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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author= Quentin Blake|title= The Story of the Dancing Frog|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly |summary= When Jo's Great Aunt Gertrude's sea captain husband is drowned at sea she is grief-stricken and, in despair, she goes for a walk alone. 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 their routine, spreading joy and fun - and carrying out the occasional rescue - wherever they go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125910</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DKNigel Baines|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 in it, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourself. It's for a very young audience, 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 the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand A Tricky Kind of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesMagic|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 – so if you have a youngster intending to come here and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointed. If you take it on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the book, 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 for the inner city child, there is a chance they have never met a cow or seen a silo. This colourful book, bright in both senses of the word, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countryside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=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 earwax, 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 Babies|rating=3.5

|summary=Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even moreCooper loves to perform magic tricks. Would you rather watch His father was a dog or watch a puppy? magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. A cat But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer how to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to their ownbe. HoweverAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clara VulliamyJane Lightbourne|title=The Midnight Mystery (Dotty Detective, Book 3)My Cat Called Red|rating=4

|summary=If you haven't alreadyRobin has red hair. He hates it, meet Dotand the freckles that go along with it. SheHe's an ace child detective, inspired by her favourite TV programme, been bullied and her pet dog and best friend from mocked at schoolbecause of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But at least one of those red hair is left behind this time, as Dot and the rest of her class go not Robin's only misery in life. He's already lost his dad to an adventure camp playground for a couple of nightsmountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. Daytimes are spent being sporty and adventurous, as are the evenings supposed to be, but someone seems intent on ruining things for DotShe doesn't come home again. What is the evil and bragging Laura up to?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008132429</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg McLaren|title=Pigeon P.I.|rating=3|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The world of birds is in a flap. They're being nabbed – plucked from the air (or at least from their cages). Murray MacMurray, the brilliant pigeon private eye, doesn't want anything to do with crime now his old partner has flown the roost, but an eager and bright young thing might just about persuade him to take up the case. But both will have to be plucky to survive the dangers it leads to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444835</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catharina Valckx Francesca Simon and Nicolas HubeschSteve May|title=BrunoTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=Meet Bruno. NoIn a small Viking village there live two twins, not that Bruno – for pity's sakeHack and Whack, this is a book for who are eager to be the under-eights and not a character from teen comedy movies. very worst Vikings ever! NoNothing can stop their mad marauding, Bruno is as they cause havoc at a quite unmistakeable catbirthday party, in chaos whilst tracking a bright blue cloth captroll, and this is undertake a book regarding various days in his life that he thinks are of note – whether they're the day the power goes out, or a day that would be completely uninteresting were it not for a joke from his best friend. grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! But don't you dare make the mistake They get up to all kinds of thinking this sounds mundane – here is a background couple, of a hippo mischief and a crocodile, just walking past the heroes. Here is said best friend, an elderly ponynaughty behaviour, forced somehow to walk backwards. Here is when Bruno is playing host to a turtle dove addicted to jam, who is forced to hide when a wet along with their wolf gate-crashes. I think you'll agree that any day spent reading this book will not be a boring onecub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776571258</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Colgan1838593187|title=Polly and Guess What I Found in the Puffin: The New FriendPlayground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Polly was just about to start Big School and, being honest, she wasn't keenTilly is excited. She couldn't wear her spotty wellies for one thing, but worst s just come dashing out of allthe classroom, she couldn't take Neil with pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on herface. We heard about Neil the rescued puffin in the [[Polly Dad's come to collect her and the Puffin by Jenny Colgan|first book]] in this series her brother and although Neil now he ''has a nest '' to try to guess what she found in the nearby lighthouseplayground today, although she concedes that he and Polly are still very closewill never guess. When she gets Dad wants to know how school Polly doesnwas, but ''obviously''t really feel like joining in any of the games: shethat's the lonely little figure on the edge of everythingnot important. Her teacher suggests that she and Ronita make friends: Could Tilly have you ever noticed how ''difficult'' it is to even speak when someone suggests something like thatfound more collectable things for her scrap box? Polly and Ronita don(Isn't make friends - they end up shouting at each other in that so much more sensible than a scrap 'mine's bigger/better than yoursbook'' argument. ?) What about? Well, birds of courseactually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. Ronita has a macawThere are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510200908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau IsaInnosanto Nagara|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Marie CurieM is for Movement

