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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sean Taylor Adam Stower|title=Murray and Chris Garbutt Bun|titlerating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=ItMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a Groovy Worldworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, Alfredo! 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=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary= Cool boogie-styleWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Speedy Heebie-JeebiesTheir greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. Silky-smooth moving and grooving. These are the three dances that Marty tries to teach He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his friend, Alfredonostrils. But Alfredo can (Please don't try this at home: it won't danceend well. Every time he tries the same thing happens – he goes Jump) Fortunately, Jump, Jump they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and looks like when a duck on a trampolineladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. Alfredo is worried that everyone will laugh at him. But he doesn't need They climbed up to worry because he's about to introduce his own form of groovy dancing – the Jump-Jump-Jumping Jive! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406324132</amazonuk>Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Silvia Borando, Elisabetta Pica and Lorenzo Clerici B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The White BookWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary= A little boy stands in front of a white wallKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, paint brush in hand. He looks concerned where he should start. We turn the page or frozen cold and he smiles because he now has building sand sculptures on a column snowy beach when a large slab of pink paint down silvery ice drifted onto the side shoreline. On top of the pageice was a polar bear. We turn As the page and his smile widens as his paint expands across ice bumped onto the page to reveal sand, the white outline of a bird. There are six birds on bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the next page and he is smiling broadlyice. But Kit was all for making a run for it, when we turn but Teal knew that the page again, his smile has gone – the birds have left the pink wall bear was hungry and gave him one apple and are flying off across the pagethen another. And so He obviously needed to be taken home on the story continues with bus and given a new colour good meal and a new animal on the next page of this unique wordless picture booksomewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406363170</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title= Baby Touch: Busy BabyLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=Children grow up fast enough without encouraging your baby to drive a carTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, but this has not stopped ‘‘Busy Baby’’ as he is behind least because she made the wheel best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of a roadster that has a lovely feel dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to itshow his grandmother. Try She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and keep up with Baby Todd was pleased about this as he takes you on a trip across the rolling hills wanted to a land full of animals of all texturesmake new friends. Baby Racers At home, his only friend was his mum and lions? he wondered why that could be. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, thankfully this is all part of a ‘‘Baby Touch’’ range of booksGrandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723299072</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Britta Teckentrup1529504775|title=Take a SquareThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sometimes it is hard Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to determine who is enjoying reading a sharing book the most; the adult or park and watch the childred buses drive past. A book can look great, or have an interesting art style that draws Elsie would race the buses along the side of the mature reader in, park but does the baby care? David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. Unless it is colourful with plenty going on, toddlers are not really bothered that their mum or dad are getting One day Elsie spotted a fun nostalgia blast bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from the bookher money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. If you are going Gradually, David learned to design a book stand up, use the bus for youngsterssupport, first make sure that and walk behind it appeals to them and then think about the parent . Many decades later.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191027707X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David McKee|title= Elmer|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Everyone knows the story of Elmer , Elsie brought the elephant who is ‘’not’’ elephant colourbus, now damaged and this board book allows him rusted, to be introduced to an even younger audiencethe Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442689</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Hyun1529504767|title=Best Friends|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Teaching your young child new words is one of the wonders of parenthood, but once you have grown tired of teaching them mildly rude words, what is next? Thankfully, like with most thing in modern living, there is a book to help you that is full of popular and useful phrases to use in everyday situations. I mean who else is going to teach you to say Pardon Me, if you have an accident?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277309</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Karma Wilson Amy Sparkes and Jane Chapman|title=Bear CountsKatie Hickey
