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|summary=Primrose Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and Wilfred have a poem to rehearse as part of named Cooper after the mouse communitygreat Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's midwinter celebrationsfather died suddenly, but nowhere and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to practicebe, until they are shunted up or how to an atticbe. But once there chance discoveries lead them And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to find a new world that they could hardly have imagined – luxurious rooms carved into the upper reaches of the oak treehim, where nobody has gone for years…he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0001840851</amazonuk>1444960261

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Alice Through the Looking GlassJane Lightbourne|authortitle=Emma Chichester ClarkMy Cat Called Red|rating=4.5

|summary=As a childRobin has red hair. He hates it, I found and the Alice stories weird freckles that go along with it. He's been bullied and a bit darkmocked at school because of it. Helena Bonham Carter in book form, perhaps. Not for everyone, no matter how many times the word ''ClassicGinger Minger! Carrots!''Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin' was bandied around, identifying them as a Very Good Thing that everyone should have reads only misery in life. If this was your experience of the original Lewis Carroll, then put those thoughts He's already lost his dad to one side for a moment mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and let me tell you about this bookis taken into hospital. It’s the original story, re-told and re-illustrated, and what a difference it makesShe doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007425082</amazonuk>1838216812

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mr WufflesFrancesca Simon and Steve May|authortitle=David WiesnerTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=Mr Wuffles (In a name I cannot help but imagine being said in a Chinese American accent) is a feline. Not a kitty. Definitely not a pussy. Barely even a catsmall Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, he’s so fierce. Look at him glaring out at you from who are eager to be the cover. He looks like troublevery worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, not so much in as they cause havoc at a cheekybirthday party, mischievous way but in chaos whilst tracking a dirtytroll, rotten scoundrel one. and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! Mr Wuffles’ owner clearly does not know her pet very well. She offers him a typicalThey get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, pet store toy but he simply turns up his nose at it and stalks offtheir crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849397805</amazonuk>0571349498

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838593187|title=Horrid Henry's Christmas Play ( Horrid Henry Early Reader)Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Francesca Simon and Tony RossVictoria Thompson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Horrid Henry Tilly is one excited. She's just come dashing out of those characters that parents either love or hatethe classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. Some parents feel Henry sets a very bad example - Dad's come to collect her and her brother and at times he does''has'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but what child doesn''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't love that so much more sensible than a bad examplescrap ''book''? Other parents love Henry simply because their children love him) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. Horrid Henry Books There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not only help children learn to read, they encourage them what she wants Dad to read for pleasure, and children who read for pleasure invariably become better readersguess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001108</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=The Dragonsitter's CastleFrontpage|author=Josh Lacey and Garry ParsonsInnosanto Nagara|ratingtitle=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When Edward finds his Uncle Morton's dragons at the door, he is quite happy to take a shift at dragon sitting, along with his little sister Emily. His parents however are far less happy, and the fact that they are recently divorced only makes things more complicated. It seems that the dragons visit was completely unplanned, and the adults are completely unprepared for the event. The story is told in letters from Eddie to his Uncle, the former detailing the dragons' latest escapade, and the latter writing about one delay after the other. Eddie's mother M is getting ready to go away on a yoga retreat and Dad's new girlfriend says absolutely no dragons. What are the children to do? Dad finally gives in, taking the dragons and children to the castle he is renovating in the hopes of striking it rich. Needless to say nothing goes to plan where dragons are involved and the grown ups are in for quite a few problems, but things work out quite well from the children's point of view.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397694</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Twit|author=Steve ColeMovement|rating=3.54

|summary=If I asked you to name Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a clever animalstory about social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, you’d quite likely choose an owlthe book is neither boring nor preachy. After all It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, they are known to be the wisest of birdsand it portrays how social movements need people who will try, aren’t even when it seems that they? There’s will fail. The message is a positive one exception to ; that rulein an increasingly uncertain world, though. Meet Twit. He’s rather cute with his big round eyes, and he’s polite and kind… but he’s not very wisewe do still have the power to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009699</amazonuk>1609809351

