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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Scieszka and Mary BlairNigel Baines|title=Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)A Tricky Kind of Magic

|summary=I'll take is as read you have some knowledge of the story of Alice in Wonderland – certainly when she got Cooper loves to be 150 years old a couple of years back there were no end of editions of her storyperform magic tricks. And as you knowHis father was a magician, 150 years is a heck of a lot of unbirthdaysand named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But her story got sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be slightly different, and if anything only more lovedor how to be. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, courtesy of the Disney cartoon, and the fact that this book features artwork that was generated during the production of that film is the unique selling point.he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405287004</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreJane Lightbourne|title=Pug-a-Doodle-Do!My Cat Called Red|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsEmerging Readers|summary=I was reading a book so utterly different to this the other day, it Robin has to bear mentionred hair. It was an exceedingly academic book about graphic novels and comics for the YA audienceHe hates it, and it featured an essay picking up on the way books like the fill-in-bits-yourself entries in the Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries series (such as [[Dork Diaries: How to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|this one]]) let you interact freckles that go along with the franchise, it. He's been bullied and also to create your own contentmocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. There was some weird high-falutinBut red hair is not Robin' academic language to describe such books – but you know what? I say (redacted) to that – lets only misery in life. He's just hang it already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and have funis taken into hospital. And this book, spinning off from the four books this partnership has so far been responsible for, is certainly a provider of thatShe doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192764047</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy Strong Francesca Simon and Jamie SmithSteve May|title=Nellie Choc-Ice, Penguin Explorer (Little Gems)Two Terrible Vikings|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers|summary=Meet Nellie Choc-Ice. In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! Thus named by her grandparents (and grandparents have a habit in this book of making unusual names for Nothing can stop their grandchildrenmad marauding, whichever species as they belong to)cause havoc at a birthday party, she is chaos whilst tracking a pretty little Macaroni penguintroll, complete with pink feet, bright yellow eyebrows and undertake a woolly hat grand journey to raid Bad Island with the world's biggest pompom on the end. their friends! She has a habit They get up to all kinds of going exploring mischief and finding out what's over the next ridge in the icenaughty behaviour, and the nextalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and the nexttheir crazy cast of friends. But when disaster happens and the ice she is on is knocked off Antarctica by a submarine, even she can have no idea as to where she will end up…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781127212</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Papp1838593187|title=Madeleine Finn and Guess What I Found in the Library DogPlayground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|summary=Madeleine Finn doesn't like to read - not anythingTilly is excited. ItShe's not really just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her fault, you knowface. Her teacher tries Dad's come to encourage collect her and herbrother and he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, but some of the other kids giggle when although she makes mistakesconcedes that he will never guess. And they pull faces of the type which would have given me my head in my hands Dad wants to play with when I know how school was a child, but ''obviously'' that's not important. The words just don't seem to come out right Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her. scrap box? The other children are getting gold stars (IIsn've t that so much more sensible than a scrap ''neverbook'' liked that system?) but all Madeleine gets is a heart sticker which tells her to keep trying Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. She's got plenty There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of those. All week she tries other things in her best pocket, but doesnthat't get the star s not what she longs forwants Dad to guess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646326</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoInnosanto Nagara|title=Life on Earth: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!M is for Movement|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers|summary=I was Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a big fan of dinosaurs when I was a nipper. Since then the science regarding them has evolved leaps and boundsstory about social change. We've got in touch Dealing with them perhaps being featheredsome difficult issues, such as political corruption and have assumed colours and noises they made – we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesightnepotism, hearing and so much more may have been likethe book is neither boring nor preachy. But science will never stopIt educates gently, and the next generation will need to be on board with the job of discovering themvibrant, analysing themchallenging illustrations, and presenting them to a world it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that never seems to get enough of the nasty, superlative beasties of Hollywood renownthey will fail. As you're the kind of person to ask questionsThe message is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, you may well ask 'how we do you get that next generation ready for their place in still have the field and in the laboratory?' I would put this as the answer – even if it is made itself of a hundred questionspower to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1949471004|title=Life Dog on Eartha Log Chapter Books: Jungle: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Dyslexia Friendly|summary=We're constantly being asked What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to save something. Save achieve the hedgerows, save the elephant, save our seas. wonder that is reading? There's absolutely nothing wrong with any of those goals – some of them are larger than the others, and more demandingYou can risk buying early readers, but they are all worthy. But seeing as it's (a) the largest land feature we need to save, and (b) it's sounds in the most worthwhile to save, why book might not just go for the jugular – and try and save the Amazonian rainforest? Forget jugular, you'll be saving the jaguar; ones you'll be protecting the source of a lot of our food, spices ve been working on and medicines – and when did a hedgerow near you encountering words which are just too challenging can have almost fifty different species more of ant a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a singular tree? child without that problem. The first step You need to saving anything is be able to understand itbuy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, to let us appreciate itwithout anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and this primer is how we get in touch with what's important about jungles so we can deem them worthwhile'learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Dale and Giusi Capizzi099334030X|title=Cool Duck Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Lots of Hats (Early Reader)Charlie Roberts