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|summary=If a bear approaches you Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in the woods 1939 and asks you for help counting, the only numbers you will need nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to be aware of are the steps you take pegging it in the opposite directionher final destination. Thankfully, She needn't have worried though as she went to the bear home of this story is a friendly creature Mr and he hangs out mostly with his woodland pals Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and not terrified humansbegan to enjoy her life. Can he She'd help us count Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to five before Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the terror grips us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471125459</amazonuk>following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joan Aiken and Quentin Blake1916459943|title=Arabel’s Raven|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=It’s been many, many years since I first met Arabel and her pet raven, Mortimer, whilst watching Jackanory on children’s television. Bernard Cribbins used to read the stories, and they became firm favourites of mine. Here I am returning to the first book in the series, well, just a handful of years later, and the story has lost none of its charm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806910</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSqueakily Baby|author=Kim Kane and Sara Acton|title=Unexpected CrocodileBeth Webb
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|summary=It’s always Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a worry when a large animal comes to teasqueakily baby. Here we find our characters inviting in a crocodileHe's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, who he just happens lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to have dropped by to join Peggy help. It rocks Baby gently and her family as they entertain the Dawson’s for waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a barbecuesandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. Why has the crocodile come? The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And more importantly, will he ever leave?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760111732</amazonuk>for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Tapper and Steve Wilson140639131X|title=Horace and Hattiepillar (Hedgehugs)A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=Horace and Hattie are best friendsPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. They like She wrote to do everything that they can together, from playing hide and seek, the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to looking for sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the first star benefits of the nightlollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. One day when they’re out together, they find something small Her uniform and round lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and smooth handing on the bottom of Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a leafsafe path overnight. Whatever could it be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184886163X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Knapman and Patrick Benson1776574338|title=SoonLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5
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|summary=Raju is a baby elephant who set out on a jungle adventure with Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his mother. He was excited and just a little bit frightened: you could see that by way through the way that city, picking up children as he held on to her tail very tightlygoes. On their way they met crocodiles, Children who snapped live at the pair until mother stamped her feet top of tower blocks don't even need to frighten them away, hissing snakes go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and ferociousslide down his neck. It's perfect, frightening tigers. isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? Mother frightened them off tooThere is a problem, though. At each encounter Raju asksLeilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he'When s longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can we go home again?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406351350</amazonuk>t be the bus anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Georgie Birkett1776574028|title= Teddy Picnic|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Picnics are fun, whether they’re at the beach, at the bottom of the garden or even on a rug in the living room. And no one knows how to picnic like teddy bears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441607</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBumblebee Grumblebee|author= Sarah McIntyre|title= Dinosaur Police|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Help! There’s trouble in Dinoville! A T-Rex is causing havoc in the pizza parlour! So starts the silliest of dinosaur books that had me giggling until the very last page. Trevor is a naughty little thing, ruining all the pizzas for a special order, and then running away from the Police before they can catch him. It’s one kerfuffle after another here, but somehow, some way, the show must go on, and the town rallies together to make it happen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140714328X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Carolina Rabei|title=Crunch!David Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=Crunch I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a guinea pig niche market: it's for the child who likes his comfy bedstill enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but most of all he likes eating - which is probably why hehas mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play's called Crunch. He's gorgeously round with words and well-fed but he couldn't help but think that there was make something missing quite different from his lifeeach one. One day he was approached by Cheddar, We have the mouse, elephant who chatted to him about the abundance of food which was available to Crunchdons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. Cheddar couldnThe buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''t believe it and thought that Crunch probably had enough food to share, but Crunch was having none of this. His food was HIS food and he wasn The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros''t sharing (think about it with !) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''anyonesm.......'' OK, even when Cheddar offered him a big friendly hug in return.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846437326</amazonuk>let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|titleisbn=Busy Alice in Wonderland1838226834|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''Busy Alice in Wonderland'' is a board book, with paper (or should it be 'board'?) engineering. It would seem to too crass to describe what can be done with the book as 'pull the tab'. A pulled tab moves the hedgehog forward, paints the blooms red and puts stripes onto the cat's teeth (and all that is on the cover!) A finger in a ring moving through a curve drops Alice down the rabbit hole. The potion which Alice drinks quickly reduces her size and a turning wheel pours tea out of Carried Away With the pot. It's all brilliantly done and despite trying my best I couldn't find a single sharp edge or one of the pieces of engineering that I thought would soon need repair. It's a book which you could leave with a child rather than feeling that it needed to be kept on 'Mummy's shelf'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277694</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCarnival|author=Kim Geyer|title=Go to Sleep, Monty!Ed Boxall
