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|summary=It probably sounds obvious, but you really shouldnWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they't keep your pet chickens re running for their lives in a bag! Well, that's what I learned from this book which tells us first the story Forest of Tom who puts his hen in a bagFine Repute. The hen pecks through Their greatest fear has come about: the bag, as hens are wont to do, and escapes! A simple and somewhat tragic tale! Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. This is swiftly followed by a story about BenHe's petright behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. Will (Please don't try this at home: it be another hen, I wondered? won't end well.) NoFortunately, actuallythey were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, after several incorrect guessesthey escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, we discover that Ben's pet is only a rabbit!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862482</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Louise ForshawB0CC9W7GLR|title=Buzz On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jump! Jump! (Early Reader) Jenny Fionda
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|summary=After hearing a mysterious buzzing in the kitchenKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, mum traps or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a fly in snowy beach when a jar, but then she hears large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the buzzing againshoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice.what could be going on? MeanwhileKit was all for making a run for it, Ken but Teal knew that the Kangaroo (who declares himself bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the best at jumping), is jumping everywhere he can. In this red level book, aimed generally at those who have completed their reception year in school, there are two simple, sweet stories in one book, perfect for those who are just learning bus and given a good meal and somewhere to readsleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862504</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Julia Seal1913839656|title=Bamboo and I Wish (Early Reader) Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=With two stories in one book, there's plenty to like Todd was excited about this simplespending the weekend with his grandmother, and funny, early readernot least because she made the best beetle juice. The first story, Bamboo, deals with a cheeky panda who has run off He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to hideshow his grandmother. Where can he be? The second story is about a wishing well which is granting wishes left, right and centre! Evaluated as a red level book, it sets itself as being about She had promised to take him to the right level for those around Friday Night Club at the end of their reception year.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862512</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Brennan local community centre and Jane Tanner|title= Storm Whale|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= This is one of the most beautiful picture books that I have read for a while. ''Bleak Todd was the day and the wind whipped downWhen I and my sisters walked to town…'' So begins pleased about this story of three sisters who set off as he wanted to walk to the beach together in this stunning and rather special picture bookmake new friends. The cover illustration is reminiscent of traditional family holidays depicting three girlsAt home, hand in hand his only friend was his mum and wearing sunhats disappearing over sand dunes on their way to the beachhe wondered why that could be. The story then departs from a typical seaside theme as the sisters find a stranded whale on the beach and spend the day in desperate attempts to save Grandma thought that itmight be because he looked different. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646253</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Barney Saltzberg1529504775|title= Chengdu Can Do|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= There's something utterly delightful The Toy Bus (and, it must be said, sometimes infuriating, especially when you're in a hurryThe Repair Shop Stories) about the toddler's determination to be independent. Scrambling along using any handy piece of furniture or, if they don't move fast enough, the family pet as a prop, exploring cupboards full of the most enticing objects, and the daily struggle to get as much dinner in his or her own mouth as on the walls – all that requires grit and a refusal to fail which augurs well for the little one's future. That can-do attitude, so lauded by education, enterprise and big business, is a quality Chengdu the panda has in bucket-loads! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484758471</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sean Taylor Amy Sparkes and Kasia Matyjaszek|title=I am Actually a PenguinKatie Hickey
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|summary=The list of entertaining things about toddlers does not include any Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the following; throwing food against your recently painted walls, nappy deposits, or deciding to stay park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up way past their bedtimewas very difficult. There are few things more unsettling to One day Elsie spotted a parent than a toddler used bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to their routine suddenly deciding use the coins from her money box to stay up way past their bedtime; they scream, they procrastinate, they blub and then finally collapse (and that is just Mum and Dad)pay for it as cash was tight at home. The reason that so many children's books are about settling down and going Gradually, David learned to bed is to avoid stand up, use the staying up eventualitybus for support, so will a book about an insomniac panda work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484775651</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer Coleman|title=Hidden World: Forest|rating=4walk behind it.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Sometimes Many decades later, less is more. But a wood doesn't understand thatElsie brought the bus, does it – it just stretches on now damaged and onrusted, expanding outwards and outwards, and upwards and upwards – it's quite a galling thing for a young person to understand. This book reverts to the very basic detail Repair Shop, hoping that will let the very young student get a grip on the life in the forest, whether they can actually see experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it for the trees in real life or not…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carles Ballasteros1529504767|title=Nee Nah! Nee Nah! To the Rescue: Press the tabs, hear the sounds The Christmas Doll (Sound of the CityThe Repair Shop Stories)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=The cover of this book might tell you all that you need to know if you're buying a book for a boy who loves noisy vehicles, but if you dismiss it on those grounds you might be making a mistake. Let me tell you a bit about it. It's a substantially-built board book with suitably rounded corners for when it's used as a missile and it has tabs which take you to the pages for the vehicles we're going to be looking at. There's a helicopter, a police car, a fire engine and an ambulance. For a lot of books for the youngest children that would be it - and a lot of children would enjoy looking at the pictures. But - there's more...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937428</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Craig Shuttlewood|title=Town Amy Sparkes and Country (Turnaround Book)Katie Hickey
