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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}}{{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. 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__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne Willis 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 Tony RossWhack, 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=Prince CharmlessGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|summary=Prince Charmless was probably born complaining Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and every day there is something new he ''has'' to try to complain about. Amongst his complaints are guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to be a panda rather know how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a prince; he wants to live in a bigscrap ''book''?) Well, gold palace instead of a sillyactually, silverTilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, little one; glittered paper and he all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to get up guess.}}{{Frontpage|author=Innosanto Nagara|title=M is for Movement|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Set in Indonesia, in the middle of not too distant past, this is a story about social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, the night rather than in the morningbook is neither boring nor preachy. If he can find something to complain about It educates gently, with vibrant, he willchallenging illustrations, and Prince Charmless does not worry about upsetting it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when he does complainit seems that they will fail. Unsurprisingly The message is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the palace staff has had enough and all decide power to leaveinstigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849395128</amazonuk>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 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 ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie 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!}}{{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. 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?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=Tadcaster and the Bullies|author=Jane SimmonsRichard 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B01N0OZQOD|title=Come On Daisy!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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=Rory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Daisy the duckling is having too much fun exploring the riverbank Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's a detective and he has a mystery to listen solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to Mamma Duckstart but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. Mamma This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has told her to stay close, but where been poisoned and is the fun in that? After all, there are lots at risk of interesting creatures living dying but no-one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the river truth and Daisy wants save a life.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0192758748|title=Horace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=When Harriet, aged seven and a quarter, decides to make friends go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park on Her Own' (i.e. with themher Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't believe her eyes. ThenThe 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, of courseshouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, there are and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the giant lily padstown as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. Daisy loves to bounce His sights are firmly set on the lily padsMayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace''Bouncys visits to the museum, cinema, train station, playground, bouncy bouncybank and library all cause mayhem. Bong bong!'' But when Daisy stops playingLuckily, however, she notices somethinga competition in the park reveals the perfect answer. She is all alone}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Saulles_Bee|title=Bee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers |amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1843622726</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=Simon Rickerty|title=Monkey Nut|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Two curious little spiders find 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 monkey nut lying on the groundnew series. They don’t know what it This is, not just a book but they do know that they both want it a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and that they don’t want a push to shareget children using their own imagination. But The story itself mirrors what is this strange, knobbly object? Is it a chair? A musical instrument? Maybe a boat? Whatever it is, the two little spiders are not the only ones interested. A much bigger, hairier spider author is lurking trying to achieve in real life; the shadows, waiting for power of the chance to grab the monkey nut for himself, but will he succeed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075764</amazonuk>imagination makes everything better.

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=David McKeeNeal_Words|title=Elmer Words and Aunt ZeldaYour Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Elmer Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the patchwork elephant was reminded by his cousin Wilbur adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of piffle. In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that they had promised what we say to visit Aunt Zeldaother people is positive. We can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, who is getting old and bit by bit the world can be a little bit deafbetter place. And hang the 'no, after you' attitude 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=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Meet Red and Lulu. Their visit is peppered with misheard words They're a committed couple of cardinals and misunderstandings but there’s they have lived for some time in someone's garden, safely in an obvious affection between evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the two generationstree thy leaves are so unchanging. Aunt Zelda is very proud But one year, just as the seasons turn for the cold of winter, the two youngsterstree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Dickens_Search|title=Search and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Elmer Louise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Recently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, and Wilbur just love Zelda for what she istaught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. There’s never hint of impatience or frustrationWell, no matter how wrong Zelda hears what it seems tweaking the two young elephants have form is going to be a big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to sayteach us about a fictional story. But - just in case Elmer was feeling They've started at all superior - he finds when he gets home the deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and one that he’s has been rather forgetful tooadapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it at a certain time of the year for its ageless lesson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842707515</amazonuk>But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela BannerSeuss_Eggs|title=More and More Ant and BeeScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Right at the beginning, when youPeter T. Hooper doesn're just starting t mean to read books which have more words than picturesshow off, you need a book thatbut he is ''very''s structured to help yougood at cooking. You need a book which Some would say he is comfy to hold in small hands and which has a firm cover so that everything keeps ''straightThe Best''capital T, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You need to share the reading and to know might think that's quite an easy dish, one with which words youit're going s a little hard to read and you might perhaps appreciate a showcase one''hint'' in s prowess, but not so. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the form choice of a picture which the egg itself, and he will help you go out of his way to get procure the word all on your own. Most best of all though, you need to have a proper story and a feeling that you've achieved something when you get to the end. You need Ant and Beebest from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266732</amazonuk>

{{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]]