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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kristyna LittenAdam Stower|title= Blue Murray and BertieBun|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary= Bertie Murray is supposed to be a creature of habit. Every day humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is predictable but Bertie likes the certainty able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the routinetwo. I know how But he feels. One day's a bad magician's cat, thoughso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, something happens. He oversleeps and when he wakes up the others are gone and he is all alone. Although he still ventures catflap they both use can chuck them out, he gets not into the regular back garden, but into a little lost world of frightening adventure and is soon quite upsetwhiffs. Enter Blue who This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is just like him expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but oh so different too. he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147112374X</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Monks1732898766|title=Mungo Monkey to the RescueThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=Fans of lift When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the flap books may have come across Mongo Monkey before as he has a series Forest of adventures that always seem to entail lifting up some things and flapping othersFine Repute. The interaction in Their greatest fear has come about: the books Sour Milk Dragon is very enjoyablechasing them. He's right behind them, but sometimes it feels like you are just following a monkey and spewing hot, sour milk from his family around on a normal daynostrils. Couldn(Please don't creator Lydia Monks combine try this touch at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and feel element with when a story that actually goes somewhere? ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. Perhaps Mungo's day out They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with his Dad will be keytheir Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278188</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jory John and Benji DaviesB0CC9W7GLR|title=I Love You AlreadyOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45

|summary=You may have met Bear Kit and Duck before; one is a recluse who Teal were just wants beginning to go wonder whether it was better to sleepbe at home, bored but warm, whilst or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the other is full of energy and just wants to playshoreline. The friction between On top of the two may have been resolved by the end of [[Goodnight Already by Jory John and Benji Davies]], but that does not stop Duck from wondering if Bear really likes him or notice was a polar bear. Do our best friends really have to tell us they love us, or should we just assume by their actions that they do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008165998</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonny Lambert|title=Little Why|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Many of us have felt As the pain of insistent question asking from ice bumped onto the back of sand, the car; are we there yet or why is the sky blue? In 2016 we can attach our children to multimedia devices so that they learn all they need to know bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the Matrix whilst we get on with drivingice. HoweverKit was all for making a run for it, curious young minds will keep asking questionsbut Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. Sometimes it is better He obviously needed to give them an answer, rather than just telling later.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691831</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ben Bailey Smith be taken home on the bus and Sav Akyuz|title= I Am Bear|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= The first time we meet Bear he is bare! Imagine – given a naked animal, in the forest with his bottom on displaygood meal and somewhere to sleep. Squirrel is so shocked he's dropped his nuts. Ooh matron. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406359254</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Weaver1913839656|title=Little OneLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee

|summary=There is a subtle balance needed when finding a book to read to a toddler; one that takes into account Todd was excited about spending the needs of the childweekend with his grandmother, but perhaps also not least because she made the needs best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of the adultdungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Do you really want She had promised to be stuck reading an ugly book take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about a pair of underpants for several months? (Oops we seem this as he wanted to have lost that book!) make new friends. HoweverAt home, a book with striking visuals his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that strikes a chord with a parent may not always chime with a childcould be. Is a children's book always meant to Grandma thought that it might be just for kids?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444922734</amazonuk>because he looked different.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicky Benson and Jonny Lambert1529504775|title=I Love You More The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and MoreKatie Hickey

