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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Sir Scallywag and the Deadly Dragon PooFrontpage|author=Giles Andreae and Korky Paul|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=King Colin has spent his fortune on a giant sweet machine, which he guzzles from each and every day. The entire kingdom has grown fat and lazy, except for Sir Scallywag. It's lucky somebody in the castle still has their wits about them, because Baron Greedyguts has heard all about their sweet machine, and he's coming to get it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718197364</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNigel Baines|title=Max the Brave|author=Ed Vere|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=I can truly believe that Curiosity Killed the Cat, if the cat 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 of them up in this adventure. Being an cat of action Max wishes to go out in the big world and chase some mice, but he is also young so does not know what a mouse is. After asking several animals if they are a mouse (including one with big ears, whiskers and a penchant for cheese), Max is pointed in the direction A Tricky Kind of something a little larger and greener than your average rodent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723286698</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Moonshine Dragon (Little Gems)|author=Cornelia FunkeMagic

|summary=What on earth Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was Prissy Polly thinking? If she had wanted her wedding to Pimply Paul to go without a hitchmagician, whyand named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, oh why had she insisted on asking her awful cousin Horrid Henry and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be a page boy? One thing is for certain: . And when you take a certain horrid boy with a reputation for mischief and force his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to 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...he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444001213</amazonuk>1444960261

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Foxy Tales - The Cunning PlanJane Lightbourne|authortitle=Caryl Hart and Alex T SmithMy Cat Called Red|rating=4

|summary=Foxy DuBois is on a mission to get rich quick Robin has red hair. He hates it, 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 freckles 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 dogsgo along with it. Alphonso will then pretend to find the dogs He's been bullied and the rich old lady, full mocked at school because of gratitude, will give them a generous rewardit. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. How could this possibly go wrong? Very, very easily But red hair is not Robin's only misery in life.He's already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital.She doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444909312</amazonuk>1838216812

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela BannerFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title=Ant and Bee and Kind DogTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=When you learn to read it has In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be fun. You have to master the skill but it mustn't be ''too'' daunting or you're ''not'' going to enjoy it and - very worst of all - you might be put off reading for life. Vikings ever! It's best if you Nothing can share the reading until you get to grips with decoding what's on the pagestop their mad marauding, so if an adult could read most of the words but you read others to which you've already been introduced and which are in as they cause havoc at a different colour then that is going to be birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a help. If the words are introduced with a nice big picture and if they appear in alphabetical ordertroll, then that's going to be fun, isn't it? It's going to make reading easier too if the book is the right size for your hands and has undertake a nice firm cover which is easy grand journey to hold - and wipes clean if there's an accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405270756</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Famous Five Colour Reads: A Lazy Afternoon|author=Enid Blyton|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Perhaps the only thing better than a favourite author publishing a new book, is one of their old works that you missed first time around being re-released. The Famous Five, you see, didn’t just feature in their most well-known tales. They also had some short story adventures that were first seen in albums and magazines and whatnot, but are now being published as books in raid Bad Island with their own right. Hurrahfriends!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444916297</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Blamehounds (Little Gems)|author=Ross Collins|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The idea began with Mr Lime’s bodily explosions (didn’t I put that nicely?) After three of them it was Norman the dog (who was entirely blameless in this matter so long as you’re willing They get up to overlook the fact that he was having a lovely dream about dropping cats off bridges) who got the kick to speed him from the room. There were a couple more occasions when something similar happened but instead all kinds of getting a complex about what was happeningmischief and naughty behaviour, Norman saw an opportunity. A business opportunity. If dogs were going to get the blame then there should be something in it for them and he went into partnership along with his best matetheir wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, Ringo (who does seem to be obsessed with sausages) and Blamehounds was borntheir crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123926</amazonuk>0571349498

