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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Bond and R W AlleyNigel Baines|title=Best-loved Paddington StoriesA Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers|summary=With the sad passing of Michael Bond there is no time like the present Cooper loves to revisit some of perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddingtongreat Tommy Cooper. As the character has proved so timeless regular re-issues of the books have appeared But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. And when his dad'Best-loved Paddington Storiess prop rabbit starts talking to him, he '' brings three of these stories together. Does this collection really reflect the best that the bear has to offer or are they just three random tales stuck together with marmalade?'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008245037</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Enid BlytonJane Lightbourne|title= The Seaside FamilyMy Cat Called Red|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The Caravan Family (Mummy, DaddyRobin has red hair. He hates it, Mike, Belinda and Ann) are all ready for the holidays, freckles that go along with it. He's been bullied and what better place to spend time together than mocked at the seaside? They can play school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in the sea, picnic on the sand and generally enjoy each otherlife. He's companyalready lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. It will be marvellousShe doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405286733</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robyn Swift Francesca Simon and Sara Lynn CrambSteve May|title=National Trust: Complete Night Explorer's KitTwo Terrible Vikings

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers|summary=There is In a misfortune small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the modern worldvery worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, in that we have killed off as they cause havoc at a common hobby from when I was birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a lad. Nowadays light pollution is so awful it's certainly not uncommon for people to hardly see any of the stars and to get to learn the constellationstroll, and while I only went out to go 'meteor hunting', it's patently obvious that the chance to lie down and stargaze is undertake a dying one. Elsewhere the nocturnal youth can struggle to have much opportunity grand journey to explore the night-time nature as this book suggests – it begins raid Bad Island with setting their friends! They get up a tent in your back garden, to all kinds of mischief and too many don't even get that chancenaughty behaviour, for want of possession of one. Yesalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, if this book is only read once in the daytime and never referred to again, due to lack their crazy cast of opportunity, it really will be a crying shamefriends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Walliams and Tony Ross1838593187|title=The World's Worst Children 2Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=I sometimes wonder if David Walliams gets sick of the comparisons with Roald Dahl that he getsTilly is excited. ItShe's such an easy comparison to make, however, because both wrote very funnyjust come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and yet really very dark stories for childrena big grin on her face. They donDad't shy away from the nastiness, s come to collect her and her brother and ugliness he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in life and instead face it head onthe playground today, and flip it aroundalthough she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, and make you laugh along the waybut ''obviously'' that's not important. This is Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a rollercoaster ride through a wide range of truly dreadful children who range from being a fussy eaterscrap ''book''?) Well, to a spoiled bratactually, to Harry, who never, ever Tilly did his homework! find exciting stuff. Yes, their dark deeds vary in despicablenessThere are sequins, glittered paper and along with dreadfulness galore there are fabulous illustrations, a large variety all sorts of fontsother things in her pocket, unusual page layouts and a Royal introduction from the Queen.but that's not what she wants Dad to guess..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008259623</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeff Brown and Rob BiddulphInnosanto Nagara|title=Stanley and the Magic Lamp (Flat Stanley)M is for Movement|rating=3.54

|summary=It was far Set in Indonesia, in the not too recently that I picked up [[Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown and Rob Biddulph|Flat Stanley]] and met with a character now fifty years old for the first timedistant past, and found out how he got to be flat and what happened as this is a resultstory about social change. BizarrelyDealing with some difficult issues, howeversuch as political corruption and nepotism, despite the success of that first book it was twenty full years before the author picked up the pen to give Stanley this sequelis neither boring nor preachy. Or perhaps it's not such a surprise – without giving too much awayIt educates gently, the character had met with a certain change at the end of book onevibrant, challenging illustrations, and therefore wasn't exactly ready for more of the sameit portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will fail. WellThe message is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, over the decades there we do still have been six official books by Jeff Brown, and this was the first instance where I could find out for myself if '''I''' was ready for more of the same…power to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140528806X</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Giles Chapman Pamela Brookes|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a story which engages the young mind and Us Nowyou need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=The Story of Can You Draw the CarDragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Crafts|summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… carsYou're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. I canWhen you see the title page, you't think of many other subjects ll find out what the book's called and that inspired it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the young me to have illustration - and there's a full non-fiction book about them on my juvenile shelvesgap. Most of course I lost interest in with maturity''You'' are going to put your name there. But It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the young child these days won't be much different, pictures for good or bad, and so they will like as not want a this book about broom-brooms for one of the largest creatures ever to roam the shelfearth. And this There's some help available, but your name is pretty much on the gotitle page -and you have work to volume for such an interest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk>do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1609809335|title=The Lizard|author=Libby WaldenJose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=2|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=One day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don't even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared. People took against it, and if they weren't shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it. Can something be done about it, though?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=In Focus: CitiesTadcaster and the Bullies|author=Richard Rutherford

