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[[imageCategory:lumplump.jpgNew Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|centerauthor=Adam Stower|linktitle=https://booksMurray and Bun|rating=4.google.com/books?id5|genre=dDc9DQAAQBAJ&printsecConfident Readers |summary=frontcover&dq=lump+lump+Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and+the+blanket+catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of+dreams&hlfrightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=en&sa0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=X&ved1732898766|title=0ahUKEwiz47visd3QAhVT_WMKHQ8CA8UQ6AEIHTAA#vThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=onepage&q=lump%20lump%20and%20the%20blanket%20of%20dreams&fWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=false]]4<hr/>[[Category:New Reviews|genre=For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - Remove -->and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=James Thorp Chris Green and Angus MackinnonJenny Fionda|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. 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. Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that 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 good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=The Elephant in the RoomLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee

|summary=Somebody has smashed Father Giant's elephantTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. Who on earth could it be? He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Can Father Giant unravel She had promised to take him to the mystery of what happenedFriday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and who will face being banished from the house forever once he discovers the truth? wondered why that could be. Told in a rhyme Grandma thought that gets more and more surreal as it goes along, this is a wild and brightly illustrated mystery story, with an interesting moral at the endmight be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707739</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessie Miller and Barbara Bakos1529504775|title=Rooster Wore Skinny JeansThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=One of the best things about modern online shopping is the knock on Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the door park and watch the parcel arrivingred buses drive past. What Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was it I ordered again? very difficult. It could be something as exciting as One day Elsie spotted a new bus in the toy, or something shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as boring as a new mixer for your showercash was tight at home. The anticipation of opening the box is as close Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the feeling of Christmas that an adult is going to get (except perhaps bus for Christmas)support, and walk behind it. Rooster has ordered something online Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it arrived quickly. Will his farmyard pals appreciate his buy as much as he does?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862822</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bob Graham1529504767|title= How the Sun Got to Coco's HouseThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= A tale of small moments: sunlight on a sailor's cap as he sets out on an early-morning fishing expedition, a rainbow after a shower and a glint of light Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in a whale's eye. While Coco sleeps, curled up snugly in her bed, creatures 1939 and people across the world are waking up nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to the sunher final destination. It chases She needn't have worried though as she went to the night away across the globehome of Mr and Mrs Russell, until at last a bright ray finds its way who couldn't have been kinder to Coco's window and wakes her . She even had her own room - all to another day of fun and laughter as she plays outside in the snowherself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406373451</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Katie Haworth Gradually she relaxed and Dinara Mirtalipova|title= Beauty and the Beast|rating= 4began to enjoy her life.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= We all know She'd help Mrs Russell with the story of beauty baking and the beast. A prince, transformed in when it came to a monster for his cruel Christmas Eve Susan and malicious nature, trapped in his grotesque form seemingly for Mr Russell put the rest of his days. Then comes along a young woman, decorations on the beauty of the story, who mellows the beast's harsh character and grows to love him for who he is, and not because of his appearanceChristmas tree. It's a fairy tale of old and a story of love crossing boundaries which has been adapted countless times both on screen and in literature. So is this new retelling worth The best surprise happened the read? I think so, because I loved itfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704578</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lemony Snicket and Matthew Forsythe1916459943|title=The Bad Mood and the StickSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary=As the title suggestsMuch as mothers love their babies, this is there's something they all dread - a story about a bad mood and a sticksqueakily baby. The bad mood (an emoji He's so tired but he can't - or won't -like cloud character) moves from one character go to anothersleep: instead, travelling all around the world he just lies on his blanket and causing unpredictable consequences''wails''. The stick is just sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a stick sandy beach and does very little other than providing a home you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a cocoon that gives birth moment it seems to butterflyhave worked as Baby closes his eyes. The stick Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's final home in the window of the ice cream shop does, however, put the shop owner, Bert, in a good moodgoing to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783446420</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sean Taylor and Claire Alexander140639131X|title= The SnowbearA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= TherePhilippa Pheasant was ''tired''s a sense of wonder and stillness about fresh-fallen snow, whatever your agenearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. Sounds are muffled, familiar objects and places are transformed, and She wrote to the possibility of magic hangs in mayor about the frosty airproblem but didn't even get a reply. And for Iggy and Martina, playing outside Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on just such her tail feathers when there was a winter's day, reality swiftly turns into enchantment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277398</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David Melling|title= Merry Christmas, Hugless Douglas|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Hugless Douglas is a large, comfy sort problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of bear who burst onto the picture book scene a few years ago as he searched for just lollipop lady at the right sort of hug. His endearing, hopeful face school crossing and decided that chubby (to put it politely) body instantly melted young hearts, she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to universal delight we have since been treated to several more of his adventuresstart with but the benefits were obvious. Douglas is hugless no longer, you'll be glad to know, but All the animals used the name stuck, mostly because it's such fun to say (go on, try it!) crossing and because he still bumbles through life embracing everything in sight as if cuddles are about Hedgehog was even trained up to go out of fashionprovide a safe path overnight. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444906844</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet1776574338|title=Supertato: Evil Pea RulesLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn

