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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul ThurlbyNigel Baines|title= NY is for New YorkA Tricky Kind of Magic|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Long gone are Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the days when children didngreat Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't travelquite know who to be, and picture books had or how to be about animals. And while your pre-schoolers might not be planning solo trips to the States any time soon, itwhen his dad's never too early prop rabbit starts talking to get them and older siblings interested in other places and other cultures. 'him, he 'NY is for New York'really' is a themed alphabet book, based around the city that never sleeps, and it's chock full of facts and figures about a city I love, teaching me many new things I didndoesn't know about a place Iwhat'm familiar with from visits and TV shows and many, many Manhattan books.s going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444930311</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr SeussJane Lightbourne|title=Dr Seuss: A Classic TreasuryMy Cat Called Red|rating=5 4

|summary=Sitting on my shelf is well thumbed bookRobin has red hair. I have had He hates it since a child , and even to this day pick the freckles that go along with it up once in a while and read its contents. What is this tome? A slice of classic childrenHe's literature that taught me all about the absurd been bullied and that words could be played withmocked at school because of it. This was not ''Wind in the WillowsGinger Minger! Carrots!'' or Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin'Swiss Family Robinsons only misery in life. He'', my classic is s already lost his dad to a Dr Seuss Omnibus that contained four of mountaineering accident when his booksmum gets ill and is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007234260</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex T SmithFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title=Santa ClaudeTwo Terrible Vikings|rating=54|genre=For Sharing Emerging Readers|summary=Ah ClaudeIn a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! He is such an endearing little dog. He's back on an adventure with Sir Bobblysock and this time it is Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a Christmas adventure. There are baubles and trees and carols and reindeer andbirthday party, of coursechaos whilst tracking a troll, there's troubleand undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! For who else but Claude would accidentally handcuff Santa They get up to an armchair on Christmas Eveall kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and then need to deliver all the presents himself?their crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444926497</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Benji Davies1838593187|title= The Storm Whale in Winter|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= The Storm Whale Guess What I Found in Winter is a sequel to the highly popular The Storm Whale. Noi's father embarks on one last fishing trip before the Arctic Winter sets in. All alone, with his six cats, Noi patiently waits for his father's return. As night sets and the sea begins to freeze, Noi starts to worry and believes he can see his Dad's boat from his bedroom window. Full of courage, he sets off out in the snow to find his Dad. Getting lost in the blizzard, Noi is in need of help which comes in the form of his old friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147111998X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPlayground!|author= Jill Tomlinson and Paul Howard|title= The Owl Who Was Afraid of the DarkVictoria Thompson|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= If you think you know everything about owls, think again. Even the basic things that you THINK are a given may turn out to be wrong. Plop is an adorable 8 week old baby owl and he has the feathers and the beak and the all-around owl look, with two crucial differences: he's not very good at flying, and he's afraid of the dark. Which, for a nocturnal creature, is a bit of a problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281847</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Beatrix Potter and Quentin Blake|title=The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots|rating=4

|summary=At night a seriousTilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, well-behaved pigtails flapping behind her and (leta big grin on her face. Dad's be honest) rather come to collect her and her brother and he ''superiorhas'' young black cat goes out huntingto try to guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. WellDad wants to know how school was, if webut 're being 'obviously'totally'' honest, therethat's a little bit of poaching in there toonot important. By day she is Miss Catherine St Quintin, although Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her owner calls her Kitty. scrap box? Other cats call her (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''Qbook''?) Well, or ''Squintums''actually, but they Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are very common cats sequins, glittered paper and Kittyall sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's owner would have been scandalised had she known that there was an acquaintance. The reaction would have been even stronger had not what she known that Miss Kitty went out in a gentleman's Norfolk jacket and fur-lined boots. With a gunwants Dad to guess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247594</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allan PlenderleithInnosanto Nagara|title=The Snowman Strikes BackM is for Movement

