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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=ItMurray 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 Snow Daycat, 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=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Richard Curtis Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Rebecca CobbIndre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=54
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|summary=We all remember the best sort of school days, don’t When we? Snow days. Waking up first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the morning and seeing the glow Forest of white through Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the curtainsSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and looking out when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the window to see Tree Wee homes high up in the whole world of our back gardens and rooftops turned white. This is a book all about thattangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and the only two people who turn up at school on this particular snow dayGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723288925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Crocodile Under the BedWinter Visitor|author=Judith KerrChris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=Judith Kerr wrote the classic [[The Tiger Who Came Kit and Teal were just beginning to Tea by Judith Kerr|The Tiger Who Came wonder whether it was better to Tea]]be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and now she is back with ''The Crocodile Under building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the Bed'', which I’m fairly certain is going to join it in classic status before too longice was a polar bear. This time As the ice bumped onto the sand, Matty is a little boy who wants desperately to go to the party but he gets sick so can’t gobear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. He’s having no fun Kit was all for making a run for it, but there’s somebody who is pretty sure he can help with Teal knew that; the crocodile under bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007586752</amazonuk>bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Jackie MorrisLainey Dee
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|summary=When your children are very littleTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, it can be incredibly difficult 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 sum up to them what it is you want for their futureshow his grandmother. It can also be incredibly difficult She had promised to sum up take him to them just how much you want them the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to go to sleep of an evening; this book ties up the two nicelymake new friends. At home, in what I believe to his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be a really good bedtime storybecause he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190942854X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Something About a BearThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Jackie MorrisAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=I'm partial Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to a book about bears, as I've mentioned in previous reviews, so I jumped at the chance to read this bookpark and watch the red buses drive past. I could give you a couple Elsie would race the buses along the side of paragraphs just on the cover art if you like! Ipark but David couldn't - he'm not fussy about my bears in bear booksd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult...I'm not One day Elsie spotted a purist, requiring that they all look like real bears, but bus in this book the illustrations are really wonderfully donetoy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Mr Bear on Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the cover is a delightfully serious brown bear. I have a friend who declares picture books bus for children with artwork like this are wasted on small childrensupport, but I'd beg to disagree. I think that and walk behind it's wonderful to be able to provide your child with a range of artistic styles to enjoy and appreciate. There's a place for Many decades later, Elsie brought the [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|Gruffalo]] stylebus, or [[:Category: Richard Scarry|Richard Scarry]]now damaged and rusted, but I think to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there's also a place for these books could make it so that are made of beautiful paintingsher grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805167</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Cat, the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf and Grandma's WardrobeChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Diane Fox Amy Sparkes and Christyan FoxKatie Hickey
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|summary=Have you ever sat down Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to read a story aloud her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to someone the home of Mr and found that they interrupt at every given opportunityMrs Russell, asking questions, making comments, and generally fidgeting with anything and everything? who couldn't have been kinder to her. I'm sure if you've spent any time with a toddler then this will be a familiar experienceShe even had her own room - all to herself. This story plays on that, with a cat trying, very hard, Gradually she relaxed and began to tell a dog the story of Little Red Riding Hoodenjoy her life. But dog canShe't sit still, d help Mrs Russell with the baking and he wants when it came to know what Red's superpower is, because if she has a cape she must be a superhero, Christmas Eve Susan and he's pretty sure that Red must have zapped Mr Russell put the decorations on the wolf with her kindness ray when she met him.Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277002</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=A Day at the Police StationSqueakily Baby|author=Richard ScarryBeth Webb
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|summary=We like Richard Scarry books in our houseMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. My 2 year old son has brought me the [[Busiest People Ever by Richard Scarry|Busiest People Ever]] book to read more times than IHe's so tired but he can't - or won'd care t - go to think aboutsleep: instead, but actually I always enjoy it too because there are so many things he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to see help. It rocks Baby gently and discuss the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and look foryou have the sound perfectly. The funny illustrations are usually the key selling point for me but actually, mermaids join in this particular book- ''la lou, it was the story I likedla lay...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574940</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Jampires|author=Sarah McIntyre and David O'Connell|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Jampires is ' And for a great book explaining why some of your doughnuts might not be moment it seems to have worked as jammy as you’d perhaps likeBaby closes his eyes. This is Then a really funny premise for a children’s book seagull '''shouts''' and I really did enjoy reading it, on the wholewe know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200123</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=The Further Adventures of the Owl and the Pussy-cat|author=Julia Donaldson and Charlotte VoakeFrontpage|ratingisbn=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I was utterly intrigued by the idea of a follow up to the wonderful Edward Lear poem, The Owl and the Pussy-cat. I thought it might have the feel that some follow ups by different authors might have, but I was very pleasantly surprised. If anybody was going to be able to write verse that could live up to the original, Julia Donaldson was, and she did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141332972</amazonuk>}} {{newreview140639131X|title=Bears Don't Read!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Emma Chichester ClarkBriony May Smith
