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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mi and Museum CityNigel Baines|authortitle=Linda SarahA Tricky Kind of Magic

|summary=Mi lives in Museum CityCooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, but he is lonely and borednamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. Most of the museums there are dull But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and grey and uninterestingnow Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. It is only And when he meets Yu one day that he his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to have funhim, and he wonders if the mayor will let them open up their own, new, fun museum?''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907912282</amazonuk>1444960261

 {{newreview|title=Old Possum's Book of Practical CatsFrontpage|author=T S Eliot and Rebecca Ashdown (Illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=It has always struck me to be the very definition of disappointment to think you're going to study Eliot's poetry at college or university, only to find it is some errant dross like 'The Four Quartets'. His book of Cats poems is in the strictest of verse, it's bursting with levity, it's surely great fun to share – what's not to prefer here? If I were you, I'd just ignore what kind of show these pages once inspired, and turn or return to them, Prufrock be damned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571311865</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewJane Lightbourne|title=Squishy McFluff: the Invisible My Cat!|author=Pip Jones|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Meet Ava. She's a girl of great imagination and a big heart, who brings an invisible cat home to mum one day, who humours Ava by feeding it invisible food and letting the two bond. But when mess gets made, and mistakes about the house happen, Ava declares innocence, and blames it all on the cat – and you'd be surprised how many accidents can be the result of having an invisible kitten indoors…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302505</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A Book is a Book|author=Jenny Bornholdt and Sarah WilkinsCalled Red|rating=4

|summary=Yes, children – adults lie to youRobin has red hair. SometimesHe hates it, even in and the titles of the books they make for you, like this onefreckles that go along with it. A book is a door, itHe's great for boredom, been bullied and mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!''s fine for time up a tree, or in the bath (just not the shower)Kids are mean. It can be borrowed, and then lent if itBut red hair is not Robin's a great one you enjoyedonly misery in life. ItHe's certainly never the case that already lost his dad to a book mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is just a book, as the title of this book would have you believetaken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1877579920</amazonuk>1838216812

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I am Cat (mini edition)Francesca Simon and Steve May|authortitle=Jackie MorrisTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=You're always supposed to tell when In a dog is dreaming – the twitching limbs small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and jerking joints allegedly proving Whack, who are eager to be the sleeping Fido is imagining himself on the chase. very worst Vikings ever! Cats areNothing can stop their mad marauding, as alwaysthey cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a bit more secretivetroll, but [[:Category:Jackie Morris|Jackie Morris]] offers evidence here that they are more or less thinking the same thing – even the domestic moggy, curled and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds of mischief and closed innaughty behaviour, is picturing a different self – one sleeking through snowsalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, relaxing on the savannah or alertly moving through its territory. It's a very pleasant view into the mindset and their crazy cast of catsfriends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805078</amazonuk>0571349498

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838593187|title=Choosing CrumbleGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross (Illustrator)Victoria Thompson

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Terri- Lee wants a dogTilly is excited. She is positive that a dog will be 's just come dashing out of the perfect pet for classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and will settle for nothing elsea big grin on her face. When Terri-Lee Dad's come to collect her and her mum visit brother and he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the pet shop together they think playground today, although she concedes that they he will be choosing a dog however, Crumble, the dog, has very different ideasnever guess. He Dad wants to be sure know how school was, but ''obviously'' that his prospective owner is the perfect match 's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for him her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and has a few questions all sorts of his own. Will Terri- Lee be able to convince Crumble other things in her pocket, but that 's not what she should be his owner?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395284</amazonuk>wants Dad to guess.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Christmas Present (Hello Kitty and Friends)Innosanto Nagara|authortitle=Linda Chapman and Michelle MisraM is for Movement

|summary=Hello Kitty and her friends have Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a series of books but you don’t need to know story about their previous adventures to enjoy this onesocial change. There’s a helpful illustration of Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, the whole gang at the beginningbook is neither boring nor preachy. It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, including Grandpa and Grandma it portrays how social movements need people who don’t feature in these two storieswill try, and you also get to see all the friends with their mixed up names: Hello Kitty’s twin even when it seems that they will fail. The message is Mimmy (why not Hi Mimmy?!) and then there’s Tammya positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, Fifi and we do still have the slightly odd Dear Danielpower to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007515812</amazonuk>1609809351