|summary=It's Set in Indonesia, in the not easy being too distant past, this is a snowman, you know - particularly when you are made by Ernest Green-Bogle, who delights in tormenting youstory about social change. Sometimes he'd make you upside down or looking like a pig (it's just plain ''undignified''Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, you know). That's not the worst of itbook is neither boring nor preachy. He has been known to attack snowman It educates gently, with a hairdryervibrant, challenging illustrations, feed his carrot nose to a rabbit and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even encase him in a block of icewhen it seems that they will fail. The snow clown was ''not'' funny and the snow ice cream cone even less so. But message is a positive one day everything changed when Ernest came home and there was a big boy with him. Ernest had a black eye and ; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the big boy was threatening himpower to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841613932</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Seuss1949471004|title=The LoraxDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=54|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary= It seemed What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to me achieve the wonder that environmentalism was invented sometime is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the early 90sbook 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. All of You need a sudden my schooling was about Greenhouse gases story which engages the young mind and how we you need stages which progress steadily through the children have the future in our handslearning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Could this Generation X solve the problems caused by Generations AReading -W? I doubt it because if you look back to 1971 and the publishing of ''The Loraxlearning'', you will see that for decades before people like Dr Seuss have been trying to teach the kids to think greenread - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007455933</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Puckett and Tor Freeman099334030X|title=Colin the Cart Horse|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Meet Colin. He's a perfectly regular cart horse, carrying Can You Draw the crops, tools and children around the farm. He's happy with a life of labour, resting after his shift is done about three every afternoon, and a life of hay – that is, however, until he wonders what his fellow farm animals are eating. What could be the consequence of him trying out every other farm food on the marketDragosaur?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315437</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrea Beaty Peter Lynas and David Charlie Roberts|title= Ada Twist, Scientist|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The first thing you must know about Ada Marie is the way she said nothing until the day she was three. Now that's a way to pique your interest from the start. After all what sort of child does not speak until she turns three? In this case it's a very smart little girl.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721372</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dr Seuss|title=Horton Hears a Who

|genre=Emerging ReadersCrafts|summary=Some books are classics and they prove this by never You're going out to get a hint of printwhat this book's about very quickly. Do When you want see the title page, you'll find out what the book's called and that it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to pick up who has done the illustration - and there's a copy of a Dr Seuss novel? gap. The chances ''You'' are that you will be able going to find a brand new one in any book shopput your name there. However, do these tales still stand It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the test pictures for this book about one of time? Can Horton’s adventures with the Whos remain largest creatures ever to roam the wonderful story it was earth. There's some help available, but your name is on the day it was written?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007455941</amazonuk>title page - and you have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson1609809335|title= Life According to DaniThe Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=52|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Dani – and if you haven't throughout [[:Category:Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|One day a giant lizard appears in the three previous books]] then you certainly shouldcity. Her life has been up and down, considering sheWe don's only just finished the first year of primary schoolt even get told how it arrived, but at the moment it's on the up, with caveatscertainly appeared. ShePeople took against it, and if they weren's in an idyllic place – staying with the best friend imaginable for the entire summer holidays, on what might t shrugging it off as well be a private island, and in constant contact with her father. The caveats concern what happened in [[When I Am Happiest hallucination brought on by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|book three]] and the fact that her father has been run overtiredness just as they fled it, but at least he calls every night at teatimethey wanted something done about it. Until, that isCan something be done about it, the night that he doesn't…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570715</amazonuk>though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sharon Rentta1789016320|title=A Day at Tadcaster and the Animal Post OfficeBullies|author=Richard Rutherford|rating=34|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Some people love their work and I have In some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to say that I enjoy mine, but give me the option of winning the Euro Millions themselves. They flew kites and spending the rest of my days drinking Pina Coladas on a superyacht, or the office, and I choose the beachwent sledging if there was snow around. For children there Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is sometimes a glamour that emanates from probably set in the working week; what tales of majesty can Bob the Builder tell me? nineteen seventies. The fact Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is that work can be dull at times bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and repetitive, Mary but a book written for other children who gather in the playground. Tim's probably about gainful employment should make it sound fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407162543</amazonuk>ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bullies.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara Vulliamy B01N0OZQOD|title=Dotty Detective Nickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Dorothy Constance Mae Louise, otherwise known Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as Dot, has just moved house and has had to change schoolsall dragons do. Luckily she soon finds a friendThat dragonly duty is, Beansof course, and together they form the topprincess-secret guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn'Join t any princess. She finds the Dots Detectiveswhole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Both Dot and Beans are huge fans of the Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV programme show because he wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don'Fred Fantastic – Ace t always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=Rory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. TheyHe've watched every episode s a detective and memorised all Fredhe has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn's techniquest know where to start but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. It's This is just as well as they have because their classmate Laura soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has hatched a plot to prevent shy Amy singing been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in the talent contest and itdanger. It's up to Dot Rory and Beans Cassidy to uncover the plantruth and save a life. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008132496</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elli Woollard 0192758748|title=The Secret Pirate (Swashbuckle Lil: The Secret Pirate) Horace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom

|genre= Emerging Readers |summary= School girl Lil is When Harriet, aged seven and a secret pirate. quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park on Her classmates think sheOwn's an ordinary girl and assume they're just imagining things when they hear (i.e. with her bag squawk. They donGrandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't know that's where she keeps believe her parrot eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (whose name is Carrotor Horace for short)starts to move. Her teacherHe not only moves but stamps his foot, Miss Lubber, thinks Lilshouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's naughty mum, and is unaware that Lil's really trying to save the teacher climbs down from being kidnapped by the wicked pirate, Stinkbeardhis pillar. But Lil doesnUnderstandably Harriet can't mind because she knows resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the truth town as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – shehome. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a bold and brave pirate better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to the museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all her adventures are true (at least to her)cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509808825</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr SeussSaulles_Bee|title=Oh, Bee Boy: Clash of the Places You'll GoKiller Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Young Mel''Ohs friend has left and the beehive is now his to look after. Unfortunately, The Places You'll Go'' Mel lives in a tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that it is the classic Dr Seuss tale correct place for a hive. Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee.}}{{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 man's journey through defiant act of creativity and has a bizarre landworld of magic and imagination opened up for him. The book takes you on Will is the new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the role of protector to a trip into magical world starts with the imagination of an author who was never shy repulsion of a dangerous invasion. Joshua Davidson has written about the bizarre. You will sail high into Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the sky in character but this marks a hot air balloon new launch and walk through strange forests with trees that you have never seena new series. One thing This is for sure, this will not be just a dull outing book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and if you are new a push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what the author is trying to Dr Seuss, one you may never forgetachieve in real life; the power of the imagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008122113</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pip JonesSeuss_Read|title=Squishy McFluff: Seaside Rescue! I Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss

|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse Emerging Readers |summary= Ava and her invisible cat – Squishy McFluff – are off to the seaside for their latest adventure together. They have great fun digging in the sand towards Australia and sitting on the beach eating ice cream. (Although the adults who fall in their hole and the ice cream man may not share their enthusiasm.) Everything is purr-fect until invisible cat Squishy decides to chase an invisible fish. Now it's up to Ava to stage a 'seaside rescueThe more that you read,''…<br>|amazonuk=''The more things you will know.''<amazonukbr>0571320686''The more that you learn,''</amazonukbr>}}''The more places you'll go.''{{newreview|author= Posy Simmonds|title= Lulu This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the Chocolate Wedding|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Unusual, quirky wall of my children's books can be hit or missschool library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but this one is also a definite hit. Told in cartoon strip form, with illustrations reminiscent of good rhyming ode to the brilliant ''Raymond Briggs'', it mixes the real world with dreamy fantasies that have a touch joys of [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Sir John Tenniel]] to themreading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344407X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Swapna Haddow Neal_Words|title=Dave Pigeon Words and Your Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal

|summary=The tag line on the cover of Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it''Dave Pigeon'' probably sums s-called-this story up. It's -week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about ''How to Deal with Bad Cats sticks and Keep (most stones is actually a lot of) Your Feathers''piffle. Or, if you want In a bit moreworld where we all have hearts, it's about two Pigeons – Dave and his trusty friend Skipper – who are unceremoniously attacked by we should have a cat while on a routine croissant heistheart that what we say to other people is positive. Dave's wing is injured so he We can examine our world and Skipper set out to get their own back at the vicious cat. They plan to evict Mean Cat from his home sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, and install themselves in his place with bit by bit the kind Human Lady and her enviable supply of biscuits. You won't world can be surprised that things don't go exactly to plan.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571323308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elys Dolan|title= Steven Seagull Action Hero|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Steven Seagull is a retired copbetter place. He used to patrol Beach City but those days are over. He was firedAnd hang the 'no, after you see, so that retirement wasn't entirely voluntaryattitude some people would have in response. Fired for being There, I've given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, but that'a renegade'' (quite a fancy word)s not really an issue. But a crime wave is underway and no one has been able to find the culprit. Can Steven be coaxed out of retirement to see if he can help?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael BondTavares_Red|title=Love from PaddingtonRed and Lulu|author=Matt Tavares

