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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda McCardie and Salvatore RubbinoAdam Stower|title=A Book of FeelingsMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary= HappyMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, shyone who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, sadwell, jealouswhatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, angryso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, lovedand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, grumpy…not not into the names of little dwarvesregular back garden, but just some into a world of the powerful feelings frightening adventure and emotions that affect everyone from whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to time. Sam and Kate live with their mum be honest, but he's turned up and dad and a dog with a name that I just adore: Fuzzy Bean. They he'll have a typical family life with all the ups and downs and warmth and fun and the occasional chaos that comes with the territory.to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406355992</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrow1732898766|title=Have You Seen Elephant?The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Elephant wants to play hide When we first meet Birpus and seek and Boy agrees that he Elephant should hide firstBulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Elephant Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is completely fair and warns Boy that hechasing them. He's ''VERY'' goodright behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. Boy(Please don's fair too - he says that het try this at home: it won'll try his best - and off Elephant goes to hidet end well. ) Dog is looking slightly bored Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob- actually he's having a good scratch lolly - as Boy counts to ten and shouts ''Coming! Ready or Not!'' in the tradition when a ladder of all hide and seek games and Boy moss and Dog go in search of Elephant. Now Elephant wasn't joking when he said that he vines was goodlowered for them, because he doesn't so much ''hide'' as ''disguise'' himself within the roomsthey escaped. Boy doesn't spot himThey climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, but watch Dog! He spots Elephant every time, whether he's an armchair, a duvet, television stand, standard lamp or a shedNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570081</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Fhiona GallowayB0CC9W7GLR|title=BOO!On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5

|summary=Creating 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 fun book for snowy beach when a young toddler or older baby appears easy, but is actually tricky to pull off welllarge slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. Just shoving On top of the ice was a few animals or shapes into a cardboard BOO!k is not going to capture polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the imagination; there needs to be coloursand, fun the bear woke and a certain je ne sais quoi to stand out with wobbly legs moved from the many other baby booksks on ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the marketbear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. Setting He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a book around Halloween good meal and all things spooky may not seem somewhere to fill these criteria, but a little fear can sometimes make a small child surprisingly happysleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691254</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul 1913839656|title=WinnieLet's Haunted House Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary= Strange things are happening in Winnie Todd was excited about spending the Witch's house – a broken vase, torn curtainsweekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and a chandelier that suddenly crashes then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the ground. There is no obvious explanation so Winnie decides her house must be haunted Friday Night Club at the local community centre and reaches her spell book Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to solve the problemmake new friends. As usual the spell At home, his only makes matters worse, at first anywayfriend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192744062</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd1529504775|title=Goodnight MoonThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary=Bunny was cosily tucked up in bed. It's a big room, painted green (''very'' green) Elsie and with lots of things scattered around. Before Bunny goes her little brother David loved to sleep he's going go to look at them all the park and then say goodnight to each of themwatch the red buses drive past. There are Elsie would race the pictures on buses along the walls (from nursery rhymes and fairy tales), a couple side of kittens, a pair of mittens, a dollthe park but David couldn't - he's house d been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a young mouse, a comb bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and a brush and a bowl of mush as well was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as a quiet old lady who cash was whispering ''hush''tight at home. You get Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the idea? bus for support, and walk behind it. We're moving through Many decades later, Elsie brought the objects one by one in gentle rhyme before we start bus, now damaged and rusted, to say goodnight to them allthe Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230764843</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Denchfield and Ant Parker1529504767|title=Charlie Chick Goes to SchoolThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=35

|summary=Charlie Chick is always late Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and today is his first day at schoolnervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. HeShe needn's having trouble getting out t have worried though as she went to the home of bed Mr and then getting to breakfast (trailing his toy crocodileMrs Russell, who - if anything - looks more awake than Charlie)couldn't have been kinder to her. The snap, crackle and pop of his favourite cereal frightens him into life She even had her own room - and then he has all to grab his bag and scarf herself. Gradually she relaxed and rush off began to school, because the bell's gone and everyone else is already thereenjoy her life...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144727718X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gemma Merino|title= The Cow Who Climbed a Tree|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Tina is a really curious cow who just wants to know everything there is to know about, well, everything. Her sisters think that She's just silly, d help Mrs Russell with the baking and when Tina tells them that she climbed a tree it came to Christmas Eve Susan and found a dragon they decide Mr Russell put the decorations on the situation has gotten out of handChristmas tree. But what will they find when they looking for her in the woods? You'll just have to read The best surprise happened the book to find outfollowing morning. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447214889</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Colin Boyd and Tony Ross1916459943|title= The Bath Monster|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=A great book for parents and kids alike, with an excellent premise and brilliantly carried out, I can see this being a popular choice for bedtime reading. Even if your children might not be too fond of the bath for a while afterwards...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442891</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSqueakily Baby|author=Seb Braun|title=The Tiger Prowls: a pop-up book of wild animalsBeth Webb

