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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr SeussNigel Baines|title=Dr Seuss: A Classic TreasuryTricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5

|summary=Sitting on my shelf is well thumbed bookCooper loves to perform magic tricks. I have had it since His father was a child magician, and even to this day pick it up once in a while and read its contentsnamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. What is this tome? A slice of classic childrenBut sadly Cooper's literature that taught me all about the absurd father died suddenly, and that words could now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be played with. This was not And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he 'Wind in the Willows'really' or 'Swiss Family Robinsondoesn't know what', my classic is a Dr Seuss Omnibus that contained four of his books.s going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007234260</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex T SmithJane Lightbourne|title=Santa ClaudeMy Cat Called Red|rating=54|genre=For Sharing Emerging Readers|summary=Ah Claude! Robin has red hair. He is such an endearing little doghates it, and the freckles that go along with it. He's back on an adventure with Sir Bobblysock been bullied and this time mocked at school because of it . ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is a Christmas adventurenot Robin's only misery in life. There are baubles and trees and carols and reindeer and, of course, thereHe's trouble! For who else but Claude would accidentally handcuff Santa already lost his dad to an armchair on Christmas Eve, a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and then need to deliver all the presents himself?is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444926497</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Benji DaviesFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title= The Storm Whale in WinterTwo Terrible Vikings|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingEmerging Readers|summary= The Storm Whale in Winter is In a sequel small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the highly popular The Storm Whale. very worst Vikings ever! Noi's father embarks on one last fishing trip before the Arctic Winter sets in. All aloneNothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday party, with his six catschaos whilst tracking a troll, Noi patiently waits for his father's return. As night sets and the sea begins undertake a grand journey to freeze, Noi starts raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to worry all kinds of mischief and believes he can see his Dad's boat from his bedroom window. Full of couragenaughty behaviour, he sets off out in the snow to find his Dad. Getting lost in the blizzardalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, Noi is in need of help which comes in the form and their crazy cast of his old friendfriends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147111998X</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jill Tomlinson and Paul Howard1838593187|title= The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= If you think you know everything about owls, think again. Even the basic things that you THINK are a given may turn out to be wrong. Plop is an adorable 8 week old baby owl and he has the feathers and Guess What I Found in the beak and the all-around owl look, with two crucial differences: he's not very good at flying, and he's afraid of the dark. Which, for a nocturnal creature, is a bit of a problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281847</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPlayground!|author=Beatrix Potter and Quentin Blake|title=The Tale of Kitty-in-BootsVictoria 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 isCan something be done about it, the night that he doesn't…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570715</amazonuk>though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sharon Rentta1789016320|title=A Day at Tadcaster and the Animal Post OfficeBullies|author=Richard Rutherford|rating=34|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Some people love their work and I have In some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to say that I enjoy mine, but give me the option of winning the Euro Millions themselves. They flew kites and spending the rest of my days drinking Pina Coladas on a superyacht, or the office, and I choose the beachwent sledging if there was snow around. For children there Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is sometimes a glamour that emanates from probably set in the working week; what tales of majesty can Bob the Builder tell me? nineteen seventies. The fact Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is that work can be dull at times bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and repetitive, Mary but a book written for other children who gather in the playground. Tim's probably about gainful employment should make it sound fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407162543</amazonuk>ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bullies.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara Vulliamy B01N0OZQOD|title=Dotty Detective Nickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Dorothy Constance Mae Louise, otherwise known Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as Dot, has just moved house and has had to change schoolsall dragons do. Luckily she soon finds a friendThat dragonly duty is, Beansof course, and together they form the topprincess-secret guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn'Join t any princess. She finds the Dots Detectiveswhole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Both Dot and Beans are huge fans of the Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV programme show because he wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don'Fred Fantastic – Ace t always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=Rory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. TheyHe've watched every episode s a detective and memorised all Fredhe has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn's techniquest know where to start but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. It's This is just as well as they have because their classmate Laura soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has hatched a plot to prevent shy Amy singing been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in the talent contest and itdanger. It's up to Dot Rory and Beans Cassidy to uncover the plantruth and save a life. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008132496</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elli Woollard 0192758748|title=The Secret Pirate (Swashbuckle Lil: The Secret Pirate) Horace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom

