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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= Dr Seuss and Tish RabeAdam Stower|title= Oh Baby, the Places You'll GoMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary=A slightly odd concept Murray is supposed to get one's head around, ''Oh Baby, the Places You'll Go'' is both a book within be a bookhumble, tidy and a book sized advert all in friendly cat, one. Dr Seuss (fun fact: 'Seuss' originally rhymed with 'voice') wrote many, many books in his lifetime, who is able to sleep and lots of us will be familiar with his best-known characters such as [[The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss|The Cat in the Hat]] eat and the copious numbers of adventures he wrote about such as when [[Horton Hears a Who by Dr Seuss|Horton Hears a Who]]. This book is different, because rather than introducing new wild eat and wacky characters, it brings together existing ones who may never have met each other before. Adapted by Tish Rabe (though very much influenced by Dr Seuss's originals), this book rattles through the different titles sleep and their key characters, knitting them together with the premise that these are all people baby will meet in the futurewell, through the wonder of children's books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008241651</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rachel Bright and Jim Field|title= The Squirrels Who Squabbled|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=First we had a cute little mouse finding his inner beast in [[The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright and Jim Field|The Lion Inside]] and then we had a nervous koala trying to move out of whatever takes his comfort zone in [[The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright and Jim Field|The Koala Who Could]] and now we have a couple of greedy, fighting squirrels. Whatever fancy next?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408340488</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester Clark|title= Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of The Wizard of Oz|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The timeless story that we all know as The Wizard of Oz is given a twist in this original interpretation by master story-crafter Michael Morpurgothe two. It But he's the tale of a character that seems to be so often overlooked in the well-known story: Dorothybad magician's faithful dogcat, Toto. We hear the whole story from so his point of viewfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, told in first person narrative from and the moment catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the tornado sweeps across Dorothy's Kansas farmregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Toto continues to tell the story as This time round it happens to him in drops them into a witty and charming manner as their house is lifted into the air and whisked away to the mysterious Viking land of Oz. Of course, Toto and Dorothy meet the absurd but loveable scarecrow without where a braintroll hunter is expected – well, tin man without a heart and lion who lacks courageone much bigger than Murray was, and together they set off along the yellow brick road to find the Wonderful Wizard of Ozbe honest, hoping that but he might help Toto 's turned up and Dorothy return home. Along the way, the tin man, scarecrow and lion learn that what they think they are missing might he'll have been there all along. to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008134596</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=J M Barrie The Adventures of Birpus and Robert IngpenBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Peter Pan Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and WendyIndre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=ItWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they's a childhood staple - re running for their lives in the story Forest of Wendy, John and Michael Darling and their beloved nurse, Nana Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Newfoundland dog who took Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them to school each day. ItHe's George Darlingright behind them, their fatherspewing hot, who makes the mistake when he locks Nana in the yard and the children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbellsour milk from his nostrils. There(Please don's t try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a wonderful mix ladder of characters, from Peter Panmoss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the boy who never wants to grow Tree Wee homes high up, Tinkerbell, in the rather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, Tiger Lilytangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, the lost boys Nester Nook and - of course - Wendy, but then it wouldn't have been a classic since the original stage production in 1904 and the novel of 1911 if it were otherwiseGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786750856</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Foges and Al MurphyB0CC9W7GLR|title=Bathroom BoogieOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45