|summary=ItMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a hardback book with a striking cover and when you open it, donsqueakily baby. He's so tired but he can't expect endpapers - or gentle introductionswon't - go to sleep: as you lift instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the coverwaves sing ''hush, the tiger hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the title appears: sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''The tiger prowlsla lou, stalking through the junglela lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull ''<br>'shouts'Paw after heavy paw crunches on the forest floor.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122158</amazonuk>and we know exactly what's going to happen next.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rob Biddulph 140639131X|title=Grrrrr! |rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary= Fred has won the contest A Practical Present for best bear in the wood for three years in a row. He's the best at everything from catching fish, doing the hula-hoop and scaring humans, to the all-important growling competition. But everything changes when another bear arrives and decides to enter the contest. Fred's no longer the best bear in town and, to make matters worse, he's lost his 'Grrrrr'. Fred's going to need help to find his 'Grrrr' in time for the start of the competition. But will the other animals want to help him look given he's been too busy training to make friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007594127</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPhilippa Pheasant|author=Jane Chapman|title=No More Cuddles!Briony May Smith

|summary=Ah, what a Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem it can be, to be just so snuggly that people canbut didn't stop cuddling you! even get a reply. This is poor BarryPhilippa wasn's t a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problemwhich needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. A solitary monster by nature, he does like cuddles of course, Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but too much of anything can become trying, and so when he is leaped on by all the other little forest benefits were obvious. All the animals every single morning, he wonders if perhaps there is some way used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to transfer their cuddles to someone else?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691475</amazonuk>provide a safe path overnight.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Carlisle1776574338|title=Lion PracticeLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5

|summary=Laura loves practising Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at being different kinds the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of animalsthe window and slide down his neck. As well as being It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a kangaroo and an elephantproblem, shethough. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's an expert at being a crocodile (much always having to the other childrenbe careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's dismay in the swimming pool!) longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. But one day she The school decides that ithe can's time for lion practice, and this is t be the day when her parents think her imagination has gone just a little too far…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144725743X</amazonuk>bus anymore.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kristina Stephenson1776574028|title=Molly Maybe's Monsters: The Dappity DooferBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5

|summary=Molly Maybe lives in Smallsbury, I love a good board book! ''snoringly, boringly, ordinary placeBumblebee Grumblebee'' - well, is aimed at quite a niche market: it is until you discover the town's best kept secret. But before we talk about for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that, let me tell you about Mollycan ''play''s treehouse, where she with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and her dog, Waggy Burns, can look out over her neighboursbecomes a ''balletphant'' gardens. Mr Bottomly Brown is doing some digging The buffalo who has had a bath (itcomplete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''s going to be . The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a pond) and he's discovered something rather peculiar: 'crynoceros'' (think about it looks like !) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a small statue''sm..... ..'' Three days later the statue is in place in the middle of the pond but thatOK, let's not what's making Mr Brown angry - go there Some people are piles of soil all over his perfect lawn. He's convinced that it's moles, but Molly has spotted a claw and she knows better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121070</amazonuk>eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Gravett1838226834|title=Bear and Hare: Where's Bear?Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=54

|summary=Bear and Hare are playing hide and seekIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. Hare covers his eyes, turns They're there to face undo all the wallgood that parents do, counts slowly to ten and then goes looking for Bearso the trips out were always so much fun. Unfortunately he's tried A young boy was going to hide ''behind'' and ''under'' the standard lamp and he's not 'carnival with his Grandad, who told him: 'exactly'It' invisible. Well, let's ll be honest - he looks as though he's wearing a very strange hat. Stillbrilliant, we can always have another gojust remember, candon't we? This time, after the ritual counting, Bear is behind a (very small) pile let go of booksmy hand. OK, one more time? This time it's the fish tank. I'd like to be able to say that he was ''behind'' the tank, but he's visible over, under and through the tank. Even the fish look rather surprised.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273958</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Tracey Corderoy Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Tim WarnesHare|titleauthor=More!Cordellya Smith

