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|summary=Meet Red Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and Lulunamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. TheyBut sadly Cooper're a committed couple of cardinalss father died suddenly, and they have lived for some time in someonenow Cooper doesn's gardent quite know who to be, safely in an evergreen treeor how to be. It seems And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to them that every year people mention their home in a lovely songhim, which tells the tree he ''really''thy leaves are so unchangingdoesn't know what'. But one year, just as the seasons turn for the cold of winter, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…s going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406376922</amazonuk>1444960261
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise PigottJane Lightbourne|title=Search and Find A Christmas CarolMy Cat Called Red|rating=3.54
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Recently I got to applaud a book Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the freckles that branched away from the go along with it. He's been bullied and mocked at school because of it. 'Where's Wally?Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' style volume, and taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searchingKids are mean. Well, it seems tweaking the form But red hair is going not Robin's only misery in life. He's already lost his dad to be a big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a fictional storymountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. TheyShe doesn'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 it at a certain time of the year for its ageless lessont come home again. But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787411869</amazonuk>1838216812
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dr SeussFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title= Scrambled Eggs SuperTwo Terrible Vikings|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Peter T. Hooper doesn't mean In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to show offbe the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, but he is ''very'' good as they cause havoc at cooking. Some would say he is ''The Best'' capital Ta birthday party, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that's quite an easy dishchaos whilst tracking a troll, one and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with which it's a little hard their friends! They get up to showcase one's prowessall kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, but not so. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of egg itselfalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and he will go out their crazy cast of his way to procure the best of the best from whatever nestfriends. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000824006X</amazonuk>0571349498
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dr Seuss1838593187|title= Yertle The Turtle and Other Stories|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The three stories Guess What I Found in this book, ''Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz and The Big Brag'' are classic Dr Seuss. They fit together well because they all have a moral or learning from them, be it treat those beneath you well, or don't try to compare yourself to others.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008240035</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alex T Smith|title= Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers |summary= Mr Penguin is a brand new ''Professional Adventurer''. He has a dashing hat, a large magnifying glass and an important looking office in his igloo to prove it. All he needs now is an adventure to go on. Just as he is beginning to despair of ever being asked to solve a mystery Boudicca Bones from the museum phones and asks for help. Can he and his trusty sidekick, Colin (the spider with expertise in martial artsPlayground!) 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>}}{{newreview|author=Colleen Jacey and Zed Jacey|title=Madge Eekal's ChristmasVictoria Thompson
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It was nearly Christmas and all the witches except Madge Eekal were busy putting up their festive lightsTilly is excited. MadgeShe's pet dragonjust come dashing out of the classroom, Ashon, wanted to know what had happened to their fairy lightspigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. The truth was that Madge had Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''triedhas'' to get them try to workguess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but it seemed that the fairies were on strike: she ''couldnobviously't'that' get them to works not important. Ashon knew Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that it wouldso much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, of courseactually, have been much easier if they had electricityTilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, like everyone else glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that decided Madge - they would make their own electricity's not what she wants Dad to guess. She knew the perfect spell. Ashon was doubtful... and rightly so as it turned out|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036530</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma YarlettInnosanto Nagara|title=Nibbles: The Dinosaur GuideM is for Movement|rating=3.54
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Some of you may already be aware of Nibbles. He Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a little monster that likes to nibble everythingstory about social change. Nibbles nibbles socksDealing with some difficult issues, Nibbles nibbles clockssuch as political corruption and nepotism, but the thing that Nibbles likes to nibble most book is books! neither boring nor preachy. ThereforeIt educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, putting him in a book is not the safest place as he and it portrays how social movements need people who will try and eat his way out, even when it seems that they will fail. Whilst the first book saw the tyke getting into trouble in fairy tales, this time it The message is non-fiction a positive one; that has whetted his appetite and in particular a book all about dinosaursan increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848696914</amazonuk>1609809351
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Alexandre Lacroix Pamela Brookes|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=What 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, 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 child without that 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 Ronan Badel''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=Dragons: Father Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and SonCharlie Roberts
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=You're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the title page, you'll find out what the book's called and that it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the illustration - and there's a gap. ''You'' are going to put your name there. It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of the largest creatures ever to roam the earth. There's some help available, but your name is on the title page - and you have work to do!