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=The [[In Focussome ways it was a gentler time: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book in this series]] promised 101 close-ups, cross sections and/or cutwaysvideo games were around, but here we're restricted children usually went outside to just tenenjoy themselves. Why? They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Because the subject matters are Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so much bigger – one our story is home to 37 million people, of all thingsprobably set in the nineteen seventies. Yes, weSomething which hasn're talking cities, and while this book tries to follow the previous – different artist every paget changed, an exclusive inside look within the volumeunfortunately, is bullying and a self-deceiving page count – we two lads are definitely making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in new territorythe playground. WeTim're seeking s probably about ten - just at the trivialstage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, the geographical and the culturalwho's two years younger than him, all so that the inquisitive young student can find out but he's not yet at the variety stage where he knows how to be had in the world's metropolisesdeal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geraldo ValerioB01N0OZQOD|title=My Book of BirdsNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=I never really caught the birdNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-watching habitguarding. That's what dragons are for, even with after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the opportunity of growing up whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere''The Late Knight Show''. It was Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in the familyfact, too, but I resigned myself it's his favourite TV show because he wants to never seeing much that was spectacular, and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinkingbe a stand-up comedian himself. If IHe tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don'd had this book as a youngster, who knows – I may have t always come out of it differently, having been shown the diversity of the bird world in snippets of text, and some off quite unusual illustrations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>as Nickerbacher intended.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danna Smith and Bagram Ibatoulline0008265836|title= The Hawk of the Castle: A Story of Medieval FalconryRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse Emerging Readers |summary=I donTen-year-old Rory Branagan isn't know just a normal kid. He's a detective and he has a mystery to solve – why I did his dad disappear when he was surprised by this book – Ithree? Rory doesn've read enough volumes for the young audiences t know where to know that as far as subject matter start but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is concerned, pretty much anything goesfull of ideas. But this This is about falconry, of all things – the use of just as well as they soon discover a once-wild very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and still pretty much freeis at risk of dying but no-spirited bird of prey to hunt down animals, either for the heck of it or for the potone else will believe he's in danger. An attractive girl and her father get their hawk ready, and leave the castle with all the equipment in tow – bells It's up to hear the landed bird Rory and what it's captured, the hood Cassidy to act as blinkers for it on the way there, uncover the lure if necessary. The story concerns just one trip out, girl, father, hound – truth and hawksave a life. But while that may surprise you as a subject matter of choice, it was the whole artistic approach that won me over here…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376698</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth P Jones0192758748|title=Beards From Outer SpaceHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= You might not realise it but Earth is under constant alien attack. Luckily we humans donWhen Harriet, aged seven and a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 't need Going to worry because the Pet Defenders Park on Her Own' (a secret society of our domestic petsi.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) are always on standby to keep us safeshe can't believe her eyes. The activities statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Pet Defenders are normally kept secret Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but Stripes Publishing are kindly allowing human children a brief glimpse into their exciting adventuresstamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and climbs down from his pillar. In Understandably Harriet can''Beards From Outer Space'' we are able to read how t resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a dog new – and cat more suitable – secret agents Biskit home. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and Mitzy – team up it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to rid the world of an army of alien beardsmuseum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157858</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ghillian Potts and Ed BoxallSaulles_Bee|title=The Old Woman from Friuli|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=On top Bee Boy: Clash of a hill in Italy there was a castle and in that castle there lived a duke. Every day he would go up to the highest tower and look out at all that he could see and marvel that he owned it all. Except that is for one small house, a sturdy house with stone walls and a solid wooden door, a garden and a field.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190920840X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller Queens|author=Holly Webb|title=The Homeless KittenTony De Saulles