|summary=I'm something of a connoisseur when it comes Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to books about bearsthe park and watch the red buses drive past. I suppose it probably started with Winnie Elsie would race the buses along the Pooh, and my dad doing all side of the funny voices, park but even these days I find I am irresistibly drawn to stories David couldn't - he'd been born with bears in, cerebral palsy and this one did not disappointeven just standing up was very difficult. If you're looking for One day Elsie spotted a good old pullbus in the toy shop window which would help David -and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at-home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the-heartstrings read bus for cozy afternoons with your momentarily quiet little onesupport, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, then this is a good place to startthe Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692110</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ame Dyckman and Zachariah OHora1529504767|title=Wolfie the BunnyThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary=It may Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be that you are on the lookout for a useful picture book that deals with sibling rivalry in a helpful waygreeted when she got to her final destination. It may be that you She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have a wolf or rabbit obsessed toddlerbeen kinder to her. Or it may just be that you like a good story that's fun She even had her own room - all to readherself. Fortunately for you, this book will cover all of those requirements! Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. Wolfie She'd help Mrs Russell with the bunny arrives in baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the Bunny family's lives in a rather suspicious way, when he is left decorations on their doorstep in a basketthe Christmas tree. Mama and Papa Bunny are immediately charmed by their new baby, but big sister Dot remains alarmed, shouting out 'He's going to eat us all up!' but receiving no response from her smitten parents!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443863</amazonuk>The best surprise happened the following morning.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Jullien1916459943|title=RalfSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=IMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won'm rather partial t - go to sausage dogssleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. I met one in Japan once who I would quite happily have tucked into my suitcase The sea offers to sneak back homehelp. Ralf It rocks Baby gently and the sausage dog is just as endearing as these pups usually arewaves sing ''hush, although he is also just as troublesomehush''. For a little dog, he manages to take up quite a lot Think of space, make gentle wavelets falling onto a lot of noise, sandy beach and generally make a nuisance of himself (as most dogs do really)you have the sound perfectly. Yet when suddenly the family find themselves The mermaids join in great danger- ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it is Ralf who saves the day!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808182</amazonuk>seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michelle Robinson and Rebecca Ashdown140639131X|title= Odd SocksA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Socks, eh? They never used Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to trouble me, and would return from the washing machine in pairs, just as they had enteredmayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. I never fully understood Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the whole Land-benefits of-missing-socks thingthe lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Suki and Sosh are Mr Her uniform and Mrs Sock, lollipop stick were both a matching pair who live happily together in little amateur to start with but the sock drawerbenefits were obvious. They too have never visited All the animals used the Land-of-missing-socks. See? It's not just me. But something crossing and Hedgehog was even worse is about trained up to happen to tear this couple apart. Something quite horrible: Suki has provide a holesafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443375</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve Antony1776574338|title= Please Mr Panda|rating= 3|genre= For Sharing|summary= Mr Panda has a box of doughnuts and they look great, such bright colours against his black and white monochrome coat. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444916653</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLeilong's Too Long!|author=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang Julia Liu and Yu Yan Chen (translator)|title=Mr Horton's ViolinBei Lynn

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Meet Mr HortonEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. He is one Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the worldwindow and slide down his neck. It's most famous and rich musical instrument playersperfect, and has done isn't it all – except, that ? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There isa problem, stumble on a music treethough. You have Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to stumble on them, for not carpenters, not sculptors, not even simple woodsmen would give them be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a second look tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and think of them as anything specialtraffic regularly gets snarled up. But when Mr Horton does find one The school decides that he is able to fashion can't be the best, most magical violin imaginable out of its woodbus anymore. The only problem after that is working out who deserves to play it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215459</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang and Yu Yan Chen (translator)1776574028|title=The Chief CellistBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott

|summary=Paddington has I love a list - good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a list of shapes which he niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to findhave realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. The first one was easy We have the elephant who dons a tutu - it was a rectangle and he spotted that the front door was becomes a rectangle as he closed it on his way out''balletphant''. There was another shape ticked The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off as he walked away - all the paving stones were squares! At the corner of the road there was with a hair drier becomes a 'Men at Work' sign (or fluffalo'roadworks ahead' if you prefer not to be sexist) and this was . The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a triangle and there, round the roadworks were some cones''crynoceros'' (think about it! ) There are still quite a few shapes The pelican who sits on his list though - an oval, potty changes into a circle, a star, a diamond and a heart''sm....... '' It was the heart which would prove most difficult to track down and IOK, let'm s not going to tell you how Paddington did it, but go there just ''might'' be a clue in the title.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008159750</amazonuk> Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Seuss1838226834|title=What Pet Should I GetCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=3.54

|summary=What would you It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, if you found in so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the shedcarnival with his Grandad,<br>who told him: A brand new book''It'll be brilliant, from an author unfortunately dead?<br>Would you leave it alone as a work unfinishedjust remember,<br>Or release it anyway and make a reputation blemished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008170789</amazonuk>don't let go of my hand.''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Suzanne Chiew and Caroline PedlerB09MYXSRV4|title=Badger Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and the Great RescueHare|author=Cordellya Smith

