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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and 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 be honest, but he's turned up and Sam Usherhe'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=We Are Not FROGS!The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Bedtime books are a great way When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of winding a toddler down before they go to sleepFine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, but havensour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they all been done before? Coming up with something were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a little different that encourages a child to nod off is not always easy ladder of moss and new ideas can be a little bizarre when you think about itvines was lowered for them, they escaped. Do bulldozers really need They climbed up to doze off at the end of Tree Wee homes high up in the night? At least we will have fun listening to all the machinery as it goes off to bedtangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121143</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H ShepardB0CC9W7GLR|title=Winnie-On the-PoohBeach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=Fans 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 lift the flap books may have come across Mongo Monkey before as he has ice was a series of adventures that always seem to entail lifting up some things polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and flapping otherswith wobbly legs moved from the ice. The interaction in the books is very enjoyableKit was all for making a run for it, but sometimes it feels like you are just following a monkey Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and his family around on a normal daythen another. Couldn't creator Lydia Monks combine this touch He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and feel element with given a story that actually goes good meal and somewhereto sleep. What else would you do? Perhaps Mungo's day out with his Dad will be key.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278188</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jory John and Benji Davies1913839656|title=I Love You AlreadyLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=You may have met Bear and Duck before; one is a recluse who just wants to go to sleepTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, whilst not least because she made the other is full best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of energy dungarees and his favourite hat and just wants then gathered together his button collection to playshow his grandmother. The friction between She had promised to take him to the two may have been resolved by Friday Night Club at the end of [[Goodnight Already by Jory John local community centre and Benji Davies]]Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, but his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that does not stop Duck from wondering if Bear really likes him or notcould be. Do our best friends really have to tell us they love us, or should we just assume by their actions Grandma thought that they do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008165998</amazonuk>it might be because he looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonny Lambert1529504775|title=Little WhyThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Many of us have felt Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the pain of insistent question asking from buses along the back side of the car; are we there yet or why is park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the sky blue? In 2016 we can attach our children toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to multimedia devices so that they learn all they need use the coins from her money box to know from the Matrix whilst we get on with drivingpay for it as cash was tight at home. HoweverGradually, curious young minds will keep asking questionsDavid learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Sometimes it is better Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to give them an answerthe Repair Shop, rather than just telling laterhoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691831</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Bailey Smith and Sav Akyuz1529504767|title= I Am BearThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= The first time we meet Bear he is bare! Imagine – a naked animal, Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and 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 forest home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with his bottom the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on displaythe Christmas tree. Squirrel is so shocked he's dropped his nuts. Ooh matron The best surprise happened the following morning. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406359254</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Weaver1916459943|title=Little OneSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=3.54
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|summary=There is Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a subtle balance needed when finding a book squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to read sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to a toddler; one that takes into account help. It rocks Baby gently and the needs waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the childsound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, but perhaps also the needs of the adultla lay... '' Do you really want to be stuck reading an ugly book about And for a pair of underpants for several months? (Oops we seem moment it seems to have lost that book!) However, a book with striking visuals that strikes a chord with a parent may not always chime with a childworked as Baby closes his eyes. Is Then a childrenseagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's book always meant going to be just for kids?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444922734</amazonuk>happen next.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicky Benson and Jonny Lambert140639131X|title=I Love You More and MoreA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=IPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired''m something of a connoisseur when it comes nearly getting squished as she tried to books about bearscross the Old Oak Road. I suppose it probably started with Winnie She wrote to the Pooh, and my dad doing all mayor about the funny voices, problem but didn't even these days I find I am irresistibly drawn to stories with bears in, and this one did not disappointget a reply. If youPhilippa wasn're looking for t a good old pull-bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at-the-heartstrings read for cozy afternoons with your momentarily quiet school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little one, then this is a good place amateur to startwith but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692110</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ame Dyckman and Zachariah OHora1776574338|title=Wolfie the BunnyLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5
