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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=If you have children you have no doubt read loads of books about shapes; the circleMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, the squarewell, whatever takes his fancy next of the dodecahedrontwo. They are all variations of the same things – this wheel is round like But he's a circlebad magician's cat, this bread reminds me of so his favourite bun has been turned into a squarehyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, what on earth is a dodecahedron? Why not spice into the book up by throwing in a mooseregular back garden, but not just any mooseinto a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is a moose that brings chaos expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to everything be honest, but he touches 's turned up and must be chased from the book!he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783441860</amazonuk>0008561249
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicki Greenberg 1732898766|title=The Naughtiest ReindeerAdventures 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=If you made all When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Father Christmas’s reindeer line up, you would find it pretty tricky to find Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the naughtiest one among Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them as they are so well behaved. HoweverHe's right behind them, there is one reindeer who is so naughty that she does not get asked to pull the sleigh very oftenspewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. ) On certain occasions needs must Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when Rudolf is ill on Christmas Evea ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the only help comes Tree Wee homes high up in the form of his little sister Ruby – dear oh deertangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743313047</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kristina StephensonB0CC9W7GLR|title=Sir Charlie Stinky SocksOn the Beach: The Pirate's CurseWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sir Charlie Stinky Socks: Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the Pirate's Curse passed the grandchild testshoreline. The oldest granddaughter, aged 7, chose it for On top of the teatime read as she'd already enjoyed another in this seriesice was a polar bear. She took As the lead in turning ice bumped onto the pagessand, opening the giant flaps bear woke and pointing out details of with wobbly legs moved from the plot and jokesice. The varied typefaces and sizes made Kit was all for making a run for it easy for her beginner reader brother to join in and the lively story line frequently attracted , but Teal knew that the attention of the third child who bear was sitting hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the other side of the table absorbed in bus and given a project of her owngood meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268093</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evangeline Lilly and Johnny Fraser-Allen1913839656|title=The Squickerwonkers|rating=4|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Selma is a young girl who finds a strange attraction on the edge of a fair – a large gypsy caravan-styled contraption, which she enters, alone but for her shiny red balloon. She appears to be alone, until nine marionette puppets suddenly appear on the stage within, and a disembodied voice introduces them all to her. They are the Squickerwonkers, and as we are about to see, they can reveal someoneLet's entire character with the simplest of actions…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295457</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCelebrate Being Different|author=Tom Moorhouse and David Roberts|title=The Adventures of Mr ToadLainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=Poop poop! Here comes Mr. Toad! The irrepressible Mr. Toad returnsTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, accompanied, of course, by Ratty, Mole and Badger in this cheerful picture book version of The Wind in not least because she made the Willowsbest beetle juice. The well-known highlights He packed two pairs of the classic tale; the yellow caravan, the beautiful car, the shame of Toad's prison stay dungarees and his daring escape plus The Weasels favourite hat and The Stoats are all included then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and, accompanied by charming illustrations, Todd was pleased about this is a wonderful way as he wanted to introduce young children to a classicmake new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738674</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Velthuijs1529504775|title=Frog is a HeroThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Always a sucker for a story with a hero, I thoroughly enjoyed this book with Frog as Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the unlikely herored buses drive past. ItElsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he's a d been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very rainy daydifficult. At first One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the rain, coins from her money box to pay for Frog it as cash was tight at least, is lovely and he goes outside dancinghome. But then it starts Gradually, David learned to get a little bit too heavy even stand up, use the bus for himsupport, and walk behind it. Worried about how his friends are coping with Many decades later, Elsie brought the adverse weatherbus, now damaged and rusted, Frog decides to go and see them and the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with everyone's houses leaking, a plan must be formed!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441445</amazonuk>it.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Faye Hanson1529504767|title=The WonderChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=DonSusan 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 judge a book by its coverhave worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, they saywho couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. It was Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the beautiful cover that made me want baking and when it came to try this gorgeous book Christmas Eve Susan and still I was not prepared for Mr Russell put the stunning illustrations that make up decorations on the journey into the imagination of Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the little boy in this thoughtful storyfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783701145</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Trudi Esberger1916459943|title=The Boy Who Lost His BumbleSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=A little boy loves his garden and he particularly loves the bees that visit it each dayMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He is 's so fascinated by tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his buzzy friends that he gives them each names blanket and records their habits ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and characteristicsthe waves sing ''hush, hush''. Then Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the weather changessound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it grows cold and seems to have worked as Baby closes his bees disappeareyes. Where can they be? Will they come back? The boy is puzzled Then a seagull '''shouts''' and saddened by their departure and tries hard to encourage his missing friends we know exactly what's going to returnhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846436613</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross140639131X|title=Rita's RhinoA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=Rita really wants 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 reply. Philippa wasn't a pet, but bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she asks her Mum for one saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she isn’t so keen. They’re smelly and greedy and take lots of hard workwould set up something similar herself. Eventually she relents, Her uniform and gives Rita lollipop stick were both a jar little amateur to start 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 handsbut the benefits were obvious. What will she do, All the animals used the crossing and how will she manage Hedgehog was even trained up to hide provide a Rhino from her pet-fearing mother?