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|author=Justine Avery and Ema Tepic Adam Stower|title=I Dreamed YouMurray 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
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1732898766
|title=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 Sour 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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR
|title=On the Beach: The Winter Visitor
|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1913839656
|title=Let's Celebrate Being Different
|author=Lainey Dee
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529504775
|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)
|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. 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. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529504767
|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)
|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It is always Susan 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. She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a pleasure squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to review a new book by Justine Avery sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''I Dreamed Youwails'' carries on . The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the tradition beautifullywaves sing ''hush, hush''. This little book is Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the perfect exemplar of our category name, sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''For Sharingla lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. It is Then a motherseagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's love letter going to her child, told in rhyme formhappen next.|isbn=1948124505}}
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|isbn=1838593187140639131X|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Victoria ThompsonBriony May Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Tilly is excitedPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. Shewrote to the mayor about the problem but didn's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and t even get a big grin on her facereply. DadPhilippa wasn's come t a bird to collect sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and her brother decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and he ''has'' lollipop stick were both a little amateur to try start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to guess what she found in provide a safe path overnight.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the playground todaycity, although she concedes that picking up children as he will never guessgoes. Dad wants Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to know how school wasgo downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, but isn''obviously'' that's not important. t it? Could Tilly have found What could be a more collectable things for her scrap boxfun way of going to school? (IsnThere is a problem, though. Leilong isn't that so much more sensible happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stufftennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but The school decides thathe can's not what she wants Dad to guesst be the bus anymore.
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|isbn=16867516801776574028|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarresBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanDavid Elliott
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Which child doesnI love a good board book! 't think that their mother is, well, 'Bumblebee Grumblebee'weird'is aimed at quite a niche market: it'? It might be that in s for the morning their mother doesn't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that that is when youcan ''play''re at your brightest with lots to say? words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''Whyballetphant'' . The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then does Mummy stick her fingers in her ears? Then theredries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo's doing yoga in front of the television, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funny. We won The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros''t go into too much detail (think about what goes it!) The pelican who sits on in the bathroom and the colour his potty changes which have occured when Mummy emerges and frankly, the less said the better about her reactions to your artistic efforts on the wallinto a ''sm....... '' I meanOK, what else would you use paint for?let's not go there Some people are eating!
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|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk1838226834|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But nowre there to undo all the good that parents do, it's timeso the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br>who told him:
I hope you haven't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bed. If you're a parent at least, youIt'll know how it is to persuade an excited small person that yesbe brilliant, just remember, it is in fact time for beddon't let go of my hand. ''What Wonders DoYou See}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present '' sets out and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to cater use it well. He liked to these childrentrick other animals. Instead of trying He was also jealous which was how he came to persuade them that night time is calm time, it takes be in a slightly different tackrace with Turtle. It tells them You might think that sleep is actually an exciting time: 's not a time of dreams in which imagination takes over fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and has no limitvegetables. But the trick in accessing this wonderful She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and exciting world aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to get calm explain how good they are for you and relaxed first so how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that you can easily fall asleep fruits grow on trees and open vegetables, like carrots, grow in the door ground. Jordan says, "I did try to ittell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily. |isbn=194812422X B09HHN541V}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''
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And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!
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{{Frontpage
|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova
|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!
|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W
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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.
| style="vertical-align: top; ''No, No, No!'' is based around the simplest text-align: left;"|===[[Bunny by Peter Lynas and Clare Lindley]]===imaginable.
[[image:4star''No, no, no! Okay, okay.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]Yes, you may.''
