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|summary=Meet Red and Lulu. They're a committed couple of cardinals, and they have lived for some time in someone's garden, safely in an evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the tree ''thy leaves are so unchanging''. But one year, just as the seasons turn for the cold of winter, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376922</amazonuk>
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|author= Jim Helmore and Richard Jones
|title= The Snow Lion
|rating= 5
|genre= For Sharing
|summary=Caro and her mother arrive at their new home in darkness. Once inside, the house is white, bare and empty. Caro wishes that she has someone to play with and feels a little lost and small. Then one day she hears a noise and a gentle voice asking to play. She has a new friend and a very special one. The Snow Lion has appeared as if by magic to help Caro learn how to make friends of her own and maybe find the courage she has been hiding inside.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162230</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Bright
|title=All I Want For Christmas
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, filed down to a normal size. We all want different things on the 25th December; some ask for world peace, whilst others ask for something more achievable like a Tamagotchi. Whatever you want, is it really the true meaning of the season? ''All I Want For Christmas'' by Rachel Bright is a nice reminder that the real reason for Chrimbo is not gift giving, but the opportunity to spend time with loved ones.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331667</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Moira Butterfield and Holly Sterling
|title=Everybody Feels Angry!
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Children don't deal easily with the emotions which flood the brain - and then chaos ensues. You can try discussing the problem before it happens or immediately afterwards, but children don't appreciate the abstract either. What you need is a specific example, an occasion which they'll readily recognise and can then see how the emotion boils up and explodes. Moira Butterfield has produced a series of books, illustrated by Holly Sterling, which take a couple of times when an emotion takes everything over. One applies to a girl and one to a boy and we see how the situations resolve themselves.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938556</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
|title=The Ugly Five
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Creating a popular character is a double edged sword; one side is buckets of cold hard cash, the other is people demanding that you trot out the same old stuff. Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler created the behemoth that is ''The Gruffalo'' and you could forgive them for producing countless books in this series, but they do not. Anyone who is a fan of the pairing will already know that their other work is also excellent; just ask ''Superworm'' or ''Room on the Broom''. This is an established author/illustrator partnership and any new outing from them is exciting. Even if that is an outing about really ugly animals.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407174193</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Richard Byrne
|title= I Want to Go First
|rating= 4
|genre= For Sharing
|summary=It's so not fair! Why should Elphie go last, just because he's the littlest? This is a question which will speak to the heart of many young children, especially those with siblings: the smallest bedroom, hand-me-down books that have been read and reread till their edges are frayed . . . but don't worry, Elphie has found the solution. Only thing is, he's going to need the reader's help to achieve his goal.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192749730</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Alex T Smith
|title= Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure
|rating= 5
|genre= Emerging Readers
|summary= Mr Penguin is a brand new ''Professional Adventurer''. He has a dashing hat, a large magnifying glass and an important looking office in his igloo to prove it. All he needs now is an adventure to go on. Just as he is beginning to despair of ever being asked to solve a mystery Boudicca Bones from the museum phones and asks for help. Can he and his trusty sidekick, Colin (the spider with expertise in martial arts!) find her missing treasure? Will the adventure become too dangerous for them? And will Mr Penguin ever have time to eat his fish finger sandwich packed lunch?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444932063</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Colleen Jacey and Zed Jacey
|title=Madge Eekal's Christmas
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It was nearly Christmas and all the witches except Madge Eekal were busy putting up their festive lights. Madge's pet dragon, Ashon, wanted to know what had happened to their fairy lights. The truth was that Madge had ''tried'' to get them to work, but it seemed that the fairies were on strike: she ''couldn't'' get them to work. Ashon knew that it would, of course, have been much easier if they had electricity, like everyone else and that decided Madge - they would make their own electricity. She knew the perfect spell. Ashon was doubtful... and rightly so as it turned out
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036530</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Herve Tullet
|title=Say Zoop!
|rating=2.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The average toddler has the attention span of the time it takes to …..SQUIRREL! Many modern children's books are packed full of flaps, textures and gimmicks in the desperate hope that they can draw the reader away from CBeebies for just five minutes. To grab them and keep them, your book should be short, punchy and fun. What you don't want to do is take a reasonable idea and play it out for page, after page, after page. What's that ….. SQUIRREL!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452164738</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stephanie Blake
|title=I Can't Sleep!