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|summary=For some children, it does not take them long It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to decide undo all the good that they want a pet. This means that the next few months and years consist of them slowly breaking down their parents’ resistance until finally a pet enters parents do, so the hometrips out were always so much fun. For some lucky adults this may take A young boy was going to the form of a goldfish or a hamstercarnival with his Grandad, but for many it will who told him: ''It'll be a dog. You may feel like you have only brilliant, just managed to get your own child potty trainedremember, but now you have to start all over again with a puppydon't let go of my hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441100</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia MonksB09MYXSRV4|title=Mungo Monkey goes on a TrainOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|summary=I have spent quite 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 lot of time on public transport 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, believe you meunfortunately, I have seen a few odd things in my time, but I have yet not the ability to use it well. He liked to see a family of monkeys catch the traintrick other animals. However, Mungo is no ordinary monkey as He was also jealous which was how he lives came to be in a curious world where you can lift flaps race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see what is going on. What can be behind the next one? Things are not always as they seem. Perhaps a photo of me looking puzzled as I see a monkey on the train!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405269103</amazonuk>'ll tell you how it came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Pat HutchinsRob Keeley|title= Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick?Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!
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|summary=Rather like a young child Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, Paddington is a wide-eyed innocent who leaves devastation wherever he goesbroccoli, yet somehow always manages to land on his feetcabbage and aubergines. I am very fond of literary bearsWhen her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and he is one of my favouriteshow nice to eat. I love his enthusiasmOne day, in everything he doespoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, and who tells her that he always has a snack to handcarrots grow on trees. In this particular adventureInfuriated, Paddington manages to entice Lily checks with the entire Brown familyteacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and Mrs Birdvegetables, to come to a local sports daylike carrots, grow in the ground. There’s everything from the shotput Jordan says, "I did try to a three-legged race tell her, Miss!" and even a knitting raceeveryone laughs at poor Lily. You can probably imagine the trouble he gets into…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007427735</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Blake and John YeomanB09FFJF8YS|title=The Fabulous Foskett Family CircusYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=There are names to conjure with and Quentin Blake ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is certainly one a cry (the big-girl kind!) of thosetoilet triumph and persevering panty pride. His tell'' 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-tale illustrations have been part of many a child’s upbringingsduper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, not at least for his work in nor the superb Roald Dahl booksbirds. However, Boy's certainly can nostalgia 't. She's a big girl now and reverence cloud a person’s mind? Are the drawings of Blake strong enough she wants everyone to cope on their own when put alongside words that are not at a Dahl level?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344035X</amazonuk>know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack TickleJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Silly Dizzy DinosaurEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating= 4.5
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|summary=Reading Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to children does not have to be a passive experiencetalk about and joke about, that is. Some of the best books have But horribly embarrassing if you interacting with the characters found between the pages. Dizzy Dinosaur is not the most sensible of chaps let one go at the best of wrong time. In class, say, but his errors are only compounded when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the reader gets involvedfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Can we help this clumsy Camarasaurus from falling over too much? Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848690452</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick InkpenB09BG8V3Q6|title=Kipper’s Little FriendsWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Mick Inkpen has an enormous amount ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of talent, and he manages fun picture books aims to somehow make take the simplest pain out of stories endearing potty training children and interesting. Here, on his 25th anniversary, Kipper is back replace it with a new story in which he’s thinking about baby animalssome fun. He finds out what various different animal babies are called, and then he begins to wonder what he was when he was It's a baby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918192</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alice Hemming and Kimberley Scott|title= A Gold Star for George|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= George the Giraffe is a lovable chappieworthy aim, that much is evident from the start. He’s smart too, both in brains and attire (spotted bow tie being every day wear if you’re George) and right now he’s very excited because the Wildlife Park are having some awards. Gold stars for things like ‘’Most Popular Animal’’, ‘’Best Trick’’ and so on. George ‘’really’’ wants to win one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861710</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cedric Ramadier and Vincent Bourgeau|title= Help! The Wolf is Coming!