|summary=Archie When the rhino has world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a new favourite word - more! strong web that even fire could not burn. Whatever it is Owl had excellent sight so that Archie likes, he likes it a lot! could see the present ''and'' the future. He just wants more of everything; more storiesRabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, more bubbles in not the bath, more glitterability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle.but what happens when one day, Archie You might think that's idea of not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'more' becomes a little too much to handle?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691343</amazonuk>ll tell you how it came about.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John RyanRob Keeley|title= Captain PugwashCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54

|summary=Captain Pugwash was first published in 1957 Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. It was a comic stripShe likes carrots, a TV animation broccoli, cabbage and the story series developed into a further twenty four titlesaubergines. Pugwash When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is conceitedkeen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, stupidpoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, podgywho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, unshaven and lovable. His crew are ''Lily checks with the laziest afloat''teacher, his enemywho explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, Cut-Throat Jakelike carrots, is satisfyingly villainous and cabin-boy Tom can always be relied on to save grow in the dayground. Many families will remember these as childhood favourites whether in print or on the screenJordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807283</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David LitchfieldB09FFJF8YS|title= The Bear You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and the PianoKate Zhoidik|rating= 3.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= One day ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a small bear cub finds something strange in cry (the middle big-girl kind!) of the woodstoilet triumph and persevering panty pride. Not knowing what ''  And so it is he tentatively touches it with his paw. It makes an awful sound! However the This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little bear continues girl's final goodbye to visit the object over months nappies and years pull-ups and gradually the sounds become beautiful graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and the bear feels happyher baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. The other bears love listening to Neither can the wonderful music that he makes and then one day a father and daughter visit flowers, nor the forest and tell fish, nor the bear he should take his musical talent to the big citybirds. Boy's certainly can't. So the bear embarks on She's a journey big girl now and she wants everyone to seek his fame and fortune. Although the city is all the bear could possibly have hoped for, something deep inside him is tugging him back home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807178</amazonuk>know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matty LongJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Super Happy Magic ForestEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=''The Lord of the Rings'' has an impressive legacyToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, both as find us a trilogy of books child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and filmsjoke about, that is. Its impact on But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the fantasy genre as a whole is almost immeasurable – in many ways the genre exists because of these bookswrong time. Frodo In class, say, when everyone will hear it and coeveryone will laugh. At you. also lives on within the people who love Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and cherish the books gently and calmly, with the fantasy genre as a wholefamiliar humour attached, but how do you spark this enthusiasm in your kids? Matty Long may just have come up with a cunning planexplains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192742957</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joan Aiken and Quentin BlakeB09BG8V3Q6|title=Mortimer Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and the Sword ExcaliburSeema Amjad

|summary=If you think about all ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the many unsuitable items that Mortimer latest release in the raven has eaten, ''Everybody Potties!'' series from staircases Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to bowler hats, take the pain out of potty training children and replace itwith some fun. It's surprising that he's still in as good a shape worthy aim, as he isany frustrated parent will tell you. This time, Mortimer finds himself left alone with Mrs Jones' sewing machine. I'm still not sure why Mrs Jones ever lets him out of her sight, since he has an unerring capacity for trouble, yet here we find him, gobbling down the pink material that is intended for Arabel's new dress, swiftly followed by the needle! When Mortimer eventually discovers the foot pedal that makes the sewing machine go he and Arabel are turfed out of the house and allowed to go across the road to the park where a crowd has gathered around an interesting find in a large hole…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806929</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Joan Aiken When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Quentin BlakeMended|titleauthor=The Spiral StairPeter Cotton|rating=4.5

