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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eva MontanariAdam Stower|title=The Alphabet Family|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Mummy A wants to write a story, but she can't think what to write. She sees what her children (b, c, d and so on) are up to. Some are playing musical instruments, some are running races, Murray and some are playing in the garden. With plenty of ideas to hand, Mummy A writes her story, and then tells it to all her children and Daddy Z.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394054</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Poly Bernatene|title=When Night Didn't ComeBun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=One nightMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, after the sun has gone one who is able to bedsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the night doesn't cometwo. There But he's no darkness, no moon and no stars. Someonea bad magician's going to have to do something about itcat, so the man in charge rouses his favourite bun has been turned into a group of children hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they do what they both use can to bring chuck them out, not into the nightregular 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845394925</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Mal Peet The Adventures of Birpus and Elspeth Graham Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Cloud Tea MonkeysWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Tashi When we first meet Birpus and her mother live below a tea plantation Bulbus they're running for their lives in Indiathe Forest of Fine Repute. Usually Tashi goes along with her mum, and whilst mum picks tea leaves with Their greatest fear has come about: the other women, Tashi sits under a tree and plays with a group of monkeys, sharing her fruit with them, allowing Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them to groom her and playing with the little baby monkeys. One morning, TashiHe's mum is too poorly to go to workright behind them, spewing hot, so Tashi struggles with the big tea basket herselfsour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. ) The plantation owner derides her, saying she is too little to pick the teaFortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and Tashi is worried about how she when a ladder of moss and her mother will cope with no money to get her mum a doctorvines was lowered for them, or to buy foodthey escaped. She shares her worries with her monkey friends and somehow, at They climbed up to the end of Tree Wee homes high up in the daytangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Tashi's basket is full of beautiful, fresh, fragrant tea leaves that are a very rare type of tea called 'Cloud Tea'Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406300926</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Conway and Dubravka KolanovicB0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Secret To Teddy's HappinessWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=3.5
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|summary=When 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 toys discover an oldshoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, bedraggled teddy the bear, they rack their brains to find woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a way to mend his broken heartrun for it, to make but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him smile againone apple and then another. The velvet rabbit who knows everything offers He obviously needed to tell them be taken home on the secret of Teddy's happiness, but he wants them bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do him a favour first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337624</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Newton1913839656|title=Crash Bang Donkey!Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=Farmer Gruff spends all Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his time chasing grandmother, not least because she made the crows from best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his cornfavourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Eventually he needs She had promised to take him to sleep, so all the animals tiptoe around, making no noise whatsoever. What's this coming over Friday Night Club at the hill with a crash local community centre and a bang? Oh no! It's a donkey with a drumTodd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. How's Farmer Gruff going to get At home, his only friend was his sleep? If mum and he can't sleep, how's wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he ever going to be able to keep the crows from his corn?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337209</amazonuk>looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Sperring and Leo Timmers1529504775|title=Green|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Clive loves wearing green. It's all he ever wears. He thinks he looks mighty snazzy, but his big sister The Toy Bus (boo! hiss!The Repair Shop Stories) takes every opportunity to call him a cabbage, moss, a sprout or a toad. Clive keeps wearing his green clothes, certain that he'll have the last laugh and get one over on his sister.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394534</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Whybrow Amy Sparkes and Lynne Chapman|title=Stinky! Or How The Beautiful Smelly Warthog Found A FriendKatie Hickey|rating=34.5
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|summary=Stinky Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the warthog lives in a neighbourhood with park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the Crocodile family, side of the Monkey family park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and the Littlebird familyeven just standing up was very difficult. One by one they invite Stinky round day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to play with their children, but his foul odour and use the flies buzzing around him cause all manner of problemscoins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Will he be able Gradually, David learned to find a friend? stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it...Well Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, yesto the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it says so in the titlethat her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337594</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Preston Rutt and Ben Redlich1529504767|title=Tortoise vs. Hare - The Rematch!Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Harry 'The Hurricane' Hare has been licking his wounds since 'Steady' Eddie Tortoise beat him Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in the famous race1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. It She needn's time for a rematcht have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, and Harrywho couldn's t have been training hardkinder to her. Eddie couldn't possibly win again, could he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394186</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Allan Manham She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and Penny Dann|title=The Giant Carrot|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Jack is quite the gardenerbegan to enjoy her life. All his hard work means his vegetable patch is awash She'd help Mrs Russell with lucious veggies. One day, he decides the baking and when it came to pull up some carrots Christmas Eve Susan and make soup, but Mr Russell put the decorations on the biggest carrot just wouldn't budgeChristmas tree. He's going to have to get some chums to help him The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843625911</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz1916459943|title=Commotion In The OceanSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=ThereMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a commotion in the oceansqueakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: the dolphins are squeakinginstead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the jellyfish are jigglingwaves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the lobsters are clippettysound perfectly. The mermaids join in -clapping snippety-snapping''la lou, la lay... Animal by animal, Giles Andreae (best-known '' And for [[Giraffes Cana moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts'''t Dance Magnet Book by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees|Giraffes Canwe know exactly what't Dance]]) takes us through the underwater adventures, with short, snappy poemss going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408308452</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Hargreaves140639131X|title=Mr Nobody (Mr Men and Little Misses)A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=Mr Nobody is.Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. well, he Philippa wasn's somebody who sort t a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of is the lollipop lady at the school crossing and sort of isn'tdecided that she would set up something similar herself. Mr Happy comes across him one day, Her uniform and does his best lollipop stick were both a little amateur to cheer him start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained upto provide a safe path overnight. Who could possibly help a person who's sort of there and sort of isn't? Ah, the Wizard!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405251425</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Mitton and Guy Parker-Rees1776574338|title=Jolly Olly OctopusLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=3.54
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|summary=Jolly Olly Octopus is giggling underneath 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 the seawindow and slide down his neck. He It's soon joined by two tickly turtlesperfect, three smiley seahorsesisn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, and so on through though. Leilong isn't happy in the numbers. The large cast of underwater animals are city: he's always having a jolly olto be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he' time, until s longer than a shark appears.tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846166861</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie Sandall1776574028|title=BirdsongBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=One by one the birds land on the branch. Each I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a different speciesniche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, each see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different plumage, from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and most importantly each becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a different callbath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The chorus of birdsong builds up and up and up until the biggest bird of all lands rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on the branch, with his loud shriekpotty changes into a ''sm. Ah......'' OK, but wholet's this about to land on the branch with him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405247371</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anu Stohner and Henrike Wilson1838226834|title=Charlotte and Carried Away With the WolvesCarnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=3.54
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|summary=Hot on the heels It was one of her adventure in [[Brave Charlotte by Anu Stohner and Henrike Wilson|Brave Charlotte]], the brave little sheep is backthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. SheThey's as bold as everre there to undo all the good that parents do, and so the older sheep have stopped worrying about her wild waystrips out were always so much fun. Added into A young boy was going to the mix are a gang of teenage sheep carnival with his Grandad, who call themselves The Wolves and worry the lambs. When real wolf howls can be heard, but not by the shepherd or Jack the old sheepdog, it's down to Charlotte to save the day again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802589</amazonuk>}}told him:
{{newreview|author=Hiawyn Oram and Sarah Warburton|title=Rumblewick and the Dinner Dragons (The Rumblewick Letters)|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Haggy Aggy is an unscary witch and decides she wants to make friends with dragons. Her cat''It'll be brilliant, Rumblewick Spellwacker Mortimer Bjust remember, is a little unsure don't let go of this, so writes to his friend Grimey for advicemy hand. 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]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160642</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Conway and Melanie WilliamsonB09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Great Nursery Rhyme DisasterReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|summary=Little Miss Muffet is fed up of being constantly scared by When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a spider, strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so she ups sticks that he could see the present ''and heads for a different page of '' the bookfuture. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to see if the characters of another nursery rhyme will let her join inuse it well. She tries one rhyme after another, but things never quite work He liked to plantrick other animals. Will she find He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a nursery rhyme race with Turtle. You might think that suits her to 's not a T?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340945087</amazonuk>fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily GravettRob Keeley|title=Blue ChameleonCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=The chameleon Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is feeling blue because he's lonely, so he goes keen to explain how good they are for you and visits a yellow bananahow nice to eat. One day, pink cockatoopoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, swirly snailwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, brown bootLily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and so onvegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Each timeJordan says, not only does he change his colour "I did try to match the object or animaltell her, but he also contorts himself into a shape that matches themMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230704247</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Inga MooreB09FFJF8YS|title=Six Dinner Sid - A Highland AdventureYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=Sid ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the cat has six owners potty masters in six different housestraining, and he munches his way through six dinners "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a day. This cry (the big ol' greedyguts has a great life, but then one day his owners all decide they want to go on holiday. They consider putting him in a cattery, but they have strange rules like one meal per cat, not six. They give it some thought, -girl kind!) of toilet triumph and eventually decide to all go on holiday together, taking Sid with thempersevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988940</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview
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|summary=A young boy looks out of his bedroom window and sees a parade of animals walking up his street. They've come to show him the deserts and ice caps, to warn him of the importance of taking care of Earth. Without the animals, he realises the world would be a much more desolate place.
