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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ellie SandallAdam Stower|title=BirdsongMurray and Bun
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=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 catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening 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…
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1732898766
|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon
|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=One by one When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the birds land on Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the branchSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. Each is a different species He's right behind them, spewing hot, each has different plumagesour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and most importantly each has when a different call. The chorus ladder of birdsong builds up moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up and to the Tree Wee homes high up until in the biggest bird of all lands on the branchtangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, with his loud shriekNester Nook and Granny Cranny. Ah, but who's this about to land on the branch with him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405247371</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anu Stohner and Henrike WilsonB0CC9W7GLR|title=Charlotte On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and the WolvesJenny Fionda|rating=3.5
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|summary=Hot on the heels of her adventure in [[Brave Charlotte by Anu Stohner Kit and Henrike Wilson|Brave Charlotte]]Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, the brave little sheep is back. She's as bold as everbored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the older sheep have stopped worrying about her wild waysshoreline. Added into On top of the mix are ice was a gang of teenage sheep who call themselves The Wolves polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and worry with wobbly legs moved from the lambsice. When real wolf howls can be heard Kit was all for making a run for it, but not by Teal knew that the shepherd or Jack bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the old sheepdog, it's down to Charlotte bus and given a good meal and somewhere to save the day againsleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802589</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hiawyn Oram and Sarah Warburton1913839656|title=Rumblewick and the Dinner Dragons (The Rumblewick Letters)Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
|rating=3.5
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|summary=Haggy Aggy is an unscary witch Todd 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 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 decides she wants Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends with dragons. Her cat, Rumblewick Spellwacker Mortimer B, is a little unsure of this At home, so writes to his only friend Grimey for advicewas his mum and he wondered why that could be. Their correspondence fills this latest book in the ''Rumblewick Letters'' series, following on from [[My Unwilling Witch (The Rumblewick Letters) by Hiawyn Oram|My Unwilling Witch]] Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160642</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Conway and Melanie Williamson1529504775|title=The Great Nursery Rhyme DisasterToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Little Miss Muffet is fed up Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of being constantly scared by a spider, so she ups sticks the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and heads for even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a different page of bus in the book, toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to see if use the characters of another nursery rhyme will let coins from her join inmoney box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. She tries one rhyme after another Gradually, but things never quite work David learned to planstand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Will she find a nursery rhyme 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 suits her to a T?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340945087</amazonuk>grandchildren could play with it.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Gravett1529504767|title=Blue ChameleonThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
|rating=5
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|summary=The chameleon is feeling blue because heSusan 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's lonelyt have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, so he goes who 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. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and visits a yellow banana, pink cockatoo, swirly snail, brown boot, when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and so Mr Russell put the decorations onthe Christmas tree. Each time, not only does he change his colour to match The best surprise happened the object or animal, but he also contorts himself into a shape that matches themfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704247</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Inga Moore1916459943|title=Six Dinner Sid - A Highland AdventureSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=3.54
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|summary=Sid the cat has six owners in six different housesMuch as mothers love their babies, and he munches his way through six dinners there's something they all dread - a daysqueakily baby. This big ol He' greedyguts has a great lifes so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, but then one day he just lies on his owners all decide they want blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to go on holidayhelp. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. They consider putting him in Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a cattery, but they sandy beach and you have strange rules like one meal per catthe sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, not sixla lay... They give '' And for a moment it some thought, seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and eventually decide we know exactly what's going to all go on holiday together, taking Sid with themhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988940</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Foreman140639131X|title=Why The Animals Came To TownA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=34.5
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|summary=A young boy looks out Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of his bedroom window and sees 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 parade of animals walking up his streetreply. They Philippa wasn've come t a bird to show him sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the deserts school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and ice caps, lollipop stick were both a little amateur to warn him of start with but the importance of taking care of Earthbenefits were obvious. Without All the animals, he realises used the world would be crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a much more desolate placesafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406318019</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Wormell1776574338|title=One Smart FishLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=ManyEvery morning Leilong, manythe brontosaurus school bus, many years agomakes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the ocean was full top of amazing fishtower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. The most amazing fish was It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a boring-looking silver fishproblem, who was smarter than all though. Leilong isn't happy in the others. He played chess (against himself), drew pictures and performed plays. One day, city: he decided 's always having to see what life was like on land, so be careful about where he invented puts his feet and went for – because he's longer than a walktennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. Yep, you The school decides that he can've guessed it: it's a picture book about evolutiont be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083546</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Reidy and Genevieve Leloup1776574028|title=Too Purply!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=ItI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's time for schoolthe child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the young girl elephant who dons a tutu - and her tortoise donbecomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''t want to wear any of their clothes. They The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros''re too purply, too tickly, too puckery, too prickly, and so (think about it!) The pelican who sits onhis potty changes into a ''sm..... You get the idea. Adjectives abound in this fun getting dressed book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803151</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1838226834
|title=Carried Away With the Carnival
|author=Ed Boxall
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=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 parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Angela McAllister Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Alex T SmithHare|titleauthor=My Mum Has X-Ray VisionCordellya Smith
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Milo suspects his mum has x-ray visionWhen the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. She can Owl had excellent sight so that he could see through the ceiling downstairs when hepresent ''and''s jumping on her bedthe future. She can see through Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the outside wall when ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how hecame to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's making potions in the garden in her saucepans. Is she really not a superhero? Milo puts her to the testfair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105388</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Yolen and Mark TeagueRob Keeley|title=How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=3.54