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Barbapapa's Ark1838593187|author=Annette Tison and Talus Taylor|rating=5|genretitle=Emerging Readers|summary=''Barbapapa’s Ark'' is the fourth book Guess What I Found in the popular series about a shape-shifting pink blob, his wife and seven children. It follows on from the previous book, in which Barbapapa and his family built themselves a beautiful house in a peaceful valley. One day, after a picnic, the family decide to take a leisurely ride along the river, but are horrified to see sick and injured animals suffering from the effects of pollution. Over time, more and more animals come to Barbapapa for help. He decides that the only way to teach the humans a lesson is to take the animals to a new, green planet where they will be safe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331381</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Convertible SpaceshipPlayground!|author=Claire Philip and Belinda GallagherVictoria Thompson

|summary=When Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a bookbig grin on her face. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''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 ''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 ''book''? ) When it is also a playmat and also a spaceshipWell, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. With ‘Convertible Spaceship’ you get There are sequins, glittered paper and all three; a book sorts of other things in her pocket, but that folds out into a playmat or into a spaceship's not what she wants Dad to guess. Can I hear the excitement from here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782094970</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mr Monkey and the Birthday Party (Early Reader)Innosanto Nagara|authortitle=Linda Chapman and Sam HearnM is for Movement

|summary=What Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a young girl to do? story about social change. Anya wants to go Dealing with the rest of her primary school class to a swimming partysome difficult issues, but she's worried of being laughed at for staying at toddlers' depthsuch as political corruption and nepotism, for she the book is not a confident swimmerneither boring nor preachy. As luck would have itIt educates gently, she has been picked to take home the class 'pet'with vibrant, the cuddly toy called Mr Monkey, for the weekchallenging illustrations, and just as luck would have itportrays how social movements need people who will try, he's actually a secretly magical beingeven when it seems that they will fail. But could even he get Anya out of her jam and make The message is a Cinderella moment come true?positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009850</amazonuk>1609809351

{{Frontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is 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 negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without 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 ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=Chocolate Porridge (Early Reader)Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Margaret Mahy Peter Lynas and Terry MilneCharlie Roberts

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Young Timothy has been drummed You're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the title page, you'll find out of his motherwhat the book's called and that it's kitchen been written by her and his sisters, so he cannot join in with their bakingPeter Lynas. Instead he goes Then we move on to who has done the garden illustration - and devises chocolate porridge – there's a lot of mud, plus some other ingredientsgap. ''You'' are going to put your name there. But only when heIt's happy with his craft does he begin ''your'' responsibility to realise that not even calling mud chocolate porridge makes it edibleprovide the pictures for this book about one of the largest creatures ever to roam the earth. Oh what There's some help available, but your name is a boy on the title page - and you have work to do?!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1609809335|title=The Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=2|genre=Emerging Readers |amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1444011308</amazonuk>One day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don't even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared. People took against it, and if they weren't shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it. Can something be done about it, though?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=Fleatectives: Case of Tadcaster and the Stolen NectarBullies|author=Jonny ZuckerRichard Rutherford

