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[[imageCategory:lumplump.jpgNew Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|centertitle=Murray and Bun|linkrating=https://books4.google.com/books?id5|genre=dDc9DQAAQBAJ&printsecConfident Readers |summary=frontcover&dq=lump+lump+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+blanket+catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of+dreams&hlfrightening 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=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz47visd3QAhVT_WMKHQ8CA8UQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=lump%20lump%20and%20the%20blanket%20of%20dreams&f=false]]0008561249<hr/>[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Morag Hood1732898766|title=When Grandad was a PenguinThe 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=When a little girl goes to stay with her Grandad, she is worried that all is not well. Grandad doesnwe first meet Birpus and Bulbus they't seem quite re running for their lives in the same, somehow, and he is talking about fish a lot, none Forest of his clothes fit, and he is spending a lot more time in the bathroomFine Repute. Thankfully, one day Their greatest fear has come about: the zoo phones up, having discovered a bit of a problem there that might explain what Sour Milk Dragon is going on with Grandad!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509814019</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lane Smith|title=A Perfect Day|rating=3chasing them.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=It He's a lovely sunny dayright behind them, and looks as if it may just turn out to be a perfect dayspewing hot, since there is a sunny spot for cat in the flowers, and a paddling pool for dog to cool off in, and bird food in the bird feeder, and a corn cob for squirrelsour milk from his nostrils. But, what(Please don's t try this? at home: it won't end well.) Here comes bearFortunately, lumbering into the garden to eat the corn cob, splash in the water they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and squash all the flowers!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509840559</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb|title=The Everywhere Bear|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The Everywhere Bear is an important member of Class One. He enjoys when a wide range ladder of activities with the children in his class, such as bus rides moss and burgersvines was lowered for them, football and musicthey escaped. One day, when it's the new boy, Matt's, turn They climbed up to bring the Everywhere Bear back to school Matt sees a cat on Tree Wee homes high up in the way to schooltangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and he bends over to give it a cuddle. Poor old Bear falls out of Matt's bag and into a puddleGranny Cranny. This is the start of the Bear's most exciting (and terrifying!) adventure yet!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447280733</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William BeeB0CC9W7GLR|title=William Bee's Wonderful World of Trucks On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary= Children will Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be who they areat home, no matter how you try to change thembored but warm, they know what they likeor frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. You may want to steer one child away from a world On top of pink and the other from ice was a world of bluepolar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, but turn your back for a moment the bear woke and there they are; one playing with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a dollrun for it, but Teal knew that the other a trainbear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. There is nothing wrong with He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a girl liking traditional girl things good meal and a boy liking traditional boy things, as long as they are given the opportunity somewhere to pick what they wantsleep. Some books What else would you would assume are for one or the other, but actually transcend; these books are simply cool in their own right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653257</amazonuk>do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michelle Robinson and Emily Fox1913839656|title=MonkeyLet's SandwichCelebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=Monkeys have been given Todd was excited about spending the reputation of being cheekyweekend with his grandmother, but do you also see them as petty thieves? How can these cheerful chimps be seen as anything other than cute, but mischievous little monkeys? Anyone who has driven through Knowsley Safari Park knows not least because she made the truthbest beetle juice. A perfectly good car drives in the monkey enclosure only to be bereft He packed two pairs of wing mirrors, hubcaps dungarees and his favourite hat and windscreen wipers then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the endlocal community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. Rumour has it At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that the monkeys sell these parts wholesale at a lockup in South Kirbycould be. The monkey in this tale may not Grandma thought that it might be stealing car parts, but because he is a little light fingered when it comes to making the ultimate lunchlooked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007580010</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Stickland1529504775|title=Ten Terrible Dinosaurs|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Some things are easier to count than others. How many pens are there on the desk is simple enough. A little trickier is the number of cars on the road, but stand back and you can see them. The fact is that the bigger something is, the further you will need to be from it to count more than one. What would happen though if you were counting something that was not only big, but moving and also prone to eating you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509835520</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Nina Laden|title=The Night I Followed the DogAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=There's a Boy (who doesn't have a name) Elsie and a Dog (likewise) her little brother David loved to go to the park and in watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the beginning you get buses along the feeling that side of the Boy would prefer to have next doorpark but David couldn't - he's Dog who wins prizes in obedience classes d been born with cerebral palsy and does clever things with the television remote controleven just standing up was very difficult. That is until one morning when Boy opens One day Elsie spotted a bus in the door a little earlier than usual toy shop window which would help David - and spots Dog getting out of a limousinewas happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. In a tuxedo. The he disappears into Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the back gardenbus for support, and walk behind it. Boy's shocked but a few minutes Many decades later he goes to , Elsie brought the back door bus, now damaged and whistles for Dogrusted, who comes dashing in, anxious to eat. At first Boy can't ''quite'' believe what he ''thinks'' he sawthe Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so he determines to follow Dog the next nightthat her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452161348</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ted Dewan1529504767|title=Something for Mummy The Christmas Doll (BingThe Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=3.5
