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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roger HargreavesAdam Stower|title=Mr Nobody (Mr Men Murray and Little Misses)Bun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Mr Nobody 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 somebody who sort 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 is frightening adventure and sort of isn'twhiffs. Mr Happy comes across him This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one daymuch bigger than Murray was, and does his best to cheer him up. Who could possibly help a person whobe honest, but he's sort of there turned up and sort of isnhe't? Ah, the Wizard!ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405251425</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|authortitle=Tony Mitton The Adventures of Birpus and Guy Parker-ReesBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Jolly Olly OctopusWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=3.54
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|summary=Jolly Olly Octopus 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 giggling underneath the seachasing them. He's soon joined by two tickly turtlesright behind them, three smiley seahorsesspewing hot, and so on through the numberssour milk from his nostrils. The large cast of underwater animals are having a jolly ol (Please don't try this at home: it won' timet end well.) Fortunately, until they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a shark appears.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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846166861</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie SandallB0CC9W7GLR|title=BirdsongOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=One by one the birds land on the branch. Each is a different speciesKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, each has different plumagebored but warm, or frozen cold and most importantly each has building sand sculptures on a different callsnowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. The chorus On top of birdsong builds up and up and up until the biggest bird of all lands on ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the branchsand, the bear woke and with his loud shriekwobbly legs moved from the ice. Ah Kit was all for making a run for it, but who's this about Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to land be taken home on the branch with himbus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405247371</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anu Stohner and Henrike Wilson1913839656|title=Charlotte and the WolvesLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=Hot on Todd was excited about spending the heels weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of her adventure in [[Brave Charlotte by Anu Stohner dungarees and Henrike Wilson|Brave Charlotte]], the brave little sheep is backhis favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She's as bold as ever, had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and the older sheep have stopped worrying Todd was pleased about her wild waysthis as he wanted to make new friends. Added into the mix are a gang of teenage sheep who call themselves The Wolves At home, his only friend was his mum and worry the lambshe wondered why that could be. When real wolf howls can Grandma thought that it might be heard, but not by the shepherd or Jack the old sheepdog, it's down to Charlotte to save the day againbecause he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802589</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hiawyn Oram and Sarah Warburton1529504775|title=Rumblewick and the Dinner Dragons The Toy Bus (The Rumblewick LettersRepair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=34.5
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|summary=Haggy Aggy is an unscary witch Elsie and decides she wants her little brother David loved to make friends go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with dragonscerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. Her cat, Rumblewick Spellwacker Mortimer B, is One day Elsie spotted a little unsure of thisbus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, so writes David learned to his friend Grimey stand up, use the bus for advicesupport, and walk behind it. Their correspondence fills this latest book in Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the ''Rumblewick Letters'' seriesRepair Shop, following on from [[My Unwilling Witch (The Rumblewick Letters) by Hiawyn Oram|My Unwilling Witch]]hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160642</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Conway and Melanie Williamson1529504767|title=The Great Nursery Rhyme DisasterChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=Little Miss Muffet is fed up of being constantly scared by a spider, so Susan was very young when she ups sticks was evacuated from London in 1939 and heads for a different page nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of the bookMr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to see if the characters of another nursery rhyme will let her join in. She tries one rhyme after another, but things never quite work even had her own room - all to planherself. Will Gradually she find a nursery rhyme that suits relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to a T?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340945087</amazonuk>Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Gravett1916459943|title=Blue ChameleonSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=54
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|summary=The chameleon is feeling blue because Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but hecan't - or won's lonelyt - go to sleep: instead, so he goes just lies on his blanket and visits ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a yellow banana, pink cockatoo, swirly snail, brown boot, sandy beach and so onyou have the sound perfectly. Each time The mermaids join in - ''la lou, not only does he change la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his colour eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to match the object or animal, but he also contorts himself into a shape that matches themhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704247</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Inga Moore140639131X|title=Six Dinner Sid - A Highland AdventurePractical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=34.5
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|summary=Sid Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the cat has six owners in six different houses, and he munches his way through six dinners problem but didn't even get a dayreply. This big ol Philippa wasn' greedyguts has t a great life, but then one day his owners all decide they want bird to go sit back on holidayher tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. They consider putting him in Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a cattery, little amateur to start with but they have strange rules like one meal per cat, not sixthe benefits were obvious. They give it some thought, All the animals used the crossing and eventually decide Hedgehog was even trained up to all go on holiday together, taking Sid with themprovide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988940</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Foreman1776574338|title=Why The Animals Came To TownLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=3.54
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|summary=A young boy looks Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of his bedroom the window and sees slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a parade more fun way of animals walking up his streetgoing to school? There is a problem, though. They Leilong isn't happy in the city: he've come s always having to show him the deserts be careful about where he puts his feet and ice caps, – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to warn him of the importance of taking care of Earthand traffic regularly gets snarled up. Without the animals, The school decides that he realises can't be the world would be a much more desolate placebus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406318019</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Wormell1776574028|title=One Smart FishBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=54
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|summary=Many, many, many years agoI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the 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 ocean was full of amazing fishelephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The most amazing fish was buffalo who has had a boring-looking silver fish, who was smarter than all the others. He played chess bath (against himselfcomplete with yellow duck), drew pictures and performed playsthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. One day, he decided to see what life was like The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on land, so he invented feet and went for his potty changes into a walk''sm. Yep......'' OK, you've guessed it: itlet's a picture book about evolution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083546</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Reidy and Genevieve Leloup1838226834|title=Too Purply!Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's time for school, but the young girl and her tortoise don't want to wear any was one of their clothesthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're too purply, too tickly, too puckerythere to undo all the good that parents do, too prickly, and so on. You get the idea. Adjectives abound in this trips out were always so much fun getting dressed book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803151</amazonuk>}} 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
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|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
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|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!)
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|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
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|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!)
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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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|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
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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
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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
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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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|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}}