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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela BannerNigel Baines|title=Ant and Bee and A Tricky Kind Dogof Magic|rating=4.5

|summary=When you learn Cooper loves to read it has to be funperform magic tricks. You have to master His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the skill but it mustngreat Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be ''too'' daunting , or you're ''not'' going how to enjoy it and - worst of all - you might be put off reading for life. ItAnd when his dad's best if you can share the reading until you get prop rabbit starts talking to grips with decoding whathim, he ''s on the page, so if an adult could read most of the words but you read others to which youreally've already been introduced and which are in a different colour then that is going to be a help. If the words are introduced with a nice big picture and if they appear in alphabetical order, then that's going to be fun, isndoesn't it? Itknow what's going to make reading easier too if the book is the right size for your hands and has a nice firm cover which is easy to hold - and wipes clean if there's an accident.on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405270756</amazonuk>1444960261

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Famous Five Colour Reads: A Lazy AfternoonJane Lightbourne|authortitle=Enid BlytonMy Cat Called Red|rating=54

|summary=Perhaps Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the only thing better than a favourite author publishing a new book, is one freckles that go along with it. He's been bullied and mocked at school because of their old works that you missed first time around being re-releasedit. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. The Famous Five, you see, didn’t just feature But red hair is not Robin's only misery in their most well-known taleslife. They also had some short story adventures that were first seen in albums He's already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and magazines and whatnot, but are now being published as books in their own rightis taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again. Hurrah!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916297</amazonuk>1838216812

 {{newreview|title=Blamehounds (Little Gems)Frontpage|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 (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 to speed him from the room. There were a couple more occasions when something similar happened but instead of getting a complex about what was happening, Norman saw an opportunity. A business opportunity. If dogs were going to get the blame then there should be something in it for them Francesca Simon and he went into partnership with his best mate, Ringo (who does seem to be obsessed with sausages) and Blamehounds was born.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123926</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSteve May|title=Barbapapa's Ark|author=Annette Tison and Talus TaylorTwo Terrible Vikings|rating=54

|summary=''Barbapapa’s Ark'' is the fourth book in the popular series about In a shape-shifting pink blobsmall Viking village there live two twins, his wife Hack and seven children. It follows on from Whack, who are eager to be the previous bookvery worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, in which Barbapapa and his family built themselves as they cause havoc at a beautiful house in birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a peaceful valley. One daytroll, after and undertake a picnicgrand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, the family decide to take a leisurely ride along the riverwith their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, but are horrified to see sick and injured animals suffering from the effects their crazy cast of pollution. Over time, more and more animals 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 safefriends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408331381</amazonuk>0571349498

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838593187|title=Convertible SpaceshipGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Claire Philip and Belinda GallagherVictoria Thompson

|summary=When Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a bookbig grin on her face. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to 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 scrap ''book''? ) When it is also a playmat and also a spaceshipWell, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. With ‘Convertible Spaceship’ you get There are sequins, glittered paper and all three; a book sorts of other things in her pocket, but that folds out into a playmat or into a spaceship's not what she wants Dad to guess. Can I hear the excitement from here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782094970</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mr Monkey and the Birthday Party (Early Reader)Innosanto Nagara|authortitle=Linda Chapman and Sam HearnM is for Movement

|summary=What Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a young girl to do? story about social change. Anya wants to go Dealing with the rest of her primary school class to a swimming partysome difficult issues, but she's worried of being laughed at for staying at toddlers' depthsuch as political corruption and nepotism, for she the book is not a confident swimmerneither boring nor preachy. As luck would have itIt educates gently, she has been picked to take home the class 'pet'with vibrant, the cuddly toy called Mr Monkey, for the weekchallenging illustrations, and just as luck would have itportrays how social movements need people who will try, he's actually a secretly magical beingeven when it seems that they will fail. But could even he get Anya out of her jam and make The message is a Cinderella moment come true?positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009850</amazonuk>1609809351

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Chocolate Porridge (Early Reader)1949471004|author=Margaret Mahy and Terry Milne|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summarytitle=Young Timothy has been drummed out of his mother's kitchen by her and his sisters, so he cannot join in with their baking. Instead he goes to the garden and devises chocolate porridge – a lot of mud, plus some other ingredients. But only when he's happy with his craft does he begin to realise that not even calling mud chocolate porridge makes it edible. Oh what is Dog on a boy to do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011308</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=FleatectivesLog Chapter Books: Case of the Stolen NectarStep 1|author=Jonny ZuckerPamela Brookes