 {{newreview<!-- 13/12 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Dom Conlon and Carl Pugh1949471004|title=Tommy TickletailDog on a Log Chapter Books: A Tall TaleStep 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=Sophie 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 Sam encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a midnight missionchild without that problem. It's You need to be able to buy books at a long time since supper and theyreasonable price which concentrate on what you're both hungryve been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. Obviously You need a trip to see what's in story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the fridge (they've got high expectations) is essential but learning process without there are dangers to overcomebeing any large jumps. ItSome online support and games wouldn's darkt go amiss, either. They really Reading - and ''shouldn'tlearning'' to read - should be raiding the fridge and - most frightening of all - there's Tommy Tickletail who has a body twelve feet long and sleeps under the kitchen tablepleasure. TheyIt should be ''fun''ve got to get to the fridge without waking the monster - or who knows what the consequences will be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00H53FGMM</amazonuk>.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dom Conlon and Nicola Anderson099334030X|title=I Am A Giant (Tiny Can You Draw the Giant)Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Tiny knew that he was You're going to get a gianthint of what this book's about very quickly. In fact When you see the title page, you couldn't help thinking that he was a little bit cross about ll find out what the fact book's called and that he had it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to keep telling peoplewho has done the illustration - and there's a gap. He'd shake his fists and roar 'You'' are going to put your name there. It's 'I AM A GIANT'your''. Proof was important, responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of course and the first step was largest creatures ever to measure his shadow, which he did when roam the sun was low - but it wasn't just one stepearth. It was many and his shadow still ran on ahead of him. Off he went to tell the worldThere's some help available, but your name is on the mountains were, well, dismissive and the tall trees whispered about it amongst themselves before they rejected what he had to say. The wind didn't agree either title page - and went on and on about it until Tiny ran away you have work to the sea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00H3PYDC6</amazonuk>do!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1609809335|title=The Secret Staircase (Brambly Hedge)Lizard|author=Jill BarklemJose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=3.52|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Primrose and Wilfred have One day a poem to rehearse as part of giant lizard appears in the mouse communitycity. We don's midwinter celebrationst even get told how it arrived, but nowhere to practiceit certainly appeared. People took against it, until and if they are shunted up to an atticweren't shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it. But once there chance discoveries lead them to find a new world that they could hardly have imagined – luxurious rooms carved into the upper reaches of the oak treeCan something be done about it, where nobody has gone for years…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0001840851</amazonuk>though?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=Alice Through Tadcaster and the Looking GlassBullies|author=Emma Chichester ClarkRichard Rutherford|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=As In some ways it was a childgentler time: video games were around, I found the Alice stories weird 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 bit dark. Helena Bonham Carter business in 1899 so our story is probably set in book form, perhapsthe nineteen seventies. Not for everyone, no matter how many times the word ''Classic' Something which hasn' was bandied aroundt changed, identifying them as a Very Good Thing that everyone should have read. If this was your experience of the original Lewis Carrollunfortunately, then put those thoughts to one side is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for a moment Tim and let me tell you Mary but for other children who gather in the playground. Tim's probably about this book. It’s ten - just at the original storystage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, re-told and re-illustratedwho's two years younger than him, and what a difference it makesbut he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007425082</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B01N0OZQOD|title=Mr WufflesNickerbacher|author=David WiesnerTerry John Barto

