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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danna Smith and Bagram IbatoullineNigel Baines|title= The Hawk of the Castle: A Story Tricky Kind of Medieval FalconryMagic|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse Emerging Readers|summary=I don't know why I Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was surprised by this book – I've read enough volumes for a magician, and named Cooper after the young audiences to know that as far as subject matter is concerned, pretty much anything goesgreat Tommy Cooper. But this is about falconrysadly Cooper's father died suddenly, of all things – the use of a once-wild and still pretty much free-spirited bird of prey now Cooper doesn't quite know who to hunt down animalsbe, either for the heck of it or for the pothow to be. An attractive girl and her father get their hawk readyAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, and leave the castle with all the equipment in tow – bells to hear the landed bird and he ''really'' doesn't know what it's captured, the hood to act as blinkers for it going on the way there, the lure if necessary. The story concerns just one trip out, girl, father, hound – and hawk. But while that may surprise you as a subject matter of choice, it was the whole artistic approach that won me over here…anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406376698</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth P JonesJane Lightbourne|title=Beards From Outer SpaceMy Cat Called Red|rating=4

|summary= You might not realise Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the freckles that go along with it but Earth is under constant alien attack. Luckily we humans donHe't need to worry s been bullied and mocked at school because the Pet Defenders (a secret society of our domestic pets) are always on standby to keep us safeit. The activities of the Pet Defenders are normally kept secret but Stripes Publishing are kindly allowing human children a brief glimpse into their exciting adventures. In ''Beards From Outer SpaceGinger Minger! Carrots!'' we Kids are able mean. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in life. He's already lost his dad to read how a dog mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and cat – secret agents Biskit and Mitzy – team up to rid the world of an army of alien beardsis taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847157858</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ghillian Potts Francesca Simon and Ed BoxallSteve May|title=The Old Woman from FriuliTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=On top of In a hill in Italy small Viking village there was live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a castle troll, and in that castle there lived undertake a duke. grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! Every day he would go They get up to the highest tower and look out at all that he could see kinds of mischief and marvel that he owned it all. Except that is for one small housenaughty behaviour, a sturdy house along with stone walls and a solid wooden doortheir wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, a garden and a fieldtheir crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190920840X</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Holly Webb1838593187|title=The Homeless KittenGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary= Lily loves their rescue dog, Hugo. However, Lily also really wants a cat – or better still a kittenTilly is excited. She, therefore, can't believe her luck when Hugo sniffs out three abandoned kittens while s just come dashing out of his walk with Lily the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her dadface. Better still (from Lily Dad's point of view at least) the animal shelter is full so Lily's mum come to collect her and her brother and dad reluctantly offer to hand-rear the tiny kittens until theyhe 're old enough to be rehomed. Lily's in heaven looking after the kittens, especially the little fluffy white one whom she names Stanley. There is just one problem – ithas's going to break her heart when the time comes to say goodbye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157831</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt Tavares|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=We're in Paris, and – not to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For one, it seems they think the perfect place try to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle of the biggest city guess what she found in the world. For anotherplayground today, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women would although she concedes that he will never be able to copeguess. Meanwhile, a young girl is dreaming of flight, as so many are wont Dad wants to doknow how school was, completely unaware but ''obviously'' that she will soon marry one of the most famed balloonists's not important. They will Could Tilly have joint journeys skyward, before his early demise – leaving the young woman, Sophie Blanchard, to go it alone and become the first female pilot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy Husband|title=The Story of Space|rating=4.5|genre=Childrenfound more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn's Non-Fiction|summary=I have no actual idea how I first got an interest in space. Perhaps itt that so much more sensible than a scrap 's there because I'm so old to almost coincide with the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon (and thatbook's pretty old, it's been so long?) and it kind of rubbed off on me Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. Perhaps in fact all young children There are interested in space anywaysequins, glittered paper and don't need any impetus or reason to look up all sorts of other things in wonder. But if they doher pocket, this is the newest way of nudging the newer child towards a keenness for all things celestial. And itbut that's a pretty good way indeednot what she wants Dad to guess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Ardagh and Tom Morgan-JonesInnosanto Nagara|title=Norman the Norman from Normandy (Little Gems)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Meet Norman. Norman the Norman, from Normandy. Not Big Bad Norman the Norman from Normandy, and not Norma the Norman from Normandy – and not even Nora the Norman from, well it doesn't say, but my guess is Normandy. Norman isn't very big at all – he's just a little boy, and he's not bad. Or at least he doesn't think he M is. But because his father, Big Bad Norman, is buried in three parts (don't ask), and little baby Norman has inherited Big Bad Norman's big bad Norman sword, he's going to visit the three parts – but only good will happen… Right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126976</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan Tubridy and P J Lynch|title=Patrick and the Presidentfor Movement

