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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Bently and Russel AytoNigel Baines|title=Dustbin DadA Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=34.5

|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'Dustbin Dad'' is a cautionary tale aimed at all of those children t quite know who leave food on their plate at the end of a meal. Dad likes nothing better than to polish off the leftoversbe, much or how to the disgust of be. And when his family. One day, howeverdad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he gobbles down a pint of something that tastes like fish chowder. Unfortunately, it is cat medicine and it has some very strange side effects indeed, as dad discovers when he hears a loud rip and a long tail pops out of the back of his trousers...''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388744</amazonuk>1444960261

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francesca Simon and Tony RossJane Lightbourne|title=Horrid Henry's NightmareMy Cat Called Red|rating=54|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Horrid Henry was Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the first chapter book my son ever read alonefreckles that go along with it. It was quickly followed by a succession of books in the series and my sonHe's confidence in reading grew by leaps been bullied and bounds with this engaging series that gets young children reading and keeps them readingmocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. The simple fact But red hair is, with such a large number of books not Robin's only misery in the series, any child who reads through the whole lot will improve their reading skillslife. As he has grown older, his tastes in books have changed, but as I sat down to read 'Horrid HenryHe's Nightmare' already lost his dad to my four year old he was happy to listen in as well a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and we all enjoyed sharing this book as a familyis taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000160</amazonuk>1838216812

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne Fine Francesca Simon and Vicki GausdenSteve May|title=How Brave Is That?Two Terrible Vikings|rating=54|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=All Tom has ever wanted In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to do is join be the armyvery worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, but the odds seem stacked against him. Schoolwork doesn't come easily for Tomas they cause havoc at a birthday party, and without chaos whilst tracking a lot of worktroll, he'll never pass his exams. Tom is determined and with enough determination we can overcome huge obstacles. It's undertake a good thing too - because Tom is going grand journey to have major obstacles thrown in his path. Any child raid Bad Island with younger siblings will be able to laugh at the disasters that befall Tom as he tries their friends! They get up to prepare for the most important day all kinds of his life mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf- the exam that will determine his future. If he passes he can join the army. If not cub Bitey- his dreams are overBitey, and their crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122431</amazonuk>0571349498

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gemma Merino1838593187|title=The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson|rating=4.5

|summary=Tilly is excited. She'The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water' begins with a Mother crocodile carrying a basket of blue eggs. But one s just come dashing out of the eggs isn't quite like the othersclassroom, pigtails flapping behind her and when the little crocs hatch, one crocodile isna big grin on her face. Dad't quite like the others. All of the other crocodiles love the water, but the odd one out prefers s come to climb trees. The other crocodiles were not cruel, but collect her and her brother and he felt left out as they all played water games. He tried ''has'' to try to fit guess what she found inthe playground today, but although she concedes that he just wasn't meant to be a water creaturewill never guess. His attempts Dad wants to be something other than what nature intended are touchingknow how school was, but also terribly funny''obviously'' that's not important. Soon the reason Could Tilly have found more collectable things for the little crocodile's dislike of water becomes apparent - he isnher scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a crocodile at scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and all and he wasnsorts of other things in her pocket, but that't meant to swim - he was meant s not what she wants Dad to flyguess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447214714</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lane SmithInnosanto Nagara|title=It's a Little BookM is for Movement|rating=54|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers|summary=Lane Smith's blockbuster hit 'It's A Book' spent six months on Set in Indonesia, in the New York Times bestsellers list. Her new 'It's not too distant past, this is a Little Book' provides a very similar story, but on a level better suited to very young childrenabout social change. Both books feature a very computer-literate donkey Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and a quiet thoughtful monkeynepotism, the book is neither boring nor preachy. In both books It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, donkey has never seen a book before and has all sorts of questions to which monkey always replies ''no'' or ''it's a book''portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will fail. Donkey doesn't seem able to quite figure out why monkey The message is so interested a positive one; that in this thing with no whistles and bells or lights or actionan increasingly uncertain world, or we do still have the power to understand why monkey likes this strange thing so much - until monkey shows him the magic of books as wellinstigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>023076875X</amazonuk>1609809351

