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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zanib Mian 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 Laura Ewing Ferrerhe'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Never too SmallThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=There was once a young boy who didnWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they't try to do things because he felt that he was too small, but he was luckyre running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He had a good friend and that friend wrote him a letter to tell him that people are never too small's right behind them, or too bigspewing hot, or too old to try something newsour milk from his nostrils. There was also a little girl and she was afraid of the dark. It was her brother who wrote her a letter to tell her that he would always be there for her. There was the boy who wouldn(Please don't try new things to eatthis at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, the young girl who was afraid they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of heights, a boy who was terrified about going to school moss and a girl who vines was frightened of spiderslowered for them, they escaped. They all had that special someone who took the time climbed up to write them the letter which gave them Tree Wee homes high up in the confidence to overcome tangled woods where they lived with their fearsGrand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956419658</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=BingOn the Beach: Make MusicThe Winter Visitor|author=Ted DewanChris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=3.5
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|summary=''Round the cornerKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, Not far away…'' These are or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the words I hear in my living room most afternoons followed by 6 minutes and 30 seconds shoreline. On top of silence from my boythe ice was a polar bear. I could take advantage As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and get on with some urgent tasks but, truth be told, I’m happy to snuggle up and drink in wobbly legs moved from the rich artwork that is Bing Bunny brought to life on CBeebiesice. Unusually Kit was all for making a run for it, Bing on but Teal knew that the box bear was born out of Bing the bookhungry and gave him one apple and then another. Also, unusually, my local library have no Bing books so ''Bing: Make Music'' was my first experience of the Bingster (as he is known He obviously needed to his fans) confined to paper. There be taken home on the first page, just like on CBeebies, were the magic opening words followed by… ''Bing’s been bongo- ing all day''bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007515421</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Blake1913839656|title=The Five of UsLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=Five friends set off on an outingTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, complete with yellow bus and sandwichesnot least because she made the best beetle juice. There was Angie who could see a sparrow from five miles away. Ollie could hear it sneeze. Simona He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and Mario were so strong that they could lift anythingthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. They were all amazing. Then there was Eric, but Eric wasn't quite certain if he excelled She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at anything. Big Eddie was driving the bus local community centre and after they had eaten their sandwiches Big Eddie suddenly took a funny turnTodd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. What were The Five to do? WellAt home, they set off with Simona and Mario carrying Eddie (his only friend was his mum and, by gosh, he is big) but suddenly they came to the banks of a big river - and this was when Eric discovered exactly wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he is amazinglooked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849763046</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Foxy and EggThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Alex T SmithAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Long-time lovers of thebookbagElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past.co.uk may find something familiar about Elsie would race the buses along the tale side of Foxy DeBois who invites 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 young egg into bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her house money box to pay for a mealit as cash was tight at home. What can this sense of déjà vu be? More than likely you read Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the earlier review by our own Keith Dudhnath on [[Egg by Alex T Smith|Egg]]bus for support, and walk behind it. With Many decades later, Elsie brought the success of Foxy in bus, now damaged and rusted, to the intervening yearsRepair Shop, hoping that the book has been renamed and re-released, but does experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it remain as fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444920928</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=You Can Do It, Bert!The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Ole KonneckeAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=ItSusan 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's very rare that I get my hands on a Gecko Press picture book t have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and find I donMrs Russell, who couldn't like ithave been kinder to her. They seem She even had her own room - all to publish lots of unusual, entertaining books that become firm favourites on our bookshelvesherself. This one is no exceptionGradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. Bert is a plump little birdie, standing She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on a branch, facing his big daythe Christmas tree. Can he? Will he? Should he jump?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271037</amazonuk>The best surprise happened the following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Betty Goes BananasSqueakily Baby|author=Steve AntonyBeth Webb
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|summary=This is a simpleMuch as mothers love their babies, repetitive book with there's something they all dread - a circular talesqueakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: Betty wants somethinginstead, she doesn’t get it he just lies on his blanket and so she cries ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and kicks the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and screams until someone helps heryou have the sound perfectly. If that makes you think that tantrums are being rewarded The mermaids join in - ''la lou, in la lay...'' And for a way you’d be right, but Mr Toucan, her repeated saviour, is keen moment it seems to show her how to do things rather than just do them for herhave worked as Baby closes his eyes. Teach Then a man to fish seagull '''shouts''' and he’ll never go hungry, teach a chimp we know exactly what's going to peel a banana and she’ll be happy, for a while at leasthappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738151</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=The New Small PersonA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Lauren ChildBriony May Smith
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|summary=Elmore Green is an only child, and very happy Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about it he is too, thank you very muchthe problem but didn't even get a reply. And then Philippa wasn't a small person arrives in his house 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 everything is just wrongdecided that she would set up something similar herself. What is he supposed Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to do?! The small person gets bigger, start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Elmore just isn’t sure how he is supposed Hedgehog was even trained up to deal with itprovide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723293619</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=This Book Just Ate My DogLeilong's Too Long!|author=Richard ByrneJulia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=Bella decides to take her dog for a walk across Every morning Leilong, the page of this very naughty bookbrontosaurus school bus, when what does makes his way through the book do? It eats her dog! The cheek! Various people and vehicles go in after itcity, but none picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of them come back tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out again! Thereof the window and slide down his neck. It's nothing for perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, Bella will just have though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to sort it out herself.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't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192737287</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Where Bear?Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=Sophy HennDavid Elliott|rating=54
