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[[Category:New Reviews|Home and Family]]==Home and family==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna Simmons and Jay Curtis1454955546|title=The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting: An Alternative GuideSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary='All in all, having kids is an intense rollercoaster ride. It plunges up and down, and there’s lots of screaming and vomiting involved.' So that pretty much sums it up. Advertised as: This isn't a comprehensively unhelpful, advice-free look at life', the authors talk about Antecedents and Behaviour, without (fortunately) going too deeply into the Consequences of several dozen baby-related topicsdiet book. But this definitely isn’t the rocket science of a parenting manual, or the touchy-feely of a misery memoir, rather a blackly comic gallop round pragmatic parenthood, instantly recognizable by The last thing anyone who’s been through the mill themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408626X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Barnardo|title=Dadcando: Build, Make, Do ... the Best Way to Spend Quality Time with Your Kids|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=The ideas in this needs is another diet book originated as a [http://www.dadcando.co.uk/ website] that Chris Barnardo set up for divorced and separated fathers to help them spend quality time with their children Now he's written a book that although aimed at single fathers is equally as useful for married dads, and mums too or grandparents or carers to inspire crafty ideas of things to make with kids.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652011</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evany Thomas1635866847|title=The Secret Language of Sleep: A Couple's Guide to the Thirty-nine Positions|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=This volume takes the premise that the positions in which couples sleep together are an insight into their private mind. Therefore, with the help of the line drawings of 39 (apparently all of THE 39) positions, one might see where one is going wrong. It’s a chicken and egg situation where you might learn you’re with the wrong bed partner, and change either them or your nocturnal habits, or in order to change yourself alter things having reflected on the contents here – with the help as they suggest of a ceiling-mounted camcorder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1932416471</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLavender Companion|author=Fraser's Autographs|title=Collect Autographs: An Illustrated Guide to Collecting Jessica Dunham and Investing in AutographsTerry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and FinanceLifestyle|summary=There must be many of us who have at one time had an autograph It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book or something of the kind as children and asked friends, relations or even celebrities to for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'do something', written to celebrities in I visited the hope of obtaining author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a personally signed picture, or even waited patiently at of a stage door after slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a play or concert eagerly clutching a theatre programmerecipe in the book, record or CD sleeve which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and pen I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in handthe margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597525</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0760381267
|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life
|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago
|rating=3.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1394159544
|title=Recycling for Dummies
|author=Sarah Winkler
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tad Tuleja0760378134|title=A Dictionary of Foreign Words and PhrasesThe First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=35
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Take a look at the cover design of this book, and If you'd ve ever thought how good it would be to be mistaken able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for thinking this was a trivia compendium for all those foreign words meal – but realised that have taken part in our English language since whenever they crossed over from their original homes. But the title is definitely honestyou wouldn't know where to start, for this is a dictionary the book firstyou need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), for referencewhere you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a browser for the trivia buff secondgood glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089562</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Loose Women1529149800|title=Here Come the GirlsThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=This is We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the second volume by river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the panelists from fire. The animals laughed: what good was that nice ITV series, doing. ''I'Loose Womenm doing the best I can''. Just as promised on the cover, this book is an entertaining night with said the girlshummingbird. It turns out And that they're just like us. The faces are already familiar and even if you don't know them yet, with nine contributorsreally, you'll soon find a like-minded woman behind one of is the celebrity faces. The women are universally warm-hearted and supportive: there only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be many a lonely woman who reads this book and feels as if she sat down with a group of friends for the evening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444700154</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gill Hines and Alison Baverstock1849767009|title=ItIsn's Not Fair! Parenting the Bright and Challenging Childt Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=Home and FamilyFor Sharing|summary=I like parenting This could have been one of those books. So, even though my sons which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are now young adults, I looked forward the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to reading bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a new book about raising childrennot wearing clothes. I It'm in touch with many parents with children s a celebration of all ages, bodies: bodies large and small and am always interested in reading current recommendationsof every possible hue. The subtitle of this book is, 'Parenting the bright Bodies with disabilities and challenging child'markings. When I saw it, I wondered if it would