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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joshua DavidsonNigel Baines|title= Night Zookeeper: The Giraffes A Tricky Kind of Whispering WoodMagic|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a world of magic magician, and imagination opened up for himnamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. Will is the new Night Zookeeper But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. And when his tenure in the role of protector dad's prop rabbit starts talking to a magical world starts with the repulsion of a dangerous invasion.him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192764055</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr SeussJane Lightbourne|title=I Can Read With My Eyes ShutCat Called Red|rating=4.5

|summary=''The more Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the freckles that you read,go along with it. He''<br>''The more things you will knows been bullied and mocked at school because of it.''<br>Ginger Minger! Carrots!''The more that you learn,Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin''<br>''The more places you'll gos only misery in life.He'' This is s already lost his dad to a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my childrenis taken into hospital. She doesn's school library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a good rhyming ode to the joys of readingt come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008240019</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate Jane NealFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title=Words and Your HeartTwo Terrible Vikings

|genre=For Sharing Emerging Readers|summary=TrollingIn a small Viking village there live two twins, bullyingHack and Whack, cyber-shamingwho are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones is actually they cause havoc at a lot of piffle. In birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a world where we all have heartstroll, we should have and undertake a heart that what we say grand journey to other people is positive. raid Bad Island with their friends! We can examine our world They get up to all kinds of mischief and the sound it makes through communicationnaughty behaviour, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy togetheralong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and bit by bit the world can be a better place. And hang the 'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response. There, I've given the entire plot their crazy cast of this book away in my summary, but that's not really an issuefriends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471168530</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Tavares1838593187|title=Red and LuluGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|summary=Meet Red and LuluSet in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a story about social change. They're a committed couple of cardinalsDealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and they have lived for some time in someone's gardennepotism, safely in an evergreen treethe book is neither boring nor preachy. It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems to them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the tree ''thy leaves are so unchanging''they will fail. But The message is a positive one year; that in an increasingly uncertain world, just as we do still have the seasons turn for the cold of winter, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…power to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406376922</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott1949471004|title=Search and Find A Christmas CarolDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=3.54|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Recently I got What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to applaud achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book 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 book child without that branched away from 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. You need a story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and 'Where's Wally?learning'' style volume, and taught the explorer about a nonto read -fiction subject as they went should be a-searchingpleasure. It should be ''fun''. Well, it seems tweaking }}{{Frontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=Can You Draw the form is Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=You're going to be get a big thing, for hint of what this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us 's about a fictional storyvery quickly. TheyWhen you see the title page, you've started at ll find out what the deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, 's called and one that has it's been adapted countless times before now, yet always written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has people returning done the illustration - and there's a gap. ''You'' are going to put your name there. It's ''your'' responsibility to it at a certain time provide the pictures for this book about one of the year for its ageless lessonlargest creatures ever to roam the earth. But does There's some help available, but your name is on the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787411869</amazonuk>title page - and you have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dr Seuss1609809335|title= Scrambled Eggs SuperThe Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating= 4.52|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Peter TOne day a giant lizard appears in the city. Hooper doesn We don't mean to show offeven get told how it arrived, but he is ''very'' good at cookingit certainly appeared. Some would say he is ''The Best'' capital T People took against it, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think thatand if they weren's quite an easy dish, one with which t shrugging it's off as a little hard to showcase one's prowesshallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, but not sothey wanted something done about it. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of egg itself Can something be done about it, and he will go out of his way to procure the best of the best from whatever nest. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>000824006X</amazonuk>though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dr Seuss1789016320|title= Yertle The Turtle Tadcaster and Other Storiesthe Bullies|author=Richard Rutherford|rating= 54|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The three stories in this bookIn some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Something which hasn'Yertle the Turtlet changed, unfortunately, Gertrude McFuzz is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and The Big BragMary but for other children who gather in the playground. Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he' are classic Dr Seuss. They fit together well because they all have a moral or learning from thems beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, be it treat those beneath you wellwho's two years younger than him, or donbut he't try s not yet at the stage where he knows how to compare yourself to othersdeal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008240035</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alex T SmithB01N0OZQOD|title= Mr Penguin and the Lost TreasureNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto|rating= 54|genre= Emerging Readers |summary= Mr Penguin Nickerbacher is a brand new ''Professional Adventurerdoing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. He has a dashing hat, a large magnifying glass She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and an important looking office she is much less interested in his igloo to prove it. All he needs now fairy tales than she is an adventure to go in watching comedy on''The Late Knight Show''. Just as Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he is beginning wants to despair of ever being asked to solve be a mystery Boudicca Bones from the museum phones and asks for helpstand-up comedian himself. Can he and He tries out his trusty sidekick, Colin (the spider with expertise in martial arts!) find her missing treasure? Will the adventure become too dangerous for them? And will Mr Penguin ever have time to eat his fish finger sandwich packed lunch?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444932063</amazonuk>jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colleen Jacey and Zed Jacey0008265836|title=Madge Eekal's ChristmasRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=It was nearly Christmas and all the witches except Madge Eekal were busy putting up their festive lightsTen-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. MadgeHe's pet dragon, Ashon, wanted a detective and he has a mystery to know what had happened to their fairy lights. The truth solve – why did his dad disappear when he was that Madge had ''tried'three? Rory doesn' t know where to get them to workstart but, then, but it seemed that the fairies were on strikeCassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: she Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he'couldns in danger. It't'' get them s up to work. Ashon knew that it would, of course, have been much easier if they had electricity, like everyone else Rory and that decided Madge - they would make their own electricity. She knew Cassidy to uncover the perfect spell. Ashon was doubtful..truth and save a life. and rightly so as it turned out|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036530</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Yarlett0192758748|title=Nibbles: The Dinosaur GuideHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom|rating=3.54|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Some of you may already be aware of Nibbles. He is When Harriet, aged seven and a little monster that likes quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to nibble everythingthe Park on Her Own' (i. Nibbles nibbles socks, Nibbles nibbles clocks, but 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 thing that Nibbles likes Third (or Horace for short) starts to nibble most is books! Thereforemove. He not only moves but stamps his foot, putting shouts something that would get him in a book is not serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the safest place town as he will try Horace searches for a new – and eat his way outmore suitable – home. Whilst His sights are firmly set on the first book saw Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to the tyke getting into trouble in fairy talesmuseum, cinema, train station, playground, this time it is non-fiction that has whetted his appetite bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in particular a book all about dinosaursthe park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696914</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexandre Lacroix and Ronan BadelSaulles_Bee|title=DragonsBee Boy: Father and SonClash of the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|summary=You know dragons. TheyYoung Mel're there s friend has left and the beehive is now his to look splendid and fierceafter. Unfortunately, Mel lives in a tower block and to burn down human villages in rampages, with or without treasure in mind. But they need to be trained in not all of his neighbours agree thatit is the correct place for a hive. And our father dragon Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has just tasked his son dragon with that very errand - to go and torch an amazing superpower; he can become a human housebee. The lad is reluctant to cook anything more severe than lunch - what could possibly happen?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277231</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester ClarkDavidson_Night|title= TotoNight Zookeeper: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of The Wizard of Oz|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The timeless story that we all know as The Wizard of Oz is given a twist in this original interpretation by master story-crafter Michael Morpurgo. It's the tale of a character that seems to be so often overlooked in the well-known story: Dorothy's faithful dog, Toto. We hear the whole story from his point of view, told in first person narrative from the moment the tornado sweeps across Dorothy's Kansas farm. Toto continues to tell the story as it happens to him in a witty and charming manner as their house is lifted into the air and whisked away to the mysterious land of Oz. Of course, Toto and Dorothy meet the absurd but loveable scarecrow without a brain, tin man without a heart and lion who lacks courage, and together they set off along the yellow brick road to find the Wonderful Wizard Giraffes of Oz, hoping that he might help Toto and Dorothy return home. Along the way, the tin man, scarecrow and lion learn that what they think they are missing might have been there all along. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008134596</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWhispering Wood|author=Dodie Smith, Peter Bently and Steven Lenton|title=The Hundred and One DalmatiansJoshua Davidson

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=A dog is for life, not just straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and imagination opened up for Christmas, as we were constantly told when I was young – I dare say people are still saying it, but it was quite prevalent way back thenhim. I'm sure many people reading this will know that Will is the Dearlys end up with 101 Dalmatians for Christmas themselves, new Night Zookeeper and it must be debatable whether they stayed his tenure in the same house as them all come role of protector to a magical world starts with the repulsion of a dangerous invasion. 