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|summary=IPhilippa Pheasant was 'm a sucker for bear stories'tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. I find that I am very rarely disappointed by a book with She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a bear in it. Certainly, this particular bear book is charming, with lots of appeal for both bear-lovers and book-lovers too! George is no common bear, oh noreply. HePhilippa wasn's the sort of bear who sits t a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a bench, thinking about problem which needed solving: she saw the meaning benefits of life. No longer wanting to do the usual bear sort of things, he feels lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that he needs more.she would set up something similar herself..but what can he do? One day he happens Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to stumble upon a book and, start with it, but the new ambition for his lifebenefits were obvious. George needs All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to learn how to read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000742518X</amazonuk>provide a safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Line Up, PleaseLeilong's Too Long!|author=Tomoko OhmuraJulia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=I was intrigued by Every morning Leilong, the beginning of this bookbrontosaurus school bus, which starts with a sign declaring that 'makes his way through the line starts here' and below that is a frogcity, labelled picking up children as being a from, he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and he also has a number 50 beneath himslide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What is could be a more fun way of going onto school? Turning the page we see that there There is a queue of animalsproblem, and that each animal is named and numbered, with the numbers decreasing from 50 downwardsthough. From Leilong isn't happy in the start this is the perfect book for a child obsessed with all the different animal species you can name. Therecity: he's everything in this queue from moles always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and guinea pigs – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to an armadillo, a sloth and a wombat!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>187757998X</amazonuk>traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Doughnuts for a DragonBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Lee WildishDavid Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=I love a good board book! ''Doughnuts for a DragonBumblebee Grumblebee'' does pretty much what is aimed at quite a niche market: it says on 's for the tinchild who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with George heading 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 on with a mission to find hair drier becomes a dragon''fluffalo''. In [[Marshmallows for Martians by Lee Wildish, Adam Guillain and Charlotte Guillain|Marshmallows for Martians]] he built himself The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a spaceship in order to hunt for extraterrestrial life, but this time ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his plan requires potty changes into a time machine - I mean''sm.......'' OK, how else let's not go there Some people are you going to find a Dragon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405270543</amazonuk>eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Sam and Dave Dig a HoleCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Mac Barnett and Jon KlassenEd Boxall
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|summary=Sam and Dave are digging a hole, and they’re sure they’re going It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to find something spectacular. But the more they dig, the more they keep missing undo all the spectacular stuff, not that they know it. This is an interesting book which requires a pretty good attention span to fully appreciate it. It has that thing that is parents do, so often missing in picture books; it is just that bit different, which I the trips out were always appreciateso much fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406357766</amazonuk>}} A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Scarf Cherolachian Tortoise and a HalfHare|author=Amanda Brandon and Catalina EcheverriCordellya Smith
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|summary=A Scarf and a Half follows When the story of Little Lionelworld was made, whose Granny just loves to knitthe animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. When she knits him Water Spider received a scarf for his birthday, strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he just can’t help could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but be disappointed, after all unfortunately, not the ability to use it isn’t well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a nice bouncy ballrace with Turtle. But it isn’t just any old scarf, Granny loves knitting so much You might think that it’s 's not a scarf fair contest but wait and a half, and luckily for Lionel his friends see. Things are on hand to show him just not always as they seem. I'll tell you how many different uses it could havecame about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Willy The WimpRob Keeley|authortitle=Anthony BrowneCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Willy is a mild mannered chimp. He apologises even when it is not his fault, which is most of the timeLily loves eating fruit and vegetables. In the mean streets of townShe likes carrots, his timid mannerbroccoli, Fair Isle tank top cabbage and Oxford brogues mark him out as an easy target aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for the gorilla gangyou and how nice to eat. That is until the One day he spots a mail order advertisement which guarantees a transformation from wimp to loud talking, sand kickingpoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, muscle bulging manwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Willy sends off Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the couponground. Jordan says, some cash "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and then waits…everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406356417</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{Frontpage
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|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''
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=Belle Justine Avery and Boo and the Very Merry ChristmasNaday Meldova|authortitle=Mandy SutcliffeEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=In the world of children’s literature you have Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to get your winter solstice books out early talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you want to stand out in let one go at the crowdwrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. Before At you can release a Christmas book though. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, it would help if all with the characters knew what Christmas was. Thankfullyfamiliar humour attached, Boo need not worry for too long as Belle explains that tooting is on hand to tell him exactly what to doperfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408320916</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Jolly SnowmenWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Ned TaylorJustine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Snowmen are universally adored. Everyone I know who picked up this book, young and old, went ''Oooh, snowmenWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' There’s something so cheerful about this precious, somewhat rare creature, and is the likes of Frozen have cemented this latest release in the minds ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the latest generationpain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. A book about two balls of icy snow doesnIt't sound much, but add s a scarfworthy aim, coal eyes and a carrot nose, and the transformation is astonishingas any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184857424X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=TinWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Chris JudgePeter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=When Tin agrees to look after Nickel for the afternoonMeet Fred. Well, actually, you can tell he really just wants her 're going to play peacefully while he reads his comicbe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But little sisters have a habit I'm getting ahead of not doing what myself: I'd better tell you want, and before he knows it, Tin a bit more about Fred. Fred is up off his sun lounger a snake and racing after Nickel even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to keep her from dangerwarm to him. As He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and Zinc immediately became part of the dog chase after herfamily, to the extent that they find themselves in an adventure of their own in would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the big cityproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440406</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=It's an Orange Aadvark!Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Michael HallEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
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|summary=A group of ants decide to drill through their tree stump in order Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to give themselves a window learn about our bodily functions just as we have to the outside worldlearn about everything else when we are small. The more they drillWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the more colours they find, sun and the more whacky and wild ideas they come up with for what they mind find outside moon take turns in the safety of their home.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910277045</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Yuck! Said the YakJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Alex English and Emma LeveyNo, No, No!