You might have seen Bunny on the beach where he lived. Like many beaches That's it was full of sand and Bunny didn't ! But, like sandall the best picture books, not least because it got between his toes and ''scratched''. What he really liked was juicy green grass. All the other rabbits lived on the top this tiny snippet of the cliff, where Bunny could see text is a lot of tastyveritable tardis -looking grass. But so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the cliff was very highoutside. [[Bunny by Peter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]] <!-- Belinda Landsberry -->|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1925820025.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925820025/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]1638820457}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"194812467X|===[[Once, I was Loved by Belinda Landsberry]]==title=The Farm Shop [[image:4star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Tock, the toy rabbit, is in a box of toys going to the charity shop. He realises that he's not wanted any more, but muses that it wasn't always this way. ''Once'', he says, ''I was loved''. And he tells us of all the children who have loved him over the years. [[OnceDevon Avery, I was Loved by Belinda Landsberry|Full Review]] <!-- Peter Lynas Justine Avery and Charlie Roberts -->Ema Tepic|-| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|4[[image:0993340342.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993340342/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] For Sharing| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Madeleine Goes Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to the Moon by Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]=== [[image:4stargo for a walk.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeleine Kirelle is a very lucky girl: dressed for all weathers in her room, she has all a girl could ask for in the way of toys, books, games bright yellow wellies and dollies. She's a very lucky girl Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in another way too: she has imagination and everything in her room can be used to take her on adventureshis smart grey fur coat. She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she likes As they walk to be alone, but Madeleine's not alone on all the trips she takes. We'll find out that yesterday she was told to tidy her room, but instead of doing that, she went to the moon. [[Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]] <!-- Peter Lynas and Andy S Gray -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0993340350.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993340350/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Very Rude Toytoise by Peter Lynas and Andy S Gray]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] It was one of those blissful days in the forest. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to make hill, they see a big barn with a cakesign outside. Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to build It's a nest. Mrs Spider was busily spinning farm shop! But this is a web to catch juicy flies. Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. And Mr Bear sat comfortably in farm shop with a chair, fishing for lunch. What could be better? And then... [[The Very Rude Toytoise by Peter Lynas difference: all the stallholders and Andy S Gray|Full Review]] <!-- Peter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0993340318customers are farmyard animals.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993340318/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Recipe for Making a Snowman by Peter Lynas There are sheep and Rosie Alabaster]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Who knew it? You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to make a snowman - ducks and there's no cooking involved! Mumcows, Dad goats and the two children are absolutely meticulous though: they're going to get everything rightchickens, and even down to doing some mining to get the coal for the eyes, searching through the bits 'n bobs jar for buttons for the snowman's coat and picking out the perfect piece of headgearmice. There's quite a choice availableExcited, but the family decide on the bobble hat, presumably to keep the snowman warm. The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply won't do and a pair with purple and pink stripes are chosen. [[Recipe for Making a Snowman by Peter Lynas Kirelle and Rosie Alabaster|Full Review]] <!-- Fegan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1925810097Sam go shopping.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925810097/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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.
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>===[[Don't Drink 'To the Pink by B C R Fegan]]=== [[image:4starMaritime Museum''.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]
Madeline is very fond of Grandfather GilderberryHer imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. He 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 always busy warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in his workshopthe midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, creating crazy potionsmermaids and treasure.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and he always has Sasha Satha|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a smile on his facepuddle. Madeline's dad thinks heIt's quite a bit bonkers deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and Madelineis sucked down a drain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. 's mum thinks 'OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the same but gives sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a pass because he's bit like an oldcricket bat. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry Reg is just great. Particularly on her birthday when a kind soul and he unfailingly arrives dries Ted off and warms him up with a selection nice bowl of potions broth.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and allows her 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 choose one 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 a giftthough he was the instigator. And then he always says gets into trouble at school and the same thingteachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.}}{{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.. [[Don Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't Drink afford to put the Pink by B C R Fegan|Full Review]]heating on:
<!-- Teresa Heapy and Katie Cleminson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1910989339.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910989339/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Loved to Bits by Teresa Heapy and Katie Cleminson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] ''Loved to Bits'' is Ice curled across the heartwarming story inside of a boy's love for his bear. Bear's adventures with boy take him to all kinds of places and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put in their way, from the jungle to the sea. Inevitably mishaps occur on the way. The loss of an arm, a leg, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery ''don't worry, I've got one more''. But boy loves him just as he is and won't hear of him being mended. His place, after all, is in Boy's bed. [[Loved to Bits by Teresa Heapy window and Katie Cleminson|Full Review]] <!-- Lee -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0874869722.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0874869722/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[When Spring Comes to crept up the DMZ by Uk-Bae Lee]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] There is a place on this earth that, at the time corner of writing, is resplendent with life. In the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, for fear of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in place. In the autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and die if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing sobedpost. This is a snapshot of life in the DMZ, the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their name, and it's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Uk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]  |-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1419731408.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1419731408/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Nan is a climber, the best chimney sweep in London. She is growing fast, so what will happen to her when she gets too big to climb, when people realise she is a girl? Everything changes, when she is stuck in a chimney, set on fire, and saved by a golem. A story of outcasts, and friendships, told through two tales, the girl and the sweep, and the girl and her monster. Both intertwined beautifully so that you have a fairy tale within a fairy tale. Moments of sadness slip easily into glorious happiness, then swiftly into heart-breaking tragedy. This is a heart-warming and engaging read for both young and old. [[Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier|Full Review]] <!-- Haig -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786894327.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786894327 /ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. She's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to tell the truth. You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the truth isn't nice and sometimes a white lie is okay and sometimes it's better to say nothing at all. You might not want to attract the attention of the school bully by calling him mean and nasty, for example, or you might not want to tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awful. [[The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]] <!-- Kermani -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785899953.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785899953/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] ''Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak College, the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, but the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!'' Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, all the Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of it. So, when Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, the first Ticklewater frog to manage such a feat, he is filled with excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and family. [[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani|Full Review]] <!-- Pickles -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1787112926.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787112926/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Pets|Pets]] When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was a rather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting people. He's a bit better now and something which he really enjoys is going for a walk. It's not just a case of attaching a lead and heading for your favourite spot - there are a lot of other things to think about first. [[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|Full Review]] <!-- Owen -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:199999650X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/199999650X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]  ''The Owen family were feeling sad. There used to be five of them. There was Mum, Dad and three children: Abi, Jenny and Joe. But then Abi died. Now there were only four of them. Life felt very strange without their sister, and they were all very unhappy.'' How does a family cope with the loss of a beloved child and sibling?[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen|Full Review]]  <!-- Kermani -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788039971.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788039971/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Tungtang is not like other toads. She can't sit still, tongue protruding, and wait to catch a fly. Tungtang needs to be on the move. Sometimes, she even hops right the way over to the rotten tree stump in her community of Muddy River. And she loves to regale her fellow toads with stories of her exploits. That is until a mean old crow comes along and tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knows. Infuriated by the crow and inspired by her grandfather's stories of humans and ancient toad prophecies, Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and heads off to the town of Little Cobblestone... [[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani|Full Review]] <!-- Keeley -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789013313.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789013313/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[My Favourite People by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]  In ''My Favourite People'' the central character takes us to meet all the important people in his life. There's Auntie Meg, who does brilliant haircuts and loves cats. She has four of them! There's Uncle Steve, who's a gentle giant and an inveterate joker. There's best friend Alice, who can do that clever whistle when you put your fingers in your mouth. There's Carmel the library lady, who always suggests brilliant books to read. And loads more. The book ends with a fabulous party to which everyone is invited. [[My Favourite People by Rob Keeley|Full Review]] <!-- Wills -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1911167022.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1911167022/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Gillie Can Share by Sarah-leigh Wills]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Gillie the rabbit is baking cookies with Daddy. We might think they look most appetising (they're shaped liked carrots and rabbits, you know) but Gillie is really taken by the way that they smell. Lips are being licked. Does she dive in and eat them? No, she doesn't There are eight cookies. Two - a carrot and a rabbit - are for Grandma and Gillie hops off to deliver them. Another two are for Grandpa and then there are two for Mummy. Now there are just two left and Daddy gives them to Gillie, but Gillie is a kind, generous and thoughtful rabbit and whilst she eats one cookie, a rather scrumptious looking rabbit is offered to the reader. I wanted to hug her! [[Gillie Can Share by Sarah-leigh Wills|Full Review]]
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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