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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam HancherNigel Baines|title=Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesA Tricky Kind of Magic

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers|summary=FlightCooper loves to perform magic tricks. It happens all around us, wherever we may beHis father was a magician, and many are the young audience members for this book who have taken to named Cooper after the air alreadygreat Tommy Cooper. But it was once something impossible sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to take for grantedbe, and this book easily takes us back or how to those daysbe. It presents us with dangerAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, determinationhe ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261}}{{Frontpage|author=Jane Lightbourne|title= My Cat Called Red|rating= 4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Robin has red hair. He hates it, and a certain pair the freckles that go along with it. He's been bullied and mocked at school because of American brothers going all out it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in life. He's already lost his dad to get both their names in the history books a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and their feet in the skies…is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilda OffenFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title=Message from the MoonTwo Terrible Vikings

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers|summary=YesIn a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, that is really a 'Message from who are eager to be the Moon' you receive courtesy of this book. very worst Vikings ever! You also get the point of view of the sea itselfNothing can stop their mad marauding, as well as children seeing the city night from their bedroom window and other people witnessing geese flying overthey cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, and you even get undertake a message from a snail. grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! The range They get up to all kinds of verses in this book is however but one of its many qualities…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991430</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Phil Earle|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 mischief and defeats the baddies as Dynamo Dan. Stanley decides his poor dad needs a day off naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, 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 daytheir crazy cast of friends. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126844</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuval Zommer1838593187|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=One Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the many issues people have with the TV nature programmeclassroom, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], is the obvious one of all the blood pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and guts it features – yes, he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in amongst all the cutesyplayground today, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesy, comical ones, what's worse)although she concedes that he will never guess. You'll be pleased Dad wants to knowhow school was, however, but ''obviously'' that this book is very light on death and destruction's not important. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (while the females Isn't that caught and killed it sit and wait their turnso much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, here Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bearssequins, glittered paper and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while all sorts of other things in a time of plentyher pocket, but there is so little that's not what she wants Dad to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary schoolguess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Quentin BlakeInnosanto Nagara|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 M 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>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Forest Life and Woodland CreaturesMovement

