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|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary= Do you know Murray is supposed to be a child humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who loves is able to dress up? Well this is sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the perfect picture book for that childtwo. Quite probably But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the perfect picture book for catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the parent regular back garden, but into a world of that child toofrightening 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783704519</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barney Saltzberg1732898766|title=Chengdu Could Not, Would NotThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Fall AsleepMichael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=The list When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of entertaining things Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about toddlers does not include any of : the following; throwing food against your recently painted wallsSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, nappy depositsspewing hot, or deciding to stay up way past their bedtimesour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. ) There are few things more unsettling to a parent than a toddler used to their routine suddenly deciding to stay up way past their bedtime; they screamFortunately, they procrastinatewere nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they blub and then finally collapse (and that is just Mum and Dad)escaped. The reason that so many children's books are about settling down and going They climbed up to bed is to avoid the staying Tree Wee homes high up eventualityin the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, so will a book about an insomniac panda work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484775651</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer ColemanB0CC9W7GLR|title=Hidden WorldOn the Beach: ForestThe Winter Visitor|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summaryauthor=Sometimes, less is more. But a wood doesn't understand that, does it – it just stretches on and on, expanding outwards and outwards, and upwards Chris Green and upwards – it's quite a galling thing for a young person to understand. This book reverts to the very basic detail that will let the very young student get a grip on the life in the forest, whether they can actually see it for the trees in real life or not…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Carles Ballasteros|title=Nee Nah! Nee Nah! To the Rescue: Press the tabs, hear the sounds (Sound of the City)Jenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=The cover of this book might tell you all that you need Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to know if you're buying a book for a boy who loves noisy vehiclesbe at home, bored but if you dismiss it warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on those grounds you might be making a mistakesnowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. Let me tell you On top of the ice was a bit about itpolar bear. It's a substantially-built board book As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with suitably rounded corners for when it's used as a missile and it has tabs which take you to wobbly legs moved from the pages for the vehicles we're going to be looking atice. There's Kit was all for making a helicopterrun for it, a police car, a fire engine but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and an ambulancethen another. For a lot of books for He obviously needed to be taken home on the youngest children that would be it - bus and given a lot of children would enjoy looking at the picturesgood meal and somewhere to sleep. But - there's more...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937428</amazonuk>What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Craig Shuttlewood1913839656|title=Town and Country (Turnaround Book)Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=I know I should have been working but I've just spent Todd was excited about spending the last hour pouring over ''Town and Country''weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. On the face He packed two pairs of it there's a very simple idea here: on each double-page spread you get examples of what happens in towns dungarees and his favourite hat and what happens in the countryside with regard then gathered together his button collection to various activities, modes of transport and even things like beaches and snowshow his grandmother. You turn She had promised to take him to the book one way for Friday Night Club at the country scene local community centre and then flip it over for what happens in the townTodd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. Down the side of each page there's a list of things for you to findAt home, complete with a thumbnail of what his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it is you're looking formight be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404422</amazonuk>
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{{newreview <!-- remove 11/8 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=B C R Fegan and Lenny Wen1529504775|title=Henry The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and the Hidden TreasureKatie Hickey
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|summary=Henry is a careful young manElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. He has a lot Elsie would race the buses along the side of treasure the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and he keeps it even just standing up was very well hiddendifficult. We might not call it 'treasure': like his parents we'd probably call it 'pocket money' One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and suggest that what he's not going was happy to spend he should put in use the bankcoins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. But Henry's worried Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and ''he'' knows that only ''he'' can keep his treasure safewalk behind it. But whatMany decades later, or whoElsie brought the bus, is he keeping his treasure safe ''from''? Wellnow damaged and rusted, he has a little sister called Lucy and despite to the fact Repair Shop, hoping that his parents think he should be nicer to Lucy, Henry knows the experts there could make it so that she's really a secret ninja spy sent to steal his treasureher grandchildren could play with it. Isn't that true of ''all'' little sisters?