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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr SeussAdam Stower|title=Horton 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 Kwuggerbug 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 he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and More Lost StoriesIndre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=Going back When we first meet Birpus and revisiting characters once an author has died is not always the best idea, too often the result smacks of a cash Bulbus they're running for their lives in that does not have any of the charm Forest of the originalFine Repute. However, revisiting lesser works by Their greatest fear has come about: the author Sour Milk Dragon is a different thingchasing them. If a fan has all the writerHe's booksright behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, but never managed to get their hands on their obscure short stories or tales written they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for magazinesthem, a new collection may just workthey escaped. Even for as eccentric an author as Dr SeussThey climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008131279</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hendra and Paul LinnetB0CC9W7GLR|title=Supertato Veggies Assemble|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= In On the fight of good versus evil many superheroes stand out. Batman. Spiderman. And now, straight from the aisles of the supermarket, we have Supertato. He's a cape wearing, belt toting spud. Variety unknown. What I do know is that he's a huge hit in my toddler's nursery class and he's back for another battle against his arch enemy the evil pea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121003</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeach: The Winter Visitor|author=Will Mabbitt Chris Green and Fred Blunt|title=This Is Not A Bedtime StoryJenny Fionda|rating=35

|summary=Anyone who has read the same story over Kit and over again Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to their child will have felt 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 crushing feeling shoreline. On top of mundanitythe ice was a polar bear. It's very tempting to hide that blandAs the ice bumped onto the sand, but popular, book the bear woke and explain to your child that it must be lostwith wobbly legs moved from the ice. The adult may feel like thisKit was all for making a run for it, but once a child gets a little older, they too may feel Teal knew that the samebear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. Why not interject He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a little more action into a tired story good meal and make it anewsomewhere to sleep. What else would you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014135738X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Knapman and Laura Hughes1913839656|title=Goodnight TigerLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary=It Todd was excited about spending the middle of the nightweekend with his grandmother, but Emily could ''not'' sleep for least because she made the noisebest beetle juice. There was bellowing He packed two pairs of dungarees and stomping his favourite hat and growling and trumpetingthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Brave girl that she was, she got out of bed and looked out of the window, thinking that the animals She had escaped from promised to take him to the zoo, but Friday Night Club at the street local community centre and Todd was emptypleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. Then she checked all the usual hiding places as well as her toy box - At home, his only friend was his mum and suddenly realised he wondered why that the noises were coming from the animals in her wallpapercould be. Emily's not just brave - she's resourceful too and she set about settling the jungle down for the night. And one solution turns out to work just perfectly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691866</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michelle Robinson and Emily Fox|title= Elephant's Pyjamas|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= I've read a lot of stories recently about animals who don't have many friends, at least at the beginning of their tale. For this age group Grandma thought that it's pretty much a given that by the last page they'll have lots of lovely companions with whom to spend their days. Elephant is not one of those unlucky souls, though. He has TONS of friends and might be because he's just been invited to a party with all of them. Lucky thinglooked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007580037</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fabi Santiago1529504775|title= Tiger in a TutuThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summaryauthor=Everyone should have the chance to dance, non? Especially in such a wonderful city as Paris, bursting as it is with artists and appreciators of the arts. It is with a sad heart, then, that I must tell you about Max. Every day, he goes to ballet school, and every day he is turned away. Not only is he lacking the requisite attire, but he's a boy, Amy Sparkes and a tiger. And apparently that is not allowed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833688X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alex T Smith|title=Claude Going for Gold!Katie Hickey