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers|summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a story about forest life and the animalssocial change. Dealing with some difficult issues, plants such as political corruption and trees in itnepotism, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourselfbook is neither boring nor preachy. It's for a very young audienceeducates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasksit portrays how social movements need people who will try, and a few lessonseven when it seems that they will fail. The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and rewardmessage is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, is great – but what exactly is we do still have the edutainment going power to provide, and what will it demand of us?instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1949471004|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Never before have I found much cause What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to point out achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not be the sort ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of lower-case, almost-a-subtitle wording negative effect on the front of young dyslexic than a bookchild without that problem. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – so if You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you have a youngster intending to come here and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold've been working on, then they may well be disappointedwithout anything else being thrown into the mix. If You need a story which engages the young mind and you take it on board that need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the bookt go amiss, then all well and goodeither. And even better, if you expect yourself Reading - and ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''makefun'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano099334030X|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and 70 Lift-flaps!Charlie Roberts|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=IYou'm sure I was full of questions when I was re going to get a nipper – which means I was too full hint of questionswhat this book's about very quickly. Parents just don't need to be deflecting questions all When you see the timetitle page, do they? Living on you'll find out what the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere as I did, I knew quite a lot about farms book's called and farming – that different animals gave different results, that different vehicles meant different things and that the crops behind our house changedit's been written by Peter Lynas. But for Then we move on to who has done the inner city child, illustration - and there is 's a chance they have never met a cow or seen a silogap. ''You'' are going to put your name there. This colourful It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book, bright in both senses about one of the wordlargest creatures ever to roam the earth. There's some help available, will allow but your name is on the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip title page - and you have work to the working countryside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1609809335|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions The Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and 70 Lift-flaps!Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=52|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=I wonder how much time I've saved One day a giant lizard appears in not being a parent – and therefore not having had to answer such pesky questions as why is the sky bluecity. We don't even get told how it arrived, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what is earwax, and why do I have a spleen? but it certainly appeared. Still, apart from the first twoPeople took against it, those questions and the answers to them and more are in this book, which is if they weren't shrugging it off as a lovely primer for biologyhallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, and a great source of quick facts for the very youngthey wanted something done about it. Can something be done about it, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approach.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1789016320|title=Chris Packham Tadcaster and Jason Cockcroftthe Bullies|titleauthor=Amazing Animal BabiesRichard Rutherford|rating=3.54|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Many children love animalsIn some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but they love baby animals even morechildren usually went outside to enjoy themselves. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. A cat or Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a kitten? business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is a no brainer to most bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who enjoy gather in the wideplayground. Tim's probably about ten -eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar just at the stage where he's beginning to their own. Howeverfeel responsible for his younger sister, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better 's two years younger than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>him, but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bullies.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara VulliamyB01N0OZQOD|title=The Midnight Mystery (Dotty Detective, Book 3)Nickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If you haven't alreadyNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, meet Dotprincess-guarding. SheThat's an ace child detective, inspired by her favourite TV programmewhat dragons are for, and her pet dog and best friend from schoolafter all. But at least one of those Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is left behind this timein watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, as Dot and the rest of her class go it's his favourite TV show because he wants to an adventure camp playground for be a couple of nightsstand-up comedian himself. Daytimes are spent being sporty and adventurous, He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as are the evenings supposed to be, but someone seems intent on ruining things for DotNickerbacher intended. What is the evil and bragging Laura up to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008132429</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg McLaren0008265836|title=Pigeon P.I.Rory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar|rating=35|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The world of birds is in Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a flapnormal kid. TheyHe're being nabbed s a detective and he has a mystery to solve – plucked from the air (or at least from their cages). Murray MacMurray, the brilliant pigeon private eye, why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't want anything know where to do with start but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime now his old partner : Corner Boy's dad has flown the roost, been poisoned and is at risk of dying but an eager no-one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory and bright young thing might just about persuade him Cassidy to take up uncover the casetruth and save a life. But both will have to be plucky to survive the dangers it leads to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444835</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catharina Valckx and Nicolas Hubesch0192758748|title=BrunoHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Bruno. NoWhen Harriet, not that Bruno – for pity's sake, this is a book for the under-eights aged seven and not a character from teen comedy movies. Noquarter, Bruno is a quite unmistakeable cat, in a bright blue cloth cap, and this is a book regarding various days in his life that he thinks are of note – whether theydecides to go to Princes Park to practise 're Going to the day Park on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't believe her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the power goes outThird (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but stamps his foot, or a day shouts something that would be completely uninteresting were it not for a joke get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and climbs down from his best friendpillar. But donUnderstandably Harriet can't you dare make resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the mistake of thinking this sounds mundane town as Horace searches for a new – here is a background couple, of a hippo and a crocodile, just walking past more suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on the heroes. Here is said best friendMayor's mansion and it, an elderly ponytherefore, forced somehow falls to walk backwards. Here is when Bruno is playing host Harriet to persuade him that there must be a turtle dove addicted better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to jamthe museum, cinema, train station, playground, who is forced to hide when a wet wolf gate-crashesbank and library all cause mayhem. I think you'll agree that any day spent reading this book will not be Luckily, however, a boring onecompetition in the park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571258</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny ColganSaulles_Bee|title=Polly and Bee Boy: Clash of the Puffin: The New FriendKiller Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Polly was just about Young Mel's friend has left and the beehive is now his to start Big School and, being honest, she wasn't keenlook after. She couldn't wear her spotty wellies for one thing, but worst of allUnfortunately, she couldn't take Neil with her. We heard about Neil the rescued puffin in the [[Polly and the Puffin by Jenny Colgan|first book]] Mel lives in this series and although Neil now has a nest in the nearby lighthouse, he tower block and Polly are still very close. When she gets to school Polly doesn't really feel like joining in any of the games: she's the lonely little figure on the edge not all of everything. Her teacher suggests his neighbours agree that she and Ronita make friends: have you ever noticed how ''difficult'' it is to even speak when someone suggests something like that? Polly and Ronita don't make friends - they end up shouting at each other in the correct place for a 'mine's bigger/better than yours' argumenthive. What about? Well, birds of course. Ronita Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a macawbee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510200908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau IsaDavidson_Night|title=Little People, Big DreamsNight Zookeeper: Marie CurieThe Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=Some little girls want to be princesses, but the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a scientist. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined to do well world of magic and won a gold medal imagination opened up for her studieshim. In Poland, Will is the new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the middle role of the nineteenth century, only men were allowed protector to go to University, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar language, but was soon a magical world starts with the best maths and science studentrepulsion of a dangerous invasion. It was here that she met  Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and married Pierre Curie, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win there are online cartoons devoted to the Nobel Prize for Physics for character but this workmarks a new launch and a new series. Marie was the first woman to receive the honour. Pierre was killed in This is not just a road accident, book but Marie went on a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistryget children using their own imagination. Her work The story itself mirrors what the author is still benefiting people todaytrying to achieve in real life; the power of the imagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa MunsoSeuss_Read|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Agatha Christie|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=As a child Agatha Christie and her mother would read a book together every afternoon, but there were early signs of what the future novelist would become: she always had a better idea about how the story should end. She would read in bed at night and detective novels were always her favourites. In the First World War Agatha, who was then in her early twenties, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons and toxic potions would be put to good use when her first detective novels were published just after the end of the war. Most people have heard of her first and most famous detective - Hercule Poirot - or of Miss Marple. Mrs Christie's novels were widely read and her plays were very popular in theatres.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross|title=Barking for BagelsDr Seuss