be similar to the American book They'Raising your Spirited Child' (by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka) which I found extremely useful when my sons were youngerre fine. Spirited children are defined as those who are intenseIn fact, sensitive, perceptive, persistent and energeticthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749940468</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Mangan 1504321383|title=My Family Single, Again, and Other DisastersAgain, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Not living in the UK means that we don't have British newspapers. Even when we lived in England, we never bought 'You can'The Guardian'', so I had never actually heard of Lucy Mangan before being sent this bookt be happy and fulfilled on your own. That's probably You are not complete until you find a bad thing, since I began the book - a collection of her Guardian columns - without any preconceptionsman''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852651244</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Tatar Graff_Find|title=Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in ChildhoodFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=3.5|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=Like most avid readersWhen Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of handwritten notes from his journal, I donhe didn't remember take much notice of it. At the time before there were books. We were brought up with books. There are family tales age of my father as a child eating his breakfast with one hand24, while trying to tie his shoelaces with the other and still contriving to read at the same time. They were a poor family, and books werenGraff didn't just expensive, they were valuable. They were dear, in every sense of realise the word. Likewise my mother remembers her early school-years when every day ended with a chapter from one gravity of the classicspages he was holding. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393066010</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate BrianGoodland_Worth|title=The Complete Guide to IVF|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Each year some forty thousand cycles of IVF – in vitro fertilisation – are carried out in the UK and something like a million worldwide. About two hundred thousand IVF babies are born annually with some twelve thousand of those in the UK according to a recent article I read on a BBC site. Fertility expert Kate Brian has followed her [[The Complete Guide to Female Fertility by Kate Brian|Complete Guide to Female Fertility]], which we loved, with another indispensable guide – this time to IVF.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909706</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali Valenzuela|title=Weighing It Up|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Although never having had an eating disorder myself, I have been interested in them since I was young. I was a competitive gymnast and that is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now I'm s Worth a mother of three teenage daughters, I worry about the subject from a whole new angle, especially as one of them is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebrities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anna Paterson|title=Anorexic|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It might seem strange and somewhat ironic that an obese woman is reviewing a book on anorexia. But it is a topic I have always found interesting. Despite my being at the opposite end of the weight scale to Anna Paterson, I could empathise with some of the things she felt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0952921529</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTry|author=Loose Women|title=Girls' Night InNicola Goodland
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I love watching This is how Nicola Goodland introduces her book, ''Loose Women'' on TV and feel itIt's like sitting down for Worth a good gossip with a load of girlfriends. Every time itTry''s on, I get involved in the debates and they spark discussions at home with whoever is around. My teenage daughters are fans of the show too.:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffrey DeanHigashida_Fall|title=The Fight Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Your LifeAutism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell|rating=45
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=This Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump''. The book is was popular because it gave a wakerare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of a teenager with non-up callverbal autism. Jeffrey Dean wrote it so that parents can understand Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or by tracing letters on the difficult world that their teens may have to face everydaypalm of a transcriber. Despite this slow and laborious method of writing, he has published several books in his native Japan and through this understanding, they will be motivated manages to give public presentations to help their teens raise awareness of his condition. Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to surviveNaoki as a young adult in his 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1601421109</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark DiaconoBialik_Girling|title=Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook No 4|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=At a time when the climate is changing and the economy appears to be heading south the thought of being able to produce your own vegetables is very tempting. Forget about food miles and consider instead how few minutes there can be between harvesting your vegetables and the cooking process. Don't worry about pesticides and residues as you'll know exactly what's been fed to your food. Mark Diacono, head gardener on the hallowed ground of River Cottage HQ, run by the sainted Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, tells you exactly how to go about it in this, the fourth of the River Cottage Handbooks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595348</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGirling Up|author=John Kay|title=The Long and the Short of it: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the IndustryMayim Bialik