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|summary=It may be that you are on Every morning Leilong, the lookout for a useful picture book that deals with sibling rivalry in a helpful brontosaurus school bus, makes his waythrough the city, picking up children as he goes. It may be that you have a wolf or rabbit obsessed toddlerChildren who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. Or It's perfect, isn't it may just ? What could be that you like a good story that's more fun way of going to read. school? Fortunately for youThere is a problem, this book will cover all of those requirements! though. Wolfie the bunny arrives Leilong isn't happy in the Bunny familycity: he's lives in a rather suspicious way, when always having to be careful about where he is left on their doorstep in a basket. Mama puts his feet and Papa Bunny are immediately charmed by their new baby, but big sister Dot remains alarmed, shouting out 'He– because he's going longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to eat us all and traffic regularly gets snarled up!. The school decides that he can' but receiving no response from her smitten parents!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443863</amazonuk>t be the bus anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Jullien1776574028|title=RalfBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=Ilove a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it'm rather partial to sausage dogs. I met one in Japan once s for the child who I would quite happily have tucked into still enjoys board books (er, see my suitcase first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to sneak back homehave realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Ralf We have the sausage dog is just as endearing as these pups usually are, although he is also just as troublesomeelephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. For The buffalo who has had a little dog, he manages to take up quite bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a lot of space, make hair drier becomes a lot of noise, and generally make ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a nuisance of himself ''crynoceros'' (as most dogs do reallythink about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm....... '' Yet when suddenly the family find themselves in great dangerOK, it is Ralf who saves the daylet's not go there Some people are eating!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808182</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michelle Robinson and Rebecca Ashdown1838226834|title= Odd Socks|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Socks, eh? They never used to trouble me, and would return from the washing machine in pairs, just as they had entered. I never fully understood the whole Land-of-missing-socks thing. Suki and Sosh are Mr and Mrs Sock, a matching pair who live happily together in Carried Away With the sock drawer. They too have never visited the Land-of-missing-socks. See? It's not just me. But something even worse is about to happen to tear this couple apart. Something quite horrible: Suki has a hole.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443375</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Steve Antony|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>}}{{newreviewCarnival|author=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang and Yu Yan Chen (translator)|title=Mr Horton's ViolinEd Boxall
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|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Meet Mr Horton. He is It was one of the worldthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They's most famous and rich musical instrument players, and has done it re there to undo all – except, the good that isparents do, stumble on a music treeso the trips out were always so much fun. You have A young boy was going to stumble on themthe carnival with his Grandad, for not carpenterswho told him: ''It'll be brilliant, not sculptorsjust remember, not even simple woodsmen would give them a second look and think don't let go of them as anything specialmy hand. But when Mr Horton does find one he is able to fashion the best, most magical violin imaginable out of its wood. The only problem after that is working out who deserves to play it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215459</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang and Yu Yan Chen (translator)B09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Chief CellistReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Meet When the Chiefworld was made, the animals were given gifts. A new cellist in Bear was given strength so that he could become a quite horrible orchestra, he has suddenly turned their fortunes – and his – roundprotector. He is now Water Spider received a superstar, strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and asking for more and more grandeur and help in his life'' the future. But one nightRabbit developed intelligence - but, when his chauffeur doesn't turn up for him after yet one more sterling performanceunfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he finds himself alone came to be in a world race with Turtle. You might think that doesn't care how good s not a cellist he is, fair contest but one where destiny might just depend on him learning the power of teamwork…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215440</amazonuk>wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Bond and R W AlleyRob Keeley|title=Paddington and the Disappearing SandwichCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Paddington has a list - a list of shapes which he has to find Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. The first one was easy - it was a rectangle She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and he spotted that the front door was a rectangle as he closed it on his way outaubergines. There was another shape ticked off as he walked away - all the paving stones were squares! At the corner of the road there was a 'Men When her friends at Work' sign (or 'roadworks ahead' if school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you prefer not and how nice to be sexist) and this was a triangle and thereeat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, round Lily checks with the roadworks were some cones! There are still quite a few shapes teacher, who explains that fruits grow on his list though - an ovaltrees and vegetables, a circlelike carrots, a stargrow in the ground. Jordan says, a diamond and a heart. It was the heart which would prove most difficult to track down and "I'm not going did try to tell you how Paddington did ither, but there just ''might'' be a clue in the titleMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008159750</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr SeussB09FFJF8YS|title=What Pet Should I GetYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=What would you do''For the big, if you found grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the shed,<br>big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'' A brand new And so it is! This latest book, from an author unfortunately dead?