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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex T SmithAdam Stower|title=Claude: Lights! Camera! Action!Murray and Bun

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=AhMurray is supposed to be a humble, Claude! How I do enjoy reading these funny little stories about this sweet doggy! This time Claude finds himself embroiled in shenanigans on a film settidy and friendly cat, helping with wigs one who is able to sleep and eat and make up eat and sleep and , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a film star gorilla! Claude is as endearing as everbad magician's cat, and Mr Bobblysock continues to enchant us with so his hot flushes favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and requirements for a little lie down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926470</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= W Awdry|title= Three Cheers for Thomas the Tank Engine|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= I don't like Thomas catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the Tank Engine. He may be regular back garden, but into a 'really useful' engine but he is also over exposed world of frightening adventure and (Surely? Please?) at commercial saturation pointwhiffs. Why then do I have This time round it drops them into a copy of 'Three Cheers for Thomas the Tank Engine' at my side? WellViking land, for the same reason that where a pack of Thomastroll hunter is expected – well, Percy and James socksone much bigger than Murray was, infant size 3-5to be honest, ended but he's turned up in my shopping basket at the weekend. Yes, the owner of those titchy feet is my toddler boy and boy, does he love Thomas.'ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405276053</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Ellwand1732898766|title=Wake UpThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Alfred!Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=ItWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they's Alfredre 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 birthday! right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. We (Please don't know how old he istry this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, because once dogs have reached full size they tend to look much the same for quite were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a few years. And talking ladder of looksmoss and vines was lowered for them, Alfred does look rather splendid – he's a Great Dane in gorgeous conditionthey escaped. But – back to the book! We see – in a series of black and white photographs – Alfred being woken They climbed up (he wears a nightcap), looking outside his kennel to see what the postman has brought him, opening his presents, laying the table before his friends arrive (and being just a little bit naughty by balancing a tea cup and saucer on his head...), putting the bunting Tree Wee homes high up for in the party, making the cake, having a much-needed bath (after making a bit of a mess tangled woods where they lived with the cake)their Grand Wees, choosing which hat he's going to wear Nester Nook and then having great fun with his friends – there are seven dogs, two mice and a catGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646016</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean Taylor and Chris Garbutt B0CC9W7GLR|title=It's a Groovy World, Alfredo! On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45

|summary= Cool boogie-style. Speedy Heebie-Jeebies. Silky-smooth moving Kit and grooving. These are the three dances that Marty tries Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to teach his friendbe at home, Alfredobored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. But Alfredo can't dance On top of the ice was a polar bear. Every time he tries As the same thing happens – he goes Jumpice bumped onto the sand, Jump, Jump the bear woke and looks like with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a duck on a trampoline. Alfredo is worried run for it, but Teal knew that everyone will laugh at the bear was hungry and gave himone apple and then another. But he doesn't need He obviously needed to worry because he's about be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to introduce his own form of groovy dancing – the Jump-Jump-Jumping Jive! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406324132</amazonuk>sleep. What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Silvia Borando, Elisabetta Pica and Lorenzo Clerici 1913839656|title=The White BookLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5

|summary= A little boy stands in front of a white wallTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, paint brush in handnot least because she made the best beetle juice. He looks concerned where he should start. We turn the page packed two pairs of dungarees and he smiles because he now has a column of pink paint down the side of the page. We turn the page his favourite hat and then gathered together his smile widens as button collection to show his paint expands across the page grandmother. She had promised to take him to reveal the white outline of a bird. There are six birds on Friday Night Club at the next page local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he is smiling broadlywanted to make new friends. But, when we turn the page again At home, his smile has gone – the birds have left the pink wall only friend was his mum and are flying off across the pagehe wondered why that could be. And so the story continues with a new colour and a new animal on the next page of this unique wordless picture book Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406363170</amazonuk>

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title= Baby Touch: Busy BabyThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Children grow up fast enough without encouraging your baby Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive a car, past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but this has not stopped ‘‘Busy Baby’’ as David couldn't - he is behind 'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the wheel of a roadster that has a lovely feel coins from her money box to pay for itas cash was tight at home. Try and keep Gradually, David learned to stand up with Baby as he takes you on a trip across , use the rolling hills to a land full of animals of all texturesbus for support, and walk behind it. Baby Racers Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and lions? Sounds like a recipe for disaster rusted, to methe Repair Shop, thankfully this is all part of a ‘‘Baby Touch’’ range of bookshoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723299072</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Britta Teckentrup1529504767|title=Take a SquareThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45