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I was really intrigued by the title This book arrived on my desk to cries of therapist Glenn Harrold''Amy Farrah Fowler's written a book ?'' or ''Look Young and Live LongerNo, that's Blossom''depending on your generation. Could it be possible that Mayim Bialik is or was both, of course, but in addition to being a well-known sitcom actress, she is also a neuroscientist (and the only PhD on The Big Bang Theory, except for the characters). Aimed at teenagers, this book could deliver focuses on such growing up as a huge promise? Having been feeling more than a little jaded latelygirl, or ''Girling up'' if you will, I was willing and what it means to transition from school girl to give it a trygrown-up, via that hideous detour of teenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075288610X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Phillips and Barbara TaylorMattinson_Puppy|title=On Kindness |rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=As a title, ''On Kindness'' doesn't pack quite Choosing the same punch as Adam Phillip's earlier: 'On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored'. It put me in mind of an eighteenth century treatise, and, give or take a couple of centuries, that is exactly what the book provides: a thought-provoking exposition on a currently unfashionable virtue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144337</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPerfect Puppy|author=Olive Hickmott and Andrew Bendefy |title=Seeing Spells AchievingPippa Mattinson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I felt an immediate empathy with Olive Hickmott when I If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book. We're obviously Too many people are carried away in the heat of a similar age and were taught reading the moment and spelling in a time before you were ''dyslexicmust''have a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the consequences. I found that They then have to live with the terms more commonly used were problems which 'not trying hard enough' and might'lazy'have been avoided for a decade or more. I did master reading although I was late by today's standards but I've always struggled with spelling: certain words The puppy and letter combinations still have terrors hidden within them half a century later and until we changed the format of Bookbag I used adult dog also has to warn reviewers that they should check whatever I uploaded onto the site as I was unreliable when it came live with an owner who might not be able to spellingaccommodate his needs. Olive and I have both been saved by the spellchecker[[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. I settled happily into reading, Olive less so, but we both made careers where numbers were important. I could read a set She doesn't try to talk you out of accounts like getting a story; particular breed or any puppy: she found a home in engineeringsimply presents the facts and allows you to make your own decisions. We worked in areas where intuition was important.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312209</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate BrianRaskin_Grow|title=The Complete Grow: A Family Guide to Female FertilityGrowing Fruit and Veg|author=Ben Raskin
|rating=5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=ItI worried when I looked at this book: 's tempting to say that every woman over the age of puberty should have access to Kate Brian's Grow'', it said, ''The Complete Guide A family guide to Female Fertilitygrowing fruit and veg''. The truth is that they should all have their own copies Why did it worry me? Well, it's a mere 48 pages and they should read the book until cover says that itincludes ''Games, stickers and MORE!'' I have weighty tomes which don's dog-eared t completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and falling apartveg, because I really canso wasn't think of this going to fall a better way to understand why some women are more fertile than others or some women have difficulty in conceivinglittle short? Well, it doesn't - not at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749927925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=India KnightMcgrath_Camping|title=The Thrift Book: Live Well and Spend Less Camping With Kids|author=Simon McGrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=A soon as I read the introduction I wondered if this When my daughter was really going young it used to be the book for me. Despite having two books joked that if a child asked on his fifth birthday to go camping and you told him that he could in the top ten best seller list India Knight knew the bailiffs well and was facing bankruptcy. It wasnfive years't that she wasntime, he't earning money – it was simply that she had no ability d be there on his tenth birthday, all kitted up and ready to handle itgo. Hmm – I have a horror of debt These days the discussions - and delaying tactics - are more likely to be about technology - and I can handle moneymobiles in particular. Was India Knight Whilst it's wonderful that children do embrace technology, it shouldn'really'' going to t be able to teach at the person who grew up with expense of getting out in the austerity fresh air, being free of postscreens and having an adventure -war Britain chomping at her heels anything about thrift? Plans were already forming to move preferably with all the book on, when slowly and inexorably I was won overfamily doing it ''together''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490372</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Schmidt and Robert MaslenWilliams_Son|title=The Shakespeare Handbook My Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures|author=John Williams|rating=43.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=William Shakespeare. If you're a fan of the theatreIn 2012, you may see him as the greatest playwright of all time. If you're currently studying English at school, he may be the worst thing that ever happened to you. Over the years, I've certainly held both opinions, depending on where I stand-up comedian John Williams was at the time. Part of this could have been because I, like most school pupils, never had a gentle introduction encouraged by his work colleagues to Shakespeare. If I'd had write a book like this in show charting his experiences as the early years of my schooling, I suspect I may have come around to my love parent of Shakespeare a lot sooner than I didan autistic boy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184724615X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tania Glyde|title=Cleaning UpAfter registering the domain name: How I Gave Up Drinking And Lived|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=I suspect that I'm like a lot of people who enjoy alcohol on a regular basis: there'My Son's a nagging guilt and suspicion that you might have a problem. EquallyNot Rainman, there's St Augustine's approach he also decided to write a sin: you're determined blog to do something about it, but not just yetshare his funny anecdotes and experiences. So, when After a shaky start (''Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking And Livedhad a handful of followers. Three of them were my brothers'' dropped through ), the letterbox on Saturday morning I wondered if this was blog eventually went viral as it increased in popularity with parents who felt a message from a higher authority.