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Lily loves their rescue dog, Hugo. However, Lily also really wants a cat – or better still a kitten. She, therefore, canYoung Mel't believe her luck when Hugo sniffs out three abandoned kittens while out of his walk with Lily s friend has left and her dad. Better still (from Lily's point of view at least) the animal shelter beehive is full so Lily's mum and dad reluctantly offer to hand-rear the tiny kittens until they're old enough now his to be rehomed. Lily's in heaven looking look after the kittens, especially the little fluffy white one whom she names Stanley. There is just one problem – it's going to break her heart when the time comes to say goodbye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157831</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt Tavares|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie BlanchardUnfortunately, the First Woman Pilot|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=We're Mel lives in Paris, a tower block and – not to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For one, all of his neighbours agree that it seems they think is the perfect correct place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle of the biggest city in the worldfor a hive. For another, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder and slightly thinner air experienced on such Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an adventure – women would never be able to cope. Meanwhile, amazing superpower; he can become a young girl is dreaming of flight, as so many are wont to do, completely unaware that she will soon marry one of the most famed balloonists. They will have joint journeys skyward, before his early demise – leaving the young woman, Sophie Blanchard, to go it alone and become the first female pilotbee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy HusbandDavidson_Night|title=Night Zookeeper: The Story Giraffes of Space|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I have no actual idea how I first got an interest in space. Perhaps it's there because I'm so old to almost coincide with the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon (and that's pretty old, it's been so long) and it kind of rubbed off on me. Perhaps in fact all young children are interested in space anyway, and don't need any impetus or reason to look up in wonder. But if they do, this is the newest way of nudging the newer child towards a keenness for all things celestial. And it's a pretty good way indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWhispering Wood|author=Philip Ardagh and Tom Morgan-Jones|title=Norman the Norman from Normandy (Little Gems)Joshua Davidson

|summary=Meet PatrickA straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and imagination opened up for him. Such a direction Will is a little facetious here, because it's who ''he's'' going to meet that's the key. He lives in New Ross, County Wexford, new Night Zookeeper and his school has been chosen tenure in the role of protector to perform as a choir for magical world starts with the much-anticipated arrival repulsion of President J F Kennedy, as a dangerous invasion. Joshua Davidson has written about the man traces Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the path of his Irish ancestry, in character but this marks a new launch and a new series. This is not just a book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what (in addition the author is trying to stop-overs achieve in England and Italy on real life; the power of the same trip) was to be his last state visit abroadimagination makes everything better. But surely just being one among three hundred on such an auspicious, yet brief, occasion is not enough for such an enterprising lad? Well, no, for his connected parents have got another trick up their sleeve for him…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366927</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam HancherSeuss_Read|title=Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=Flight''The more that you read,''<br>''The more things you will know. It happens all around us''<br>''The more that you learn, wherever we may be''<br>''The more places you'll go.'' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and many are one that I painstakingly stickered onto the young audience members for this book who have taken to the air already. wall of my children's school library! But it was once something impossible to take for granted, and this The book easily takes us back to those days. It presents us with dangeris very silly, determinationas Dr Seuss always is, and but is also a certain pair of American brothers going all out good rhyming ode to get both their names in the history books and their feet in the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>joys of reading.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilda OffenNeal_Words|title=Message from the MoonWords and Your Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers |summary=YesTrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones is really actually a 'Message from the Moon' you receive courtesy lot of this bookpiffle. In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to other people is positive. You also get We can examine our world and the point of view of the sea itselfsound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, as well as children seeing the city night from their bedroom window sing and other people witnessing geese flying overbe happy together, and bit by bit the world can be a better place. And hang the 'no, after you even get a message from a snail' attitude some people would have in response. The range There, I've given the entire plot of verses in this book is however away in my summary, but one of its many qualities…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991430</amazonuk>that's not really an issue.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil EarleTavares_Red|title= SuperDad's Day Off|rating= 4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Stanley's dad is tired. It can be exhausting work being a Superhero. For six days of the week he saves the world from disasters Red and defeats the baddies as Dynamo Dan. Stanley decides his poor dad needs a day off and is determined to make sure that he gets a proper rest. So they head off to the park for some much needed Dad and Son bonding time. However people don't seem to understand that even Superheroes need time to recuperate. The requests for help keep on coming so what can poor Stanley do other than step in to save the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126844</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLulu|author=Yuval Zommer|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Matt Tavares

