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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Choosing CrumbleNigel Baines|authortitle=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross (Illustrator)A Tricky Kind of Magic
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Terri- Lee wants a dogCooper loves to perform magic tricks. She is positive that His father was a dog will be magician, and named Cooper after the perfect pet for her and will settle for nothing elsegreat Tommy Cooper. When Terri-Lee But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and her mum visit the pet shop together they think that they will now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be choosing a dog however, Crumble, the dog, has very different ideas. He wants or how to be sure that . And when his prospective owner is the perfect match for dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him and has a few questions of his own. Will Terri- Lee be able to convince Crumble that she should be his owner?, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849395284</amazonuk>1444960261
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Christmas Present (Hello Kitty and Friends)Jane Lightbourne|authortitle=Linda Chapman and Michelle MisraMy Cat Called Red|rating=4
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Hello Kitty and her friends have a series of books but you don’t need to know about their previous adventures to enjoy this oneRobin has red hair. There’s a helpful illustration of the whole gang at the beginning, including Grandpa and Grandma who don’t feature in these two storiesHe hates it, and you also get to see all the friends freckles that go along with their mixed up names: Hello Kitty’s twin it. He's been bullied and mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is Mimmy (why not Hi Mimmy?!) Robin's only misery in life. He's already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and then there’s Tammy, Fifi and the slightly odd Dear Danielis taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007515812</amazonuk>1838216812
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{{newreview<!-- 13/12 -->Frontpage|author=Dom Conlon Francesca Simon and Carl PughSteve May|title=Tommy Tickletail: A Tall TaleTwo Terrible Vikings
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers|summary=Sophie In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Sam Whack, who are on eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a midnight mission. It's birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a long time since supper troll, and they're both hungry. Obviously undertake a trip to see what's in the fridge (they've got high expectations) is essential but there are dangers grand journey to overcome. It's dark. raid Bad Island with their friends! They really ''shouldn't'' be raiding the fridge get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf- most frightening of all cub Bitey- there's Tommy Tickletail who has a body twelve feet long Bitey, and sleeps under the kitchen tabletheir crazy cast of friends. They've got to get to the fridge without waking the monster - or who knows what the consequences will be?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00H53FGMM</amazonuk>0571349498
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dom Conlon and Nicola Anderson1838593187|title=Guess What I Am A Giant (Tiny Found in the Giant)Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Tiny knew that he was Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a giantbig grin on her face. In fact you couldnDad't help thinking that s come to collect her and her brother and he was a little bit cross about ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the fact playground today, although she concedes that he had to keep telling peoplewill never guess. HeDad wants to know how school was, but 'd shake his fists and roar '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 scrap 'I AM A GIANT'book''. ?) Proof was importantWell, of course and the first step was to measure his shadowactually, which he Tilly did when the sun was low - but it wasn't just one stepfind exciting stuff. It was many There are sequins, glittered paper and his shadow still ran on ahead all sorts of him. Off he went to tell the worldother things in her pocket, but the mountains were, well, dismissive and the tall trees whispered about it amongst themselves before they rejected that's not what he had she wants Dad to say. The wind didn't agree either - and went on and on about it until Tiny ran away to the seaguess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00H3PYDC6</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Secret Staircase (Brambly Hedge)Innosanto Nagara|authortitle=Jill BarklemM is for Movement|rating=3.54
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Primrose and Wilfred have Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a poem to rehearse story about social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as part of political corruption and nepotism, the mouse community's midwinter celebrationsbook is neither boring nor preachy. It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, but nowhere to practiceand it portrays how social movements need people who will try, until even when it seems that they are shunted up to an atticwill fail. But once there chance discoveries lead them to find The message is a new positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world that they could hardly , we do still have imagined – luxurious rooms carved into the upper reaches of the oak tree, where nobody has gone for years…power to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0001840851</amazonuk>1609809351
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Alice Through the Looking Glass1949471004|author=Emma Chichester Clark|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=As Dog on a child, I found the Alice stories weird and a bit dark. Helena Bonham Carter in book form, perhaps. Not for everyone, no matter how many times the word ''Classic'' was bandied around, identifying them as a Very Good Thing that everyone should have read. If this was your experience of the original Lewis Carroll, then put those thoughts to one side for a moment and let me tell you about this book. It’s the original story, re-told and re-illustrated, and what a difference it makes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007425082</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Mr WufflesLog Chapter Books: Step 1|author=David WiesnerPamela Brookes
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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>
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{{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
|rating=4.5
|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!
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{{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?
