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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie Sandall1806344777|title=BirdsongArthur and the Land of Nimbostratus: Arthur's Able Adventures|author=Rob Keeley
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|summary=One by one the birds land on the branchArthur dreams of adventures. Each is a different species, each has different plumage, and most importantly He looks out of his window each has a different call. The chorus of birdsong builds up and up day and up until the biggest bird thinks of all lands on the branchescapades he could have, with his loud shriekthe places he could go and the things he could see. Ah, but whoHis favourite day is Saturday because that's this about the day his friend Maxine - she of the booming laugh and silver bangles - comes to land on visit. Maxine is a great believer in the branch with him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405247371</amazonuk>power of imagination.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anu Stohner and Henrike WilsonAdam Stower|title=Charlotte Murray and the WolvesBun|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Hot on the heels of her adventure in [[Brave Charlotte by Anu Stohner Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Henrike Wilson|Brave Charlotte]], well, whatever takes his fancy next of the brave little sheep is backtwo. She But he's a bad magician's as bold as evercat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the older sheep have stopped worrying about her wild ways. Added catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the mix are regular back garden, but into a gang world of teenage sheep who call themselves The Wolves frightening adventure and worry the lambswhiffs. When real wolf howls can 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 heardhonest, but not by the shepherd or Jack the old sheepdog, ithe's down turned up and he'll have to Charlotte to save the day again.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408802589</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hiawyn Oram and Sarah Warburton1732898766|title=Rumblewick The Adventures of Birpus and the Dinner Dragons (Bulbus: Book One: The Rumblewick Letters)Sour Milk Dragon|ratingauthor=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Haggy Aggy is an unscary witch Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and decides she wants to make friends with dragons. Her cat, Rumblewick Spellwacker Mortimer B, is a little unsure of this, so writes to his friend Grimey for advice. Their correspondence fills this latest book in the ''Rumblewick Letters'' series, following on from [[My Unwilling Witch Indre Ta (The Rumblewick LettersIllustrator) by Hiawyn Oram|My Unwilling Witch]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160642</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Conway and Melanie Williamson|title=The Great Nursery Rhyme Disaster
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|summary=Little Miss Muffet 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 fed up of being constantly scared by a spiderchasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, so she ups sticks they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and heads for when a different page ladder of the bookmoss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to see if the characters of another nursery rhyme will let her join Tree Wee homes high up in. She tries one rhyme after anotherthe tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, but things never quite work to planNester Nook and Granny Cranny. Will she find a nursery rhyme that suits her to a T?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340945087</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily GravettB0CC9W7GLR|title=Blue ChameleonOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=The chameleon is feeling blue because he's lonely, so he goes Kit and visits a yellow bananaTeal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, pink cockatoo, swirly snail, brown bootbored but warm, or frozen cold and so building sand sculptures ona snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. Each time As the ice bumped onto the sand, not only does he change his colour to match the object or animalbear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, but he also contorts himself into Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a shape that matches themgood meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704247</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Inga Moore1913839656|title=Six Dinner Sid - A Highland AdventureLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=Sid Todd was excited about spending the cat has six owners in six different housesweekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and he munches his way through six dinners a day. This big ol' greedyguts has a great life, but favourite hat and then one day gathered together his owners all decide they want button collection to go on holidayshow his grandmother. They consider putting She had promised to take him in a catteryto the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, but they have strange rules like one meal per cat, not sixhis only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. They give Grandma thought that it some thought, and eventually decide to all go on holiday together, taking Sid with themmight be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988940</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Foreman1529504775|title=Why The Animals Came To TownToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=34.5
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|summary=A young boy looks out 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 his bedroom window the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and sees a parade of animals walking even just standing up his streetwas very difficult. They've come One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to show him use the deserts and ice capscoins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to warn him of stand up, use the importance of taking care of Earthbus for support, and walk behind it. Without Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the animalsRepair Shop, he realises hoping that the world would be a much more desolate placeexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406318019</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Wormell1529504767|title=One Smart FishThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Many, many, many years ago, 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 ocean was full home of amazing fishMr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. The most amazing fish was a boring She even had her own room -looking silver fish, who was smarter than all the othersto herself. He played chess (against himself), drew pictures Gradually she relaxed and performed plays. One day, he decided began to see what enjoy her life was like on land, so he invented feet and went for a walk. Yep, you She've guessed d help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it: it's a picture book about evolutioncame to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083546</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Reidy and Genevieve Leloup1916459943|title=Too Purply!Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=ItMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's time for schoolso tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, but the young girl he just lies on his blanket and her tortoise don't want 'wails''. The sea offers to wear any of their clotheshelp. They It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing 're too purply, too tickly, too puckery, too prickly'hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and so on. You get you have the ideasound perfectly. Adjectives abound The mermaids join in this fun getting dressed book- ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803151</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Isadora140639131X|title=The Twelve Dancing PrincessesA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=34.5
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|summary=Bookbag recently loved Rachel IsadoraPhilippa Pheasant was 's take '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. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on [[The Night Before Christmas by Rachel Isadora and Clement Clarke Moore|The Night Before Christmas]], her tail feathers when there was a problem which put needed solving: she saw the benefits of the classic Christmas poem in an African settinglollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. This time round, she has turned her eye Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the Grimms' ''The Twelve Dancing Princesses''animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0142414506</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela McAllister and Alex T Smith1776574338|title=My Mum Has X-Ray VisionLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=Milo suspects Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his mum has x-ray visionway through the city, picking up children as he goes. She can see through Children who live at the ceiling top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs when he– they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's jumping on her bedperfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though. She can see through Leilong isn't happy in the outside wall when city: he's making potions in the garden in her saucepans. Is she really always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a superhero? Milo puts her tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the test..bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105388</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Yolen and Mark Teague1776574028|title=How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=3.54
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|summary=[[How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen|How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?]] was I love a witty 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 visually creative tale of Very Bad Bedtime Behaviour for modern children enamoured of dinosaursmake something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a 'How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?' continues the formula, this time balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with table mannersa hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007216092</amazonuk>......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Lum and Sue Hellard1838226834|title=Princesses Are Not Perfect|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Princesses Allie, Mellie and Libby love baking, gardening and building respectively. The day before the big summer party, they suddenly fancy a change and all swap jobs. Carried Away 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>}} {{newreviewCarnival|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, with a terrible plop, 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 is far too big and grumpy to be scared, so he gets the littlest rabbit to show him just where the scariness lies...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405251379</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jackie French and Bruce Whatley |title=Emily and the Big Bad BunyipEd Boxall
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|summary=The author-illustrator partnership that created the 'Diary It was one of a Wombatthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, [[Pete so the Sheep by Jackie French|Pete trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the Sheep]] and 'Josephine Wants to Dance' bring all their Aussie characters together in a Christmas book carnival with a Antipodean twist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007324278</amazonuk>}}his Grandad, who told him:
{{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 cat, but he gets lonely from time to time. He hits on a great idea: he''It'll invite all the other mice of the town to come and live with them. The parson agreesbe brilliant, as long as they agree to do a few odd jobs around the place. Then one dayjust remember, a burglar breaks in and theredon's no-one around to stop him but Arthur, Sampson and the micet let go of my hand...