|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'm rather fond getting ahead of Arabel myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and Mortimereven those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. I like the outlandish situations He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that they find themselves in, he could breathe and immediately became part of the way Joan Aiken wrote the stories without speaking down family, to her readers in any way, inserting humour for the grown ups reading extent that they would take Fred out with them toowhen they went out for a walk. Here our terrible twosome have been sent to Uncle Urk at And that was where the zoo whilst Mr Jones is in hospitalproblem started. Aunt Effie, however, has little patience for a noisy ravenFred didn't have any road sense. Will Mortimer land them both in trouble? Or will they somehow manage to save the zoo from a scurrilous animal-stealing plot?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806945</amazonuk>brakes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict BlathwaytJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Little House by the SeaEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=By the sea, on the Isle of Mull, there was a ruined cottage, but it wasnCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't entirely uninhabited, as any parent will tell you. The roof had fallen in and the windows were empty but that didnBut really, why shouldn't stop the mice finding snug and dry homes in the walls. Rabbits enjoyed the weeds in the garden and the doorway it be? We all have to the cottage was used learn about our bodily functions just as a shelter by the sheep we have to learn about everything else when it rained. Sparrows nested under the roof and a stray cat slept in the pile of leaves in the fireplace. Then one day Finn came along. He was a fisherman and he began to repair the housewe are small. He worked too - catching fish and taking tourists to see the seals and FingalWhy shouldn's cave. But what t potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the birds sun and animals who had lived the moon take turns in the cottage before Finn came alongsky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780273142</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine StorrJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title= Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Polly opens the door one day to find a large black wolf standing on the doorstep. With no preamble whatsoever, not even a cursory hello, the wolf informs Polly that he intends to eat her up. Incredibly Polly invites the wolf into her home and even into the kitchen! What can she be thinking of? Well, young Polly is cleverNo, resourcefulNo, independent and charming. The wolf is a wolf of very little brain. Therefore it is not long before she is able to outwit the wolf and send him packing. This first story is very short but sets the scene for the ongoing battle of wits between Polly and the wolf that will continue for the remaining twelve short stories in this charming and entertaining book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141360232</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David McPhail|title=NONo!

|summary=A boy - we never learn his name - leaves home with a letter to post. If we look carefully we get a hint about who They say the letter is going to, but getting to best picture books are the post box is not going to simplest ones. And nothing could be easytruer of this latest from Justine Avery, because the boy lives in a war zoneBookbag favourite. There are planes dropping bombs ''No, tanks taking out buildingsNo, soldiers carrying bayonets kicking down doors and a policeman with truncheon aloft and vicious dog at his side. The boy walks through it all as though completely unmoved, but when he reaches the postbox thereNo!''s a bully lounging there and the first thing that he does is to knock based around the boysimplest text imaginable. ''s hat offNo, no, no! Okay, okay. Our hero has had enough - and we know just what he saysYes, you may...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807135</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David McKee|title= Melric and the Dragon|rating= 5''|genre= For Sharing|summary= ThereThat's a hoard of dragons loose in the kingdomit! Crikey! Luckily But, like all the King has a whole army best picture books, this tiny snippet of soldiers with nothing else on their plate (except quite text is a few jam sandwiches) veritable tardis - so he has plenty of troops to send much bigger on a search and destroy mission.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441623</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mick Inkpen|title= Kipper's Beach Ball|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= It's play time at the beach for Kipper and Tiger in this magical book about living in inside that it appears on the moment because it might be over before you know itoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444924028</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenna Harrington and Finn Simpson|title= Katie McGinty Wants a Pet|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Katie McGinty wants a pet. Really, really, REALLY wants a pet. Daddy says no, not yet, not until she's bigger. So she waits. And she waits. And then the time comes.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848691408</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Julian Clary and David Roberts194812467X|title= The Bolds|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The Bolds, Mr and Mrs and their two small children, live in an ordinary semi-detached house in suburban Teddington. They have jobs; Mrs Bold designs and sells flamboyant hats 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 and prone to laughing a lot they have kept the truth (and their tails!) a secret from everyone. But their grumpy next door neighbour, Mr McNumpty, is growing suspicious and then a trip to the local safari park has repercussions. Will the Bolds' carefully long kept secret be revealed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443057</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFarm Shop|author= Anita Pouroulis|title= Nina Goes Barking Mad!|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Nina and George are Jules' dogs. George is badly behaved. He once dug up the entire front lawn. Mum said she wanted to give him away. It's Nina who is in the dog house though in this edition of the Jules, Nina and George series. She just won't stop barking. MumDevon Avery, Jules Justine Avery and even George are being driven crazy. Inspired by a TV show, Jules sets out to think like a dog and pin down what on earth the matter can be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909428523</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alex English and Duncan Beedie|title=Pirates Don't Drive DiggersEma Tepic