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440252</amazonuk>safe path overnight.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Newbery1776574338|title=The Brockenspectre|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Tommi lives up in the mountains with his parents and his baby sister. Mamma is artistic and paints beautiful designs on chairs and stools and planters for tourists to buy. Pappi is a mountain guide and TommiLeilong's hero - brave and fearless and 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 himself, out amongst the peaks. After just a day or two at home without guiding work, he becomes irritable and critical of Mammi and his children. After an argument one day, Pappi strides out of the house and onto the mountain. And he doesn't return.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857551566</amazonuk>}}  {{newreviewToo Long!|author=Toby Forward Julia Liu and Ruth Brown|title=The Quayside CatBei Lynn|rating=3.54
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|summary=Sometimes it's good to be wrongEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. I Children who live at the top of tower blocks don'd been keen t even need to review ''The Quayside Cat'' almost entirely because of the beautiful colour palette go downstairs – they simply climb out of the front cover – window and also because I spend quite slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a lot more fun way of time hanging around on quaysidesgoing to school? There is a problem, though. But then I began Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to get cold be careful about where he puts his feet and had I been guilty of the classic adult sin, choosing because he's longer than a book because it appealed tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to me and with no thought of whether traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the children would like it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441046</amazonuk>bus anymore.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Thurlby1776574028|title=NumbersBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=Is it art or I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it pedagogy? That’s 's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a weighty question to start ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a review of hair drier becomes a children’s picture book''fluffalo''. When the book in question The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'Numbers' by Paul Thurlby though OK, it’s central to whether you will love this volume or let's not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918753</amazonuk>go there Some people are eating!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=The Illustrated Old PossumCarried Away With the Carnival|author=T S Eliot and Nicolas BentleyEd Boxall
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=This title is clearly of importance to the house of Faber. To this day their puff mentions it It was one of their first childrensthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They' books, after re there to undo all the author sent his publisher's son, his godson, some writings based on jellicle cats and some of their scrapes. It's clearly a book good that's important to Andrew Lloyd Webberparents do, too, but we'll gloss speedily over thatso the trips out were always so much fun. It's a book that A young boy was important going 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 carnival with the excellent writing here and the ability of it to delight so many people of so many ageshis Grandad, it has the power to be important to a future generation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Nonsense Limericks (Faber Children's Classics)|author=Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=There was a young man whose critique<br>Of this book was submitted one week<br>When they asked 'Was it fine?'<br>He said 'No denyin' –<br>'There's very little here they could tweak!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>}}who told him:
{{newreview|title=Rudey's Windy Christmas|author=Helen Baugh and Ben Mantle|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We all know that at this time of year there are oh-so-many Christmas and Santa related stories to choose from. How do you pick which ones to buy or read? Well'It'll be brilliant, the answer to that is if you’ve got small boys or girls who tend towards potty humourjust remember, then this is the book for youdon't let go of my hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007542828</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Polly Parrot Picks a PirateOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Peter Bently and Penny DannCordellya Smith
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|summary=Anyone who has anything When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to do trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with little children will know Turtle. You might think that you can never have too many pirates's not a fair contest but wait and see. There Things are pirate costumes, pirate television shows, and here we have another pirate booknot always as they seem. In this fun and entertaining tale, we find out I'll tell you how Polly the parrot goes it came about choosing a pirate as her pet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447223438</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Owl and the Pussy-catRob Keeley|authortitle=Edward Lear, Charlotte Voake and Julia DonaldsonCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=This is a poem which has always resonated with me Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, because there is something about it which is nothing short of magicalcabbage and aubergines. It taps into that part of children which still love nursery rhymesWhen her friends at school turn up their noses, or Lily is keen to pretend explain how good they fly 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 teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the moon when they go ground. Jordan says, "I did try to sleep. This edition is beautifully laid outtell her, Miss!" and I would happily buy it in a heartbeateveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>072329321X</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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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=Katie's London ChristmasJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=James MayhewEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=We have never been strict about Christmas in our houseToots, trumps, farts. It's usually my husband who starts itWhatever your word for them, with find us a carol or two during the summer! Itchild that doesn's hard t find them irresistibly funny. Funny to resist talk about and joke about, that Christmas urge is. But horribly embarrassing if you're a die-hard fan of let one go at 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 itselfwrong time. WeIn class, meanwhilesay, have Christmas stories all year round because, honestly, who doesnwhen everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!''t like a bit of Father Christmas magic now series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and then?! Anywaycalmly, with the familiar humour attached, this is all to say explains that here tooting is a Christmas story that some purists will tuck away until Christmas Eve but we have quite happily read during Halloweenperfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''! Katie is back, and heading back to London, but this time she's on a mission to help Father Christmas...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408326418</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=How the Library Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Not the PrinceEverybody Potties!) Saved Rapunzel|author=Wendy Meddour Justine Avery and Rebecca AshdownSeema Amjad
