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[[image:lumplump.jpg|center|link=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDc9DQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=lump+lump+and+the+blanket+of+dreams&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz47visd3QAhVT_WMKHQ8CA8UQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=lump%20lump%20and%20the%20blanket%20of%20dreams&f=false]]<hr/>[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jon BurgermanAdam Stower|title= Rhyme CrimeMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary= Sometimes books for sharing need Murray is supposed to be calm a humble, tidy and gentle, soporific evenfriendly cat, one who is able to lure little ones under the duvet sleep and eat and eat and off to sleepand, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. And sometimes books need to be utterly zany But he's a bad magician's cat, full of bright coloursso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, daft doodle-style illustrations and crazy rhymes for the child to shout catflap they both use can chuck them out loud. Please, dear parentnot into the regular back garden, do not try to read this wonderful book to your offspring within an hour or two but into a world of lights outfrightening adventure and whiffs. Seriously 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 warned - You Will Regret It. honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192749501</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title= Georgiana Deutsch The Adventures of Birpus and Ekaterina TrukhanBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor= 10Wynn Everett-Albanese, 9, 8... Owls Up Late! Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= ItWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they's tough being a mother owlre running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Rather than just one or two rambunctious little ones to calm down ready for bed, she Their greatest fear has ten of come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them! And there. He's so much going on in her tree that she must sometimes despair of ever getting right behind them to sleep. But gradually, one by onespewing hot, the owletssour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won' eyes begin to droop t end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they make their way escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their comfy little nest until at last . . Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny. zzzzzz! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869704X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michelle Robinson and Claire PowellB0CC9W7GLR|title=Have You Seen My Giraffe?On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5

|summary=ImagineKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, if you willbored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a world in which you no longer win goldfish at snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the fair, but you could potentially be coming home with ice was a giraffe! polar bear. This is As the situation that ice bumped onto the family in this story find themselves insand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it turns out , but Teal knew that having the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a giraffe in your house may not go down too well with your parents!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075993</amazonuk>good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Puttock and Matt Robertson1913839656|title=FluffywuffyLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee

|summary=Mr MootTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his dog Fluffywuffy, are very happy in their quiet little life favourite hat and then gathered togetherhis button collection to show his grandmother. But one day, Mr Moot's cousin, Clarence, comes knocking She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the door local community centre and announces that Todd was pleased about this as he has come wanted to stay for a week, or a month, or a year! Clarence turns out to be a most inconsiderate house guestmake new friends. Whatever will Mr Moot do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808719</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Emilia Dziubak At home, his only friend was his mum and Przemyslaw Wechterowicz|title=The Secret Life of a Tiger|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=If David Attenborough has taught us anything is he wondered why that a lot goes on in the natural world that we are unaware ofcould be. Animals will hunt in interesting ways, or find a mate using secret dances, but did you know Grandma thought that Tigers sometimes sneak up on apes and give them new haircuts? You will it might be amazed with the revelations found in Emilia Dziubak and Przemyslaw Wechterowicz's book, but I am not convinced that this kid's book is based on factsbecause he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191027724X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Bently and Charles Fuge1529504775|title=A Home Full of FriendsThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Bramble Badger was out looking for nuts by the river when the storm broke Elsie and he was so cold that he decided her little brother David loved to go straight hometo the park and watch the red buses drive past. On Elsie would race the way he met a trail buses along the side of devastation: Snuffle Dormousethe park but David couldn's house has been squashed by a falling tree. Shet - he'd like shelter in Bramble's sett, if he has roombeen born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. He's One day Elsie spotted a ''little'' bit reluctant because he thinks his sett is bus in a mess the toy shop window which would help David - and there isn't much space or dinner available, but what can you do when a friend is in need? Next was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it's Tipper the Toad whose as cash was tight at home is full of mud, then Boo the Hedgehog's nest has been covered by leaves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492057X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jill Atkins and Barbara Vagnozzi|title=Peck, Hen, Peck! and Ben's Pet (Early Reader)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It probably sounds obvious, but you really shouldn't keep your pet chickens in a bag! WellGradually, that's what I David learned from this book which tells us first to stand up, use the story of Tom who puts his hen in a bag. The hen pecks through the bag, as hens are wont to dobus for support, and escapes! A simple and somewhat tragic tale! This is swiftly followed by a story about Ben's petwalk behind it. Will it be another henMany decades later, I wondered? NoElsie brought the bus, actuallynow damaged and rusted, after several incorrect guessesto the Repair Shop, we discover hoping that the experts there could make it so that Ben's pet is only a rabbit!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862482</amazonuk>her grandchildren could play with it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Louise Forshaw1529504767|title=Buzz and Jump! Jump! The Christmas Doll (Early ReaderThe Repair Shop Stories) |author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=After hearing a mysterious buzzing Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the kitchenhome of Mr and Mrs Russell, mum traps a fly in a jar, but then she hears the buzzing againwho couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life.what could be going on? Meanwhile, Ken She'd help Mrs Russell with the Kangaroo (who declares himself baking and when it came to be Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. 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 to readsurprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862504</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Julia Seal1916459943|title=Bamboo and I Wish (Early Reader) Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=54

