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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
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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=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.
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{{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 squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=140639131X
|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant
|author=Briony May Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to 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 decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.
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{{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 city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though. Leilong 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 tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1776574028
|title=Bumblebee Grumblebee
|author=David Elliott
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''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, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1838226834
|title=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're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''
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{{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 ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was 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. I'll tell you how it came about.
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{{Frontpage
|author= Justine Avery and Daria YudinaRob Keeley|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh (Living Book)Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!
|rating= 4
|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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{{Frontpage
|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
|genre=For Sharing
|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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{{Frontpage
|author=Justine Avery and Daria YudinaNaday Meldova|title=This Book Is AliveEverybody Toots! (Living BookEverybody Potties!)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|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
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|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}}
{{Frontpage
|isbn=1838593187B07GZ81J7C|title=Guess What I Found in When Fred the Playground!Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Victoria ThompsonPeter Cotton
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|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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{{Frontpage
|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!)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|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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{{Frontpage
|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukNaday Meldova|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?No, No, No!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But nowThey say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, it's time, to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br>a Bookbag favourite.
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?}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"0995647895|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=[[Bunny Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by Peter Lynas the River Thames at Greenwich and Clare Lindley]]===she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
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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