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|summary=I know I should Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have been working but I've just spent worried though as she went to the last hour pouring over ''Town home of Mr and Country'Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. On the face of it there's a very simple idea here: on each doubleShe even had her own room -page spread you get examples of what happens in towns all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and what happens in the countryside with regard began to various activities, modes of transport and even things like beaches and snowenjoy her life. You turn She'd help Mrs Russell with the book one way for the country scene baking and then flip when it over for what happens in came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the townChristmas tree. Down The best surprise happened the side of each page there's a list of things for you to find, complete with a thumbnail of what it is you're looking forfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404422</amazonuk>
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{{newreview <!-- remove 11/8 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=B C R Fegan and Lenny Wen1916459943|title=Henry and the Hidden TreasureSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=Henry is Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a careful young mansqueakily baby. He has a lot of treasure and 's so tired but he keeps it very well hidden. We might not call it can'treasuret - or won't - go to sleep: like instead, he just lies on his parents weblanket and 'd probably call it 'pocket moneywails' and suggest that what he's not going . The sea offers to spend he should put in the bankhelp. But Henry's worried It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hehush, hush'' knows that only ''he'' can keep his treasure safe. But what, or who, is he keeping his treasure safe Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''fromla lou, la lay...''? Well, he has And for a little sister called Lucy and despite the fact that his parents think he should be nicer to Lucy, Henry knows that she's really a secret ninja spy sent moment it seems to steal have worked as Baby closes his treasureeyes. IsnThen a seagull ''t that true of 'shouts'all'' little sisters?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995359253</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anna Kovecses|title= Counting Things|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Little Mouse is learning lots of new things in this series of books by the Hungarian illustrator Anna Kovecses, and here we see the delightful little rodent counting its way through the jungle, the farmyard, the countryside and the town. On every page the same question is asked, beginning with know exactly what'How many . . . ?', and the toddler, with the help of an adult or older sibling, will soon learn s going to touch the named items on the page and under the flaphappen next. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alison Jay140639131X|title= Alison Jay's ABC|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= At first glance, this is a beautiful but fairly standard alphabet book: one letter per page with a nice big picture of an apple or a panda front and centre - after all, the ABC format is pretty restrictive, isn't it? And truth be told, that's all most small people will see first time round. But look a little closer . . . |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787410196</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Anna Kovecses|title=Opposite ThingsBriony 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 YouWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=24.5
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|summary=Some children's books require a robust sense of humour from a parent, or at least 'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the ability to look latest release in the other way when a book is being naughty''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. There are more This series of fun picture books on pants aims to take the pain out of potty training children and poo than could fill replace it with some fun. It's a landfillworthy aim, but when is something too far for a children's book? as any frustrated parent will tell you. Bragging? Lying? Cannibalism?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445378</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Chris Hadfield When Fred the Snake Got Squished and The Fan BrothersMended|titleauthor=The Darkest DarkPeter Cotton
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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 rocketsMeet Fred. Actually they were made out of cardboard boxesWell, actually, but they were rockets you're going to Chris and he and his dog would play space games be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all daytoo obvious very quickly. He really didnBut I'm getting ahead of myself: I't have time for anything else d better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and he certainly didn't even those of us who have time a phobia about snakes are going to sleepwarm to him. Well, actually, there's He arrived as a present in a secret here: Chris was afraid box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the dark and everyone knows family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when it's ''very'' dark the worst sort of aliens come into the bedroomthey went out for a walk. Night after night his parents worked very hard to get him to sleep in his own bedroom and it And that was only where the threat that if Chris problem started. Fred didn'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 televisionhave any road sense. There was only the one television on the island, you seeOr brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150982409X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate MilnerJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=My Name is not RefugeeEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=A childCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn's mother tells her child that they will have to leave this town: it's not safe for them t, as any longer. She explains what parent will happentell you. The child can pack his own bagBut really, but he has to remember that he must only take what he can carry. Initially it will be exciting and they canwhy shouldn't live in a place where there's no water in 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 ? We all have 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 learn about our bodily functions just as we have to somewhere where they learn about everything else when we are safe and can unpacksmall. The strange words will start to make sense. HeWhy shouldn'll t potty training be called Refugeeas much fun as, say, but he has to remember that Refugee is not his name.learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911370065</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Oliver JeffersJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Great Paper CaperNo, No, No!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Something terrible is happening in They say the best picture books are the forestsimplest ones. Branches And nothing could be truer of this latest from trees are going missing overnightJustine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, and nobody knows whatNo!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable. 