<br>Would you leave it alone Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as a work unfinishedshe proudly explains to her dog, her cat,<br>Or release it anyway her stuffed rabbit and make 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 reputation blemished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008170789</amazonuk>big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Suzanne Chiew Justine Avery and Caroline PedlerNaday Meldova|title=Badger and the Great RescueEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Upcycling is a great ideaToots, trumps, take some old rubbish and make yourself a washing line or new tentfarts. Badger and friends have found some odd bits and bobs around the forest and they all have great ideas on how to use Whatever your word for them, but where did all this stuff come from? Sometimes it is best to find out the origins of an item before you repurpose it for yourself, you never know who may need it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691920</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Eng Gee Fan|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Frida Kahlo|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Frida Kahlo was born in Mexicous a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. When she was a young schoolgirl she contracted polio Funny to talk about and was left with a leg which was ''skinny as a rake''joke about, but she bore the problem stoically and in some ways delighted in being differentthat is. Then But horribly embarrassing if you let one day Frida was in a bus which crashed into a car. She was badly injured and even when she was over the worst she still had to rest in bed and filled go at the wrong time by drawing pictures. In class, including a self portrait. Eventually she showed her pictures to a famous artist - Diego Rivera - who liked the picturessay, ''when everyone will hear it and'' Fridaeveryone will laugh. At you. They married and Rivera encouraged FridaJustine Avery's painting. She exhibited, eventually latest entry in New York, to great acclaim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Ana Albero|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Coco Chanel|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Gabrielle Chanel lived in an orphanage in a French town and after the death of her mother she went to a strict convent school. The fact that she was ''different'' didn't make her life ''easyEverybody Potties!''series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, but there were early indications explains that she was going to be a seamstresstooting is perfectly normal. After she left school she sewed by day and sang by night and Everybody does it was as she sang that she gained her nickname - : ''CocoEverybody Toots'' - which came from the soldiers in the audience. But her dream was designing clothes and the first step was designing and making hats: this led to her opening a hat shop. One evening, at a party she realised that a lot of the women weren't dancing: their corsets were so tight that they could hardly breathe and it was this that prompted Coco to create a new style. Her clothes were simple, straight and comfortable to wear.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807712</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colleen Jacey and Zed JaceyB09BG8V3Q6|title=Odd Job FrogWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=''IWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!'m bored'', said Frog. ''Bored, bored, '''BORED.''' '' And you can see he is: chin on elbow, elbow on knee and, dare I say, a slightly the latest release in the ''sulkyEverybody Potties!'' expression on his faceseries from Justine Avery. He's not happy. Mouse has This series of fun picture books aims to take the right pain out of potty training children and replace it, with his hammock slung in the cornfield, but Frog has made up his mindsome fun. HeIt's off to the city which is full of exciting things. And it is. Everywhere he looks there are wonderful things to doa worthy aim, but there's only one snag. They all cost moneyas any frustrated parent will tell you. And as he hasn't got any he's going to have to get a job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784622729</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim FieldB07GZ81J7C|title=Rabbit When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Bear: Rabbit's Bad HabbitsMended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=When Bear wakes up early from her hibernationMeet Fred. Well, actually, she decides that if she can't sleep then she might as well do something which sheyou's always wanted re going to do be meeting Fred- build a snowmanFred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. ItBut I's whilst shem getting ahead of myself: I's doing this that she meets Rabbit, who tells her that he's an Expert in Gravityd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Whatever he Fred is, it doesn't seem a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to make him particularly happy as he never smiles and isn't exactly big on fun. But there are avalanches around He arrived as well as hungry wolves a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and Rabbit soon comes immediately became part of the family, to the conclusion extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that itwas where the problem started. Fred didn's good to t have a friend on your side - even if you have just stolen their foodany road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444929313</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris Packham Justine Avery and Jason CockroftNaday Meldova|title=Amazing Animal JourneysEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Can potty training ever be joyous? Itoften isn'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 foodt, as any parent will tell you. But really, but wild life has been doing why shouldn't it for much longer and every year billions of animals move from one part of the planet be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to another - thatlearn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn's birds, mammalst potty training be as much fun as, reptilessay, 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 learning about why the subject sun and it's been beautifully illustrated by Jason Cockroft. (He's the man who did the cover artwork for moon take turns in the final three Harry Potter books!)sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405277459</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=T S Eliot Justine Avery and Arthur RobinsNaday Meldova|title=Skimbleshanks: The Railyway Cat No, No, No!|rating=4.5