|summary=I've been a fan of Claude from Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the beginningred buses drive past. He charmed me from Elsie would race the buses along the side of the start, park but David couldn't - he'd been born with his plump tummy, little legs, red jumper cerebral palsy and rather fetching bereteven just standing up was very difficult. I can't One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help but love a dog who wears a beret! David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. He also has a charming best friendGradually, Sir BobblysockDavid learned to stand up, (who is indeed a woolly sock) who always makes me laughuse the bus for support, and walk behind it. In this particular book they are off on another hunt for an adventureMany decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and although it seems for a while that there is simply no fun rusted, to be had outside of the house they finally fallRepair Shop, literally, into a Very Exciting Sports Competition!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926489</amazonuk>hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Docherty and Mark Beech1529504767|title=Do You Remember?The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=We have various picture books Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in our house that 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have a tendency worried though as she went to leave me a little blurry eyedthe home of Mr and Mrs Russell, whilst my children remain entirely nonplussed! 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 the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. Aimed at sparking some parental emotionThe best surprise happened the following morning.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, the stories behind them are often there's something they all dread - a little lackingsqueakily baby. This book He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, howeverhe just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, works for both children hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and grown upsyou have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, in la lay...'' And for a really lovely waymoment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Beginning with Then a small childseagull 's cry of ''I canshouts't do it!'' the mum in the story reminisces about all the many different (and funny) things that her child has learned we know exactly what's going to do over the years, encouraging her that she has always got there in the endhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571321143</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pippa Goodhart and Sam Usher140639131X|title=What Will Danny Do Today?A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Every day we face a multitude Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of choices, from what to wear and what to eat to what nearly getting squished as she tried to do when we get home in cross the eveningOld Oak Road. This book is all She wrote to the mayor about making decisions, the problem but in didn't even get a very simple reply. Philippa wasn't a 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 school crossing and fun way decided that encourages discussion with your toddlershe would set up something similar herself. The character we are deciding for is Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little boy called Danny, amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and we follow him through the course of one day, thinking about what he will decide on each pageHedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405275103</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stella J Jones and Alison Edgson1776574338|title= The Very Grumpy Day|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Happiness is contagious, but did you ever consider that grumpiness might be too? If you look at Bear, itLeilong's quite plain to see. He's not having a good day, and when he takes it out on Mole, it spreads quickly through the forest, with Hedgehog and Fox and the squirrels and the owls all getting a taste. What a horrible, grumpy day for everyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869203X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewToo Long!|author= Eric Carle|title= Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Babies have mothers, mothers who may well be reading these books with them. And their mothers have mothers, or they used to at any rate. But what about other animals. Does a kangaroo have a mother? How about lions Julia Liu and dolphins?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007106165</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Bethan Woolvin|title= Little RedBei Lynn|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= We all know the story of Little Red Riding Hood, yes? Like many fairy tales, it's a little dark, so when you hear of a version that reimagines the story, your mind starts to wonder how they may have done this. Maybe a happy ending? That would be nice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447291395</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mara Alperin and Sue Eastland|title=The Ugly Duckling|rating=3.5

|summary=There are certain fairy tales that you Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to know as a child, not only because go downstairs – they are fun stories themselvessimply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, but because they inform other stories too. isn't it? How are you What could be a more fun way of going to know what school? There is happening a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in future books when they play off the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a classic; unless you know the classic? tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. Therefore, before embarking on Meta novels The school decides that reimagine old stories, get he can't be the basics down pat firstbus anymore. How about the story of an unfortunate duckling who was incredibly ugly?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848690371</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H Shepard1776574028|title=Eeyore Loses a Tail (Winnie the Pooh Classics)|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Eeyore, the Old Grey Donkey stood in the thistly corner of the forest and thought about things. He was quite a philosopher in his own way, but his most profound thought occured when Winnie-the-Pooh came along and enquired as to how he was. ''Not very how'', he said. ''I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281359</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Dan Santat|title=The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary FriendDavid Elliott|rating=3.54

|summary=A childI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's imagination for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can be ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a powerful tool, so their imaginary friend could be absolutely anythingtutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. How The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a giant panda or an octopus that likes to build sandcastles? ''sm.......'' But what of those forgotten creatures; if an imaginary friend sits in the dark and no one thinks about themOK, do they exist? let's not go there An audacious animal may just buck up the courage to stop waiting around for someone to imagine them and instead seek out their friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443847</amazonuk>Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Byrne1838226834|title=We're in Carried Away With the Wrong Book!Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=34