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995359253</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anna Kovecses1529504767|title= Counting ThingsThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating= 45|genre= For Sharing|summary= Little Mouse is learning lots of new things Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in this series of books by the Hungarian illustrator Anna Kovecses, 1939 and here we see 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 delightful little rodent counting its way through the jungle, the farmyard, the countryside home of Mr and the town. On every page the same question is askedMrs Russell, beginning with who couldn'How many 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', and the toddler, d help Mrs Russell with the help of an adult or older sibling, will soon learn baking and when it came to touch Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the named items decorations on the page and under Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the flapfollowing morning. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alison Jay1916459943|title= Alison Jay's ABCSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= At first glanceMuch as mothers love their babies, this is there's something they all dread - a beautiful squeakily baby. He's so tired but fairly standard alphabet book: one letter per page with a nice big picture of an apple he can't - or a panda front and centre won't - after allgo to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the ABC format is pretty restrictivewaves sing ''hush, isnhush't it? And truth be told, that's all most small people will see first time round. But look Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a little closer sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay. . |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787410196</amazonuk>.'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Kovecses140639131X|title=Opposite ThingsA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=Rearing a child is not a competition, but have a conversation with a certain type Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of parent and they won't agree. Their child can speak four languagesnearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. Their child She wrote their first sonnet at to the mayor about the age of threeproblem but didn't even get a reply. Their child can be seen wistfully looking into the middle distance just wanting Philippa wasn't a bird to play sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the bouncy castleschool crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. For me, I am happy, if my child is happy; be that doing sums, or eating play-dohHer uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. However, All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even with a relaxed attitude to educating your kid, it can be fun trained up to learn a little, especially when provide a book is as fun as Little Mouse's ''Opposite Things''safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030381</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Powell1776574338|title= Search and Find: Pride & Prejudice: A Jane Austen Search and Find BookLeilong's Too Long!|rating= 4|genreauthor= Emerging Readers|summary= Search and find books are usually aimed at children. They are a good bit of fun, but they are also a good study tool for adult readers alike. Jane Austen is a fantastic novelist, but her style of writing can be daunting for those not used to such heavy prose. It is very easy to become lost in the myriad of dialogue, characters and events. I find a good plot summary helps when approaching her works, this was especially so in the case of the perplexing Julia Liu and long-winded Emma. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783708271</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bob Shea|title=The Scariest Book EverBei Lynn|rating=3.54
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|summary=Ghost is a bit of a scaredy-cat! After spilling some orange juice on Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his sheetway through the city, picking up children as he stays goes. Children who live at home, naked, and we as readers head the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out into of the woods to tell him whatwindow and slide down his neck. It's thereperfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though. Whilst Leilong isn't happy in the city: he tries 's always having to persuade us that the woods are super scary be careful about where he puts his feet and full of bad things, – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that wehe can'd t be much better off staying in and cleaning the bathroom, we get to see what's really going on in the woods, and try to persuade ghost to come out with us…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484730461</amazonuk>bus anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bethan Woollvin1776574028|title=RapunzelBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=Ah Rapunzel, how well we all know about her long golden hair and her difficult-to-escape towerI love a good board book! Here, however, the story ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is told with aimed at quite a twist, because there is no handsome Prince niche market: it's for the child who comes riding by to save Rapunzel from her incarceration. Nostill enjoys board books (er, instead we see Rapunzel is smart enough my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to figure her own way out, defeating the witch, and going on to a successful witch-hunting career.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509842675</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Puttock and Daniel Egneus|title= The Thing|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= One day have realise that you can ''the Thingplay'' falls with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the sky elephant who dons a tutu - and four strangers stumble across it. At first they are confused. What is becomes a ''the Thingballetphant''? What does it do? What is it for? Then the four of them decide to work together to look after . The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and care for 'then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''the Thingfluffalo''. Soon word spreads about The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''the Thingcrynoceros'' and others come from far and wide to find out more. Gradually (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a media circus builds up around ''the Thing''sm...... Throughout all of this ''the Thing'' remains silent. Then just as suddenly and silently as it arrived ''the Thing OK, let'' departs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283718</amazonuk>s not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bond and R W Alley1838226834|title=Best-loved Paddington StoriesCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=With the sad passing It was one of Michael Bond those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there is no time like to undo all the present to revisit some of good that parents do, so the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddingtontrips out were always so much fun. As A young boy was going to the character has proved so timeless regular re-issues of the books have appeared and carnival with his Grandad, who told him: ''Best-loved Paddington StoriesIt'll be brilliant, just remember, don' brings three t let go of these stories togethermy hand. Does this collection really reflect the best that the bear has to offer or are they just three random tales stuck together with marmalade?