|summary=Every day I leave the house with the feeling that I left Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it in a pretty tidy statewas better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on my return some things always seem out a snowy beach when a large slab of placesilvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. This is especially true On top of my bathroomthe ice was a polar bear. Why is there toothpaste on As the ice bumped onto the mirrorsand, or the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a flannel on run for it, but Teal knew that the floor? bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. It would appear that I may not actually He obviously needed to be to blame taken home on the bus and that when I'm at work all the bathroom items come out for given a boogiegood meal and somewhere to sleep. Will I ever catch them in the actWhat else would you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571337317</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fearne Cotton and Sheena Dempsey1913839656|title= Yoga BabiesLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating= 43.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Radio hostTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, TV presenter, fashion designer, author – is there anything Fearne Cotton can't do? Based on not least because she made the content best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this book, we can undoubtedly add Yogi as he wanted to the ongoing list of talentsmake new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because it's hard to imagine any other way in which this came into beinghe looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445645</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Claire Freedman and Jane Massey1529504775|title= Florence FrizzballThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Florence Frizzball has Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the frizziest, curliest, most out buses along the side of control mop of hair youthe park but David couldn't - he've ever seen! And she longs for smooth, sleek, brushable locks like all her friendsd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. As One day Elsie spotted a kid, I remember being chased round bus in the garden by my mother, brandishing a hair brush toy shop window which would help David - and trying was happy to use the coins from her money box to get me pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to sit still stand up, use the bus for support, and have my frizz sorted outwalk behind it. To say I identified with Florence would be an understatement. As Many decades later, Elsie brought the tale goes onbus, thoughnow damaged and rusted, we see another side to the story. Florence gets what she wantsRepair Shop, but when her dream comes true she quickly learns hoping that maybe she was wanting all the wrong things, and experts there could make it so that actually her frizzball is part of her identitygrandchildren could play with it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471144542</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Phil Allcock and Richard Watson1529504767|title= Clumpety BumpThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating= 45|genre= For Sharing|summary= Clumpety Bump likes apples. Nothing wrong with that, after all: they're tasty Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and full of goodnessnervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. But you don She needn't get delicious, juicy treats like that unless you deserve themhave worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, and naughty Clumpety is a bit too keen on saying ''I canwho couldn't be bothered'' when his friend Wally asks for helphave been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. So, after several disasters, Wally decides he'd be better off leaving Clumpety at home Gradually she relaxed and using his tractor insteadbegan to enjoy her life. Unfortunately, things don She't turn out too well, d help Mrs Russell with the baking and our two heroes learn that if you want when it came to be properly happy, other people need to be happy tooChristmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. Selfishness just makes everyone sad The best surprise happened the following morning. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862458</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jackie Morris and James Mayhew1916459943|title= Mrs Noah's PocketsSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating= 54|genre= For Sharing|summary= The heavy rainsMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, Noah building he just lies on his ark blanket and the animals going in two by two ''wails''. The sea offers to be savedhelp. This most familiar of stories has been retold time It rocks Baby gently and time again but not like thisthe waves sing ''hush, hush''. This time there is twist Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and someone else quietly takes centre stageyou have the sound perfectly. When Mr Noah builds the ark The mermaids join in - ''la lou, he makes two lists - one la lay...'' And for all the animals who will come on board and one for those troublesome creatures he will leave behinda moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Meanwhile, Mrs Noah gets out her sewing machine Then a seagull '''shouts''' and makes a coat with very deep pocketswe know exactly what's going to happen next. Lots of pockets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095909X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Papp140639131X|title=Madeleine Finn and the Library DogA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Madeleine Finn doesnPhilippa Pheasant was 't like 'tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to read - not anythingcross the Old Oak Road. ItShe wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn's not really her fault, you knowt even get a reply. Her teacher tries Philippa wasn't a bird to encourage sit back on her, but some of the other kids giggle tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she makes mistakes. And they pull faces saw the benefits of the type which lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would have given me my head in my hands to play with when I was a childset up something similar herself. The words just don't seem Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to come out right for her. The other children are getting gold stars (I've ''never'' liked that system) start with but all Madeleine gets is a heart sticker which tells her to keep trying. She's got plenty of thosethe benefits were obvious. All week she tries her best but doesn't get the star she longs foranimals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646326</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rose Blake1776574338|title= Going to SchoolLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn

|summary=Sidney Gibbons is always in trouble andEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, to make matters worsemakes his way through the city, picking up children as he insists on blaming goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the mess he makes on window and slide down his invisible friend – Kevinneck. This It's perfect, however, changes when Sidney actually meets Kevin and discovers what isn't it is like to ? What could be on the receiving end a more fun way of bad behaviour. In going to school? There is a magical world of make-believeproblem, Sidney finally comes though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to realise that be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's been selfish and resolves longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to put things right for both his invisible chum and his very own mumtraffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008207410</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rob Biddulph1776574028|title=Sunk!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=54

|summary=I love a good board book! ''Hoist the Colours! Set the Sail! ItBumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's time for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to hit have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the treasure trailelephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo'' Penguin Blue and . The rhinoceros who drops his friends are prepared to sail the seven seas in search of gold but they become unstuck when ice cream cone is a rip in their ship means they're suddenly SUNK'crynoceros'' (think about it! Luck is, however, ) The pelican who sits on their side and they find his potty changes into a handy desert island in the nick of time''sm....... Here they make a special new friend and ultimately find a treasure that'' OK, let's worth much more than gold.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008207402</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Rekulak and Kim Smith1838226834|title=The X-Files: Earth Children are Weird. A Picture BookCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4.5