|summary=Rarely do you read a book written for adults that breaks the fourth wall, but not a month goes past that I donIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They't stumble across a children's book that has characters talking re there to undo all the readergood that parents do, or jumping from book to bookso the trips out were always so much fun. Done well, the idea of leaping from genre A young boy was going to genre within the refines of the same text is a great way of introducing youngsters to different types carnival with his Grandad, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of reading materialmy hand. Done averagely and it feels more like an author ticking off that pesky fourth wall breaking book for their resume. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192743171</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Airlie AndersonB09MYXSRV4|title=CatOtter's ColoursCoat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith

|summary=Great Britain can feel like When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a grey country sometimes, especially on protector. Water Spider received a cold winterstrong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and''s day when the fog is thick in the airfuture. You can barely see your own hand in front of youRabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, never mind not the fertile landscapeability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. Bringing a little colour into a grey world is like bringing a little joy He was also jealous which was how he came to be in, so perhaps you can find a little happiness following Cat as she looks for some colour? race with Turtle. You may even discover might think that's not a wonderful surprise at the end of the adventurefair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846437601</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel Bright and Jim FieldRob Keeley|title= The Lion InsideCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 54|genre= For Sharing|summary= Books about scary beasts that Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn out up their noses, Lily is keen to be not so scary explain how good they are immensely popular, for you and I blame Disney for how much of a hit this one is sure nice to beeat. The reason is sitting quietly One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on top of a rock trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on page fivetrees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. WhyJordan says, hello Mr Lion"I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408331608</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth LucasB09FFJF8YS|title=Peekaboo 1 2 3You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik

|summary=We're waiting for 'For the big, grownup girls out there, the start potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of the Animal Antics race toilet triumph and everyone (well persevering panty pride.''nearly  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl'' everyone, but more of that later) is wondering who is going s final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to win. At the moment is looks "proper" pants by following her around as though the lineup is a crab she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and two mice, but more - her baby sibling that ''lotsshe'' more can wear super- entrants are hidden behind duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the flapsbirds. Lift the first flap and thereBoy's certainly can'One polar bear on a pogo stick't. Under the second we have She'two turkeys on s a tandem'. At number three there are 'three gorillas in a gondola'. You're probably getting the idea by big girl now! The crab and the mice are still running, but they're not going she wants everyone to have a chance as we move through the numbers individually up to twenty and then in tens up to fifty, and then a giant leap to a hundred - with the way the entrants are travelling getting more and more outrageous by the minute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692293</amazonuk>know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=BarrouxJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Where's the Starfish?Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=There's a whaleToots, trumps, farts. A large whale. And there's Whatever your word for them, find us a lot of fish. A child that doesn''lot'' of fisht find them irresistibly funny. They're there in every shape Funny to talk about and size joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you can imagine and in amongst them are let one go at the Starfishwrong time. In class, the Jellyfish say, when everyone will hear it and the Clownfisheveryone will laugh. On the first page it's actually quite difficult to find those three in amongst all the others, but if you persist At you will find them. It will still be quite difficult on the following page, but thereJustine Avery's a little something creeping latest entry in thather ''Everybody Potties!'s not quite so pleasant. There's an empty plastic bottle series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and an old tin can. Actuallycalmly, with the fish are quite interestedfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. ItEverybody does it: ''Everybody Toots's a little easier to spot our three fish on the next page, because there isn't quite so much space. The rubbish has grown, you see.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280085</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily GravettB09BG8V3Q6|title=TidyWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5