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Bob Books First1949471004|authortitle=Bobby Lynn Maslen and John Maslen|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=As Dog on a home educator, this simple set of books is one of the most essential educational items I own. I've ended up buying 4 sets, as one was given away to a family in desperate straights, one was water damaged, and most recently a few books out of the last set have disappeared. It is the one thing I just can not manage without, so even though I'm sure they'll turn up eventually, I simply can not wait and ordered a fourth set. I have literally invested hundreds of pounds in phonics programmes, and I have some wonderful resources, but as simple as these books are, they are the one set I can not manage without. They break everything down into such simple terms that even the youngest child can easily get a grasp of how to use phonics to decode new words. It is not even necessary for the child to know their alphabet first, although I would recommend waiting until the child not only knows their alphabet, but also can recognise basic shapes and patterns, knows text is read from left to right, and can recognise a couple of words in print, such as their own name. It is possible to teach a very young child, even as young as two or three to read a few of these books, but it really is best to achieve some degree of reading readiness first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0439845009</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The First Third Wish (Little Gems)Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Ian BeckPamela Brookes|rating=54

|summary=This What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is a lovely story reading? You can risk buying early readers, but 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 a lost wish. Cobweb has bungled her very first assignment, losing negative effect on the third wish meant for young dyslexic than a kindly woodcutterchild without that problem. She managed You need to be able to replace it with buy books at a sparereasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, but her job will not be complete until without anything else being thrown into the missing wish is found and returnedmix. It seems You need a lost wish is very dangerous indeed as it gives story which engages the finder an unlimited supply of wishes - young mind and not all people are careful what they wish foryou need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. As luck would have it though Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, the wish has found its way just either. Reading - and ''learning'' to the place where it most needed, where it will result in read - should be a true happily ever after, not only for the young man who finds it, but for many others as wellpleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122458</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=My Friend's a Gris-Kwok (Little Gems)Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Malorie Blackman Peter Lynas and Andy RowlandCharlie Roberts

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyCrafts|summary=You're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When Mike discovers you see the title page, you'll find out what the book's called and that his best friend Alex is a Gris Kwok or shape shifter it looks like they are in for some real fun's been written by Peter Lynas. Not only can Alex change into any creature he wants, he can change anyone touching him as well Then we move on to who has done the illustration - and there's a gap. There ''You'' are only three hitchesgoing to put your name there. The first is that Alex can only change three times a day It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of the largest creatures ever to roam the earth. The second There's some help available, but your name is that his sister has on the same powers. The third is that Alex is babysitting title page - and if you think babysitting ordinary siblings is difficult just wait until you see all the mischief a shape shifting toddler can get into.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112244X</amazonuk>have work to do!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1609809335|title=Alphabet (My First Bob Books)The Lizard|author=Sue Hendra Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and John R MaslenLucia Caistor (translator)|rating=52|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=BOB Books are designed to teach children to read through phonicsOne day a giant lizard appears in the city. I do own several different phonics programmes We don't even get told how it arrived, and this is one of the bestbut it certainly appeared. I feel People took against it is comparable to , and if they weren''Hooked On Phonics'' at t shrugging it off as a fraction of the price. Another advantage to these books is that you do not need to buy the whole programme in one go. You can buy each set hallucination brought on by tiredness just as you need they fled it, and most sets will take at least one term to completethey wanted something done about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0545019214</amazonuk> Can something be done about it, though?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=Toucan CanTadcaster and the Bullies|author=Juliette MacIver and Sarah DavisRichard Rutherford|rating=54|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If you’ve ever wondered what In some ways it was a toucan can dogentler time: video games were around, this book will tell youbut children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. The answer, in a nutshell, is EVERYTHING! They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Some are typical things – dancing Tim and singing and sliding and swinging. Some are more random – banging Mary's great-grandfather started a frying pan, doing business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the cancannineteen seventies. But they all look like a lot of fun Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the question remains: playground. Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he'can you do what Toucan can?s beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, but he' I bet, I bet, I bet you can!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467537</amazonuk>s not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bullies.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Henderson SmithB01N0OZQOD|title=Smart Read EasyNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Reading has always been one Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of my great pleasures and it's one which has been passed down in my familycourse, princess-guarding. ItThat's the key to so much: without an easy grasp of the skill employment opportunities what dragons are limitedfor, thereafter all. But Gwendolyn isn's always going to be social embarrassment lurking around t any princess. She finds the corner whole princessing thing quite boring really and there's the loss of so she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''funThe Late Knight Show'' and enjoyment. ItNickerbacher likes 's well over half a century since I learned to read and 'The Late Knight Show'' too - in that time Ifact, it've seen numerous schemes for teaching children s his favourite TV show because he wants to read come and go, some discredited, some no longer fashionablebe a stand-up comedian himself. ItHe tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don's t always struck me though that no one system will work for all children; reading will click for some using one method, some another and occasionally what's needed is a combination just to slot all the bits of the jigsaw into placecome off quite as Nickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845495756</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=The Christmas CarrotRory Branagan Detective|author=Allan PlenderleithAndrew Clover and Ralph Lazar|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=It’s Christmas time, Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's a detective and there’s every reason he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to be afraidstart but, at least if you’re a carrot. While everyone else is getting excited about the seasonthen, the Christmas carrot Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is dreading itfull of ideas. He’s about to go under the knife and emerge This is just as well as they soon discover a side dish on the family dinner table tomorrow. Gulp! Luckily Billy very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has other ideas, been poisoned and seizes him from the kitchen where his dad (a nice touch…it’s not just mums who cook) had been about to prepare him. Outside they go, heading for Billy’s snowman who is missing at risk of dying but no-one small feature… a nose! It’s else will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the truth and save a last minute save from the chopping board, but the Christmas carrot is still not happy with this career change, because it’s, y’know, rather cold out here. And so his adventure continueslife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613754</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192758748|title=Too Many Hats (My First Reader)Horace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Hilda OffenClare Elsom

