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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julian Clary and David RobertsAdam Stower|title= The BoldsMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The BoldsMurray is supposed to be a humble, Mr tidy and Mrs friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and their two small children, live in an ordinary semi-detached house in suburban Teddington. They have jobs; Mrs Bold designs eat and sells flamboyant hats eat and Mr Bold writes jokes for Christmas crackers. But they are most definitely not an ordinary family. Oh no! They are in fact hyenas. So far they have managed to successfully pretend to be human beings. Although very hairy sleep and prone to laughing a lot they have kept , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the truth (and their tails!) a secret from everyonetwo. But their grumpy next door neighbourhe's a bad magician's cat, Mr McNumptyso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, is growing suspicious and then a trip to the local safari park has repercussions. Will catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the Bolds' carefully long kept secret be revealed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443057</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anita Pouroulis|title= Nina Goes Barking Mad!|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Nina regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and George are Jules' dogswhiffs. George This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is badly behaved. He once dug up the entire front lawn. Mum said she wanted expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to give him away. Itbe honest, but he's Nina who is in the dog house though in this edition of the Jules, Nina turned up and George series. She just wonhe't stop barking. Mum, Jules and even George are being driven crazy. Inspired by a TV show, Jules sets out ll have to think like a dog and pin down what on earth the matter can be.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909428523</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Alex English The Adventures of Birpus and Duncan BeedieBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Pirates Don't Drive DiggersWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=Ah, that age old dilemma or whether to go into the family business or whether to set out alone and follow your dreams! In this story When we first meet Brad, who has been born into a family of pirates but who dreams Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of life on a building siteFine Repute. His dad (friendly looking pirate though he Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is) has no time for Bradchasing them. He's nonsenseright behind them, and packs him off to sea to learn what pirates dospewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. Is (Please don't try this to be at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a tale ladder of tragedy moss and woe? vines was lowered for them, they escaped. Don't worryThey climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Brad may get to drive a digger after all…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861737</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Smallman and Ada GreyB0CC9W7GLR|title=Poo in On the ZooBeach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda

|summary=If you’re one 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 shoreline. On top of those parents who really can’t stand farting jokesthe ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, or avoids nappy changing discussions the bear woke and with your peers at all costs then step away wobbly legs moved from this review now! the ice. This is Kit was all for making a story that is made run for families who enjoy a funny poo storyit, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and who can bear a few armpit fart noises now gave him one apple and then! another. For this is a book that is entirely about poo, from start to finish, so make sure everyone who needs He obviously needed to be is in taken home on the bus and given a nice clean nappy, then get ready for a treat of a read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691386</amazonuk>good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Silvia Borando1913839656|title= Black Cat, White Cat|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary=Let'Black Cat, White Cat' made me laugh out loud. In a lifetime of consuming literature greedily, I can count on one hand the number of books that have had this effect on me. I couldn't wait to read it with someone else to share the joke. Given that the humour relies on an element of surprise, I'm torn about how much to reveal here so, for the moment, I'll tell you a bit more about the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406363162</amazonuk>}}{{newreviews Celebrate Being Different|author=Hsukung Liu and Xinlin Wang (translator)|title=The Only Pupil in the SchoolLainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary=On Todd was excited about spending the first day of the school term only one pupil appeared and the teachers began to worry about losing their jobs. So they weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made their minds up that they would make their only pupil the best in the school, which - when you think about it - wasn't going to be ''all'' that difficultbeetle juice. They began by trying to persuade her to come to ''their'' classes He packed two pairs of dungarees and when that didn't persuade her they began fighting amongst themselves his favourite hat and didn't notice our heroine creeping awaythen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She went had promised to take him to the forest Friday Night Club at the local community centre and met an old man who taught her lots Todd was pleased about the flowers and the insectsthis as he wanted to make new friends. A chef showed her how to make soup - it At home, his only friend was delicious his mum and warming - and then she had lots of fun (and exercise) with a dog she met in the parkhe wondered why that could be. The further she Grandma thought that it might be because he looked, the more she learned and at the library she drew a book about what she had seen - and it was there that the teachers found herdifferent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215416</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessica Souhami1529504775|title=Rama The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and the Demon KingKatie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary=Rama was a brave Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and good prince, watch the king's favourite sonred buses drive past. He loved his wife, Sita Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and his best friend even just standing up was his brother Lakshmanvery difficult. Everyone loved him, except for one person. His stepmother was jealous One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and she was determined happy to get rid of Rama. Long ago she had saved use the king's life and he had promised coins from her money box to grant her any wishpay for it as cash was tight at home. She asked that he send Rama into Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the forest bus for fourteen years support, and although the king was horrified he had to keep his promisewalk behind it. Rama was sent into Many decades later, Elsie brought the forestbus, but he did not go alonenow damaged and rusted, as Sita and Lakshman went with him and for a while all was well. They fought off to the demons who first appeared and then built a house and led a simple life among Repair Shop, hoping that the forest animalsexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806600</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson1529504767|title=When I Am HappiestThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Syd Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and his Grandad are going on an adventure – through nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the door in Grandadhome of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn's attic t have been kinder to a ship that will sail across an ocean of rooftops her. She even had her own room - all to a magical tropical islandherself. They are going Gradually she relaxed and began to find new wonders at every turn as they explore enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the island baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and make lots of new friends in Mr Russell put the form of decorations on the animals and birdsChristmas tree. In fact, it's such an amazing place that Grandad decides to stay The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jules Nilsson1916459943|title=The Hounds of FalsterboSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He'In between the beach hutss so tired but he can't - or won'<br>''Where the white sands meet the seast - go to sleep: instead,he just lies on his blanket and ''<br>wails''. The heather meets sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the sand duneswaves sing ''<br>hush, hush''And long grasses dance . Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the breezesound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Steve Smallman and Ada Grey|title= The Hippobottymus|rating= 4la lou, la lay..5|genre= For Sharing|summary=The Hippobotymus is a great romp through the jungle using language to create sound and rhythm which is really fun to engage with and read aloud. All the animals are having '' And for a great time, singing their song and each adding their own sounds, but just what is moment it that Hippo did? You’ll just seems to have to read it to find out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848690517</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jeanne Willis and Jenni Desmond|title= The First Slodge|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=The First Slodge thinks everything is worked as Baby closes his, until he finds out he might be the first Slodge, but that doesn’t make him the only Slodgeeyes. Will they learn to share? They might just have to. I found The First Slodge to be Then a fascinating book. I loved the ideas, seagull '''shouts''' and I think it’s great that a picture book is managing we know exactly what's going to tackle a number of issues all at once like this without losing its own sense of story and purposehappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848690398</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T Smith140639131X|title=Claude: Lights! Camera! Action!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Ah, 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 set, helping with wigs and make up and a film star gorilla! Claude is as endearing Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as ever, and Mr Bobblysock continues she tried to enchant us with his hot flushes and requirements for a little lie downcross the Old Oak Road.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926470</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= W Awdry|title= Three Cheers for Thomas She wrote to the mayor about the Tank Engine|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= I donproblem but didn't like Thomas the Tank Engineeven get a reply. He may be Philippa wasn't a 'really useful' engine but he is also over exposed and (Surely? Please?) at commercial saturation point. Why then do I have bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a copy problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of 'Three Cheers for Thomas the Tank Engine' lollipop lady at my side? Well, for the same reason school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a pack of Thomas, Percy and James socks, infant size 3-5, ended up in my shopping basket at little amateur to start with but the weekendbenefits were obvious. Yes, All the animals used the owner of those titchy feet is my toddler boy crossing and boy, does he love ThomasHedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405276053</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Ellwand1776574338|title=Wake Up, AlfredLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn

|summary=It's Alfred's birthday! We don't know how old he isEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, because once dogs have reached full size they tend to look much makes his way through the same for quite a few yearscity, picking up children as he goes. And talking Children who live at the top of looks, Alfred does look rather splendid – hetower blocks don's a Great Dane in gorgeous condition. But – back t even need to the book! We see go downstairs – in a series they simply climb out of black and white photographs – Alfred being woken 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 (window and being just a little bit naughty by balancing a tea cup and saucer on slide down his headneck...) It's perfect, putting the bunting up for the party, making the cake, having isn't it? What could be a much-needed bath (after making a bit more fun way of going to school? There is a mess with problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the cake), choosing which hat city: he's going always having to wear be careful about where he puts his feet and then having great fun with his friends – there are seven dogs, two mice because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and a cattraffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646016</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean Taylor and Chris Garbutt 1776574028|title=It's a Groovy World, Alfredo! Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott

|summary= Cool boogie-style. I love a good board book! Speedy Heebie-Jeebies. Silky-smooth moving and grooving. These are ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the three dances child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that Marty tries to teach his friend, Alfredo. But Alfredo you can't dance'play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Every time he tries We have the same thing happens – he goes Jump, Jump, Jump elephant who dons a tutu - and looks like becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck ) and 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 his potty changes into a trampoline''sm...... Alfredo is worried that everyone will laugh at him. But he doesn't need to worry because he' OK, let's about to introduce his own form of groovy dancing – the Jump-Jump-Jumping Jivenot go there Some people are eating! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406324132</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Silvia Borando, Elisabetta Pica and Lorenzo Clerici 1838226834|title=The White BookCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=54

|summary= A little boy stands in front It was one of a white wall, paint brush in handthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. He looks concerned where he should start. We turn They're there to undo all the page and he smiles because he now has a column of pink paint down good that parents do, so the side of the pagetrips out were always so much fun. We turn A young boy was going to the page and carnival with his smile widens as his paint expands across the page to reveal the white outline of a bird. There are six birds on the next page and he is smiling broadly. ButGrandad, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, when we turn the page againjust remember, his smile has gone – the birds have left the pink wall and are flying off across the page. And so the story continues with a new colour and a new animal on the next page don't let go of this unique wordless picture bookmy hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406363170</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title= Baby TouchOtter's Coat: Busy BabyThe Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Children grow up fast enough without encouraging your baby to drive 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 carstrong 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, but this has not stopped ‘‘Busy Baby’’ as he is behind the wheel of a roadster that has a lovely feel ability to use itwell. He liked to trick other animals. Try and keep up with Baby as He was also jealous which was how he takes you on a trip across the rolling hills came to be in a land full of animals of all texturesrace with Turtle. Baby Racers You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and lions? see. Things are not always as they seem. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, thankfully this is all part of a ‘‘Baby Touch’’ range of booksI'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723299072</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Britta TeckentrupRob Keeley|title=Take a SquareCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4

|summary=Sometimes it Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is hard keen to determine who is enjoying reading a sharing book the most; the adult or the childexplain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. A book can look greatOne day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, or have an interesting art style who tells her that draws the mature reader incarrots grow on trees. Infuriated, but does the baby care? Unless it is colourful Lily checks with plenty going on, toddlers are not really bothered that their mum or dad are getting a fun nostalgia blast from the book. If you are going to design a book for youngstersteacher, first make sure who explains that it appeals to them fruits grow on trees and then think about vegetables, like carrots, grow in the parent laterground.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191027707X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David McKee|title= Elmer|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Everyone knows the story of Elmer Jordan says, the elephant who is ‘’not’’ elephant colour"I did try to tell her, Miss!" and this board book allows him to be introduced to an even younger audienceeveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783442689</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim HyunB09FFJF8YS|title=Best FriendsYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik

|summary=Teaching your young child new words is one of ''For the wonders of parenthoodbig, but once you have grown tired of teaching them mildly rude wordsgrownup girls out there, what is next? Thankfully, like with most thing the potty masters in modern livingtraining, there "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 help you 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 is full of popular ''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 useful phrases she wants everyone to use in everyday situationsknow it!}} {{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Everybody 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. I mean who else Funny to talk about and joke about, that is going to teach . But horribly embarrassing if you to let one go at the wrong time. In class, say Pardon Me, if when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you have an accident?. 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''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447277309</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karma Wilson and Jane ChapmanB09BG8V3Q6|title=Bear CountsWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5

|summary=If a bear approaches you ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the woods and asks you for help counting, the only numbers you will need ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to be aware of are the steps you take pegging it in the opposite direction. Thankfully, the bear pain out of this story is a friendly creature potty training children and he hangs out mostly replace it with his woodland pals and not terrified humanssome fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. Can he help us count to five before the terror grips us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471125459</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Joan Aiken When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Quentin BlakeMended|titleauthor=Arabel’s RavenPeter Cotton

|summary=It’s been manyMeet Fred. Well, actually, many years since you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I first met Arabel and her pet raven, Mortimer, whilst watching Jackanory on children’s television'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Bernard Cribbins used to read the stories, Fred is a snake and they became firm favourites even those of mineus who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. Here I am returning to the first book He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the seriesfamily, well, just to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a handful of years later, and walk. And that was where the story has lost none of its charmproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806910</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim Kane Justine Avery and Sara ActonNaday Meldova|title=Unexpected CrocodileEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=It’s always a worry when a large animal comes 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 tea. Here we find learn about our characters inviting in a crocodile, who bodily functions just happens to as we have dropped by to join Peggy learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and her family as they entertain the Dawson’s for a barbecue. Why has moon take turns in the crocodile come? And more importantly, will he ever leavesky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760111732</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy Tapper Justine Avery and Steve WilsonNaday Meldova|title=Horace and Hattiepillar (Hedgehugs)No, No, No!|rating=4.5

|summary=Horace and Hattie They say the best picture books are best friendsthe simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. They like to do everything that they can together ''No, from playing hide and seekNo, to looking for No!'' is based around the first star of the nightsimplest text imaginable. ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. One day when they’re out togetherYes, they find something small and round and smooth handing on you may.'' That's it! But, like all the bottom best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a leafveritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside. Whatever could it be?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184886163X</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Knapman and Patrick Benson194812467X|title=SoonThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=4.5

|summary=Raju Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is a baby elephant who set dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out on as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a jungle adventure big barn with his mothera sign outside. He was excited and just It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a little bit frighteneddifference: you could see that by all the way that he held on to her tail very tightlystallholders and customers are farmyard animals. On their way they met crocodilesThere are sheep and ducks and cows, who snapped at the pair until mother stamped her feet to frighten them awaygoats and chickens, hissing snakes and ferociouseven some mice. Excited, frightening tigersKirelle and Sam go shopping. Mother frightened them off too. At each encounter Raju asks:

''When can we go home againWhat will they buy?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406351350</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Georgie Birkett0995647895|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 Sadie and the living room. And no one knows how to picnic like teddy bears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441607</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSea Dogs|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, Maureen Duffy 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!Anita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=Crunch is a guinea pig who likes his comfy bed, but most of all he likes eating - which is probably why heSadie's called Crunch. He's gorgeously round and well-fed but he couldn't help but think mother always said that there she was something missing from his lifea dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. One day he was approached She lives by Cheddar, the mouseRiver 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 gloom, who chatted to him about ''<br>''To the abundance of food which Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was available to Crunchfired. Cheddar couldnShe't believe it d love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and thought that Crunch probably had enough food to share, but Crunch was having none of thiswent back regularly. His food was HIS food and he wasn't sharing One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it with 's the one where Nelson'anyones Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. 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 world of dolphins, pirates, even when Cheddar offered him a big friendly hug in returnmermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846437326</amazonuk>