|summary=Pete the badger likes ''tidyWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!''. He does it very well. Well, perhaps it's a little bit is the latest release in the ''tooEverybody Potties!'' wellseries from Justine Avery. He's not content with checking all the flowers in the woodland and removing any which didn't quite match, he insists on brushing fox This series of fun picture books aims to remove all take the brambles pain out of potty training children and burrsreplace it with some fun. IIt'm not certain that using a hedgehog to do this is really s a good ideaworthy aim, but Pete seems to find it effectiveas any frustrated parent will tell you. All the birds have to be bathed, and their beaks clean and even the rocks are scoured and scrubbed. Leaves are a major problem: just think about all that sweeping up and all the bin bags of leaves which have to be stored. There is an obvious solution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273982</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sophy HennB07GZ81J7C|title= Pass It OnWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton

|genre= For Sharing|summary= A small girl wakes up one morningMeet Fred. Well, yawns in the morning sun and then bounces through the day finding joy in everyday situations and encouraging those around her actually, you're going to enjoy them be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all tooobvious very quickly. Even on gloomy grey days she has the happy knack But I'm getting ahead of finding something to smile myself: I'd better tell you a bit more aboutFred. This Fred is most definitely a ''glass half full'' little personsnake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. By He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to the end of book extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the reader probably will be too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723299862</amazonuk>problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Roger HargreavesJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title= Mr Men Adventure with DinosaursEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating= 54|genre= For Sharing|summary= The Mr Men and Little Misses are branching outCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. No longer content with simple stories focussing on just one characterBut really, theywhy shouldn're getting together with their friends for bigger and bolder adventures. Of course t it would be Little Miss Curious who, in a curious way, finds the footprint ? We all have to begin with. She turns learn about our bodily functions just as we have to Mr Clever to find out what it is and, being clever, he tells her immediately: it belongs to a dinosaurlearn about everything else when we are small. How exciting! The pairWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, along with some friendssay, set out to find learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the dinos.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405283033</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne Justine Avery and E H ShepardNaday Meldova|title=Now We Are SixNo, No, No!|rating=54|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=We can see They say the best picture books are the signs in [[The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne and E H Shepard|The House at Pooh Corner]] that Christopher Robin simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!'' is growing up and now he has school work to dobased around the simplest text imaginable. But he ''s a lucky little boy as he has Winnie the Pooh to help himNo, no, no! Okay, okay. Or is he luckyYes, given that Winnie is also known as you may.'' That's it! But, like all the Bear best picture books, this tiny snippet of very little brain'? Actually, Pooh has text is a message for us in veritable tardis - so much bigger on the introduction: he says inside that he walked through the book one day, looking for his friend Piglet, and sat down it appears on some of the pages by mistake. He hopes that we won't mindoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280867</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Chris Chatterton 194812467X|title=Supermarket GremlinsThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic

|summary=Have you ever wandered down Kirelle and her best friend Sam the aisle at your local Super Marché cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and found some frozen peas Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the bread sectiontop of the hill, or they see a lonely carrot hanging out big barn with the cereala sign outside. What can be the cause of It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the mistakesstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, spills goats and wobbly wheels that plague every superstore known to manchickens, women and child? Incompetent staff even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and lazy customers dumping stock? Nope, these problems are all caused by the sneaky Gremlins who lurk in every shopSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277130</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=A A Milne Sadie and E H Shepardthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=The House at Pooh CornerMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5