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008245037</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title= Heather Pindar Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Sarah JenningsHare|titleauthor=WishkerCordellya Smith
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|summary= There are few children's series When the 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 have been as long lasting as Judith Kerrhe could see the present 's 'and'Mog'' books and even though the cat may no longer future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with us, there is Turtle. You might think that's not a huge back catalogue of old stories fair contest but wait and images that could be repurposedsee. In the wrong hands reusing old Mog images would Things are not always as they seem like a crass cash in, but done right, they could still hold the same sentimental appeal that the daft old cat has for so many people. Which way does I''My First Mog ABC'' fall?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008245509</amazonuk>ll tell you how it came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tracey Corderoy and Jorge MartinRob Keeley|title= Fairy Tale PetsCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Bob is neat. He lives in a neat and tidy house with Rex his friendly and really quite neat dog. All is well in their neat and happy world except for one thing. Bob needs a job. He decides to be a pet-sitter and is looking forward to looking after cute little hamsters and bunnies. What actually arrives is unfortunately something quite different and poor Bob is quite unprepared for the chaos that ensues when his ''pets'' misbehave. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848694415</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mini Grey|title=The Bad Bunnies' Magic Show|rating=4.5
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|summary=In a slight change to the scheduling Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, the Great Hypno Lily is unavailable keen to explain how good they are for tonight's magic showyou and how nice to eat.One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees..but not to worryInfuriated, ready to step into Lily checks with the breach are Mr Abra teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and Mr Cadabravegetables, like carrots, a pair of innocent looking bunniesgrow in the ground. Their show promises to be fast and dangerousJordan says, and it certainly turns out "I did try to be bothtell her, though perhaps not quite in the way the bunnies imaginedMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471157601</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Jarman and Lynne ChapmanB09FFJF8YS|title=Class One Farmyard FunYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=When Class One go on a trip to ''For the farmbig, grownup girls out there, the day is not plain sailing. The teacher's traumas donpotty masters in training, "You Can't revolve around the usual 'who will be sick on Wear Panties!" is a cry (the coach' issues however, and instead relate to one rather grumpy farmyard animal big- the bullgirl kind! All sorts ) of trauma ensues when the bull escapes from his field, toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'' And so it takes is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a lot of the children working together little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to be able "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to catch him back in his field her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and lock him upher baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. All things consideredNeither can the flowers, this probably isn't nor the best book for any teachers to read aloud fish, nor the day before a school trip.birds.Boy's certainly can't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444927159</amazonuk>She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antje DammJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Waiting for GoliathEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Bear Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is waiting for Goliath. That's Bear on But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the cover wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and it was what first drew me to this bookeveryone will laugh. At you. He looks so Justine Avery's latest entry in her 'forlorn'Everybody Potties!' that I wanted to know what the problem was. He's not exactly forlorn, but he has been waiting series takes aim at the bus stop since dawn any shame associated with tooting and he might be getting just a little bit bored. He lies down (legs dangling down gently and tummy flat on calmly, with the seat) and familiar humour attached, explains to everyone that Goliath tooting is his best friendperfectly normal. Robin wanted to know if Goliath is as strong as Bear and Bear says that he is. HeEverybody does it: ''s smart too. He can count to eighteen. BearEverybody Toots's obviously been at the stop for quite a while as the spring flowers have fallen from the trees. He's there through the dark too - he just curls up and sleeps on the seat.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>177657141X</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Reece WykesB09BG8V3Q6|title=I Dare You|rating=2.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Some children's books require a robust sense of humour from a parent, or at least the ability to look the other way when a book is being naughty. There are more books on pants and poo than could fill a landfill, but when is something too far for a children's book? Bragging? Lying? CannibalismWho Needs Nappies?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445378</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNot Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Chris Hadfield Justine Avery and The Fan Brothers|title=The Darkest DarkSeema Amjad