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Simon the little rabbit is back! He's not so little now, and his baby brother (from ''Stupid Baby by Stephanie Blake'') has grown up into a toddler. This time we see Simon and Caspar playing happily together but then, in the night, poor Caspar realises that he's forgotten his blanket outside! What will the two brothers do? Caspar says he can't sleep without his blanket...will Simon be able to help him?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571630</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje
|title=Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend?
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=I'd like you to meet Worzel, but you'll need to do exactly what I say. Worzel is quite a big dog, but that doesn't mean that he's fierce, or even very brave. In fact, he's frightened, and little as you are, he's frightened of you. He'd like to meet you though: can you see that nose just poking out from the side of the sofa? Now he's peering over the cushion - and finally he's risking leaving that ''very'' safe place he's found, behind the sofa.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787111601</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emma Yarlett
|title=Nibbles: The Dinosaur Guide
|rating=3.5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Some of you may already be aware of Nibbles. He is a little monster that likes to nibble everything. Nibbles nibbles socks, Nibbles nibbles clocks, but the thing that Nibbles likes to nibble most is books! Therefore, putting him in a book is not the safest place as he will try and eat his way out. Whilst the first book saw the tyke getting into trouble in fairy tales, this time it is non-fiction that has whetted his appetite and in particular a book all about dinosaurs.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696914</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alexandre Lacroix and Ronan Badel
|title=Dragons: Father and Son
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=You know dragons. They're there to look splendid and fierce, and to burn down human villages in rampages, with or without treasure in mind. But they need to be trained in that. And our father dragon has just tasked his son dragon with that very errand - to go and torch a human house. The lad is reluctant to cook anything more severe than lunch - what could possibly happen?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277231</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= David McKee
|title= Elmer and the Tune
|rating= 4.5
|genre= For Sharing
|summary= Everybody loves a catchy tune, but sometimes you come across one that you just can't get out of your head, no matter how hard you try. And that's what has happened to Elmer and his friends – all over the jungle, folk are humming the same tune, over and over and over again, and passing it on to their friends and neighbours like a musical virus. Anyone who has heard about how the wheels on that wretched bus go round and round eleventy-seven gazillion times on a long car journey will know what we mean.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445467</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Dr Seuss and Tish Rabe
|title= Oh Baby, the Places You'll Go
|rating= 4
|genre= For Sharing
|summary=A slightly odd concept to get one's head around, ''Oh Baby, the Places You'll Go'' is both a book within a book, and a book sized advert all in one. Dr Seuss (fun fact: 'Seuss' originally rhymed with 'voice') wrote many, many books in his lifetime, and lots of us will be familiar with his best-known characters such as [[The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss|The Cat in the Hat]] and the copious numbers of adventures he wrote about such as when [[Horton Hears a Who by Dr Seuss|Horton Hears a Who]]. This book is different, because rather than introducing new wild and wacky characters, it brings together existing ones who may never have met each other before. Adapted by Tish Rabe (though very much influenced by Dr Seuss's originals), this book rattles through the different titles and their key characters, knitting them together with the premise that these are all people baby will meet in the future, through the wonder of children's books.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008241651</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Rachel Bright and Jim Field
|title= The Squirrels Who Squabbled
|rating= 5
|genre= For Sharing
|summary=First we had a cute little mouse finding his inner beast in [[The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright and Jim Field|The Lion Inside]] and then we had a nervous koala trying to move out of his comfort zone in [[The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright and Jim Field|The Koala Who Could]] and now we have a couple of greedy, fighting squirrels. Whatever next?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408340488</amazonuk>
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