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|isbn=1609809335
|title=The Lizard
|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)
|rating=2
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=One day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don't even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared. People took against it, and if they weren't shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it. Can something be done about it, though?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1789016320
|title=Tadcaster and the Bullies
|author=Richard Rutherford
|rating=4
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=In 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't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the playground. Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bullies.
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|isbn=B01N0OZQOD
|title=Nickerbacher
|author=Terry John Barto
|rating=4
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Nickerbacher 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'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 ''The Late Knight Show''. 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 don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008265836
|title=Rory Branagan Detective
|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar
|rating=5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=You know dragonsTen-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. TheyHe're there s a detective and he has a mystery to look splendid and fiercesolve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, and to burn down human villages in rampagesthen, with or without treasure Cassidy moves in mindnext door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. But This is just as well as they need to be trained 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's in thatdanger. And our father dragon has just tasked his son dragon with that very errand - It's up to Rory and Cassidy to go uncover the truth and torch save a human houselife. The lad is reluctant to cook anything more severe than lunch - what could possibly happen?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277231</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester Clark0192758748|title= Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of The Wizard of OzHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The timeless story that we all know as The Wizard of Oz is given When Harriet, aged seven and a twist in this original interpretation by master story-crafter Michael Morpurgo. Itquarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 's the tale of a character that seems Going to be so often overlooked in the well-known story: DorothyPark on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can's faithful dog, Totot believe her eyes. We hear The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the whole story from Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but stamps his point of viewfoot, told shouts something that would get him in first person narrative from the moment the tornado sweeps across Dorothyserious trouble with Harriet's Kansas farmmum, and climbs down from his pillar. Toto continues to tell Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the story town as it happens to him in Horace searches for a witty new – and charming manner as their house is lifted into more suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on the air Mayor's mansion and whisked away it, therefore, falls to the mysterious land of OzHarriet to persuade him that there must be a better alternative. Of courseSadly, Toto and Dorothy meet Horace's visits to the absurd but loveable scarecrow without a brainmuseum, cinema, train station, playground, tin man without a heart bank and lion who lacks couragelibrary all cause mayhem. Luckily, and together they set off along however, a competition in the yellow brick road to find park reveals the Wonderful Wizard perfect answer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Saulles_Bee|title=Bee Boy: Clash of Oz, hoping that he might help Toto the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Young Mel's friend has left and Dorothy return homethe beehive is now his to look after. Along the wayUnfortunately, the tin man, scarecrow Mel lives in a tower block and lion learn not all of his neighbours agree that what they think they are missing might have been there all alongit is the correct place for a hive. Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008134596</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dodie Smith, Peter Bently and Steven LentonDavidson_Night|title=Night Zookeeper: The Hundred and One DalmatiansGiraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson
|rating=5
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna WrightSeuss_Read|title=The Twelve Days of Christmas (Magnificent Creatures)I Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss
|rating=4.5
|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>
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{{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
|rating=4
|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>
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{{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
|rating=4.5
|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…
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{{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?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Strong and Jamie SmithSeuss_Eggs|title=Nellie Choc-Ice, Penguin Explorer (Little Gems)Scrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss
|rating=4.5
|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 ''very'' good at cooking. Some would say he is a pretty little Macaroni penguin''The Best'' capital T, complete with pink feetcapital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that's quite an easy dish, bright yellow eyebrows and a woolly hat one with the worldwhich it's biggest pompom on the end. She has a habit of going exploring and finding out whatlittle hard to showcase one's over prowess, but not so. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the next ridge in choice of the iceegg itself, and he will go out of his way to procure the next, and best of the nextbest from whatever nest. But when disaster happens and the ice she 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>
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