|summary=Upcycling is When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a great idea, take some old rubbish and make yourself protector. Water Spider received a washing line or new tentstrong web that even fire could not burn. Badger Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and friends have found some odd bits and bobs around '' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the forest and they all have great ideas on ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to use them, be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but where did all this stuff come from? wait and see. Sometimes it is best to find out the origins of an item before Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you repurpose how it for yourself, you never know who may need it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691920</amazonuk>came about.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Eng Gee FanRob Keeley|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Frida KahloCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico. When she was a young schoolgirl she contracted polio Lily loves eating fruit and was left with a leg which was ''skinny as a rake''vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, but she bore the problem stoically cabbage and in some ways delighted in being differentaubergines. Then one day Frida was in a bus which crashed into a car. She was badly injured When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and even when she was over the worst she still had how nice to rest in bed and filled the time eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by drawing picturesJordan, including a self portraitwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Eventually she showed her pictures to a famous artist - Diego Rivera - who liked Infuriated, Lily checks with the picturesteacher, ''who explains that fruits grow on trees and'' Frida. They married and Rivera encouraged Frida's painting. She exhibitedvegetables, like carrots, eventually grow in New Yorkthe ground. Jordan says, "I did try to great acclaimtell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine 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=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Justine Avery and Ana AlberoNaday Meldova|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Coco ChanelEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=''I'm bored''Toots, trumps, said Frogfarts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn''Boredt find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, bored, '''BOREDthat is.''' '' And But horribly embarrassing if you can see he is: chin on elbowlet one go at the wrong time. In class, elbow on knee and, dare I say, a slightly when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her 'sulky'Everybody Potties!' expression on his face. He's not happy. Mouse has the right of itseries takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with his hammock slung in the cornfieldfamiliar humour attached, but Frog has made up his mind. He's off to the city which explains that tooting is full of exciting thingsperfectly normal. And Everybody does it is. Everywhere he looks there are wonderful things to do, but there: ''s only one snag. They all cost money. And as he hasnEverybody Toots't got any he's going to have to get a job.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784622729</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim FieldB09BG8V3Q6|title=Rabbit Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Bear: Rabbit's Bad HabbitsSeema Amjad

|summary=When Bear wakes up early from her hibernation, she decides that if she can't sleep then she might as well do something which she's always wanted to do - build a snowman. ItWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!''s whilst sheis the latest release in the 's doing this that she meets Rabbit, who tells her that he's an Expert in Gravity. Whatever he is, it doesnEverybody Potties!'t seem to make him particularly happy as he never smiles and isn't exactly big on series from Justine Avery. This series of fun. But there are avalanches around as well as hungry wolves and Rabbit soon comes picture books aims to take the conclusion that pain out of potty training children and replace itwith some fun. It's good to have a friend on your side - even if worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you have just stolen their food.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444929313</amazonuk> .

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason CockroftB07GZ81J7C|title=Amazing Animal Journeys|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=It's only relatively recently that man has actually moved home at certain points of the year to take advantage of the weather or the availability of food, but wild life has been doing it for much longer and every year billions of animals move from one part of the planet to another - that's birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects. This is known as migration - and it's a real pleasure to see it used other than in the context of sensationalist newspaper headlines. Wildlife expert Chris Packham has written this introduction to When Fred the subject Snake Got Squished and it's been beautifully illustrated by Jason Cockroft. (He's the man who did the cover artwork for the final three Harry Potter books!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277459</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMended|author=T S Eliot and Arthur Robins|title=Skimbleshanks: The Railyway Cat Peter Cotton

|summary=I have to sayMeet Fred. Well, actually, on opening this book I was tempted you're going to break out into song! be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. This is due to a lot of my teenage years spent listening to, and singing along with Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals (But I know...I do apologise!) You'd think being an English graduate m getting ahead of myself: I'd take better tell you a Tbit more about Fred.S. Eliot poem more seriously, wouldn't you? But no, it's the musical Fred is a snake and even those of ''Cats'' that leapt instantly us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to my mindhim. Anyway, if an Eliot poem seems an unlikely source for He arrived as a children's picture book, think again, because this is present in a lovely bookbox with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, both funny to read and listen to, and the extent that they would take Fred out with lots to see and discussthem when they went out for a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571324835</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane RayJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The NutcrackerEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5

|summary=There's something rather magical about Jane Ray's stories. [[The Dolls' House Fairy by Jane Ray|The Doll's House Fairy]] continues to Can potty training ever be one of my daughterjoyous? It often isn's favourite storiest, even though she's now a rather grown up nine year old, so we opened up this new story with a great deal of anticipationas any parent will tell you. It remains close to the traditional Nutcracker storyBut really, and there is a wonderful feel of Christmas throughout. Iwhy shouldn'm sure you can read t it quite happily be? We all year round (I know have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we will!) but itare small. Why shouldn's particularly special t potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the run up to Christmas.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408336413</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreview <!-- 15/12 -->Frontpage|author=Graham Jones Justine Avery and Neil ParkinsonNaday Meldova|title=Time Travelling Toby and the Battle of BritainNo, No, No!|rating=4.5

|summary=Toby lives in an unremarkable village and goes to an unremarkable school - just like ''millions'' They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of other boys - but he has this latest from Justine Avery, a secretBookbag favourite. We 're told it's ''humongous'No, No, No!' and I think that's right. You see, Toby has (wait for it...) two brother, a Mum and a Dad, a Nanma, two dogs, three fish and two rabbits as well as..is based around the simplest text imaginable.