|summary=Sometimes it is hard Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to determine who is enjoying reading a sharing book the most; the adult or the childher final destination. A book can look great, or She needn't have an interesting art style that draws worried though as she went to the mature reader inhome of Mr and Mrs Russell, but does the baby care? who couldn't have been kinder to her. Unless it is colourful with plenty going on, toddlers are not really bothered that their mum or dad are getting a fun nostalgia blast from the bookShe even had her own room - all to herself. If you are going Gradually she relaxed and began to design a book for youngsters, first make sure that enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it appeals came to them Christmas Eve Susan and then think about Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the parent laterfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191027707X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David McKee1916459943|title= Elmer|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Everyone knows the story of Elmer , the elephant who is ‘’not’’ elephant colour, and this board book allows him to be introduced to an even younger audience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442689</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSqueakily Baby|author=Kim Hyun|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>}}{{newreview|author=Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman|title=Bear CountsBeth Webb|rating=54

|summary=If Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a bear approaches you in the woods squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and asks you for ''wails''. The sea offers to help counting. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, the only numbers you will need to be aware hush''. Think of are the steps gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you take pegging it in have the opposite directionsound perfectly. ThankfullyThe mermaids join in - ''la lou, the bear of this story is la lay...'' And for a friendly creature and he hangs out mostly with moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his woodland pals and not terrified humanseyes. Can he help us count Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to five before the terror grips us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471125459</amazonuk>happen next.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joan Aiken and Quentin Blake140639131X|title=Arabel’s RavenA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=It’s been many, many years since I first met Arabel and her pet raven, Mortimer, whilst watching Jackanory on children’s televisionPhilippa 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. Bernard Cribbins used Philippa wasn't a bird to read sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the stories, benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and they became firm favourites of minedecided that she would set up something similar herself. Here I am returning Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the first book in animals used the series, well, just crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a handful of years later, and the story has lost none of its charmsafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806910</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Kane and Sara Acton1776574338|title=Unexpected CrocodileLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn

|summary=It’s always a worry when a large animal comes to teaEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Here we find our characters inviting in a crocodile, Children who just happens to have dropped by live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to join Peggy and her family as go downstairs – they entertain simply climb out of the Dawson’s for a barbecuewindow and slide down his neck. Why has the crocodile comeIt's perfect, isn't it? And What could be a more importantlyfun way of going to school? There is a problem, will though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he ever leave?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760111732</amazonuk>puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Tapper and Steve Wilson1776574028|title=Horace and Hattiepillar (Hedgehugs)Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5

|summary=Horace and Hattie are best friends. I love a good board book! They like ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to do everything have realise that they you can together, ''play'' with words and make something quite different from playing hide each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and seek, to looking for the first star of the nightbecomes a ''balletphant''. One day when they’re out together, they find something small The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and round and smooth handing then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on the bottom of his potty changes into a leaf''sm.... ...'' Whatever could it be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184886163X</amazonuk>OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Knapman and Patrick Benson1838226834|title=SoonCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4.5

|summary=Raju is a baby elephant who set out on a jungle adventure It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with his motherour grandparents. He was excited and just a little bit frightened: you could see They're there to undo all the good that by parents do, so the way that he held on to her tail very tightlytrips out were always so much fun. On their way they met crocodilesA young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who snapped at the pair until mother stamped her feet to frighten them away, hissing snakes and ferocious, frightening tigers. Mother frightened them off too. At each encounter Raju askstold him:

''When can we It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go home again?of my hand.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406351350</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Georgie BirkettB09MYXSRV4|title= Teddy PicnicOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Picnics are funWhen the world was made, whether they’re at the beach, at 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 bottom of present ''and'' the garden or even on a rug in future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the living roomability to use it well. And no one knows He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to picnic like teddy bearsbe in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441607</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah McIntyreRob Keeley|title= Dinosaur PoliceCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!

|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 pageLily loves eating fruit and vegetables. Trevor is a naughty little thingShe likes carrots, ruining all the pizzas for a special orderbroccoli, cabbage and then running away from the Police before aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they can catch himare for you and how nice to eat. It’s one kerfuffle after another hereOne day, but somehowpoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, some waywho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the show must go teacher, who explains that fruits grow ontrees and vegetables, and like carrots, grow in the town rallies together ground. Jordan says, "I did try to make it happentell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140714328X</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Carolina RabeiJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|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!}} {{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=CrunchEverybody Toots!(Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= 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, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, 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 familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|summary=Crunch ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is a guinea pig who likes his comfy bed, but most of all he likes eating - which is probably why hethe latest release in the ''s called Crunch. HeEverybody Potties!'s gorgeously round and well-fed but he couldn't help but think that there was something missing series from his lifeJustine Avery. One day he was approached by Cheddar, the mouse, who chatted This series of fun picture books aims to him about take the abundance pain out of food which was available to Crunchpotty training children and replace it with some fun. Cheddar couldnIt't believe it and thought that Crunch probably had enough food to shares a worthy aim, but Crunch was having none of thisas any frustrated parent will tell you. His food was HIS food and he wasn't sharing it with ''anyone'', even when Cheddar offered him a big friendly hug in return.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846437326</amazonuk>

