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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony RossAdam Stower|title=Rita's Rhino|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Rita really wants a pet, but when she asks her Mum for one she isn’t so keen. They’re smelly and greedy and take lots of hard work. Eventually she relents, Murray and gives Rita a jar with a flea in it, his name is Harold. Obviously, Rita isn’t happy with this so she decides to take matters into her own hands. What will she do, and how will she manage to hide a Rhino from her pet-fearing mother?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440252</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Linda Newbery|title=The BrockenspectreBun
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|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Tommi lives up in the mountains with his parents Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and his baby sister. Mamma friendly cat, one who is artistic able to sleep and paints beautiful designs on chairs eat and stools eat and planters for tourists to buysleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Pappi is But he's a mountain guide and Tommibad magician's hero - brave and fearless and cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a lover of his wild mountain home. Tommi wants nothing more than to be like Pappi. But things aren't peaceful at home. Pappi is only truly happy by himselfhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out amongst , not into the peaks. After just regular back garden, but into a day or two at home without guiding work, he becomes irritable and critical world of Mammi frightening adventure and his childrenwhiffsAfter an argument This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one daymuch bigger than Murray was, Pappi strides out of the house to be honest, but he's turned up and onto the mountain. And he doesn't return.ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857551566</amazonuk>0008561249
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  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Forward and Ruth Brown1732898766|title=The Quayside CatAdventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=3.54
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|summary=Sometimes itWhen 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 chasing them. He's good to be wrongright behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. I (Please don'd been keen to review t try this at home: it won''The Quayside Cat'' almost entirely because of the beautiful colour palette of the front cover – t end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and also because I spend quite when a lot ladder of time hanging around on quaysidesmoss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. But then I began They climbed up to get cold feet – had I been guilty of the classic adult sinTree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, choosing a book because it appealed to me Nester Nook and with no thought of whether the children would like it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441046</amazonuk>Granny Cranny.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul ThurlbyB0CC9W7GLR|title=NumbersOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=Is Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it art was better to be at home, bored but warm, or is it pedagogy? That’s frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a weighty question to start snowy beach when a review large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a children’s picture bookpolar bear. When As the book in question is 'Numbers' by Paul Thurlby thoughice bumped onto the sand, it’s central the bear woke and with 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. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to whether sleep. What else would you will love this volume or not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918753</amazonuk>do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=The Illustrated Old PossumLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=T S Eliot and Nicolas BentleyLainey Dee|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=This title is clearly of importance to Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the house of Faberbest beetle juice. To this day their puff mentions it was one He packed two pairs of their first childrens' books, after the author sent dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his publisher's son, button collection to show his godson, some writings based on jellicle cats and some of their scrapesgrandmother. It's clearly a book that's important She had promised to Andrew Lloyd Webber, too, but we'll gloss speedily over that. It's a book that was important take him to me as well – I certainly had a copy, a thin, barely illustrated, old-fashioned style paperback of it once I had seen the musical. And with Friday Night Club at the excellent writing here local community centre and the ability of it Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to delight so many people of so many agesmake new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it has the power to might be important to a future generationbecause he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Nonsense Limericks The Toy Bus (Faber Children's ClassicsThe Repair Shop Stories)|author=Edward Lear Amy Sparkes and Arthur Robins (illustrator)Katie Hickey
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=There Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a young man whose critique<br>Of this book bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was submitted one week<br>When they asked 'Was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it fine?'<br>He said 'No denyin' –<br>'There's very little here they so that her grandchildren could tweak!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>play with it.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Rudey's Windy The ChristmasDoll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Helen Baugh Amy Sparkes and Ben MantleKatie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=We all know that at this time 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 the home of year there are ohMr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room -so-many Christmas all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and Santa related stories began to choose fromenjoy her life. How do you pick which ones She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to buy or read? Well, Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the answer to that is if you’ve got small boys or girls who tend towards potty humour, then this is Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the book for youfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007542828</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Polly Parrot Picks a PirateSqueakily Baby|author=Peter Bently and Penny DannBeth Webb