|summary=Ah, that age old dilemma or whether Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go into for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the family business or whether to set out alone and follow your dreams! In this story we meet Bradtop of the hill, who has been born into they see a family of pirates but who dreams of life on big barn with a building sitesign outside. His dad (friendly looking pirate though he is) has no time for BradIt's nonsensea farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and packs him off to sea to learn what pirates doeven some mice. Is this to be a tale of tragedy Excited, Kirelle and woeSam go shopping. What will they buy? Don't worry, Brad may get to drive a digger after all…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861737</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Smallman and Ada Grey0995647895|title=Poo in Sadie and the ZooSea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5

|summary=If you’re one of those parents who really can’t stand farting jokesSadie'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 avoids nappy changing discussions with your peers gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all costs then step away from this review now! the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. This is She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a story that is made for families who enjoy a funny poo story, glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and who can bear a few armpit fart noises now missed the closing bell and then! the attendant's warning shout. For this is a book When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that is entirely about poo, from start to finish, so make sure everyone who needs to be is she could never have imagined in a nice clean nappyworld of dolphins, then get ready for a treat of a read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691386</amazonuk>pirates, mermaids and treasure.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Silvia Borando1782227741|title= Black Cat, White CatLittle Gold Ted|ratingauthor= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary='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 momentVanessa Wiercioch, I'll tell you a bit more about the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406363162</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Hsukung Liu Poppy Satha and Xinlin Wang (translator)|title=The Only Pupil in the SchoolSasha Satha

|summary=On the first One day of , Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the school term only one pupil appeared water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of the teachers began to worry about losing their jobsstreet. Finding himself So they made their minds up that they would make their only pupil the best down in the schoolsewer, which - when you think about it - wasn't going Ted starts to be ''all'' that difficultpanic. They began by trying to persuade her to come to ''theirOH HELP ME PLEASE'' classes he cries and when that didn't persuade her they began fighting amongst themselves and didn't notice our heroine creeping away. She went to alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the forest and met dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old man who taught her lots about the flowers and the insectscricket bat. A chef showed her how to make soup - it was delicious Reg is a kind soul and warming - he dries Ted off and then she had lots of fun (and exercise) warms him up with a dog she met in the park. The further she 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 hernice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215416</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessica SouhamiB08R7LXQ9S|title=Rama Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and the Demon KingCaroline Siegal

|summary=Rama was a brave and good prince, the kingRemy is feeling miserable. He's favourite sonlet himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, He loved together with his wifesidekicks Ryan and Brandon, Sita have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and his best friend was his brother Lakshmanhas small eyes. Everyone loved him, except for one personThey are mean but they are not stupid. His stepmother was jealous and she was determined They are careful to get rid of Rama. Long ago she had saved the king's life wind up Remy when nobody can see and he had promised to grant her any wish. She asked then push him just that he send Rama into the forest for fourteen years and although little bit further when the king was horrified he had to keep his promiseother kids are around. Rama was sent into the forestSo, but he did not go alonewhen Remy reacts, it looks as Sita and Lakshman went with him and for a while all though he was wellthe instigator. They fought off the demons who first appeared and And then built a house he gets into trouble at school and led a simple life among the forest animalsteachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806600</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson1471191303|title=When I Am HappiestThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=Syd and his Grandad are going on an adventure – through This is the door story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in Grandada house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn's attic t afford to a ship that will sail put the heating on: ''Ice curled across an ocean the inside of rooftops the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to a magical tropical islandthe cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. They are going to find new wonders at every turn as Then the day came when they explore couldn't afford the rent for the island house and make lots they had to move to the far side of new friends in the form city. This part of the animals city was cold, sad and birds. In fact, it's such an amazing place that Grandad decides to staylonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jules NilssonNick Jones and Si Clark|title=The Hounds of FalsterboOne Night in Beartown

|summary=''In between Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the beach huts''<br>''Where the white sands meet the seasbear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear,''<br>''The heather meets the sand dunes''<br>''And long grasses dance the breezea colourful painted bear that lives at her school.''She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]