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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Bond Nigel Baines|title=A Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261}}{{Frontpage|author=Jane Lightbourne|title= My Cat Called Red|rating= 4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the freckles that go along with it. He's been bullied and mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. 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 R W Alleyis taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|isbn= 1838216812}}{{Frontpage|author=Francesca Simon and Steve May|title=Paddington At The PalaceTwo Terrible Vikings|rating=54

|summary=I’m not someone In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who bangs on about being proud are eager to be British. I find it odd that people the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can seem so fulfilled based on the fact stop their mad marauding, as they were born in cause havoc at a certain nation. And anyway I’d much rather be birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a citizen of the world. But every so often I come across a booktroll, typically aimed at little ones, that does bring me out in and undertake a touch grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds of national pride. London is the obvious choicemischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and in cases like [[The Queen's Hat by Steve Antony]] it can result in frightfully good bookstheir crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007104405</amazonuk>0571349498

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbro Lindgren and Eva Eriksson1838593187|title=Max's WagonGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson|rating=4.5

|summary=Max had a wagon and he began putting his treasures into itTilly is excited. First it was his bear, then She's just come dashing out of the dogclassroom, who was asleep on the chair pigtails flapping behind her and looking decidedly disinterested in what was going a big grin on, but he played his parther face. Then it was MaxDad's ball come to collect her and her brother and the contents begin to seem just a little he ''precarioushas'' and were even more so when Max's car was added to try to guess what she found in the pileplayground today, but bear sat astride Dog and Max pushed the wagon whilst holding the car on top of the ball with the otheralthough she concedes that he will never guess. Then he added his cookie and Dog began Dad wants to look just the tiniest bit know how school was, but ''obviously'distracted'that' and bear fell outs not important. Dog got bear and brought him back and he did the same when the car and the ball fell off the wagon Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (in the literal sense of the phraseIsn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. Then the cookie fell out..There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570014</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett and Matthew MyersInnosanto Nagara|title=Battle BunnyM is for Movement|rating=34

|summary=Young children do Set in Indonesia, in the not always have the best poker face so when they are given too distant past, this is a gift they don’t really wantstory about social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, they may not spare your feelingsthe book is neither boring nor preachy. The little boy It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and it portrays how social movements need people who received Birthday Bunny was seriously unimpressedwill try, so much so even when it seems that he has taken out his pencils and rewritten the storythey will fail. Gone The message is the tale of a rabbit trying to work out if any of his animal friends positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have remembered his birthday and instead we get an epic battle of bunny versus the animal kingdompower to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140636018X</amazonuk>1609809351

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Wright (editor) and Mique Moriuchi (illustrator)1949471004|title=My VillageDog on a Log Chapter Books: Rhymes from Around the WorldStep 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|summary=Poor George. He knows What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that he is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not popular but when even his own Grandad doesnbe the ones you't want to stay around for his birthday party he realises that things ve been working on and encountering words which are even worse just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than he thoughta child without that problem. However this was before he discovered 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 contents of mix. You need a story which engages the present from his Grandad young mind and experienced you need stages which progress steadily through the dramatic impact on his life an aged bottle of aftershave would bringlearning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Although George tries Reading - and ''learning'' to think himself invisible in order to cope today he is not invisibleread - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''. In fact he is not only visible but desirable too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124248</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kelly L Bingham and Paul O Zelinsky099334030X|title=Circle, Square, MooseCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=If you have children you have no doubt read loads You're going to get a hint of books what this book's about shapes; very quickly. When you see the circletitle page, you'll find out what the square, book's called and that it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the dodecahedronillustration - and there's a gap. They ''You'' are all variations of going to put your name there. It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the same things – pictures for this wheel is round like a circle, this bread reminds me book about one of a square, what on the largest creatures ever to roam the earth is a dodecahedron? . Why not spice the book up by throwing in a mooseThere's some help available, but not just any moose. This your name is a moose that brings chaos on the title page - and you have work to everything he touches and must be chased from the bookdo!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441860</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross1609809335|title=Rita's RhinoThe Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=52|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Rita really wants One day a petgiant lizard appears in the city. We don't even get told how it arrived, but when she asks her Mum for one she isn’t so keenit certainly appeared. They’re smelly and greedy and take lots of hard work. Eventually she relents People took against it, and gives Rita if they weren't shrugging it off as a jar with a flea in hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, his name is Haroldthey wanted something done about it. Obviously Can something be done about it, Rita isn’t happy with this so she decides to take matters into her own hands. What will she do, and how will she manage to hide a Rhino from her pet-fearing motherthough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440252</amazonuk>

