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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=It's Snow DayFrontpage|author=Richard Curtis and Rebecca CobbNigel Baines|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summarytitle=We all remember the best sort of school days, don’t we? Snow days. Waking up in the morning and seeing the glow of white through the curtains, and looking out of the window to see the whole world A Tricky Kind of our back gardens and rooftops turned white. This is a book all about that, and the only two people who turn up at school on this particular snow day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723288925</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Horrid Henry's Haunted House|author=Francesca Simon and Tony RossMagic|rating=4.5

|summary=Horrid Henry is Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a character I remember vaguely in passingmagician, a bit like ''Just William''. I knew the books existed and regularly saw them in named Cooper after the children’s room of the library, but I didn’t bother to pick them upgreat Tommy Cooper. The clue was in the name. And I was the sort of girl who didn’t want stories about nasty But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, horrible boys. Having read my first Horrid Henry story and nowCooper doesn't quite know who to be, though, I can let you in on a little secretor how to be. He’s actually quite a funny boy and not the naughty thing And when his nickname would suggest.dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009079</amazonuk>1444960261

 {{newreview|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)Frontpage|author=Jackie Morris|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=You probably haven't heard of Mergichans – although if you pronounce it correctly in your head, in connection with spirits and magic, you will work out what they are. One of them is the totem, if you like, of a hidden Himalayan valley, and she is in the form of a snow leopard, singing existence as she sees fit and protecting the Shangri-La type location. But she cannot protect it from all-comers, least of all when she's trying to sing to find a successor. Mergichans do not have it all their own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewJane Lightbourne|title=The My Cat, the Dog, Little Called Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf and Grandma's Wardrobe|author=Diane Fox and Christyan Fox|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Have you ever sat down to read a story aloud to someone and found that they interrupt at every given opportunity, asking questions, making comments, and generally fidgeting with anything and everything? I'm sure if you've spent any time with a toddler then this will be a familiar experience. This story plays on that, with a cat trying, very hard, to tell a dog the story of Little Red Riding Hood. But dog can't sit still, and he wants to know what Red's superpower is, because if she has a cape she must be a superhero, and he's pretty sure that Red must have zapped the wolf with her kindness ray when she met him...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277002</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Dance Teacher|author=Simon Milne and Chantal Stewart|rating=54

|summary=Miss Sylvie is a dance teacher to Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the many girls freckles that go along with it. He's been bullied and boys mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in her townlife. One day, He's already lost his dad to a little girl called Isabelle walks through her door mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and says she wants to start ballet, so she joins the Saturday classis taken into hospital. As months and then years pass, some friends She doesn't come and go, and others try different forms of dancing, but only Isabelle sticks with ballethome again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743313314</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Three Little MagiciansFrancesca Simon and Steve May|authortitle=Georgie Adams and Emily BolamTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=The ''Three Little Magicians'' are just thatIn a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, a group of young friends who like magic and are pretty good eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at ita birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, but they're nothing compared and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to the likes all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their neighbour wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and magician extraordinaire, Mr Marzipan. When a mishap takes him out their crazy cast of the running for the important magic show at the Crystal Castle, the three friends offer their services. But will the evil Zigzag thwart their plans and steal the prize for himself?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444011456</amazonuk>0571349498

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Mackay1838593187|title=Always Last (On the Ball)|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Ben was always last. Last to the bathroom Guess What I Found in the morning, last to breakfast, last into school... You get the picture. These didn't worry him overly much but Ben's a football enthusiast - and he was always last to be picked when the captains were choosing teams. Even the girls were picked before him and there was always a bit of grumbling when someone had to take him onto their side. But then an anonymous friend gave him some advice in a letter and although Ben couldn't see how it could ''possibly'' work, he decided to give it a try.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781276978</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Winnie's Big Bad RobotPlayground!|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky PaulVictoria Thompson