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|summary=I have to They saythe best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, on opening this book I was tempted to break out into song! This is due to a lot of my teenage years spent listening to, and singing along with Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals (I knowBookbag favourite...I do apologise!) You 'd think being an English graduate I'd take a T.S. Eliot poem more seriouslyNo, No, wouldnNo!'t you? But no, it's is based around the musical of simplest text imaginable. ''CatsNo, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.'' that leapt instantly to my mind. Anyway, if an Eliot poem seems an unlikely source for a children That's it! But, like all the best picture book, think againbooks, because this tiny snippet of text is a lovely book, both funny to read and listen to, and with lots to see and discussveritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571324835</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Ray194812467X|title=The NutcrackerFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=4.5
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|summary=There's something rather magical about Jane Ray's storiesKirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go 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. [[The Dolls' House Fairy by Jane Ray|The Doll's House Fairy]] continues As they walk to be one the top of my daughter's favourite storiesthe hill, even though shethey see a big barn with a sign outside. It's now a rather grown up nine year old, so we opened up farm shop! But this new story is a farm shop with a great deal of anticipationdifference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. It remains close to the traditional Nutcracker storyThere are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and there is a wonderful feel of Christmas throughouteven some mice. I'm sure you can read it quite happily all year round (I know we will!) but it's particularly special in the run up to ChristmasExcited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408336413</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreview <!-- 15/12 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Graham Jones and Neil Parkinson0995647895|title=Time Travelling Toby Sadie and the Battle of BritainSea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Toby lives in an unremarkable village and goes to an unremarkable school - just like ''millions'' of other boys - but he has a secret. We're told itSadie's ''humongous'' and I think mother always said that's rightshe was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. You see, Toby has (wait for it...) two brother, a Mum She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and a Dad, a Nanma, two dogs, three fish and two rabbits as well as..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,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a time machine glass case (it's the one where Nelson's 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 looks just like she could never have imagined in a sports carworld of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992636507</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jean-Yves Ferri1782227741|title= Asterix Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)Sasha Satha|rating= 54|genre= For Sharing|summary=Asterix is those rarest of book series; one designed for kids which One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is actually even funnier when you are an adultswirling. I used Poor Ted starts to love Asterix as spin around and around and is sucked down a childdrain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, but now that I reread them I canTed starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE't help but wonder why, because they are so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was younger. I laughed loud he cries and hard to myself twice within alerts the attention of Reg the first two pages sewer rat, who plucks him out of Asterix and the Missing Scrolldirty water using his cane, so I'd definitely say that this was which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a hitnice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510100458</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Petr HoracekB08R7LXQ9S|title= Blue Penguin|rating= 3|genre= For Sharing|summary= Blue Penguin is Remy: A book 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>}}{{newreviewbelieving in yourself|author=Steve Antony|title=Green Lizards vs Red RectanglesMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=34
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|summary=Young children Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have inquisitive minds been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they do are not view stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the world in other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the same way we doinstigator. Trying And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain abstract concepts to them is almost impossible as they like to know exactly why something does what it doeshappened. Why is the Sky blue? Where do babies come from? Why do people fight wars? Many a parent has tried and failed to tackle these troublesome questions, so perhaps a book can help? Or perhaps, you are best off leaving the answer alone for a few years so that they are more mature?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444920103</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lauren Child1471191303|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, 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>}}{{newreviewThe Invisible|author=Jane Hissey|title=Old Bear's Bedtime StoriesTom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=I'm not sure you ever grow out This is the story of Old Bear storiesIsobel, a little girl who made a big difference. I just curled up Isobel lived with her parents in a blanket house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to read this latest collection put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of stories, the bedpost.'' 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 Ithey couldn'd finished my nine year old daughter sneaked over t afford the rent for the house and took they had to move to the book upstairs to read it by herself! far side of the city. Here we have twenty one stories and poemsThis part of the city was cold, all fairly short so useful when you need a quick bedtime! All your old favourites are here - Bramwell Bear sad and Duck lonely and Little Bear, just waiting for you to snuggle up and read about their latest adventuresIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910706159</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen Owen Nick Jones and Evgenia GolubevaSi Clark|title=As Quiet as a MouseOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary=There are a whole host of things that Elephants are excellent at; they reportedly never forget Many children have an obsession and they can hold loads of water Sandy Lane, who lives in their trunkBeartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. One thing they are not known for Her favourite toy is being quietBerisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. HoweverEvery night, their erstwhile natural enemyshe looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, the mouse is – hence someone is as quiet as a mousecolourful painted bear that lives at her school. Can these two great animal tribes put aside their differences so that you can teach a nelly to tread carefully?She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848861729</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]