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Someone What do you do when your child has been stealing all dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the nectar. wonder that is reading? The bees are You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in a buzz! One hive is blaming another hive and although the Sheriff is investigating, Buzz and Itch decide to take book might not be the case ones you've been working on themselves to try and figure out what exactly is going encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect onthe young dyslexic than a child without that problem. How will they manage You need to be able to figure out the truth of buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on whatyou's happened? And will they manage to do it ve been working on, without anything else being crushed to death by thrown into the bees?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136941</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Dragon's Dentist|author=John McLay|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Harry would like to be a knightmix. It seems like everyone else in his family is You need a knightstory which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Nobody takes Harry very seriously though because Harry is quite small. HeSome online support and games wouldn's very determined, howevert go amiss, and so he decides that he will go on a mission to prove his worth as a knighteither. The mission that he sets himself is Reading - and ''learning'' to catch a dragon!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011049</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A Walk In Paris|author=Salvatore Rubbino|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Welcome to the City of Lights! Come join a little girl and her grandad as they spend read - should be a magical day exploring the sights of Parispleasure. Follow them as they see the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and Notre DameIt should be ''fun''. Sit down with them in the bistro as they tuck into lunch, and then look longingly alongside them as they gaze at the delicious treats in the window of the pâtisserie.|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 versePeople took against it, and if they weren't shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it's bursting with levity, they wanted something done about it's surely great fun to share – what's not to prefer here? . If I were youCan something be done about it, 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>though?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Squishy McFluff: the Invisible Cat!1789016320|author=Pip Jones|rating=3.5|genretitle=Children's Rhymes Tadcaster 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 BookBullies|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 very different an accomplice who is full of ideas. He wants to be sure that his prospective owner This is the perfect match for him and just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has a few questions of his own. Will Terri- Lee be able to convince Crumble that she should be his owner?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395284</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Christmas Present (Hello Kitty been poisoned and Friends)|author=Linda Chapman and Michelle Misra|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Hello Kitty and her friends have a series is at risk of books dying but you don’t need to know about their previous adventures to enjoy this no-oneelse will believe he's in danger. There’s a helpful illustration of the whole gang at the beginning, including Grandpa and Grandma who don’t feature in these two stories, It's up to Rory and you also get Cassidy to see all uncover the friends with their mixed up names: Hello Kitty’s twin is Mimmy (why not Hi Mimmy?!) truth and then there’s Tammy, Fifi and the slightly odd Dear Danielsave a life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007515812</amazonuk>

 {{newreview<!-- 13/12 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Dom Conlon and Carl Pugh0192758748|title=Tommy Tickletail: A Tall TaleHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare 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 does, but what child doesn't love a bad example? Other parents love Henry simply because their children love him. Horrid Henry Books not only help children learn to read, they encourage them to read have lived for pleasure, and children who read for pleasure invariably become better readers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001108</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Dragonsittersome time in someone's Castle|author=Josh Lacey and Garry Parsons|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When Edward finds his Uncle Morton's dragons at the doorgarden, 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 complicatedsafely in an evergreen tree. It seems to them that the dragons visit was completely unplannedevery year people mention their home in a lovely song, and which tells the adults tree thy leaves are completely unprepared for the eventso unchanging. The story is told in letters from Eddie to his UncleBut one year, just as the former detailing seasons turn for the dragons' latest escapadecold of winter, 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 intree vanishes, 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>Lulu with it…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dickens_Search|title=TwitSearch and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Steve ColeCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If Recently I asked you got to name applaud a clever animalbook that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, you’d quite likely choose an owland taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. After allWell, they are known it seems tweaking the form is going to be a big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a fictional story. They've started at the wisest of birdsdeep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, aren’t they? There’s and one exception to that rulehas been adapted countless times before now, thoughyet always has people returning to it at a certain time of the year for its ageless lesson. Meet Twit. He’s rather cute with But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his big round eyesmost populist, and he’s polite and kind… but he’s not very wise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009699</amazonuk>survive this quirky variation?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Eggs|title=Bob Books FirstScrambled Eggs Super|author=Bobby Lynn Maslen and John MaslenDr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=As a home educator, this simple set of books is one of the most essential educational items I ownPeter T. IHooper doesn've ended up buying 4 sets, as one was given away t mean to a family in desperate straightsshow off, one was water damaged, and most recently a few books out of the last set have disappearedbut he is ''very'' good at cooking. It Some would say he is the one thing I just can not manage without, so even though I'm sure they'll turn up eventuallyThe Best'' capital T, I simply can not wait and ordered a fourth setcapital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. I have literally invested hundreds of pounds in phonics programmesYou might think that's quite an easy dish, and I have some wonderful resourcesone with which it's a little hard to showcase one's prowess, but as simple as these books are, they are the one set I can not manage withoutso. They break everything down into such simple terms that even the youngest child can easily get a grasp of how to use phonics to decode new wordsFor Peter T. It Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is not even necessary for the child to know their alphabet first, although I would recommend waiting until choice of the child not only knows their alphabetegg itself, but also can recognise basic shapes and patterns, knows text is read from left to right, and can recognise a couple he will go out of words in print, such as their own name. It is possible his way to teach a very young child, even as young as two or three to read a few procure the best of these books, but it really is the best to achieve some degree of reading readiness firstfrom whatever nest.|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 has bungled her very first assignment, losing the third wish meant for a kindly woodcutter. She managed Move on 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>}} {{newreview|title=My Friend's a Gris-Kwok (Little Gems)|author=Malorie Blackman and Andy Rowland|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=When Mike discovers 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 wants, he can change anyone touching him as well. There are only three hitches. The first is that Alex can only change three times a day. The second is 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>178112244X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Entertainment Reviews]]