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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy LeeNigel Baines|title=Amy Lee and the Darkness HexA Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=34.5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Amy Lee wakes up from one of her usual dreams, where she combats an evil pirateCooper loves to perform magic tricks. You would think that His father was the only nastiness in her life – she lives in a lovely place in magician, and named Cooper after the Land of Lovegreat Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't have quite know who to worry about paying for steaks for her nine dogsbe, nor salmon for her cats. She can go or how to her favourite tree who will entertain her with a story, and she can go adventuring with her bottomless rucksack, and spend all day daydreaming of a wicked new house for her dogs… Until she sees threatening purple clouds over the forestsbe. And not even in this fantasy world do you want when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to see purple clouds…him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407172239</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary McKayJane Lightbourne|title=The Sticky WitchMy Cat Called Red|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Tom and Ellie's parents have set sail around the world on a raft made of rubbish! They tell the children that they will be gone for three years, but it will go by very quickly and they'll be safe and happy in the company of Aunt Tab. But who is this strange lady who applied for the job of caring for two wonderful children and their cat, Whiskers? She doesn't seem to be the kind guardian that the children need, and why is everything in her house so very, very sticky?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125996</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Escoffier and Kris Di Giacomo|title=Where's the BaBOOn?|rating=3.54

|summary=The title of a book can be an important indication 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 what you are about to get yourself intoit. ''Where's the BaBOOn?Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is a subtly different than not Robin''Wheres only misery in life. He's the Baboon?already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. She doesn'' Can you spot the surprising difference? One book is about finding the missing monkey, the other is waiting for the missing monkey to find yout come home again. Therefore, grab this book at your peril, knowing that at some point a Baboon will say BOO!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783444827</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy Croft Francesca Simon and Alan MarksSteve May|title=Tarzan and the BlackshirtsTwo Terrible Vikings|rating=4.5

|summary=1930s LondonIn a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and the streets Whack, who are rife with racial divides, eager to be the extent that people on one side of the roadvery worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday party, generally of one ethnic originchaos whilst tracking a troll, hate the residents from some other background living on the other. Our narrator Sam has no reason and undertake a grand journey to hate anyone, apart from those in the other gangs, like Alf. raid Bad Island with their friends! But when they latch on They get up to each other as best friendsall kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, despite Sam being Jewish and Alf having Irish bloodalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, it seems nothing can stop them. But in times like that – and, their crazy cast of course, in times like 2017 – that doesn't necessarily mean friendships can't be broken…friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910170399</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson1838593187|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=How do you create a house-elf like Dobby? Tilly is excited. WellShe's just come dashing out of the classroom, you have pigtails flapping behind her and a tennis ball big grin on a string, and point actors so they look at it, and say their lines to a pretty-much empty spaceher face. You then film Toby Jones doing the elfDad's lines, come to collect her and use that sound file her brother and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character he ''has'' to try to come from the digital realm guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but ''Harry Potterobviously'' filmsthat's not important. You can throw in Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a few puppetsscrap ''book''?) Well, and now and again a gifted small personactually, particularly at the end of film #7… Tilly did find exciting stuff. OrThere are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of courseother things in her pocket, you can get this gift set, and press the wooden parts out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsillbut that's not what she wants Dad to guess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul ThurlbyInnosanto Nagara|title= NY M is for New YorkMovement|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Long gone are the days when children didn't travel, and picture books had to be about animals. And while your pre-schoolers might not be planning solo trips to the States any time soon, it's never too early to get them and older siblings interested in other places and other cultures. ''NY is for New York'' 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 didn't know about a place I'm familiar with from visits and TV shows and many, many Manhattan books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444930311</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dr Seuss|title=Dr Seuss: A Classic Treasury|rating=5 4