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|summary=Anyone who has anything Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to do with little children will know that help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you can never have too many piratesthe sound perfectly. There are pirate costumes The mermaids join in - ''la lou, pirate television shows, and here we la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have another pirate bookworked as Baby closes his eyes. In this fun Then a seagull '''shouts''' and entertaining tale, we find out how Polly the parrot goes about choosing a pirate as her petknow exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447223438</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=The Owl and the Pussy-catA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Edward Lear, Charlotte Voake and Julia DonaldsonBriony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=This is Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a poem which has always resonated with me, because reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there is something about it was a problem which is nothing short needed solving: she saw the benefits of magicalthe lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. It taps into that part of children which still love nursery rhymes, or to pretend they fly Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the moon when they go to sleepbenefits were obvious. This edition is beautifully laid out, All the animals used the crossing and I would happily buy it in Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a heartbeatsafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>072329321X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=KatieLeilong's London ChristmasToo Long!|author=James MayhewJulia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=We have never been strict about Christmas in our houseEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. It's usually my husband Children who starts it, with a carol or two during live at the summer! Ittop of tower blocks don's hard t even need to resist that Christmas urge if you're a die-hard fan go downstairs – they simply climb out of the season! I have a friend who keeps all her Christmas related stories safely in a cupboard, brought out in a special basket only during the season itselfwindow and slide down his neck. WeIt's perfect, meanwhile, have Christmas stories all year round because, honestly, who doesnisn't like it? What could be a bit more fun way of Father Christmas magic now and thengoing to school?! Anyway, this is all to say that here There is a Christmas story that some purists will tuck away until Christmas Eve but we have quite happily read during Halloween! problem, though. Katie is back, Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and heading back to London, but this time she– because he's on longer than a mission tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to help Father Christmas.and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326418</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=How the Library (Not the Prince) Saved RapunzelBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Wendy Meddour and Rebecca AshdownDavid Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=When I'm not reading books, or being a mum, I'm busy being love a librarian, so of course I wanted to read this good board book! Poor Rapunzel ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is down in aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the dumpschild 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 make something quite different from each one. As We have the story tells us, elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''she had nowhere to go, she had nothing to proveballetphant''. If this were an adult story she'd be diagnosed The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with depression, but since we're in the realm of pictures books we merely see a queue of people who drop by to visit Rapunzel, asking her to let down her hair so that they can deliver things to her or come by and visit drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who fail completely to entice her out of her flat, or for her to let down her hair to let them in. What drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it she is waiting for? !) Is she just The pelican who sits on hold until her handsome prince comes by?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804322</amazonuk>his potty changes into a ''sm.......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
{{newreview|title=Robert Crowther's Pop up Dinosaur Alphabet|author=Robert Crowther|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=ABC books could stand for A Boring Concept'It'll be brilliant, but you might want to wait until you find out what the D is before making a decision. In this case D stands for Dinosaurs and there is nothing boring about them. There is also nothing boring about pop-ups. The two together may just join up to make something pretty specialremember, don't let go of my hand. Use this book to learn your basic alphabet and gain the some pretty intellectual knowledge on dinosaurs; from Allosaurus to Zapalasaurus.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348643</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Seen Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Not HeardHare|author=Katie May GreenCordellya Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=During When the day world was made, the eight children of Shiverhawk Hall are seen and 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 heard for they are images captured on canvasburn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''Don’t they look so sweet and good, so well behaved like children should?' They certainly look a picture, picked out in ' the silvery moonlightfuture. As night sets in and all is quiet Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, only not the black cat and a handful of mice are there ability to use it well. He liked to see the portraits come trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to life be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and step out of their framessee. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about. What mischief can these children from across the ages make? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346519</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other StoriesRob Keeley|authortitle=Sylvia Plath and David RobertsCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=I've said it before Lily loves eating fruit and I'll say it againvegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, that you should always approach classical authors through cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their least typicalnoses, shortest and more individual works – you won't gain much insight perhaps into why Lily is keen to explain how good they were famous, but are for you will find more entertainment and greater pleasures how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by staying outside the canonJordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. And Infuriated, Lily checks with the lovely people at Faber teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and Faber have a case vegetables, like carrots, grow in point – rather than plough through serious dross from Eliotthe ground. Jordan says, why not stick to [[The Illustrated Old Possum by T S Eliot and Nicolas Bentley]]? And with Sylvia Plath "I cannot think of a better place did try to start with tell her oeuvre than with these snappy , Miss!" and delightful pageseveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571314643</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=Dog on StiltsYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=James Thorp Justine Avery and Angus MackinnonKate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=Once you have reached adulthood''For the big, never try and understand what grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is going on with a child’s imagination. Whilst they can sit on the floor and talk to their imaginary friends, from cry (the age big-girl kind!) of 20+ this is suddenly frowned upon. A child can think of crazy toilet triumph and wonderful things that would not even cross an adult’s mind. That is unless you are an author of children’s books, then you can come up with an idea as strange as a dog who likes to use stiltspersevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909428051</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview
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|summary=Pink. Glitter. Magic. Right from the start this book has all the ingredients needed to be a hit with little girls. I hate to stereotype but there’s no denying it with this one. From the author of ''Angelina Ballerina'' comes the first in a new, rather magical series.
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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=One Christmas NightJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Christina M Butler and Tina MacNaughtonEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=If you regularly read children’s books Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about Father Christmas , that is. But horribly embarrassing if you are probably as amazed as I am that he ever gets let one go at the job donewrong time. It would appear that almost every year some sort of problem befalls old Santa Claus In class, say, when everyone will hear it and he has to ask for helpeveryone will laugh. At you. I can understand getting aid from his elves, his reindeers or even the tooth fairy Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at a push, but a hedgehog? However, this is not just any hedgehogshame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, but Little Hedgehog and with the aid of friends and a fluffy scarffamiliar humour attached, Hedgehog may just get the job done in timeexplains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848952422</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Monsters Love Underpants Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Claire Freedman Justine Avery and Ben CortSeema Amjad
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|summary=''Who loves underpantsNeeds Nappies? EVERYONE loves underpantsNot Me! We’ve already explored how aliens love them, how cavemen love them, '' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and how pirates love themreplace it with some fun. Who else could there possibly be? Oh yesIt's a worthy aim, that’s right…as any frustrated parent will tell you. Monsters! Claire Freedman and and Ben Cort are back with yet another tale about pingy pants elastic .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385710</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Do You Speak English, Moon?When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Francesca Simon, Ben Cort and Lenny HenryPeter Cotton
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|summary=Night can Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be a scary time meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a child, with shadows playing tricks on the walls and no daylight to make everything seem okaybit more about Fred. Do You Speak English, Moon? Fred is a great book for this situation, with snake and even those of us who have a little boy deciding the best thing to do is phobia about snakes are going to talk warm to the moonhim. He asks arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the moon some lovely and magical questions before finally snuggling down and going family, to sleepthe extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. This is an excellent way to try and make And that was where the dark just a little less of a fearful place for young childrenproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409151050</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rattle Justine Avery and RapNaday Meldova|authortitle=Susan SteggallEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=ApparentlyCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, back in the days of steamas any parent will tell you. But really, every little boy used to dream of being an engine driver. The trains in ''Rattle and Rap'why shouldn' are t it be? We all diesel but the allure of travel still wafts strongly from the pages. This is one in a series of vehicle-themed books aimed at pre-schoolers. It’s unusual have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to find engaging non-fiction for the under fiveslearn about everything else when we are small. With the focus on vehiclesWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, Susan Stegall takes a staple of many a children’s book butsay, unlike some other authors, she treats learning about why the subject with imagination sun and creativity. It’s enough to make an anthropomorphised tank engine blush.the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805833</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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|author=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova
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|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite.
