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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Nigel Baines|title=A Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane SimmonsLightbourne|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. He's been bullied and mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in life. He's already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|isbn= 1838216812}}{{Frontpage|author=Francesca Simon and Steve May|title=Two Terrible Vikings|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=In a small Viking village there 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 troll, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of friends.|isbn=0571349498}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838593187|title=Come On DaisyGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson|rating=4.5

|summary=Daisy the duckling Tilly is having too much fun exploring excited. She's just come dashing out of the riverbank classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''has'' to listen try to Mamma Duckguess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Mamma has told her Dad wants to stay closeknow how school was, but where is the fun in ''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't thatso much more sensible than a scrap ''book''? After all) Well, actually, there Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are lots sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of interesting creatures living other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guess.}}{{Frontpage|author=Innosanto Nagara|title=M is for Movement|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Set in Indonesia, in the river not too distant past, this is a story about social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and Daisy wants nepotism, the 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 that they will fail. The message is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to make friends with instigate change.|isbn=1609809351}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=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. Thento 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 coursea 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 are being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=Can You Draw the giant lily padsDragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|rating=4. Daisy loves 5|genre=Crafts|summary=You're going to bounce 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 lily padsillustration - and there's a gap. ''You'Bouncy' 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, bouncy bouncybut your name is on the title page - and you have work to do!}}{{Frontpage|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. Bong bong! We don't even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared. People took against it, and if they weren' But when Daisy stops playingt shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, she notices they wanted somethingdone about it. She Can something be done about it, though?}}{{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 all alonebullying 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B01N0OZQOD|title=Nickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto|rating=4|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>1843622726</amazonuk>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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Rickerty0008265836|title=Monkey NutRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Two curious little spiders find Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a monkey nut lying on the groundnormal kid. They don’t He's a detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know what it where to start but, then, Cassidy 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: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is, at risk of dying but they do know that they both want it no-one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory and that they don’t want Cassidy to shareuncover the truth and save a life. But what is this strange}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0192758748|title=Horace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=When Harriet, knobbly object? Is it aged seven and a chair? A musical instrument? Maybe a boat? Whatever it isquarter, 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 believe her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the two little spiders are Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not the only ones interested. A much biggermoves but stamps his foot, hairier spider is lurking shouts something that would get him in 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 shadows, waiting town as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on the chance Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to grab the monkey nut for himselfmuseum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, but will he succeed?a competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Saulles_Bee|title=Bee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers |amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>0857075764</amazonuk>Young Mel's friend has left and the beehive is now his to look after. Unfortunately, Mel lives in a tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that it is the correct place for a hive. Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee.

{{newreview|author=David McKee|title=Elmer Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and Aunt Zelda|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Elmer there are online cartoons devoted to the patchwork elephant was reminded by his cousin Wilbur that they had promised to visit Aunt Zelda, who is getting old character but this marks a new launch and a little bit deafnew series. Their visit This is peppered not just a book but a whole online event with misheard words huge educational tie-ins and misunderstandings but there’s an obvious affection between a push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what the two generations. Aunt Zelda author is very proud of trying to achieve in real life; the two youngsters, and Elmer and Wilbur just love Zelda for what she is. There’s never hint power of impatience or frustration, no matter how wrong Zelda hears what the two young elephants have to say. But - just in case Elmer was feeling at all superior - he finds when he gets home that he’s been rather forgetful tooimagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842707515</amazonuk>

This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's school library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a good rhyming ode to the joys of reading.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela BannerNeal_Words|title=More Words and More Ant and BeeYour Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Right at the beginningTrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, when youwhatever-it're just starting to read books which s-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of piffle. In a world where we all have more words than pictureshearts, you need we should have a book heart that's structured what we say to help youother people is positive. You need a book which is comfy to hold in small hands We can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, and which has bit by bit the world can be a firm cover so that everything keeps better place. And hang the 'no, after you'straightattitude some people would have in response. There, I've given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, but that's not really an issue.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Tavares_Red|title=Red and Lulu|author=Matt Tavares|rating=4. You need to share the reading 5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Meet Red and to know which words youLulu. They're going to read a committed couple of cardinals and you might perhaps appreciate a ''hint'they have lived for some time in someone' s garden, safely in an evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home in the form of a picture lovely song, which will help you to get tells the word all on your owntree thy leaves are so unchanging. Most But one year, just as the seasons turn for the cold of all thoughwinter, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Dickens_Search|title=Search and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Charles Dickens, you need Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Recently I got to have applaud a proper story book that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a feeling that you-searching. Well, it seems tweaking the form is going to be a big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a fictional story. They've achieved something when you get 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 endyear for its ageless lesson. You need Ant and BeeBut does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Seuss_Eggs|title=Scrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers |amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1405266732</amazonuk>Peter T. Hooper doesn't mean to show off, but he is ''very'' good at cooking. Some would say he is ''The Best'' capital T, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that's quite an easy dish, one with which it's a little hard to showcase one's prowess, but not so. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of the egg itself, and he will go out of his way to procure the best of the best from whatever nest.

{{newreview|author=Johanne Mercier|title=Arthur and the Earthworms|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Arthur has got himself a new job. He might be only seven but a boy can never start too soon. He's going to be selling earthworms from a table at the side of the road and the idea came when his pet duck started pulling up the worms. They were his favourite food, you see and on a rainy day you could find a lot of them just near the surface. He and Grandad managed to get quite a few worms together, but trade wasn't very brisk Move on the first and the woman who was determined to buy his pet duck did rather scare him. But the next day, trade picked up (although some of the customers did look suspiciously ''family'') and then the big order came in...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912177</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Entertainment Reviews]]