|genre=Emerging ReadersCrafts|summary=Children are You're going to get a little like Pokemon; hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you may not be able to house them in a Pokeballsee the title page, but they are always evolvingyou'll find out what the book's called and that it's been written by Peter Lynas. Your little kiddo may have spent Then we move on to who has done the first couple of years or so intent to sit on your lap illustration - and listen to you read there's a story, but at some point they gap. ''You'' are going to want to read themselvesput your name there. This is not the moment to lend them It's ''your copy of ''Lord responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of the Rings'' as their own first books will actually be simpler stories than largest creatures ever to roam the books that you have shared togetherearth. You need to know There's some help available, but your ducks name is on the title page - and your hats before you can tackle what on Earth a Gruffalo is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862490</amazonuk>have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Schossow1609809335|title=Where is Grandma?The Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=52|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet HenryOne day a giant lizard appears in the city. HeWe don's a young lad being taken by a nanny to hospital to check up on his grandmat even get told how it arrived, who's in having had an accidentbut it certainly appeared. ItPeople took against it, and if they weren's t shrugging it off as a shamehallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, then, that said nanny is so busy yacking into her phone to look after him, for he ends up going off on his own adventure to find his granthey wanted something done about it. And what an adventure – babies being bornCan something be done about it, people with stomach problems, chemo, beans stuck up their nose… all life is here in this hospital, and both that and the lad's mishap are clearly and very pleasantly conveyed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571541</amazonuk>though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Atkins and Barbara Vagnozzi1789016320|title=Peck, Hen, Peck! Tadcaster and Ben's Pet (Early Reader)the Bullies|author=Richard Rutherford

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=It probably sounds obviousIn some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but you really shouldn't keep your pet chickens in a bag! children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Well, thatTim and Mary's what I learned from this book which tells us first the great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story of Tom who puts his hen is probably set in a bagthe nineteen seventies. The hen pecks through the bagSomething which hasn't changed, as hens are wont to dounfortunately, is bullying and escapes! A simple two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and somewhat tragic tale! Mary but for other children who gather in the playground. This is swiftly followed by a story Tim's probably about Benten - just at the stage where he's pet. Will it be another henbeginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, I wondered? Nowho's two years younger than him, actually, after several incorrect guesses, we discover that Benbut he's pet is only a rabbit!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862482</amazonuk>not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bullies.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Louise ForshawB01N0OZQOD|title=Buzz and Jump! Jump! (Early Reader) Nickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto|rating=54|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=After hearing a mysterious buzzing in the kitchenNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, mum traps a fly in a jarof course, but then she hears the buzzing againprincess-guarding.That's what dragons are for, after all.But Gwendolyn isn't any princess.what could be going on? Meanwhile, Ken She finds the Kangaroo (who declares himself to be the best at jumping), whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is jumping everywhere he canin watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. In this red level book, aimed generally at those who have completed their reception year Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in schoolfact, there are two simple, sweet stories in one book, perfect for those who are just learning it's his favourite TV show because he wants to readbe a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862504</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Julia Seal0008265836|title=Bamboo Rory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and I Wish (Early Reader) Ralph Lazar

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=With two stories in one book, thereTen-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's plenty a detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to like about this simplestart but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and funny, early reader. The first story, Bamboo, deals with a cheeky panda he discovers he has an accomplice who has run off to hideis full of ideas. Where can he be? The second story This is about just as well as they soon discover a wishing well which very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is granting wishes left, right at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the truth and centre! Evaluated as save a red level book, it sets itself as being about the right level for those around the end of their reception yearlife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862512</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephan Lomp0192758748|title=Wilfred and Olbert’s Totally Wild ChaseHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=Meet Wilfred When Harriet, aged seven and Osbert. Theya quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 're not only the kind Going to completely flout the rules 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 natural history explorer's club they belong Third (or Horace for short) starts to, move. He not only moves but when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly togetherstamps his foot, they are the kind to fight tooth and claw to be the first to lay claim to it aloneshouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and devil take the other oneclimbs down from his pillar. What they donUnderstandably Harriet can't know is that 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 drama that ensues when theyMayor're tailing this particular specimen will involve no end of peril – nearly drownings mansion and it, therefore, almost being eaten by falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a lionbetter alternative. Sadly, crashing a hot air balloon one of them just so happened Horace's visits to have in his pocket… Thisthe museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, thenhowever, is a fun and silly biology lesson – but that's only competition in the park reveals the best kind, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>perfect answer.