|summary=Winnie the Witch Tilly is something excited. She's just come dashing out of an institution in children’s literature these daysthe classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and with good reasona big grin on her face. From the very first book Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the series Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul managed playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to capture know how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a wonderful sense scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of funother things in her pocket, mischief and adventure. This addition but that's not what she wants Dad to the series is no exceptionguess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738720</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zanib Mian and Laura Ewing FerrerInnosanto Nagara|title=Never too Small|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=There was once a young boy who didn't try to do things because he felt that he was too small, but he was lucky. He had a good friend and that friend wrote him a letter to tell him that people are never too small, or too big, or too old to try something new. There was also a little girl and she was afraid of the dark. It was her brother who wrote her a letter to tell her that he would always be there M is for her. There was the boy who wouldn't try new things to eat, the young girl who was afraid of heights, a boy who was terrified about going to school and a girl who was frightened of spiders. They all had that special someone who took the time to write them the letter which gave them the confidence to overcome their fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956419658</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tony Ross and Wendy Finney|title=What's My Name? (The Not So Little Princess)Movement

|summary=NowSet in Indonesia, I do hope that what I'm about to tell you won't be in the not too upsetting. The Little Princess distant past, this is growing up and it's causing a problem in the palacestory about social change. You see the little princess has always been known Dealing with some difficult issues, such as, wellpolitical corruption and nepotism, the Little Princessbook is neither boring nor preachy. Whilst the Queen was helping to make cucumber sandwiches the King was striding up It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and downit portrays how social movements need people who will try, wearing the carpet out and making his shoes squeakeven when it seems that they will fail. He had The message is a problem - a big problem. Now positive one; that the little princess was growing up was it really appropriate to continue calling her the Little Princess? There was in an open secret in the palace: everyone knew increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the little princess's ''real'' name - but no one was prepared power to tell her what it wasinstigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849395799</amazonuk>1609809351

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Wolfman1949471004|authortitle=Michael Rosen and Chris Mould|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=People are panicking. The police are afraid. The army have run away. Who or what could possibly be so scary? It’s Wolf Man. And he’s Dog on the loose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Danloriaa Log Chapter Books: The Secret Forest of Germania Step 1|author=Gloria D GonsalvesPamela Brookes

|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=Stan loves What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to go for walks in achieve the forest of Danloriawonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, located but the sounds in the seven hills of Germania. He goes with his father almost every day. One particular day, Stanbook might not be the ones you's father is ill in bed ve been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can't take him out. And have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that's when Fern appearsproblem. Stan notices the plant waving You need to be able to him and canbuy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you't help but investigate. Fern has an invitation for Stan. He wants to take him to the secret parts of ve been working on, without anything else being thrown into the forest, to a partymix. Stan has You need a fabulous time, meeting all story which engages the plants young mind and finding out about you need stages which progress steadily through the various ways in which they benefit humanitylearning process without there being any large jumps. The following spring Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, Stan is racking his brains either. Reading - and ''learning'' to think of the perfect gift for his motherread - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''s fortieth birthday party when Fern appears again. More friends of the forest supply presents more wonderful than Stan could ever have dreamed of. A firm friendship ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1491876964</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=Mine!Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Jerome Keane Peter Lynas and Susana de DiosCharlie Roberts

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Horse and Fox are really boredYou're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. Nothing had happened for ages When you see the title page, until you'll find out what the egg arrivedbook's called and that it's been written by Peter Lynas. In this lovely book, they are forced Then we move on to try who has done the illustration - and share, but they arenthere's a gap. ''You''t particularly good at itare going to put your name there. I really love It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the style of pictures for this bookabout one of the largest creatures ever to roam the earth. There's some help available, it uses bold, different colour schemes to make it instantly eye catching but your name is on the title page - and engaging. The text has an immediately obvious sense of humour whilst still managing to be simple enough for early readers you have work to grasp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331365</amazonuk>do!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1609809335|title=Buckle and Squash and the Monstrous Moat-DragonThe Lizard|author=Sarah CourtauldJose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=4.52|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=In this story we have two sistersOne day a giant lizard appears in the city. There is ElizaWe don't even get told how it arrived, who dreams of being a swashbuckling herobut it certainly appeared. People took against it, whilst her sister Lavender spends her time mooning over pictures of princes, hoping to become and if they weren't shrugging it off as a real princess. One day Lavender gets kidnapped out in the forest hallucination brought on by a rather dreadful villaintiredness just as they fled it, Mordmontthey wanted something done about it. Will poor Lavender ever escape? Will Eliza get to Can something be the hero? And what done about these monstrous moat dragonsit, though?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447255550</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=LuckyTadcaster and the Bullies|author=David MackintoshRichard Rutherford|rating=3.54|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=In some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Tim and Mary''We're having s great-grandfather started a surprise at dinner tonight. Mum says business in 1899 soour story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Something which hasn'' Leo t changed, unfortunately, is bullying and his brother two lads are desperate to figure out making life miserable not just what for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the surprise might beplayground. Could it be crinkly chips? A new bike? Tickets Tim's probably about 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 Amazing Yo-Yo Super show? Or maybe, just maybe..stage where he knows how to deal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007463030</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B01N0OZQOD|title=The Almost Fearless Hamilton SquidleggerNickerbacher|author=Timothy Basil EringTerry John Barto