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Consider some of the more pertinent questions of literatureMeet Red and Lulu. Would things have been better if Rhett Butler ''didThey'' give re a damn? What would Jane Eyre committed couple of cardinals and they have done if the men with the truth hadnlived for some time in someone't made the church s garden, safely in an evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home in time? And, of course, how does a little bear with a fondness for marmalade actually turn up in Paddington Stationlovely song, which tells the tree thy leaves are so veryunchanging. But one year, very far from home? Well, while just as the seasons turn for the actual short stories may never have answered any cold of those questions, this work does – in amongst suggesting why bears don't play cricketwinter, and a host more. As a result it may have a very different structure to the original books of linked short storiestree vanishes, but it's just as wonderful and characterful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008164355</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title= Harriet Whitehorn Search and Becka MoorFind A Christmas Carol|titleauthor=Violet Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and the SmugglersLouise Pigott|rating= 43.5|genre= Confident Emerging Readers|summary= VioletRecently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's godfather has inherited Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about a sailing boat and invites Violet and her family and friends to join him on non-fiction subject as they went a sailing adventure in -searching. Well, it seems tweaking the Mediterranean. How could Violet possibly say no? This turns out not form is going to be quite as relaxing as you may imaginea big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a fictional story. It is not long 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 our heroine now, yet always has suspicions about people returning to it at a certain time of the captain of another boat and Violet's detective skills are needed againyear for its ageless lesson. With But does the help rich content of her friendsDickens, Rose and Arteven at his most populist, Violet is determined to solve the mystery. Will she be able to put a stop to a dangerous smuggling ringsurvive this quirky variation? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122638</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Schaefer and Brian RoodSeuss_Eggs|title=Star Wars The Force Awakens Illustrated StorybookScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=A long time ago in a galaxy farPeter T. Hooper doesn't mean to show off, far away… Well, ours, last year, really… A film came along that seriously impressed lots of mature audience members who had but he is ''very valid reasons to doubt it'' good at cooking. Some would say he is ''The Best'' capital T, and capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that made goggle-eyed popcorn munchers of a lot of youngsters. It had rollicking spacecraft dog-fights's quite an easy dish, one with which it had emotional revisits for well-loved characters, and had a sting in its tail that lasted at least 's a couple of days before being leaked little hard to the wider world. I know there is a DVD and Blu-Ray of it coming within days of me writing thisshowcase one's prowess, but I can only assume the reason the junior books about the film are being released now and not in time with its cinematic release is down to the chatter of the young and their rampant ability to say what they shouldn't – which includes what happens about eighteen pages before the end of the story hereso. For Peter T.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284021</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Katrina Pallant and Robert Ball|title=Star Wars Bounty Hunt: Lift the Flap|rating=3|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If you need to give credit to the Star Wars universe for anythingHooper, beyond sheer entertainment, it may be the way it what makes such great store of putting evil characters to his scrambled eggs so super is the fore. They're often the more memorable for being in tune with the dark side choice of the Forceegg itself, and even if we're not meaning full-on Darth Vader or the like we're talking about Hutts, bounty hunters and sheer nasty people as the focus of the stories. All in all the good guys he will win the day, but the baddies have a heck go out of a lot more attention given them than in some franchises. And such is the case here, where we have a small episode in the life of devious and dogged bounty hunter Bossk, who was in films 5 and 6 and the Clone Wars animation, but isn't generally well-known on the street. Or in the nursery school, for this is seriously geared at his way to procure the younger end best of the SW audiencebest from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405279907</amazonuk>

''Not very how'', he said. ''I don't seem Move on to have felt at all how for a long time.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281359</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Polly Faber and Clara Vulliamy |title= Mango and Bambang: Tapir All At Sea|rating= 5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Mango is a sensible, resourceful little girl who is good at a great many things including playing the clarinet and karate. Most importantly she is good at being kind, especially to her best friend, Bambang, a slightly timid Malaysian tapir. In this second book in the series Bambang learns to become a little braver. He has to really, as he becomes involved in a series of daring escapades involving dancing classes, a diamond ring, time spent behind bars and a particularly dangerous enemy. Throughout all of this Bambang is accompanied by his faithful friend, Mango. Sometimes, even the closest friendship may be taken for granted. Will Bambang remember what matters most?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140636147X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Entertainment Reviews]]