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Someone has been stealing all the nectarIn 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. The bees are Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in a buzz! the nineteen seventies. One hive Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is blaming another hive bullying and although the Sheriff is investigating, Buzz two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Itch decide to take Mary but for other children who gather in the case on themselves to try and figure out what exactly is going onplayground. How will they manage to figure out Tim's probably about ten - just at the truth of whatstage where he's happened? And will they manage beginning to do it without being crushed feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to death by the bees?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136941</amazonuk>deal with bullies.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B01N0OZQOD|title=The Dragon's DentistNickerbacher|author=Terry John McLayBarto|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Harry would like to be a knight. It seems like everyone else in Nickerbacher is doing his family is a knightdragonly duty as all dragons do. Nobody takes Harry very seriously though because Harry That dragonly duty is quite small, of course, princess-guarding. HeThat's very determined, howeverwhat dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and so he decides that he will go she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on a mission to prove his worth as a knight''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The mission that Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he sets himself is wants to catch be a dragon!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011049</amazonuk>stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=A Walk In ParisRory Branagan Detective|author=Salvatore RubbinoAndrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Welcome to the City of Lights! Come join Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's a little girl detective and her grandad as they spend he has a magical day exploring the sights 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 Parisideas. Follow them This is just as they see the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. Sit down with them in the bistro well as they tuck into lunch, soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and then look longingly alongside them as they gaze is at the delicious treats risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the window of the pâtisserietruth and save a life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406341525</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192758748|title=Mi and Museum CityHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Linda SarahClare Elsom|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Mi lives in Museum CityWhen Harriet, but he is lonely aged seven and boreda 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't believe her eyes. Most The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the museums there are dull 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't resist following and grey quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a new – and uninterestingmore suitable – home. It is only when he meets Yu one day His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that he starts there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to have funthe museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and he wonders if the mayor will let them open up their ownlibrary all cause mayhem. Luckily, newhowever, fun museum?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912282</amazonuk>a competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Saulles_Bee|title=Old Possum's Book Bee Boy: Clash of Practical Catsthe Killer Queens|author=T S Eliot and Rebecca Ashdown (Illustrator)Tony De Saulles

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers |summary=It has always struck me to be the very definition of disappointment to think you're going to study EliotYoung Mel's poetry at college or university, only to find it is some errant dross like 'The Four Quartets'. His book of Cats poems is in the strictest of verse, it's bursting with levity, it's surely great fun to share – what's not to prefer here? If I were you, I'd just ignore what kind of show these pages once inspired, friend has left and turn or return to them, Prufrock be damned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571311865</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Squishy McFluff: the Invisible Cat!|author=Pip Jones|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Meet Ava. She's a girl of great imagination and a big heart, who brings an invisible cat home beehive is now his to mum one day, who humours Ava by feeding it invisible food and letting the two bondlook after. But when mess gets madeUnfortunately, Mel lives in a tower block and mistakes about the house happen, Ava declares innocence, and blames it not all on the cat – and you'd be surprised how many accidents can be the result of having an invisible kitten indoors…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302505</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A Book his neighbours agree that it is a Book|author=Jenny Bornholdt and Sarah Wilkins|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Yes, children – adults lie to you. Sometimes, even in the titles of the books they make for you, like this one. A book is a door, it's great for boredom, it's fine correct place for time up a tree, or in the bath (just not the shower)hive. It Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can be borrowed, and then lent if it's a great one you enjoyed. It's certainly never the case that a book is just become a book, as the title of this book would have you believebee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579920</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=I am Cat (mini edition)|author=Jackie Morris|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=You're always supposed Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to tell when the character but this marks a dog is dreaming – the twitching limbs new launch and jerking joints allegedly proving the sleeping Fido a new series. This is imagining himself on the chase. Cats are, as always, not just a bit more secretive, book but [[:Category:Jackie Morris|Jackie Morris]] offers evidence here that they are more or less thinking the same thing – even the domestic moggy, curled up a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and closed in, is picturing a different self – one sleeking through snows, relaxing on push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what the savannah or alertly moving through its territory. It's a very pleasant view into author is trying to achieve in real life; the mindset power of catsthe imagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805078</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Read|title=Choosing CrumbleI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross (Illustrator)Dr Seuss

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Terri- Lee wants a dog. She is positive ''The more that a dog will be the perfect pet for her and you read,''<br>''The more things you will settle for nothing elseknow. When Terri-Lee and her mum visit the pet shop together they think ''<br>''The more that they will be choosing a dog however, Crumbleyou learn, the dog, has very different ideas. He wants to be sure that his prospective owner is the perfect match for him and has a few questions of his own. Will Terri- Lee be able to convince Crumble that she should be his owner?|amazonuk=''<amazonuk>1849395284</amazonukbr>}}''The more places you'll go.''