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|summary=Where Bear? is I love a delightful picture good board book that ! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is sure to charm. A bear and aimed at quite a boy live happily together but both baby bears and baby boys grow up, and over time the bear grows too big niche market: it's for the human-sized house. Sad to lose his friendchild who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but determined has mastered sufficient language skills to find have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a nice new home for him, the boy offers up suggestion after suggestion''balletphant''. Some bears live in zoos, or forests or perform in The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a circus''fluffalo''. What about one of those places? With each The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''Nocrynoceros'' from the bear comes (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a defeated response from our boy ''Then where bear?sm.......'' OK, let'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723288917</amazonuk>s not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=You Are (Not) SmallCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Anna Kang and Christopher WeyantEd Boxall
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|summary=Meet little purple critterIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. He is small. Big orange critter tells him They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always somuch fun. And indeed, he is smaller than big orange critter, just a fraction of A young boy was going to the carnival with his size. But wait. What if he’s not smallGrandad, but big orange critter is the weirdo? What is he’s big? Did you ever think of that, Mr big orange critter?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918303</amazonuk>}}who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Digby Dog DeliversOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Search Cherolachian Tortoise and Find BookHare|author=Tor FreemanCordellya Smith
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|summary=Digby Dog is off on his roundsWhen the world was made, delivering the postanimals were given gifts. But 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 ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, 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 race with Turtle. You might need some help finding the people his parcels think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are for, can not always as they seem. I'll tell you help him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230770886</amazonuk>how it came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy ButtonsRob Keeley|authortitle=Eric Litwin and James DeanCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Pete 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 for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the Cat has put his favourite shirt teacher, who explains that fruits grow ontrees and vegetables, you know like carrots, grow in the oneground. Jordan says, with four groovy buttons? And he loves it"I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily. But what happens when those buttons start to fall off one by one?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007553676</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=Smelly LouieYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Catherine RaynerJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=Louie ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a smelly dog, until his owner gives him a bathcry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride. Suddenly everything is wrong and Louie doesn't smell like himself any more. Will he be able to find his own smell again? Let's hope so!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230742505</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=Bear Justine Avery and Bee: Too BusyNaday Meldova|authortitle=Sergio RuzzierEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=3.54
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|summary=Bear is trying Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to do lots of fun thingstalk about and joke about, but they'd all be much more fun that is. But horribly embarrassing if only his friend, Bee, would join inyou let one go at the wrong time. BeeIn class, howeversay, has other ideas when everyone will hear it and is just too busy to roll down hills or climb up treeseveryone will laugh. At you. When Bee is finished Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and wants to play calmly, with Bearthe familiar humour attached, Bear explains that tooting is trying to sleepperfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423159616</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Ten Little PrincessesWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Mike Brownlow Justine Avery and Simon RickertySeema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ten little princesses are going to a ball, but not all of them may get there. There are lots of distractions between ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the castle and latest release in the dance floor''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. Some This series of them are less than pleasant, like the scary monsters or the poison apple, not fun picture books aims to mention take the huffing, puffing big bad wolf (can see pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a familiar theme emerging?) Others are much more enticingworthy aim, like a frog just begging to be kissed or a charming prince (on a skateboard, no less)as any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408330105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=WolfmanWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Michael Rosen and Chris MouldPeter Cotton
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|summary=People are panickingMeet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. The police are afraid But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. The army Fred is a snake and even those of us who have run awaya phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. Who or what He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could possibly be so scary? It’s Wolf Manbreathe and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And he’s on that was where the looseproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Lord of the ForestJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Caroline Pitcher and Jackie MorrisEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=Everything in the forest is exciting and new for little tiger Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as he explores the world around himany parent will tell you. His mother has told him of The Lord of the Forest and so he watchesBut really, listens and waits in the hope of discovering who this mysterious animal may why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. As time passes he grows puzzled and starts to ask the other animals such Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as the Rhino, say, learning about why the Elephant sun and the Peacock who The Lord of the Forest is and each moon take turns in turn claims that it 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 the identity of the beast he has been searching for.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805469</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Heart HolidaysJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Clara VulliamyNo, No, No!