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=One of the many issues people have with the TV nature programme, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], is the obvious one of all the blood Meet Red and guts it features – yes, in amongst all the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesy, comical ones, what's worse)Lulu. YouThey'll be pleased to know, however, that this book is very light on death re a committed couple of cardinals and destruction. Yes, here are lions sharing they have lived for some chunks of meat (while the females that caught and killed it sit and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plenty, but there is so little to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary school.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Quentin Blake|title= The Story of the Dancing Frog|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly |summary= When Jo's Great Aunt Gertrudesomeone's sea captain husband is drowned at sea she is grief-stricken andgarden, safely in despair, she goes for a walk alonean evergreen tree. During this walk she notices a small frog on a lily-pad. But he is no ordinary frog - he's a dancing frog and the two quickly become good friends. Soon the duo are touring the world with It seems to them that every year people mention their routine, spreading joy and fun - and carrying out the occasional rescue - wherever they go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125910</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Forest Life and Woodland Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and the animals, plants and trees home in it, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourself. It's for a very young audiencelovely song, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasks, and a few lessons. The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and reward, is great – but what exactly is which tells the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Sharks and Other Sea Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out the sort of lower-case, almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of a book. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – tree thy leaves are so if you have a youngster intending to come here and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointedunchanging. If you take it on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the bookBut one year, then all well and good. And even better, if you expect yourself to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I'm sure I was full of questions when I was a nipper – which means I was too full of questions. Parents just don't need to be deflecting questions all the time, do they? Living on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere as I did, I knew quite a lot about farms and farming – that different animals gave different results, that different vehicles meant different things and that the crops behind our house changed. But seasons turn for the inner city child, there is a chance they have never met a cow or seen a silo. This colourful bookcold of winter, bright in both senses of the wordtree vanishes, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countryside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoDickens_Search|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions Search and 70 Lift-flaps!Find A Christmas Carol|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summaryauthor=I wonder how much time I've saved in not being a parent – and therefore not having had to answer such pesky questions as why is the sky blue, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what is earwaxCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and why do I have a spleen? Still, apart from the first two, those questions and the answers to them and more are in this book, which is a lovely primer for biology, and a great source of quick facts for the very young, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approach.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|title=Amazing Animal BabiesLouise Pigott

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch Recently I got to applaud a dog or watch a puppybook that branched away from the Where's Wally? A cat or style volume, and taught the explorer about a kitten? A meerkat or non-fiction subject as they went a smaller meerkat? The answer -searching. Well, it seems tweaking the form is going to be a no brainer big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to most children who enjoy teach us about a fictional story. They've started at the wide-eyed stumbling of youth deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and one that is not dissimilar has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to their ownit at a certain time of the year for its ageless lesson. HoweverBut does the rich content of Dickens, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packhameven at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara VulliamySeuss_Eggs|title=The Midnight Mystery (Dotty Detective, Book 3)Scrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If you havenPeter T. Hooper doesn't alreadymean to show off, meet Dotbut he is ''very'' good at cooking. Some would say he is ''The Best'' capital T, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. SheYou might think that's quite an ace child detective, inspired by her favourite TV programmeeasy dish, and her pet dog and best friend from school. But at least one of those is left behind this time, as Dot and the rest of her class go to an adventure camp playground for with which it's a couple of nights. Daytimes are spent being sporty and adventurous, as are the evenings supposed little hard to beshowcase one's prowess, but someone seems intent on ruining things for Dotnot so. For Peter T. What Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the evil and bragging Laura up to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008132429</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Meg McLaren|title=Pigeon P.I.|rating=3|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The world choice of birds is in a flap. They're being nabbed – plucked from the air (or at least from their cages). Murray MacMurrayegg itself, the brilliant pigeon private eye, doesn't want anything and he will go out of his way to do with crime now his old partner has flown procure the roost, but an eager and bright young thing might just about persuade him to take up best of the casebest from whatever nest. But both will have to be plucky to survive the dangers it leads to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444835</amazonuk>