|summary=We know It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that Dana Scully and Fox Mulder didn't know each other as childrenparents do, for they met much later on, at work for so the FBI. But if they had, they may well have camped trips out in the back yardwere always so much fun. They made have read scary stories A young boy was going to each otherthe carnival with his Grandad, but one thing is for sure – Mulderwho told him: ''It's imagination would have seen aliens everywhere. He would have seen mystery in the deep impression in the yardll be brilliant, horror in the shadowsjust remember, and the unexplained in any vaguely mysterious noise. For thatdon's what happens on the pages t let go of this picture book – but that's not my hand.''all'' that happens – the truth is something much more peculiar…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1683690273</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Akala Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Sav AkyuzHare|titleauthor=You Can do AnythingCordellya Smith|rating=3.54

|summary= If you think about rappingWhen the world was made, what comes to mind? 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. The hard streets of Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the East Coast present ''and West Coast of America as they brag about what cars they own and women they date? Rap is like any musical form; it varies greatly'' the future. There is loads of Gangster RapRabbit developed intelligence - but, but what about the pop of Will Smithunfortunately, or not the Grime of the UK? ability to use it well. Just have a look at the 80s for loads of unqualified people having a dabble in the format (Wham! Rap)He liked to trick other animals. Rap He was also jealous which was how he came to be in of itself is nothing but a way to project race with Turtle. You might think that's not a message fair contest but wait and if this message is see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about trying hard and succeeding, it could just be suitable for a kid's book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192747800</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jon BurgermanRob Keeley|title= Rhyme Crime|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Sometimes books for sharing need to be calm and gentle, soporific even, to lure little ones under the duvet and off to sleep. And sometimes books need to be utterly zany, full of bright colours, daft doodle-style illustrations and crazy rhymes for the child to shout out loud. Please, dear parent, do not try to read this wonderful book to your offspring within an hour or two of lights out. Seriously, be warned - You Will Regret It. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192749501</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Georgiana Deutsch and Ekaterina Trukhan|title= 10, 9, 8... Owls Up LateCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees! |rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= It's tough being a mother owl. Rather than just one or two rambunctious little ones to calm down ready for bed, she has ten of them! And there's so much going on in her tree that she must sometimes despair of ever getting them to sleep. But gradually, one by one, the owlets' eyes begin to droop and they make their way to their comfy little nest until at last . . . zzzzzz! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869704X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michelle Robinson and Claire Powell|title=Have You Seen My Giraffe?|rating=4.5

|summary=Imagine Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, if you willbroccoli, a world in which you no longer win goldfish cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at the fairschool turn up their noses, but Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you could potentially be coming home and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with a giraffe! This is the situation teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the family in this story find themselves inground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and it turns out that having a giraffe in your house may not go down too well with your parents!everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857075993</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Puttock and Matt RobertsonB09FFJF8YS|title=FluffywuffyYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik

|summary=Mr Moot''For the big, and his dog Fluffywuffygrownup girls out there, are very happy the potty masters in their quiet training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little life together. But one day, Mr Mootgirl's cousinfinal goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, Clarenceher cat, comes knocking at the door her stuffed rabbit and announces her baby sibling that he has come to stay for a week''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, or a monthnor the fish, or nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a yearbig girl now and she wants everyone to know it! Clarence turns out to be a most inconsiderate house guest. Whatever will Mr Moot do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808719</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emilia Dziubak Justine Avery and Przemyslaw WechterowiczNaday Meldova|title=The Secret Life of a TigerEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=If David Attenborough has taught Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us anything a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is that a lot goes on in . But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the natural world that we are unaware ofwrong time. Animals In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will hunt laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in interesting waysher ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, or find a mate using secret danceswith the familiar humour attached, but did you know explains that Tigers sometimes sneak up on apes tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and give them new haircutsSeema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? You will be amazed with Not Me!'' is the revelations found latest release in Emilia Dziubak the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and Przemyslaw Wechterowiczreplace it with some fun. It's booka worthy aim, but I am not convinced that this kid's book is based on factsas any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191027724X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Peter Bently When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Charles FugeMended|titleauthor=A Home Full of FriendsPeter Cotton