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Busy Alice in WonderlandWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton

|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'Busy Alice in Wonderlandm getting ahead of myself: I'' is d better tell you a board book, with paper (or should it be 'board'?) engineeringbit more about Fred. It would seem Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to too crass warm to describe what can be done him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the book as 'pull the tab'. A pulled tab moves the hedgehog forwardfamily, paints the blooms red and puts stripes onto to the cat's teeth (and all extent that is on the cover!) A finger in a ring moving through they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a curve drops Alice down the rabbit holewalk. The potion which Alice drinks quickly reduces her size and a turning wheel pours tea out of And that was where the potproblem started. It's all brilliantly done and despite trying my best I couldnFred didn't find a single sharp edge or one of the pieces of engineering that I thought would soon need repairhave any road sense. It's a book which you could leave with a child rather than feeling that it needed to be kept on 'Mummy's shelf'Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277694</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim GeyerJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Go to Sleep, MontyEverybody Pees!(Everybody Potties!)

|summary=For some childrenCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, it does not take them long to decide 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 the homeas any parent will tell you. For some lucky adults this may take the form of a goldfish or a hamsterBut really, but for many why shouldn't it will be a dog. You may feel like you ? We all have only to learn about our bodily functions just managed as we have to get your own child learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty trainedtraining be as much fun as, say, but now you have to start all over again with a puppy.learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783441100</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lydia MonksJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Mungo Monkey goes on a TrainNo, No, No!

|summary=I have spent quite a lot of time on public transport and, believe you me, I have seen a few odd things in my time, but I have yet to see a family of monkeys catch They say the best picture books are the trainsimplest ones. HoweverAnd nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, Mungo is no ordinary monkey as he lives in a curious world where you can lift flaps and see what is going onBookbag favourite. What can be behind the next one? Perhaps a photo of me looking puzzled as I see a monkey on the train!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405269103</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Pat Hutchins|title= Where''No, Oh WhereNo, No!'' is Rosie's Chick?|rating= 4based around the simplest text imaginable.|genre= For Sharing|summary= Rosie's not the sharpest chuck in the hen house'No, no, no! Okay, okay. She made her debut over forty years ago in the 1968 publicationYes, you may.''Rosie That's Walk' when she stepped out alone blithely unaware of always being a hairs breadth away from calamity. Wellit! But, she's backlike all the best picture books, and this time she has tiny snippet of text is a chickveritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside. Uh-oh as my toddler would say…let's have a look at 'Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick?'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444918281</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bond and R W Alley194812467X|title=Paddington Goes for GoldThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic

|summary=Rather like a young child, Paddington is a wide-eyed innocent who leaves devastation wherever he goes, yet somehow always manages to land on his feet. I am very fond of literary bears, Kirelle and he is one of my favourites. I love his enthusiasm, in everything he does, and that he always has a snack to hand. In this particular adventure, Paddington manages to entice her best friend Sam the entire Brown family, and Mrs Bird, to come cat decide to go for a local sports daywalk. There’s everything from the shotput to a three-legged race and even a knitting race. You can probably imagine the trouble he gets into…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007427735</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Quentin Blake and John Yeoman|title=The Fabulous Foskett Family Circus|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=There are names to conjure with and Quentin Blake Kirelle is certainly one of those. His tell-tale illustrations have been part of many a child’s upbringings, not at least dressed for his work all weathers in the superb Roald Dahl books. However, can nostalgia her bright yellow wellies and reverence cloud a person’s mind? Are the drawings of Blake strong enough to cope on their own when put alongside words that are not at a Dahl level?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344035X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jack Tickle|title=Silly Dizzy Dinosaur|rating= 4Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Reading to children does not have As they walk to be a passive experience. Some of the best books have you interacting with the characters found between the pages. Dizzy Dinosaur is not the most sensible top of chaps at the best of timehill, but his errors are only compounded when the reader gets involvedthey see a big barn with a sign outside. Can we help It's a farm shop! But this clumsy Camarasaurus from falling over too much? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848690452</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mick Inkpen|title=Kipper’s Little Friends|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Mick Inkpen has an enormous amount of talent, and he manages to somehow make the simplest of stories endearing and interesting. Here, on his 25th anniversary, Kipper is back a farm shop with a new story in which he’s thinking about baby difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. He finds out what various different animal babies There are called, sheep and then he begins to wonder what he was when he was a baby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918192</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alice Hemming ducks and Kimberley Scott|title= A Gold Star for George|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= George the Giraffe is a lovable chappiecows, that much is evident from the start. He’s smart toogoats and chickens, 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 even some awardsmice. Gold stars for things like ‘’Most Popular Animal’’Excited, ‘’Best Trick’’ and so on. George ‘’really’’ wants to win one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861710</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cedric Ramadier Kirelle 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. EekSam go shopping. Can 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 will they are telling him before it is too latebuy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447280849</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anita Pouroulis|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 the pavement for her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909428345</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alex T Smith0995647895|title= Little Red 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 Sadie 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>}}{{newreviewSea Dogs|author=Clare Foges Maureen Duffy and Al Murphy|title=Kitchen Disco|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=If the ‘‘Toy Story’’ films taught is nothing else, they taught us that when we are not paying attention, toys come to life. Call me old fashioned, I am not impressed as this is common knowledge, but did you know that fruit also awakens? If you listen closely as you go to sleep you may just hear the soft pulse of some Happy House or Dubstep as down in the kitchen the fruit are having a disco.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571307884</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paula Metcalf and Cally Johnson-Isaacs|title=Rabbits Don’t Lay Eggs!Anita Joice

