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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony Ross and Wendy FinneyNigel Baines|title=What's My Name? (The Not So Little Princess)A Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5

|summary=Now, I do hope that what I'm about Cooper loves to tell you won't be too upsettingperform magic tricks. The Little Princess is growing up His father was a magician, and it's causing a problem in named Cooper after the palacegreat Tommy Cooper. You see the little princess has always been known asBut sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, welland now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, the Little Princessor how to be. Whilst the Queen was helping And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to make cucumber sandwiches the King was striding up and downhim, wearing the carpet out and making his shoes squeak. He had a problem - a big problem. Now that the little princess was growing up was it really appropriate to continue calling her the Little Princess? There was an open secret in the palace: everyone knew the little princesshe 's 'really'real'doesn' name - but no one was prepared to tell her t know what it was.'s going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849395799</amazonuk>1444960261

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=WolfmanJane Lightbourne|authortitle=Michael Rosen and Chris MouldMy Cat Called Red|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers|summary=People are panickingRobin 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. The police ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are afraidmean. The army have run away But red hair is not Robin's only misery in life. Who or what could possibly be so scary? It’s Wolf ManHe's already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. And he’s on the looseShe doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>1838216812

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Danloria: The Secret Forest of Germania Francesca Simon and Steve May|authortitle=Gloria D GonsalvesTwo Terrible Vikings

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers|summary=Stan loves to go for walks in the forest of DanloriaIn a small Viking village there live two twins, located in the seven hills of Germania. He goes with his father almost every day. One particular dayHack and Whack, Stan's father is ill in bed and can't take him out. And that's when Fern appears. Stan notices who are eager to be the plant waving to him and very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can't help but investigate. Fern has an invitation for Stan. He wants to take him to the secret parts of the foreststop their mad marauding, to as they cause havoc at a birthday party. Stan has , chaos whilst tracking a fabulous timetroll, meeting and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all the plants kinds of mischief and finding out about the various ways in which they benefit humanity. The following springnaughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, Stan is racking his brains to think and their crazy cast of the perfect gift for his mother's fortieth birthday party when Fern appears again. More friends of the forest supply presents more wonderful than Stan could ever have dreamed of. A firm friendship ensues.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1491876964</amazonuk>0571349498

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838593187|title=MineGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Jerome Keane and Susana de DiosVictoria Thompson

|summary=Horse Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and Fox are really boreda big grin on her face. Nothing had happened for ages Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, until the egg arrivedalthough she concedes that he will never guess. In this lovely book, they are forced Dad wants to try and shareknow how school was, but they aren''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't particularly good at it. I really love the style of this that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, it uses boldactually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, different colour schemes to make it instantly eye catching glittered paper and engaging. The text has an immediately obvious sense all sorts of humour whilst still managing to be simple enough for early readers other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to graspguess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331365</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Buckle and Squash and the Monstrous Moat-DragonFrontpage|author=Sarah CourtauldInnosanto Nagara|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summarytitle=In this story we have two sisters. There M is Eliza, who dreams of being a swashbuckling hero, whilst her sister Lavender spends her time mooning over pictures of princes, hoping to become a real princess. One day Lavender gets kidnapped out in the forest by a rather dreadful villain, Mordmont. Will poor Lavender ever escape? Will Eliza get to be the hero? And what about these monstrous moat dragons?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447255550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lucky|author=David Mackintoshfor Movement|rating=3.54

|summary=''We're having Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a surprise at dinner tonightstory about social change. Mum says so.'' Leo Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and his brother are desperate to figure out just what nepotism, the surprise might bebook is neither boring nor preachy. Could It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and it be crinkly chips? A new bike? Tickets to the Amazing Yo-Yo Super show? Or maybeportrays how social movements need people who will try, just maybe.even when it seems that they will fail. The message is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007463030</amazonuk>1609809351

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=The Almost Fearless Hamilton SquidleggerDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Timothy Basil EringPamela Brookes

|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=Little froglet Hamilton Squidlegger prides himself on his bravery. Armed with his wooden sword What do you do when your child has dyslexia and shield, he loves you need books which will help them to battle imaginary monstersachieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, such as but the sounds in the book might not be the skelecragon, bracklesneed ones you've been working on and fire-breathing frackensnapperencountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. Hamilton fears nothing. Nothing that is You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, except BEDTIMEwithout anything else being thrown into the mix. As soon as You need a story which engages the sun goes down he young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps from his own mud bed . Some online support and clambers in with mum games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and dad''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353795</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=ElephantCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Suzi EszterhasPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=You're going to get a hint of what this book'Elephant's about very quickly. When you see the title page, you' is part of ll find out what the wonderful book's called and that it'Eye s been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the Wildillustration - and there's a gap. ''You'' series by award-winning wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhasare going to put your name there. The It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book follows about one of the largest creatures ever to roam the journey of a young bull elephant calf from birth through adulthoodearth. The vivid full There's some help available, but your name is on the title page -page photographs show heartwarming snapshots of life in the herd; a purely matriarchal society where strong females form a close family bond and you have work hard rearing and protecting their young.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805035</amazonuk>to do!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1609809335|title=TigerThe Lizard|author=Suzi EszterhasJose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=52|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=''Tiger'' is One day a simply stunning picture book following giant lizard appears in the lives of a tiger family from birth to adulthoodcity. We don't even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared. Each page is filled with enchanting pictures of the tigers in the wild People took against it, taken and if they weren't shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by award-winning photographer Suzi Eszterhastiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805043</amazonuk> Can something be done about it, though?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=Marshmallows for MartiansTadcaster and the Bullies|author=Lee Wildish, Adam Guillain and Charlotte GuillainRichard Rutherford