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=''Barking for Bagels'The more that you read,' is the story of Schnipp the dog, who loves her owners very much, though she does find their snickering a little annoying from time to time. One day, whilst out for a walk in the park, she starts to run away, and she finds that once she starts running she can't stop, and she runs and she runs until she finds Bessie the Bagel lady and thus discovers her new favourite food, and her new home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344505X</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview|author=George Szirtes and Tim Archbold|title=How to be a Tiger|rating=4''The more things you will know.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse'<br>|summary=''Wet againThe more that you learn, yet again! Down it drips, little fingertips, tapping and snapping as if the rain were cross.''<br>''See the branches toss? See the puddles grow? Has it stopped raining?NOThe more places you'll go.''

Yes, sometimes only This is a classic Dr Seuss quote will do. After all, we do come to poetry for snappy concisionfrom this book, and one thatI painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's what we get here…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959200</amazonuk>school library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a good rhyming ode to the joys of reading.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim FieldNeal_Words|title=Rabbit Words and Bear: The Pest in the NestYour Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Rabbit was strugglingTrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of piffle. There he was having In a niceworld where we all have hearts, peaceful sleep in his friend Bear's cave when we should have a terrible noise woke himheart that what we say to other people is positive. Was We can examine our world and the sound it thunder? Nomakes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, it was Bear snoringand bit by bit the world can be a better place. Very loudly. Rabbit tried putting his paws over his ears although thatAnd hang the 's not very successful when no, after you ' attitude some people would have small paws and very big earsin response. But there was something good: when Rabbit went outside There, I've given the cave he realised entire plot of this book away in my summary, but that spring had sprung. Suddenly he felt ''strong''. After a winter spent in his friend Bear's cave it was time to go home to his burrow. Only there was a surprise lurking there - and it looked suspiciously like a snakenot really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934260</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy LeeTavares_Red|title=Amy Lee Red and the Darkness HexLulu|author=Matt Tavares|rating=34.5