|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= With every turn of the thick, cardboard pages, the Wolf is getting closer. Eek. Can as any frustrated parent will tell you escape in time? Maybe if you’re clever and make him trip up on himself by tilting the pages? Might he then slide off?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271843</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt|title= What the Jackdaw Saw|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= The jackdaw is flying over the countryside, the sea, towns and forests inviting all the creatures he meets to his party. He is excited and so busy trying to tell everyone about his party that he does not understand that the other animals are all trying to warn him that he is flying into danger . Will he work out what they are telling him before it is too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447280849</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anita PouroulisB07GZ81J7C|title= Jules and Nina Dine Out|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Nina and George are Jules’ dogs. Eating out at restaurants used to be a family affair until George blew it. A misunderstanding about a steak apparently. With the exception of her slightly unreliable digestive system, Nina has slightly more refined manners. She continues to dine out until one restaurant manager refuses her admission. Then it’s a long, but dramatic, spell out on When Fred the pavement for her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909428345</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alex T Smith|title= Little Red Snake Got Squished and the Very Hungry Lion|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Little Red is a caring little girl and when she discovers that her Auntie Rosie is unwell and covered in spots she immediately sets off with her basket packed ready to help. However as she makes her way through the African landscape meeting a variety of animals on the way little does she know that lurking in the trees is a lion. A very hungry lion. A very hungry lion with a very naughty plan.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407143905</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMended|author=Clare Foges and Al Murphy|title=Kitchen DiscoPeter Cotton
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|summary=If the ‘‘Toy Story’’ films taught is nothing elseMeet Fred. Well, they taught us that when we are not paying attentionactually, toys come you're going to lifebe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. Call me old fashioned, But I'm getting ahead of myself: I am not impressed as this is common knowledge, but did 'd better tell you know that fruit also awakens? a bit more about Fred. If you listen closely as you go Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to sleep you may just hear the soft pulse of some Happy House or Dubstep him. He arrived as down a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the kitchen family, to the fruit are having extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a discowalk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571307884</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula Metcalf Justine Avery and Cally Johnson-IsaacsNaday Meldova|title=Rabbits Don’t Lay EggsEverybody Pees!(Everybody Potties!)|rating=3.54
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|summary= Life’s boring in the burrow so Rupert rabbit decides 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 tunnel over learn about our bodily functions just as we have to the neighbouring farmlearn about everything else when we are small. There he meets a very bossy duckWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, Dorasay, who tells him that only animals who can do a job can live on this farm. What can a rabbit dolearning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447282779</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cerrie Burnell Justine Avery and Laura Ellen AndersonNaday Meldova|title=MermaidNo, No, No!|rating=34
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|summary=Bringing important issues such as race and disability to They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a child’s attention Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!'' is a vital thing for any parent to do if they want their child to understand based around the world bettersimplest text imaginable. Why does that person look different and should I be scared? The answer is obviously ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, but how is a child supposed to know this? Books are a great way of explaining diversity without making the lesson too preachy or obviousyou may. Perhaps a story about a mermaid who'' That's it! But, when out of like all the waterbest picture books, this tiny snippet of text is in a wheelchair?veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407145932</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jory John and Benji Davies194812467X|title=Goodnight AlreadyThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=If you list Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all of my favourite things you may be surprised what one of my top choices weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is – sleepperfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. LovelyAs they walk to the top of the hill, blessed sleepy sleepthey see a big barn with a sign outside. There It's a farm shop! But this is nothing quite like a farm shop with a difference: all the feeling of waking up at the usual timestallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, only to roll over Kirelle and Sam go back to Slumberville as there is no work todayshopping. If you wake me up too early, I have been described as looking somewhat like a grumpy bear, but what do you expect if you try to stop someone who is hibernating What will they buy? Will you learn the lesson of this little duck who would not let a sleeping bear lie?