''No, no, no! Okay, okay.Yes, you may.. '' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a time machine veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that looks just like a sports carit appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992636507</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jean-Yves Ferri194812467X|title= Asterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)The Farm Shop|ratingauthor= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Asterix is those rarest of book series; one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you are an adult. I used to love Asterix as a child, but now that I reread them I can't help but wonder whyDevon Avery, because they are so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was younger. I laughed loud Justine Avery and hard to myself twice within the first two pages of Asterix and the Missing Scroll, so I'd definitely say that this was a hit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510100458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Petr Horacek|title= Blue Penguin|rating= 3|genre= For Sharing|summary= Blue Penguin is about a penguin who is, well, blue. Most penguins are not blue, so he stand out. He's different. They don't think he belongs with them. He's not part of the gang because of the way he looks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358282</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve Antony|title=Green Lizards vs Red RectanglesEma Tepic|rating=34

|summary=Young children have inquisitive minds Kirelle and they do not view her best friend Sam the world cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in the same way we do. Trying to explain abstract concepts to them her bright yellow wellies and Sam is almost impossible perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they like walk to know exactly why something does what it doesthe top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. Why It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the Sky blue? Where do babies come from? Why do people fight wars? Many a parent has tried stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and failed to tackle these troublesome questionschickens, so perhaps a book can help? Or perhapsand even some mice. Excited, you are best off leaving the answer alone for a few years so that Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will they are more maturebuy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444920103</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lauren Child0995647895|title= Charlie and Lola: One Thing|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= I am yet to meet a child that doesn't like Charlie and Lola, Sadie and Lauren Child doesn't disappoint at all in this latest book in the series, which combines numbers with the usual warm humour and fun of this brother and sister double act.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408339005</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSea Dogs|author=Jane Hissey|title=Old Bear's Bedtime StoriesMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=ISadie'm not sure you ever grow out of Old Bear storiess mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. I just curled up 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 a blanket to read this latest collection of storiesthe gloom, and when I''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd finished my nine year old daughter sneaked over love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and took went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the book upstairs to read it by herself! Here we have twenty one stories and poems, all fairly short so useful when you need a quick bedtime! All your old favourites where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are here - Bramwell Bear on show) and Duck missed the closing bell and Little Bearthe 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, just waiting for you to snuggle up pirates, mermaids and read about their latest adventurestreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910706159</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Owen and Evgenia Golubeva1782227741|title=As Quiet as a MouseLittle Gold Ted|ratingauthor=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=There are a whole host of things that Elephants are excellent at; they reportedly never forget Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and they can hold loads of water in their trunk. One thing they are not known for is being quiet. However, their erstwhile natural enemy, the mouse is – hence someone is as quiet as a mouse. Can these two great animal tribes put aside their differences so that you can teach a nelly to tread carefully?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861729</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Postgate|title=Clangers: The Brilliant SurpriseSasha Satha

|summary=There One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is no such thing as nostalgia anymore as all swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the classic children's TV shows side of the past have been pulled out of retirementstreet. Finding himself down in the sewer, dusted off and made anewTed starts to panic. ''The ClangersOH HELP ME PLEASE'' are one he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the latest IPs to be visited by sewer rat, who plucks him out of the resurrectionists dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and the new show has proved very popular. It has now spawned spin he dries Ted off toys and books, but how do you write warms him up with a book about a bunch nice bowl of creatures that we cannot understand?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241195985</amazonuk>broth.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ailsa BurrowsB08R7LXQ9S|title=The Jar of HappinessRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=What would you do if you knew the recipe for happiness? IRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''m sure you could make a fortune, selling it by the jar. The school bully Jayden, though it's questionable of course as to whether such profiteering from the sale of emotions would make you happy! Megtogether with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, the little girl in this story, makes up her own special blend of happiness in a jarhave been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and she takes it everywhere, using it has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to cheer wind up her friends Remy when nobody can see and familythen push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. But what will happen So, when Meg canRemy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't find the jar?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846437288</amazonuk>believe him when he tries to explain what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Booth and Sam Usher1471191303|title=RefugeThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=A donkey tells This is the story of how he was led by the man whilst he carried the womanIsobel, all the way to Bethlehem, where the baby was borna little girl who made a big difference. Soon afterIsobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the shepherds came heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and then crept up the corner of the kingsbedpost. But then '' The family didn't go to the man cinema or on holidays but they had a dream - a dream of danger - each other and he knew that it was time for them all to leavethey were happy. They left some gold for Then the innkeeper (day came when they were not staying in the stable because they were couldn''poor'') and went through t afford the quiet streets ''hoping rent for the kindness house and they had to move to the far side of strangers'', which they foundthe city. Finally they came to another land - to Egypt - This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and found refugeIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085763741X</amazonuk>