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|summary=Martha and her bunny brothers They say the best picture books are going on holiday to the seaside and it's charmingsimplest ones. They’re in And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a vintage camper vanBookbag favourite. ''No, and while a traffic jam holds them up a bitNo, theyNo!''re soon on the beach and ready to swim. Well, Martha is. But based around the boys don't want to so instead they have sandcastle building competitions, and a picnic and a paddle and some ice creamssimplest text imaginable. Every time Martha mentions the sea, a new plan emerges. Will anyone ever go in the water with her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000741921X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=Following the TractorThe Farm Shop|author=Susan SteggallDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=4.5
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|summary=There's only one thing that you need Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to know about this book and that's that it is about go for a tractorwalk. Not sold? Well, your under five will be but Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in case you require further persuasion, try this her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out for sizeas ever in his smart grey fur coat. The tractor is red and appears on every page and on one page (could there be more joy?)As they walk to the top of the hill, there is also they see a blue tractor and big barn with a green combine harvestersign outside. IIt've yet to meet s a child who doesn't like farm shop! But this is a tractor. My local rhyme time librarian introduced farm shop with a toy for each verse of Old McDonald then had to invest in additional vehicles for difference: all the tractor round as it was less 'brrmm brrmm here' more 'toddler fisticuffs there'stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804896</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=The Sheep in Wolf's ClothingSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Bob HartmanMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=From Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the Montagues River Thames at Greenwich and the Capulets she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the Sharks and houses cowered in the Jetsgloom, there are some groups who just can't mix without fireworks resulting. A sheep making friends with a Wolf was never going to end well. '<br>'The Sheep in Wolf's ClothingTo the Maritime Museum'' tells the tale of one little lamb who decides to go to Wolf school. Her imagination was fired. She's bored of d love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day to day routine of being she fell asleep under a sheep. The daily dips, glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the badminton playing, closing bell and the endless knittingattendant's warning shout. MumWhen she woke (hard floors don's knitting comes t make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in handy though as a wolf suit flies off her needles. This enables Little Sheepworld of dolphins, suitably disguisedpirates, to trot off to Wolf School mermaids and learn that it's ok to be friends with someone who is outwardly quite different to yourselftreasure...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745965156</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=The Dinosaurs are Having a Party!Little Gold Ted|author=Gareth P Jones Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Garry ParsonsSasha Satha
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|summary=YouOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It've hired 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 clownstreet. Finding himself down in the sewer, there appears Ted starts to be enough food panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and goodie bags for everyonealerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, but have you made one fatal mistake? Is who plucks him out of the venue big enoughdirty water using his cane, this which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is after all a party for dinosaurs. 'The Dinosaurs are Having kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a Party!’ tells nice bowl of one such party fully populated by our extinct friends; apart from one small boy and his dogbroth. Everything at the party appears to be fine, but where is the food?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440376</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Mungo Monkey Goes to SchoolRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Lydia MonksMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Going to Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is a huge milestone for any child, short and it has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can be scarysee and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. This book works hard to stop So, when Remy reacts, it seeming so daunting, pitching itself really well to make looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school feel fun, exciting and like a very appealing adventurethe teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140526909X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Mine!1471191303|author=Jerome Keane and Susana de Dios|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summarytitle=Horse and Fox are really bored. Nothing had happened for ages, until the egg arrived. In this lovely book, they are forced to try and share, but they aren't particularly good at it. I really love the style of this book, it uses bold, different colour schemes to make it instantly eye catching and engaging. 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>}} {{newreview|title=Bocchi and Pocchi and the BirdInvisible|author=Noriko MatsubaraTom Percival|rating=35
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|summary=Bocchi and Pocchi are a pair This is the story of fluffyIsobel, colourful socks, and the leads a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in this book. I suppose talking socks is no different from talking monkeys or talking robots or aliens. This a book for prehouse -schoolers. Anything goes. And ita very cold house, because her parents couldn's not like they're not happy, friendly, helpful socks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991015</amazonuk>}}t afford to put the heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=What I Think About When I Think About... SwimmingNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Eleanor Levenson and Katie O'HaganOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=On the face of itMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, this is a very simple bookobsessed with bears. Straight forward images and very few words would lead you to believe that this was a book for a very young audienceShe collects books about bears. This Her favourite toy is notBerisford, however, the casea teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. While it does work well for a younger reader, it also manages to raise some very interesting questionsEvery night, such as that she looks out of climate change or 'what it will be like her bedroom window and says goodnight to be old'the bear statue outside. This makes for an intriguing readEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, as there are times where the juxtapositioning of the images and text make it a little difficult to pitchcolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909991023</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}