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{{newreview
|author=Mini Grey
|title=Three By The Sea
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Dog, Cat and Mouse live together by the sea, each with their own chores to take care of in their own special way. They think that they're happy, but when a stranger turns up from the Winds of Change companny, each of them reassesses their position in their friendship.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083627</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Jezebel is a good girl - so good, in fact, that everyone calls her Super Dooper Jezebel. She's neat and tidy, does her chores, is perfectly behaved, and is an inspiration to all. The Prime Minister sent her a special medal for being so good, and Jezebel gets her own TV show to show others how to behave. She won't even run, because it's against the rules. Sometimes, just sometimes, rules are meant to be broken...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390169</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Sperring and Miriam Latimer
|title=The Sunflower Sword
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=There's a little knight (who looks remarkably like a boy with a colander on his head) who wants to battle with dragons a sword, but his mum says he can't. He's desperate to whoosh and swoosh with a shining blade, so she gives him a sunflower instead, and off he goes to the top of a hill to do battle with not one but three imaginary dragons. There's a roar of fire and billowing smoke, and he finds himself face to face with a real dragon...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390576</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tony Mitton and Sarah Warburton
|title=Sir Laughalot
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Sir Laughalot is a brave knight. He's got all the gear and is desperate to smite a wicked foe, so off he sets on his travels. He meets a fearsome dragon and a whopping great big giant, but each time they end up laughing with one another. Will things change when he tries to rescue the fair damsel from the evil sorceress?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408302748</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Whybrow and Caroline Jayne Church
|title=Wobble Bear Gets Busy
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Wobble is a very busy little bear who has just learned to walk and now, of course, wants to walk everywhere. We see him here walking in to wake up his parents, treading on the cat, dancing and falling over, walking on a wall, splashing in a puddle until, of course, by the end of the day he has worn himself out and is too tired to walk up the stairs to bed!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192792628</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Whybrow and Caroline Jayne Church
|title=Wobble Bear Says Yellow
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Wobble Bear is a delightful little bear who is just starting to learn about colours. He insists through the book on calling everything 'yellow', whether it is or not, much to his mummy's frustration and my daughter's delight!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019279261X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sheryl Webster and Tim Warnes
|title=What Small Rabbit Heard
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's cold and windy. Small Rabbit just wants to stay inside, but Big Rabbit insists that it's fresh, not cold, and they're going on a walk. He's a bit of a cheeky scamp is Small Rabbit, so when Big Rabbit says ''try to keep up'', Small Rabbit somehow mishears it as ''jump in the mud''. As the walk goes on, Small Rabbit mishears Big Rabbit time and time again, getting up to all sorts of shenanigans.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728679</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brian Wildsmith
|title=Animal Gallery
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Starting off with a crash of rhinoceroses, through a corps of giraffes, a hover of trout, and ending up with a dray of squirrels, Brian Wildsmith treats us to a beautiful look at collections of animals.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019272794X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nicola Killen
|title=Not Me!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A group of kids are playing, and making an awful mess. One by one they're asked if they're responsible, and one by one they deny any involvement. But have they been caught red handed, and will it really fall upon Jess the pup to do all the tidying up?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248297</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Caryl Hart and Sarah Horne
|title=Rhino? What Rhino?