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1840116102</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janet Charters and Michael ForemanB09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The GeneralReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|summary=General Jodhpur keeps his soldiers busyWhen the world was made, polishing their boots and practising shootingthe animals were given gifts. He wants to Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the most famous general in present ''and'' the whole worldfuture. One day Rabbit developed intelligence - but, he's thrown off his horseunfortunately, and discovers not the joys of lying ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in the grassa race with Turtle. On his walk home, he gets You might think that's not a chance to smell the flowers, fair contest but wait and soon sets see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about putting his soldiers to more peaceful activities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763648752</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison Jackson and Keith GravesRob Keeley|title=Desert RoseCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Desert Rose is mucking out the pig stalls, when she stumbles across a giant gold nugget Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She decides to buy the fattest hog in Texaslikes carrots, broccoli, so she can win first prize cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at the state fair - a gal's gotta have a dreamschool turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. HoweverOne day, she poor Lily gets one highfalutin hog tricked by Jordan, who won't do as it's toldtells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, so she ropes who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in all the other inhabitants of Laredo ground. Jordan says, "I did try to help tell her out, Miss!" and win the prizeeveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408802198</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane RayB09FFJF8YS|title=Snow WhiteYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=Jane Ray has taken ''For the classic fairy tale of Snow Whitebig, grownup girls out there, the dwarves and the wicked queenpotty masters in training, and created beautiful three-dimensional tableaux. It"You Can's t Wear Panties!" is a muchcry (the big-loved story that everyone is familiar with, girl kind!) of toilet triumph and this is a great opportunity to rediscover a classic in an interesting new waypersevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311839</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview
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|summary=When a circus ship sinks off the coast of Maine, the animals escape and make their home in a nearby town. They soon enchant the locals, who in turn decide to protect the animals from the greedy circus-owner. Very loosely based on the sinking of the ''Royal Tar'' in 1836, ''The Circus Ship'' is a fun picture book that animal-lovers will enjoy.
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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=Rachel Isadora Justine Avery and Clement Clarke MooreNaday Meldova|title=The Night Before ChristmasEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Everyone knows Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and loves Clement Clarke Moore's poem ''A Visit From St Nicholas''joke about, that is. Even But horribly embarrassing if you don't let one go at the whole hogwrong time. In class, gathering the family round by the log firesay, when everyone will hear it and reading it together, its opening line of everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!''Twas the night before Christmasseries takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, when all through with the housefamiliar humour attached, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse..explains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: '' fills you with a warm glow. You can practically smell the mulled wine and hear the snores of Auntie Gertrude during the QueenEverybody Toots's Speech. It's an absolute classic.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399254080</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen SappB09BG8V3Q6|title=Christmas Is...|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Christmas is looming and thus the market for picture books featuring santas, presents and Christmas trees. It's hard to come up with anything new here, and it's rather not the point - is itWho Needs Nappies? Christmas is, after all, about annually repeated celebration of traditional rituals that add delight and nourishment to the spiritual, emotional and social fabric of life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007303750</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNot Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Jill Tomlinson Justine Avery and Paul Howard|title=The Penguin Who Wanted To Find OutSeema Amjad
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|summary=Otto the penguin lives on his father's feet at 'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the bottom of latest release in the world. He's an inquisitive little thing and wants to know why they haven't fallen off the world. His dad explains that they wonEverybody Potties!''t Because I say soseries from Justine Avery. Otto This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and his friend Leo gradually expand their horizons from their fathersreplace it with some fun. It' feet - they meet other penguin chickss a worthy aim, get 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 seaas any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140523041X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick O'BrienB07GZ81J7C|title=You Are The First Kid On MarsWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=It is a sci-fi future of no danger whatsoeverMeet Fred. Well, with no technological breakdownactually, and no fatal meteor strike, but that of course is only you're going to be expected meeting Fred-Fred for this marketreasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I say it 'd better tell you a bit more to highlight how well the book has been illustratedabout Fred. Digital airbrush techniques Fred is a snake and more even those of us who have taken the antiseptic sheen off the whole experience, but have still allowed for a great detail 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 immediately became part of the machineryfamily, and also to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a lovely warmth in walk. And that was where the face of the lad weproblem started. Fred didn're empathising witht have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399246347</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Abbott Nez Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Cromwell Dixon's Sky-CycleEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Meet Cromwell DixonCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. HeBut really, why shouldn's a real tinkerert it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, forever say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in a barn or somewhere building something manically unusual. Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with that word - he's around at the birth of powered flight. Will his plans for a pedalled air machine worksky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim Helmore Justine Avery and Karen WallNaday Meldova|title=Oh No, Monster TomatoNo, No!