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Little froglet Hamilton Squidlegger prides himself on Nickerbacher is doing his braverydragonly duty as all dragons do. Armed with his wooden sword and shieldThat dragonly duty is, he loves to battle imaginary monstersof course, such as the skelecragonprincess-guarding. That's what dragons are for, bracklesneed and fire-breathing frackensnapperafter all. Hamilton fears nothingBut Gwendolyn isn't any princess. Nothing that She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she ismuch less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, except BEDTIMEit's his favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. As soon He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as the sun goes down he jumps from his own mud bed and clambers in with mum and dadNickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353795</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=ElephantRory Branagan Detective|author=Suzi EszterhasAndrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He'Elephants a detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy' s dad has been poisoned and is part at risk of the wonderful dying but no-one else will believe he's in danger. It'Eye on s up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the Wild'' series by award-winning wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas. The book follows the journey of truth and save a young bull elephant calf from birth through adulthood. The vivid full-page photographs show heartwarming snapshots of life in the herd; a purely matriarchal society where strong females form a close family bond and work hard rearing and protecting their young.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805035</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192758748|title=TigerHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Suzi EszterhasClare Elsom|rating=54|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=When Harriet, aged seven and a 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'Tigert believe her eyes. The statue of 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 him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can' is a simply stunning picture book t resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the lives of town as Horace searches for a tiger family from birth new – and more suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to adulthoodpersuade him that there must be a better alternative. Each page is filled with enchanting pictures of Sadly, Horace's visits to the tigers museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the wild, taken by award-winning photographer Suzi Eszterhaspark reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805043</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Saulles_Bee|title=Marshmallows for MartiansBee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Lee Wildish, Adam Guillain and Charlotte GuillainTony De Saulles|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=What kid doesnYoung Mel't like sweets or aliens? This book combines s friend has left and the two as George packs up and leaves beehive is now his house on a mission to Mars to find out what sweets aliens love bestlook after. He builds Unfortunately, Mel lives in a spaceship tower block and takes off, meeting some very surprising aliens along not all of his neighbours agree that it is the waycorrect place for a hive. From the first page, I knew I would enjoy this story and I wasn't disappointed at all. I laughed throughout and looked forward to turning each page to find out what happened nextThings change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266813</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=The Secret Dinosaur: Giants Awake|author=N S Blackman|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Marlin Maxton goes on a school visit to Joshua Davidson has written about the local museum, he is looking forward Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to seeing Protos - the dinosaur that his Uncle Gus remembers so fondlycharacter but this marks a new launch and a new series. But Protos This is nowhere not just a book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to be seen and get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what the museum's Mr Grubbler seems author is trying to be doing his utmost to take all achieve in real life; the fun out power of the school visit Marlin had been anticipating with such excitement. So Marlin sneaks off to explore by himself..imagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992752507</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Read|title=I Can Read With My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.)Eyes Shut|author=Peter BrownDr Seuss

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=School can be a difficult place for children''The more that you read, especially if your teacher is a stomping, roaring monster like Miss Kirby''<br>''The more things you will know. Bobby spends most of his time worrying about what to do about his monster of a teacher, and the best place for him to think about it is in the park. He goes there one day to contemplate the situation, but who does he meet? Miss Kirby! She isn't stomping or roaring though, she is feeding the ducks.|amazonuk='<amazonukbr>1447257472''The more that you learn,''</amazonukbr>}}''The more places you'll go.''