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Mr Wuffles (a name I cannot help but imagine being said in a Chinese American accent) Nickerbacher is a felinedoing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. Not a kittyThat dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. Definitely not a pussyThat's what dragons are for, after all. Barely even a cat, he’s so fierceBut Gwendolyn isn't any princess. Look at him glaring out at you from She finds the cover. He looks like trouble, not so whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in a cheeky, mischievous way but fairy tales than she is in a dirty, rotten scoundrel onewatching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Mr Wuffles’ owner clearly does not know her pet very well. She offers him a typicalNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, pet store toy but it's his favourite TV show because he simply turns wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his nose at it and stalks jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come offquite as Nickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397805</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=Horrid Henry's Christmas Play ( Horrid Henry Early Reader)Rory Branagan Detective|author=Francesca Simon Andrew Clover and Tony RossRalph Lazar

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Horrid Henry Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's a detective 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, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is one full of those characters that parents either love or hateideas. Some parents feel Henry sets This is just as well as they soon discover a very bad example - serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at times risk of dying but no-one else will believe he does, but what child doesn't love a bad example? Other parents love Henry simply because their children love hims in danger. Horrid Henry Books not only help children learn It's up to read, they encourage them Rory and Cassidy to read for pleasure, uncover the truth and children who read for pleasure invariably become better readerssave a life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001108</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192758748|title=The Dragonsitter's CastleHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Josh Lacey and Garry ParsonsClare Elsom|rating=54|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=When Edward finds his Uncle Morton's dragons at the doorHarriet, he is quite happy to take aged seven and a shift at dragon sittingquarter, along decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park on Her Own' (i.e. with his little sister Emilyher Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't believe her eyes. His parents however are far less happy, and The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the fact that they are recently divorced Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only makes things more complicated. It seems moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that the dragons visit was completely unplannedwould get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and the adults are completely unprepared for the event. The story is told in letters climbs down from Eddie to his Uncle, the former detailing the dragonspillar. Understandably Harriet can' latest escapade, t resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the latter writing about one delay after town as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on the other. EddieMayor's mother is getting ready mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to go away on persuade him that there must be a yoga retreat and Dadbetter alternative. Sadly, Horace's new girlfriend says absolutely no dragons. What are visits to the children to do? Dad finally gives inmuseum, cinema, train station, playground, taking the dragons bank and children to the castle he is renovating library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the hopes of striking it rich. Needless to say nothing goes to plan where dragons are involved and the grown ups are in for quite a few problems, but things work out quite well from park reveals the children's point of viewperfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397694</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Saulles_Bee|title=TwitBee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Steve ColeTony De Saulles|rating=34.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If I asked you Young Mel's friend has left and the beehive is now his to name look after. Unfortunately, Mel lives in a clever animal, you’d quite likely choose an owl. After tower block and not all, they are known to be the wisest of birds, aren’t they? There’s one exception to his neighbours agree that rule, thoughit is the correct place for a hive. Meet TwitThings change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee. He’s rather cute with his big round eyes, and he’s polite and kind… but he’s not very wise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009699</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Davidson_Night|title=Bob Books FirstNight Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Bobby Lynn Maslen and John MaslenJoshua Davidson

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=As a home educator, this simple set of books is A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of the most essential educational items I own. I've ended up buying 4 sets, as one was given away to a family in desperate straights, one was water damaged, creativity and most recently has a few books out world of the last set have disappearedmagic and imagination opened up for him. It Will is the one thing I just can not manage without, so even though I'm sure they'll turn up eventually, I simply can not wait new Night Zookeeper and ordered a fourth set. I have literally invested hundreds of pounds his tenure in phonics programmes, and I have some wonderful resources, but as simple as these books are, they are the one set I can not manage without. They break everything down into such simple terms that even the youngest child can easily get a grasp role of how protector to use phonics to decode new words. It is not even necessary for the child to know their alphabet first, although I would recommend waiting until a magical world starts with the child not only knows their alphabet, but also can recognise basic shapes and patterns, knows text is read from left to right, and can recognise a couple repulsion of words in print, such as their own name. It is possible to teach a very young child, even as young as two or three to read a few of these books, but it really is best to achieve some degree of reading readiness firstdangerous invasion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0439845009</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The First Third Wish (Little Gems)|author=Ian Beck|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=This is a lovely story of a lost wish. Cobweb Joshua Davidson has bungled her very first assignment, losing written about the Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the third wish meant for character but this marks a new launch and a kindly woodcutternew series. She managed to replace it with This is not just a spare, book but her job will not be complete until the missing wish is found and returned. It seems a lost wish is very dangerous indeed as it gives the finder an unlimited supply of wishes whole online event with huge educational tie- ins and not all people are careful a push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what they wish for. As luck would have it though, the wish has found its way just author is trying to achieve in real life; the place where it most needed, where it will result in a true happily ever after, not only for power of the young man who finds it, but for many others as wellimagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122458</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Read|title=I Can Read With My Friend's a Gris-Kwok (Little Gems)Eyes Shut|author=Malorie Blackman and Andy RowlandDr Seuss