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|summary=[[How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen|How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?]] was a witty Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and visually creative tale of Very Bad Bedtime Behaviour aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for modern children enamoured of dinosaursyou and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. 'How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?' continues Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the formulaground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, this time with table mannersMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007216092</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Lum and Sue HellardB09FFJF8YS|title=Princesses Are Not PerfectYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Princesses Allie''For the big, Mellie and Libby love bakinggrownup girls out there, gardening and building respectively. The day before the big summer partypotty masters in training, they suddenly fancy "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a change cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and all swap jobspersevering panty pride. With a hundred punnets of blueberries to pick, a hundred cupcakes to make, and a hundred chairs to build, the children are going to be awfully disappointed if the princesses' new-found interests aren't successful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599297</amazonuk>}}
And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little 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, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackie French Justine Avery and Bruce Whatley Naday Meldova|title=Emily and the Big Bad BunyipEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The author-illustrator partnership Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that created 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 ''Everybody Potties!'Diary of a Wombat'series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, [[Pete with the Sheep by Jackie Frenchfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|Pete the Sheep]] 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!'Josephine Wants to Dance' bring all their Aussie characters together is the latest release in a Christmas book the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a Antipodean twistworthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007324278</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham OakleyB07GZ81J7C|title=The Church MouseWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Arthur the church mouse lives in peace with Sampson the meek church catMeet Fred. Well, actually, but he gets lonely from time you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to timehim. He hits on arrived as a present in a great idea: box with holes so that he'll invite all the other mice could breathe and immediately became part of the town family, to come and live the extent that they would take Fred out with them. The parson agrees, as long as when they agree to do went out for a few odd jobs around walk. And that was where the placeproblem started. Then one day, a burglar breaks in and there Fred didn's no-one around to stop him but Arthur, Sampson and the mice.t have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1840116102</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janet Charters Justine Avery and Michael ForemanNaday Meldova|title=The GeneralEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
|rating=4
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|summary=General Jodhpur keeps his soldiers busyCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, polishing their boots and practising shootingas any parent will tell you. He wants But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to become the most famous general in the whole worldlearn about everything else when we are small. One dayWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, he's thrown off his horsesay, learning about why the sun and discovers the joys of lying moon take turns in the grass. On his walk home, he gets a chance to smell the flowers, and soon sets about putting his soldiers to more peaceful activities.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763648752</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{Frontpage
|author=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova
|title=No, No, No!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Isadora and Clement Clarke Moore194812467X|title=The Night Before ChristmasFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
|rating=4
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|summary=Everyone knows Kirelle and loves Clement Clarke Moore's poem ''A Visit From St Nicholas''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. Even if you don't go As they walk to the whole hog, gathering the family round by the log fire, and reading it together, its opening line top of '''Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the househill, not they see a creature was stirring, not even big barn with a mouse..sign outside.It'' fills you s a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a warm glowdifference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. You can practically smell the mulled wine There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and hear the snores of Auntie Gertrude during the Queen's Speecheven some mice. It's an absolute classicExcited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399254080</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Jill Tomlinson Sadie and Paul Howardthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=The Penguin Who Wanted To Find OutMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Otto the penguin lives on his fatherSadie's feet at the bottom of the worldmother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. He's an inquisitive little thing and wants to know why they haven't fallen off She lives by the world. His dad explains that they won't Because I say so. Otto River Thames at Greenwich and his friend Leo gradually expand their horizons from their fathers' feet - they meet other penguin chicks, get she loves to know their aunts who watch them when their fathers are away, and eventually grow feathers so they're big enough to toboggan on their bellies and swim in the seaspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140523041X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Abbott Nez 1782227741|title=Cromwell Dixon's Sky-CycleLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
|rating=4
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|summary=Meet Cromwell DixonOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. HeIt's quite a real tinkerer, forever in deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a barn or somewhere building something manically unusualdrain on the side of the street. Finding himself Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with that word - down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he's around at cries and alerts the attention of Reg the birth sewer rat, who plucks him out of powered flightthe dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Will his plans for Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a pedalled air machine work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>nice bowl of broth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Helmore and Karen WallB08R7LXQ9S|title=Oh No, Monster Tomato!Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
|rating=4
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|summary=Marvin Remy is entering the Great Grislygust Grow-Offfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. 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 small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just like himthat little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, his tomatoes arenit looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't growing very big. He takes the only sensible course of action: believe him when he sings his tomatoes a song. The results are spectacular. Victory is surely within his grasptries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524741X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1471191303
|title=The Invisible
|author=Tom Percival
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=This 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't afford to put the heating on:
''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.''
The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Iain Smyth Nick Jones and Michael TerrySi Clark|title=The Wide-Mouthed FrogOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary=Do you know the joke about the wide-mouthed frog? You must Many children have heard it. It's a classic. It's one that you really need to tell an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in personBeartown, is obsessed with your fingers pulling your mouth wide openbears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, but to hopefully spark your memorya teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, the wide-mouthed frog introduces himself to a number she looks out of animals until he finally comes across a crocodile who eats wide-mouthed frogs, her bedroom window and says goodnight to the frog does his best bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to disguise who he is whilst saying ''OohBee Bear, you don't see many of those round here, do you?'' I'm hardly doing it justice, but it's very cheesy and funny. Anyway, this is a book of colourful painted bear that jokelives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408804964</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}