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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex T SmithNigel Baines|title=Santa ClaudeA Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing Emerging Readers|summary=Ah Claude! Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. He is such an endearing little dogHis father was a magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. HeBut sadly Cooper's back on an adventure with Sir Bobblysock father died suddenly, and this time it is a Christmas adventurenow Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. There are baubles and trees and carols and reindeer andAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, of course, therehe ''really'' doesn't know what's troublegoing on anymore! For who else but Claude would accidentally handcuff Santa to an armchair on Christmas Eve, and then need to deliver all the presents himself?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444926497</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Benji DaviesJane Lightbourne|title= The Storm Whale in WinterMy Cat Called Red|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingEmerging Readers|summary= The Storm Whale in Winter is a sequel to Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the highly popular The Storm Whalefreckles that go along with it. NoiHe's father embarks on one last fishing trip before the Arctic Winter sets inbeen bullied and mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. All alone, with his six cats, Noi patiently waits for his fatherBut red hair is not Robin's returnonly misery in life. As night sets and the sea begins to freeze, Noi starts to worry and believes he can see his DadHe's boat from already lost his bedroom window. Full of courage, he sets off out in the snow dad to find a mountaineering accident when his Dadmum gets ill and is taken into hospital. Getting lost in the blizzard, Noi is in need of help which comes in the form of his old friendShe doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147111998X</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jill Tomlinson Francesca Simon and Paul HowardSteve May|title= The Owl Who Was Afraid of the DarkTwo Terrible Vikings|rating= 54|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= If you think you know everything about owlsIn a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, think again. Even the basic things that you THINK who are a given may turn out eager to be wrong. Plop is an adorable 8 week old baby owl and he has the feathers and the beak and the all-around owl lookvery worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, with two crucial differences: he's not very good as they cause havoc at flyinga birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, and he's afraid undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds of the dark. Whichmischief and naughty behaviour, for a nocturnal creaturealong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, is a bit and their crazy cast of a problemfriends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281847</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beatrix Potter and Quentin Blake1838593187|title=The Tale of Kitty-Guess What I Found in-Bootsthe Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson|rating=4.5

|summary=At night a seriousTilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, well-behaved pigtails flapping behind her and (leta big grin on her face. Dad's be honest) rather come to collect her and her brother and he ''superiorhas'' young black cat goes out huntingto try to guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. WellDad wants to know how school was, if webut 're being 'obviously'totally'' honest, therethat's a little bit of poaching in there toonot important. By day she is Miss Catherine St Quintin, although Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her owner calls her Kitty. scrap box? Other cats call her (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''Qbook''?) Well, or ''Squintums''actually, but they Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are very common cats sequins, glittered paper and Kittyall sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's owner would have been scandalised had she known that there was an acquaintance. The reaction would have been even stronger had not what she known that Miss Kitty went out in a gentleman's Norfolk jacket and fur-lined boots. With a gunwants Dad to guess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247594</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allan PlenderleithInnosanto Nagara|title=The Snowman Strikes BackM is for Movement

|summary=It's Set in Indonesia, in the not easy being too distant past, this is a snowman, you know - particularly when you are made by Ernest Green-Bogle, who delights in tormenting youstory about social change. Sometimes he'd make you upside down or looking like a pig (it's just plain ''undignified''Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, you know). That's not the worst of itbook is neither boring nor preachy. He has been known to attack snowman It educates gently, with a hairdryervibrant, challenging illustrations, feed his carrot nose to a rabbit and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even encase him in a block of icewhen it seems that they will fail. The snow clown was ''not'' funny and the snow ice cream cone even less so. But message is a positive one day everything changed when Ernest came home and there was a big boy with him. Ernest had a black eye and ; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the big boy was threatening himpower to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841613932</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Seuss1949471004|title=The LoraxDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=54|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary= It seemed What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to me achieve the wonder that environmentalism was invented sometime is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the early 90s. All book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a sudden my schooling was about Greenhouse gases and how we negative effect on the children have the future in our handsyoung dyslexic than a child without that problem. Could this Generation X solve the problems caused by Generations A-W? I doubt it because if You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you look back to 1971 and the publishing of ''The Lorax''ve been working on, you will see that for decades before people like Dr Seuss have been trying to teach without anything else being thrown into the kids to think green.