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=It can be difficultWhen Harriet, sometimesaged seven and a quarter, decides to find a good story that an emerging reader 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 try to read themselves't believe her eyes. I know some The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the books my daughter has brought home from school Third (or Horace for short) starts to read have had the most boring plots ever! This is an example of a good early reader howevermove. ItHe not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's a funny story about princesses mum, and hats climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a cat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957301332</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Things You Never Knew About Dinosaurs|author=Giles Paley-Phillips new – and Liz Pichon|rating=4more suitable – home.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The idea of a dinosaur His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a trampoline or playing football is just plain sillybetter alternative. After Sadly, Horace's visits to the museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library allcause mayhem. Luckily, everyone knows dinosaurs died out yonks ago…didn’t they? Nope. Nohowever, they did nota competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472319842</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Saulles_Bee|title=Elmer and Bee Boy: Clash of the WhalesKiller Queens|author=David McKee Tony De Saulles

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Elmer Young Mel's friend has left and Wilbur are spending some time with Grandpa Eldo, something lots of children will identify with. He tells them that in the beehive is now his youth, this was the time of year he’d go down to the coast for some Whale watching andlook after. Unfortunately, well, that sounds like Mel lives in a marvellous idea, so Elmer tower block and Wilbur decide to try not all of his neighbours agree that it is the correct place for themselvesa hive. But it turns out there’s more to Grandpa Eldo’s story than he’s telling them, and Elmer and Wilbur soon find themselves on Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a wild adventurebee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184939749X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Dixie O'Day in Joshua Davidson has written about the Fast Lane|author=Shirley Hughes Night Zookeeper before and Clara Vulliamy|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The first collaboration by award winning children’s author [[:Category:Shirley Hughes|Shirley Hughes]] there are online cartoons devoted to the character but this marks a new launch and her illustrator/author daughter [[:Category:Clara Vulliamy|Clara Vulliamy]] has been eagerly anticipated for some time and this gorgeous little book more than meets expectations. In the first of a new series we meet Dixie, . This is not just a carbook but a whole online event with huge educational tie-loving dog who is always ready for adventure ins and Percy his smaller and slightly more cautious frienda push to get children using their own imagination. Together The story itself mirrors what the two chums enter an all-day race author is trying to achieve in Dixie’s car and are determined that they will win first prize. However, first they discover that they will be up against Dixie’s arch rival Lou-Ella, then all manner real life; the power of mishaps cause them problems and the race does not go smoothly for our heroesimagination makes everything better. Can Dixie save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782300120</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Read|title=George's Dragon Goes to SchoolI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Claire Freedman and Russell JulianDr Seuss