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{{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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Henderson SmithB01N0OZQOD|title=Smart Read EasyNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto
|rating=4
|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>
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{{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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192758748|title=Too Many Hats (My First Reader)Horace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Hilda OffenClare Elsom
|rating=4
|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=It can be difficultWhen Harriet, sometimesaged seven and a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to find a good story that an emerging reader 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 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 school to read have had his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the most boring plots ever! This is an example of town as Horace searches for a good early reader howevernew – and more suitable – home. ItHis sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a funny story about princesses and hats better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to the museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a catcompetition in the park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957301332</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Saulles_Bee|title=Things You Never Knew About DinosaursBee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Giles Paley-Phillips and Liz PichonTony De Saulles
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The idea of a dinosaur on a trampoline or playing football Young Mel's friend has left and the beehive is just plain sillynow his to look after. After allUnfortunately, everyone knows dinosaurs died out yonks ago…didn’t they? Nope. No, they did Mel lives in a tower block and not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472319842</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Elmer and the Whales|author=David McKee |rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Elmer and Wilbur are spending some time with Grandpa Eldo, something lots all of children will identify with. He tells them his neighbours agree that in his youth, this was it is the time of year he’d go down to the coast correct place for some Whale watching and, well, that sounds like a marvellous idea, so Elmer and Wilbur decide to try it for themselveshive. 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>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Davidson_Night
|title=Night Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood
|author=Joshua Davidson
|rating=5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and imagination opened up for him. Will is the new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the role of protector to a magical world starts with the repulsion of a dangerous invasion.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Read|title=George's Dragon Goes to SchoolI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Claire Freedman and Russell JulianDr Seuss
|rating=4.5
|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 hadmore that you read, 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 age, I would have been very sad that I wasn’t really in the running for the <br>''Best PetThe more things you will know.'' cup.|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1407132067''The more that you learn,''</amazonukbr>}}''The more places you'll go.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Neal_Words|title=ABC Words and DoYour Heart|author=Lee Singh and Karen WallKate Jane Neal|rating=54|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Being able to recognise letters Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones is an essential aspect actually a lot of emergent literacypiffle. I know so many parents and children who feel In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that being able what we say to sing their ABC's other people is the same as knowing the alphabetpositive. It isn't. A child must be able to recognise We can examine our world and the letter formssound it makes through communication, in upper we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and lower casesbe happy together, identify them and bit by name and understand bit the sound or phoneme made by eachworld can be a better place. Learning And hang the alphabet is something that most children will need 'no, after you' attitude some help with at homepeople would have in response. No matter how good the school your child attendsThere, it is impossible for a teacher to give each child I've given the individual attention required to master entire plot of this subject easilybook away in my summary, and failure to do so often leads to lifelong difficulties in literacybut that's not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405265329</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tavares_Red|title=Space Pirates: StowawayRed and Lulu|author=Jim LaddMatt Tavares|rating=34.5|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=ItMeet Red and Lulu. They's re a weird place where Sam lives. The planet P-Sezov 8 is just a nothingness committed couple of cardinals and they have lived for some time in the middle of nowheresomeone's garden, and is safely in an evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home only to his scientist parents and in a whole spaceport full of bickeringlovely song, nasty pirateswhich tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. Both groups only use But one year, just as the place as a departure point seasons turn for more interesting things elsewherethe cold of winter, his exploring parents leaving Sam with his computerised tutor. But when he gets word they are stranded on a fully gold world the pirates would be interested intree vanishes, Sam must muscle in taking Lulu with the worst of them and try and help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631543</amazonuk>it…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dickens_Search|title=Mary's HairSearch and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Eoin ColferCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=Mary hates her hair. It has black bits and brown bitsRecently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, curly bits and straight bits and Mary feels that it looks very much like taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a bush-searching. Her Daddy says if you don't like somethingWell, you should change it (instead of whining about it seems tweaking the form is going to your parents when they want be a big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to relax with teach us about a cup of tea)fictional story. MaryThey's Daddy, like many othersve started at the deep end, should watch what he says to children. Mary follows his advice with hilarious results. First she cuts her haira book hastening towards being two centuries old, but when and one that doesn't go to plan she decides has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to dye itat a certain time of the year for its ageless lesson. She has learned something from But does the whole hair cutting experience thoughrich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this time she plans to try the dye out on someone else first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122261</amazonuk>quirky variation?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Higgins and Lee WildishSeuss_Eggs|title=My Funny Family on HolidayScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Mattie Butterfield and her family are going on holiday Peter T. Hooper doesn't mean to Cornwall and as ever for Mattie thereshow off, but he is ''very''s lots for her to worry aboutgood at cooking. What if they lost one of them on the train to Cornwall? What if someone fell over the edge of the cliff? What ifSome would say he is ''The Best'' capital T, capital B.And his signature dish is scrambled eggs.. As usual Mattie can You might think of all sorts of things that's quite an easy dish, one with which could go wrong and it looks as though her worst fears are going to be realised when the family manages to leave Jellico the dog on the station platform. It's a long journey little hard to showcase one's prowess, but not so. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the south - eight hours on choice of the train egg itself, and then another hour on the bus to get them he will go out of his way to procure the campsite, but after a couple best of days they've all settled into a relaxed way of lifethe best from whatever nest. Mattie makes friends with a local boy too - although strangely enough no one else can see him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989858</amazonuk>
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