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|isbn=17765728581806344777|title=How Do You Make a Baby?Arthur and the Land of Nimbostratus: Arthur's Able Adventures|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyFor Sharing|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were madeArthur dreams of adventures. My mother was deeply embarrassed He looks out of his window each day and told me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple thinks of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than all the basicsescapades he could have, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) the places he could go and I was told the things he could see. His favourite day is Saturday because that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''s the day his friend Maxine - she of the booming laugh and silver bangles - comes to visit. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changedMaxine is a great believer in the power of imagination.

|author= Justine Avery and Daria YudinaAdam Stower|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh (Living Book)Murray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary=This Living Book Murray is on supposed to be a missionhumble, 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. What But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the mission? To make you laugh! I catflap they both use can't think chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of many better missions than that, can you? Let's see how it doesfrightening adventure and whiffs... .... well, This time round it opens up with drops them into a terrible joke. A groany jokeViking land, an eye-roll joke. The joke isn't very funny but it where a troll hunter is funny expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to see how enthusiastic be honest, but he's turned up and how generously this book wants to make you laugh - he''Oh, I'm terrible at jokes. Some books are so good at them. I always wanted ll have to help someone laugh.'' do…|isbn= 194812453X0008561249

|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Justine Avery The Adventures of Birpus and Daria YudinaBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Baby Trolls Get a Bad Rap Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Underrated Babies Book 1Illustrator)

|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.) HoratioFortunately, Saul they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and Grizelda are three baby trolls who are fed up that everyone forgets about baby trollsvines was lowered for them, they escaped. They are ignored climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in books the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and TV shows Granny Cranny.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and films in favour Jenny 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 their very scary grown upsthe ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Our three heroes want equal rights Kit was all for making a run for baby trollsit, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. They want He obviously needed to be seen taken home on the bus and heard given a good meal and they've started a petition about it that they want you somewhere to signsleep. But how should they go about it What else would you do? |isbn= B07XGN4LGY}}

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Daria Yudina1913839656|title=This Book Is Alive! (Living Book)Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary= Books ''want'' you to read them! They're Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not intimidating or standoffish or particular about readersleast because she made the best beetle juice. Books ''want'' He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to be readshow his grandmother. This is She had promised to take him to the key message in Justine Avery's latest offering, ''This Book Is Alive!''. By anthropomorphising Friday Night Club at the relationship between book local community centre and young reader, she's sending an invitation Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to all - pick me up, read memake new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be my friend, we can go on a journey togetherbecause he looked different. It's a great message, don't you think?|isbn= 1948124416}}

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Ema Tepic 1529504775|title=I Dreamed YouThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=It is always 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 the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a pleasure bus 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, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to review a new book by Justine Avery the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Susan 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't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn'I Dreamed Yout have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'' carries d help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the tradition beautifullyChristmas tree. This little book is The best surprise happened the perfect exemplar of our category namefollowing morning.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''For Sharingwails''. The sea offers to help. It is rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a mothermoment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's love letter going to her child, told in rhyme formhappen next.|isbn=1948124505}}

|isbn=1838593187140639131X|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Victoria ThompsonBriony May Smith

|summary=Tilly is excitedPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. Shewrote to the mayor about the problem but didn's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and t even get a big grin on her facereply. DadPhilippa wasn's come t a bird to collect sit back on her and her brother and he ''has'' to try to guess what tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she found in saw the playground today, although benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she concedes that he will never guesswould set up something similar herself. Dad wants Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to know how school was, start with but ''obviously'' that's not importantthe benefits were obvious. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper All the animals used the crossing and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad Hedgehog was even trained up to guessprovide a safe path overnight.

|isbn=16867516801776574338|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarresLeilong's Too Long!|author=Amelie Julien Julia Liu and GustyawanBei Lynn

|summary=Which child doesn't think that their mother isEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, wellmakes his way through the city, ''weird''? picking up children as he goes. It might be that in Children who live at the morning their mother doesntop of tower blocks don't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows that that is when you're at your brightest with lots even need to say? go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn'Why'' then does Mummy stick her fingers in her earst it? Then there's doing yoga in front What could be a more fun way of the televisiongoing to school? There is a problem, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funnythough. We won Leilong isn't go into too much detail about what goes on happy in the bathroom city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and the colour changes which have occured when Mummy emerges – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and frankly, the less said the better about her reactions to your artistic efforts on traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the wallbus anymore. I mean, what else would you use paint for?

