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|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. 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 honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=09956478951732898766|title=Sadie The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4|genre=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 Sea DogsSour Milk Dragon is chasing 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, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Maureen Duffy Chris Green and Anita JoiceJenny Fionda|rating=3.5
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|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was a dreamerbetter to be at home, bored but warm, her mind never or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on what she should be doinga snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. She lives by On top of the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sarkice was a polar bear. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all As the houses cowered in ice bumped onto the gloomsand,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Her imagination Kit was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under all for making a glass case (run for it's , but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell apple and the attendant's warning shoutthen another. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in He obviously needed to be taken home on the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in bus and given a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids good meal and treasuresomewhere to sleep. What else would you do?
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|isbn=17822277411913839656|title=Little Gold TedLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha SathaLainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=One dayTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and not least because she made the water is swirlingbest beetle juice. Poor Ted starts to spin around He packed two pairs of dungarees and around his favourite hat and is sucked down a drain on the side of the streetthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Finding himself down in She had promised to take him to the sewer, Ted starts Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to panicmake new friends. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat At home, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and be because he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of brothlooked different.
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|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S1529504775|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourselfThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Mayuri Naidoo Amy Sparkes and Caroline SiegalKatie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Remy is feeling miserableElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. He's let himself down ''again 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 very difficult. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and Brandon, have been laughing was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at Remyhome. Gradually, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful David learned to wind stand up Remy when nobody can see , use the bus for support, and then push him just that little bit further when walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the other kids are around. Sobus, when Remy reactsnow damaged and rusted, it looks as though he was to the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and Repair Shop, hoping that the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happenedexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.
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|isbn=14711913031529504767|title=The InvisibleChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Tom PercivalAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big differenceSusan 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. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldnShe needn't afford have worried though as she went to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside home of the window Mr and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didnMrs Russell, who couldn't go have been kinder to the cinema or on holidays but they her. She even had each other her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and they were happybegan to enjoy her life. Then the day came when they couldnShe't afford d help Mrs Russell with the rent for the house baking and they had to move when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the far side of decorations on the cityChristmas tree. This part of The best surprise happened the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisiblefollowing morning.
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|authorisbn=Nick Jones and Si Clark1916459943|title=One Night in BeartownSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
|rating=4
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|summary= Many children have an obsession and Sandy LaneMuch as mothers love their babies, who lives in Beartownthere's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, is obsessed with bearshe just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. She collects books about bears The sea offers to help. Her favourite toy is Berisford It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmotherhush''. Every night, she looks out Think of her bedroom window gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and says goodnight to you have the bear statue outsidesound perfectly. Every morning she says hello The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to Bee Bear, have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a colourful painted bear that lives at her schoolseagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}}
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|isbn=1849766920140639131X|title=Everything is MINEA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Andrea D'AquinoBriony May Smith
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|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: what else could you be with a name like that? He knows that youPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired'll realise that he's kind, clever and loyalof nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. You'll also need She wrote to know that everything is '''MINE''the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. And he means Philippa wasn''everything''. It begins with the slippert a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: mum still has one. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that he's being generous in allowing saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided thatshe would set up something similar herself. Then it was Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the pork chopbenefits were obvious. Well, did you see anyone's name on it? ''And'' he left All the carrots for Leo. That's another example of Marcello's generosity. There was animals used the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there crossing and Hedgehog was no documentation even trained up to prove ownership. And talking of ownership the tree would provide all the sticks he could ever want to chewa safe path overnight. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?
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|isbn=18497670091776574338|title=It IsnLeilong't Rude to be Nudes Too Long!|author=Rosie HaineJulia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to Every morning Leilong, the choir': brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the only people city, picking up children as he goes. Children who'll buy it are live at the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who top of tower blocks don''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like t even need to go downstairs – they avoid simply climb out of the hot-window and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bustslide down his neck. But... Rosie Haines makes It's perfect, isn't it into something so much ? What could be a more than fun way of going to school? There is a book about not wearing clothesproblem, though. ItLeilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and markingstraffic regularly gets snarled up. TheyThe school decides that he can're fine. In fact, they're wonderfult be the bus anymore.
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|authorisbn=Blake Nuto and Charlotte Ager1776574028|title=Child of GalaxiesBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=54
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|summary=What does it mean to be alive? What are we made of, and where are we going? I love a good board book! ''Child of GalaxiesBumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a lovely childrenniche market: it's picture book for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that deals you can ''play'' with all words and make something quite different from each one. We have the big questionselephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. Written as The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a poem''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.......'' OK, the lyrical words donlet't shy away from darkness, nor talk down to the children you s not go there Some people are reading to, but rather than work beautifully together with the illustrations to create a powerful, uplifting reading experience.|isbn=1912497425eating!
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|isbn=19481245721838226834|title=Think Outside Carried Away With the BoxCarnival|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukEd Boxall
|rating=4
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|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They''Whenever you find a problem <br>''Wherever re there's a puzzle to solve <br>''However you get stuck in a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the box''carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
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|isbn=1948124440B09MYXSRV4|title=What Wonders Await OutdoorsOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukCordellya Smith
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|summary=The second book in Justine Avery's Wonders series is When the perfect antidote to long summer days with bored children - or, indeedworld was made, as we've found recently, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across the world. What do you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played with, repurposed, and played with again?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies animals were madegiven gifts. My mother Bear was deeply embarrassed and told me given strength so that she'd get me he could become a book about itprotector. A couple of days later I was handed Water Spider received a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had never been used in our house before) and I was told excellent sight so that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it he could see the present ''wasn't something which nice people talked aboutand''the future. I ''knew'' moreRabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, but not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was little ''wiser'how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. Thankfully, times have changedI'll tell you how it came about.
