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{{newreview
|author=Orla Kiely
|title=Orla Kiely Numbers
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Orla Kiely is one of the UK's most popular designers at the moment. I seem to see her designs everywhere on everything from stationery to kitchen jugs, and now her graphics are available as a baby's book of colours.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258551</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Orla Kiely
|summary=Zoo girl was not what I expected. I was anticipating your average rhyming story aimed at preschoolers with the usual obsession over zoo animals. What I got was a very deep, moving tale aimed above the usual picture book age that will resonate with people who read it from children to adults.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074596270X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nick Butterworth
|title=Tales From Percy's Park: Percy's Bumpy Ride
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=At the start of 'Percy's Bumpy Ride', all the park animals are puzzled by the strange noises coming from Percy the Park keeper's workshop. They cannot guess what Percy is up to, but soon all is revealed when the doors open and Percy drives out on a spanking new machine. It's a new lawn mower and when Percy claims that it will help him fly around the park he is not joking. He and the animals roar around the park cutting the grass speedily and efficiently. However, before long the mower literally takes off and it looks as if they are all heading for a nasty accident until some very friendly sheep help to soften their landing. Percy decides that maybe his exciting new mower is perhaps not up to the job of keeping the park's grass in trim, but luckily, the sheep have given him another idea...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000715514X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nat Lambert and Andrea Petrlik
|title=Colours Sticker Activity Book
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's lovely to find a book – and even better to find a series of books - which allow parents and children to do something constructive together. The first book which we looked at was ''Colours''. On each double page spread there are plenty of things to talk about with your child, stickers to find and put in the appropriate spaces and then a game or an activity to complete. You'll find songs to sing, pictures to colour in and join-the-dot pictures to complete. There are even some smiley faces so that you can reward your child for what they've achieved. They're suitable for the three plus age group and will be enjoyed by both boys and girls.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849562938</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robin Tzannes and Korky Paul
|title=When Chico Went Fishing
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Chico wants to go fishing with his father very much, and begs him, but dad says no, he will make too much noise and scare away the fish. In the end, Chico sets out to go fishing on his own, and he does really well. This is a very simple story. It is accompanied though by fascinating, detailed illustrations. In fact, it is billed as a Korky Paul picture book, one in which illustrator Korky Paul has done the drawings. I think this is really interesting as often illustrated children’s books are sold on the basis of the author of the text.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729942</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Byrne
|title=This Book Belongs To Aye-Aye
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Aye-Aye goes to Miss Deer's Academy For Aspiring Picture-Book Animals. Dontcha just love that concept? He's desperate to be in a book of his own, but he's not quite ready yet. Miss Deer announces that there's going to be a very special prize for the most helpful animal of the week. However, as the week goes on, the parameters of the competition seem to change, and the Rabbit Twins are up to their usual cheeky shenanigans.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756192</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jan Ormerod and Lindsey Gardiner
|title=The Animal Bop Won't Stop
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The words are easy to read aloud and would be fun, perhaps, to share with a small group of co-operative pre-school children and try out the suggested movements. If you want to get your kids dancing, this might not be the best choice at bedtime, and my boys are a bit wary of directed activity (so we exercise them in the park).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019278014X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sally Gardner
|title=Snow White
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Having read many retellings of Grimms' tales, it is refreshing to read one that expands the story familiar into six short chapters while remaining faithful to the original narrative. Gardner adds some detail to the story (the Seven Dwarfs try to protect Snow White by inventing some alarm systems to warn of the queen's approach, and Snow White is making an apple pie when the queen disguised as an old woman arrives with the poisoned apple) but does not remove or prettify the more violent aspects of the story; the huntsman kills a deer and persuades the queen that its heart is Snow White's, and the queen is ''smashed to smithereens'' on rocks as she tries to escape from the dwarfs . The prince arriving and Snow White returning to life after the piece of poisoned apple is jolted from her mouth is the resolution to the story, but the dwarfs being the guests of honour at the wedding is a nice touch.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444002430</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Bedford and Julian Russell
|title=Bouncy Bouncy Bedtime
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=At the very start of this book it is bedtime, but before going to sleep, the author asks the young reader:
'Have you ever wondered what the animals do?<br>
Do they go to bed like me and you?'
and then we are asked to imagine...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405257423</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Hegley and Neal Layton
|title=Stanley's Stick
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Stanley loves his stick and carries it everywhere. He loves to play with it and finds all sorts of uses for it. Forget all those expensive plastic toys; the stick is the best toy he could have. (It is nice to see a child in a book playing with something that doesn’t cost money).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988185</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laura Barella
|title=The Little Mermaid
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=I've always found the story of the Little Mermaid to be a rather strange choice for a toddler's picture book since it doesn't have the expected happy ending. Of course that means that usually the ending gets altered, to make it palatable for little ones. This particular retelling for younger children is unusual as it steers clear of a romantic happy ending in Disney-style and actually ends on quite a solemn, sad note.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846433258</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Carol Thompson
|title=Snug!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=What makes you feel snug? Tucked up like a bug in a rug? Being as snug as a mole in his underground hole? This story looks at all different ways that make us feel cosy and warm.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846433738</amazonuk>
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