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007455933</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gavin Puckett and Tor Freeman|title=Colin the Cart Horse|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Meet Colinmix. He's You need a perfectly regular cart horse, carrying story which engages the crops, tools young mind and children around you need stages which progress steadily through the farmlearning process without there being any large jumps. HeSome online support and games wouldn's happy with a life of labourt go amiss, resting after his shift is done about three every afternoon, and a life of hay – that is, however, until he wonders what his fellow farm animals are eatingeither. What could be the consequence of him trying out every other farm food on the market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315437</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrea Beaty Reading - and David Roberts|title= Ada Twist, Scientist|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The first thing you must know about Ada Marie is the way she said nothing until the day she was three. Now that's 'learning'' to read - should be a way to pique your interest from the startpleasure. After all what sort of child does not speak until she turns three? In this case itIt should be ''fun''s a very smart little girl.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721372</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Seuss099334030X|title=Horton Hears a WhoCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=Emerging ReadersCrafts|summary=Some books are classics and they prove this by never You're going out to get a hint of printwhat this book's about very quickly. Do When you want see the title page, you'll find out what the book's called and that it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to pick up who has done the illustration - and there's a copy of a Dr Seuss novel? gap. The chances ''You'' are that you will be able going to find a brand new one in any book shopput your name there. However, do these tales still stand It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the test pictures for this book about one of time? Can Horton’s adventures with the Whos remain largest creatures ever to roam the wonderful story it was earth. There's some help available, but your name is on the day it was written?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007455941</amazonuk>title page - and you have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson1609809335|title= Life According to DaniThe Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=52|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Dani – and if you haven't throughout [[:Category:Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|One day a giant lizard appears in the three previous books]] then you certainly shouldcity. Her life has been up and down, considering sheWe don's only just finished the first year of primary schoolt even get told how it arrived, but at the moment it's on the up, with caveatscertainly appeared. ShePeople took against it, and if they weren's in an idyllic place – staying with the best friend imaginable for the entire summer holidays, on what might t shrugging it off as well be a private island, and in constant contact with her father. The caveats concern what happened in [[When I Am Happiest hallucination brought on by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|book three]] and the fact that her father has been run overtiredness just as they fled it, but at least he calls every night at teatimethey wanted something done about it. Until, that is, the night that he doesn't…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570715</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sharon Rentta|title=A Day at the Animal Post Office|rating=3|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Some people love their work and I have to say that I enjoy mine, but give me the option of winning the Euro Millions and spending the rest of my days drinking Pina Coladas on a superyacht, or the office, and I choose the beach. For children there is sometimes a glamour that emanates from the working week; what tales of majesty can Bob the Builder tell me? The fact is that work can Can something be dull at times and repetitive, but a book written for children done about gainful employment should make it sound fun, though?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407162543</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara Vulliamy 1789016320|title=Dotty Detective Tadcaster and the Bullies|author=Richard Rutherford

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Dorothy Constance Mae LouiseIn some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, otherwise known as Dot, has just moved house but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. They flew kites and has had to change schoolswent sledging if there was snow around. Luckily she soon finds a friend, Beans, Tim and together they form the topMary's great-secret 'Join grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the Dots Detectivesnineteen seventies. Something which hasn'. Both Dot t changed, unfortunately, is bullying and Beans two lads are huge fans of making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the TV programme 'Fred Fantastic – Ace Detective'playground. They Tim've watched every episode and memorised all Freds probably about ten - just at the stage where he's techniques. Itbeginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who's just as well they have because their classmate Laura has hatched a plot to prevent shy Amy singing in the talent contest and ittwo years younger than him, but he's up to Dot and Beans not yet at the stage where he knows how to uncover the plandeal with bullies. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008132496</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elli Woollard B01N0OZQOD|title=The Secret Pirate (Swashbuckle Lil: The Secret Pirate) Nickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre= Emerging Readers |summary= School girl Lil Nickerbacher is a secret piratedoing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. Her classmates think sheThat's an ordinary girl and assume they're just imagining things when they hear her bag squawkwhat dragons are for, after all. They donBut Gwendolyn isn't know that's where any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she keeps her parrot (whose name is Carrot)in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Her teacher, Miss LubberNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, thinks Lilit's naughty and is unaware that Lil's really trying his favourite TV show because he wants to save the teacher from being kidnapped by the wicked pirate, Stinkbeardbe a stand-up comedian himself. But Lil doesnHe tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't mind because she knows the truth – she's a bold and brave pirate and all her adventures are true (at least to her)always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509808825</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Seuss0008265836|title=Oh, the Places You'll GoRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn''Oh, The Places You'll Go'' is the classic Dr Seuss tale of one mant just a normal kid. He's journey through a bizarre land. The book takes you on detective and he has a trip into the imagination of mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an author accomplice who was never shy is full of the bizarreideas. You will sail high into the sky in a hot air balloon and walk through strange forests with trees that you have never seen. One thing This is for sure, this will not be just as well as they soon discover a dull outing and if you are new to Dr Seuss, one you may never forget.