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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=Chris WormellJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=One Smart FishEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=ManyToots, manytrumps, many years agofarts. Whatever your word for them, the ocean was full of amazing fishfind us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. The most amazing fish was a boring-looking silver fishFunny to talk about and joke about, who was smarter than all that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the otherswrong time. He played chess (against himself)In class, say, drew pictures when everyone will hear it and performed playseveryone will laugh. At you. One dayJustine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, he decided to see what life was like on landwith the familiar humour attached, so he invented feet and went for a walkexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. Yep, you've guessed Everybody does it: it's a picture book about evolution.'Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224083546</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Reidy and Genevieve LeloupB09BG8V3Q6|title=Too PurplyWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!(Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=It's time for school, but 'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the young girl and her tortoise don't want 'Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to wear any take the pain out of their clothespotty training children and replace it with some fun. TheyIt're too purplys a worthy aim, too tickly, too puckery, too prickly, and so onas any frustrated parent will tell you. You get the idea. Adjectives abound in this fun getting dressed book .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803151</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel IsadoraB07GZ81J7C|title=The Twelve Dancing PrincessesWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton|rating=34.5
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|summary=Bookbag recently loved Rachel IsadoraMeet Fred. Well, actually, 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's take on [[The Night Before Christmas by Rachel Isadora 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 him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and Clement Clarke Moore|The Night Before Christmas]]immediately became part of the family, which put to the classic Christmas poem in an African settingextent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. This time round, she has turned her eye to And that was where the Grimms' ''The Twelve Dancing Princesses'problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0142414506</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela McAllister Justine Avery and Alex T SmithNaday Meldova|title=My Mum Has X-Ray VisionEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Milo suspects his mum has x-ray visionCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. She can see through the ceiling downstairs But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when hewe are small. Why shouldn's jumping on her bed. She can see through t potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the outside wall when he's making potions moon take turns in the garden in her saucepans. Is she really a superherosky? Milo puts her to the test...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407105388</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Yolen Justine Avery and Mark TeagueNaday Meldova|title=How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=[[How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen|How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?]] was a witty and visually creative tale of Very Bad Bedtime Behaviour for modern children enamoured of dinosaurs. 'How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?' continues the formulaNo, No, this time with table manners.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007216092</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Lum and Sue Hellard|title=Princesses Are Not PerfectNo!|rating=3.54
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|summary=Princesses Allie, Mellie and Libby love baking, gardening and building respectively. The day before They say the best picture books are the big summer party, they suddenly fancy a change and all swap jobssimplest ones. With a hundred punnets And nothing could be truer of blueberries to pick, a hundred cupcakes to makethis latest from Justine Avery, and a hundred chairs to build, the children are going to be awfully disappointed if the princesses' new-found interests aren't successfulBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599297</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Ursula Dubosarsky and Andrew Joyner|title=The Terrible Plop|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The rabbits are sitting by the lake, munching on cake and carrots. An apple falls in''No, with a terrible plopNo, and they scamper off scared. All the other animals join in the stampede and get as far away as they can from the terrible plop. Bear No!'' is far too big and grumpy to be scared, so he gets the littlest rabbit to show him just where based around the scariness lies..simplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405251379</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Jackie French and Bruce Whatley |title=Emily and the Big Bad Bunyip|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=The author-illustrator partnership that created the 'Diary of a Wombat'No, [[Pete the Sheep by Jackie French|Pete the Sheep]] and no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.'Josephine Wants to Dance' bring all their Aussie characters together in a Christmas book with a Antipodean twist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007324278</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Graham Oakley|title=The Church Mouse|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Arthur the church mouse lives in peace with Sampson the meek church catThat's it! But, but he gets lonely from time to time. He hits on a great idea: he'll invite like all the other mice best picture books, this tiny snippet of the town to come and live with them. The parson agrees, as long as they agree to do text is a few odd jobs around veritable tardis - so much bigger on the place. Then one day, a burglar breaks in and there's no-one around to stop him but Arthur, Sampson and inside that it appears on the mice..outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1840116102</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janet Charters and Michael Foreman194812467X|title=The GeneralFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=General Jodhpur keeps 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 soldiers busy, polishing their boots and practising shootingsmart grey fur coat. He wants As they walk to become the most famous general in top of the whole worldhill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. One day, heIt's thrown off his horsea farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and discovers the joys of lying in the grasseven some mice. On his walk home, he gets a chance to smell the flowersExcited, Kirelle and soon sets about putting his soldiers to more peaceful activitiesSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763648752</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Alison Jackson and Keith Graves|title=Desert Rose|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Desert Rose is mucking out the pig stalls, when she stumbles across a giant gold nugget. She decides to What will they buy the fattest hog in Texas, so she can win first prize at the state fair - a gal's gotta have a dream. However, she gets one highfalutin hog who won't do as it's told, so she ropes in all the other inhabitants of Laredo to help her out, and win the prize.