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|summary=Marvin is entering They say the Great Grislygust Grow-Off, but just like him, his tomatoes aren't growing very bigbest picture books are the simplest ones. He takes the only sensible course And nothing could be truer of action: he sings his tomatoes this latest from Justine Avery, a song. The results are spectacular. Victory is surely within his graspBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524741X</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Iain Smyth and Michael Terry|title=The Wide-Mouthed Frog|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Do you know the joke about the wide-mouthed frog? You must have heard it. It's a classic. It's one that you really need to tell in personNo, with your fingers pulling your mouth wide openNo, but to hopefully spark your memory, the wide-mouthed frog introduces himself to a number of animals until he finally comes across a crocodile who eats wide-mouthed frogs, and the frog does his best to disguise who he is whilst saying No!''Ooh, 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 that joke.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408804964</amazonuk>}} {{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 based 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 anywheresimplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160421</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Mij Kelly and Louise Nisbet|title=The Happiest Man in the World or the Mouse Who Made Christmas|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Mouse doesn't like anyone and keeps herself to herself. Her things are her things and she is too selfish to share them with anyone else. One day, an old man moves in to Mouse's house. He used to be the happiest man in the worldNo, but now he's sad. He's fed up of having givenno, givenno! Okay, given all his life and never got anything backokay. He just sits quietly and mopes. This makes Mouse miserableYes, so one day she decides to cheer him up by giving him a clementineyou may...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340931558</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Nick Bland|title=The Very Cranky Bear|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=MooseThat's it! But, Lionlike all the best picture books, Zebra and Sheep head into a cave to get out this tiny snippet of the rain, but little do they know that Bear text is fast asleep in there. When they wake him up, he roars at them, chasing them outside, a veritable tardis - so they decide to cheer him up somehow. Zebra paints stripes much bigger on him, Moose fashions antlers for him and Lion sticks a mane of straw the inside that it appears on him. Unsurprisingly, this makes Bear even crankier, so it's down to Sheep to save the day..outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340989424</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kes Gray and Lee Wildish194812467X|title=Mum The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Dad GlueEma Tepic
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|summary=A young boy's parents are splitting upKirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. He's going through As they walk to the usual emotions that children top of divorce go through: worry, feeling unsure, blaming himself, anger, denialthe hill, and then trying to get them to stay togetherthey see a big barn with a sign outside. His method for It's a farm shop! But this isn't is a farm shop with a difference: all the usual response though: he looks for glue to stick his mum stallholders and dad togethercustomers are farmyard animals. ThankfullyThere are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, he finds and even some wise mice. Excited, Kirelle and kindly advice in the processSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340957107</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Clara Vulliamy|title=The Bear With Sticky Paws Won't Go To Bed|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It's Pearl's bedtime, but she says she's really busy and isn't going to sleep. She just wants to play and play and play. When the bear with sticky paws rings the doorbell, he whisks her away on an amazing adventure - although as you might expect, the bear has a little more energy than Pearl and eventually she does get a little sleepy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408300648</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Mackey0995647895|title=MikiSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=ItSadie's cold, dark and icy, and Miki and Penguin are trudging through the snow. But it's Midwinter Eve, when wishes come true. They wish for mother always said that she was a treedreamer, lights, someone strong to power the lights, and finally a star that will shine brightly foreverher mind never on what she should be doing. Miki is taken deep below the ice to find She lives by the star, whilst up top Penguin River Thames at Greenwich and new friend Polar Bear start she loves to worry about herspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034095065X</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|author=Margaret Mayo''When all the houses cowered in the gloom, Geraldine McCaughrean, Rose Impey, Andrew Matthews, Jane Ray, Ian Beck, Angela Barrett, Emma Chichester Clark and Alan Snow''<br>|title=Magical Princess Stories|rating=4''To the Maritime Museum''.