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|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

|title=The Ugly Five

|rating=4

|genre=For Sharing

|summary=Creating a popular character is a double edged sword; one side is buckets of cold hard cash, the other is people demanding that you trot out the same old stuff. Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler created the behemoth that is ''The Gruffalo'' and you could forgive them for producing countless books in this series, but they do not. Anyone who is a fan of the pairing will already know that their other work is also excellent; just ask ''Superworm'' or ''Room on the Broom''. This is an established author/illustrator partnership and any new outing from them is exciting. Even if that is an outing about really ugly animals.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407174193</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author= Rob Beattie and Sam Peet

|summary=Patchwork is a magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of material and turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. Quilting converts a topper and a backing fabric with some wadding in between into a fabric of an entirely different weight. Combine the two crafts and you have something more than magical, occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to start, when there are so many different styles of both crafts? One answer is to read ''Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide'' which looks - as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the V&A collections.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500293260</amazonuk>

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~~{{newreview ~~

~~|author=Steven Jon Halasz~~

~~|title=The Prancing Jacana~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Thrillers~~

|summary=Mabel Pembrose's latest novel ''The Prancing Jacana'' has been on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list for a couple of weeks: her husband, Robert Bersley, isn't doing anything like as well. He writes children's books and his editor is adamant that as he's writing about Snake and Mouse, then Mouse has to be eaten by Snake, because that's how it works. Mabel's not completely free from problems though: her novel, set in Senegal, features Police Detective Salif Bampoky and he's gay in a country where same-sex sexual acts are outlawed and in consequence her book has been banned in the country. The fact that it's banned isn't harming her sales in the US at all, but Mabel - or rather Caroline Parker, as Mabel Pembrose is her pen name - isn't content with this. She's been to Senegal, loves the country and she'd like the book to be a bestseller there too.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1974689980</amazonuk>~~

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