  {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=The Illustrated Old PossumTadcaster and the Bullies|author=T S Eliot and Nicolas BentleyRichard Rutherford

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers |summary=This title is clearly of importance In some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to the house of Faberenjoy themselves. To this day their puff mentions it They flew kites and went sledging if there was one of their first childrenssnow around. Tim and Mary' books, after s great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the author sent his publishernineteen seventies. Something which hasn's sont changed, his godsonunfortunately, some writings based on jellicle cats is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and some of their scrapesMary but for other children who gather in the playground. ItTim's clearly a book thatprobably about ten - just at the stage where he's important beginning to Andrew Lloyd Webberfeel responsible for his younger sister, toowho's two years younger than him, but we'll gloss speedily over that. Ithe's a book that was important not yet at the stage where he knows how to me as well – I certainly had a copy, a thin, barely illustrated, old-fashioned style paperback of it once I had seen the musical. And deal with the excellent writing here and the ability of it to delight so many people of so many ages, it has the power to be important to a future generationbullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Nonsense Limericks (Faber Children's Classics)|author=Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)Frontpage|ratingisbn=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=There was a young man whose critique<br>Of this book was submitted one week<br>When they asked 'Was it fine?'<br>He said 'No denyin' –<br>'There's very little here they could tweak!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewB01N0OZQOD|title=Katie's London ChristmasNickerbacher|author=James MayhewTerry John Barto

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=We have never been strict about Christmas in our houseNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. It's usually my husband who starts itThat dragonly duty is, with a carol or two during the summer! It's hard to resist that Christmas urge if you're a die-hard fan of the season! I have a friend who keeps all her Christmas related stories safely in a cupboardcourse, brought out in a special basket only during the season itselfprincess-guarding. WeThat's what dragons are for, meanwhile, have Christmas stories after all year round because, honestly, who doesn. But Gwendolyn isn't like a bit of Father Christmas magic now any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and then?! Anyway, this she is all to say that here much less interested in fairy tales than she is a Christmas story that some purists will tuck away until Christmas Eve but we have quite happily read during Halloween! Katie is backin watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, and heading back to London, but this time sheit's on his favourite TV show because he wants to be a mission to help Father Christmasstand-up comedian himself.He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326418</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=Good Dog Lion (Little Gems)Rory Branagan Detective|author=Alexander McCall SmithAndrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=Being Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a firm fan of Alexander McCall Smithnormal kid. He's novels for adults, I wasna detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't surprised know where to find that I thoroughly enjoyed this children's story. Written with the same gentle understanding of human naturestart but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and so very deftly told, I read this story with a great deal he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of pleasureideas. Although the story behind TimoThis is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's life is rather sad, with his father leaving him dad has been poisoned and his mother when Timo is only young, and his mother then struggling to find enough money to raise both at risk of them, it never descends into tragedy dying but remains positive and upbeatno-one else will believe he's in danger. It's a story of strength, up to Rory and bravery, Cassidy to uncover the truth and I'm not just talking about Timo and his mothersave a life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123721</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Plenderleith0192758748|title=The Bonkers BananaHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Father Christmas has When Harriet, aged seven and a problem. Because the house had no chimney he had quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to use his magic dust practise 'Going to shrink himself down so that he could slip into the house through Park on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't believe her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the keyholeThird (or Horace for short) starts to move. All went well until the very tiny Santa bumped into a fruit bowl containing just one banana and all He not only moves but stamps his magic dust flew up foot, shouts something that would get him in the air - and landed on the banana. The banana was rather pleased - brought to life he jumped up serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and climbs down and began dancing and singing - but Father Christmas was distraughtfrom his pillar. Without the magic dust he couldnUnderstandably Harriet can't ride his sleigh resist following and deliver quickly finds herself dragged all around the presentstown as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. Eventually His sights are firmly set on the banana calmed down sufficiently to realise that Santa had a problem Mayor's mansion and the only way out of it was for banana , therefore, falls to fly Santa Harriet to the moon so persuade him that he could get more magic dustthere must be a better alternative. Yes - I know - itSadly, Horace's bonkersvisits to the museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613878</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Saulles_Bee|title=The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other StoriesBee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Sylvia Plath and David RobertsTony De Saulles