|summary=For all their heroics and lantern jawsEvery morning Leilong, everyone knows that the good guy is never brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the best thing about a book or filmcity, picking up children as he goes. That accolade goes to Children who live at the bad guy. They are able top of tower blocks don't even need to chew go downstairs – they simply climb out of the scenery window and give the type of larger than life performance a hero could only dream ofslide down his neck. One of the best bad guys in childrenIt's fiction perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is not a guy at allproblem, but a peathough. An evil pea. At last this pea is given his opportunity Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to shine, but be careful about where there is an Evil Pea, he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a Supertato cannot tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be far behindthe bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471144062</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Coelho and Fiona Lumbers1776574028|title=Luna Loves Library DayBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott

|summary=Luna I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is always excited when library day comes around, not just because she gets to take her aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books back and borrow some new ones(er, see my first sentence) but also because ithas mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play''s the day she spends with her dadwords and make something quite different from each one. Once inside the library, magical things occur as We have the books Luna elephant who dons a tutu - and her dad discover seemingly come to life. They spend their time together sharing stories, some that are more significant than others, until itbecomes a ''balletphant''s time for Luna to go home. Yet even once she's home, she still The buffalo who has her newly borrowed books to escape into, had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and the memories of her day then dries off with her dada hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445483</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alison Ritchie and Marisa Morea|title= The Twelve Dogs of Christmas|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Christmas rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is approaching and one little puppy is very excited a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his first ever Christmas Daypotty changes into a ''sm....... Everywhere he looks the preparations '' OK, let's not go there Some people are underway with every dog in town helping out. However will so many eager assistants joining in the fray help or hinder and will everything ever be ready in time?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471166171</amazonuk>eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Seuss1838226834|title=What Was I Scared Of?Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall

|summary=All HallowsIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They' Eve is upon us once more and that can only mean that we are soon re there to be surrounded by undo all types of monsters, ghoulies and manifestations. Fear not, as many of these unsettling creatures will actually be children dressed up on another adventure trick or treating. But what about the good that pair of seemingly malevolent trousers that walk by themselves? That is no childparents do, but a pair of haunted kecksso the trips out were always so much fun. Run, run, run, but perhaps if you have them a friendly hello these pants may be nicer than you think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008252602</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Morag Hood|title=I Am Bat|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Bat is a creature A young boy was going to the carnival with very definite opinions. He does not like mornings, for example, but he does like cherries. In fact, he really loves cherries, as they are his ''favourite of all things!'' What do you think might happen if somebody takes Bat's cherries? Bat won't be happyGrandad, will he?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509834613</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dr Seuss|title=I Can Read With My Eyes Shut|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=''The more that you read,''<br>''The more things you will know.''<br>''The more that you learn,''<br>''The more places you'll go.''who told him:

