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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Famous Five Colour Reads: A Lazy AfternoonNigel Baines|authortitle=Enid BlytonA Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5

|summary=Perhaps the only thing better than a favourite author publishing Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a new bookmagician, is one of their old works that you missed first time around being re-releasedand named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. The Famous Five, you see But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, didn’t just feature in their most well-known tales. They also had some short story adventures that were first seen in albums and magazines and whatnot, but are now being published as books in their own right. Hurrah!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444916297</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Blamehounds (Little Gems)|author=Ross Collins|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The idea began with Mr Lime’s bodily explosions (didn’t I put that nicely?) After three of them it was Norman the dog (Cooper doesn't quite know who was entirely blameless in this matter so long as you’re willing to overlook the fact that he was having a lovely dream about dropping cats off bridges) who got the kick be, or how to speed him from the roombe. There were a couple more occasions And when something similar happened but instead of getting a complex about his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what was happening, Norman saw an opportunity. A business opportunity. If dogs were 's going to get the blame then there should be something in it for them and he went into partnership with his best mate, Ringo (who does seem to be obsessed with sausages) and Blamehounds was born.on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123926</amazonuk>1444960261

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Barbapapa's ArkJane Lightbourne|authortitle=Annette Tison and Talus TaylorMy Cat Called Red|rating=54

|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. ''Barbapapa’s ArkGinger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is the fourth book not Robin's only misery in the popular series about a shape-shifting pink blob, his wife and seven childrenlife. It follows on from the previous book, in which Barbapapa and He's already lost his family built themselves a beautiful house in a peaceful valley. One day, after a picnic, the family decide dad to take a leisurely ride along the river, but are horrified to see sick mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and injured animals suffering from the effects of pollutionis taken into hospital. Over time, more and more animals She doesn't come to Barbapapa for help. He decides that the only way to teach the humans a lesson is to take the animals to a new, green planet where they will be safehome again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408331381</amazonuk>1838216812

 {{newreview|title=Convertible SpaceshipFrontpage|author=Claire Philip Francesca Simon and Belinda Gallagher|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When is a book, not a book? When it is also a playmat and also a spaceship. With ‘Convertible Spaceship’ you get all three; a book that folds out into a playmat or into a spaceship. Can I hear the excitement from here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782094970</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSteve May|title=Mr Monkey and the Birthday Party (Early Reader)|author=Linda Chapman and Sam HearnTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=What is In a young girl small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to do? be the very worst Vikings ever! Anya wants to go with the rest of her primary school class to Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a swimming birthday party, but she's worried of being laughed at for staying at toddlers' depthchaos whilst tracking a troll, for she is not and undertake a confident swimmer. grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! As luck would have it, she has been picked They get up to take home the class 'pet'all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, the cuddly toy called Mr Monkey, for the weekalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and just as luck would have it, he's actually a secretly magical beingtheir crazy cast of friends. But could even he get Anya out of her jam and make a Cinderella moment come true?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009850</amazonuk>0571349498

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838593187|title=Chocolate Porridge (Early Reader)Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Margaret Mahy and Terry MilneVictoria Thompson

|summary=Young Timothy has been drummed Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of his motherthe classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. Dad's kitchen by come to collect her and her brother and his sistershe ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, so although she concedes that he cannot join in with their bakingwill never guess. Instead he goes Dad wants to the garden and devises chocolate porridge – 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 lot of mudscrap ''book''?) Well, actually, plus some other ingredientsTilly did find exciting stuff. But only when heThere are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's happy with his craft does he begin to realise that not even calling mud chocolate porridge makes it edible. Oh what is a boy she wants Dad to do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011308</amazonuk>guess.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fleatectives: Case of the Stolen NectarInnosanto Nagara|authortitle=Jonny ZuckerM is for Movement

|summary=Harry would like to be a knight. It seems like everyone else Set in Indonesia, in his family the not too distant past, this is a knightstory about social change. Nobody takes Harry very seriously though because Harry Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, the book is quite smallneither boring nor preachy. He's very determinedIt educates gently, howeverwith vibrant, challenging illustrations, and so he decides it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that he they will go on a mission to prove his worth as a knightfail. The mission message is a positive one; that he sets himself is in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to catch a dragon!instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444011049</amazonuk>1609809351