's going on'No, no, no! Okay, okay. Everyone living in the forest gathers together to look at the crime sceneYes, and to try to discover what has happenedyou may. Initially they blame each other'' That's it! But, but after discovering everyone there has like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a solid alibi they continue their investigations to try and find veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the culpritoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007182333</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maudie Smith and Paul Howard194812467X|title=The Dressing-Up DadFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Danny 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 dad both love dressing up! Whatever smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the event, or reasonhill, they are readysee a big barn with a sign outside. Indeed, they donIt't really need s a reason, but just happily dress up together at home, or when they go out, as spacemen, farm shop! But this is a knight and farm shop with a dragon, sea creatures difference: all the stallholders and wizardscustomers are farmyard animals...you name itThere are sheep and ducks and cows, they can dress up as it! Danny loves having so much fun with his dadgoats and chickens, but then one day he does start to wonder what it would be like to have a normal, ordinary dadand even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and so for his birthday he decides to ask his dad to dress up as an ordinary dad!Sam go shopping. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>019274979X</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Mac Barnett Sadie and Jon Klassenthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=TriangleMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=This is Sadie's mother always said that she was a story about Triangledreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. One day he goes out of his house She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and walks a long way she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to go sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and play went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a sneaky trick glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on his friend, Squareshow) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. ItWhen she woke (hard floors don's quite t make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a long walk, past lots and lots world of trianglesdolphins, and then lots of shapes with no namepirates, mermaids and then lots and lots of squarestreasure. What will happen after he's played his trick on Square, though? Will Triangle get his comeuppance?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376671</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Usher1782227741|title=SunLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=It was the hottest One day of the year, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. Hotter, if such It's quite a thing deep puddle and the water is possible, than broccoli soup, the Atacama Desert swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the surface side of the sunstreet. Finding himself Grandad decreed that it was down in the perfect day for an adventure sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and began packing alerts the attention of Reg the picnic basket with all sorts sewer rat, who plucks him out of useful things: the dirty waterusing his cane, biscuits, which might look just a telescope, camera, sun protection, fruit, sandwiches, toys and lots, lots morebit like an old cricket bat. How are Reg is a boy kind soul and his grandad to know what they're going to need? Grandad was the navigator he dries Ted off and the boy was the lookoutwarms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178370795X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura WilliamsB08R7LXQ9S|title=Grandpa Diet Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and DiabetesCaroline Siegal
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|summary=NickRemy is feeling miserable. He's Mum is an accident let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and emergency nurse and life can get a bit hectic Brandon, have been laughing at timesRemy, particularly when she calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to arrange for someone to look after Nick wind up Remy when nobody can see and his twin sister Emma. One day in the school holidays Grandpa had the pleasure of looking after then push him just that little bit further when the other kids and Nick thought this was coolare around. Grandpa used to be a bit of a rockerSo, you seewhen Remy reacts, and that's it looks as though he was the sort of music he always has playinginstigator. He might have a stick but Nick sure that And then he doesngets into trouble at school and the teachers don't really need it - it's there just in case. He does have a problem though and Mum explains it by saying that Grandpa has believe him when he tries to eat at the right time every day because he has diabetesexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667641</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet1471191303|title=Supertato Run Veggies RunThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=I've heard of these so called superfoods, they are reported to boost your immune system and flush out areas This is the story of your body that have gone unnoticed for decadesIsobel, 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 little girl who made a building in one boundbig difference. The vegetable and fruit Isobel lived with her parents in my a house can- a very cold house, because her parents couldn't do any afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of this, the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but then they arenhad each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't Supertato; a spectacular spud thatafford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, more than once, has saved the day with his powerssad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121038</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr SeussNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Dr Seuss's ABCOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=No one who has read his work can deny that Dr Seuss had a powerful imagination. He was able to pluck from his brainpan not only interesting takes on old ideas, but also new creatures Many children have an obsession and worlds that had never been seen before. His books are often madder than a box of March haresSandy Lane, but even he must have had his limits? The humble ABC book (dare I say the dull ABC book)who lives in Beartown, surely he could not bring his sense of anarchic fun to this staple of the children's education market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007487754</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nosy Crow|title=British Museum: ABC|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Learning your ABCs is also seemingly learning the same items appearing over and over againobsessed with bears. A is not only A – it is also AppleShe collects books about bears. B Her favourite toy is BallBerisford, C is Cara teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. It is almost as if there are only 26 objects in the world Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and they happen says goodnight to start with different letters of the alphabetbear statue outside. In fact, apart from Xylophone and X-Ray, there are loads of things that you could choose Every morning she says hello to put in an ABC bookBee Bear, if only you had a vast repository of objects and art colourful painted bear that you could choose from …lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857638165</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]