect gift for his mother's fortieth birthday party when Fern appears again. More friends of But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the forest supply presents more wonderful than Stan could ever have dreamed ofwrong time. A firm friendship ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1491876964</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Busiest People Ever|author=Richard Scarry|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I suspect lots of us grown ups feel a certain amount of nostalgia In class, say, when we come across a Richard Scarry book. He has such a distinctive style that you recognise everyone will hear it immediately and find yourself hunting for Huckle the pig and Lowly wormeveryone will laugh. This book tells us all about Busytown and the different things that are going on thereAt you. I actually didnJustine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!''t get to read the story properly until I sat down to write this review because although this has become a firm favourite series takes aim at any shame associated with my two year old son he has no patience for the story tooting and gently and instead just wants to spend all his time looking at all calmly, with the manyfamiliar humour attached, many different kinds of vehicles there are throughout the bookexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000754636X</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Following the TractorWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Susan SteggallJustine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=There's only one thing that you need to know about this book and that's that it Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is about a tractor. Not sold? Well, your under five will be but the latest release in case you require further persuasion, try this out for size. The tractor is red and appears on every page and on one page (could there be more joy?), there is also a blue tractor and a green combine harvester. Ithe ''Everybody Potties!'ve yet to meet a child who doesn't like a tractorseries from Justine Avery. My local rhyme time librarian introduced a toy for each verse This series of Old McDonald then had fun picture books aims to invest in additional vehicles for take the tractor round as pain out of potty training children and replace it was less 'brrmm brrmm here' more 'toddler fisticuffs therewith some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804896</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=I Don't Want To Go To SchoolWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Stephanie BlakePeter Cotton
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|summary=Simon is a rabbitMeet Fred. A cheeky rabbit. So when his mum tells him he’s starting school in the morning Well, actually, he doesn’t accept this. He answers backyou'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'I’m not d better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going'' to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he says. And while at first it seems he’s just being stubborncould breathe and immediately became part of the family, over night to the truth comes extent that they would take Fred out: he’s actually with them when they went out for a little bit scaredwalk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579041</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sheep in Wolf's ClothingJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Bob HartmanEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=3.54
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|summary=From the Montagues and the Capulets to the Sharks and the Jets, there are some groups who just canCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't mix without fireworks resulting. A sheep making friends with a Wolf was never going to end well, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn''The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing'' tells the tale of one little lamb who decides t it be? We all have to go learn about our bodily functions just as we have to Wolf schoollearn about everything else when we are small. SheWhy shouldn's bored of the day to day routine of being a sheep. The daily dipst potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the badminton playing, sun and the endless knitting. Mum's knitting comes moon take turns 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...the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0745965156</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dinosaurs are Having a Party!Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Gareth P Jones and Garry ParsonsNo, No, No!
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|summary=You've hired They say the clown, there appears to be enough food and goodie bags for everyone, but have you made one fatal mistake? Is best picture books are the venue big enough, this is after all a party for dinosaurssimplest ones. 'The Dinosaurs are Having a Party!’ tells And nothing could be truer of one such party fully populated by our extinct friends; apart this latest from one small boy and his dogJustine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. Everything at the party appears to be fine, but where is the food?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440376</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=My New HomeThe Farm Shop|author=Marta AltesDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=We moved house a lot when I was Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a childwalk. I became an accomplished letter writer Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a desperate attempt to keep in touch big barn with old friends. I wish I had had a book like this onesign outside. It's hard moving home as a child, farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and as much as grown ups can tell you it's exciting customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and wonderful ducks and won't it be marvellous to have a new pink bedroom it actually leaves you feeling very lost cows, goats and scared chickens, and aloneeven some mice. This story introduces us to a little raccoon who has moved house and who is struggling a little bit with missing her old friends Excited, Kirelle and making new onesSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447206509</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs
|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice
|rating=3.5
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|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=What I Think About When I Think About... SwimmingLittle Gold Ted|author=Eleanor Levenson Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Katie O'HaganSasha Satha
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|summary=On the face of itOne day, this is Gold Ted falls into a very simple bookpuddle. Straight forward images It's quite a deep puddle and very few words would lead you the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to believe that this was a book for a very young audience. This spin around and around and is not, however, the case. While it does work well for sucked down a younger reader, it also manages to raise some very interesting questions, such as that of climate change or 'what it will be like to be old'. This makes for an intriguing read, as there are times where drain on the juxtapositioning side of the images and text make it a little difficult to pitchstreet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991023</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Life of a Car|author=Susan Steggall|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=As the daughter of a car worker and Finding himself down in the mother of a little boy who is fascinated by wheelssewer, Ted starts to panic. ''The Life of a CarOH HELP ME PLEASE'' stood out on he cries and alerts the shelf. Part attention of Reg the ''Busy Wheels'' seriessewer rat, this non fiction picture book illustrates the life cycle who plucks him out of a car from manufacture to scrapping with the help of dirty water using his cane, which might look just the odd word or two or threea bit like an old cricket bat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804217</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=S Reg is for South Africa|author=Beverley Naidoo a kind soul and Prodeepta Das|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Beverley Naidoo is best known for her award winning fiction for older readers but in this title in the World Alphabet series she brings her native country of South Africa to life for younger children. Starting with A for the Apartheid Museum he dries Ted off and finishing warms him up with Zoo Lake in Jo’burg she covers many different aspects of life including traditions, food, landscape, animals, music and family life and each subject is accompanied by one a nice bowl of Prodeepta Das’s stunning photos. The poetic text flows and this would work well read aloudbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805027</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=The Almost Fearless Hamilton SquidleggerRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Timothy Basil EringMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Little froglet Hamilton Squidlegger prides Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself on his braverydown ''again''. Armed The school bully Jayden, together with his wooden sword sidekicks Ryan and shieldBrandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he loves to battle imaginary monsters, such as the skelecragon, bracklesneed is short and fire-breathing frackensnapperhas small eyes. Hamilton fears nothingThey are mean but they are not stupid. Nothing They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that islittle bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, except BEDTIME. As soon it looks as though he was the sun goes down instigator. And then he jumps from his own mud bed gets into trouble at school and clambers in with mum and dadthe teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353795</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=ElephantThe Invisible|author=Suzi EszterhasTom Percival
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|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: 'Elephant'' is part Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the wonderful bedpost.'' The family didn'Eye t go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the Wildday came when they couldn'' series by award-winning wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas. The book follows t afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the journey far side of a young bull elephant calf from birth through adulthoodthe city. The vivid full-page photographs show heartwarming snapshots This part of life in the herd; a purely matriarchal society where strong females form a close family bond city was cold, sad and work hard rearing lonely and protecting their youngIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=That's What Makes a Hippopotamus Smile!Nick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Sean Taylor and Laurent CardonOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=All hippopotamuses want Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to do is play in the bath and eat salady thingsbear statue outside. If you follow these instructions then any hippopotamus who turns up at your house will be thrilled Every morning she says hello to call you their friend; just don't forget to open the door very w i d e when they arriveBee Bear, otherwise they'll never get ina colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847804551</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}