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers|summary=Some little girls want to be princessesSet in Indonesia, but in the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be not too distant past, this is a scientiststory about social change. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined to do well Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and won a gold medal for her studiesnepotism, the book is neither boring nor preachy. In PolandIt educates gently, in the middle of the nineteenth centurywith vibrant, only men were allowed to go to Universitychallenging illustrations, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar languageand it portrays how social movements need people who will try, but was soon the best maths and science student. It was here even when it seems that she met and married Pierre Curie, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this workwill fail. Marie was the first woman to receive the honour. Pierre was killed The message is a positive one; that in a road accidentan increasingly uncertain world, but Marie went on we do still have the power to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistry. Her work is still benefiting people todayinstigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa Munso1949471004|title=Little People, Big DreamsDog on a Log Chapter Books: Agatha ChristieStep 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=As a What do you do when your child Agatha Christie has dyslexia and her mother would read a book together every afternoonyou need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but there were early signs 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 what a negative effect on the future novelist would become: she always had young dyslexic than a better idea about how the story should endchild without that problem. She would read in bed You need to be able to buy books at night and detective novels were always her favouritesa reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. In You need a story which engages the First World War Agatha, who was then in her early twenties, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons young mind and toxic potions would be put to good use when her first detective novels were published just after you need stages which progress steadily through the end of the warlearning process without there being any large jumps. Most people have heard of her first Some online support and most famous detective games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - Hercule Poirot and ''learning'' to read - or of Miss Marpleshould be a pleasure. Mrs ChristieIt should be ''fun''s novels were widely read and her plays were very popular in theatres.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross099334030X|title=Barking for BagelsCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=You're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the title page, you'Barking for Bagelsll find out what the book's called and that it' is s been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the story of Schnipp the dog, who loves her owners very much, though she does find their snickering illustration - and there's a little annoying from time gap. ''You'' are going to timeput your name there. One day, whilst out It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for a walk in this book about one of the park, she starts largest creatures ever to run away, and she finds that once she starts running she canroam the earth. There't stops some help available, and she runs and she runs until she finds Bessie but your name is on the Bagel lady title page - and thus discovers her new favourite food, and her new home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344505X</amazonuk>you have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Szirtes and Tim Archbold1609809335|title=How to be a TigerThe Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=4.52|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers |summary=One day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don''Wet againt even get told how it arrived, yet again! but it certainly appeared. Down People took against it drips, little fingertips, tapping and snapping as if the rain were cross.they weren''<br>''See the branches toss? See the puddles grow? Has t shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it stopped raining?NO.'' Yes, sometimes only a quote will dothey wanted something done about it. After allCan something be done about it, we do come to poetry for snappy concision, and that's what we get here…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959200</amazonuk>though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim Field1789016320|title=Rabbit Tadcaster and Bear: The Pest in the NestBullies|author=Richard Rutherford

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Rabbit was struggling. There he In some ways it was having a nicegentler time: video games were around, peaceful sleep in his friend Bear's cave when a terrible noise woke himbut children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. Was it thunder? No, it They flew kites and went sledging if there was Bear snoringsnow around. Very loudlyTim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Rabbit tried putting his paws over his ears although thatSomething which hasn's t changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not very successful when you have small paws just for Tim and very big earsMary but for other children who gather in the playground. But there was something good: when Rabbit went outside Tim's probably about ten - just at the cave stage where he realised that spring had sprung. Suddenly he felt 's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who'strong''. After a winter spent in his friend Bears two years younger than him, but he's cave it was time not yet at the stage where he knows how to go home to his burrow. Only there was a surprise lurking there - and it looked suspiciously like a snakedeal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934260</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy LeeB01N0OZQOD|title=Amy Lee and the Darkness HexNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto|rating=34