|summary=Bramble Badger was out looking Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for nuts by the river when the storm broke and he was so cold that he decided to go straight homereasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. On the way he met a trail But I'm getting ahead of devastationmyself: Snuffle DormouseI's house has been squashed by d better tell you a falling treebit more about Fred. She'd like shelter in Bramble's sett, if he has roomFred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He's arrived as a ''little'' bit reluctant because he thinks his sett is present in a mess box with holes so that he could breathe and there isn't much space or dinner availableimmediately became part of the family, but what can you do to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a friend is in need? walk. Next it's Tipper And that was where the Toad whose home is full of mud, then Boo the Hedgehogproblem started. Fred didn's nest has been covered by leavest have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492057X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill Atkins Justine Avery and Barbara VagnozziNaday Meldova|title=Peck, Hen, PeckEverybody Pees! and Ben's Pet (Early ReaderEverybody Potties!)

|summary=Can potty training ever be joyous? It probably sounds obviousoften isn't, but as any parent will tell you . But really , why shouldn't keep your pet chickens in a bag! Well, that's what I learned from this book which tells us first the story of Tom who puts his hen in a bag. The hen pecks through the bag, it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as hens are wont we have to do, and escapes! A simple and somewhat tragic tale! This is swiftly followed by a story learn about Beneverything else when we are small. Why shouldn's pet. Will it t potty training be another henas much fun as, I wonderedsay, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? No, actually, after several incorrect guesses, we discover that Ben's pet is only a rabbit!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848862482</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice Hemming Justine Avery and Louise ForshawNaday Meldova|title=Buzz and Jump! JumpNo, No, No! (Early Reader) |rating=54

|summary=After hearing a mysterious buzzing in They say the best picture books are the kitchensimplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, mum traps a fly in a jarBookbag favourite. ''No, No, but then she hears No!'' is based around the buzzing againsimplest text imaginable. ''No, no, no! Okay, okay.Yes, you may.what could be going on? Meanwhile'' That's it! But, Ken the Kangaroo (who declares himself to be like all the best at jumping)picture books, this tiny snippet of text 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 reada veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848862504</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Julia Seal194812467X|title=Bamboo The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and I Wish (Early Reader) Ema Tepic|rating=54

|summary=With two stories Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in one bookher bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, therethey see a big barn with a sign outside. It's plenty to like about a farm shop! But this simple, is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and funny, early readercustomers are farmyard animals. The first storyThere are sheep and ducks and cows, Bamboogoats and chickens, deals with a cheeky panda who has run off to hideand even some mice. Where can he be? The second story is about a wishing well which is granting wishes leftExcited, right Kirelle 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 yearSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862512</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title= Sarah Brennan Sadie and Jane Tannerthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor= Storm WhaleMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating= 3.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= This is one of the most beautiful picture books Sadie's mother always said that I have read for she was a whiledreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. ''Bleak was the day and She lives by the wind whipped downWhen I River Thames at Greenwich and my sisters walked she loves to town…''spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.

So begins this story of three sisters who set off to walk to ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the beach together houses cowered in this stunning and rather special picture bookthe gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. The cover illustration is reminiscent of traditional family holidays depicting three girls, hand in hand and wearing sunhats disappearing over sand dunes on their way to the beachHer imagination was fired. The story then departs from a typical seaside theme as She'd love to sail the sisters find a stranded whale oceans on the beach an ancient sailing ship and spend the went back regularly. One day in desperate attempts to save she fell asleep under a glass case (it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646253</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Barney Saltzberg|title= Chengdu Can Do|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= There's something utterly delightful (and, it must be said, sometimes infuriating, especially when youthe one where Nelson're in a hurrys Trafalgar breeches are on show) about and missed the closing bell and the toddlerattendant's determination to be independentwarning shout. Scrambling along using any handy piece of furniture or, if they When she woke (hard floors don't move fast enough, make comfy beds) she was in the family pet as a prop, exploring cupboards full midst of the most enticing objects, and the daily struggle to get as much dinner an adventure that she could never have imagined 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 attitudeworld of dolphins, so lauded by educationpirates, enterprise mermaids and big business, is a quality Chengdu the panda has in bucket-loads! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484758471</amazonuk>treasure.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sean Taylor and Kasia Matyjaszek1782227741|title=I am Actually a Penguin|rating=4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Do you know a child who loves to dress up? Well this is the perfect picture book for that child. Quite probably the perfect picture book for the parent of that child too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704519</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLittle Gold Ted|author=Barney Saltzberg|title=Chengdu Could NotVanessa Wiercioch, Would Not, Fall AsleepPoppy Satha and Sasha Satha