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=A Walk In ParisDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Salvatore RubbinoPamela Brookes|rating=54|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Welcome 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 City ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of Lights! Come join a little girl and her grandad as they spend negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. You need to be able to buy books at a magical day exploring reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the sights of Parismix. Follow them as they see You need a story which engages the Louvre, young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the Eiffel Tower learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and Notre Damegames wouldn't go amiss, either. Sit down with them in the bistro as they tuck into lunch, Reading - and then look longingly alongside them as they gaze at the delicious treats in the window of the pâtisserie''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406341525</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=Mi and Museum CityCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Linda SarahPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=Emerging ReadersCrafts|summary=Mi lives in Museum CityYou're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the title page, but he is lonely you'll find out what the book's called and boredthat it's been written by Peter Lynas. Most of Then we move on to who has done the museums illustration - and there 's a gap. ''You'' are dull and grey and uninterestinggoing to put your name there. It is only when he meets Yu 's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one day that he starts of the largest creatures ever to have funroam the earth. There's some help available, but your name is on the title page - and he wonders if the mayor will let them open up their own, new, fun museum?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912282</amazonuk>you have work to do!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1609809335|title=Old Possum's Book of Practical CatsThe Lizard|author=T S Eliot Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Rebecca Ashdown Lucia Caistor (Illustratortranslator)|rating=4.52|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers |summary=It has always struck me to be One day a giant lizard appears in the very definition of disappointment to think youcity. We don're going to study Eliot's poetry at college or universityt even get told how it arrived, only to find but it is some errant dross like 'The Four Quartets'certainly appeared. His book of Cats poems is in the strictest of verse, it's bursting with levity, People took against 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>}} {{newreview|title=Squishy McFluff: the Invisible Cat!|author=Pip Jones|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Meet Ava. Sheif they weren's t shrugging it off as a girl of great imagination and a big hearthallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, who brings an invisible cat home to mum one day, who humours Ava by feeding they wanted something done about it invisible food and letting the two bond. But when mess gets made, and mistakes Can something be done about the house happenit, 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>though?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=A Book is a BookTadcaster and the Bullies|author=Jenny Bornholdt and Sarah WilkinsRichard Rutherford

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=YesIn some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children – adults lie usually went outside to youenjoy themselves. Sometimes, even in the titles of the books they make for you, like this oneThey flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. A book is a door, itTim and Mary's great for boredom, it's fine for time up -grandfather started a tree, or business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the bath (just not the shower)nineteen seventies. It can be borrowedSomething which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and then lent if it's a great one you enjoyedtwo lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the playground. ItTim's certainly never probably about ten - just at the case that a book is just a bookstage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, as but he's not yet at the title of this book would have you believestage where he knows how to deal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579920</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B01N0OZQOD|title=I am Cat (mini edition)Nickerbacher|author=Jackie MorrisTerry John Barto

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=You're always supposed to tell when a dog Nickerbacher is dreaming – the twitching limbs and jerking joints allegedly proving the sleeping Fido doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is imagining himself on the chase, of course, princess-guarding. Cats That's what dragons arefor, as always, a bit more secretive, but [[:Category:Jackie Morris|Jackie Morris]] offers evidence here that they are more or less thinking after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the same whole princessing thing – even the domestic moggy, curled up quite boring really and closed she is much less interested in, fairy tales than she is picturing a different self – one sleeking through snows, relaxing in watching comedy on the savannah or alertly moving through its territory''The Late Knight Show''. ItNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to be a very pleasant view into the mindset of catsstand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805078</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=Choosing CrumbleRory Branagan Detective|author=Michael Rosen Andrew Clover and Tony Ross (Illustrator)Ralph Lazar|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=TerriTen-year- Lee wants old Rory Branagan isn't just a dognormal kid. She is positive that He's a dog will be the perfect pet for her detective and will settle for nothing else. When Terri-Lee and her mum visit the pet shop together they think that they will be choosing he has a dog howevermystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, Crumble, the dogthen, 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 different ideasserious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in danger. He wants It's up to Rory and Cassidy to be sure that his prospective owner is uncover the perfect match for him truth and has save a few questions of his ownlife. Will Terri- Lee be able to convince Crumble that she should be his owner?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395284</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Christmas Present (Hello Kitty and Friends)0192758748|author=Linda Chapman and Michelle Misra|rating=4|genretitle=Emerging Readers|summary=Hello Kitty and her friends have a series of books but you don’t need to know about their previous adventures to enjoy this one. There’s a helpful illustration of the whole gang at the beginning, including Grandpa and Grandma who don’t feature in these two stories, and you also get to see all the friends with their mixed up names: Hello Kitty’s twin is Mimmy (why not Hi Mimmy?!) and then there’s Tammy, Fifi and Horace & Harriet Take on the slightly odd Dear Daniel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007515812</amazonuk>}} {{newreview<!-- 13/12 -->Town|author=Dom Conlon and Carl Pugh|title=Tommy Tickletail: A Tall TaleClare Elsom