{{newreview|title=The Christmas Present (Hello Kitty and Friends)|author=Linda Chapman and Michelle Misra|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Hello Kitty and her friends have This is a series of books but you don’t need to know about their previous adventures to enjoy classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one. There’s a helpful illustration that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of the whole gang at the beginningmy children's school library! The book is very silly, including Grandpa and Grandma who don’t feature in these two storiesas Dr Seuss always is, and you but is also get a good rhyming ode to see all the friends with their mixed up names: Hello Kitty’s twin is Mimmy (why not Hi Mimmy?!) and then there’s Tammy, Fifi and the slightly odd Dear Danieljoys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007515812</amazonuk>

 {{newreview<!-- 13/12 -->Frontpage|isbn=Neal_Words|authortitle=Dom Conlon Words and Carl PughYour Heart|titleauthor=Tommy Tickletail: A Tall TaleKate Jane Neal

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Sophie Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and Sam are on stones is actually a midnight missionlot of piffle. It's In a long time since supper and they're both hungry. Obviously world where we all have hearts, we should have a trip heart that what we say to see what's in the fridge (they've got high expectations) other people is essential but there are dangers to overcomepositive. It's darkWe can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, and bit by bit the world can be a better place. They really And hang the 'no, after you'shouldnattitude some people would have in response. There, I't'' be raiding ve given the fridge and - most frightening entire plot of all - therethis book away in my summary, but that's Tommy Tickletail who has a body twelve feet long and sleeps under the kitchen tablenot really an issue. They've got to get to the fridge without waking the monster - or who knows what the consequences will be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00H53FGMM</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tavares_Red|authortitle=Dom Conlon Red and Nicola AndersonLulu|titleauthor=I Am A Giant (Tiny the Giant)Matt Tavares

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Tiny knew that he was a giantMeet Red and Lulu. In fact you couldnThey't help thinking that he was re a little bit cross about the fact that he had to keep telling people. He'd shake his fists committed couple of cardinals and roar '''I AM A GIANT''they have lived for some time in someone's garden, safely in an evergreen tree. Proof was important, of course and the first step was It seems to measure his shadowthem that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which he did when tells the sun was low - but it wasn't tree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one year, just one step. It was many and his shadow still ran on ahead as the seasons turn for the cold of him. Off he went to tell the worldwinter, but the mountains weretree vanishes, well, dismissive and the tall trees whispered about it amongst themselves before they rejected what he had to say. The wind didn't agree either - and went on and on about it until Tiny ran away to the sea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00H3PYDC6</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dickens_Search|title=The Secret Staircase (Brambly Hedge)Search and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Jill BarklemCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Primrose and Wilfred have Recently I got to applaud a poem to rehearse as part of book that branched away from the mouse communityWhere's midwinter celebrationsWally? style volume, and taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Well, but nowhere it seems tweaking the form is going to practicebe a big thing, until they are shunted up for this book tries yet another different approach – to an atticteach us about a fictional story. But once there chance discoveries lead them They've started at the deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to find it at a new world that they could hardly have imagined – luxurious rooms carved into certain time of the year for its ageless lesson. But does the upper reaches rich content of the oak treeDickens, even at his most populist, where nobody has gone for years…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0001840851</amazonuk>survive this quirky variation?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Eggs|title=Alice Through the Looking GlassScrambled Eggs Super|author=Emma Chichester ClarkDr Seuss

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=As a child, I found the Alice stories weird and a bit darkPeter T. Helena Bonham Carter in book formHooper doesn't mean to show off, perhapsbut he is ''very'' good at cooking. Not for everyone, no matter how many times the word Some would say he is ''ClassicThe Best'' was bandied aroundcapital T, identifying them as a Very Good Thing capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that everyone should have read. If this was your experience of the original Lewis Carroll's quite an easy dish, then put those thoughts one with which it's a little hard to showcase one side for a moment and let me tell you about this book's prowess, but not so. For Peter T. It’s Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of the original storyegg itself, re-told and re-illustrated, and what a difference it makeshe will go out of his way to procure the best of the best from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007425082</amazonuk>