This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's school library! The book is very silly'It'll be brilliant, as Dr Seuss always isjust remember, but is also a good rhyming ode to the joys don't let go of readingmy hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008240019</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Kes Gray Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Jim FieldHare|titleauthor=Oi Cat!Cordellya Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=When did children's books become so Meta? Back in the day each Thomas the Tank Engine adventure world was separate from made, the other as if they lived in their own episodic wildness, but not todayanimals were given gifts. In this world of Nintendo Switches and online platforms the average adult is too scared to venture onto, we have metaphysical children booksBear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Books Water Spider received a strong web that reflect back on previous outings in the serieseven fire could not burn. If you are going to get Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the most out of present ''Oi Cat!and''the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, you best know about your ''Oi Frog!'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 Turtle. You might think that' s not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I''Oi Dog!'' tooll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444932519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cath Jones and Chris JevonsRob Keeley|title=Bonkers about BeetrootCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54

|summary=Sunset Safari Park rarely has any visitors Lily loves eating fruit and is in danger of closing downvegetables. To tackle the problem Zebra calls a meeting of all the animals She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and challenges them aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to find a way explain how good they are for you and how nice to make the safari park more interestingeat. Penguin thinks there's no hope but Zebra has a totally bonkers idea – they'll One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow a beetrooton trees. They'll Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow the biggest beetroot in the world! It should be easy because they have plenty of manure (animal poo) to help it growground. At first it looks like Zebra's plan is going Jordan says, "I did try to work. One beetroot grows so big that crowds of people come to see it. There is just one problem – the beetroot keeps growing. Soon there won't be any room for visitors. Luckilytell her, Zebra has another idea: an equally bonkers but totally brilliant ideaMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848862814</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Madeleine Cook and Samara HardyB09FFJF8YS|title=The Turkey That Voted For ChristmasYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5

|summary=Most right minded people have had enough of politics ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in recent years so the last thing that you want to read to your child training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a book all about an electioncry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride. At least this election ''  And so it is set on ! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a farmlittle girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, but anyone familiar with a certain George Orwell novel will know her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that this does not always turn out for ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the bestbirds. Boy's certainly can't. Surely a kidShe's book is not going a big girl now and she wants everyone to reflect modern politics? I mean, when have we recently seen turkeys voting for Christmas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192765957</amazonuk>know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate Jane NealJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Words and Your HeartEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|genre=For Sharing |summary=TrollingToots, bullyingtrumps, cyber-shamingfarts. Whatever your word for them, whatever-itfind us a child that doesn's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage t find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about sticks and stones is actually a lot of piffle. In a world where we all have heartsjoke about, we should have a heart that what we say to other people is positive. We can examine our world and But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the sound it makes through communicationwrong time. In class, we can make each other smilesay, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh, sing and be happy together, and bit by bit the world can be a better place. And hang the 'no, after At you. Justine Avery' attitude some people would have s latest entry in response. Thereher ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, I've given with the entire plot of this book away in my summaryfamiliar humour attached, but explains thattooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''s not really an issue.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471168530</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt TavaresB09BG8V3Q6|title=Red Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and LuluSeema Amjad

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Meet Red and Lulu. They're a committed couple of cardinals, and they have lived for some time in someone's garden, safely Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in an evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the tree ''thy leaves are so unchangingEverybody Potties!''series from Justine Avery. But one year, just as the seasons turn for This series of fun picture books aims to take the cold pain out of winterpotty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376922</amazonuk>as any frustrated parent will tell you. .

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jim Helmore and Richard JonesB07GZ81J7C|title= The Snow Lion|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Caro and her mother arrive at their new home in darkness. Once inside, When Fred the house is white, bare Snake Got Squished and empty. Caro wishes that she has someone to play with and feels a little lost and small. Then one day she hears a noise and a gentle voice asking to play. She has a new friend and a very special one. The Snow Lion has appeared as if by magic to help Caro learn how to make friends of her own and maybe find the courage she has been hiding inside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162230</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMended|author=Rachel Bright|title=All I Want For ChristmasPeter Cotton

|summary=All I want for Christmas is my two front teethMeet Fred. Well, actually, filed down you're going to a normal sizebe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. We all want different things on the 25th December; some ask for world peace, whilst others ask for something But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more achievable like a Tamagotchiabout Fred. Whatever you want, Fred is it really the true meaning a snake and even those of the season? us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. ''All I Want For Christmas'' by Rachel Bright is He arrived as a present in a nice reminder box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the real reason for Chrimbo is not gift givingfamily, but to the opportunity to spend time extent that they would take Fred out with loved onesthem when they went out for a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331667</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Moira Butterfield Justine Avery and Holly SterlingNaday Meldova|title=Everybody Feels AngryPees!(Everybody Potties!)|rating=54

|summary=Children donCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't deal easily with the emotions which flood the brain - and then chaos ensues, as any parent will tell you. You can try discussing the problem before it happens or immediately afterwardsBut really, but children donwhy shouldn't appreciate the abstract eitherit be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. What you need is a specific exampleWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, an occasion which they'll readily recognise learning about why the sun and can then see how the emotion boils up and explodes. Moira Butterfield has produced a series of books, illustrated by Holly Sterling, which moon take a couple of times when an emotion takes everything over. One applies to a girl and one to a boy and we see how turns in the situations resolve themselves.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784938556</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Donaldson Justine Avery and Axel SchefflerNaday Meldova|title=The Ugly FiveNo, No, No!