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|summary=Having a child gives you a glimpse into a world that you never knew even existedSusan 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. Unfortunately, this not a winter wonderland hidden in a wardrobe, but a world of childrenShe needn's TV characters. The mainstays t have worried though as she went to the home of the genre have still survived; Sooty, Noddy Mr and Postman PatMrs Russell, but who is RaRa or Mr Tumble? couldn't have been kinder to her. One popular show that takes some getting used She even had her own room - all to is Bing, a series all about a rabbit that seems herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to have a stuffed animal as a carerenjoy her life. There are seemingly no parents in She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the show as if Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the town is one giant crèche, so how come Bing and his helper Flop are making a gift for Mummy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008212015</amazonuk>following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsola1916459943|title=My First Animals Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=Get used to two simple words if you have a childMuch as mothers love their babies, there''Whats something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's That?so tired but he can't - or won' You will hear it over t - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and over and over again''wails''. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, hat, my sense of regretThe sea offers to help. Sometimes they will point at something that is not too familiarIt rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Here the parental practise Think of making something up comes into play – it's gentle wavelets falling onto a bird type thingsandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. Books that show images of itemsThe mermaids join in - ''la lou, colours or animals may seem la lay...'' And for a little dull to an adult, but moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a toddler learning about the world they are a whoseagull '''shouts'''s who of and we know exactly what's thatgoing to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Quentin Blake140639131X|title= The Story of the Dancing Frog|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly |summary= When Jo's Great Aunt Gertrude's sea captain husband is drowned at sea she is grief-stricken and, in despair, she goes A Practical Present for a walk alone. During this walk she notices a small frog on a lily-pad. But he is no ordinary frog - he's a dancing frog and the two quickly become good friends. Soon the duo are touring the world with their routine, spreading joy and fun - and carrying out the occasional rescue - wherever they go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125910</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPhilippa Pheasant|author=Jonny Lambert|title=Tiger Tiger Briony May Smith
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|summary=Until you spend a day hanging out with a child you will never know how exhausting it can bePhilippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. As an adult you are used She wrote to peppering your day with little downtime treats; a cup of tea perhaps, a biscuits, or maybe the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a cheeky nap? reply. The kids I know have no end of energy and at best you will get Philippa wasn't a sip of cold coffee, have bird to give them most sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the biscuit lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a nap would consist of them jumping on your headlittle amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. However, although their enthusiasm All the animals used the crossing and zest may be tiring, it is also infectious, just ask any old tiger you meetHedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869444X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1776574338|title=Baby Dinosaurs (Follow the Trail)Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary= If you ever have Every morning Leilong, the misfortune to stumble across some brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as yet undiscovered dinosaur I offer this piece he goes. Children who live at the top of advice; tower blocks don't take your finger even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and track their spineslide down his neck. It's perfect, donisn't put it in their mouth and don't go following them ? What could be a more fun way of going to their parent. school? InsteadThere is a problem, runthough. Run faster than you have ever run before Leilong isn't happy in the opposite direction. The unfortunate thing is that anyone with a toddler knows, they love city: he's always having to grab be careful about where he puts his feet and poke anything – including terrible lizards if they got the chance. Better play safe because he's longer than sorry and just get them a book that allows them tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariouslyand traffic regularly gets snarled up. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jana Novotny Hunter and Paula Bowles1776574028|title=My Tail's Not Tired!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=Little Monster I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is supposed to be going to bedaimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but how has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can he, when his knees are still bouncy ''play'' with words and his arms still need to fly make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and his bottom becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has lots of jiggling had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and wiggling left to do?then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it! ) As Big Monster groans and sighsThe pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'' OK, Little Monsterlet's energy seems to have no end. not go there But will Little Monster finally wear himself out and end up in bed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846439868</amazonuk>Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Silvia Borando1838226834|title=The Hamster BookCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4.5