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|summary=When I'm not reading books, or being a mum, I'm busy being a librarian, so of course I wanted to read this bookWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! Poor Rapunzel '' is down the latest release in the dumps. As the story tells us, ''she had nowhere to go, she had nothing to proveEverybody Potties!''series from Justine Avery. If this were an adult story she'd be diagnosed with depression, but since we're in the realm This series of pictures fun picture books we merely see a queue of people who drop by aims to visit Rapunzel, asking her to let down her hair so that they can deliver things to her or come by and visit who fail completely to entice her take the pain out of her flatpotty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, or for her to let down her hair to let them inas any frustrated parent will tell you. What is it she is waiting for? Is she just on hold until her handsome prince comes by?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804322</amazonuk>.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Robert Crowther's Pop up Dinosaur AlphabetWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Robert CrowtherPeter Cotton
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|summary=ABC books could stand for A Boring ConceptMeet Fred. Well, actually, but you might want 're going to wait until be 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 find out what the D a bit more about Fred. Fred is before making a decisionsnake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. In this case D stands for Dinosaurs He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and there is nothing boring about immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with themwhen they went out for a walk. There is also nothing boring about pop-upsAnd that was where the problem started. The two together may just join up to make something pretty specialFred didn't have any road sense. Use this book to learn your basic alphabet and gain the some pretty intellectual knowledge on dinosaurs; from Allosaurus to ZapalasaurusOr brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348643</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Seen Justine Avery and Not HeardNaday Meldova|authortitle=Katie May GreenEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
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|summary=During the day the eight children of Shiverhawk Hall are seen and not heard for they are images captured on canvasCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn'Don’t they look so sweet and good, so well behaved like children shouldt it be?We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn' They certainly look a picturet potty training be as much fun as, picked out in the silvery moonlight. As night sets in and all is quietsay, only learning about why the black cat sun and a handful of mice are there to see the portraits come to life and step out of their frames. What mischief can these children from across moon take turns in the ages makesky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406346519</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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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=The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other Stories|author=Sylvia Plath and David Roberts|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I've said it before and I'll say it againNo, that you should always approach classical authors through their least typicalNo, shortest and more individual works – you wonNo!''t gain much insight perhaps into why they were famous, but you will find more entertainment and greater pleasures by staying outside is based around the canon. And the lovely people at Faber and Faber have a case in point – rather than plough through serious dross from Eliot, 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 to start with her oeuvre than with these snappy and delightful pagessimplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314643</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Dog on Stilts|author=James Thorp and Angus Mackinnon|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Once you have reached adulthood''No, no, never try and understand what is going on with a child’s imagination. Whilst they can sit on the floor and talk to their imaginary friendsno! Okay, from the age of 20+ this is suddenly frowned uponokay. A child can think of crazy and wonderful things that would not even cross an adult’s mind. That is unless you are an author of children’s booksYes, then you can come up with an idea as strange as a dog who likes to use stiltsmay.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909428051</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=Twinkle|author=Katharine Holabird and Sarah Warburton|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Pink. Glitter. Magic. Right from That's it! But, like all the start best picture books, this book has all tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the ingredients needed to be a hit with little girls. I hate to stereotype but there’s no denying inside that it with this one. From appears on the author of ''Angelina Ballerina'' comes the first in a new, rather magical seriesoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444913387</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=One Christmas NightThe Farm Shop|author=Christina M Butler Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Tina MacNaughtonEma Tepic
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|summary=If you regularly read children’s books about Father Christmas you are probably as amazed as I am that he ever gets Kirelle and her best friend Sam the job done. It would appear that almost every year some sort of problem befalls old Santa Claus and he has cat decide to ask go for helpa walk. I can understand getting aid from Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his elvessmart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, his reindeers or even the tooth fairy at they see a big barn with a push, but sign outside. It's a hedgehog? However, farm shop! But this is not just any hedgehoga farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, but Little Hedgehog goats and with the aid of friends chickens, and a fluffy scarfeven some mice. Excited, Hedgehog may just get the job done in timeKirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848952422</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Monsters Love Underpants |author=Claire Freedman and Ben Cort|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Who loves underpantsWhat will they buy? EVERYONE loves underpants! We’ve already explored how aliens love them, how cavemen love them, and how pirates love them. Who else could there possibly be? Oh yes, that’s right…. 