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Most little girls would Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a pretty pink book all about princesses, wouldnglass case (it't they? This s the one has seven retellings of traditional fairy tales accompanied by beautiful illustrations where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and would the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a lovely gift for a birthday or Christmasworld of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140830516X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joyce Dunbar and Jimmy Liao1782227741|title=The Monster Who Ate DarknessLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Jo-Jo is scared that there might be One day, Gold Ted falls into a monster under his bedpuddle. HeIt's right! The hungry monster doesn't want to eat little boys though; he eats darknessquite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. He Poor Ted starts with all the darkness in Jo-Jo's room, to spin around and keeps eating around and eating until he's eaten all is sucked down a drain on the side of the darkness street. Finding himself down in the world. With no darkness at allsewer, strange things begin Ted starts to happenpanic.''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which might look 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406315540</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LucasB08R7LXQ9S|title=Peanut|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=One day, a flower opens up and a little monkey the colour of a pea pops out. He soon turns brown, and is the size of a nut, so of course he decides he's a peanut called Peanut. Peanut is a nervous little thingRemy: dragonflies are monsters coming to eat him, the rain is the sky falling down, and night is the end of the world. Thankfully, he meets Beetle, who sets him straight A book about a thing or two.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406319589</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewbelieving in yourself|author=Michael Rosen and Joel Stewart|title=Red Ted Mayuri Naidoo and the Lost ThingsCaroline Siegal
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|summary=Red Ted Remy is handed in to a lost property office, where he meets Crocodile. Red Ted is sure Stevie will come to find him, because she loves Red Ted as much as she loves cheesefeeling miserable. He then starts to have a nagging doubt - Stevie doesn't know where he is, so what if she never comes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406310379</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Various|title=Let's Play Peeka! (Waybuloo)|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Come to the land of Nara and meet Nok Tok, De Li, Lau Lau and Yojojo. let himself down ''Let's Play Peeka!'' accompanies the CBeebies show ''Waybulooagain''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is aimed at the very youngest children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248173</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Various|title=Piplings Come short and Play! A Sound Book (Waybuloo)|rating=1has small eyes.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A tie-in with the CBeebies show ''Waybuloo''They are mean but they are not stupid. There's nothing really They are careful to recommend it as a standalone book: it's wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just an introduction to that little bit further when the charactersother kids are around. So, with annoying (and difficult to press) sound-producing buttons. Take a look at [[Let's Play Peeka! (Waybuloo) by Various|Let's Play Peeka!]] instead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248181</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David McKee|title=The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr Benn|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Oohwhen Remy reacts, it's a book of Mr Benn! Excellent! For those of you not already wrapping yourselves in looks as though he was the comforting blanket of nostalgia, I suppose an introduction is warrantedinstigator. Mr Benn lives And then he gets into trouble at 52 Festive Road, school and enjoys visiting his local fancy dress shop. When the teachers don't believe him when he tries on a costume and steps through a secret door, he finds himself transported to a new and exciting worldexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034099715X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler1471191303|title=Room On The BroomInvisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=As This is the witch flies around the countrysidestory of Isobel, she drops various objects, which are picked up one by one by animalsa little girl who made a big difference. As thanks, she offers all the animals Isobel lived with her parents in a lift, but will there be enough room on the broom? This book comes with house - a fantastic interactive CD to stick in your PC.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330508911</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Sharratt|title=What's In The Witch's Kitchen?|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The witch's kitchen is magical: if you open the fridge door one wayvery cold house, therebecause her parents couldn's something tasty inside. Open it t afford to put the other way, and there's something scary and gruesome. Dare you look in all the drawers in this delightful pop-up book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140632227X</amazonuk>}}heating on:
{{newreview|author=Hilaire Belloc and Mini Grey|title=Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse and Was Eaten By A Lion|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Hilaire Belloc's ''Cautionary Tales For Children'' are rightly lauded as classics. Mini Grey (also [[Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog by Mini Grey|rightly lauded]]), has illustrated one Ice curled across the inside of these fine tales, so that a new generation the window and crept up the corner of children can discover just what happens when you run away from your nurse and a lion eats youthe bedpost. Pay attention kids.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083678</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Jan Pienkowski|title=The First Christmas|rating=4family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The First Christmas is, as you might expect, 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 story city. This part of Jesus' birththe city was cold, Gabriel, Mary, Joseph, shepherds, wise men sad and lonely and Herod, presented as a picture bookIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141500972</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Debi GlioriNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Stormy WeatherOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=It's bedtime Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in millions of bedrooms across the worldBeartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Stories are being readHer favourite toy is Berisford, children are being tucked ina teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, glasses she looks out of water are being fetchedher bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Parents (of all animal species) explain what will happen if stormy weather hits, and how they'll keep their children safeEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, warm and cosya colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747599718</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{newreview|author=Mandy Stanley |title=Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and Other Nursery Favourites|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Every small child should have book (or a few) containing traditional nursery rhymes, and every so often newly illustrated collections are published. ''Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star'' is part of such a new series called ''Time for a Rhyme'', published by Harper Collins and illustrated by Mandy Stanley known for her [[The Fairy Ball (Lettice) by Mandy Stanley|Lettice]] stories and other picture books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315635</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Liz Martinez and Mark Beech|title=The Everyday Witch|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Jimmy has heard rumours of everyday witches living amongst us, then one day he spots his mother riding a broomstick with Tiddles the cat in tow. Are his eyes deceiving him? Is his mum really a witch?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597022</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emily Gravett|title=Spells|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A frog discovers a book, but he wishes it was a boat, so he tears and folds the pages to turn it into the boat. He soon tires of that game, and wishes it was a castle, so he tears and folds it again, as well as cutting out a model of a beautiful princess. As fun as his new game is, it lacks a certain reality. Spotting that it's actually a book of spells, he sets about putting together the torn bits of paper, so he can turn himself into a prince.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230531369</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Butterworth|title=Trixie The Witch's Cat|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Trixie loves being a witch's cat, but from time to time she's upset by her white paw: witch's cats are supposed to be all black. Trixie finally has a brainwave and uses magic to turn her white paw black, but will she really be happy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326794</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jez Alborough|title=Captain Duck (Duck in the Truck)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Duck runs out of petrol in his truck. Luckily, Goat's house is nearby and Goat uses petrol in his boat! Duck 'borrows' the can of petrol and trots off to fill his truck when the appearance of Frog distracts his attention. Frog and Sheep are ready to go Move on a boat trip with Goat! As Goat pops back to get something from his shed, Duck jumps in, un-moors the boat and off they go, along the river and into the stormy sea: and then the boat runs out of fuel! Will Goat save them? Or will the tide bring them back? And what about the truck that Duck abandoned for his maritime adventure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007302908</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Camilla Reid and Ailie Busby|title=Lulu's Christmas|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Lulu is getting ready for Christmas and she'd like you to help her to decorate the tree. After that there are cards to make, streamers to put up and then she helps to ice the cake. After that it's time to go outside and have a little bit of fun and build a snowman, but it made her hands cold so she came back inside again! At bedtime she hangs up her stocking and leaves a mince pie for Father Christmas and a carrot for his reindeer. In the morning she has some wonderful presents, but the best one of all is the one you might least expect!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599912</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Margaret Mayo|title=The Orchard Book of Magical Tales|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Is it sensible to build your house in the path of an enormous one-tusked elephant? Or to visit the house of Baba Yaga Bony-Legs the witch if you don't have to? This beautifully produced collection of folk tales featuring magic will give you the answers to these and many other questions. The collection was first published in 1993, and it had become quite difficult to find, so it's great to see it reissued.