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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__ {{Frontpage{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- Pankhurst -->Adam Stower|-| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Murray and Bun[[image:Pankhurst_Women.jpg|left|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/1408878909/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fantastically Great Women Who Made History by Kate Pankhurst]]==genre=Confident Readers  [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]Murray is supposed to be a humble, [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]tidy and friendly cat, [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] A lot of history one who is about men. Kings able to sleep and eat and generals eat and inventors sleep and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at allwell, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role modelswhatever takes his fancy next of the two. Of course, this isn But he's a bad magician't true and there are plenty of women whos cat, throughout historyso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible braveryand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, or created something never seen before. So herenot into the regular back garden, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them. [[Fantastically Great Women Who Made History by Kate Pankhurst|Full Review]]<br><!-- Gonsalves -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Gonsalves_Queen.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546287663/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lamellia: The Wicked Queen by Gloria D Gonsalves]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Lamellia is a kingdom of mushrooms in into a Viking land far away. Many types and colours of mushroom live there and they are all ruled over by King PoliPoli, where a big brown mushroom who troll hunter is a wise expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and kind leader. King PoliPoli is married he'll have to the beautiful Queen Nobilia. But Queen Nobilia cannot conceive a baby and this makes her very sad. She sings a sad song so emotive that her sorrow infects the whole land. [[Lamellia: The Wicked Queen by Gloria D Gonsalvesdo…|Full Review]]isbn=0008561249<br>}}<br> <!-- Seuss -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1732898766| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-alignThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: top; text-alignBook One: center;"|The Sour Milk Dragon[[image:Seuss_Read.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008240019?ie=UTF8&tagauthor=thebookbagWynn Everett-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0008240019]] Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I Can Read With My Eyes Shut by Dr Seuss]]===4[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Emerging Readers| Emerging Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] 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'The more that you reads right behind them,''<br>''The more things you will know.''<br>''The more that you learnspewing hot,''<br>''The more places you'll gosour milk from his nostrils. (Please don'' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from t try this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my childrenat home: it won's school library! t end well.) The book is very sillyFortunately, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a good rhyming ode to the joys of reading. [[I Can Read With My Eyes Shut by Dr Seuss|Full Review]]<br> <!they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - Campbell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Campbell_Bog.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1546282718?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1546282718]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Adventures and when a ladder of Billy Bog Brush!: The Fire Brigade by Ian Campbell moss and Tim Constable]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Billy Bog Brush's family have gone out vines was lowered for the daythem, leaving him staring out of the window at the lovely weather outside and wondering what he could do they escaped. They climbed up to pass the time. Suddenly, he hears a desperate cry for help. Mrs Brown's house is on fire, Tree Wee homes high up in the key is insidetangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and her little boy Tommy is locked inGranny Cranny. Tommy is in terrible danger and what if the fire brigade doesn't arrive in time? [[The Adventures of Billy Bog Brush!: The Fire Brigade by Ian Campbell and Tim Constable|Full Review]]<br>}} <!-- Donald -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B0CC9W7GLR| styletitle="widthOn the Beach: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Winter Visitor[[image:Donald_Pirates.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848862474?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1848862474]] Chris Green and Jenny Fionda| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Pirates in Classroom 3 by Alison Donald and Ben Whitehouse]]==rating=5 [[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Not all 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 us were silvery ice drifted onto the child that paid attention in classshoreline. Some would look out On top of the window ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and let their minds wanderwith wobbly legs moved from the ice. Why be stuck in Kit was all for making a stuffy room when you could be in space or on run for it, but Teal knew that the high seas? Sometimes you do not need to seek adventure as it may just find youbear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. It makes perfect sense He obviously needed to me that if be taken home on the teacher leaves the classroom there is ample time for bus and given a pirate to enter good meal and ask all the children somewhere to help him find some lost treasuresleep. Who could possibly give up this opportunity What else would you do? [[Pirates in Classroom 3 by Alison Donald and Ben Whitehouse|Full Review]] |}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Thorp and Angus Mackinnon1913839656|title=The Elephant in the RoomLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee