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer ColemanSaulles_Bee|title=Hidden WorldBee Boy: ForestClash of the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=Sometimes, less Young Mel's friend has left and the beehive is morenow his to look after. But Unfortunately, Mel lives in a wood doesn't understand tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that, does it – it just stretches on and on, expanding outwards and outwards, and upwards and upwards – it's quite a galling thing is the correct place for a young person to understandhive. This book reverts to the very basic detail that will let the very young student get Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a grip on the life in the forest, whether they can actually see it for the trees in real life or not…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>bee.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Craig ShuttlewoodDavidson_Night|title=Town and Country (Turnaround Book)Night Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=I know I should have been working but I've just spent the last hour pouring over ''Town A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and Country''imagination opened up for him. On Will is the face of it there's a very simple idea here: on each double-page spread you get examples of what happens in towns new Night Zookeeper and what happens his tenure in the countryside role of protector to a magical world starts with regard to various activities, modes the repulsion of transport and even things like beaches and snowa dangerous invasion. You turn  Joshua Davidson has written about the book one way for Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the country scene character but this marks a new launch and then flip it over for what happens in the towna new series. Down the side of each page there's This is not just a book but a list of things for you to find, complete whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a thumbnail of push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what it the author is you're looking fortrying to achieve in real life; the power of the imagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo RaynerSeuss_Read|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Cock-A-Doodle-DooI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= This is an anthology book containing two titles from the Mudpuddle Farm series (''MossopThe more that you read,''s Last Chance<br>''The more things you will know.'' and <br>''AlbertineThe more that you learn, Goose Queen'')<br>''The more places you'll go. In '' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the first wall of these we see all the animals work together to save the saggy old cat-puss from being fired. my children's school library! The second story sees our resident genius tested by an encounter with book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a crafty fox whilst the farmer decides good rhyming ode to avoid all the fuss by going for a shavejoys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007270127</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neal_Words|title=Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson Words and Mary BlairYour Heart|titleauthor=Walt Disney's Peter Pan: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Kate Jane Neal|rating=3.54|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=ITrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it'll take it pretty much s-called-this-week-ing – all act as read proof that you know the story adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of Peter Panpiffle. 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 the young boy who left his shadow behindsound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and in collecting it took three children with him to a fantasy world full of nasty menbe happy together, danger and mysterybit by bit the world can be a better place. I knowAnd hang the 'no, the lad is totally irresponsibleafter you' attitude some people would have in response. You may well know it from pantoThere, or from Disney – and itI's ve given the latter that entire plot of this book is concerning. It's a very snappy capture of the story that won't take long at all to readaway in my summary, but itthat's what that text is paired with that makes it worth attentionnot really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405287012</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tavares_Red|title=Jeff Brown Red and Rob BiddulphLulu|titleauthor=Flat StanleyMatt Tavares

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=''Stanley was four feet tall, about a foot wide, Meet Red and half an inch thickLulu.They'' Yes, there's proof that this is the original text re a committed couple of this classic children's book – at least it's not been updated to metric. So while the illustrations are new, we get the real deal, with the young Stanley squished one night, to such an extent he can limbo under shut doors, get airmailed to America to visit relatives, become a kite cardinals and they have lived for his younger brother to play with, and more. But then you don't need to update perfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405288108</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Philippa Pearce and Cate James|title=The Ghost some time in Anniesomeone's Room (Little Gems)|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Emma is on a family holiday garden, safely in an older relative's seaside cottage, where she is evergreen tree. It seems to sleep them that every year people mention their home in the room in the attic. Her brother has passed on what he says he has overheard – that it is haunted. But even with the mementos of the person that once lived there all around her, and with a strange feeling of being watchedlovely song, even with which tells the stormy winds knocking tree limbs on to the window – Emma can sleep through it allthy leaves are so unchanging. But that's not to say things will forever be that way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126852</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Hee-Haw Hooray|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary=Two collected stories from Mudpuddle Farm series – ''Nowt to Worry About'' and ''Tickety-Boo''. How will one year, just as the animals react when seasons turn for the sky goes strange and horrifying noises abound? Changes are afoot that could mark the end of Mudpuddle farm; or is it just a new beginning?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008241988</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Powell|title= Search and Find: Pride & Prejudice: A Jane Austen Search and Find Book|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Search and find books are usually aimed at children. They are a good bit cold of fun, but they are also a good study tool for adult readers alike. Jane Austen is a fantastic novelistwinter, but her style of writing can be daunting for those not used to such heavy prose. It is very easy to become lost in the myriad of dialoguetree vanishes, characters and events. I find a good plot summary helps when approaching her works, this was especially so in the case of the perplexing and long-winded Emma. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783708271</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title=Pip Jones Search and Adam StowerFind A Christmas Carol|titleauthor=Piggy Handsome: Guinea Pig Destined for Stardom!Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott

|summary=Meet Piggy Handsome. He is Recently I got to applaud a very bequiffed guinea pig, and he is frustrated book that everyone in his long line of Handsome guinea pigs has become famous for something, except him. Annoyed that he has not even got his face in branched away from the local newspaperWhere's Wally? style volume, he has complained to his friend Jeffry and taught the Budgie more than onceexplorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. But on this dayWell, Jeff has it seems tweaking the form is going to be a chance to solve the issue and get some peace and quiet big thing, for himself this book tries yet another different approach – there is to teach us about a chip eating contest in townfictional story. But can Piggy get there in timeThey've started at the deep end, can he down with a bowl of chips quickly enough to winbook hastening towards being two centuries old, and what about the pair of idiot thieves one that also have something on their mind?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571327540</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Alien Invasion|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary=This collected edition contains two stories from Mudpuddle Farm: ''Alien Invasion'' and ''Mum's the Word''. When the bees swarm the animals panic over has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it at a new creature that appears in certain time of the farmyear for its ageless lesson. In But does the second story that greedy goat has vanished and when he returns something darned odd happens…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007275137</amazonuk>rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Roberts and Alan MacDonaldSeuss_Eggs|title=My Burptastic Body Book (Dirty Bertie)Scrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=Oh, to be young and innocent, and to be full of questionsPeter T. Questions like 'is eating my bogies good for me', or 'why is poo brown', or 'what makes sweat smell'. You donHooper doesn't have mean to be a kid like Dirty Bertie to want to know the answers – respectivelyshow off, no; itbut he is 's down to dead bacteria; and it doesn't – itvery's other bacteria again. If you think you have a lad (or, let's face it, a lass) interested in learning such stuff, this book could well be the place to turngood at cooking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Bond and R W Alley|title=Best-loved Paddington Stories|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=With the sad passing of Michael Bond there Some would say he is no time like the present to revisit some of the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddington. As the character has proved so timeless regular re-issues of the books have appeared and ''The Best-loved Paddington Stories'' brings three of these stories together. Does this collection really reflect the best that the bear has to offer or are they just three random tales stuck together with marmalade?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008245037</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Enid Blyton|title= The Seaside Family|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The Caravan Family (Mummycapital T, Daddy, Mike, Belinda and Ann) are all ready for the holidays, and what better place to spend time together than at the seaside? They can play in the sea, picnic on the sand and generally enjoy each other's companycapital B. It will be marvellousAnd his signature dish is scrambled eggs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405286733</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn Cramb|title=National Trust: Complete Night Explorer's Kit|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There is a misfortune to the modern world, in You might think that we have killed off a common hobby from when I was a lad. Nowadays light pollution is so awful it's certainly not uncommon for people to hardly see any of the stars and to get to learn the constellations, and while I only went out to go 'meteor hunting'quite an easy dish, one with which it's patently obvious that the chance to lie down and stargaze is a dying one. Elsewhere the nocturnal youth can struggle to have much opportunity little hard to explore the night-time nature as this book suggests – it begins with setting up a tent in your back garden, and too many don't even get that chance, for want of possession of showcase one. Yes, if this book is only read once in the daytime and never referred to again, due to lack of opportunity, it really will be a crying shame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Walliams and Tony Ross|title=The World's Worst Children 2|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I sometimes wonder if David Walliams gets sick of the comparisons with Roald Dahl that he gets. It's such an easy comparison to makeprowess, however, because both wrote very funny, and yet really very dark stories for childrenbut not so. They don't shy away from the nastiness, and ugliness in life and instead face it head on, and flip it around, and make you laugh along the wayFor Peter T. This is a rollercoaster ride through a wide range of truly dreadful children who range from being a fussy eaterHooper, to a spoiled brat, to Harry, who never, ever did what makes his homework! Yes, their dark deeds vary in despicableness, and along with dreadfulness galore there are fabulous illustrations, a large variety scrambled eggs so super is the choice of fonts, unusual page layouts and a Royal introduction from the Queen...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008259623</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeff Brown and Rob Biddulph|title=Stanley and the Magic Lamp (Flat Stanley)|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=It was far too recently that I picked up [[Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown and Rob Biddulph|Flat Stanley]] and met with a character now fifty years old for the first timeegg itself, and found he will go out how he got to be flat and what happened as a result. Bizarrely, however, despite the success of that first book it was twenty full years before the author picked up the pen his way to give Stanley this sequel. Or perhaps it's not such a surprise – without giving too much away, procure the character had met with a certain change at the end of book one, and therefore wasn't exactly ready for more best of the samebest from whatever nest. Well, over the decades there have been six official books by Jeff Brown, and this was the first instance where I could find out for myself if '''I''' was ready for more of the same…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140528806X</amazonuk>