|summary=Amy Lee wakes up from one Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of her usual dreamscourse, where she combats an evil pirateprincess-guarding. You would think that was the only nastiness in her life – she lives in a lovely place in the Land of LoveThat's what dragons are for, and doesnafter all. But Gwendolyn isn't have to worry about paying for steaks for her nine dogs, nor salmon for her catsany princess. She can go to her favourite tree who will entertain her with a story, finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she can go adventuring with her bottomless rucksack, and spend all day daydreaming of a wicked new house for her dogs… Until is much less interested in fairy tales than she sees threatening purple clouds over the forestsis in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. And not even Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in this fantasy world do you want fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to see purple clouds…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407172239</amazonuk>be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary McKay0008265836|title=The Sticky WitchRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=Tom and EllieTen-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's parents have set sail around the world on a raft made of rubbish! They tell the children that they will be gone for detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three years? Rory doesn't know where to start but, but it will go by very quickly then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as theysoon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy'll be safe s dad has been poisoned and happy is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in the company of Aunt Tabdanger. But who is this strange lady who applied for the job of caring for two wonderful children It's up to Rory and their cat, Whiskers? She doesn't seem Cassidy to be uncover the kind guardian that the children need, truth and why is everything in her house so very, very sticky?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125996</amazonuk>save a life.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Escoffier and Kris Di Giacomo0192758748|title=Where's Horace & Harriet Take on the BaBOOn?Town|author=Clare Elsom|rating=3.54|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The title of When Harriet, aged seven and a book quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can be an important indication 't believe her eyes. The statue of what you are about Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get yourself intohim in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can''Wheret resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's the BaBOOn?'' is mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a subtly different than ''Wherebetter alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to the Baboon?'' Can you spot the surprising difference? One book is about finding the missing monkeymuseum, cinema, train station, playground, the other is waiting for the missing monkey to find youbank and library all cause mayhem. ThereforeLuckily, grab this book at your perilhowever, knowing that at some point a Baboon will say BOO!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444827</amazonuk>competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andy Croft and Alan MarksSaulles_Bee|title=Tarzan and Bee Boy: Clash of the BlackshirtsKiller Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=1930s London, Young Mel's friend has left and the streets are rife with racial divides, beehive is now his to the extent that people on one side of the road, generally of one ethnic origin, hate the residents from some other background living on the otherlook after. Our narrator Sam has no reason to hate anyoneUnfortunately, apart from those Mel lives in a tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that it is the other gangs, like Alfcorrect place for a hive. But Things change when they latch on to each other as best friends, despite Sam being Jewish and Alf having Irish blood, it seems nothing Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can stop thembecome a bee. But in times like that – and, of course, in times like 2017 – that doesn't necessarily mean friendships can't be broken…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910170399</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonDavidson_Night|title=IncredibuildsNight Zookeeper: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=How do you create a houseA straight-elf like Dobby? Well, you have laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a tennis ball on a string, world of magic and point actors so they look at it, imagination opened up for him. Will is the new Night Zookeeper and say their lines his tenure in the role of protector to a pretty-much empty spacemagical world starts with the repulsion of a dangerous invasion. You then film Toby Jones doing  Joshua Davidson has written about the elf's lines, Night Zookeeper before and use that sound file and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – there are online cartoons devoted to the first major character to come from the digital realm in the ''Harry Potter'' filmsbut this marks a new launch and a new series. You can throw in This is not just a book but a few puppets, and now whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and again a gifted small person, particularly at push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what the author is trying to achieve in real life; the end of film #7… Or, power of course, you can get this gift set, and press the wooden parts out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsillimagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul ThurlbySeuss_Read|title= NY is for New York|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Long gone are the days when children didn't travel, and picture books had to be about animals. And while your pre-schoolers might not be planning solo trips to the States any time soon, it's never too early to get them and older siblings interested in other places and other cultures. ''NY is for New York'' is a themed alphabet book, based around the city that never sleeps, and it's chock full of facts and figures about a city I love, teaching me many new things I didn't know about a place I'm familiar with from visits and TV shows and many, many Manhattan books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444930311</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCan Read With My Eyes Shut