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=IYoung Mel've said it before and I'll say it again, that you should always approach classical authors through their least typical, shortest and more individual works – you won't gain much insight perhaps into why they were famous, but you will find more entertainment s friend has left and greater pleasures by staying outside the canonbeehive is now his to look after. And the lovely people at Faber Unfortunately, Mel lives in a tower block and Faber have a case in point – rather than plough through serious dross from Eliot, why not stick to [[The Illustrated Old Possum by T S Eliot and Nicolas Bentley]]? And with Sylvia Plath I cannot think all of his neighbours agree that it is the correct place for a hive. Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a better place to start with her oeuvre than with these snappy and delightful pagesbee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314643</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Pigsticks Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and Harold there are online cartoons devoted to the character but this marks a new launch and the Tuptown Thief|author=Alex Milway|rating=3a new series.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Problems are afoot in Tuptown, leading up the annual Butterfly Ball – bit by bit the whole thing This is being stolen. Harold has made not just a special statue for the occasion, book but has awoken a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to find it missing, get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what the berries for the catering have vanished – and someone's even run off with the butterflies. It's up author is trying to our heroes Harold (achieve in real life; the hamster) and Pigsticks (the, er, pig) to don their stereotypical detective outfits and save power of the dayimagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346039</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Read|title=The Witch DogI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Margaret Mahy and Sam UsherDr Seuss

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Every witch needs a cat. Everyone knows ''The more that. But when we meet Mrs Roseyou read, she’s not really a witch. She’s a mum whose children have left home, and now she’s finding herself with a bit of time on her hands. Her husband suggests she join him with his hobby of Bowls, but that’s a bit boring, thinks Mrs Rose, so instead she decides to do an evening class. In how to become a witch.|amazonuk=''<amazonukbr>1444011340''The more things you will know.''</amazonukbr>}} {{newreview|title=It's Snow Day|author=Richard Curtis and Rebecca Cobb|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=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 of our back gardens and rooftops turned white. This is a book all about 'The more thatyou learn, and the only two people who turn up at school on this particular snow day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723288925''</amazonukbr>}}''The more places you'll go.''