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008122113</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Pip Jones|title=Squishy McFluffvery serious crime: Seaside Rescue! |rating=4.5|genre= ChildrenCorner Boy's Rhymes and Verse |summary= Ava dad has been poisoned and her invisible cat – Squishy McFluff – are off to the seaside for their latest adventure together. They have great fun digging in the sand towards Australia and sitting on the beach eating ice cream. (Although the adults who fall in their hole and the ice cream man may not share their enthusiasm.) Everything is purrat risk of dying but no-fect until invisible cat Squishy decides to chase an invisible fishone else will believe he's in danger. Now itIt's up to Ava Rory and Cassidy to stage a 'seaside rescue'…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571320686</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Posy Simmonds|title= Lulu uncover the truth and the Chocolate Wedding|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Unusual, quirky children's books can be hit or miss, but this one is save a definite hitlife. Told in cartoon strip form, with illustrations reminiscent of the brilliant ''Raymond Briggs'', it mixes the real world with dreamy fantasies that have a touch of [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Sir John Tenniel]] to them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344407X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Swapna Haddow 0192758748|title=Dave Pigeon Horace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom

|summary=The tag line When Harriet, aged seven and a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park on the cover of Her Own'(i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can'Dave Pigeon'' probably sums this story upt believe her eyes. It's about ''How to Deal with Bad Cats and Keep The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (most ofor Horace for short) Your Feathers''starts to move. OrHe not only moves but stamps his foot, if you want a bit moreshouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, itand climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can's about two Pigeons t resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a new – Dave and his trusty friend Skipper more suitable – who home. His sights are unceremoniously attacked by a cat while firmly set on a routine croissant heist. Davethe Mayor's wing is injured so he mansion and Skipper set out it, therefore, falls to get their own back at the vicious cat. They plan Harriet to evict Mean Cat from his home and install themselves in his place with the kind Human Lady and her enviable supply of biscuits. You won't persuade him that there must be surprised that things don't go exactly to plan.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571323308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elys Dolan|title= Steven Seagull Action Hero|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Steven Seagull is a retired copbetter alternative. He used Sadly, Horace's visits to patrol Beach City but those days are overthe museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. He was firedLuckily, you seehowever, so that retirement wasn't entirely voluntary. Fired for being ''a renegade'' (quite a fancy word). But a crime wave is underway and no one has been able to find competition in the park reveals the culpritperfect answer. Can Steven be coaxed out of retirement to see if he can help?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael BondSaulles_Bee|title=Love from PaddingtonBee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Consider some of Young Mel's friend has left and the more pertinent questions of literaturebeehive is now his to look after. Would things have been better if Rhett Butler ''did'' give Unfortunately, Mel lives in a damn? What would Jane Eyre have done if the men with the truth hadn't made tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that it is the church in time? And, of course, how does a little bear with a fondness correct place for marmalade actually turn up in Paddington Station, so very, very far from home? Well, while the actual short stories may never have answered any of those questions, this work does – in amongst suggesting why bears don't play cricket, and a host morehive. As a result it may have Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a very different structure to the original books of linked short stories, but it's just as wonderful and characterfulbee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008164355</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harriet Whitehorn and Becka MoorDavidson_Night|title=Violet and the SmugglersNight Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson|rating= 45|genre= Confident Emerging Readers|summary= Violet's godfather A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has inherited a sailing boat world of magic and invites Violet imagination opened up for him. Will is the new Night Zookeeper and her family and friends his tenure in the role of protector to join him on a sailing adventure in magical world starts with the Mediterraneanrepulsion of a dangerous invasion. How could Violet possibly say no? This turns out not  Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to be quite as relaxing as you may imaginethe character but this marks a new launch and a new series. It This is not long before our heroine has suspicions about the captain of another boat just a book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and Violet's detective skills are needed againa push to get children using their own imagination. With The story itself mirrors what the help of her friends, Rose and Art, Violet author is determined trying to solve achieve in real life; the power of the mysteryimagination makes everything better. Will she be able to put a stop to a dangerous smuggling ring? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122638</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Schaefer and Brian RoodSeuss_Read|title=Star Wars The Force Awakens Illustrated StorybookI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=A long time ago in a galaxy far''The more that you read, far away… Well, ours, last year, really… A film came along ''<br>''The more things you will know.''