|summary= Life’s boring Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the burrow so Rupert rabbit decides to tunnel over gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. 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 one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the neighbouring farmattendant's warning shout. There he meets When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a very bossy duckworld of dolphins, Dorapirates, who tells him that only animals who can do a job can live on this farmmermaids and treasure. What can a rabbit do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282779</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cerrie Burnell and Laura Ellen Anderson1782227741|title=MermaidLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=34

|summary=Bringing important issues such as race One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and disability the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to a child’s attention spin around and around and is sucked down a vital thing for any parent to do if they want their child to understand drain on the side of the world betterstreet. Finding himself Why does that person look different and should I be scared? The answer is obviously nodown in the sewer, but how is a child supposed Ted starts to know this? Books are a great way panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of explaining diversity without making Reg the lesson too preachy or obvious. Perhaps a story about a mermaid sewer rat, who, when plucks him out of the dirty waterusing his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is in a wheelchair?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407145932</amazonuk>kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jory John and Benji DaviesB08R7LXQ9S|title=Goodnight AlreadyRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=If you list all of my favourite things you may be surprised what one of my top choices Remy is – sleepfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, Lovelytogether with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, blessed sleepy sleep. There is nothing quite like the feeling of waking up have been laughing at the usual timeRemy, only calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to roll over wind up Remy when nobody can see and go back to Slumberville as there is no work todaythen push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. If you wake me up too earlySo, when Remy reacts, I have been described it looks as looking somewhat like a grumpy bear, but though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what do you expect if you try to stop someone who is hibernating? Will you learn the lesson of this little duck who would not let a sleeping bear lie?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008101353</amazonuk>happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pip Jones and Laura Hughes1471191303|title=Daddy's SandwichThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5

|summary=One dayThis is the story of Isobel, a little girl decides to make her daddy who made a sandwichbig difference. It starts out wellIsobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, with two slices because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of bread, the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but things soon slip they had each other and slide from there into culinary chaos as she searches through they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house for all and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of his favourite things, like biscuits dunked in teathe city was cold, sad and his favourite slippers, lonely and even the remote control!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571311830</amazonuk>Isobel felt invisible.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain Nick Jones and Lee Wildish Si Clark|title=Pizza for Pirates |rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= George has been exploring before. He’s taken spaghetti to the Yeti, marshmallows for the Martians, and doughnuts for Dragons. In his fourth adventure, he’s off One Night in search of a pirate crew and he’s again armed with a tasty snack. Pizza!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273615</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ella Bailey|title=At The Animal BallBeartown

|summary= The animals are having a ball. Join them as they 'dance Many children have an obsession androar'Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, 'flutter a fan' then 'tap your toes on the floor'is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. This Her favourite toy is flipflap fun in the parlour game tradition of 'headsBerisford, bodiesa teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, tails'. OnMidsummer's Eve a veritable menagerie she looks out of very cute animals in whatappear her bedroom window and says goodnight to be a range of national costumes, are assembling the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to bounceBee Bear,shimmy, swagger and strolla colourful painted bear that lives at her school. You can mix the animals up by flipping theflaps but watch out! Moving the pages out of sequence also mixes upthe dance moves. Join in and keep upShe even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402306</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]