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{{Frontpage
|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6
|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)
|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody 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's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you.  .
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B07GZ81J7C
|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended
|author=Peter Cotton
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=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 a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him.  He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk.  And that was where the problem started.  Fred didn't have any road sense.  Or brakes.
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{{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 else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? 
|isbn= B098BJZYHH
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{{Frontpage
|author=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova
|title=No, No, No!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite.

''No, No, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable.

''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.''

That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.
|isbn=1638820457
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=194812467X
|title=The Farm Shop
|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=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 big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders 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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0995647895
|title=Sadie 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,''<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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1782227741
|title=Little Gold Ted
|author=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 around 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.
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{{Frontpage
|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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{{Frontpage
|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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{{Frontpage
|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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1849766920
|title=Everything is MINE
|author=Andrea D'Aquino
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: what else could you be with a name like that?  He knows that you'll realise that he's kind, clever and loyal.  You'll also need to know that everything is '''MINE'''.  And he means ''everything''.  It begins with the slipper: mum still has one.  Why would she need more?  You sense that Marcello feels that he's being generous in allowing that.  Then it was the pork chop.  Well, did you see anyone's name on it?  ''And'' he left the carrots for Leo.  That's another example of Marcello's generosity.  There was the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation to prove ownership.  And talking of ownership the tree would provide all the sticks he could ever want to chew.  There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1849767009
|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude
|author=Rosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are 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 bust.  But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes.  It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue.  Bodies with disabilities and markings.  They're fine.  In fact, they're wonderful.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Blake Nuto and Charlotte Ager
|title=Child of Galaxies
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=What does it mean to be alive?  What are we made of, and where are we going?  ''Child of Galaxies'' is a lovely children's picture book that deals with all the big questions.  Written as a poem, the lyrical words don't shy away from darkness, nor talk down to the children you are reading to, but rather than work beautifully together with the illustrations to create a powerful, uplifting reading experience.
|isbn=1912497425
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1948124572
|title=Think Outside the Box
|author=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=''Whenever you find a problem <br>
''Wherever there's a puzzle to solve <br>
''However you get stuck in a sticky situation <br>
''Just think outside the box''

And so begins the latest picture book from Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk. It's a clarion call to children to use their imaginations and not logic alone when it comes to solving problems.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1948124440
|title=What Wonders Await Outdoors
|author=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The second book in Justine Avery's Wonders series is the perfect antidote to long summer days with bored children - or, indeed, 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?
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{{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 were made.  My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it.  A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before)  and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''.  I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''.  Thankfully, times have changed.
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{{Frontpage
|author= Justine Avery and Daria Yudina
|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh (Living Book)
|rating= 4
|genre= For Sharing
|summary=This Living Book is on a mission. What's the mission? To make you laugh! I can't think of many better missions than that, can you? Let's see how it does...

.... well, it opens up with a terrible joke. A groany joke, an eye-roll joke. The joke isn't very funny but it is funny to see how enthusiastic and how generously this book wants to make you  laugh - ''Oh, I'm terrible at jokes. Some books are so good at them. I always wanted to help someone laugh.'' 
|isbn= 194812453X
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{{Frontpage
|author=Justine Avery and Daria Yudina
|title=Baby Trolls Get a Bad Rap (Underrated Babies Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=  Horatio, Saul and Grizelda are three baby trolls who are fed up that everyone forgets about baby trolls. They are ignored in books and TV shows and films in favour of their very scary grown ups. Our three heroes want equal rights for baby trolls. They want to be seen and heard and they've started a petition about it that they want you to sign. But how should they go about it?  
|isbn= B07XGN4LGY
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{{Frontpage
|author=Justine Avery and Daria Yudina
|title=This Book Is Alive! (Living Book)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary= Books ''want'' you to read them! They're not intimidating or standoffish or particular about readers. Books ''want'' to be read.

This is the key message in Justine Avery's latest offering, ''This Book Is Alive!''. By anthropomorphising the relationship between book and young reader, she's sending an invitation to all - pick me up, read me, be my friend, we can go on a journey together. It's a great message, don't you think?
|isbn= 1948124416
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{{Frontpage
|author=Justine Avery and Ema Tepic  
|title=I Dreamed You
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It is always a pleasure to review a new book by Justine Avery and ''I Dreamed You'' carries on the tradition beautifully. This little book is the perfect exemplar of our category name, ''For Sharing''. It is a mother's love letter to her child, told in rhyme form.
|isbn=1948124505
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1838593187
|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!
|author=Victoria Thompson
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Tilly is excited.  She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face.  Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess.  Dad wants to know how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not important.  Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box?  (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?)  Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff.  There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guess.
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