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686555</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Toms and Paul Sterry|title=Garden Birds and Wildlife|rating=5|genre=Home connection with John and Family|summary='The Boy'Garden Birds & Wildlife'' has been created and published under the auspices . This book fills in some of British Trust for Ornithology (though the actual publisher is, possibly gaps in the spirit of penance for damage inflicted on wildlife by the motorcarstory, the AA). Accordingly, the main focus of the guide is, indeed, on birds. It contains a wealth of information: from birdwatching to bird biology and behaviour, including visual guides to eggs and nests; practical tips and guides to bird watching, feeding (what, how and where), creating a bird-and-wildlife- friendly garden and building nest boxes; itstarting with 'The Boy's all there, with copious illustrations, clear text and more interesting or practically relevant facts and tips in separate insert boxes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749559128</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Oke|title=Write Your Life Story|rating=4|genre=Home ' early childhood and Family|summary=I love writing and over the last few yearsending, I have begun to write my autobiography. While I find this a very rewarding processappropriately, sometimes it can be hard to stay motivated. It is easy to get bogged down in wondering if it's any good, if you are going into too much detail or not enough. Sometimes you need a push in the right direction. ''Write Your Life Storyon his thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen' by Michael Oke is ideal for this, as well as for anyone interested in writing their memoirs, but unsure how to start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845283058</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Niall Edworthy and Petra CramsieMbaya_Brain|title=The Optimist's/pessimist's HandbookMy Brain Is Out Of Control|author=Patrick Mbaya
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=How do you pronounce the word ghoti? Go on, say it out loud – you must recognise itDr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a consultant psychiatrist, husband and I dare say you've eaten one enough timesfather. OK, I'll helpHis career was going well and he enjoyed making ill people better. You know gh sounds like fHis marriage was solid and fulfilling and his two children were exploring their potential, like it does in roughoften through the uplifting power of music. You know o sounds like i, just like in womenLife was good. And ti is clearly the same as sh, as in notionBut then. Yes, ghoti is pronounced fish. It's just a very blunt way of saying the rules that control the language, and how it is spelled, pronounced, used, and changes over history are all over the place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199239061</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Crystal Allingham_Beloved|title=Shakespeare on ToastBeloved Old Age and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's the Relay|author=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from the golden age of crime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and excellent plotting. Her last completed book was not a novel but ''Shakespeare on ToastThe Relay'' claims , a combined account of caring for three elderly relatives, (Em, Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as to be how other people might achieve a good old age for virtually everyone: those that are their relatives. Margery died in 1966 and ''reading Shakespeare for the first time, occasionally finding him troublesome, think they know him backwards or have never set foot near one of his plays but have always wanted toThe Relay''was never published in the form in which it was written. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848310161</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marisa Peer Rodgers_Peace|title=You Can Be ThinPeace of Mind: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting... Forever A Book of Calm for Busy Mums|author=Georgina Rodgers|rating=4.53
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=After having The promise of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, in the title, my baby job description (busy mum...well, that's just over two years agoone of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to find, peace of mind. I have found it quite hard to shed the weight which seemed say, I was looking forward to be sticking aroundsome insightful revelations into changing my life. I used to be quite thin before having himthink the problem, however, was quickly apparent in that like a busy mum, so who is trying to suddenly go up wear a dress size was hundred masks at the same time, and carry out a bit multitude of a shock. Iroles, this book isn't entirely sure what it'm quite a petite person so even just a few extra pounds shows unfortunately. I decided I had s trying to get rid of the weightbe, with everything from poetry and so I turned colouring to this book sent to me by The Bookbagmindfulness and recipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441394</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elise LindsayEhrlin_Rabbit|title=How to Get a Celeb's Body: Discover the Secrets of the Stars with Your Own Personal Trainer The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep|author=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin|rating=25
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I Roger the Rabbit wanted to fall asleep, but somehow he couldn't, no matter how hard he tried. It wasn't that he didn't do not know Elise Lindsay - neither by name or reputationmuch during the day, because he did but sometimes he was so tired that he could fall asleep on the swings. I am optimistic and therefore think she must be One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to see Uncle Yawn, who had a great coach. A hundred plus pages with pictures show her posing very confidently in flattering sport outfits and she does seem quite fit. notice outside his house saying I am sure she can motivate her clients and make them do their best. Quite frankly though, I do not believe that should in any way have motivated anyone fall asleep and once Roger went home (it was actually quite difficult for him to write a bookget there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to bed and fell asleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718153375</amazonuk>
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