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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tony De SaullesNigel Baines|title= Bee Boy: Clash A Tricky Kind of the Killer QueensMagic|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Young MelCooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's friend has left father died suddenly, and the beehive is now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to look afterhim, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261}}{{Frontpage|author=Jane Lightbourne|title= My Cat Called Red|rating= 4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the freckles that go along with it. Unfortunately Mel lives in a tower block He's been bullied and not all mocked at school because of his neighbours agree that it . ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is the correct place for not Robin's only misery in life. He's already lost his dad to a hivemountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a beeShe doesn't come home again. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192763873</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joshua DavidsonFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title= Night Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering WoodTwo Terrible Vikings|rating= 54|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and has Whack, who are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a world of magic birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, and imagination opened undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up for him. Will is the new Night Zookeeper to all kinds of mischief and his tenure in the role of protector to a magical world starts naughty behaviour, along with the repulsion their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of a dangerous invasionfriends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192764055</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Seuss1838593187|title=Guess What I Can Read With My Eyes ShutFound in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|summary=''The more that you readSet in Indonesia,''<br>''The more things you will know.''<br>''The more that you learnin the not too distant past,''<br>''The more places you'll go.'' This this is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this bookstory about social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and one that I painstakingly stickered onto nepotism, the wall of my children's school library! The book is very sillyneither boring nor preachy. It educates gently, as Dr Seuss always iswith vibrant, challenging illustrations, and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, but even when it seems that they will fail. The message is also a good rhyming ode positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to the joys of readinginstigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008240019</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Jane Neal1949471004|title=Words and Your HeartDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|genre=For Sharing Dyslexia Friendly|summary=TrollingWhat do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-itbut the sounds in the book might not be the ones you's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that ve been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the adage about sticks and stones is actually young dyslexic than a lot of pifflechild without that problem. In You need to be able to buy books at a world where we all have heartsreasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, we should have a heart that what we say to other people is positivewithout anything else being thrown into the mix. We can examine our world You need a story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and be happy togethergames wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and bit by bit the world can ''learning'' to read - should be a better placepleasure. And hang the It should be 'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response. There, Ifun've given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, but that's not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471168530</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Tavares099334030X|title=Red Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and LuluCharlie Roberts

|genre=Emerging ReadersCrafts|summary=Meet Red and Lulu. TheyYou're going to get a committed couple hint of cardinalswhat this book's about very quickly. When you see the title page, you'll find out what the book's called and they have lived for some time in someonethat it's garden, safely in an evergreen treebeen written by Peter Lynas. It seems Then we move on to them that every year people mention their home in who has done the illustration - and there's a lovely song, which tells the tree gap. ''thy leaves are so unchangingYou''are going to put your name there. But It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one year, just as of the seasons turn for largest creatures ever to roam the cold of winterearth. There's some help available, but your name is on the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376922</amazonuk>title page - and you have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott1609809335|title=Search The Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Find A Christmas CarolLucia Caistor (translator)|rating=3.52|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Recently I got to applaud One day a book that branched away from giant lizard appears in the city. We don''Where's Wally?'' style volumet even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared. People took against it, and taught the explorer about if they weren't shrugging it off as a non-fiction subject hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they went a-searching. Well, fled it seems tweaking the form is going to be a big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us they wanted something done about a fictional storyit. They've started at the deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to Can something be done about it at a certain time of the year for its ageless lesson. But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variationthough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787411869</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dr Seuss1789016320|title= Scrambled Eggs SuperTadcaster and the Bullies|author=Richard Rutherford|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Peter TIn some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. Hooper doesn They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Tim and Mary't mean to show off, but he s great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is ''very'' good at cookingprobably set in the nineteen seventies. Some would say he is Something which hasn''The Best'' capital Tt changed, unfortunately, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggsbullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the playground. You might think that Tim's quite an easy dish, one with which itprobably about ten - just at the stage where he's a little hard beginning to showcase onefeel responsible for his younger sister, who's prowesstwo years younger than him, but he's not so. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is yet at the choice of egg itself, and stage where he will go out of his way knows how to procure the best of the best from whatever nestdeal with bullies. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>000824006X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dr SeussB01N0OZQOD|title= Yertle The Turtle and Other StoriesNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto|rating= 54|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The three stories in this bookNickerbacher is doing 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'Yertle t any princess. She finds the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Big BragLate Knight Show'' are classic Dr Seuss. They fit together well Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' 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 all have a moral or learning from them, be it treat those beneath you well, or don't try to compare yourself to othersalways come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008240035</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alex T Smith0008265836|title= Mr Penguin Rory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and the Lost TreasureRalph Lazar|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers |summary= Mr Penguin is Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a brand new ''Professional Adventurer''normal kid. He 's a detective and he has a dashing hatmystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, a large magnifying glass then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an important looking office in his igloo to prove itaccomplice who is full of ideas. All he needs now This is an adventure to go on. Just 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 is beginning 's in danger. It's up to despair of ever being asked Rory and Cassidy to solve a mystery Boudicca Bones from uncover the museum phones truth and asks for helpsave a life. Can he and 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colleen Jacey and Zed Jacey0192758748|title=Madge Eekal's ChristmasHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=It was nearly Christmas When Harriet, aged seven and all the witches except Madge Eekal were busy putting up their festive lights. Madge's pet dragona quarter, Ashon, wanted decides to go to know what had happened Princes Park to their fairy lights. The truth was that Madge had practise 'Going to the Park on Her Own'tried'(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 get them to workmove. He not only moves but stamps his foot, but it seemed shouts something that the fairies were on strike: she would get him in serious trouble with Harriet''couldns mum, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can'tresist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace' get them s visits to work. Ashon knew that it wouldthe museum, cinema, of coursetrain station, have been much easier if they had electricityplayground, like everyone else bank and that decided Madge - they would make their own electricitylibrary all cause mayhem. She knew Luckily, however, a competition in the park reveals the perfect spell. Ashon was doubtful.answer.. and rightly so as it turned out|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036530</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma YarlettSaulles_Bee|title=NibblesBee Boy: The Dinosaur Guide|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Some Clash of you may already be aware of Nibbles. He is a little monster that likes to nibble everything. Nibbles nibbles socks, Nibbles nibbles clocks, but the thing that Nibbles likes to nibble most is books! Therefore, putting him in a book is not the safest place as he will try and eat his way out. Whilst the first book saw the tyke getting into trouble in fairy tales, this time it is non-fiction that has whetted his appetite and in particular a book all about dinosaurs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696914</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller Queens|author=Alexandre Lacroix and Ronan Badel|title=Dragons: Father and SonTony De Saulles

|summary=You know dragons. TheyYoung Mel're there s friend has left and the beehive is now his to look splendid and fierce, and to burn down human villages in rampagesafter. Unfortunately, with or without treasure in mind. But they need to be trained Mel lives in that. And our father dragon has just tasked his son dragon with that very errand - to go and torch a human house. The lad is reluctant to cook anything more severe than lunch - what could possibly happen?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277231</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Morpurgo tower block and Emma Chichester Clark|title= Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of The Wizard of Oz|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The timeless story that we not 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 his neighbours agree 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 Ozcorrect place for a hive. Of course, Toto and Dorothy meet the absurd but loveable scarecrow without a brain, tin man without Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a heart and lion who lacks courage, and together they set off along the yellow brick road to find the Wonderful Wizard 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 alongbee. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008134596</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dodie Smith, Peter Bently and Steven LentonDavidson_Night|title=Night Zookeeper: The Hundred and One DalmatiansGiraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua 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 submarinescrambled eggs. You might think that's quite an easy dish, 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=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Madeleine Finn doesnone with which it't like s a little hard to read - not anything. Itshowcase one's prowess, but not really her fault, you knowso. For Peter T. Her teacher tries to encourage herHooper, but some of what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the other kids giggle when she makes mistakes. And they pull faces choice of the type which would have given me my head in my hands to play with when I was a child. The words just don't seem to come egg itself, and he will go out right for her. The other children are getting gold stars (I've ''never'' liked that system) but all Madeleine gets is a heart sticker which tells her of his way to keep trying. She's got plenty procure the best of those. All week she tries her the best but doesn't get the star she longs forfrom whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646326</amazonuk>