<br>''The more that seriously impressed lots of mature audience members who had very valid reasons to doubt ityou learn, and that made goggle-eyed popcorn munchers of ''<br>''The more places you'll go.'' This is a lot of youngsters. It had rollicking spacecraft dog-fights, it had emotional revisits for well-loved charactersclassic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and had a sting in its tail one that lasted at least a couple I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of days before being leaked to the wider world. my children's school library! I know there The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is a DVD and Blu-Ray of it coming within days of me writing this, but I can only assume the reason the junior books about the film are being released now and not in time with its cinematic release is down also a good rhyming ode to the chatter joys of the young and their rampant ability to say what they shouldn't – which includes what happens about eighteen pages before the end of the story herereading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284021</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neal_Words|title=Katrina Pallant Words and Robert BallYour Heart|titleauthor=Star Wars Bounty Hunt: Lift the FlapKate Jane Neal|rating=34|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If you need to give credit to the Star Wars universe for anythingTrolling, bullying, beyond sheer entertainmentcyber-shaming, whatever-it may be the way it makes such great store of putting evil characters to the fore. They're often the more memorable for being in tune with the dark side of the Force, and even if we're not meaning fulls-called-this-week-on Darth Vader or ing – all act as proof that the like we're talking adage about Hutts, bounty hunters sticks and sheer nasty people as the focus stones is actually a lot of the storiespiffle. All in In a world where we all the good guys will win the dayhave hearts, but the baddies we should have a heck of a lot more attention given them than in some franchisesheart that what we say to other people is positive. And such is We can examine our world and the case heresound it makes through communication, where we have a small episode in the life of devious can make each other smile, laugh, sing and dogged bounty hunter Bosskbe happy together, who was in films 5 and 6 and bit by bit the world can be a better place. And hang the Clone Wars animation'no, but isnafter you't generally well-known on the streetattitude some people would have in response. Or in the nursery schoolThere, for this is seriously geared at I've given the younger end entire plot of the SW audiencethis book away in my summary, but that's not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405279907</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T SmithTavares_Red|title=Claude Going for Gold!Red and Lulu|author=Matt Tavares

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=IMeet Red and Lulu. They've been re a fan committed couple of Claude from the beginning. He charmed me from the startcardinals and they have lived for some time in someone's garden, with his plump tummy, little legs, red jumper and rather fetching beretsafely in an evergreen tree. I can't help but love It seems to them that every year people mention their home in a dog who wears a beret! He also has a charming best friendlovely song, Sir Bobblysock, (who is indeed a woolly sock) who always makes me laughwhich tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. In this particular book they are off on another hunt for an adventureBut one year, and although it seems just as the seasons turn for a while that there is simply no fun to be had outside the cold of winter, the house they finally falltree vanishes, literally, into a Very Exciting Sports Competition!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926489</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title=Search and Find A A Milne and E H ShepardChristmas Carol|titleauthor=Eeyore Loses a Tail (Winnie the Pooh Classics)Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=43.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=EeyoreRecently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, and taught the Old Grey Donkey stood in the thistly corner of the forest and thought explorer about thingsa non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. He was quite Well, it seems tweaking the form is going to be a philosopher in his own waybig thing, but his most profound thought occured when Winnie-the-Pooh came along and enquired as for this book tries yet another different approach – to how he wasteach us about a fictional story. ''Not very how'They've started at the deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and one that has been adapted countless times before now, he said. ''I don't seem yet always has people returning to have felt it at all how for a long certain timeof the year for its ageless lesson.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281359</amazonuk>But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Polly Faber and Clara Vulliamy Seuss_Eggs|title= Mango and Bambang: Tapir All At Sea|rating= 5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Mango is a sensible, resourceful little girl who is good at a great many things including playing the clarinet and karate. Most importantly she is good at being kind, especially to her best friend, Bambang, a slightly timid Malaysian tapir. In this second book in the series Bambang learns to become a little braver. He has to really, as he becomes involved in a series of daring escapades involving dancing classes, a diamond ring, time spent behind bars and a particularly dangerous enemy. Throughout all of this Bambang is accompanied by his faithful friend, Mango. Sometimes, even the closest friendship may be taken for granted. Will Bambang remember what matters most?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140636147X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewScrambled Eggs Super|author=Neil Griffiths and Janette Louden|title=The Dog with No Name|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ella and Harry had been nagging their parents ''forever'' about getting a dog, but it wasn't until after the death of the goldfish ''and'' the Russian hamster, which they'd only seen five times because it was nocturnal, that their parents relented. Off they went to the dog rescue centre and after what seemed like ''ages'' and lots of red tape they had their very own dog. He'd not been in the centre long and had no name but the whole family fell for him and brought him home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908702249</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenny Colgan|title=Polly and the PuffinDr Seuss

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Polly was in bed when there was LOUD bang from downstairsPeter T. It wasnHooper doesn't the storm which was raging outsidemean to show off, but he is ''very'' good at cooking. It wasnSome would say he is ''The Best''t a monster or an alien from outer spacecapital T, capital B. It was a puffin who had crashed through the front door and he had a broken wingAnd his signature dish is scrambled eggs. PollyYou might think that's mummy got the first aid kit out whilst Polly went quite an easy dish, one with which it's a little hard to get the puffin some food and the next day they went to see the vetshowcase one's prowess, but not so. For Peter T. By then Polly had decided that Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the puffin would be called Neil and choice of the vet asked her if she would be able to look after Neil until his wing was betteregg itself, on the strict understanding that and he would then have to return will go out of his way to procure the best of the wildbest from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349131902</amazonuk>