{{newreview|title=Secrets of the Rainforest: A Shine-a-Light Book|author=Carron Brown and Alyssa Nassner|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The rainforest is bustling with life. If we look closely''No, we will be able to spot the animals living there. Some are hiding in the treesNo, some under leaves or behind rocks. There are plenty of secrets to discover. And to become a special rainforest explorer, you will need a torch, or a bright light, because that No!'' is based around the key to spotting all of those hidden creatures..simplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401490</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=The Tooth Fairy's Christmas|author=Peter Bently and Garry Parsons|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=If I had a choice of being a magical figure I would choose someone like Father Christmas over the Tooth Fairy. Yes'No, he may be morbidly obeseno, but at least he only has to work really hard on one day of the year. The Tooth Fairy has to work all year roundno! Okay, including Christmas Dayokay. Thankfully, all these magical folk appear to be in some sort of unionYes, so when the weather is too bad on 24th December you can always rely on St Nick to help you out|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918346</amazonuk>}}may.''
{{newreview|title=Over the Hills and Far Away|author=Elizabeth Hammill (Editor)|rating=5|genre=ChildrenThat's Rhymes and Verse|summary=I’m a bit picky on behalf it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of my toddler. See the word ‘Treasury’ and I expect him to be treated to text is a volume he will want to pass veritable tardis - so much bigger on to his own children. Anything less and I am disappointed. I’m relieved to get one thing straight from the start. This one’s a gem - a gorgeous joy of a book inside that you will just want to keep opening again and again. It’s not a question of whether it is worthy of hypothetical grandchildren, it’s more a question of how well thumbed it will be when they get itappears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847804063</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=What A Wonderful WorldThe Farm Shop|author=Bob ThieleDevon Avery, George David Weiss Justine Avery and Tim HopgoodEma Tepic
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|summary=''What Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a Wonderful World'' walk. Kirelle is a book dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and accompanying CD set based on Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the Louis Armstrong songtop of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. In fact it It's a farm shop! But this is the book and CD of that song as it’s not a new story or farm shop with a padded out version of difference: all the originalstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, it’s simply an illustrated version of the lyricsgoats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736906</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=It's Snow Day|author=Richard Curtis and Rebecca Cobb|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We all remember the best sort of school days, don’t weWhat will they buy? Snow days. Waking up in the morning and seeing the glow of white through the curtains, and looking out of the window to see the whole world of our back gardens and rooftops turned white. This is a book all about that, and the only two people who turn up at school on this particular snow day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723288925</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Crocodile Under the Bed0995647895|author=Judith Kerr|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summarytitle=Judith Kerr wrote the classic [[The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr|The Tiger Who Came to Tea]], Sadie and now she is back with ''The Crocodile Under the Bed'', which I’m fairly certain is going to join it in classic status before too long. This time, Matty is a little boy who wants desperately to go to the party but he gets sick so can’t go. He’s having no fun, but there’s somebody who is pretty sure he can help with that; the crocodile under the bed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007586752</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)Sea Dogs|author=Jackie MorrisMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=You probably haven't heard of Mergichans – although if you pronounce it correctly in your head, in connection with spirits and magic, you will work out what they are. One of them is the totem, if you like, of a hidden Himalayan valley, and she is in the form of a snow leopard, singing existence as she sees fit and protecting the Shangri-La type location. But she cannot protect it from all-comers, least of all when she's trying to sing to find a successor. Mergichans do not have it all their own way…
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|summary=When your children are very littleSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, it can her mind never on what she should be incredibly difficult to sum up to them what it is you want for their futuredoing. It can also be incredibly difficult to sum up to them just how much you want them to go to sleep of an evening; this book ties up She lives by the two nicely, in what I believe River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to be a really good bedtime storyspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190942854X</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|title=Something About a Bear|author=Jackie Morris|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I'm partial to a book about bears, as I've mentioned When all the houses cowered in previous reviewsthe gloom, so I jumped at ''<br>''To the chance to read this book. I could give you a couple of paragraphs just on the cover art if you like! IMaritime Museum'm not fussy about my bears in bear books...I'm not a purist, requiring that they all look like real bears, but in this book the illustrations are really wonderfully done. Mr Bear on the cover is a delightfully serious brown bearHer imagination was fired. I have a friend who declares picture books for children with artwork like this are wasted on small