|summary=Sitting on my shelf Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is well thumbed a story about social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, the bookis neither boring nor preachy. I have had It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and it since a child and portrays how social movements need people who will try, even to this day pick when it up once in a while and read its contentsseems that they will fail. What The message is this tome? A slice of classic children's literature a positive one; that taught me all about the absurd and that words could be played with. This was not ''Wind in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the Willows'' or 'Swiss Family Robinson'', my classic is a Dr Seuss Omnibus that contained four of his bookspower to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007234260</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T Smith1949471004|title=Santa ClaudeDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=54|genre=For Sharing Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Ah Claude! He What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is such an endearing little dog. reading? HeYou can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not be the ones you's back ve been working on an adventure with Sir Bobblysock and this time it is 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 Christmas adventurereasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. There are baubles You need a story which engages the young mind and trees and carols and reindeer you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support andgames wouldn't go amiss, of course, there's trouble! either. For who else but Claude would accidentally handcuff Santa to an armchair on Christmas Eve, Reading - and then need ''learning'' to deliver all the presents himself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926497</amazonuk>read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Benji Davies099334030X|title= The Storm Whale in WinterCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingCrafts|summary= The Storm Whale in Winter is You're going to get a sequel to the highly popular The Storm Whale. Noihint of what this book's father embarks on one last fishing trip before the Arctic Winter sets inabout very quickly. All aloneWhen you see the title page, with his six cats, Noi patiently waits for his fatheryou'll find out what the book's called and that it's returnbeen written by Peter Lynas. As night sets and Then we move on to who has done the sea begins to freeze, Noi starts to worry illustration - and believes he can see his Dadthere's boat from his bedroom windowa gap. ''You'' are going to put your name there. Full It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of courage, he sets off out in the snow largest creatures ever to find his Dadroam the earth. Getting lost in the blizzardThere's some help available, Noi but your name is in need of help which comes in on the form of his old friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147111998X</amazonuk>title page - and you have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jill Tomlinson and Paul Howard1609809335|title= The Owl Who Was Afraid of the DarkLizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating= 52|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= If you think you know everything about owls, think again. Even One day a giant lizard appears in the basic things that you THINK are a given may turn out to be wrongcity. Plop is an adorable 8 week old baby owl and he has the feathers and the beak and the all-around owl look We don't even get told how it arrived, with two crucial differences: he's not very good at flyingbut it certainly appeared. People took against it, and heif they weren's afraid of the dark. Which, for t shrugging it off as a nocturnal creaturehallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, is a bit of a problemthey wanted something done about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281847</amazonuk> Can something be done about it, though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1789016320|title=Beatrix Potter Tadcaster and Quentin Blakethe Bullies|titleauthor=The Tale of Kitty-in-BootsRichard Rutherford

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=At night In some ways it was a seriousgentler time: video games were around, well-behaved and (let's be honest) rather ''superior'' young black cat goes out huntingbut children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. Well, They flew kites and went sledging if we're being ''totally'' honest, therewas snow around. Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a little bit of poaching business in 1899 so our story is probably set in there toothe nineteen seventies. By day she Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is Miss Catherine St Quintin, although her owner calls her Kittybullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the playground. Other cats call her ''QTim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, or ''Squintums'who's two years younger than him, but they are very common cats and Kitty's owner would have been scandalised had she known that there was an acquaintance. The reaction would have been even stronger had she known that Miss Kitty went out in a gentlemanhe's Norfolk jacket and fur-lined boots. With a gunnot yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247594</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan PlenderleithB01N0OZQOD|title=The Snowman Strikes BackNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=ItNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. That's not easy being a snowman, you know - particularly when you what dragons are made by Ernest Green-Boglefor, who delights after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in tormenting you. Sometimes hefairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show'd make you upside down or looking like a pig (it's just plain . Nickerbacher likes ''undignifiedThe Late Knight Show''too - in fact, you know). Thatit's not the worst of it. He has been known to attack snowman with a hairdryer, feed his carrot nose favourite TV show because he wants to be a rabbit and even encase him in a block of icestand-up comedian himself. The snow clown was ''not'He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don' funny and the snow ice cream cone even less so. But one day everything changed when Ernest came home and there was a big boy with him. Ernest had a black eye and the big boy was threatening himt always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613932</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Seuss0008265836|title=The LoraxRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= It seemed to me that environmentalism was invented sometime in the early 90sTen-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. All of He's a sudden my schooling was about Greenhouse gases detective and how we the children have the future in our hands. Could this Generation X he has a mystery to solve the problems caused by Generations A-W– why did his dad disappear when he was three? I doubt it because if you look back Rory doesn't know where to 1971 start but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and the publishing he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he'The Loraxs in danger. It'', you will see that for decades before people like Dr Seuss have been trying s up to Rory and Cassidy to teach uncover the kids to think greentruth and save a life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007455933</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Puckett and Tor Freeman0192758748|title=Colin Horace & Harriet Take on the Cart HorseTown|author=Clare Elsom|rating=54|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers |summary=Meet ColinWhen Harriet, aged seven and a 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. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. Henot only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's a perfectly regular cart horsemum, carrying the crops, tools and children climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the farmtown as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. HeHis sights are firmly set on the Mayor's happy with mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a life of labourbetter alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to the museum, cinema, train station, resting after his shift is done about three every afternoonplayground, bank and a life of hay – that islibrary all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, until he wonders what his fellow farm animals are eating. What could be a competition in the consequence of him trying out every other farm food on park reveals the market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315437</amazonuk>perfect answer.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrea Beaty and David RobertsSaulles_Bee|title= Ada Twist, ScientistBee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles|rating= 4.5|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 thatYoung Mel's a way friend has left and the beehive is now his to pique your interest from the startlook after. After Unfortunately, Mel lives in a tower block and not all what sort of child does not speak until she turns three? In this case his neighbours agree that it's is the correct place for a hive. Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a very smart little girlbee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721372</amazonuk>

Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the character but this marks a new launch and a new series. This is not just a book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what the author is trying to achieve in real life; the power of the imagination makes everything better.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Read|title=I Can Read With My Eyes Shut

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Some books are classics and they prove this by never going out of print''The more that you read,''<br>''The more things you will know. Do ''<br>''The more that you learn,''<br>''The more places you want to pick up a copy of 'll go.'' This is a classic Dr Seuss novel? quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's school library! The chances are that you will be able to find a brand new one in any book shop. Howeveris very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, do these tales still stand but is also a good rhyming ode to the test joys of time? Can Horton’s adventures with the Whos remain the wonderful story it was the day it was written?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007455941</amazonuk>reading.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva ErikssonNeal_Words|title= Life According to Dani|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Dani – Words and if you haven't throughout [[:Category:Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|the three previous books]] then you certainly should. Her life has been up and down, considering she's only just finished the first year of primary school, but at the moment it's on the up, with caveats. She's in an idyllic place – staying with the best friend imaginable for the entire summer holidays, on what might as well be a private island, and in constant contact with her father. The caveats concern what happened in [[When I Am Happiest by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|book three]] and the fact that her father has been run over, but at least he calls every night at teatime. Until, that is, the night that he doesn't…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570715</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewYour Heart|author=Sharon Rentta|title=A Day at the Animal Post Office|rating=3|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Some people love their work and I have to say that I enjoy mine, but give me the option of winning the Euro Millions and spending the rest of my days drinking Pina Coladas on a superyacht, or the office, and I choose the beach. For children there is sometimes a glamour that emanates from the working week; what tales of majesty can Bob the Builder tell me? The fact is that work can be dull at times and repetitive, but a book written for children about gainful employment should make it sound fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407162543</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clara Vulliamy |title=Dotty Detective Kate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Dorothy Constance Mae LouiseTrolling, otherwise known as Dotbullying, has just moved house and has had to change schools. Luckily she soon finds a friendcyber-shaming, Beans, and together they form the topwhatever-secret it'Join s-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the Dots Detectives'. Both Dot adage about sticks and Beans are huge fans stones is actually a lot of the TV programme 'Fred Fantastic – Ace Detective'piffle. They've watched every episode and memorised In a world where we all Fred's techniques. It's just as well they have because their classmate Laura has hatched hearts, we should have a plot heart that what we say to prevent shy Amy singing in other people is positive. We can examine our world and the talent contest sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and it's up to Dot be happy together, and Beans to uncover bit by bit the plan. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008132496</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elli Woollard |title=The Secret Pirate (Swashbuckle Lil: The Secret Pirate) |rating=4|genre= Emerging Readers |summary= School girl Lil is world can be a secret piratebetter place. Her classmates think sheAnd hang the 's an ordinary girl and assume theyno, after you're just imagining things when they hear her bag squawkattitude some people would have in response. They donThere, I't know that's where she keeps her parrot (whose name is Carrot). Her teacherve given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, Miss Lubber, thinks Lil's naughty and is unaware but that Lil's not really trying to save the teacher from being kidnapped by the wicked pirate, Stinkbeard. But Lil doesn't mind because she knows the truth – she's a bold and brave pirate and all her adventures are true (at least to her)an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509808825</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr SeussTavares_Red|title=Oh, the Places You'll GoRed and Lulu|author=Matt Tavares