|summary=Creating They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a popular character is a double edged sword; one side is buckets of cold hard cashBookbag favourite. ''No, No, the other No!'' is people demanding that you trot out based around the same old stuffsimplest text imaginable. Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler created the behemoth that is  ''The GruffaloNo, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.'' That' and you could forgive them for producing countless s it! But, like all the best picture books in , this series, but they do not. Anyone who tiny snippet of text is a fan of veritable tardis - so much bigger on the pairing will already know inside that their other work is also excellent; just ask ''Superworm'' or ''Room it appears on the Broom''. This is an established author/illustrator partnership and any new outing from them is exciting. Even if that is an outing about really ugly animalsoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407174193</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Richard Byrne194812467X|title= I Want to Go FirstThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's so not faira farm shop! Why should Elphie go last, just because he's the littlest? This But this is a question which will speak to the heart of many young children, especially those farm shop with siblingsa difference: all the smallest bedroom, hand-me-down books that have been read stallholders and reread till their edges customers are frayed farmyard animals. . . but don't worryThere are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, Elphie has found the solutionand even some mice. Only thing isExcited, he's going to need the reader's help to achieve his goalKirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192749730</amazonuk>What will they buy?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alex T Smith0995647895|title= Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers |summary= Mr Penguin is a brand new ''Professional Adventurer''. He has a dashing hat, a large magnifying glass and an important looking office in his igloo to prove it. All he needs now is an adventure to go on. Just as he is beginning to despair of ever being asked to solve a mystery Boudicca Bones from the museum phones and asks for help. Can he Sadie and his trusty sidekick, Colin (the spider with expertise in martial arts!) find her missing treasure? Will the adventure become too dangerous for them? And will Mr Penguin ever have time to eat his fish finger sandwich packed lunch?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444932063</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSea Dogs|author=Colleen Jacey Maureen Duffy and Zed Jacey|title=Madge Eekal's ChristmasAnita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=It was nearly Christmas and all the witches except Madge Eekal were busy putting up their festive lights. MadgeSadie's pet dragonmother always said that she was a dreamer, Ashon, wanted to know her mind never on what had happened to their fairy lightsshe should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The truth was that Madge Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''tried<br>'' to get them to workWhen all the houses cowered in the gloom, but it seemed that the fairies were on strike: she ''couldn<br>''To the Maritime Museum't'. Her imagination was fired. She' get them d love to worksail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. Ashon knew that One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it would, of course, have been much easier if they had electricity, like everyone else 's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and that decided Madge - they would make their own electricity. She knew the perfect spellattendant's warning shout. Ashon When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was doubtfulin the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure... and rightly so as it turned out|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036530</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Herve Tullet1782227741|title=Say Zoop!Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=2.54

|summary=The average toddler has One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's 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 attention span side of the time it takes street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to …panic..SQUIRREL! Many modern children's books are packed full of flaps, textures 'OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and gimmicks in alerts the desperate hope that they can draw attention of Reg the reader away from CBeebies for just five minutes. To grab them and keep themsewer rat, your book should be shortwho plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, punchy and funwhich might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. What you don't want to do Reg is take a reasonable idea kind soul and he dries Ted off and play it out for page, after page, after page. What's that ….warms him up with a nice bowl of broth. SQUIRREL!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452164738</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie BlakeB08R7LXQ9S|title=I Can't Sleep!Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4.5