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=When Mike discovers ''The more that his best friend Alex is a Gris Kwok or shape shifter it looks like they are in for some real fun. Not only can Alex change into any creature he wantsyou read, he can change anyone touching him as well. There are only three hitches. ''<br>''The first is that Alex can only change three times a daymore things you will know. ''<br>''The second is more that his sister has the same powers. The third is that Alex is babysitting and if you think babysitting ordinary siblings is difficult just wait until you see all the mischief a shape shifting toddler can get into.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112244Xlearn,''</amazonukbr>}}''The more places you'll go.''

{{newreview|title=Alphabet (My First Bob Books)|author=Sue Hendra and John R Maslen|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=BOB Books are designed to teach children to read through phonics. I do own several different phonics programmesThis is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and this is one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of the best. I feel it is comparable to my children''Hooked On Phonics'' at a fraction of the price. Another advantage to these books s school library! The book is that you do not need to buy the whole programme in one go. You can buy each set very silly, as you need itDr Seuss always is, and most sets will take at least one term but is also a good rhyming ode to completethe joys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0545019214</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Toucan CanNeal_Words|authortitle=Juliette MacIver Words and Sarah Davis|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If you’ve ever wondered what a toucan can do, this book will tell you. The answer, in a nutshell, is EVERYTHING!. Some are typical things – dancing and singing and sliding and swinging. Some are more random – banging a frying pan, doing the cancan. But they all look like a lot of fun, and the question remains: ''can you do what Toucan can?'' I bet, I bet, I bet you can!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467537</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewYour Heart|author=Margaret Henderson Smith|title=Smart Read EasyKate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Reading has always been one of my great pleasures and Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's one which has been passed down in my family. It's the key to so much: without an easy grasp of -called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the skill employment opportunities are limited, there's always going to be social embarrassment lurking around the corner adage about sticks and there's the loss stones is actually a lot of so much ''fun'' and enjoymentpiffle. It's well over half In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a century since I learned to read and in heart that time I've seen numerous schemes for teaching children what we say to read come other people is positive. We can examine our world and gothe sound it makes through communication, some discreditedwe can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, some no longer fashionableand bit by bit the world can be a better place. ItAnd hang the 's always struck me though that no one system will work for all children; reading will click for , after you' attitude some using one methodpeople would have in response. There, some another and occasionally whatI's needed is a combination just to slot all ve given the bits entire plot of the jigsaw into placethis book away in my summary, but that's not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845495756</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tavares_Red|title=The Christmas CarrotRed and Lulu|author=Allan PlenderleithMatt Tavares