|summary=With two stories in one bookMuch as mothers love their babies, there's plenty something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to like about this simplesleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and funny, early reader''wails''. The first story, Bamboo, deals with a cheeky panda who has run off sea offers to hidehelp. 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 the right level for those around the end of their reception year.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862512</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Brennan It rocks Baby gently 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. waves sing ''Bleak was the day and the wind whipped downWhen I and my sisters walked to town…hush, hush'' So begins this story of three sisters who set off to walk to the beach together in this stunning and rather special picture book. The cover illustration is reminiscent Think of traditional family holidays depicting three girls, hand in hand gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and wearing sunhats disappearing over sand dunes on their way to you have the beachsound perfectly. The story then departs from a typical seaside theme as the sisters find a stranded whale on the beach and spend the day mermaids join in desperate attempts to save it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646253</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Barney Saltzberg|title= Chengdu Can Do|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= There- ''s something utterly delightful (andla lou, it must be said, sometimes infuriating, especially when youla lay...'re in a hurry) 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 And for a prop, exploring cupboards full of the most enticing objects, and the daily struggle moment it seems to get have worked as much dinner in Baby closes his or her own mouth as on the walls – all that requires grit eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and a refusal to fail which augurs well for the little onewe know exactly what's futuregoing to happen next. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sean Taylor and Kasia Matyjaszek140639131X|title=I am Actually a PenguinA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|genre= For Sharing|summary= Do you know Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a child who loves bird to dress sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up? Well this is something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the perfect picture book for that childbenefits were obvious. Quite probably All the perfect picture book for animals used the parent of that child toocrossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barney Saltzberg1776574338|title=Chengdu Could Not, Would Not, Fall AsleepLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn

|summary=The list of entertaining things about toddlers does not include any of Every morning Leilong, the following; throwing food against your recently painted wallsbrontosaurus school bus, nappy depositsmakes his way through the city, or deciding to stay picking up way past their bedtimechildren as he goes. There are few things more unsettling Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to a parent than a toddler used to their routine suddenly deciding to stay up way past their bedtime; go downstairs – they scream, they procrastinate, they blub simply climb out of the window and then finally collapse (and that is just Mum and Dad)slide down his neck. The reason that so many childrenIt's books are about settling down and perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to bed school? There is to avoid the staying up eventuality, 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=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Sometimesproblem, less is morethough. But a wood doesn Leilong isn't understand that, does it – it just stretches on happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and on, expanding outwards and outwards, and upwards and upwards – itbecause he's quite longer than a galling thing for a young person tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to understandand traffic regularly gets snarled up. This book reverts to the very basic detail The school decides that will let the very young student get a grip on the life in the forest, whether they he can actually see it for 't be the trees in real life or not…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>bus anymore.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carles Ballasteros1776574028|title=Nee Nah! Nee Nah! To the Rescue: Press the tabs, hear the sounds (Sound of the City)Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott

|summary=The cover of this I love a good board book might tell you all that you need to know if you! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee''re buying is aimed at quite a book niche market: it's for a boy the child who loves noisy vehiclesstill enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but if has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you dismiss it on those grounds you might be making a mistakecan ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Let me tell you We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes 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 weballetphant''re going to be looking at. There's The buffalo who has had a helicopter, bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a police car, hair drier becomes a fire engine and an ambulance''fluffalo''. For The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a lot of books for the youngest children that would be ''crynoceros'' (think about it - and !) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a lot of children would enjoy looking at the pictures''sm....... '' But - thereOK, let's more...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937428</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Craig Shuttlewood1838226834|title=Town and Country (Turnaround Book)Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=54

|summary=I know I should have been working but I've just spent the last hour pouring over ''Town and Country''. On the face It was one of it there's a very simple idea herethose memories we treasure from our childhoods: on each double-page spread you get examples of what happens in towns and what happens in the countryside an outing with regard our grandparents. They're there to various activitiesundo all the good that parents do, modes of transport and even things like beaches and snow. You turn so the book one way for the country scene and then flip it over for what happens in the towntrips out were always so much fun. Down A young boy was going to the side of each page therecarnival with his Grandad, who told him: ''It's a list of things for you to findll be brilliant, just remember, complete with a thumbnail don't let go of what it is youmy hand.''re looking for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404422</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 11/8 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=B C R Fegan and Lenny WenB09MYXSRV4|title=Henry Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and the Hidden TreasureHare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Henry is a careful young manWhen the world was made, the animals were given gifts. He has Bear was given strength so that he could become a lot of treasure and he keeps it very well hiddenprotector. We might not call it 'treasure': like his parents we'd probably call it 'pocket money' and suggest Water Spider received a strong web that what he's even fire could not going to spend he should put in the bankburn. But Henry's worried and ''Owl had excellent sight so that hecould see the present '' knows that only and''he'' can keep his treasure safethe future. But whatRabbit developed intelligence - but, or whounfortunately, is he keeping his treasure safe ''from''? Well, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he has came to be in a little sister called Lucy and despite the fact that his parents race with Turtle. You might think he should be nicer to Lucy, Henry knows that she's really not a secret ninja spy sent to steal his treasurefair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. IsnI't that true of ''all'' little sisters?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995359253</amazonuk>ll tell you how it came about.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna KovecsesRob Keeley|title= Counting ThingsCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!

|summary=Rearing a child is not a competition Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, but have a conversation with a certain type of parent cabbage and they won't agreeaubergines. Their child can speak four languages. Their child wrote When her friends at school turn up their first sonnet at the age of three. Their child can be seen wistfully looking into the middle distance just wanting noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to play on the bouncy castleeat. For meOne day, I am happypoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, if my child is happy; be who tells her that doing sums, or eating play-dohcarrots grow on trees. HoweverInfuriated, even Lily checks with a relaxed attitude to educating your kidthe teacher, it can be fun to learn a little, especially when a book is as fun as Little Mouse's ''Opposite Things''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030381</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Powell|title= Search and Find: Pride & Prejudice: A Jane Austen Search who explains that fruits grow on trees and Find Book|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Search and find books are usually aimed at children. They are a good bit of funvegetables, but they are also a good study tool for adult readers alike. Jane Austen is a fantastic novelistlike carrots, but her style of writing can be daunting for those not used to such heavy prose. It is very easy to become lost grow in the myriad of dialogueground. Jordan says, characters and events. "I find a good plot summary helps when approaching did try to tell her works, this was especially so in the case of the perplexing Miss!" and long-winded Emmaeveryone laughs at poor Lily. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783708271</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bob SheaB09FFJF8YS|title=The Scariest Book EverYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik

|summary=Ghost ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a bit of a scaredycry (the big-catgirl kind! After spilling some orange juice on his sheet, he stays at home, naked, ) of toilet triumph and we as readers head out into the woods to tell him whatpersevering panty pride.''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's there. Whilst he tries final goodbye to persuade us that the woods are super scary nappies and pull-ups and full of bad thingsgraduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that we'd be much better off staying in and cleaning 'she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the bathroomfish, we get to see whatnor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's really going on in the woods, a big girl now and try she wants everyone to persuade ghost to come out with us…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484730461</amazonuk>know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bethan WoollvinJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=RapunzelEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Ah RapunzelToots, how well we all know trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about her long golden hair and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her difficult-to-escape tower''Everybody Potties! Here, however'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the story is told with a twistfamiliar humour attached, because there explains that tooting is no handsome Prince who comes riding by to save Rapunzel from her incarcerationperfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} No, instead we see Rapunzel {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is smart enough the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to figure her own way take the pain out, defeating the witch, of potty training children and going on to replace it with some fun. It's a successful witch-hunting careerworthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509842675</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title= Simon Puttock When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Daniel EgneusMended|titleauthor= The ThingPeter Cotton|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= One day Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'the Thingm getting ahead of myself: I'' falls from the sky and four strangers stumble across it. At first they are confusedd better tell you a bit more about Fred. What Fred is ''the Thing''? What does it do? What is it for? Then the four a snake and even those of them decide us who have a phobia about snakes are going to work together warm to look after him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and care for '''immediately became part of the Thing''. Soon word spreads about ''family, to the Thing'' and others come from far and wide to find extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out morefor a walk. Gradually a media circus builds up around '' And that was where the Thing''problem started. Throughout all of this Fred didn''the Thing'' remains silentt have any road sense. Then just as suddenly and silently as it arrived ''the Thing'' departs Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283718</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Bond Justine Avery and R W AlleyNaday Meldova|title=Best-loved Paddington StoriesEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=With the sad passing of Michael Bond there is no time like the present Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to revisit some of the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddingtonlearn about everything else when we are small. As the character has proved so timeless regular re-issues of Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the books have appeared sun and ''Best-loved Paddington Stories'' brings three of these stories together. Does this collection really reflect the best that moon take turns in the bear has to offer or are they just three random tales stuck together with marmaladesky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008245037</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Heather Pindar Justine Avery and Sarah JenningsNaday Meldova|title=WishkerNo, No, No!

|summary= There They say the best picture books are few childrenthe simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. 's series that have been as long lasting as Judith Kerr's No, No, No!''Mogis based around the simplest text imaginable. '' books and even though the cat may No, no, no longer be with us! Okay, okay. Yes, there is a huge back catalogue of old stories and images that could be repurposedyou may. In '' That's it! But, like all the wrong hands reusing old Mog images would seem like best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a crass cash in, but done right, they could still hold veritable tardis - so much bigger on the same sentimental appeal inside that it appears on the daft old cat has for so many peopleoutside. Which way does ''My First Mog ABC'' fall?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008245509</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tracey Corderoy and Jorge Martin194812467X|title= Fairy Tale PetsThe Farm Shop|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summaryauthor= 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 Devon Avery, Justine Avery 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 ShowEma Tepic|rating=4.5

|summary=In Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a slight change 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 schedulingtop of the hill, the Great Hypno is unavailable for tonightthey see a big barn with a sign outside. It's magic showa farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals...but not to worry, ready to step into the breach There are Mr Abra sheep and ducks and Mr Cadabracows, a pair of innocent looking bunnies. Their show promises to be fast goats and dangerouschickens, and it certainly turns out to be botheven some mice. Excited, though perhaps not quite in the way the bunnies imagined!Kirelle and Sam go shopping. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471157601</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Julia Jarman Sadie and Lynne Chapmanthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Class One Farmyard FunMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice

|summary=When Class One go on Sadie's mother always said that she was a trip to the farmdreamer, the day is not plain sailingher mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The teacherMaritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>'s traumas don't revolve around When all the houses cowered in the usual gloom,''<br>'who will be sick on 'To the coachMaritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She' issues however, and instead relate d love to one rather grumpy farmyard animal - sail the bull! oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. All sorts of trauma ensues when One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the bull escapes from his field, one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and it takes a lot of missed the children working together to be able to catch him back in his field closing bell and lock him upthe attendant's warning shout. All things considered, this probably isnWhen she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the best book for any teachers to read aloud the day before midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a school trip..world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444927159</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antje Damm1782227741|title=Waiting for GoliathLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha

|summary=Bear is waiting for GoliathOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. ThatIt's Bear quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the cover and it was what first drew me side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to this bookpanic. He looks so ''forlornOH HELP ME PLEASE'' that I wanted to know what he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the problem was. He's not exactly forlornsewer rat, but he has been waiting at who plucks him out of the bus stop since dawn and he dirty water using his cane, which might be getting look just a little bit bored. He lies down (legs dangling down and tummy flat on the seat) and explains to everyone that Goliath is his best friendlike an old cricket bat. Robin wanted to know if Goliath Reg is as strong as Bear a kind soul and Bear says that he is. He's smart too. He can count to eighteen. Bear's obviously been at the stop for quite dries Ted off and warms him up with 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 seatnice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>177657141X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Reece WykesB08R7LXQ9S|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 Remy: A book? Bragging? Lying? Cannibalism?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445378</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewabout believing in yourself|author=Chris Hadfield Mayuri Naidoo and The Fan Brothers|title=The Darkest DarkCaroline Siegal|rating=4.5

|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 dayRemy is feeling miserable. He really didn't have time for anything else and he certainly didn't have time to sleep. Well, actually, there's a secret here: Chris was afraid of the dark and everyone knows that when itlet himself down 's 'again'very'' dark the worst sort of aliens come into the bedroom. The school bully Jayden, Night after night together with his parents worked very hard to get sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to sleep in his own bedroom wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was only the threat that if Chris didn't get instigator. And then he gets into his own bed trouble at school and go to sleep everyone would be too tired to go next door the following evening teachers don't believe him when he tries to watch something special on television. There was only the one television on the island, you seeexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150982409X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Milner1471191303|title=My Name is not RefugeeThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=A child's mother tells her child that they will have to leave this town: it's not safe for them any longerThis is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. She explains what will happen. The child can pack his own bagIsobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, but he has because her parents couldn't afford to remember that he must only take what he can carry. Initially it will be exciting and they canput the heating on: 't live in a place where there's no water in Ice curled across the inside of the taps window and crept up the rubbish just piles up in corner of the streetsbedpost. It's going to be an adventure, but sometimes they're going  The family didn't go to be the cinema or on their own and it will get a bit boring, holidays but sometimes they'll be with had each other people and he must remember to hold on to an adult's handthey were happy. TheyThen the day came when they couldn'll see lots of cars and lorries and sleep in some strange places. They'll hear people speaking in strange languages t afford the rent for the house and taste new foods. Eventually they'll get had to somewhere where they are safe and can unpack. The strange words will start move to make sensethe far side of the city. He'll be called RefugeeThis part of the city was cold, but he has to remember that Refugee is not his namesad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Oliver JeffersNick Jones and Si Clark|title=The Great Paper Caper|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Something terrible is happening One Night in the forest. Branches from trees are going missing overnight, and nobody knows what's going on. Everyone living in the forest gathers together to look at the crime scene, and to try to discover what has happened. Initially they blame each other, but after discovering everyone there has a solid alibi they continue their investigations to try and find the culprit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007182333</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Maudie Smith and Paul Howard|title=The Dressing-Up DadBeartown

|summary=Danny Many children have an obsession and his dad both love dressing up! Whatever the eventSandy Lane, or reasonwho lives in Beartown, they are readyis obsessed with bears. IndeedShe collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, they don't really need a reasonteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, but just happily dress up together at home, or when they go she looks out, as spacemen, a knight of her bedroom window and a dragon, sea creatures and wizardssays goodnight to the bear statue outside...you name it, they can dress up as it! Danny loves having so much fun with his dadEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, but then one day he does start to wonder what it would be like to have a normal, ordinary dad, and so for his birthday he decides to ask his dad to dress up as an ordinary dadcolourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019274979X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} {{newreview|author=Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen|title=Triangle|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is a story about Triangle. One day he goes out of his house and walks a long way Move on to go and play a sneaky trick on his friend, Square. It's quite a long walk, past lots and lots of triangles, and then lots of shapes with no name, and then lots and lots of squares. What will happen after he's played his trick on Square, though? Will Triangle get his comeuppance?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376671</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]