|summary=Simon the little rabbit Remy is back! feeling miserable. He's not so little now, and his baby brother (from let himself down ''Stupid Baby by Stephanie Blakeagain'') . The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has grown small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up into a toddler. This time we Remy when nobody can see Simon and Caspar playing happily together but thenpush him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, in the nightwhen Remy reacts, poor Caspar realises that it looks as though he's forgotten his blanket outside! What will was the two brothers do? Caspar says instigator. And then he cangets into trouble at school and the teachers don't sleep without his blanketbelieve him when he tries to explain what happened...will Simon be able to help him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571630</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje1471191303|title=Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend?The Invisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=I'd like you to meet WorzelThis is the story of Isobel, but you'll need to do exactly what I saya little girl who made a big difference. Worzel is quite Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a big dogvery cold house, but that doesnbecause her parents couldn't mean that heafford to put the heating on: 's fierce, or even very brave. In fact, he's frightened, Ice curled across the inside of the window and little as you are, he's frightened of you. He'd like to meet you though: can you see that nose just poking out from crept up the side corner of the sofa? Now he's peering over the cushion - and finally he's risking leaving that ''verybedpost.'' safe place he's found, behind the sofa.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787111601</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Emma Yarlett|title=Nibbles: The Dinosaur Guide|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Some of you may already be aware of Nibbles. He is a little monster that likes family didn't go to nibble everythingthe cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Nibbles nibbles socks, Nibbles nibbles clocks, but Then the day came when they couldn't afford the thing that Nibbles likes to nibble most is books! Therefore, putting him in a book is not rent for the safest place as he will try house and eat his way out. Whilst they had to move to the first book saw far side of the tyke getting into trouble in fairy tales, this time it is non-fiction that has whetted his appetite and in particular a book all about dinosaurs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696914</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexandre Lacroix and Ronan Badel|title=Dragons: Father and Son|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=You know dragonscity. They're there to look splendid and fierceThis part of the city was cold, sad and to burn down human villages in rampages, with or without treasure in mind. But they need to be trained in that. And our father dragon has just tasked his son dragon with that very errand - to go lonely and torch a human houseIsobel felt invisible. The lad is reluctant to cook anything more severe than lunch - what could possibly happen?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277231</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David McKee|title= Elmer Nick Jones and the Tune|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Everybody loves a catchy tune, but sometimes you come across one that you just can't get out of your head, no matter how hard you try. And that's what has happened to Elmer and his friends – all over the jungle, folk are humming the same tune, over and over and over again, and passing it on to their friends and neighbours like a musical virus. Anyone who has heard about how the wheels on that wretched bus go round and round eleventy-seven gazillion times on a long car journey will know what we mean. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445467</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Dr Seuss and Tish Rabe|title= Oh Baby, the Places You'll Go|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary=A slightly odd concept to get one's head around, ''Oh Baby, the Places You'll Go'' is both a book within a book, and a book sized advert all in one. Dr Seuss (fun fact: 'Seuss' originally rhymed with 'voice') wrote many, many books in his lifetime, 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]] 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 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 and their key characters, knitting them together with the premise that these are all people baby will meet in the future, 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 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 next?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408340488</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester Si 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 Morpurgo. It's the tale of a character that seems to be so often overlooked in the well-known story: Dorothy's faithful dog, Toto. We hear the whole story from his point of view, told in first person narrative from the moment the tornado sweeps across Dorothy's Kansas farm. Toto continues to tell the story as it happens to him One Night in a witty and charming manner as their house is lifted into the air and whisked away to the mysterious land of Oz. Of course, Toto and Dorothy meet the absurd but loveable scarecrow without a brain, tin man without a heart and lion who lacks courage, and together they set off along the yellow brick road to find the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, hoping that he might help Toto and Dorothy return home. Along the way, the tin man, scarecrow and lion learn that what they think they are missing might have been there all along. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008134596</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=J M Barrie and Robert Ingpen|title=Peter Pan and WendyBeartown

|summary=It's a childhood staple - the story of Wendy, John and Michael Darling Many children have an obsession and their beloved nurseSandy Lane, Nana the Newfoundland dog who took them to school each daylives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. It's George DarlingHer favourite toy is Berisford, their fathera teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, who makes the mistake when he locks Nana in the yard she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbellbear statue outside. There's a wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, the boy who never wants Every morning she says hello to grow up, Tinkerbell, the rather unpleasant fairyBee Bear, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, the lost boys 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 otherwisecolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786750856</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]