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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Giles Chapman and Us NowNigel Baines|title=The Story A Tricky Kind of the CarMagic

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers|summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… carsCooper loves to perform magic tricks. I can't think of many other subjects that inspired the young me to have His father was a full non-fiction book about them on my juvenile shelves. Most of course I lost interest in with maturity. But the young child these days won't be much different, for good or badmagician, and so they will like as not want a book about broom-brooms for named Cooper after the shelfgreat Tommy Cooper. And this is pretty much the go-to volume for such an interest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Libby Walden|title=In Focus: Cities|rating=4|genre=ChildrenBut sadly Cooper's Non-Fiction|summary=The [[In Focus: 101 Close Upsfather died suddenly, Cross-Sections and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book in this series]] promised 101 close-upsnow Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, cross sections and/or cutways, but here we're restricted how to just tenbe. Why? Because the subject matters are so much bigger – one is home to 37 million people, of all things. Yes, weAnd when his dad're s prop rabbit starts talking cities, and while this book tries to follow the previous – different artist every pagehim, an exclusive inside look within the volume, and a self-deceiving page count – we are definitely in new territory. Wehe ''really'' doesn're seeking the trivial, the geographical and the cultural, all so that the inquisitive young student can find out the variety to be had in the worldt know what's metropolises.going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geraldo ValerioJane Lightbourne|title=My Book of Birds|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I never really caught the bird-watching habit, even with the opportunity of growing up on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere. It was in the family, too, but I resigned myself to never seeing much that was spectacular, and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinking. If I'd had this book as a youngster, who knows – I may have come out of it differently, having been shown the diversity of the bird world in snippets of text, and some quite unusual illustrations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Danna Smith and Bagram Ibatoulline|title= The Hawk of the Castle: A Story of Medieval Falconry|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse |summary=I don't know why I was surprised by this book – I've read enough volumes for the young audiences to know that as far as subject matter is concerned, pretty much anything goes. But this is about falconry, of all things – the use of a once-wild and still pretty much free-spirited bird of prey to hunt down animals, either for the heck of it or for the pot. An attractive girl and her father get their hawk ready, and leave the castle with all the equipment in tow – bells to hear the landed bird and what it's captured, the hood to act as blinkers for it 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376698</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gareth P Jones|title=Beards From Outer SpaceCat 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 never be able to cope. Meanwhile, a young girl is dreaming of flight, as so many are wont to do, completely unaware although she concedes that she he will soon marry one of the most famed balloonistsnever guess. They will have joint journeys skyward, before his early demise – leaving the young woman, Sophie Blanchard, Dad wants to go it alone and become the first female pilot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catherine Barrknow how school was, Steve Williams and Amy Husband|title=The Story of Space|rating=4.5|genre=Childrenbut ''s Non-Fiction|summary=I have no actual idea how I first got an interest in space. Perhaps itobviously's there because I'm so old to almost coincide with the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon (and that's pretty old, it's been so long) and it kind of rubbed off on menot important. Perhaps in fact all young children are interested in space anyway, and don't need any impetus or reason to look up in wonder. But if they do, this is the newest way of nudging the newer child towards a keenness Could Tilly have found more collectable things for all things celestial. her scrap box? And it's a pretty good way indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Philip Ardagh and Tom Morgan-Jones|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 doesnIsn't say, but my guess is Normandy. Norman isnthat so much more sensible than a scrap 't very big at all – he's just a little boy, and hebook's not bad. Or at least he doesn't think he is. ?) But because his fatherWell, Big Bad Normanactually, is buried in three parts (don't ask)Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and little baby Norman has inherited Big Bad Norman's big bad Norman swordall sorts of other things in her pocket, hebut that's going not what she wants Dad to visit the three parts – but only good will happen… Right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126976</amazonuk>guess.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan Tubridy and P J LynchInnosanto Nagara|title=Patrick and the PresidentM is for Movement