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|summary=Look! You finally have your very own pet, a sweet little hamsterIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. You can give her a nameThey're there to undo all the good that parents do, smooth down her fur, watch her do tricks and give her some foodso the trips out were always so much fun. It’s not all fun and games A young boy was going to the carnival with your new hamster however! Of coursehis Grandad, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, every responsible pet owner knows that they need to clean up after their petjust remember, if there are any little accidents.don't let go of my hand..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406367729</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg McLarenB09MYXSRV4|title=Pigeon P.I.|rating=3|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Otter's Coat: The world of birds is in a flap. They're being nabbed – plucked from the air (or at least from their cages). Murray MacMurray, the brilliant pigeon private eye, doesn't want anything to do with crime now his old partner has flown the roost, but an eager Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and bright young thing might just about persuade him to take up the case. But both will have to be plucky to survive the dangers it leads to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444835</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHare|author=Eric Veille|title=My Pictures after the StormCordellya Smith
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|summary= One of When the staples of baby books are those world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that look at oppositeshe could see the present ''and'' the future. This elephant is bigRabbit developed intelligence - but, whilst this mouse is smallunfortunately, not the ability to use it well. They help children He liked to understand the world around them, but can trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a little dullrace with Turtle. What about You might think that's not a more interesting book about cause and effect that looks at what happens before fair contest but wait and after an eventsee. You could start off gently by seeing what happens to items after a storm, but if you Things are Eric Veillé not always as they seem. I'll tell you can soon spiral into a madcap world of elephant stampedes and babies being bornhow it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571045</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kristyna LittenRob Keeley|title=Norton and AlphaCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=We Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are used for you and how nice to the world around us and every eat. One day take amazing things for granted; a sunset, or poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that cold bite in carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the air teacher, who explains that makes you want to go fruits grow on trees and walk vegetables, like carrots, grow in the dogground. To a robotJordan says, "I did try to tell her, our world would look pretty strange as everything would be newMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily. What would you think the first time that you happened upon a flower?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471145778</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca ElliottB09FFJF8YS|title=Dalmation on a DiggerYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=43.5
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|summary=What's all that noise just outside 'For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the bedroom window?big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''
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|summary=Bathing a child normally goes one of two ways; they love itToots, trumps, or they hate itfarts. Very rarely will you Whatever your word for them, find us a child that sits in the bath with a nonplussed expression on their face, suffering the ridicules of hygiene with an air of indifferent sanguinedoesn't find them irresistibly funny. You are much more likely Funny to have a child that splashes water everywhere in the hopes of finding talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one gap in go at the groutingwrong time. In class, or a child that say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will arch their entire body laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the hope familiar humour attached, explains that doing so will prevent them touching anything wet. A book that teaches a toddler how bathtime tooting is meant to be may just help your nightly routine, but also greatly entertain everyoneperfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776571371</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Duncan BeedieB09BG8V3Q6|title=The Lumberjack's BeardWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Jim Hickory ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is a Lumberjack the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of routine. Every morning, after he gets up, he does his limbering up exercises (very important for a lumberjack!), then he eats his breakfast fun picture books aims to take the pain out of pancakes potty training children and replace it with maple syrup, before finally getting his trusty axe and heading out into the forestsome fun. One day, however, this routine becomes interrupted when he hears someone peck-pecking at his door, only to discover itIt's a small owl who has been made homeless by Jim's tree fellingworthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. Jim allows the owl to set up home in his big bushy beard, without realising just quite what he is letting himself in for…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706880</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Michael Rosen When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Tony RossMended|titleauthor=Barking for BagelsPeter Cotton
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|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, you''Barking re going to be meeting Fred-Fred for Bagelsreasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I' d better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is the story a snake and even those of Schnipp the dog, us who loves her owners very much, though she does find their snickering have a little annoying from time phobia about snakes are going to timewarm to him. One dayHe arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, whilst to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk in . And that was where the park, she starts to run away, and she finds that once she starts running she canproblem started. Fred didn't stop, and she runs and she runs until she finds Bessie the Bagel lady and thus discovers her new favourite food, and her new homehave any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344505X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve AntonyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Thank You, Mr PandaEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Mr Panda is back! And this timeCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, rather than his box of doughnutsas any parent will tell you. But really, he has a large pile of presents for why shouldn't it be? We all of his friendshave to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Accompanied by his friendWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, the ring-tailed Limasay, he goes around giving out learning about why the presents, whilst Lima helpfully reminds everyone on sun and the receiving end that ''it's the thought that counts'' since it moon take turns out that Mr Panda is perhaps not in the best judge of gift giving!sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144492785X</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Greg Gormley Justine Avery and Steven LentonNaday Meldova|title=Fairytale Frankie and the Mermaid EscapadeNo, No, No!