|genre= Emerging Readers |summary= School girl Lil is When Harriet, aged seven and a secret pirate. quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park on Her classmates think sheOwn's an ordinary girl and assume they're just imagining things when they hear (i.e. with her bag squawk. They donGrandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't know that's where she keeps believe her parrot eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (whose name is Carrotor Horace for short)starts to move. Her teacherHe not only moves but stamps his foot, Miss Lubber, thinks Lilshouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's naughty mum, and is unaware that Lil's really trying to save the teacher climbs down from being kidnapped by the wicked pirate, Stinkbeardhis pillar. But Lil doesnUnderstandably Harriet can't mind because she knows resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the truth town as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – shehome. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a bold and brave pirate better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to the museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all her adventures are true (at least to her)cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509808825</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr SeussSaulles_Bee|title=Oh, Bee Boy: Clash of the Places You'll GoKiller Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Young Mel''Ohs friend has left and the beehive is now his to look after. Unfortunately, The Places You'll Go'' Mel lives in a tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that it is the classic Dr Seuss tale correct place for a hive. Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Davidson_Night|title=Night Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=A straight-laced student makes one man's journey through defiant act of creativity and has a bizarre landworld of magic and imagination opened up for him. The book takes you on Will is the new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the role of protector to a trip into magical world starts with the imagination of an author who was never shy repulsion of a dangerous invasion. Joshua Davidson has written about the bizarre. You will sail high into Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the sky in character but this marks a hot air balloon new launch and walk through strange forests with trees that you have never seena new series. One thing This is for sure, this will not be just a dull outing book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and if you are new a push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what the author is trying to Dr Seuss, one you may never forgetachieve in real life; the power of the imagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008122113</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pip JonesSeuss_Read|title=Squishy McFluff: Seaside Rescue! I Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss

|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse Emerging Readers |summary= Ava 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 purr-fect until invisible cat Squishy decides to chase an invisible fish. Now it's up to Ava to stage a 'seaside rescueThe more that you read,''…<br>|amazonuk=''The more things you will know.''<amazonukbr>0571320686''The more that you learn,''</amazonukbr>}}''The more places you'll go.''{{newreview|author= Posy Simmonds|title= Lulu This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the Chocolate Wedding|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Unusual, quirky wall of my children's books can be hit or missschool library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but this one is also a definite hit. Told in cartoon strip form, with illustrations reminiscent of good rhyming ode to the brilliant ''Raymond Briggs'', it mixes the real world with dreamy fantasies that have a touch joys of [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Sir John Tenniel]] to themreading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344407X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Swapna Haddow Neal_Words|title=Dave Pigeon Words and Your Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal

|summary=The tag line on the cover of Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it''Dave Pigeon'' probably sums s-called-this story up. It's -week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about ''How to Deal with Bad Cats sticks and Keep (most stones is actually a lot of) Your Feathers''piffle. Or, if you want In a bit moreworld where we all have hearts, it's about two Pigeons – Dave and his trusty friend Skipper – who are unceremoniously attacked by we should have a cat while on a routine croissant heistheart that what we say to other people is positive. Dave's wing is injured so he We can examine our world and Skipper set out to get their own back at the vicious cat. They plan to evict Mean Cat from his home sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, and install themselves in his place with bit by bit the kind Human Lady and her enviable supply of biscuits. You won't world can 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 place. He used to patrol Beach City but those days are over. He was firedAnd hang the 'no, after you see, so that retirement wasn't entirely voluntaryattitude some people would have in response. Fired for being There, I've given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, but that'a renegade'' (quite a fancy word)s not really an issue. But a crime wave is underway and no one has been able to find the culprit. Can Steven be coaxed out of retirement to see if he can help?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael BondTavares_Red|title=Love from PaddingtonRed and Lulu|author=Matt Tavares