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk1776574028|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott

|summary=I love a good board book! ''The day has endedBumblebee Grumblebee''<br>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 'Hasn't it been splendid?play'' <br>with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''But now, itballetphant's time, to be sure'. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ' <br>'fluffalo'For an entirely different adventure'. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ' <br> I hope you haven't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bed. If youcrynoceros're a parent at least, you'll know how (think about it is to persuade an excited small person that yes, it is in fact time for bed. !) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''What Wonders DoYou Seesm...'' sets out to cater to these children. Instead of trying to persuade them that night time is calm time, it takes a slightly different tack. It tells them that sleep is actually an exciting time: a time of dreams in which imagination takes over and has no limit. But the trick in accessing this wonderful and exciting world is to get calm and relaxed first so that you can easily fall asleep and open the door to it. '' OK, let's not go there |isbn=194812422X Some people are eating!}}

|isbn=09933403341838226834|title=BunnyCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Peter Lynas and Clare LindleyEd Boxall

|summary=You might have seen Bunny on 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 beach where he livedtrips out were always so much fun. Like many beaches it A young boy was full of sand and Bunny didn't like sandgoing to the carnival with his Grandad, not least because it got between his toes and who told him: ''scratchedIt'll be brilliant, just remember, don'. What he really liked was juicy green grass. All the other rabbits lived on the top t let go of the cliff, where Bunny could see a lot of tasty-looking grass. But the cliff was very highmy hand.''

|isbn=1925820025B09MYXSRV4|title=Once, I was LovedOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Belinda LandsberryCordellya Smith

|summary=Tock, When the toy rabbitworld was made, is in a box of toys going to the charity shopanimals were given gifts. He realises Bear was given strength so that he's could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not wanted any more, but muses that it wasn't always this wayburn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''Onceand''the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, he saysunfortunately, ''I not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was loved'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. And he tells us of all the children who have loved him over the yearsI'll tell you how it came about.

|isbnauthor=0993340342Rob Keeley|title=Madeleine Goes to the Moon|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie RobertsCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4

|summary=Madeleine is a very lucky girl: in her room, she has all a girl could ask for in the way of toys Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, booksbroccoli, games cabbage and dolliesaubergines. She's a very lucky girl in another way too: she has imagination When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and everything in her room can be used how nice to take eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on adventurestrees. She spends all day there: Dad thinks Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that she likes to be alonefruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, but Madeleine's not alone on all grow in the trips she takesground. We'll find out that yesterday she was told Jordan says, "I did try to tidy tell her room, but instead of doing that, she went to the moonMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|isbn= B09HHN541V

|isbn=0993340318B09FFJF8YS|title=Recipe for Making You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little 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 Snowmanbig girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=Peter Lynas Justine Avery and Rosie AlabasterNaday Meldova|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Who knew it? You can even get Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a recipe book which tells child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you how to make a snowman - let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and thereeveryone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's no cooking involvedlatest entry in her ''Everybody Potties! Mum'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, Dad and with the two children are absolutely meticulous thoughfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: they're going to get everything right, even down to doing some mining to get 'Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|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!'' is the coal for latest release in the eyes, searching through the bits 'n bobs jar for buttons for 'Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the snowman's coat and picking pain out the perfect piece of headgearpotty training children and replace it with some fun. ThereIt's quite a choice availableworthy aim, but the family decide on the bobble hat, presumably to keep the snowman warmas any frustrated parent will tell you. The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply won't do and a pair with purple and pink stripes are chosen.}}�{{Frontpage|isbn=0993340350B07GZ81J7C|title=The Very Rude ToytoiseWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Lynas and Andy S GrayCotton|rating=4.5

|summary=It was one of those blissful days in the forestMeet Fred. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted Well, actually, you're going to make a cakebe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to build But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a nestbit more about Fred. Mrs Spider was busily spinning Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a web phobia about snakes are going to catch juicy flieswarm to him. Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. And Mr Bear sat comfortably He arrived as a present in a chairbox with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, fishing to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for luncha walk. What could be better? And thenthat was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.}}�{{Frontpage|isbnauthor=1925810097Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Don't Drink the Pink|author=B C R FeganEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Madeline is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. HeCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn's always busy in his workshopt, creating crazy potionsas any parent will tell you. But really, and he always has a smile on his face. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers and Madelinewhy shouldn's mum thinks the same but gives him a pass because he's old. But Madelinet it be? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is We all have to learn about our bodily functions just greatas we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and allows her to choose one as a gift. And he always says the same thing...moon take turns in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHH

|isbnauthor=1910989339Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Loved to Bits|author=Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonNo, No, No!|rating=54

|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. ''Loved to BitsNo, No, No!'' is based around the heartwarming story of a boysimplest text imaginable. 's love for his bear. Bear's adventures with boy take him to all kinds of places and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put in their wayNo, from the jungle to the sea. Inevitably mishaps occur on the way. The loss of an armno, a legno! Okay, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery ''don't worryokay. Yes, Iyou may.'ve got one more' That'. s it! But boy loves him just as he is and won't hear of him being mended. His place, after like allthe best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is in Boy's beda veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|isbn=1638820457

|isbn=0874869722194812467X|title=When Spring Comes to the DMZThe Farm Shop|author=Uk-Bae LeeDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=54

|summary=There Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is a place on this earth that, at the time of writing, dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is resplendent with lifeperfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. In As they walk to the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, for fear top of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in place. In the autumn, salmon come upstreamhill, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and die if they reach their birthing groundssee a big barn with a sign outside. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. This It's a farm shop! But this is a snapshot of life in farm shop with a difference: all the DMZstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their namegoats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and it's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuarySam go shopping. What will they buy?

|isbn=14197314080995647895|title=Sweep: The Story of a Girl Sadie and her Monsterthe Sea Dogs|author=Jonathan AuxierMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5

|summary=Nan is Sadie's mother always said that she was a climberdreamer, the best chimney sweep in Londonher mind never on what she should be doing. She is growing fast, so what will happen to her when lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she gets too big loves to climb, when people realise she is a girl? Everything changes, when she is stuck spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in a chimneythe gloom, set ''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on fire, an ancient sailing ship and saved by went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a golem. A story of outcasts, and friendships, told through two tales, glass case (it's the girl one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the sweep, closing bell and the girl and her monsterattendant's warning shout. Both intertwined beautifully so When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that you she could never have imagined in a fairy tale within a fairy tale. Moments world of sadness slip easily into glorious happinessdolphins, then swiftly into heart-breaking tragedy. This is a heart-warming and engaging read for both young pirates, mermaids and oldtreasure.

|isbn=17868943271782227741|title=The Truth PixieLittle Gold Ted|author=Matt Haig Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Chris MouldSasha Satha|rating=54

|summary=Poor old Truth PixieOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. SheIt's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to tell quite a deep puddle and the truthwater is swirling. You might think this Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a good thing because telling lies is baddrain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, right? But sometimes the truth isnTed starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE''t nice and sometimes a white lie is okay he cries and sometimes it's better to say nothing at all. You might not want to attract alerts the attention of Reg the school bully by calling sewer rat, who plucks him mean and nastyout of the dirty water using his cane, for example, or you which might not want to tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awfullook just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.

|isbn=1785899953B08R7LXQ9S|title=The Frog Who Was BlueRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Faiz KermaniMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down 'Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted 'again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Croak College, the most famous school for frogs in MalawiRemy, but the other students all turn their backs on calling him. He names because he is just too different!'' Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewatershort and has small eyes. Many creatures find a home there, including frogsThey are mean but they are not stupid. For some reason that They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can remember, all see and then push him just that little bit further when the Lake Ticklewater frogs other kids are blue. They think nothing of itaround. So, when Biriwita wins a place at Croak CollegeRemy reacts, it looks as though he was the first Ticklewater frog to manage such a feat, instigator. And then he is filled with excitement gets into trouble at school and his only worry is how much the teachers don't believe him when he will miss his friends and familytries to explain what happened.

|isbn=17871129261471191303|title=Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too?The Invisible|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal BourgonjeTom Percival

|summary=When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was This is the story of Isobel, a rather frightened dog little girl who had difficulty meeting peoplemade a big difference. He's Isobel lived with her parents in a bit better now and something which he really enjoys is going for house - a walk. Itvery cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''s not just a case Ice curled across the inside of attaching a lead the window and heading for your favourite spot - there are a lot crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other things and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to think about firstmove to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.