|summary=Somebody has smashed Father Giant's elephantTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. Who on earth could it be? He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Can Father Giant unravel She had promised to take him to the mystery of what happenedFriday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and who will face being banished from the house forever once he discovers the truth? wondered why that could be. Told in a rhyme Grandma thought that gets more and more surreal as it goes along, this is a wild and brightly illustrated mystery story, with an interesting moral at the endmight be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707739</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessie Miller and Barbara Bakos1529504775|title=Rooster Wore Skinny JeansThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=One of the best things about modern online shopping is the knock on Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the door park and watch the parcel arrivingred buses drive past. What 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 it I ordered again? very difficult. It could be something as exciting as One day Elsie spotted a new bus in the toy, or something shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as boring as a new mixer for your showercash was tight at home. The anticipation of opening the box is as close Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the feeling of Christmas that an adult is going to get (except perhaps bus for Christmas)support, and walk behind it. Rooster has ordered something online Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it arrived quickly. Will his farmyard pals appreciate his buy as much as he does?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862822</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author= Bob GrahamAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|titlerating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary= How 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 Sun Got home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to Cocoher. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She's Housed help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= A tale of small moments: sunlight on Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a sailorsqueakily baby. He's cap as so tired but he sets out on an earlycan't - or won't -morning fishing expeditiongo to sleep: instead, a rainbow after a shower he just lies on his blanket and a glint of light in a whale's eye'wails''. While Coco sleeps, curled up snugly in her bed, creatures and people across the world are waking up The sea offers to the sunhelp. It chases rocks Baby gently and the night away across waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the globesound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, until at last la lay...'' And for a bright ray finds its way moment it seems to Cocohave worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's window and wakes her going to another day of fun and laughter as she plays outside in the snowhappen next. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406373451</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katie Haworth and Dinara Mirtalipova140639131X|title= Beauty and the BeastA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary= We all know the story Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of beauty and nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the beastOld Oak Road. A prince, transformed in She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a monster for his cruel and malicious nature, trapped in his grotesque form seemingly for the rest of his daysreply. Then comes along Philippa wasn't a young woman, bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the beauty benefits of the story, who mellows lollipop lady at the beast's harsh character and grows to love him for who he is, school crossing and not because of his appearancedecided that she would set up something similar herself. It's a fairy tale of old Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a story of love little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing boundaries which has been adapted countless times both on screen and in literature. So is this new retelling worth the read? I think so, because I loved itHedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704578</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lemony Snicket and Matthew Forsythe1776574338|title=The Bad Mood Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and the StickBei Lynn

|summary=As Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the title suggestscity, this is a story about a bad mood and a stickpicking up children as he goes. The bad mood (an emoji-like cloud character) moves from one character Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to another, travelling all around go downstairs – they simply climb out of the world window and causing unpredictable consequencesslide down his neck. The stick It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is just a stick problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and does very little other – because he's longer than providing a home for a cocoon that gives birth tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to butterflyand traffic regularly gets snarled up. The stickschool decides that he can's final home in the window of the ice cream shop does, however, put t be the shop owner, Bert, in a good moodbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783446420</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sean Taylor and Claire Alexander1776574028|title= The SnowbearBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= ThereI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a sense of wonder tutu - and stillness about fresh-fallen snow, whatever your agebecomes a ''balletphant''. Sounds are muffled, familiar objects The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and places are transformed, and the possibility of magic hangs in the frosty airthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. And for Iggy and Martina, playing outside The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on just such his potty changes into a winter''sm.......'' OK, let's day, reality swiftly turns into enchantment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277398</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Melling1838226834|title= Merry Christmas, Hugless DouglasCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Hugless Douglas is a large, comfy sort It was one of bear who burst onto those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the picture book scene a few years ago as he searched for just good that parents do, so the right sort of hugtrips out were always so much fun. His endearing, hopeful face and that chubby (to put it politely) body instantly melted A young hearts, and boy was going to universal delight we have since been treated to several more of the carnival with his adventures. Douglas is hugless no longerGrandad, youwho told him: ''It'll be glad to knowbrilliant, but the name stuckjust remember, mostly because itdon's such fun to say (go on, try it!) and because he still bumbles through life embracing everything in sight as if cuddles are about to t let go out of fashionmy hand. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444906844</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hendra and Paul LinnetB09MYXSRV4|title=SupertatoOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: Evil Pea RulesA Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith

|summary=For all their heroics and lantern jawsWhen the world was made, everyone knows the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that the good guy is never the best thing about he could become a book or filmprotector. That accolade goes to the bad guyWater Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. They are able to chew Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the scenery present ''and give '' the type of larger than life performance a hero could only dream offuture. One of Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the best bad guys ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in childrena race with Turtle. You might think that's fiction is not a guy at all, fair contest but a peawait and see. An evil peaThings are not always as they seem. At last this pea is given his opportunity to shine, but where there is an Evil Pea, a Supertato cannot be far behindI'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471144062</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph Coelho Rob Keeley|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|isbn= B09HHN541V}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=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 big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Fiona LumbersNaday Meldova|title=Luna Loves Library DayEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Luna is always excited when library day comes aroundToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, not just because she gets find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to take her books back talk about and borrow some new onesjoke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, but also because when everyone will hear itand everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's the day she spends latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with her dad. Once inside the librarytooting and gently and calmly, magical things occur as with the books Luna and her dad discover seemingly come to life. They spend their time together sharing storiesfamiliar humour attached, some explains that are more significant than others, until tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''s time for Luna to go home!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4. Yet even once she5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!''s home, she still has her newly borrowed series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to escape into, and take the memories pain out of her day potty training children and replace it with her dadsome fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445483</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title= Alison Ritchie When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Marisa MoreaMended|titleauthor= The Twelve Dogs of ChristmasPeter Cotton|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Christmas Meet 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'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is approaching a snake and one little puppy is very excited even those of us who have a phobia about his first ever Christmas Daysnakes are going to warm to him. Everywhere He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he looks could breathe and immediately became part of the preparations are underway family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with every dog in town helping them when they went outfor a walk. However will so many eager assistants joining in And that was where the fray help or hinder problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.}}{{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything ever else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be ready as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in timethe sky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471166171</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr SeussJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=What Was I Scared Of?No, No, No!

|summary=All Hallows' Eve is upon us once more and that can only mean that we They say the best picture books are soon to the simplest ones. And nothing could be surrounded by all types truer of monstersthis latest from Justine Avery, ghoulies and manifestationsa Bookbag favourite. Fear not ''No, as many of these unsettling creatures will actually be children dressed up on another adventure trick or treatingNo, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable. But what about that pair of seemingly malevolent trousers that walk by themselves? That is  ''No, no, no child! Okay, but a pair of haunted kecksokay. RunYes, runyou may.'' That's it! But, runlike all the best picture books, but perhaps if you have them this tiny snippet of text is a friendly hello these pants may be nicer than you think?veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008252602</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Morag Hood194812467X|title=I Am BatThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=54

|summary=Bat 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 smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a creature big barn with very definite opinionsa sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. He does not like morningsThere are sheep and ducks and cows, for examplegoats and chickens, but he does like cherriesand even some mice. In factExcited, he really loves cherries, as they are his ''favourite of all things!'' Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What do you think might happen if somebody takes Bat's cherries? Bat won't be happy, will hethey buy?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509834613</amazonuk>

''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. 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 glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and 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 world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Little Gold Ted|author=Kes Gray Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and Jim Fieldaround and is sucked down a drain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Oi Cat!Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4.5

|summary=When did childrenRemy is feeling miserable. He's books become so Meta? Back in the day each Thomas the Tank Engine adventure was separate from the other as if they lived in their own episodic wildnesslet himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, but not today. In this world of Nintendo Switches together with his sidekicks Ryan and online platforms the average adult is too scared to venture ontoBrandon, we have metaphysical children booksbeen laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. Books that reflect back on previous outings in the seriesThey are mean but they are not stupid. If you They are going careful to get wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the most out of ''Oi Cat!''other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, you best know about your ''Oi Frog!'' it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don''Oi Dog!'' toot believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444932519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cath Jones and Chris Jevons1471191303|title=Bonkers about BeetrootThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=Sunset Safari Park rarely has any visitors and This is in danger the story of closing down. To tackle the problem Zebra calls Isobel, a meeting of all the animals and challenges them to find little girl who made a way to make the safari park more interestingbig difference. Penguin thinks there's no hope but Zebra has Isobel lived with her parents in a totally bonkers idea – they'll grow house - a beetroot. They'll grow the biggest beetroot in the world! It should be easy very cold house, because they have plenty of manure (animal poo) to help it grow. At first it looks like Zebraher parents couldn's plan is going to work. One beetroot grows so big that crowds of people come t afford to see it. There is just one problem – put the beetroot keeps growing. Soon there won't be any room for visitors. Luckily, Zebra has another ideaheating on: an equally bonkers but totally brilliant idea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862814</amazonuk>}}

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The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}{{Frontpage|author===[[Words Nick Jones and Your Heart by Kate Jane Neal]]=Si Clark|title=One Night in Beartown|rating=4 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]summary= Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, [[:Category: Emerging Readersa colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!| Emerging Readers]]isbn=B08NFH7H9X}}

Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of piffle. In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say Move on to other people is positive. We can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, and bit by bit the world can be a better place. And hang the 'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response. There, I've given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, but that's not really an issue.[[Words and Your Heart by Kate Jane Neal|Full ReviewNewest General Fiction Reviews]]<br>