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|summary=Back in the nineteen sixties in a cottage on Stag Island in Southern Ontario, Canada there was a boy called Chris who loved playing with rockets. Actually they were made out of cardboard boxes, but they were rockets to Chris and he and his dog would play space games all day. He really didn't have time for anything else and he certainly didn't have time to sleep. Well, actually, thereWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!''s a secret here: Chris was afraid of is the latest release in the dark and everyone knows that when it's 'Everybody Potties!'very'' dark series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the worst sort pain out of aliens come into the bedroom. Night after night his parents worked very hard to get him to sleep in his own bedroom potty training children and replace it was only the threat that if Chris didnwith some fun. It't get into his own bed and go to sleep everyone would be too tired to go next door the following evening to watch something special on televisions a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. There was only the one television on the island, you see.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150982409X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate MilnerB07GZ81J7C|title=My Name is not Refugee|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A child's mother tells her child that they will have to leave this town: it's not safe for them any longer. She explains what will happen. The child can pack his own bag, but he has to remember that he must only take what he can carry. Initially it will be exciting and they can't live in a place where there's no water in When Fred the taps and the rubbish just piles up in the streets. It's going to be an adventure, but sometimes they're going to be on their own and it will get a bit boring, but sometimes they'll be with other people and he must remember to hold on to an adult's hand. They'll see lots of cars and lorries and sleep in some strange places. They'll hear people speaking in strange languages and taste new foods. Eventually they'll get to somewhere where they are safe Snake Got Squished and can unpack. The strange words will start to make sense. He'll be called Refugee, but he has to remember that Refugee is not his name.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370065</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMended|author=Oliver Jeffers|title=The Great Paper CaperPeter Cotton
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|summary=Something terrible is happening in the forestMeet Fred. Branches from trees are going missing overnightWell, actually, and nobody knows whatyou's re going onto be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons 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. Everyone living in the forest gathers together to look at the crime scene, Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to try warm to discover what has happenedhim. Initially He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they blame each other, but after discovering everyone there has would take Fred out with them when they went out for a solid alibi they continue their investigations to try and find walk. And that was where the culpritproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007182333</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maudie Smith Justine Avery and Paul HowardNaday Meldova|title=The Dressing-Up DadEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Danny and his dad both love dressing up! Whatever the eventCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, or reason, they are readyas any parent will tell you. IndeedBut really, they donwhy shouldn't really need a reason, but it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just happily dress up together at home, or as we have to learn about everything else when they go out, as spacemen, a knight and a dragon, sea creatures and wizardswe are small...you name it, they can dress up Why shouldn't potty training be as it! Danny loves having so much fun with his dadas, but then one day he does start to wonder what it would be like to have a normal, ordinary dadsay, learning about why the sun and so for his birthday he decides to ask his dad to dress up as an ordinary dad!the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019274979X</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mac Barnett Justine Avery and Jon KlassenNaday Meldova|title=TriangleNo, No, No!
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|summary=This is a story about TriangleThey say the best picture books are the simplest ones. One day he goes out And nothing could be truer of his house and walks this latest from Justine Avery, a long way to go and play a sneaky trick on his friendBookbag favourite. ''No, No, SquareNo!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable. It ''s quite a long walkNo, past lots and lots of trianglesno, and then lots of shapes with no name! Okay, and then lots and lots of squaresokay. Yes, you may. What will happen after he'' That's played his trick it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on Square, though? Will Triangle get his comeuppance?the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406376671</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Usher194812467X|title=SunThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=It was Kirelle 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. As they walk to the hottest day top of the yearhill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. Hotter, if such It's a thing farm shop! But this is possible, than broccoli soup, a farm shop with a difference: all the Atacama Desert stallholders and the surface of the suncustomers are farmyard animals. Grandad decreed that it was the perfect day for an adventure There are sheep and ducks and began packing the picnic basket with all sorts of useful things: watercows, biscuitsgoats and chickens, a telescope, camera, sun protection, fruit, sandwichesand even some mice. Excited, toys Kirelle and lots, lots moreSam go shopping. How are a boy and his grandad to know what What will they're going to needbuy? Grandad was the navigator and the boy was the lookout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178370795X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Williams0995647895|title=Grandpa Diet Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and DiabetesAnita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=NickSadie's Mum is an accident and emergency nurse and life can get mother always said that she was a bit hectic at timesdreamer, particularly when her mind never on what she has to arrange for someone to look after Nick and his twin sister Emmashould be