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|summary=Yuck! Said They say the best picture books are the Yak is a great, fun book for young listenerssimplest ones. Alfie is trying desperately to find something which his hungry Yak friend will want to eatAnd nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, but he doesn’t really think about what a Yak will want, and so all the Yak can say is ''Yuck!''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861141</amazonuk>}}Bookbag favourite.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=Baker CatThe Farm Shop|author=Posy SimmondsDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Poor Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat! All day long he works decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for the mean baker all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his equally unpleasant wife in the bakery, mixing, baking, chopping, slicing and sweeping while the baker grumblessmart grey fur coat. Then at night the exhausted cat, without any supper, is expected As they walk to catch the mice that run riot in top of the storeroomhill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. Unfortunately he It's a farm shop! But this is not a particularly successful mouse catcherfarm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. Eventually the poor catThere are sheep and ducks and cows, denied even a name by his miserable owners, becomes thingoats and chickens, sad and weepy and slumps in despaireven some mice. It is then that the mice take pity on him Excited, Kirelle and concoct a clever plan to help himSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441054</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=The Oxford Treasury of Nursery RhymesSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Sarah Williams Maureen Duffy and Karen KingAnita Joice
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|summary=When it comes to nursery rhymesSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what you learn at your Mother’s knee as a baby is gospelshe should be doing. Recently I have expanded my repertoire courtesy of Cheshire libraries excellent rhyme time activities, but She lives by the River Thames at heart I still can't quite come Greenwich and she loves to terms with the librarian saying 'washed ''the spider'' out as opposed to my mum’s washed ''poor Incey'' out'. Sadly, Williams’ and King’s compendium ''spend hours at The Oxford Treasury of Nursery Rhymes'' doesn’t take my Mum’s side in thisMaritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738666</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Dinosaur Poo!Little Gold Ted|author=Christyan Fox Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Diane FoxSasha Satha|rating=3.54
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|summary=There are two things that I find are always popular topics when it comes to young children; dinosaursOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and poothe water is swirling. This book takes that very much Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the next level side of the street. Finding himself down in this rhyming book all about dinosaur poothe sewer, Ted starts to panic. It does what it says on ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the tindirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277029</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Winnie's Big Bad RobotRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Valerie Thomas Mayuri Naidoo and Korky PaulCaroline Siegal|rating=4.5
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|summary=Winnie the Witch Remy is something of an institution in children’s literature these daysfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, and together with good reason. From the very first book in the series Valerie Thomas his sidekicks Ryan and Korky Paul managed to capture a wonderful sense of funBrandon, have been laughing at Remy, mischief calling him names because he is short and adventurehas small eyes. This addition They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the series is no exceptioninstigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738720</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=On Sudden HillThe Invisible|author=Linda Sarah and Benji Davies (Illustrator)Tom Percival
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|summary=Birt and Etho are best friends. They spend hours together playing on Sudden HillThis is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Usually they play Isobel lived with large cardboard boxes imagining that they are piratesher parents in a house - a very cold house, or soldiers or maybe kings but always they are because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the best inside of friends. Then one day another little boy, Shu, brings his box to Sudden Hill the window and asks if he can play toocrept up the corner of the bedpost. '' The three boys sit in their boxes together family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and imagine that they are dragon slayers or skyscraper dancers but Birt feels strangewere happy. He misses Then the two-by-two rhythm he day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had shared with Ethoto move to the far side of the city. Can This part of the boys make a friendship of two become three?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119289</amazonuk>city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zanib Mian Nick Jones and Laura Ewing FerrerSi Clark|title=Never too SmallOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=There was once a young boy Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who didn't try to do things because he felt that he was too smalllives in Beartown, but he was luckyis obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. He had Her favourite toy is Berisford, a good friend and that friend wrote him a letter to tell him that people are never too smallteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, or too big, or too old to try something new. There was also a little girl and she was afraid looks out of the dark. It was her brother who wrote her a letter bedroom window and says goodnight to tell her that he would always be there for herthe bear statue outside. There was the boy who wouldn't try new things Every morning she says hello to eat, the young girl who was afraid of heightsBee Bear, a boy who was terrified about going to colourful painted bear that lives at her school and a girl who was frightened of spiders. They all had that special someone who took the time to write them the letter which gave them the confidence to overcome their fears.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956419658</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}