|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Meet Patrick. Such a direction is a little facetious hereSet in Indonesia, because it's who ''he's'' going to meet that's in the key. He lives in New Rossnot too distant past, County Wexford, and his school has been chosen to perform as this is a choir for the much-anticipated arrival of President J F Kennedy, as the man traces the path of his Irish ancestry, in what (in addition to stop-overs in England and Italy on the same trip) was to be his last state visit abroadstory about social change. But surely just being one among three hundred on such an auspiciousDealing with some difficult issues, yet brief, occasion is not enough for such an enterprising lad? Wellas political corruption and nepotism, no, for his connected parents have got another trick up their sleeve for him…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366927</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adam Hancher|title=Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Flightbook is neither boring nor preachy. It happens all around useducates gently, with vibrant, wherever we may bechallenging illustrations, and many are the young audience members for this book it portrays how social movements need people who have taken to the air already. But will try, even when it was once something impossible to take for granted, and this book easily takes us back to those daysseems that they will fail. It presents us with danger, determination, and The message is a certain pair of American brothers going all out to get both their names positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the history books and their feet in the skies…power to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilda Offen1949471004|title=Message from the MoonDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|summary= Stanley's dad What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is tired. It reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not be exhausting work being a Superhero. For six days of the week he saves the world from disasters ones you've been working on and defeats encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the baddies as Dynamo Danyoung dyslexic than a child without that problem. Stanley decides his poor dad needs a day off and is determined You need to be able to make sure that he gets buy books at a proper restreasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. So they head off to You need a story which engages the park for some much needed Dad young mind and Son bonding timeyou need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. However people don Some online support and games wouldn't seem go amiss, either. Reading - and ''learning'' to understand that even Superheroes need time to recuperateread - should be a pleasure. The requests for help keep on coming so what can poor Stanley do other than step in to save the dayIt should be ''fun''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126844</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuval Zommer099334030X|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=One You're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the many issues people have with the TV nature programmetitle page, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], is you'll find out what the obvious one of all the blood book's called and guts that it features – yes, in amongst all 's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesy, comical ones, whatillustration - and there's worse)a gap. ''You'll be pleased ' are going to put your name there. It's ''your'' responsibility to know, however, that provide the pictures for this book is very light on death and destructionabout one of the largest creatures ever to roam the earth. Yes, here are lions sharing There's some chunks of meat (while the females that caught and killed it sit and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plentyhelp available, but there your name is so little on the title page - and you have work to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary school.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Quentin Blake1609809335|title= The Story of the Dancing FrogLizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating= 4.52|genre= Dyslexia Friendly Emerging Readers |summary= When Jo's Great Aunt GertrudeOne day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don's sea captain husband is drowned at sea she is grief-stricken andt even get told how it arrived, in despair, she goes for a walk alone. During this walk she notices a small frog on a lily-padbut it certainly appeared. But he is no ordinary frog - hePeople took against it, and if they weren's t shrugging it off as a dancing frog and the two quickly become good friends. Soon the duo are touring the world with their routinehallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, spreading joy and fun - and carrying out the occasional rescue - wherever they gowanted something done about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125910</amazonuk> Can something be done about it, though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1789016320|title=Forest Life Tadcaster and Woodland Creaturesthe Bullies|author=Richard Rutherford

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and the animals, plants and trees in In some ways itwas a gentler time: video games were around, then you're only going but children usually went outside to be itching to go enjoy themselves. They flew kites and explore the woods for yourselfwent sledging if there was snow around. ItTim and Mary's for great-grandfather started a very young audiencebusiness in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick is bullying and easy tasks, two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and a few lessonsMary but for other children who gather in the playground. The balance between carrot and stickTim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, or duty and rewardwho's two years younger than him, is great – but what exactly is he's not yet at the edutainment going stage where he knows how to provide, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>deal with bullies.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKB01N0OZQOD|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out the sort Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of lower-casecourse, almostprincess-a-subtitle wording on the front of a bookguarding. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending to come here and learn That's what dragons are for, after all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointed. If you take it But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the book, then all well and goodThe Late Knight Show''. And even better, if you expect yourself to Nickerbacher likes ''makeThe Late Knight Show'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano0008265836|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I'm sure I was full of questions when I was a nipper – which means I was too full of questions. Parents just don't need to be deflecting questions all the time, do they? Living on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere as I did, I knew quite a lot about farms and farming – that different animals gave different results, that different vehicles meant different things and that the crops behind our house changed. But for the inner city child, there is a chance they have never met a cow or seen a silo. This colourful book, bright in both senses of the word, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countryside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRory Branagan Detective|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions Andrew Clover and 70 Lift-flaps!Ralph Lazar

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=I wonder how much time ITen-year-old Rory Branagan isn've saved in not being t just a normal kid. He's a parent – detective and therefore not having had he has a mystery to answer such pesky questions as solve – why is the sky blue, where did I come from, his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where does my wee come fromto start but, what is earwaxthen, Cassidy moves in next door and why do I have a spleen? Still, apart from the first two, those questions and the answers to them and more are in this book, which he discovers he has an accomplice who is a lovely primer for biology, and a great source full of quick facts for the very young, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approachideas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|title=Amazing Animal Babies|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Many children love animals, but This is just as well as they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch soon discover a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is a at risk of dying but no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to their own. However, someone needs Rory and Cassidy to give them uncover the facts about baby animals truth and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>save a life.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara Vulliamy0192758748|title=The Midnight Mystery (Dotty Detective, Book 3)Horace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If you havenWhen 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 alreadybelieve her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but stamps his foot, meet Dot. Sheshouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's an ace child detective, inspired by her favourite TV programmemum, and her pet dog and best friend climbs down from schoolhis pillar. But at least one of those is left behind this time, as Dot Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the rest of her class go to an adventure camp playground town as Horace searches for a couple of nightsnew – and more suitable – home. Daytimes His sights are spent being sporty firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and adventurousit, as are the evenings supposed therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must bea better alternative. Sadly, but someone seems intent on ruining things for DotHorace's visits to the museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. What is Luckily, however, a competition in the evil and bragging Laura up to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008132429</amazonuk>park reveals the perfect answer.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg McLarenSaulles_Bee|title=Pigeon P.I.Bee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles|rating=34.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The world of birds Young Mel's friend has left and the beehive is now his to look after. Unfortunately, Mel lives in a flap. They're being nabbed – plucked from tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that it is the air (or at least from their cages)correct place for a hive. Murray MacMurray, the brilliant pigeon private eye, doesn't want anything to do with crime now his old partner Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has flown the roost, but an eager and bright young thing might just about persuade him to take up the caseamazing superpower; he can become a bee. But both will have to be plucky to survive the dangers it leads to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444835</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catharina Valckx and Nicolas HubeschDavidson_Night|title=BrunoNight Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson|rating=45|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Bruno. No, not that Bruno – for pity's sake, this is a book for the underA straight-eights laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and not has a character from teen comedy moviesworld of magic and imagination opened up for him. No, Bruno Will is the new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the role of protector to a quite unmistakeable cat, in magical world starts with the repulsion of a bright blue cloth cap, dangerous invasion. Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and this is a book regarding various days in his life that he thinks there are of note – whether they're online cartoons devoted to the day the power goes out, or character but this marks a day that would be completely uninteresting were it not for new launch and a joke from his best friendnew series. But don't you dare make the mistake of thinking this sounds mundane – here This is not just a background couple, of book but a hippo whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a crocodile, just walking past the heroes. Here is said best friend, an elderly pony, forced somehow push to walk backwardsget children using their own imagination. Here The story itself mirrors what the author is when Bruno is playing host trying to a turtle dove addicted to jam, who is forced to hide when a wet wolf gate-crashesachieve in real life; the power of the imagination makes everything better. I think you'll agree that any day spent reading this book will not be a