doing. One day in She lives by the school holidays Grandpa River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the pleasure of looking after gloom,''<br>''To the kids and Nick thought this Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was coolfired. Grandpa used She'd love to be sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a bit of a rocker, you see, glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and thatthe attendant's the sort of music he always has playingwarning shout. He might have a stick but Nick sure that he doesnWhen she woke (hard floors don't really need it - it's there just make comfy beds) she was in case. He does the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a problem though world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and Mum explains it by saying that Grandpa has to eat at the right time every day because he has diabetestreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667641</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet1782227741|title=Supertato Run Veggies RunLittle Gold Ted|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summaryauthor=I've heard of these so called superfoodsVanessa Wiercioch, they are reported to boost your immune system Poppy Satha and flush out areas of your body that have gone unnoticed for decades, but does this make them super? In my mind to be a superfood you need to do something spectacular; lift a car from a trapped child, or leap over a building in one bound. The vegetable and fruit in my house can't do any of this, but then they aren't Supertato; a spectacular spud that, more than once, has saved the day with his powers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121038</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dr Seuss|title=Dr Seuss's ABCSasha Satha
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|summary=No one who has read his work can deny that Dr Seuss had One day, Gold Ted falls into a powerful imaginationpuddle. He was able It's quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to pluck from his brainpan not only interesting takes on old ideas, but also new creatures spin around and around and worlds that had never been seen before. His books are often madder than is sucked down a box drain on the side of March hares, but even he must have had his limits? the street. Finding himself The humble ABC book (dare I say down in the dull ABC book)sewer, surely Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he could not bring his sense cries and alerts the attention of anarchic fun to this staple Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the children's education market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007487754</amazonuk>dirty water using his cane, 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 nice bowl of broth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nosy CrowB08R7LXQ9S|title=British MuseumRemy: ABCA book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Learning your ABCs Remy is also seemingly learning the same items appearing over and over feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, A is not only A – it is also Apple. B is Balltogether with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, C calling him names because he is Carshort and has small eyes. It is almost as if there They are only 26 objects in the world and mean but they happen are not stupid. They are careful to start with different letters of wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the alphabetother kids are around. In factSo, when Remy reacts, apart from Xylophone it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and X-Ray, there are loads of things that you could choose the teachers don't believe him when he tries to put in an ABC book, if only you had a vast repository of objects and art that you could choose from …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638165</amazonuk>explain what happened.
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{{newreview <!-- remove 17/5 -->Frontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Go To Sleep!The Invisible|author=Marion AdamsTom Percival|rating=45
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|summary=''It was midnight on This is the wild moorsstory of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. The round white moon peeped over the clouds. The barn owl flew from tree Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to tree without making a sound. The cool night breeze rustled through put the gorse bushes.''heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FumNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Karl Newson and Lucy FlemingOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=The smallest member of the Crumb family, Fum, has gone missing. Where on earth can he be? The rest of the Crumbs (a family of giants) search high Many children have an obsession and low for little FumSandy Lane, enlisting the help of various fairy tale friends along the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862431</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart|title=Little Monster's Day Out with Dad|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Before leaving the house it is always important that you check the traffic online. What is the point in leaving now if you are going to be stuck who lives in a traffic jam all the way? Little Monster's Father could have done thisBeartown, but is learning the hard wayobsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Thankfully, this Her favourite toy is a world in which even the mundane can be fun and there are lots of friends to find; even when you are stuck in back to back traffic on the Monster M25.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405276444</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Neil Gaiman and Divya Srinivasan|title=Cinnamon|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=First written in 1995Berisford, Cinnamon has hitherto existed as a short story on Neil Gaiman's website or as part of an audiobook collectionteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. NowEvery night, it's she looks out as a picture book for us all of her bedroom window and says goodnight to sharethe bear statue outside.The story follows Cinnamon, a princess in a small hot country, where everything is very old. Cinnamon was born with pearls for eyes. This means that Every morning she is very beautiful but also blind. And Cinnamon won't speak. Her parents, the rajah and rani, offer rich rewards for anyone who can persuade their daughter says hello to talk. People come and go but nobody is successful. Until, one dayBee Bear, a tiger comes..colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408879239</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]