|summary=The list of entertaining things about toddlers does not include any of the following; throwing food against your recently painted wallsOne day, nappy deposits, or deciding to stay up way past their bedtimeGold Ted falls into a puddle. There are few things more unsettling to It's quite a parent than a toddler used deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to their routine suddenly deciding to stay up way past their bedtime; they scream, they procrastinate, they blub spin around and then finally collapse (around and that is just Mum and Dad)sucked down a drain on the side of the street. Finding himself The reason that so many childrendown in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE's books are about settling down ' he cries and going to bed is to avoid alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the staying up eventualitydirty water using his cane, so will which might look just a book about bit like an insomniac panda work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484775651</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer Coleman|title=Hidden World: Forest|rating=4old cricket bat.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Sometimes, less Reg is more. But a wood doesn't understand that, does it – it just stretches on kind soul and on, expanding outwards he dries Ted off and outwards, and upwards and upwards – it's quite warms him up with a galling thing for a young person to understandnice bowl of broth. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carles BallasterosB08R7LXQ9S|title=Nee Nah! Nee Nah! To the RescueRemy: Press the tabs, hear the sounds (Sound of the City)A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|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 itRemy is feeling miserable. ItHe's a substantially-built board book with suitably rounded corners for when itlet himself down ''again'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. The school bully Jayden, There's a helicoptertogether with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, a police carhave been laughing at Remy, a fire engine calling him names because he is short and an ambulancehas small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. For a lot of books for They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the youngest children that would be other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it - looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and a lot of children would enjoy looking at the pictures. But - thereteachers don's more..t believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937428</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Craig Shuttlewood1471191303|title=Town and Country (Turnaround Book)The Invisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=I know I should have been working but IThis is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn've just spent t afford to put the last hour pouring over heating on: ''Town Ice curled across the inside of the window and Countrycrept up the corner of the bedpost.''. On  The family didn't go to the face of it there's a very simple idea here: cinema or on holidays but they had each double-page spread you get examples of what happens in towns and what happens in the countryside with regard to various activities, modes of transport other and even things like beaches and snowthey were happy. You turn Then the book one way day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the country scene house and then flip it over for what happens in they had to move to the far side of the towncity. Down This part of the side of each page there's a list of things for you to findcity was cold, complete with a thumbnail of what it is you're looking forsad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404422</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 11/8 -->Frontpage|author=B C R Fegan Nick Jones and Lenny WenSi Clark|title=Henry and the Hidden TreasureOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5

|summary=Henry is a careful young man. He has a lot of treasure and he keeps it very well hidden. We might not call it 'treasure': like his parents we'd probably call it 'pocket money' and suggest that what he's not going to spend he should put in the bank. But Henry's worried Many children have an obsession and ''he'' knows that only ''he'' can keep his treasure safe. But whatSandy Lane, or wholives in Beartown, is he keeping his treasure safe ''from''? Well, he has 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 to steal his treasureobsessed with bears. Isn't that true of ''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 She collects 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 townabout bears. On every page the same question Her favourite toy is askedBerisford, beginning with 'How many a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. . . ?'Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and the toddler, with the help of an adult or older sibling, will soon learn says goodnight to touch the named items on the page and under the flapbear statue outside. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030365</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alison Jay|title= Alison Jay's ABC|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= At first glanceEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, 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, colourful painted bear that's all most small people will see first time round. But look a little closer . . lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787410196</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} {{newreview|author=Anna Kovecses|title=Opposite Things|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Rearing a child is not a competition, but have a conversation with a certain type of parent and they won't agree. Their child can speak four languages. Their child wrote their first sonnet at the age of three. Their child can be seen wistfully looking into the middle distance just wanting to play Move on the bouncy castle. For me, I am happy, if my child is happy; be that doing sums, or eating play-doh. However, even with a relaxed attitude to educating your kid, 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>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]