boring one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571258</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny ColganSeuss_Read|title=Polly and the Puffin: The New FriendI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Polly was just about to start Big School and, being honest, she wasn't keen. She couldn't wear her spotty wellies for one thingThe more that you read, but worst of all, she couldn't take Neil with her. We heard about Neil the rescued puffin in the [[Polly and the Puffin by Jenny Colgan|first book]] in this series and although Neil now has a nest in the nearby lighthouse, he and Polly are still very close. When she gets to school Polly doesn't really feel like joining in any of the games: she<br>''s the lonely little figure on the edge of everythingThe more things you will know. Her teacher suggests that she and Ronita make friends: have you ever noticed how ''difficult<br>'' it is to even speak when someone suggests something like The more that? Polly and Ronita donyou learn,''t make friends - they end up shouting at each other in a <br>'mine's bigger/better than yoursThe more places you' argumentll go. What about? Well'' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, birds and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of course. my children's school library! Ronita has The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a macawgood rhyming ode to the joys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510200908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neal_Words|title=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Words and Frau IsaYour Heart|titleauthor=Little People, Big Dreams: Marie CurieKate Jane Neal

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=Some little girls want to be princessesTrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, but whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be adage about sticks and stones is actually a scientistlot of piffle. She was from In a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to do well other people is positive. We can examine our world and won a gold medal for her studies. In Poland, in the middle of the nineteenth centurysound it makes through communication, only men were allowed to go to Universitywe can make each other smile, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar languagelaugh, but was soon the best maths sing and science student. It was here that she met and married Pierre Curiebe happy together, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win bit by bit the Nobel Prize for Physics for this workworld can be a better place. Marie was And hang the first woman to receive 'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response. There, I've given the honour. Pierre was killed entire plot of this book away in a road accidentmy summary, but Marie went on to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistrythat's not really an issue. Her work is still benefiting people today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tavares_Red|title=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Red and Elisa MunsoLulu|titleauthor=Little People, Big Dreams: Agatha ChristieMatt Tavares|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=As a child Agatha Christie Meet Red and her mother would read Lulu. They're a book together every afternoon, but there were early signs committed couple of what the future novelist would become: she always had a better idea about how the story should end. She would read in bed at night cardinals and detective novels were always her favourites. In the First World War Agatha, who was then they have lived for some time in her early twentiessomeone's garden, nursed wounded soldiers safely in hospitals: her experiences with poisons and toxic potions would be put an evergreen tree. It seems to good use when her first detective novels were published them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one year, just after as the seasons turn for the end cold of winter, the war. Most people have heard of her first and most famous detective - Hercule Poirot - or of Miss Marple. Mrs Christie's novels were widely read and her plays were very popular in theatres.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title=Michael Rosen Search and Tony RossFind A Christmas Carol|titleauthor=Barking for BagelsCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Recently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where''Barking for Bagels'' is s Wally? style volume, and taught the story of Schnipp explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Well, it seems tweaking the dog, who loves her owners very much, though she does find their snickering form is going to be a little annoying from time to time. One daybig thing, whilst out for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a walk in fictional story. They've started at the parkdeep end, she starts to run awaywith a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and she finds one that once she starts running she can't stophas been adapted countless times before now, and she runs and she runs until she finds Bessie yet always has people returning to it at a certain time of the year for its ageless lesson. But does the Bagel lady and thus discovers her new favourite foodrich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, and her new home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344505X</amazonuk>survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Szirtes and Tim ArchboldSeuss_Eggs|title=How to be a TigerScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss

|summary=Amy Lee wakes up from one of her usual dreamsPeter T. Hooper doesn't mean to show off, but he is ''very'' good at cooking. Some would say he is ''The Best'' capital T, where she combats an evil piratecapital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You would might think that was the only nastiness in her life – she lives in a lovely place in the Land of Love's quite an easy dish, and doesnone with which it't have s a little hard to worry about paying for steaks for her nine dogsshowcase one's prowess, nor salmon for her catsbut not so. She can go to her favourite tree who will entertain her with a storyFor Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of the egg itself, and she can he will go adventuring with her bottomless rucksack, and spend all day daydreaming out of his way to procure the best of a wicked new house for her dogs… Until she sees threatening purple clouds over the forestsbest from whatever nest. And not even in this fantasy world do you want to see purple clouds…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407172239</amazonuk>