|title=Dr Seuss: A Classic Treasury|rating=4.5 |genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Sitting on my shelf is well thumbed book. I have had it since a child and even to this day pick it up once in a while and ''The more that you read its contents,''<br>''The more things you will know. What is this tome? A slice of classic children's literature '<br>''The more that taught me all about the absurd and that words could be played with. This was not you learn,''Wind in the Willows<br>'' or The more places you'Swiss Family Robinsonll go.'' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my classic children's school library! The book is a very silly, as Dr Seuss Omnibus that contained four always is, but is also a good rhyming ode to the joys of his booksreading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007234260</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T SmithNeal_Words|title=Santa ClaudeWords and Your Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal|rating=54|genre=For Sharing Emerging Readers |summary=Ah Claude! He is such an endearing little dog. HeTrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's back on an adventure with Sir Bobblysock -called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and this time it stones is actually a Christmas adventurelot of piffle. There are baubles In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to other people is positive. We can examine our world and trees the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and carols and reindeer be happy together, andbit by bit the world can be a better place. And hang the 'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response. There, I've given the entire plot of coursethis book away in my summary, therebut that's trouble! For who else but Claude would accidentally handcuff Santa to not really an armchair on Christmas Eve, and then need to deliver all the presents himself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926497</amazonuk>issue.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Benji DaviesTavares_Red|title= The Storm Whale in WinterRed and Lulu|author=Matt Tavares|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingEmerging Readers |summary= The Storm Whale in Winter is a sequel to the highly popular The Storm WhaleMeet Red and Lulu. NoiThey's father embarks on one last fishing trip before the Arctic Winter sets re a committed couple of cardinals and they have lived for some time in. All alone, with his six cats, Noi patiently waits for his fathersomeone's returngarden, safely in an evergreen tree. As night sets and the sea begins It seems to freezethem that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, Noi starts to worry and believes he can see his Dad's boat from his bedroom windowwhich tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. Full of courageBut one year, he sets off out in just as the snow to find his Dad. Getting lost in seasons turn for the blizzardcold of winter, Noi is in need of help which comes in the form of his old friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147111998X</amazonuk>tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title= Jill Tomlinson Search and Paul HowardFind A Christmas Carol|titleauthor= The Owl Who Was Afraid of the DarkCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating= 3.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= If you think you know everything Recently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about owlsa non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Well, think again. Even it seems tweaking the basic things that you THINK are form is going to be a given may turn out big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to be wrongteach us about a fictional story. Plop is an adorable 8 week old baby owl and he has the feathers and They've started at the beak and the all-around owl lookdeep end, with a book hastening towards being two crucial differences: he's not very good at flyingcenturies old, and he's afraid one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it at a certain time of the darkyear for its ageless lesson. WhichBut does the rich content of Dickens, for a nocturnal creatureeven at his most populist, is a bit of a problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281847</amazonuk>survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beatrix Potter and Quentin BlakeSeuss_Eggs|title=The Tale of Kitty-in-BootsScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=At night a seriousPeter T. Hooper doesn't mean to show off, well-behaved and (letbut he is 's be honest) rather 'very'superior'' young black cat goes out huntinggood at cooking. Well, if weSome would say he is 're being ''totallyThe Best'' honestcapital T, there's a little bit of poaching in there toocapital B. By day she And his signature dish is Miss Catherine St Quintin, although her owner calls her Kittyscrambled eggs. Other cats call her ''Q'', or ''Squintums'', but they are very common cats and KittyYou might think that's owner would have been scandalised had she known that there was quite an acquaintance. The reaction would have been even stronger had she known that Miss Kitty went out in a gentlemaneasy dish, one with which it's Norfolk jacket and fur-lined boots. With a gun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247594</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Allan Plenderleith|title=The Snowman Strikes Back|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Itlittle hard to showcase one's prowess, but not easy being a snowman, you know - particularly when you are made by Ernest Green-Bogle, who delights in tormenting youso. For Peter T. Sometimes he'd make you upside down or looking like a pig (it's just plain ''undignified''Hooper, you know). That's not what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the worst choice of it. He has been known to attack snowman with a hairdryerthe egg itself, feed and he will go out of his carrot nose way to a rabbit and even encase him in a block procure the best of ice. The snow clown was ''not'' funny and the snow ice cream cone even less so. But one day everything changed when Ernest came home and there was a big boy with him. Ernest had a black eye and the big boy was threatening himbest from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613932</amazonuk>