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Sophie When Harriet, aged seven and Sam are on a midnight mission. Itquarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 's a long time since supper and theyGoing to the Park on Her Own're both hungry(i.e. Obviously a trip to see whatwith her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can's in t believe her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the fridge Third (they've got high expectationsor Horace for short) is essential but there are dangers starts to overcomemove. ItHe not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's darkmum, and climbs down from his pillar. They really ''shouldnUnderstandably Harriet can't'' be raiding resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the fridge town as Horace searches for a new – and - most frightening of all - theremore suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's Tommy Tickletail who has mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a body twelve feet long and sleeps under the kitchen tablebetter alternative. TheySadly, Horace've got to get s visits to the fridge without waking museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the monster - or who knows what park reveals the consequences will be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00H53FGMM</amazonuk>perfect answer.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dom Conlon and Nicola AndersonSaulles_Bee|title=I Am A Giant (Tiny Bee Boy: Clash of the Giant)Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Tiny knew that he was a giant. In fact you couldnYoung Mel't help thinking that he was a little bit cross about s friend has left and the fact that he had beehive is now his to keep telling peoplelook after. He'd shake his fists Unfortunately, Mel lives in a tower block and roar '''I AM A GIANT'''. Proof was important, not all of course and the first step was to measure his shadow, which he did when neighbours agree that it is the sun was low - but it wasn't just one stepcorrect place for a hive. It was many and his shadow still ran on ahead of him. Off Things change when Mel suddenly realises he went to tell the world, but the mountains were, well, dismissive and the tall trees whispered about it amongst themselves before they rejected what has an amazing superpower; he had to saycan become a bee. The wind didn't agree either - and went on and on about it until Tiny ran away to the sea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00H3PYDC6</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=The Secret Staircase (Brambly Hedge)|author=Jill Barklem|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Primrose Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and Wilfred have a poem there are online cartoons devoted to rehearse as part of the mouse community's midwinter celebrations, character but this marks a new launch and a new series. This is not just a book but nowhere to practice, until they are shunted up a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to an atticget children using their own imagination. But once there chance discoveries lead them The story itself mirrors what the author is trying to find a new world that they could hardly have imagined – luxurious rooms carved into achieve in real life; the upper reaches power of the oak tree, where nobody has gone for years…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0001840851</amazonuk>imagination makes everything better.

{{newreview|title=Alice Through the Looking Glass|author=Emma Chichester Clark|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=As This is a childclassic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I found painstakingly stickered onto the Alice stories weird and a bit dark. Helena Bonham Carter in wall of my children's school library! The book formis very silly, perhaps. Not for everyone, no matter how many times the word ''Classic'' was bandied aroundas Dr Seuss always is, identifying them as but is also a Very Good Thing that everyone should have read. If this was your experience of the original Lewis Carroll, then put those thoughts good rhyming ode to one side for a moment and let me tell you about this book. It’s the original story, re-told and re-illustrated, and what a difference it makesjoys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007425082</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Neal_Words|title=Mr WufflesWords and Your Heart|author=David WiesnerKate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Mr Wuffles (a name I cannot help but imagine being said in a Chinese American accent) Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones is actually a felinelot of piffle. Not In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a kittyheart that what we say to other people is positive. Definitely not 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 bit by bit the world can be a pussybetter place. Barely even a catAnd hang the 'no, he’s so fierce. Look at him glaring out at after you from the cover' attitude some people would have in response. He looks like troubleThere, not so much I've given the entire plot of this book away in a cheekymy summary, mischievous way but in a dirty, rotten scoundrel one. Mr Wuffles’ owner clearly does that's not know her pet very well. She offers him a typical, pet store toy but he simply turns up his nose at it and stalks offreally an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397805</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tavares_Red|title=Horrid Henry's Christmas Play ( Horrid Henry Early Reader)Red and Lulu|author=Francesca Simon and Tony RossMatt Tavares|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Horrid Henry is one of those characters that parents either love or hateMeet Red and Lulu. Some parents feel Henry sets They're a very bad example - committed couple of cardinals and at times he doesthey have lived for some time in someone's garden, but what child doesn't love safely in an evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home in a bad example? Other parents love Henry simply because their children love himlovely song, which tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. Horrid Henry Books not only help children learn to readBut one year, they encourage them to read just as the seasons turn for pleasurethe cold of winter, and children who read for pleasure invariably become better readers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001108</amazonuk>the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Dragonsitter's CastleDickens_Search|authortitle=Josh Lacey Search and Garry ParsonsFind A Christmas Carol|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summaryauthor=When Edward finds his Uncle Morton's dragons at the door, he is quite happy to take a shift at dragon sitting, along with his little sister Emily. His parents however are far less happy, and the fact that they are recently divorced only makes things more complicated. It seems that the dragons visit was completely unplannedCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and the adults are completely unprepared for the event. The story is told in letters from Eddie to his Uncle, the former detailing the dragons' latest escapade, and the latter writing about one delay after the other. Eddie's mother is getting ready to go away on a yoga retreat and Dad's new girlfriend says absolutely no dragons. What are the children to do? Dad finally gives in, taking the dragons and children to the castle he is renovating 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 the children's point of view.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397694</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Twit|author=Steve ColeLouise Pigott