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Renee Russell1949471004|title=Dork DiariesDog on a Log Chapter Books: Holiday HeartbreakStep 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=This being 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 sixth full-length novel to feature Nikki Maxwell ones you've been working on and her crush encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on Brandon, there is little point in doing the young dyslexic than a summary or resume at great lengthchild without that problem. TheyYou need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you're still at schoolve been working on, and they're still finding without anything else being in any kind of friendship both socially awkward and hampered by thrown into the presence of the evil Mackenzie, Nikki's cute but catty rivalmix. All You need a story which engages the young mind and you really need to know is this volume covers an entire February, in order – and manages to finish with stages which progress steadily through the Valentine's night school dancelearning process without there being any large jumps. Yes, it has weird circumstances, Nikki getting embarrassed Some online support and jealousgames wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and more''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. But I havenIt should be ''fun''t told you about the greatest surprise yet…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117669</amazonuk>.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tamara Macfarlane099334030X|title=Amazing EsmeCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=Emerging ReadersCrafts|summary=Esme leaves behind her circus home for the first time You're going to spend get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the summer with her cousins Magnustitle page, Cosmo you'll find out what the book's called and Gus at Maclinkey Castle and discovers that it is not quite as she expected'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 very easy 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 lost inside 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?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=Tadcaster and the castle 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 all sorts of weird went sledging if there was snow around. Tim and wonderful animals can be found Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in unlikely placesthe nineteen seventies. The children Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are cared making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for by Mrs Larder other children who gather in the playground. Tim's probably about ten - just at the housekeeper stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who allows delights such as a 's two years younger than him, but he'bads not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bullies.}}{{Frontpage|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-mannered tea partyguarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. Despite She finds the fun whole princessing thing quite boring really and laughter Esme misses her dear friend Donkshe 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 loveable half donkeystand- half horse until one day a mysterious parcel arrives for herup comedian himself. It is then that the adventures really beginHe tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999934</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T Smith0008265836|title=Claude in the SpotlightRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=You have met Claude, havenTen-year-old Rory Branagan isn't you? just a normal kid. He's a funnydetective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, then, plump little dog whose best friend Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is Sir Bobblysock and the two of them frequently get themselves embroiled in all sorts full of adventuresideas. This time Claude heads, accidentally, towards is just as well as they soon discover a career on stage. But something very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is amiss at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the theatretruth and save a life. Can Claude help save the show?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444909290</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombie0192758748|title=You, Me and Thing 4: The Mummy That Went Moo|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Do you remember Thing? Yes, that's right, he's that funny little creature who's a bit like a troll or a fairy or a squirrel or a, well, a ''something'' and he lives in Horace & Harriet Take on the woods at the bottom of Ruby's garden. Ruby and Jackson became friends thanks to discovering Thing, and now they try to take care of him as best they can, and keep him out of trouble if at all possible. Unfortunately with Thing's wayward magical powers it isn't always easy to do!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571272630</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTown|author=Rachel Lyon and Vanina Starkoff|title=The Cautionary Tale of the Childe of HaleClare Elsom

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=There was When Harriet, aged seven and a giant who lived in Hale and if you care quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to you can visit the cottage and grave of John Middleton who reputedly topped nine feet tall and had to sleep Park on Her Own' (i.e. with his feet dangling out of his cottage windowsher Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't believe her eyes. Rachel Lyon tells the lightly-fictionalised story The statue of how Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Childe - as he was known - was taken up by the king, commanded Third (or Horace for short) starts to move to London . He not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and given every luxuryclimbs down from his pillar. For a while he didnUnderstandably Harriet can't regret leaving Hale at resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all - around the town as Horace searches for once he was dry, slept in a comfortable bed new – and had clothes which fit himmore suitable – home. He mixed with His sights are firmly set on the royal family Mayor's mansion and the court - and life seemed goodit, therefore, until the day when the king commanded falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to fightthe museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. This was bad enoughLuckily, but even then however, a competition in the park reveals the king's motives were not exactly as you might expectperfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860951</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony RossSaulles_Bee|title=Prince CharmlessBee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Prince Charmless was probably born complaining Young Mel's friend has left and every day there the beehive is something new now his to complain aboutlook after. Amongst his complaints are that he wants to be a panda rather than a prince; he wants to live Unfortunately, Mel lives in a big, gold palace instead of a silly, silver, little one; tower block and he wants to get up in the middle not all of his neighbours agree that it is the night rather than in the morningcorrect place for a hive. If he can find something to complain about, he will, and Prince Charmless does not worry about upsetting people Things change when Mel suddenly realises he does complain. Unsurprisingly, the palace staff has had enough and all decide to leavean amazing superpower; he can become a bee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395128</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Jane Simmons|title=Come On Daisy!|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Daisy the duckling is having too much fun exploring the riverbank to listen to Mamma Duck. Mamma Joshua Davidson has told her to stay close, but where is written about the fun in that? After all, Night Zookeeper before and there are lots of interesting creatures living in online cartoons devoted to the river character but this marks a new launch and Daisy wants a new series. This is not just a book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to make friends with themget children using their own imagination. Then, of course, there are The story itself mirrors what the giant lily pads. Daisy loves author is trying to bounce on achieve in real life; the power of the lily pads. ''Bouncy, bouncy bouncy. Bong bong!'' But when Daisy stops playing, she notices something. She is all aloneimagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843622726</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Simon Rickerty|title=Monkey Nut|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Two curious little spiders find This is a monkey nut lying on the ground. They don’t know what it isclassic Dr Seuss quote from this book, but they do know that they both want it and one that they don’t want to share. But what I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's school library! The book is this strangevery silly, knobbly object? Is it a chair? A musical instrument? Maybe a boat? Whatever it as Dr Seuss always is, the two little spiders are not the only ones interested. A much bigger, hairier spider but is lurking in the shadows, waiting for the chance also a good rhyming ode to grab the monkey nut for himself, but will he succeed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075764</amazonuk>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]]