|summary=Amy Lee wakes up from one Meet Red and Lulu. They're a committed couple of her usual dreamscardinals and they have lived for some time in someone's garden, where she combats safely in an evil pirateevergreen tree. You would think It seems to them that was the only nastiness in her life – she lives every year people mention their home in a lovely place in song, which tells the Land of Lovetree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one year, and doesn't have to worry about paying just as the seasons turn for steaks for her nine dogsthe cold of winter, nor salmon for her cats. She can go to her favourite the tree who will entertain her with a storyvanishes, and she can go adventuring taking Lulu with her bottomless rucksack, and spend all day daydreaming of a wicked new house for her dogs… Until she sees threatening purple clouds over the forests. And not even in this fantasy world do you want to see purple clouds…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407172239</amazonuk>it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary McKayDickens_Search|title=The Sticky Witch|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Tom and Ellie's parents have set sail around the world on a raft made of rubbish! They tell the children that they will be gone for three years, but it will go by very quickly and they'll be safe and happy in the company of Aunt Tab. But who is this strange lady who applied for the job of caring for two wonderful children and their cat, Whiskers? She doesn't seem to be the kind guardian that the children need, Search and why is everything in her house so very, very sticky?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125996</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFind A Christmas Carol|author=Michael Escoffier Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Kris Di Giacomo|title=Where's the BaBOOn?Louise Pigott

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The title of Recently I got to applaud a book can be an important indication of what you are about to get yourself into. ''Where's that branched away from the BaBOOn?'' is a subtly different than ''Where's the BaboonWally?'' Can you spot style volume, and taught the surprising difference? One book is explorer about finding the missing monkeya non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Well, it seems tweaking the other form is waiting going to be a big thing, for the missing monkey this book tries yet another different approach – to find youteach us about a fictional story. ThereforeThey've started at the deep end, grab this with a book at your perilhastening towards being two centuries old, knowing and one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it at some point a Baboon will say BOO!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444827</amazonuk>certain time of the year for its ageless lesson. But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andy Croft and Alan MarksSeuss_Eggs|title=Tarzan and the BlackshirtsScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=1930s London, and the streets are rife with racial divides, 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 other. Our narrator Sam has no reason to hate anyone, apart from those in the other gangs, like Alf. But when they latch on to each other as best friends, despite Sam being Jewish and Alf having Irish blood, it seems nothing can stop themPeter T. But in times like that – and, of course, in times like 2017 – that Hooper doesn't necessarily mean friendships can't be broken…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910170399</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jody Revenson|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=How do you create a house-elf like Dobby? Well, you have a tennis ball on a string, and point actors so they look at it, and say their lines to a pretty-much empty space. You then film Toby Jones doing the elf's linesshow off, and use that sound file and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character to come from the digital realm in the but he is ''Harry Pottervery'' films. You can throw in a few puppets, and now and again a gifted small person, particularly good at the end of film #7… Or, 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 windowsillcooking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul Thurlby|title= NY Some would say he is for New York|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Long gone are the days when children didn't travel'The Best'' capital T, and picture books had to be about animalscapital B. And while your pre-schoolers his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might not be planning solo trips to the States any time soon, itthink that'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 bookquite an easy dish, based around the city that never sleeps, and one with which 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>}}{{newreview|author=Dr Seuss|title=Dr Seuss: A Classic Treasury|rating=5 |genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Sitting on my shelf is well thumbed book. I have had it since a child and even little hard to this day pick it up once in a while and read its contents. What is this tome? A slice of classic childrenshowcase one's literature that taught me all about the absurd and that words could be played with. This was prowess, but not ''Wind in the Willows'' or 'Swiss Family Robinson'', my classic is a Dr Seuss Omnibus that contained four of his booksso.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007234260</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alex For Peter T Smith|title=Santa Claude|rating=5|genre=For Sharing |summary=Ah Claude! He is such an endearing little dog. He's back on an adventure with Sir Bobblysock and this time it Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is a Christmas adventure. There are baubles and trees and carols and reindeer and, the choice of course, there's trouble! For who else but Claude would accidentally handcuff Santa to an armchair on Christmas Evethe egg itself, and then need he will go out of his way to deliver all procure the presents himself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926497</amazonuk>best of the best from whatever nest.