|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Meet PatrickSet in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a story about social change. Such a direction is a little facetious hereDealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, because it's who ''he's'' going to meet that's the keybook is neither boring nor preachy. He lives in New RossIt educates gently, with vibrant, County Wexfordchallenging illustrations, and his school has been chosen to perform as a choir for the much-anticipated arrival of President J F Kennedyit portrays how social movements need people who will try, 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 abroadeven when it seems that they will fail. But surely just being The message is a positive one among three hundred on such an auspicious, yet brief, occasion is not enough for such ; that in an enterprising lad? Wellincreasingly uncertain world, no, for his connected parents we do still have got another trick up their sleeve for him…the power to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406366927</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Hancher1949471004|title=Taking FlightDog on a Log Chapter Books: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Flight. It happens all around us, wherever we may be, and many are the young audience members for this book who have taken to the air already. But it was once something impossible to take for granted, and this book easily takes us back to those days. It presents us with danger, determination, and a certain pair of American brothers going all out to get both their names in the history books and their feet in the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStep 1|author=Hilda Offen|title=Message from the MoonPamela 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 he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as they soon discover a spleen? Still, apart from the first two, those questions very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and the answers is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to them Rory and more are in this book, which is a lovely primer for biology, Cassidy to uncover the truth and save a great source of quick facts for the very young, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approachlife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft0192758748|title=Amazing Animal Babies|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to their own. However, someone needs to give them Horace & Harriet Take on the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTown|author=Clara Vulliamy|title=The Midnight Mystery (Dotty Detective, Book 3)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 the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and won be happy together, and bit by bit the world can be a gold medal for her studiesbetter place. In PolandAnd hang the 'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response. There, I've given the middle entire plot of the nineteenth century, only men were allowed to go to University, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study this book away in an unfamiliar languagemy summary, but was soon the best maths that's not really an issue.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Tavares_Red|title=Red and science studentLulu|author=Matt Tavares|rating=4. It was here that she met 5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Meet Red and married Pierre Curie, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium Lulu. They're a committed couple of cardinals and polonium: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize have lived for Physics for this worksome time in someone's garden, safely in an evergreen tree. Marie was the first woman It seems to receive the honour. Pierre was killed them that every year people mention their home in a road accidentlovely song, but Marie went on to win a second Nobel Prizewhich tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one year, this time just as the seasons turn for Chemistry. Her work is still benefiting people today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>the cold of winter, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Search and Elisa MunsoFind A Christmas Carol|titleauthor=Little PeopleCharles Dickens, Big Dreams: Agatha ChristieSarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=As Recently I got to applaud a child Agatha Christie book that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, and her mother would read taught the explorer about a book together every afternoonnon-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Well, but there were early signs of what it seems tweaking the future novelist would become: she always had form is going to be a better idea big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about how the a fictional story should end. She would read in bed They've started at night and detective novels were always her favourites. In the First World War Agathadeep end, who was then in her early twentieswith a book hastening towards being two centuries old, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons and toxic potions would be put one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to good use when her first detective novels were published just after the end it at a certain time of the waryear for its ageless lesson. Most people have heard But does the rich content of her first and Dickens, even at his 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>populist, survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Tony RossSeuss_Eggs|title=Barking for BagelsScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Peter T. Hooper doesn't mean to show off, but he is ''Barking for Bagelsvery'' good at cooking. Some would say he is the story of Schnipp the dog''The Best'' capital T, who loves her owners very muchcapital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that's quite an easy dish, though she does find their snickering one with which it's a little annoying from time hard to timeshowcase one's prowess, but not so. One dayFor Peter T. Hooper, whilst out for a walk in what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of the parkegg itself, she starts and he will go out of his way to run away, and she finds that once she starts running she can't stop, and she runs and she runs until she finds Bessie procure the best of the Bagel lady and thus discovers her new favourite food, and her new homebest from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344505X</amazonuk>