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=I would have been useless during ''Take your pet to school'' week. The goldfish who lived with us for short moments of my life (and the entirety of their short lives) wouldn’t have been very portable and even if they had, they’d have been a bit boring, swimming in circles mouthing 'o-o-o' . I would have been immensely jealous of anyone who brought in a lively puppy or a cute snuffly bunny rabbit. As a bit of a trophy whore even at a young agemore that you read, I would have been very sad that I wasn’t really in the running for the ''Best Pet'' cup.|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1407132067</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Blood and Guts and Rats' Tail Pizza|author=Vivian French and Chris Fisher|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Despite a revolting menu with dishes like slug and snail stew or rats' tail pizzas, Billy Bone's café was usually packed at lunchtimeThe more things you will know. Perhaps because there was no other place to eat. All of their customers were male, because neither Billy Bones, nor his assistant Hank liked girls at all. A large sign in the window proclaimed ''Absolutely No Girls! But one day the customers disappeared - and what was worse, Hank soon discovered their customers had all been stolen by girls. The girls were very large, green and hairy but they were girls nonetheless, and their traveling cake shop had enticed all of Billy Bone's customers away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444007297</amazonukbr>}} {{newreview|title=ABC and Do|author=Lee Singh and Karen Wall|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Being able to recognise letters is an essential aspect of emergent literacy. I know so many parents and children who feel that being able to sing their ABC's is the same as knowing the alphabet. It isn't. A child must be able to recognise the letter forms, in upper and lower cases, identify them by name and understand the sound or phoneme made by each. Learning the alphabet is something The more that most children will need some help with at home. No matter how good the school your child attendsyou learn, it is impossible for a teacher to give each child the individual attention required to master this subject easily, and failure to do so often leads to lifelong difficulties in literacy.|amazonuk=''<amazonuk>1405265329</amazonukbr>}} {{newreview|title=Space Pirates: Stowaway|author=Jim Ladd|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's a weird place where Sam lives. 'The planet P-Sezov 8 is just a nothingness in the middle of nowhere, and is home only to his scientist parents and a whole spaceport full of bickering, nasty pirates. Both groups only use the place as a departure point for more interesting things elsewhere, his exploring parents leaving Sam with his computerised tutorplaces you'll go. But when he gets word they are stranded on a fully gold world the pirates would be interested in, Sam must muscle in with the worst of them and try and help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631543</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=Mary's Hair|author=Eoin Colfer|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Mary hates her hair. It has black bits and brown bitsThis is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, curly bits and straight bits and Mary feels one that it looks very much like a bush. Her Daddy says if you don't like something, you should change it (instead I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of whining about it to your parents when they want to relax with a cup of tea). Marymy children's Daddyschool library! The book is very silly, like many others, should watch what he says to children. Mary follows his advice with hilarious results. First she cuts her hairas Dr Seuss always is, but when that doesn't go is also a good rhyming ode to plan she decides to dye it. She has learned something from the whole hair cutting experience though, this time she plans to try the dye out on someone else firstjoys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122261</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Neal_Words|authortitle=Chris Higgins Words and Lee WildishYour Heart|titleauthor=My Funny Family on HolidayKate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Mattie Butterfield and her family are going on holiday to Cornwall and as ever for Mattie thereTrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's lots for her to worry -called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage aboutsticks and stones is actually a lot of piffle. What if they lost one of them on the train In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to Cornwall? What if someone fell over the edge of the cliff? What ifother people is positive... As usual Mattie We can think of all sorts of things which could go wrong examine our world and the sound it looks as though her worst fears are going to makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be realised when happy together, and bit by bit the family manages to leave Jellico world can be a better place. And hang the dog on the station platform'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response. ItThere, I's a long journey to ve given the south - eight hours on the train and then another hour on the bus to get them to the campsiteentire plot of this book away in my summary, but after a couple of days theythat've all settled into a relaxed way of life. Mattie makes friends with a local boy too - although strangely enough no one else can see hims not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989858</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tavares_Red|title=Chris