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=0995647895|title=Do You Speak English, Moon?Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Francesca Simon, Ben Cort Maureen Duffy and Lenny HenryAnita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Night can be Sadie's mother always said that she was a scary time for a childdreamer, with shadows playing tricks her mind never on the walls and no daylight to make everything seem okaywhat she should be doing. Do You Speak English, Moon? is a great book for this situation, with a little boy deciding She lives by the best thing to do is to talk to the moon. He asks the moon some lovely River Thames at Greenwich and magical questions before finally snuggling down and going she loves to sleep. This is an excellent way to try and make the dark just a little less of a fearful place for young childrenspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409151050</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|title=Rattle and Rap|author=Susan Steggall|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Apparently, back 'When all the houses cowered in the days of steamgloom, every little boy used to dream of being an engine driver. The trains in ''Rattle and Rap<br>'' are all diesel but To the allure of travel still wafts strongly from the pagesMaritime Museum''. This is one in a series of vehicle-themed books aimed at pre-schoolers Her imagination was fired. It’s unusual She'd love to find engaging non-fiction for sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under fivesa glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. With When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the focus on vehicles, Susan Stegall takes midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a staple world of many a children’s book butdolphins, unlike some other authorspirates, she treats the subject with imagination mermaids and creativity. It’s enough to make an anthropomorphised tank engine blushtreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805833</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Secrets of the Rainforest: A Shine-a-Light BookLittle Gold Ted|author=Carron Brown Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Alyssa NassnerSasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=The rainforest One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is bustling with lifeswirling. If we look closely, we will be able Poor Ted starts to spot spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of the animals living therestreet. Some are hiding Finding himself down in the treessewer, some under leaves or behind rocksTed starts to panic. There are plenty ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of secrets to discover. And to become a special rainforest explorerReg the sewer rat, you will need a torchwho plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, or which might look just a bright light, because that bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is the key to spotting all a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of those hidden creatures..broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401490</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=The Tooth Fairy's ChristmasRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Peter Bently Mayuri Naidoo and Garry ParsonsCaroline Siegal|rating=54
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|summary=If I had a choice of being a magical figure I would choose someone like Father Christmas over the Tooth FairyRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. YesThe school bully Jayden, he may be morbidly obese together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, but have been laughing at least Remy, calling him names because he only is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to work really hard on one day of wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the yearother kids are around. The Tooth Fairy has to work all year roundSo, when Remy reacts, including Christmas Dayit looks as though he was the instigator. Thankfully, all these magical folk appear to be in some sort of union, so And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when the weather is too bad on 24th December you can always rely on St Nick he tries to help you out|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918346</amazonuk>explain what happened.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Over the Hills and Far AwayThe Invisible|author=Elizabeth Hammill (Editor)Tom Percival
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=I’m This is the story of Isobel, a bit picky on behalf of my toddlerlittle girl who made a big difference. See the word ‘Treasury’ and I expect him to be treated to a volume he will want to pass 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 Isobel lived with her parents in a gem house - a gorgeous joy of a book that you will just want very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford 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 it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804063</amazonuk>}}put the heating on:
{{newreview|title=What A Wonderful World|author=Bob Thiele, George David Weiss and Tim Hopgood|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=''What a Wonderful World'' is a book and accompanying CD set based on Ice curled across the Louis Armstrong song. In fact it is inside of the book window and CD of that song as it’s not a new story or a padded out version of crept up the original, it’s simply an illustrated version corner of the lyricsbedpost.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736906</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=ItThe family didn's Snow Day|author=Richard Curtis t go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and Rebecca Cobb|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We all remember the best sort of school days, don’t we? Snow daysthey were happy. Waking up in Then the morning and seeing day came when they couldn't afford the glow of white through rent for the curtains, house and looking out of the window they had to move to see the whole world far side of our back gardens and rooftops turned whitethe city. This is a book all about thatpart of the city was cold, sad and the only two people who turn up at school on this particular snow daylonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723288925</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Crocodile Under the BedNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Judith KerrOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary=Judith Kerr wrote the classic [[The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr|The Tiger Who Came to Tea]]Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, and now she is back obsessed with ''The Crocodile Under the Bed''bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, which I’m fairly certain is going to join it in classic status before too longa teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. This timeEvery night, Matty is a little boy who wants desperately to go she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the party but he gets sick so can’t gobear statue outside. He’s having no funEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, but there’s somebody who is pretty sure he can help with a colourful painted bear that; the crocodile under the bed…lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007586752</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{newreview|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)|author=Jackie Morris|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|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 Move on to sing to find a successor. Mergichans do not have it all their own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]