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|summary=If you think about it enough it is amazing how many characters in fairytales They say the best picture books are thickthe simplest ones. How long would it take you to figure out that was not your NanAnd nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, but a wolf? OrBookbag favourite. ''No, how many people would decide to start eating a house that appears to be made out of gingerbreadNo, but No!'' is overseen by what looks like a crazy lady? Nopebased around the simplest text imaginable. ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, the only reason that fairytale characters make you may.'' That's it half ! But, like all the time best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is because a sensible and brave character saves veritable tardis - so much bigger on the day; an intelligent brick laying pig, or a feisty woodsman. Your average story dweller needs a guardian angel and this may just come in inside that it appears on the form of Fairytale Frankieoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408333872</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophy Henn194812467X|title=Edie|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Edie is a gorgeous little girl and with the sort of nature which we all hope that our children will have in abundance. She's just so ''helpful''. For instance, she's gets up extra early herself just so that she can make certain that everybody else in the house gets up in good time. The cymbals work well on her brother, but if not, dragging him out of bed usually achieves the desired result. As for her parents, playing her guitar and serenading them usually does the trick. She's an independent young lady and likes to dress herself. It's not ''exactly'' school uniform and her mother might well be wondering where some of her clothes have got to - but what's a girl to do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141365005</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFarm Shop|author= Roger Hargreaves|title= My Mummy|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= In ''My Mummy'' we learn of all the ways Mummy is wonderful. And, funnily enough, her positive attributes are quite a lot like those singular, nominal traits beheld by certain Little Misses. For example, she is happy like Little Miss Sunshine, she is curious about things like, erm, Little Miss Curious, and she enjoys her cakeDevon Avery, just like Little Miss Greedy. Ooops.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285508</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Wendy Meddour and Rebecca Ashdown|title=The Glump Justine Avery and the Peeble Ema Tepic|rating=34
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|summary=When does someone learn who they truly are? As Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a baby, you don't know what your feet are, so any sense of true self-discovery walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is going to at least wait until you are perfectly turned out of nappiesas ever in his smart grey fur coat. As a child you start they walk to see the worldtop of the hill, but most of us only they see our part in ita big barn with a sign outside. Enter your teenage years and twenties and you start to understand what role you play in life, but do you really know yourself? If you are lucky, very lucky, you may start to figure stuff out in your thirties and know who you are and what you want to do. Things may have happened It's a farm shop! But this is a little quicker if you had read more books as farm shop with a child difference: all about being whomever you want to bethe stallholders and customers are farmyard animals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807100</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=George Szirtes There are sheep and Tim Archbold|title=How to be a Tiger|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes ducks and Verse|summary=''Wet againcows, yet again! Down it dripsgoats and chickens, little fingertipsand even some mice. Excited, tapping Kirelle and snapping as if the rain were cross.''<br>''See the branches toss? See the puddles grow? Has it stopped raining?NOSam go shopping.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie Sandall 0995647895|title=Everybunny Dance |rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Children's book have a long history of the lion lying down with the lamb when most adults understand that the only thing that the lamb would be lying on is the lining of the lion's stomach. However, there is plenty of time to learn about what creature eats what creature Sadie and perhaps we should just allow children to imagine that bunnies like to dance the night away and perhaps even get along with a fox.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444919865</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSea Dogs|author=Carna Brooks|title=What are Aunties Made Of?Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=We all know what little boys and girls are made of, although I have to confess to having Sadie's mother always been just said that she was a little bit jealous of dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the puppy dog tails River Thames at Greenwich and quite willing she loves to pass on the sugar, spice, slugs and snailsspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. But what are ''aunties'' made of? Could it be:
''Smelly old cars and old milk jars?Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''Or fragrances of lavender and roses When all the houses cowered in our noses?the gloom,''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666424</amazonukbr>''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 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 she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carol Ann Duffy and Lydia Monks1782227741|title=Queen Munch Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Queen NibbleSasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=Queen Munch and Queen Nibble are two very different queensOne day, in two very different kingdoms. Queen Munch, as you might imagine from her name, really loves her foodGold Ted falls into a puddle. Her Saturdays begin with It'The Munching of s quite a deep puddle and the Breakfast' which water is a grand extravaganza that her people all come swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and watch involving is sucked down a grand setting, drain on the side of the Royal Musicians playing street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'Queen Munch Tune', dancing he cries and an important reader alerts the attention of Reg the menusewer rat, a delicious breakfast all finished off with a nice belch from who plucks him out of the Queen! Queen Nibbledirty water using his cane, then, is much the opposite of Queen Munchwhich might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. She Reg is tall a kind soul and he dries Ted off and ''as pale as warms him up with a stick nice bowl of celery''! She lives alone, barely eats, but she makes beautiful jewellry from raindropsbroth. One day, Queen Munch invites Queen Nibble over for a visit, and what will happen when these two extremely different rulers come together?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509829261</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim FieldB08R7LXQ9S|title=Rabbit and BearRemy: The Pest A book about believing in the Nestyourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Getting a new pet Remy is rife feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with things that you his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have to dobeen laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. Where will They are mean but they sleep? What will they eat? And, of course, what on Earth are you going not stupid. They are careful to call them? Giving a pet wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the right name other kids are around. So, when they are tiny can be an issue in itself – a cute fluffy dog can grow into a massive hound called FluffyRemy reacts, or you could call your male cat Claireit looks as though he was the instigator. Perhaps it would help if And then he gets into trouble at school and the animal itself could tell you teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what name they want?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124134</amazonuk>happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ariane Hofmann-Maniyar 1471191303|title=That's Not How You Do It! The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=45
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|summary=Lucy This is the cat knows how to do everythingstory of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Yes, she is one of those dreadful knowIsobel lived with her parents in a house -it-alls who can build a towervery cold house, play because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the xylophone, eat with a knife window and forkcrept up the corner of the bedpost...you name it, she can do it! Everyone knows that she's the best at all of these things, so she's The family didn't go to the one cinema or on holidays but they go to if had each other and they need helpwere happy. One Then the day, however, therecame when they couldn's a new panda in town, Toshi, t afford the rent for the house and Lucy watches him and sees that he doesn't know how they had to move to do anything right at all! the far side of the city. His music is strangeThis part of the city was cold, sad and he eats differently to everyone else, lonely and he can't make paper stars, only some weird-looking bird! Lucy finds this more and more frustrating until she suddenly can't contain herself any longer and she tells Toshi that he's doing everything wrong…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846439280</amazonuk>Isobel felt invisible.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca Lisle Nick Jones and Richard WatsonSi Clark|title=Stone UnderpantsOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Poor Pod has Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a chilly bottom! His leafy clothing is just not cutting itteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and he needs says goodnight to find an alternativethe bear statue outside. But what can he use Every morning she says hello to make himself some pants? This is Bee Bear, a madcap story colourful painted bear that will see Pod wearing everything from stone pants to feather pants, to lives at her school. She even, in desperation I suspect, some pants made from spider's webshas bears on her bedroom wallpaper! Will he ever manage to find something suitable to make his pants from?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848862210</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]