{{newreview|title=Horrid Henry's Haunted House|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Horrid Henry This is a character I remember vaguely in passingclassic Dr Seuss quote from this book, a bit like ''Just William''. I knew the books existed and regularly saw them in the children’s room of the library, but I didn’t bother to pick them up. The clue was in the name. And one that I was painstakingly stickered onto the sort wall of girl who didn’t want stories about nasty, horrible boys. Having read my first Horrid Henry story now, though, I can let you in on a little secret. He’s actually quite a funny boy and not the naughty thing his nickname would suggest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009079</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)|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 shechildren's trying to sing to find a successor. school library! Mergichans do not have it all their own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Cat, the Dog, Little 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, book is very hardsilly, 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 as Dr Seuss always 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=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Miss Sylvie but is also a dance teacher good rhyming ode to the many girls and boys in her town. One day, a little girl called Isabelle walks through her door and says she wants to start ballet, so she joins the Saturday class. As months and then years pass, some friends come and go, and others try different forms joys of dancing, but only Isabelle sticks with balletreading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743313314</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Three Little MagiciansNeal_Words|authortitle=Georgie Adams Words and Emily Bolam|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The ''Three Little Magicians'' are just that, a group of young friends who like magic and are pretty good at it, but they're nothing compared to the likes of their neighbour and magician extraordinaire, Mr Marzipan. When a mishap takes him out 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011456</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewYour Heart|author=Frances Mackay|title=Always Last (On the Ball)Kate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Ben was always last. Last to the bathroom in the morningTrolling, bullying, last to breakfastcyber-shaming, last into school... You get the picture. These didn't worry him overly much but Benwhatever-it's a football enthusiast - and he was always last to be picked when the captains were choosing teams. Even called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the girls were picked before him adage about sticks and there was always stones is actually a bit lot of grumbling when someone had piffle. In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to take him onto their sideother people is positive. But then an anonymous friend gave him some advice in a letter We can examine our world and although Ben couldn't see how the sound it could 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. And hang the 'no, after you'possiblyattitude some people would have in response. There, I've given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, but that' work, he decided to give it a trys not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781276978</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tavares_Red|title=Winnie's Big Bad RobotRed and Lulu|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky PaulMatt Tavares

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Winnie the Witch is something 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 institution evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home in children’s literature these daysa lovely song, and with good reasonwhich tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. From But one year, just as the very first book in seasons turn for the series Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul managed to capture a wonderful sense cold of funwinter, mischief and adventure. This addition to the series is no exception.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738720</amazonuk>tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title=Zanib Mian Search and Laura Ewing FerrerFind A Christmas Carol|titleauthor=Never too SmallCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=There was once Recently I got to applaud a young boy who didnbook that branched away from the Where't try to do things because he felt that he was too smalls Wally? style volume, but he was lucky. He had and taught the explorer about a good friend and that friend wrote him non-fiction subject as they went a letter -searching. Well, it seems tweaking the form is going to tell him that people are never too small, or too be a bigthing, or too old for this book tries yet another different approach – to try something new. There was also teach us about a little girl and she was afraid of the darkfictional story. It was her brother who wrote her a letter to tell her that he would always be there for her. There was the boy who wouldnThey't try new things to eat, ve started at the young girl who was afraid of heightsdeep end, with a boy who was terrified about going book hastening towards being two centuries old, and one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to school and it at a girl who was frightened certain time of spidersthe year for its ageless lesson. They all had that special someone who took But does the time to write them the letter which gave them the confidence to overcome their fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956419658</amazonuk>rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross and Wendy FinneySeuss_Eggs|title=What's My Name? (The Not So Little Princess)Scrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=NowPeter T. Hooper doesn't mean to show off, I do hope that what Ibut he is ''very'm about to tell you won't be too upsettinggood at cooking. Some would say he is ''The Little Princess Best'' capital T, capital B. And his signature dish is growing up and scrambled eggs. You might think that's quite an easy dish, one with which it's causing a problem in the palace. You see the little princess has always been known ashard to showcase one's prowess, wellbut not so. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the Little Princess. Whilst choice of the Queen was helping to make cucumber sandwiches the King was striding up egg itself, and down, wearing the carpet he will go out and making of his shoes squeak. He had a problem - a big problem. Now that the little princess was growing up was it really appropriate way to continue calling her procure the Little Princess? There was an open secret in best of the palace: everyone knew the little princess's ''real'' name - but no one was prepared to tell her what it wasbest from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395799</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Wolfman|author=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 Move on the loose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>}}to [[Newest Entertainment Reviews]]