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Consider some of the more pertinent questions of literatureMeet Red and Lulu. Would things have been better if Rhett Butler ''didThey'' give re a damn? What would Jane Eyre committed couple of cardinals and they have done if the men with the truth hadnlived for some time in someone't made the church s garden, safely in an evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home in time? And, of course, how does a little bear with a fondness for marmalade actually turn up in Paddington Stationlovely song, which tells the tree thy leaves are so veryunchanging. But one year, very far from home? Well, while just as the seasons turn for the actual short stories may never have answered any cold of those questions, this work does – in amongst suggesting why bears don't play cricketwinter, and a host more. As a result it may have a very different structure to the original books of linked short storiestree vanishes, but it's just as wonderful and characterful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008164355</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title= Harriet Whitehorn Search and Becka MoorFind A Christmas Carol|titleauthor=Violet Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and the SmugglersLouise Pigott|rating= 43.5|genre= Confident Emerging Readers|summary= VioletRecently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's godfather has inherited Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about a sailing boat and invites Violet and her family and friends to join him on non-fiction subject as they went a sailing adventure in -searching. Well, it seems tweaking the Mediterranean. How could Violet possibly say no? This turns out not form is going to be quite as relaxing as you may imaginea big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a fictional story. It is not long 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 our heroine now, yet always has suspicions about people returning to it at a certain time of the captain of another boat and Violet's detective skills are needed againyear for its ageless lesson. With But does the help rich content of her friendsDickens, Rose and Arteven at his most populist, Violet is determined to solve the mystery. Will she be able to put a stop to a dangerous smuggling ringsurvive this quirky variation? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122638</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Schaefer and Brian RoodSeuss_Eggs|title=Star Wars The Force Awakens Illustrated StorybookScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Well, ours, last year, really… A film came along that seriously impressed lots of mature audience members who had very valid reasons to doubt it, and that made goggle-eyed popcorn munchers of a lot of youngstersPeter T. It had rollicking spacecraft dog-fights, it had emotional revisits for well-loved characters, and had a sting in its tail that lasted at least a couple of days before being leaked Hooper doesn't mean to the wider world. I know there is a DVD and Blu-Ray of it coming within days of me writing thisshow off, 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 he is down to the chatter of the young and their rampant ability to ''very'' good at cooking. Some would say what they shouldnhe is 't – which includes what happens about eighteen pages before the end of the story here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284021</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Katrina Pallant and Robert Ball|title=Star Wars Bounty Hunt: Lift the Flap|rating=3|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If you need to give credit to the Star Wars universe for anything, beyond sheer entertainment, 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 weThe Best're not meaning full-on Darth Vader or the like we're talking about Hutts, bounty hunters and sheer nasty people as the focus of the stories. All in all the good guys will win the daycapital T, but the baddies have a heck of a lot more attention given them than in some franchisescapital B. And such his signature dish is the case herescrambled eggs. You might think that's quite an easy dish, where we have one with which it's a small episode in the life of devious and dogged bounty hunter Bossk, who was in films 5 and 6 and the Clone Wars animationlittle hard to showcase one's prowess, but isn't generally well-known on the streetnot so. For Peter T. Or in the nursery schoolHooper, for this what makes his scrambled eggs so super is seriously geared at the younger end choice of the SW audience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405279907</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alex T Smith|title=Claude Going for Gold!|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I've been a fan egg itself, and he will go out of Claude from his way to procure the beginning. He charmed me from best of the start, with his plump tummy, little legs, red jumper and rather fetching beret. I can't help but love a dog who wears a beret! He also has a charming best friend, Sir Bobblysock, (who is indeed a woolly sock) who always makes me laughfrom whatever nest. In this particular book they are off on another hunt for an adventure, and although it seems for a while that there is simply no fun to be had outside of the house they finally fall, literally, into a Very Exciting Sports Competition!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926489</amazonuk>

''Not very how'', he said. ''I don't seem Move on to have felt at all how for a long time.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281359</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Polly Faber and Clara Vulliamy |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>}}{{newreview|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>}}[[Newest Entertainment Reviews]]