children, but IShe'd beg love to disagreesail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. I think that One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's wonderful to be able to provide your child with a range of artistic styles to enjoy the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and appreciatethe attendant's warning shout. ThereWhen she woke (hard floors don's t make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a place for the [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|Gruffalo]] styleworld of dolphins, or [[:Category: Richard Scarry|Richard Scarry]]pirates, but I think there's also a place for these books that are made of beautiful paintingsmermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805167</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=The Cat, the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf and Grandma's WardrobeGold Ted|author=Diane Fox Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Christyan FoxSasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=Have you ever sat down to read One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a story aloud deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to someone spin around and found that they interrupt at every given opportunity, asking questions, making comments, around and generally fidgeting with anything and everything? I'm sure if you've spent any time with a toddler then this will be is sucked down a familiar experience. This story plays drain on that, with a cat trying, very hard, to tell a dog the story side of Little Red Riding Hoodthe street. Finding himself But dog can't sit stilldown in the sewer, and he wants Ted starts to know what Redpanic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE's superpower is' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, because if she has which might look just a cape she must be bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a superhero, kind soul and he's pretty sure that Red must have zapped the wolf dries Ted off and warms him up with her kindness ray when she met him..a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277002</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A Day at the Police Stationbook about believing in yourself|author=Richard ScarryMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=We like Richard Scarry books in our houseRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, My 2 year old son together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has brought me the [[Busiest People Ever by Richard Scarry|Busiest People Ever]] book to read more times than I'd care to think about, small eyes. They are mean but actually I always enjoy it too because there they are not stupid. They are so many things careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and discuss and look forthen push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. The funny illustrations are usually the key selling point for me but actuallySo, in this particular bookwhen Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the story I likedinstigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574940</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=JampiresThe Invisible|author=Sarah McIntyre and David O'ConnellTom Percival|rating=3.5
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|summary=Jampires This is the story of Isobel, a great book explaining why some of your doughnuts might not be as jammy as you’d perhaps likelittle girl who made a big difference. This is Isobel lived with her parents in a really funny premise for house - a children’s book and I really did enjoy reading itvery cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on the whole.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200123</amazonuk>}}:
{{newreview|title=The Further Adventures ''Ice curled across the inside of the Owl window and crept up the Pussy-cat|author=Julia Donaldson and Charlotte Voake|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I was utterly intrigued by the idea corner 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 didbedpost.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141332972</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=Bears DonThe family didn't Read!|author=Emma Chichester Clark|rating=4go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I Then the day came when they couldn'm a sucker t afford the rent for bear stories. I find that I am very rarely disappointed by a book with a bear in it. Certainly, this particular bear book is charming, with lots of appeal for both bear-lovers the house and book-lovers too! George is no common bear, oh no. He's they had to move to the sort far side of bear who sits on a bench, thinking about the meaning of lifecity. No longer wanting to do This part of the usual bear sort of thingscity was cold, he feels that he needs more...but what can he do? One day he happens to stumble upon a book sad and lonely and, with it, the new ambition for his lifeIsobel felt invisible. George needs to learn how to read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000742518X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Line Up, Please!Nick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Tomoko OhmuraOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=I was intrigued by the beginning of this bookMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, which starts is obsessed with a sign declaring that 'the line starts here' and below that bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is a frogBerisford, labelled as being a fromteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, and he also has a number 50 beneath him. What is going on? Turning the page we see that there is a queue she looks out of animals, her bedroom window and that each animal is named and numbered, with the numbers decreasing from 50 downwards. From the start this is the perfect book for a child obsessed with all says goodnight to the different animal species you can namebear statue outside. There's everything in this queue from moles and guinea pigs Every morning she says hello to an armadilloBee Bear, a sloth and a wombatcolourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>187757998X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]