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008101353</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Pip Jones Sadie and Laura Hughesthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Daddy's SandwichMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=One daySadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, a little girl decides to make her daddy a sandwichmind never on what she should be doing. It starts out well, with two slices of bread, but things soon slip She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and slide from there into culinary chaos as she searches through loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the house for all of his favourite things, like biscuits dunked houses cowered in tea, and his favourite slippersthe gloom, and even the remote control!|amazonuk=''<amazonuk>0571311830</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview|author= Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Lee Wildish |title=Pizza for Pirates |rating=4''To the Maritime Museum''.5|genre=For Sharing |summary= George has been exploring beforeHer imagination was fired. He’s taken spaghetti She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the Yeti, marshmallows for one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the Martians, closing bell and doughnuts for Dragonsthe attendant's warning shout. In his fourth When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure, he’s off that she could never have imagined in search a world of a pirate crew dolphins, pirates, mermaids and he’s again armed with a tasty snacktreasure. Pizza!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273615</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ella Bailey1782227741|title=At The Animal BallLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary= The animals are having One day, Gold Ted falls into a ballpuddle. Join them as they It'dance s quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around androar', 'flutter is sucked down a fan' then 'tap your toes drain on the floor'side of the street. This is flipflap fun Finding himself down in the parlour game tradition of sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''heads, bodies, tailsOH HELP ME PLEASE'. OnMidsummer's Eve a veritable menagerie of very cute animals in whatappear to be a range of national costumes, are assembling to bounce,shimmy, swagger he cries and stroll. You can mix alerts the animals up by flipping attention of Reg theflaps but watch out! Moving the pages sewer rat, who plucks him out of sequence also mixes upthe dance movesdirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Join in Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and keep warms him up!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402306</amazonuk>with a nice bowl of broth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony RossB08R7LXQ9S|title=Slug Needs a HugRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Growing upRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, my experience together with slugs mainly revolved around spotting them in the garden his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and being sent out with the pot of salt has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to send them to a salty (wind up Remy when nobody can see and frankly, disgusting) death! My mum was forever waging war on these creatures then push him just that were hell-bent on eating everything in her garden that she loved bestlittle bit further when the other kids are around. Since those happy childhood momentsSo, when Remy reacts, I have had other difficult moments with slugs including it looks as though he was the one who dared to come into our house, instigator. And then he gets into the lounge, trouble at school and who I trod on in the dark one night. Yuck! All of which means that, to be honest, I wasn’t sure this book would be very enjoyable for me! Still, I’m never one to say no to something illustrated by Tony Ross, and teachers don't believe him when he and Jeanne Willis make a reliably good team, so I put my salt pot away and sat down tries to readexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441194</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Garland1471191303|title=Azzi in BetweenThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=Our This is the story begins in of Isobel, a little girl who made a country at warbig difference. Unfortunately you could probably put Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a name very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to it (although it isnput the heating on: 't named) as it happens all too regularly'Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost. Our heroine is Azzi, a young girl whose life was not ''too The family didn'' affected by t go to the war, cinema or on holidays but every day it came a little closer. Her father still worked as a doctor they had each other and her mother made beautiful clothes. Her grandmother wove warm blanketsthey were happy. Then the day came when they had to run, couldn't afford the rent for their lives, and escape was by boat the house and they became refugeeshad to move to the far side of the city. The three This part of them - for Grandma had been left behind - had been luckier than most for they were accepted on a temporary basis into another country (again it's not named) the city was cold, sad and lonely and they had a home, although it was just one roomIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah GarlandNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Eddie's Tent and How to go CampingOne Night in Beartown|rating=54
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|summary=MumMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, Tomwho lives in Beartown, Tilly, Lily and Eddie wanted to go on holiday and camping seemed like the ideal way to gois obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Lily and Tilly thought it was a brilliant idea and they had some experienceHer favourite toy is Berisford, although their 'tent' did look just a little bit like a duvet over a chairteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. It's surprising what you need for a holidayEvery night, but Lily she looks out of her bedroom window and Tilly had says goodnight to be told the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to start again when Mum saw what they'd packed! But finallyBee Bear, Tom began to load the car and off they wenta colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184780408X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]