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846165296</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Child|title=Who Wants To Be A Poodle? I Don't|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Trixie Twinkle Toes Trot-a-lot Delight hates being a pampered pooch. This primped and preened poodle can think of nothing she'd rather do that get messy, splash in a muddy puddle, and tear about the park like all the other dogs. Mademoiselle Verity Brulee may take good care of Trixie Twinkle Toes, but she's just not in tune with her needs as a scruffy mutt in the body of a poodle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Rosen and Adrian Reynolds |title=Bear Flies High|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Michael Rosen builds on the success of [[The Bear in the Cave by Michael Rosen and Adrian Reynolds|The Bear in the CaveNewest General Fiction Reviews]] with Bear Flies High. This sequel follows the same poetic formula of the original, with its ask and answer ''I'm a bear on a beach. On a beach? On a beach...'' Everything is as it was first time round, but this time Bear decides he wants to fly like the seagulls, so his friends take him to the amusement park. What follows is a gentle tale of a day out, of being scared and exhilarated by rides, and of imagining oneself soaring higher and higher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597979</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Spike Milligan|title=The Magical World of Milligan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Some people you just have to love. It's the law. Spike Milligan was always fantastic, and he's much missed. He's got the perfect mix of nonsense, heart, and surreal humour. He speaks to people of all ages, and he's just plain lovely. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jill Marshall and Sam Childs|title=Kave-Tina Rox|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Kave-Tina Rox lives with her Mug, Pug and brother Dave-Kave in a cave. Her Mug tries to brush her hair and make her look pretty, but Kave-Tina's having none of it. When the Caveman Games come to town, Dave-Kave doesn't let her join in with any of the games, because she's just a girl, but Kave-Tina's having none of it. She shows she's perfectly capable of joining in, and indeed of doing it better than Dave-Kave and his mates.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340957123</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mwenye Hadithi and Adrienne Kennaway|title=Cross Crocodile|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=There's no water on the Great African Plains, and Cross Crocodile sits beneath the mango tree, guzzling the sweet fruit and snapping at anoyone who dares to come near her. One day, monkey hits on a great idea for how the other animals can get to the fruit...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970324</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Lloyd|title=Inspector Croc Investigates|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=All is peaceful in Whoops-a-Daisy World, until the phone rings at the police station. Someone has knocked over Rory Lion's paint, ridden their bike through Fix-It Fox's concrete and stomped all over Farmer Moo's crops. There's only one thing for it: Inspector Croc is going to have to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846169453</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susannah Corbett and Lynne Chapman|title=Dragon's Dinner|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A hungry dragon heads into the woods to see what he can catch for his lunch. He's soon chasing after a bear, fox, cat and other animals, desperately trying to munch them. When the dragon comes across a mouse, he soon discovers that the most unlikely animal might just fight back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340944226</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Lechner|title=The Clever Stick|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=The clever stick has all manner of wonderful ideas and things he wants to share with the world, but he has no mouth. He wants to write poetry, help others and tell roses how lovely they look, but he can't. With a heavy heart (I think sticks have hearts even if they don't have mouths) he drags himself home, and discovers that he does have a way of expressing himself after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406322237</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Rosen and Bob Graham|title=I'm Number One|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=When the girl leaves for school in the morning, her toys do what all toys do during the day: they hang out with each other as friends do. A-One, the drummer boy, is at pains to point out to the other toys that he rules, that he's number one, and that the others are no good, hopeless and useless. He tricks Maddy into giving him her hat, Sally into giving up her rucksack and Sid into giving up his scarf. He's a bit of a meanie is A-One.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140631465X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colin McNaughton and Emma Chichester-Clark|title=Not Last Night But The Night Before|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Not last night but the night before, a large cast of characters came knocking at the door. The three little pigs, Goldilocks, the man in the moon and many others come rushing in, knocking the young boy over and barely paying him any attention. They each shoot straight upstairs and before he has time to think, there's yet another knock at the door, and another, and another. What are the parcels, balloons and cakes they're carrying with them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406304263</amazonuk>}}