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The rhino was lonely and bored and the zoo, so he squeezes between the bars and heads out into the great, wide world. Being a rhino, his manners aren't quite up to scratch, so he gets into all sorts of scrapes and japes as he steals people's clothes and food. Other poor animals get the blame, so they decide to have a word with the rhino to set him back on the right path.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340981393</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andrew Weale and Margaret Chamberlain
|title=The Newt In The Suit
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=There's one newt in a suit, and he's looking very dapper. He's joined by two snazzy-looking flies in ties, three cockatoos in high-heeled shoes, and so on up to ten. Yep, this is a counting book with lots of well-dressed animals going about their business.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988673</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Marshall
|title=Little Tiger's Big Holiday
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Little Tiger is going on holiday. Whatever will he need? Well, flying goggles, obviously. A parachute is a must. Who goes anywhere without stilts? Oh, and a helmet, in case he goes in a racing car. Item by item, his suitcase gets more and more full. His holiday sounds like it's going to be an amazing adventure.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>186233773X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lynne Rickards and Lee Wildish
|title=Jacob O'Reilly Wants A Pet
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Like many young children, Jacob O'Reilly Wants A Pet. He'd love a dog. A cat would be great. Ooh, what about gerbils? Or an iguana? He's desperate for an animal to look after, but mum and dad don't fancy the idea. Then they suggest that he start a pet-sitting business, and all hell breaks loose...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034098838X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mara Bergman and Cassia Thomas
|title=Lively Elizabeth!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Elizabeth is a lively little girl. She loves stomping around, making a racket and creating an awful kerfuffle. One day she does the thing that she knows she should never do: she pushes Joe Fitzhugh. Joe tumbles into Jonny, who knocks into another child, and on and on and on. Oh dear, Elizabeth! What have you done?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988045</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ellie Bethel and Alexandra Colombo
|title=Litterbug Doug (A Michael Recycle Adventure)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Litterbug Doug lives on a hill, just outside a beautiful town. His home is an absolute dump, with rubbish strewn everywhere, rats scurrying through the mess, and he won't tidy up his bloomin' bedroom. It's disgusting. Utterly utterly disgusting. His mess spreads and spreads and spreads and spreads. Thankfully, Michael Recycle is on hand to teach Doug the error of his ways.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394151</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lucy M George and Rachel Swirles
|title=The Elves and the Shoemaker
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The shoemaker grows older and older. Where he once made the finest shoes in town, he's now struggling to make ends meet. With only enough money for the leather for one pair of shoes, he's on his last legs. He leaves the leather on the table, ready to assemble the next morning, but when he comes down, the elves have made the most beautiful shoes ever.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394135</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kari-Lynn Winters and Christina Leist
|title=On My Walk
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A little girl is going for a walk with her mummy and her dog. They hear a horse saying clippity-clop and a frog saying frippity-frop. They enjoy all the sights and sounds of the beautiful summer's day, until it starts to rain, drippity-drop, drippity-drop...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1896580610</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Lucas
|title=Something To Do
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The little bear is boooored. He's desperate for something to do, but he lives in a monochrome line world, with nothing around except the horizon, and a couple of simple seagulls. He and the big bear go on an adventure to amuse and entertain themselves, and then create new surroundings by drawing them with a stick.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337268</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Amy Husband
|title=Dear Miss
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's Michael's first day back at school and he really doesn't fancy sitting through maths and double geography. He writes a letter to his teacher, explaining that the secret service have recruited him to rescue a missing explorer. Letter after letter of his adventures follow, until Miss counters with a letter of her own...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845393732</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gill Linder
|title=Little Sapling
|rating=2.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Little Sapling is growing up, bit by bit. Like any plant, she stretches out into the sunlight. She competes with bindweed, and then is transplanted by a forester. On the way, she comes into contact with a number of animals, like Rabbit and Hedgehog.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312721</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Xavier Deneux
|title=My Circus
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=An utterly gorgeous board book that everyone will love to pore over, from the very youngest right on up.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807009</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Maureen Roffey
|title=Bedtime (Slip-and-Slide Books)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=''Bedtime'' is a pull-the-tabs book about - unsurprisingly - bedtime. Page by page reveals child after child rubbing their eyes, changing into their pyjamas, kissing mummy goodnight, and cuddling up with teddy. Each pulled tab changes that picture, much like a before and after shot.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599386</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jim Helmore and Karen Wall
|title=Hold On Tight, Stripy Horse!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Stripy Horse and his friends live in a bric-a-brac shop. One day, they discover that it's raining ''inside''. Ella, the pink flamingo umbrella, keeps them dry for a bit, but then she's caught by a gust of wind and Stripy Horse is pulled up into the air. Will they discover the source of the rain? Will the shop ever get dry again? And what's the deal with that weathervane parrot that keeps spouting proverbs?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248262</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Shipton and Francesca Chessa
|title=Baby Baby Blah Blah Blah!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Emily loves making lists. When her mummy gets pregnant, Emily makes a list of all the good things about a new baby, and another list of all the bad things. Emily's worried that she's going to have to wear babygros to school and eat left-over squish. Her daddy decides to set her straight about what a new baby will mean.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337799</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gillian Shields and Liz Pichon
|title=Don't Let Aliens Get My Marvellous Mum!