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802198</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Ray0995647895|title=Snow WhiteSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=Jane Ray has taken the classic fairy tale of Snow White, the dwarves and the wicked queen, and created beautiful three-dimensional tableaux. ItSadie's mother always said that she was a much-loved story that everyone is familiar withdreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and this is a great opportunity she loves to rediscover a classic in an interesting new wayspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311839</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|author=Chris Van Dusen''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|title=The Circus Ship|rating=3''To the Maritime Museum''.5|genre=For Sharing |summary=When a circus Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship sinks off the coast of Maine, the animals escape and make their home in went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a nearby town. They soon enchant glass case (it's the locals, who in turn decide to protect one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the animals from closing bell and the greedy circus-ownerattendant's warning shout. Very loosely based on When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the sinking midst of the ''Royal Tar'' an adventure that she could never have imagined in 1836a world of dolphins, ''The Circus Ship'' is a fun picture book that animal-lovers will enjoypirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>076363090X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Isadora and Clement Clarke Moore1782227741|title=The Night Before ChristmasLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Everyone knows and loves Clement Clarke MooreOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's poem ''A Visit From St Nicholas''quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Even if you don't go Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the whole hog, gathering side of the family round by street. Finding himself down in the log firesewer, and reading it together, its opening line of Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE''Twas he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the night before Christmassewer rat, when all through who plucks him out of the housedirty water using his cane, not which might look just a creature was stirring, not even bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a mouse...'' fills you kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a warm glow. You can practically smell the mulled wine and hear the snores nice bowl of Auntie Gertrude during the Queen's Speech. It's an absolute classicbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399254080</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen SappB08R7LXQ9S|title=Christmas Is...Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=34
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|summary=Christmas Remy is looming feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and thus the market for picture books featuring santasBrandon, have been laughing at Remy, presents calling him names because he is short and Christmas treeshas small eyes. It's hard They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to come wind up with anything new here, Remy when nobody can see and it's rather not then push him just that little bit further when the point - is it? Christmas isother kids are around. So, after allwhen Remy reacts, about annually repeated celebration of traditional rituals that add delight it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and nourishment the teachers don't believe him when he tries to the spiritual, emotional and social fabric of lifeexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007303750</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Tomlinson and Paul Howard1471191303|title=The Penguin Who Wanted To Find OutInvisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=Otto This is the penguin lives on his father's feet at the bottom story of the world. He's an inquisitive Isobel, a little thing and wants to know why they haven't fallen off the worldgirl who made a big difference. His dad explains that they won't Because I say so. Otto and his friend Leo gradually expand their horizons from their fathers' feet Isobel lived with her parents in a house - they meet other penguin chicksa very cold house, get to know their aunts who watch them when their fathers are away, and eventually grow feathers so theybecause her parents couldn're big enough t afford to toboggan put the heating on their bellies and swim in the sea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140523041X</amazonuk>}}:
{{newreview|author=Patrick O'Brien|title=You Are The First Kid On Mars|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=It is a sci-fi future 'Ice curled across the inside of no danger whatsoever, with no technological breakdown, and no fatal meteor strike, but that of course is only to be expected for this market. I say it more to highlight how well the book has been illustrated. Digital airbrush techniques and more have taken the antiseptic sheen off the whole experience, but have still allowed for a great detail in the machinery, window and also a lovely warmth in crept up the face corner of the lad webedpost.''re empathising with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399246347</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=John Abbott Nez |title=Cromwell DixonThe family didn's Sky-Cycle|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Meet Cromwell Dixon. He's a real tinkerer, forever in a barn t go to the cinema or somewhere building something manically unusualon holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with that word - heThen the day came when they couldn's around at t afford the rent for the birth house and they had to move to the far side of powered flightthe city. Will his plans for a pedalled air machine work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim Helmore Nick Jones and Karen WallSi Clark|title=Oh No, Monster Tomato!One Night in Beartown
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|summary=Marvin is entering the Great Grislygust Grow-OffMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, but just like himwho lives in Beartown, his tomatoes aren't growing very big. He takes the only sensible course of action: he sings his tomatoes a song. The results are spectacular. Victory is surely within his grasp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524741X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Iain Smyth and Michael Terry|title=The Wide-Mouthed Frog|rating=4obsessed with bears.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Do you know the joke She collects books about the wide-mouthed frog? You must have heard itbears. It's Her favourite toy is Berisford, a classicteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. It's one that you really need to tell in person, with your fingers pulling your mouth wide open, but to hopefully spark your memoryEvery 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}}
{{newreview|author=Ursula Jones and Sarah Gibb|title=The Princess Who Had No Kingdom|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The princess who has no kingdom wanders around in a cart pulled by her horse Pretty. She's very polite, friendly, and kind-hearted, but she feels like something is lacking because she doesn't have a kingdom of her own. The other royals she meets treat her nicely enough, but there's always a feeling that she's not quite as good as them because she isn't the princess of anywhere.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160421</amazonuk>}}Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]