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Red and Lulu. They''Oh, The Places You'll Go'' is the classic Dr Seuss tale re a committed couple of one mancardinals and they have lived for some time in someone's journey through a bizarre landgarden, safely in an evergreen tree. The book takes you on It seems to them that every year people mention their home in a trip into lovely song, which tells the imagination of an author who was never shy of the bizarretree thy leaves are so unchanging. You will sail high into But one year, just as the sky in a hot air balloon and walk through strange forests with trees that you have never seen. One thing is seasons turn for surethe cold of winter, this will not be a dull outing and if you are new to Dr Seussthe tree vanishes, one you may never forget.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008122113</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pip JonesDickens_Search|title=Squishy McFluff: Seaside Rescue! |rating=4.5|genre= Children's Rhymes Search and Verse |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 rescue'…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571320686</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFind A Christmas Carol|author= Posy Simmonds|title= Lulu Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and the Chocolate WeddingLouise Pigott|rating= 3.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Unusual, quirky children's books can be hit or miss, but this one is a definite hit. Told in cartoon strip form, with illustrations reminiscent of the brilliant ''Raymond Briggs'', it mixes the real world with dreamy fantasies that have a touch of [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Sir John Tenniel]] to them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344407X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Swapna Haddow |title=Dave Pigeon |rating=4

|summary=The tag line on Recently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the cover of ''Dave Pigeon'' probably sums this story up. ItWhere's Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about ''How to Deal with Bad Cats and Keep (most of) Your Feathers''a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. OrWell, if you want it seems tweaking the form is going to be a bit morebig thing, it's for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about two Pigeons – Dave and his trusty friend Skipper – who are unceremoniously attacked by a cat while on a routine croissant heistfictional story. DaveThey's wing is injured so he ve started at the deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and Skipper set out one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to get their own back it at a certain time of the vicious catyear for its ageless lesson. They plan to evict Mean Cat from his home and install themselves in his place with But does the kind Human Lady and her enviable supply rich content of biscuits. You won't be surprised that things don't go exactly to plan.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571323308</amazonuk>Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elys DolanSeuss_Eggs|title= Steven Seagull Action Hero|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Steven Seagull is a retired cop. He used to patrol Beach City but those days are over. He was fired, you see, so that retirement wasn't entirely voluntary. Fired for being ''a renegade'' (quite a fancy word). 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>}}{{newreviewScrambled Eggs Super|author=Michael Bond|title=Love from PaddingtonDr Seuss

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Consider some of the more pertinent questions of literaturePeter T. Would things have been better if Rhett Butler Hooper doesn't mean to show off, but he is ''didvery'' give a damn? What good at cooking. Some would Jane Eyre have done if the men with the truth hadnsay he is ''The Best't made the church in time? And, of course, how does a little bear with a fondness for marmalade actually turn up in Paddington Station, so very, very far from home? Well, while the actual short stories may never have answered any of those questions, this work does – in amongst suggesting why bears don't play cricketcapital T, and a host morecapital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. As a result it may have a very different structure to the original books of linked short storiesYou might think that's quite an easy dish, but one with which it's just as wonderful and characterful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008164355</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Harriet Whitehorn and Becka Moor|title=Violet and the Smugglers|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Violeta little hard to showcase one's godfather has inherited a sailing boat and invites Violet and her family and friends to join him on a sailing adventure in the Mediterraneanprowess, but not so. How could Violet possibly say no? This turns out not to be quite as relaxing as you may imagineFor Peter T. It Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is not long before our heroine has suspicions about the captain choice of another boat and Violet's detective skills are needed again. With the help of her friendsegg itself, Rose and Art, Violet is determined he will go out of his way to solve procure the best of the mysterybest from whatever nest. Will she be able to put a stop to a dangerous smuggling ring? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122638</amazonuk>