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Busy Alice in WonderlandLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5

|summary=''Busy Alice in Wonderland'' is One day, Gold Ted falls into a board book, with paper (or should it be 'board'?) engineeringpuddle. It would seem to too crass to describe what can be done with the book as 'pull s quite a deep puddle and the tab'water is swirling. A pulled tab moves the hedgehog forward, paints the blooms red Poor Ted starts to spin around and puts stripes onto the cat's teeth (around and all that is sucked down a drain on the cover!) A finger in a ring moving through a curve drops Alice down side of the rabbit holestreet. Finding himself The potion which Alice drinks quickly reduces her size and a turning wheel pours tea out of down in the potsewer, Ted starts to panic. It's all brilliantly done 'OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and despite trying my best I couldn't find a single sharp edge or one alerts the attention of Reg the pieces sewer rat, who plucks him out of engineering that I thought would soon need repairthe dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. It's Reg is a book which you could leave kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a child rather than feeling that it needed to be kept on 'Mummy's shelf'nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277694</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim GeyerB08R7LXQ9S|title=Go to Sleep, Monty!Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=For some childrenRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, it does together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not take them long stupid. They are careful to decide that they want a pet. This means wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the next few months and years consist of them slowly breaking down their parents’ resistance until finally a pet enters the homeother kids are around. For some lucky adults this may take the form of a goldfish or a hamsterSo, when Remy reacts, but for many it will be a doglooks as though he was the instigator. You may feel like you have only just managed to get your own child potty trained, but now you have And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to start all over again with a puppyexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441100</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Monks1471191303|title=Mungo Monkey goes on a TrainThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=45

|summary=I have spent quite a lot This is the story of time on public transport and, believe you meIsobel, I have seen a few odd things in my time, but I have yet to see little girl who made a family of monkeys catch the trainbig difference. However, Mungo is no ordinary monkey as he lives Isobel lived with her parents in a curious world where you can lift flaps and see what is going on. What can be behind house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the next one? Perhaps a photo of me looking puzzled as I see a monkey heating on the train!:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405269103</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Pat Hutchins|title= Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick?|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Rosie's not Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the sharpest chuck in corner of the hen housebedpost. She made her debut over forty years ago in the 1968 publication, 'Rosie's Walk The family didn' t go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when she stepped out alone blithely unaware they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of always being a hairs breadth away from calamitythe city. Well, she's back This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and this time she has a chickIsobel felt invisible. Uh-oh as my toddler would say…let's have a look at 'Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918281</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Bond Nick Jones and R W AlleySi Clark|title=Paddington Goes for GoldOne Night in Beartown

|summary=Rather like a young childMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, Paddington is a wide-eyed innocent who leaves devastation wherever he goeslives in Beartown, yet somehow always manages to land on his feetis obsessed with bears. I am very fond of literary She collects books about bears, and he . Her favourite toy is one of my favourites. I love his enthusiasmBerisford, in everything he does, and that he always has a snack to handteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. In this particular adventure, Paddington manages to entice the entire Brown familyEvery night, she looks out of her bedroom window and Mrs Bird, to come says goodnight to a local sports day. There’s everything from the shotput to a three-legged race and even a knitting racebear statue outside. 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 Every morning she says hello to conjure with and Quentin Blake is certainly one of those. His tell-tale illustrations have been part of many Bee Bear, a child’s upbringings, not colourful painted bear that lives at least for his work in the superb Roald Dahl booksher school. However, can nostalgia and reverence cloud a person’s mind? Are the drawings of Blake strong enough to cope She even has bears on their own when put alongside words that are not at a Dahl level?her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178344035X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} {{newreview|author=Jack Tickle|title=Silly Dizzy Dinosaur|rating= 4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Reading Move on to children does not have 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 of chaps at the best of time, but his errors are only compounded when the reader gets involved. Can we help this clumsy Camarasaurus from falling over too much? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848690452</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]