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=It’s Christmas time, Meet Red and there’s every reason to be afraid, at least if you’re Lulu. They're a carrot. While everyone else is getting excited about the seasoncommitted couple of cardinals and they have lived for some time in someone's garden, the Christmas carrot is dreading itsafely in an evergreen tree. He’s about It seems to go under the knife and emerge as them that every year people mention their home in a side dish on lovely song, which tells the family dinner table tomorrowtree thy leaves are so unchanging. Gulp! Luckily Billy has other ideasBut one year, and seizes him from just as the kitchen where his dad (a nice touch…it’s not just mums who cook) had been about to prepare him. Outside they go, heading seasons turn for Billy’s snowman who is missing one small feature… a nose! It’s a last minute save from the chopping boardcold of winter, but the Christmas carrot is still not happy tree vanishes, taking Lulu with this career change, because it’s, y’know, rather cold out here. And so his adventure continues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613754</amazonuk>it…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dickens_Search|title=Too Many Hats (My First Reader)Search and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Hilda OffenCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=43.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=It can be difficult, sometimes, Recently I got to find applaud a good story book that an emerging reader can try to read themselves. I know some of the books my daughter has brought home branched away from school to read have had the most boring plots ever! This is an example of a good early reader however. ItWhere's Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about a funny story about princesses and hats and non-fiction subject as they went a cat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957301332</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Things You Never Knew About Dinosaurs|author=Giles Paley-Phillips and Liz Pichon|rating=4searching.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The idea of Well, it seems tweaking the form is going to be a dinosaur on big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a trampoline or playing football is just plain sillyfictional story. After allThey've started at the deep end, everyone knows dinosaurs died out yonks ago…didn’t they? Nopewith 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 lesson. NoBut does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, they did not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472319842</amazonuk>survive this quirky variation?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Eggs|title=Elmer and the WhalesScrambled Eggs Super|author=David McKee Dr Seuss

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Elmer and Wilbur are spending some time 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 Grandpa Eldowhich it's a little hard to showcase one's prowess, something lots of children will identify withbut not so. For Peter T. He tells them that in Hooper, what makes his youth, this was scrambled eggs so super is the time choice of year he’d go down to the coast for some Whale watching and, wellegg itself, that sounds like a marvellous idea, so Elmer and Wilbur decide to try it for themselves. But it turns he will go out there’s more of his way to Grandpa Eldo’s story than he’s telling them, and Elmer and Wilbur soon find themselves on a wild adventureprocure the best of the best from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184939749X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Dixie O'Day in the Fast Lane|author=Shirley Hughes and Clara Vulliamy|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The first collaboration by award winning children’s author [[:Category:Shirley Hughes|Shirley Hughes]] and her illustrator/author daughter Move on to [[:Category:Clara Vulliamy|Clara VulliamyNewest Entertainment Reviews]] has been eagerly anticipated for some time and this gorgeous little book more than meets expectations. In the first of a new series we meet Dixie, a car-loving dog who is always ready for adventure and Percy his smaller and slightly more cautious friend. Together the two chums enter an all-day race in Dixie’s car and are determined that they will win first prize. However, first they discover that they will be up against Dixie’s arch rival Lou-Ella, then all manner of mishaps cause them problems and the race does not go smoothly for our heroes. Can Dixie save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782300120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=George's Dragon Goes to School|author=Claire Freedman and Russell Julian|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I would have been useless during ''Take your pet to school'' week. The goldfish who lived with us for short moments of my life (and the entirety of their short lives) wouldn’t have been very portable and even if they had, they’d have been a bit boring, swimming in circles mouthing 'o-o-o' . I would have been immensely jealous of anyone who brought in a lively puppy or a cute snuffly bunny rabbit. As a bit of a trophy whore even at a young age, I would have been very sad that I wasn’t really in the running for the ''Best Pet'' cup.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132067</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Blood and Guts and Rats' Tail Pizza|author=Vivian French and Chris Fisher|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Despite a revolting menu with dishes like slug and snail stew or rats' tail pizzas, Billy Bone's café was usually packed at lunchtime. Perhaps because there was no other place to eat. All of their customers were male, because neither Billy Bones, nor his assistant Hank liked girls at all. A large sign in the window proclaimed ''Absolutely No Girls! But one day the customers disappeared - and what was worse, Hank soon discovered their customers had all been stolen by girls. The girls were very large, green and hairy but they were girls nonetheless, and their traveling cake shop had enticed all of Billy Bone's customers away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444007297</amazonuk>}}