|summary=The title of Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the book comes from the first story, in which Winnie River Thames at Greenwich and Piglet build a house she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Pooh corner for Eeyore, but perhaps Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the most famous story houses cowered in this second book is at chapter sixthe gloom, when ''<br>''To the game of Pooh Sticks is inventedMaritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. We also meet Tigger for She'd love to sail the first time oceans on an ancient sailing ship and as with went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the first book [[Winnie-one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the-Pooh by A A Milne closing bell and E H Shepard|Winnie-the-Pooh]] each chapter is a short story attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in its own right, except for chapters eight and nine which the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a degree world of continuity as Owl's house is blown down in chapter eight dolphins, pirates, mermaids and a new one is found for him at the Wolery in chapter ninetreasure. It's still not overly long even if you end up reading both as a bedtime story!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280840</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Surya Sajnani1782227741|title= Pets A Slide Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Play BookSasha Satha|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''PetsOH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is two in one, a book kind soul and a game, he dries Ted off and for little ones who can't or won't sit still long enough for warms him up with a full story, it's a great way to introduce books while keeping it funnice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609929152</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jo EmpsonB08R7LXQ9S|title= Little Home Bird|rating=5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Little bird loves everything Remy: A book about his home. All his favourite things are there or very nearby; his favourite branch, his favourite view and his favourite music too. All is happy in his little world until autumn draws near and his older brother tells him that they do in fact have two homes and the time has come to travel far to the south to move to their second home. Little bird is saddened by this news and knows that he will miss all his special, favourite things. Then little bird has a good idea! He will take his favourite things with him and then wherever he goes it will always feel like home. So we accompany little bird on his long journey and discover how he finds happiness in his new home believing in ways he had not expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184643890X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewyourself|author=Katie Blackburn and Richard Smythe|title=Dozy Bear Mayuri Naidoo and the Secret of SleepCaroline Siegal|rating=4.5

|summary=ThereRemy is feeling miserable. He's nothing worse than sleep deprivationlet himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, I remember when my daughter was just a few months old together with his sidekicks Ryan and I was getting up with her four or five times a night I would sometimes find myself shopping in Tesco with absolutely no recollection of how I got there (or quite what I was shopping for). SadlyBrandon, this won't help with those squawky newbornshave been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but once your they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little one gets a bit older this is certainly worth a tryfurther when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, especially if your bedtime routine tends to resemble feeding time it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the zoo!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571330193</amazonuk>teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith Kerr1471191303|title=Mog and the Baby and Other StoriesThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=I've never been This is the story of Isobel, a fan of cats. I'm more of little girl who made a dog personbig difference. Mog, however, has weaseled Isobel lived with her way into my heart, and although I certainly wouldn't want her as parents in a house - a pet in my very cold house, we love reading because her stories. This collection of parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Mog Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the Babycorner of the bedpost.'',  The family didn''Mog's Bad Thing'', t go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn''Mog on Fox Night'' is perfect t afford the rent for a nice afternoon bumper storytime together with your little onethe house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, or you can just read them one by one over three nightssad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008157995</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heather Pindar Nick Jones and Susan BatoriSi Clark|title=Strictly No CrocsOne Night in Beartown

|summary=You can’t go wrong with a good crocodile story. Not that these crocodiles are good, oh noMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, after being banned from attending Zebra’s party they have grand plans to sneak who lives in and eat everyone there! Once they are secretly dressed up as a leopardBeartown, a parrot and a bee (!) their plans don’t go quite as they’d wished…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861877</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=E T Harper and Dan Taylor|title=Dylan's Amazing Dinosaurs - The Triceratops|rating= 3is obsessed with bears.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Imagination is one thing; what wonderful adventures you could have should you be able to travel to the distant past and walk amongst the dinosaursShe collects books about bears. Reality Her favourite toy is different; running around in bone shaking terror as various man-eating dinos crave your flesh. This has not stopped Dylan embarking on another amazing adventure – will he survive a velociraptor attack and why does he keep doing back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119408</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Roger Hargreaves|title= My First Mr Men 123|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= As first books goBerisford, board books are good because they withstand a bit of biting, a bit of dribbling, a bit of roughness induced teddy bear passed down by not quite there yet hand-eye coordinationher grandmother. And as topics goEvery night, counting is great when you're trying she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to teach the skill and just need repetitionbear statue outside. Plus it doesn't require the focus of attention Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that a proper story might. So a board book for counting? Perfectlives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281731</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]