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If Recently I asked you got to name applaud a clever animal, you’d quite likely choose an owl. After all, they are known to be book that branched away from the wisest of birds, aren’t theyWhere's Wally? There’s one exception to that rule, though. Meet Twit. He’s rather cute with his big round eyesstyle volume, and he’s polite and kind… but he’s not very wisetaught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009699</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bob Books First|author=Bobby Lynn Maslen and John Maslen|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=As a home educatorWell, this simple set of books it seems tweaking the form is one of the most essential educational items I own. I've ended up buying 4 sets, as one was given away going to be a family in desperate straightsbig thing, one was water damaged, and most recently for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a few books out of the last set have disappearedfictional story. It is They've started at the one thing I just can not manage withoutdeep end, so even though I'm sure they'll turn up eventually, I simply can not wait and ordered with a fourth set. I have literally invested hundreds of pounds in phonics programmesbook hastening towards being two centuries old, 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 has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it at a grasp certain time of how to use phonics to decode new wordsthe year for its ageless lesson. It is not even necessary for the child to know their alphabet first, although I would recommend waiting until But does 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 rich content of words in print, such as their own name. It is possible to teach a very young childDickens, even as young as two or three to read a few of these booksat his most populist, but it really is best to achieve some degree of reading readiness first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0439845009</amazonuk>survive this quirky variation?

 {{newreview|title=The First Third Wish (Little Gems)|author=Ian BeckFrontpage|ratingisbn=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=This is a lovely story of a lost wish. Cobweb has bungled her very first assignment, losing the third wish meant for a kindly woodcutter. She managed to replace it with a spare, 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 - and not all people are careful what they wish for. As luck would have it though, the wish has found its way just to the place where it most needed, where it will result in a true happily ever after, not only for the young man who finds it, but for many others as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122458</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSeuss_Eggs|title=My Friend's a Gris-Kwok (Little Gems)Scrambled Eggs Super|author=Malorie Blackman and Andy RowlandDr Seuss

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=When Mike discovers that his best friend Alex Peter T. Hooper doesn't mean to show off, but he is a Gris Kwok or shape shifter it looks like they are in for some real fun''very'' good at cooking. Not only can Alex change into any creature Some would say he wantsis ''The Best'' capital T, he can change anyone touching him as wellcapital B. There are only three hitchesAnd his signature dish is scrambled eggs. The first is You might think that Alex can only change three times 's quite an easy dish, one with which it's a daylittle hard to showcase one's prowess, but not so. The second For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is that the choice of the egg itself, and he will go out of his sister has way to procure 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 best of the mischief a shape shifting toddler can get intobest from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112244X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Alphabet (My First Bob Books)|author=Sue Hendra and John R Maslen|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=BOB Books are designed Move on to teach children to read through phonics. I do own several different phonics programmes, and this is one of the best. I feel it is comparable to ''Hooked On Phonics'' at a fraction of the price. Another advantage to these books is that you do not need to buy the whole programme in one go. You can buy each set as you need it, and most sets will take at least one term to complete.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0545019214</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Entertainment Reviews]]