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A young girl imagines how awful life would be if aliens got her marvellous mum. She pictures all manner of ooky space monsters tucking her up in bed, giving her green eggs for breakfast, and scaring all the other parents at school. She (and the readers too) realise just how lucky she is to have such a lovely mum. Aww, bless!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337780</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Eva Montanari
|title=The Alphabet Family
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Mummy A wants to write a story, but she can't think what to write. She sees what her children (b, c, d and so on) are up to. Some are playing musical instruments, some are running races, and some are playing in the garden. With plenty of ideas to hand, Mummy A writes her story, and then tells it to all her children and Daddy Z.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394054</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Poly Bernatene
|title=When Night Didn't Come
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=One night, after the sun has gone to bed, the night doesn't come. There's no darkness, no moon and no stars. Someone's going to have to do something about it, so the man in charge rouses a group of children and they do what they can to bring the night.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394925</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham
|title=Cloud Tea Monkeys
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Tashi and her mother live below a tea plantation in India. Usually Tashi goes along with her mum, and whilst mum picks tea leaves with the other women, Tashi sits under a tree and plays with a group of monkeys, sharing her fruit with them, allowing them to groom her and playing with the little baby monkeys. One morning, Tashi's mum is too poorly to go to work, so Tashi struggles with the big tea basket herself. The plantation owner derides her, saying she is too little to pick the tea, and Tashi is worried about how she and her mother will cope with no money to get her mum a doctor, or to buy food. She shares her worries with her monkey friends and somehow, at the end of the day, Tashi's basket is full of beautiful, fresh, fragrant tea leaves that are a very rare type of tea called 'Cloud Tea'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406300926</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Conway and Dubravka Kolanovic
|title=The Secret To Teddy's Happiness
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=When the toys discover an old, bedraggled teddy bear, they rack their brains to find a way to mend his broken heart, to make him smile again. The velvet rabbit who knows everything offers to tell them the secret of Teddy's happiness, but he wants them to do him a favour first.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337624</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jill Newton
|title=Crash Bang Donkey!
|rating=3
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Farmer Gruff spends all his time chasing the crows from his corn. Eventually he needs to sleep, so all the animals tiptoe around, making no noise whatsoever. What's this coming over the hill with a crash and a bang? Oh no! It's a donkey with a drum. How's Farmer Gruff going to get his sleep? If he can't sleep, how's he ever going to be able to keep the crows from his corn?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337209</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Sperring and Leo Timmers
|title=Green
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Clive loves wearing green. It's all he ever wears. He thinks he looks mighty snazzy, but his big sister (boo! hiss!) takes every opportunity to call him a cabbage, moss, a sprout or a toad. Clive keeps wearing his green clothes, certain that he'll have the last laugh and get one over on his sister.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394534</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Whybrow and Lynne Chapman
|title=Stinky! Or How The Beautiful Smelly Warthog Found A Friend
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Stinky the warthog lives in a neighbourhood with the Crocodile family, the Monkey family and the Littlebird family. One by one they invite Stinky round to play with their children, but his foul odour and the flies buzzing around him cause all manner of problems. Will he be able to find a friend? ...Well, yes, it says so in the title.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337594</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Preston Rutt and Ben Redlich
|title=Tortoise vs. Hare - The Rematch!
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Harry 'The Hurricane' Hare has been licking his wounds since 'Steady' Eddie Tortoise beat him in the famous race. It's time for a rematch, and Harry's been training hard. Eddie couldn't possibly win again, could he?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394186</amazonuk>
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