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|author= Justine Avery and Daria YudinaRob Keeley|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh (Living Book)Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!
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|genre= For Sharing|summary=This Living Book is on a mission Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. What's the mission? To make you laugh! I can't think of many better missions than thatShe likes carrots, broccoli, can you? Let's see how it doescabbage and aubergines... .... well, it opens When her friends at school turn up with a terrible joke. A groany joketheir noses, an eye-roll joke. The joke isn't very funny but it Lily is funny keen to see explain how enthusiastic good they are for you and how generously this book wants nice to make you laugh - ''Oheat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, I'm terrible at jokeswho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Some books are so good at themInfuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I always wanted did try to help someone laughtell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.'' |isbn= 194812453XB09HHN541V
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|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Daria YudinaB09FFJF8YS|title=Baby Trolls Get a Bad Rap You Can't Wear Panties! (Underrated Babies Book 1No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=43.5
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|summary= Horatio''For the big, grownup girls out there, Saul the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and Grizelda are three baby trolls who are fed up that everyone forgets about baby trollspersevering panty pride. They are ignored in books '' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and TV shows pull-ups and films in favour of their very scary grown ups. Our three heroes want equal rights for baby trolls. They want graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to be seen and heard her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while theycannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can've started t. She's a petition about it that they want you big girl now and she wants everyone to sign. But how should they go about know it? |isbn= B07XGN4LGY!
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|author=Justine Avery and Daria YudinaNaday Meldova|title=This Book Is AliveEverybody Toots! (Living BookEverybody Potties!)
|rating=4
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|summary= Books Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn''want'' you to read t find them! They're not intimidating or standoffish or particular about readersirresistibly funny. Books ''want'' Funny to be readtalk about and joke about, that is. This is But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the key message in wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest offering, entry in her ''This Book Is AliveEverybody Potties!''. By anthropomorphising the relationship between book series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and young readercalmly, she's sending an invitation to all - pick me upwith the familiar humour attached, read me, be my friend, we can go on a journey togetherexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. ItEverybody does it: ''Everybody Toots's a great message, don't you think?!|isbn= 1948124416B09C2RVJ2W}}
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Justine Avery and Ema Tepic |title=I Dreamed YouSeema Amjad
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|summary=It is always a pleasure to review a new book by Justine Avery and ''I Dreamed YouWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' carries on is the tradition beautifully. This little book is latest release in the perfect exemplar of our category name, ''For SharingEverybody Potties!''series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It is a mother's love letter to her childa worthy aim, told in rhyme formas any frustrated parent will tell you. .|isbn=1948124505}}
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|isbn=1838593187B07GZ81J7C|title=Guess What I Found in When Fred the Playground!Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Victoria ThompsonPeter Cotton
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|summary=Tilly is excitedMeet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. SheBut I's just come dashing out m getting ahead of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and myself: I'd better tell you a big grin on her facebit more about Fred. Dad's come to collect her Fred is a snake and her brother and he ''has'' even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to try warm to guess what she found him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the playground todayfamily, although she concedes to the extent that he will never guessthey would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. Dad wants to know how school And that was, but ''obviously'' that's not importantwhere the problem started. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (IsnFred didn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuffhave any road sense. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guessOr brakes.
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|isbnauthor=1686751680Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarres|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Which child doesn't think that their mother is, well, ''weird''Can potty training ever be joyous? It might be that in the morning their mother doesnoften isn't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows that that is when , as any parent will tell you're at your brightest with lots to say? ''Why'' then does Mummy stick her fingers in her ears? Then there's doing yoga in front of the television. But really, which could be worrying if it wasnwhy shouldn't so funnyit be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. We wonWhy shouldn't go into too potty training be as much detail fun as, say, learning about what goes on in why the bathroom sun and the colour changes which have occured when Mummy emerges and frankly, the less said the better about her reactions to your artistic efforts on moon take turns in the wall. I mean, what else would you use paint forsky?|isbn= B098BJZYHH
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|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukNaday Meldova|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?No, No, No!
|rating=4
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|summary=''The day has ended''<br>They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite.''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But nowNo, it's timeNo, to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventureNo!'' <br>is based around the simplest text imaginable.
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|isbn=0993340334194812467X|title=BunnyThe Farm Shop|author=Peter Lynas Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Clare LindleyEma Tepic
|rating=4
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|summary=You might have seen Bunny on Kirelle and her best friend Sam the beach where he livedcat decide to go for a walk. Like many beaches it was full of sand Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Bunny didn't like sand, not least because it got between Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his toes and ''scratched''. What he really liked was juicy green grasssmart grey fur coat. All the other rabbits lived on As they walk to the top of the cliffhill, where Bunny could they see a lot of tasty-looking grassbig barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the cliff was very highstallholders and customers are farmyard animals.There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will they buy?
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|isbn=19258200250995647895|title=OnceSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom, I ''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was Lovedfired. 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Little Gold Ted|author=Belinda LandsberryVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
|rating=4
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|summary=TockOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the toy rabbit, water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is in sucked down a box drain on the side of toys going to the charity shopstreet. Finding himself He realises that he's not wanted any moredown in the sewer, but muses that it wasn't always this wayTed starts to panic. ''OnceOH HELP ME PLEASE'', he says, ''I was loved''. And he tells us cries and alerts the attention of all Reg the children sewer rat, who have loved plucks him over out of the yearsdirty 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.
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|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S
|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself
|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.
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|isbn=1471191303
|title=The Invisible
|author=Tom Percival
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on:
''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.''
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.
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|author=Nick Jones and Si Clark
|title=One Night in Beartown
|rating=4
|genre=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, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!
|isbn=B08NFH7H9X
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