{{newreview|title=Sir Scallywag and the Deadly Dragon Poo|author=Giles Andreae and Korky Paul|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=King Colin has spent his fortune on This is a giant sweet machineclassic Dr Seuss quote from this book, which he guzzles from each and every day. The entire kingdom has grown fat and lazy, except for Sir Scallywag. Itone that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's lucky somebody in the castle still has their wits about themschool library! The book is very silly, because Baron Greedyguts has heard all about their sweet machineas Dr Seuss always is, and he's coming but is also a good rhyming ode to get it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718197364</amazonuk>the joys of reading.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Neal_Words|title=Max the BraveWords and Your Heart|author=Ed VereKate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=I can truly believe Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that Curiosity Killed the Cat, if the cat adage about sticks and stones is anything like Max from ‘Max the Brave’ by Ed Vere. Thankfully, as well as being curious, cats are also known for having several lives, Max uses some actually a lot of them up in this adventurepiffle. Being an cat of action Max wishes to go out in the big In a world and chase some micewhere we all have hearts, but he is also young so does not know we should have a heart that what a mouse we say to other people ispositive. After asking several animals if they are a mouse (including one with big earsWe can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, whiskers and bit by bit the world can be a penchant for cheese)better place. And hang the 'no, Max is pointed after you' attitude some people would have in response. There, I've given the direction entire plot of something a little larger and greener than your average rodentthis book away in my summary, but that's not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723286698</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tavares_Red|title=The Moonshine Dragon (Little Gems)Red and Lulu|author=Cornelia FunkeMatt Tavares

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=What happens when stories escape from books? One moonlit night Patrick is woken up by Meet Red and Lulu. They're a committed couple of cardinals and they have lived for some time in someone's garden, safely in an evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one year, just as the seasons turn for the noise cold of winter, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Dickens_Search|title=Search and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Recently I got to applaud a tiny dragon emerging book that branched away from his storybook the Where's Wally? style volume, and chased by an equally tiny knight on horsebacktaught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Suddenly Patrick finds himself shrunk Well, it seems tweaking the form is going to be a big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a fictional story . They've started at the deep end, with a book size too and he hastening towards being two centuries old, and one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it at a certain time of the dragon find themselves under attackyear for its ageless lesson. Can Patrick save them both before time runs outBut does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123535</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Eggs|title=When Angus Met AlvinScrambled Eggs Super|author=Sue PickfordDr Seuss

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Angus Peter T. Hooper doesn't mean to show off, but he is ''very'' good at cooking. Some would say he is not like other aliens''The Best'' capital T, capital B. He And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that's quite an easy dish, one with which it's a peace-loving little fellowhard to showcase one's prowess, but not so. For Peter T. Hooper, who likes nothing better than sitting in what makes his garden watching scrambled eggs so super is the flowers grow and sipping a nice cup choice of tea. Unfortunately, one daythe egg itself, a strange spaceship crash lands in his garden and he will go out pops a cheeky, hyperactive green alien called Alvin who is rather a show-off. It’s time for Angus of his way to teach Alvin a lesson about manners. Can procure the two aliens put their differences aside and become friends in best of the end?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847803040</amazonuk>best from whatever nest.

{{newreview|title=Horrid Henry's Wedding|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=What Move on earth was Prissy Polly thinking? If she had wanted her wedding to Pimply Paul to go without a hitch, why, oh why had she insisted on asking her awful cousin Horrid Henry to be a page boy? One thing is for certain: when you take a certain horrid boy with a reputation for mischief and force him to wear a lilac shirt, green satin knickerbockers, tights, a pink cummerbund and white satin shoes with gold buckles, you are just asking for trouble...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001213</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Foxy Tales - The Cunning Plan|author=Caryl Hart and Alex T Smith|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Foxy DuBois is on a mission to get rich quick and to get rid of that pest, Alphonso the Alligator for good, otherwise the greedy alligator is going to eat Foxy for breakfast. However she needs Alphonso’s help to ensure that her plan will succeed. In order for the scheme to work Alphonso must dress as a lady dog walker and distract a rich old lady while Foxy kidnaps her small dogs. Alphonso will then pretend to find the dogs and the rich old lady, full of gratitude, will give them a generous reward. How could this possibly go wrong? Very, very easily...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444909312</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Entertainment Reviews]]