Higgins Red and Lee WildishLulu|titleauthor=My Funny FamilyMatt Tavares|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Mattie Butterfield is a worrierMeet Red and Lulu. Well, itThey's not surprising with re a family like hers - something always seems to be going wrong. Or if it doesn't go wrong then it very easily ''might''. She gets upset that the tomato seeds which she committed couple of cardinals and Lucinda they have planted at school wonlived for some time in someone't thrive because they're s garden, safely in the cold, dark cupboard and they're all wetan evergreen tree. Lucinda's parents don't seem It seems to like each other very much and it might be them that they're going to get divorcedevery year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. What would happen if Mattie's parents stopped liking each other? Why does grandma seem not to like But one year, just as the seasons turn for the Butterfield children very much? You seecold of winter, when you think about itthe tree vanishes, there's lots to worry about. And Mattie is particularly worried about why Mum has been to the doctor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034098984X</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dickens_Search|title=CheesemaresSearch and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Ross CollinsCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=43.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=Every time Hal eats cheese he has terrible nightmares. HalRecently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's mother suggests drastic measures Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a- no more cheese before bedsearching. Hal loves his cheese though so he sets off on Well, it seems tweaking the form is going to be a quest big thing, for clues this book tries yet another different approach – to solve teach us about a fictional story. They've started at the Case of the Cheesemares. He is accompanied by his canine sidekickdeep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, Rufus. He stumbles upon his first clue very quickly. All of the cheese and one that has been giving him bad dreams adapted countless times before now, yet always has come from Contessa Von Udderstein's (not people returning to it at all evil) House a certain time of Cheese in Bovina. Hal follows the trail to a spooky castle ruled by the evil Contessa Von Udderstein, a very mad cow who looks quite a bit like a bovine version of Cruella De Villeyear for its ageless lesson. The irate cow wants revenge on humans for stealing their milk for years (it's a good thing no one mentioned hamburgers or roast beef) Hal and Rufus must escape from But does the clutches rich content of the mad cattle and make cheese safe to eat again. It's a good thing cows don't have hands to clutch with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121915</amazonuk>Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Eggs|title=Mr Birdsnest and the House Next DoorScrambled Eggs Super|author=Julia Donaldson and Hannah Shaw Dr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=I love Julia DonaldsonPeter T. Hooper doesn's books for younger children. Everyone loves [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|The Gruffalo]] and [[Tyrannosaurus Drip by Julia Donaldson|Tyrannosaurus Drip]] is still one of our favouritest mean to show off, but as the children have grown, these books have been read less frequentlyhe is ''very'' good at cooking. I have to admit, ISome would say he is ''ve missed them. The Best''Mr Birdsnest and the House Next Doorcapital T, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that's quite an easy dish, one with which it' gives us s a chance little hard to enjoy this brilliant author for just a little while longershowcase one's prowess, but not so. For Peter T. This is fun story, told in the first personHooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so we never know super is the name choice of the main character. We do know she is lively active young girlegg itself, perhaps with an active imagination. I would guess her and he will go out of his way to be about 10 years old with an equally active and inquisitive younger brother named Elmoprocure the best of the best from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781120056</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=My Zoo|author=Rod Campbell|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=My children have always been drawn to Rod Campbell's simple but appealing illustrations, so I was delighted to have a chance to review this book, even though my boys are now older than the expected age range. This is a very simple book. There are fifteen large die cut animals Move on a pastel coloured background. The illustrations have a unique quality to them that I can only describe as ''Rod Campbell''. The animals all have friendly appearance, and a kind of gentleness to them. The front view of each animal has only the animal's name in bold black print. When you turn the page, there is a single sentence about the animal in smaller print. With a very young baby, the parent can read only the animals name, perhaps adding the sound for each animal. As the child grows older, the parents can begin reading the extra line on each animal. The fact the animals are larger than usual in these pictures, and on sturdy pages that are perfect for little hands, means this book would be ideal for babies as young as six months. I feel this would make a lovely first book for young child. As much as we loved [[Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell|Dear ZooNewest Entertainment Reviews]], I feel this book is even better for infants.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230770924</amazonuk>}}