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 yearseries. But 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 beyond doubt is that the getting of so many cute pups was full of drama – drama that fills this young reader trying to bursting, and drama that comes achieve in illustrations like these with no end real life; the power of charmthe imagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281669</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna WrightSeuss_Read|title=The Twelve Days of Christmas (Magnificent Creatures)I Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=One of the problems a Christmas-themed book has is in making itself relevant at other times of the year''The more that you read,''<br>''The more things you will know. This charming little encapsulation of the well-known yuletide poem (known in English in 1780, but older than ''<br>''The more thatyou learn, trivia fans) gets round that by (''<br>''The more places you'll go.'' This is a) being a counting classic Dr Seuss quote from this book for , and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's school library! The book is very young that they could gain from on any date they chosesilly, as Dr Seuss always is, and (b) just being really pleasing but is also a good rhyming ode to look atthe joys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571338933</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neal_Words|title=Cynthia Ryland Words and Mary BlairYour Heart|titleauthor=Walt Disney's Cinderella: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Kate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=ITrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it'm sure almost s-called-this-week-ing – all my readers are au fait with act as proof that the story of Cinderella, adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of how she went from the gutter to the stars in one romantic swooppiffle. It's only In a good thing the relevant people didn't world where we all have foot fetishes or phobiashearts, for then the tale would we should have been utterly differenta heart that what we say to other people is positive. Disney made We can examine our world and the sound it slightly differentmakes through communication, of coursewe can make each other smile, when they made the animated classic based on the legendlaugh, sing and this bookbe happy together, complete with art from and bit by bit the time world can be a better place. And hang the film was being made'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response. There, is evidence of just how the look and I've given the emotion entire plot of the piece were intended to bethis book away in my summary, but that's not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405286997</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tavares_Red|title=Jon Scieszka Red and Mary BlairLulu|titleauthor=Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Matt Tavares

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=IMeet Red and Lulu. They'll take is as read you re a committed couple of cardinals and they have lived for some knowledge of the story of Alice time in someone's garden, safely in Wonderland – certainly when she got an evergreen tree. It seems to be 150 years old them that every year people mention their home in a couple of years back there were no end of editions of her story. And as you knowlovely song, 150 years is a heck of a lot of unbirthdayswhich tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. But her story got to be slightly differentone year, and if anything only more loved, courtesy of just as the Disney cartoon, and the fact that this book features artwork that was generated during seasons turn for the production cold of that film is winter, the unique selling point.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405287004</amazonuk>tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title=Philip Reeve Search and Sarah McIntyreFind A Christmas Carol|titleauthor=Pug-a-Doodle-Do!Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsEmerging Readers |summary=Recently I was reading got to applaud a book so utterly different to this that branched away from the other day, it has to bear mention. It was an exceedingly academic book about graphic novels and comics for the YA audienceWhere's Wally? style volume, and it featured an essay picking up on taught the way books like the fillexplorer about a non-infiction subject as they went a-bits-yourself entries in searching. Well, it seems tweaking the Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries series (such as [[Dork Diaries: How form is going to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|be a big thing, for this one]]) let you interact with the franchise, and also book tries yet another different approach – to create your own contentteach us about a fictional story. There was some weird high-falutinThey' academic language to describe such books – but you know what? I say (redacted) to that – let's just hang it and have fun. And this ve started at the deep end, with a bookhastening towards being two centuries old, spinning off from the four books this partnership and one that has so far been responsible foradapted countless times before now, is certainly yet always has people returning to it at a provider certain time of thatthe year for its ageless lesson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192764047</amazonuk>But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Strong and Jamie SmithSeuss_Eggs|title=Nellie Choc-Ice, Penguin Explorer (Little Gems)Scrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=Meet Nellie Choc-IcePeter T. Thus named by her grandparents (and grandparents have a habit in this book of making unusual names for their grandchildren, whichever species they belong Hooper doesn't mean to)show off, she but he is a pretty little Macaroni penguin, complete with pink feet, bright yellow eyebrows and a woolly hat with the world's biggest pompom on the end'very'' good at cooking. She has a habit of going exploring and finding out whatSome would say he is ''The Best''s over the next ridge in the icecapital T, and the next, and the nextcapital B. But when disaster happens and the ice she And his signature dish is on is knocked off Antarctica by a submarine, even she can have no idea as to where she will end up…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127212</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Papp|title=Madeleine Finn and the Library Dog|rating=4scrambled eggs.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Madeleine Finn doesn't like to read - not anything. ItYou might think that's not really her faultquite an easy dish, you know. Her teacher tries to encourage her, but some of the other kids giggle when she makes mistakes. And they pull faces of the type one with which would have given me my head in my hands to play with when I was a child. The words just donit't seem to come out right for her. The other children are getting gold stars (I've ''never'' liked that system) but all Madeleine gets is s a heart sticker which tells her little hard to keep trying. Sheshowcase one's got plenty of those. All week she tries her best prowess, but doesn't get the star she longs fornot so.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646326</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano|title=Life on Earth: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I was a big fan of dinosaurs when I was a nipper. Since then the science regarding them has evolved leaps and boundsFor Peter T. We've got in touch with them perhaps being featheredHooper, and have assumed colours and noises they made – we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesight, hearing and makes his scrambled eggs so much more may have been like. But science will never stopsuper is the choice of the egg itself, and the next generation he will need to be on board with the job go out of discovering them, analysing them, and presenting them his way to a world that never seems to get enough of procure the nasty, superlative beasties best of Hollywood renown. As you're the kind of person to ask questions, you may well ask 'how do you get that next generation ready for their place in the field and in the laboratory?' I would put this as the answer – even if it is made itself of a hundred questionsbest from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>