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=What kid doesn't like sweets or aliens? This book combines the two as George packs up and leaves his house on In some ways it was a mission gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to Mars to find out what sweets aliens love bestenjoy themselves. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. He builds Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a spaceship business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and takes off, meeting some very surprising aliens along Mary but for other children who gather in the wayplayground. From Tim's probably about ten - just at the first pagestage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, I knew I would enjoy this story and I wasnbut he't disappointed s not yet at all. I laughed throughout and looked forward the stage where he knows how to turning each page to find out what happened nextdeal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266813</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B01N0OZQOD|title=The Secret Dinosaur: Giants AwakeNickerbacher|author=N S BlackmanTerry John Barto

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=When Marlin Maxton goes on a school visit to the local museum, he Nickerbacher is looking forward to seeing Protos - the dinosaur that doing his Uncle Gus remembers so fondlydragonly duty as all dragons do. But Protos That dragonly duty is nowhere to be seen and the museum, of course, princess-guarding. That's Mr Grubbler seems to be doing his utmost to take what dragons are for, after all the fun out of the school visit Marlin had been anticipating with such excitement. So Marlin sneaks off to explore by himselfBut Gwendolyn isn't any princess...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992752507</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=My Teacher She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is a Monster! (No, I Am Notin watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''.)|author=Peter Brown|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=School can be a difficult place for childrenNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, especially if your teacher is a stomping, roaring monster like Miss Kirby. Bobby spends most of it's his time worrying about what favourite TV show because he wants to do about his monster of be a teacher, and the best place for him to think about it is in the parkstand-up comedian himself. He goes there one day to contemplate the situation, tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but who does he meet? Miss Kirby! She isnthey don't stomping or roaring though, she is feeding the ducksalways come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447257472</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=Sir Scallywag and the Deadly Dragon PooRory Branagan Detective|author=Giles Andreae Andrew Clover and Korky PaulRalph Lazar

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=King Colin Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's a detective and he has spent a mystery to solve – why did his fortune on a giant sweet machinedad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, then, which Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he guzzles from each and every day. The entire kingdom has grown fat and lazy, except for Sir Scallywagan accomplice who is full of ideas. ItThis is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's lucky somebody in the castle still dad has their wits about them, because Baron Greedyguts has heard all about their sweet machine, been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's coming in danger. It's up to get it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718197364</amazonuk>Rory and Cassidy to uncover the truth and save a life.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192758748|title=Max Horace & Harriet Take on the BraveTown|author=Ed VereClare Elsom

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=I When Harriet, aged seven and a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can truly 't believe her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that Curiosity Killed the Catwould get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, if the cat is anything like Max and climbs down from ‘Max his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the Brave’ by Ed Vere. Thankfully, as well town as being curious, cats are also known Horace searches for having several lives, Max uses some of them up in this adventurea new – and more suitable – home. Being an cat of action Max wishes to go out in His sights are firmly set on the big world Mayor's mansion and chase some miceit, but he is also young so does not know what therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a mouse isbetter alternative. After asking several animals if they are a mouse (including one with big earsSadly, Horace's visits to the museum, cinema, train station, playground, whiskers bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a penchant for cheese), Max is pointed competition in the direction of something a little larger and greener than your average rodentpark reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723286698</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Saulles_Bee|title=The Moonshine Dragon (Little Gems)Bee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Cornelia FunkeTony De Saulles

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=What happens when stories escape from books? One moonlit night Patrick Young Mel's friend has left and the beehive is now his to look after. Unfortunately, Mel lives in a tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that it is woken up by the noise of correct place for a tiny dragon emerging from his storybook and chased by hive. Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an equally tiny knight on horseback. Suddenly Patrick finds himself shrunk to story book size too and amazing superpower; he and the dragon find themselves under attackcan become a bee. Can Patrick save them both before time runs out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123535</amazonuk>

Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the character but this marks a new launch and a new series. This is not just a book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what the author is trying to achieve in real life; the power of the imagination makes everything better.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Read|title=When Angus Met AlvinI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Sue PickfordDr Seuss

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Angus is not like other aliens. He is a peace-loving little fellow''The more that you read, who likes nothing better than sitting in his garden watching the flowers grow and sipping a nice cup of tea. Unfortunately, one day, a strange spaceship crash lands in his garden and out pops a cheeky, hyperactive green alien called Alvin who is rather a show-off. It’s time for Angus to teach Alvin a lesson about manners. Can the two aliens put their differences aside and become friends in the end?|amazonuk=''<amazonukbr>1847803040''The more things you will know.''</amazonukbr>}} {{newreview|title=Horrid Henry's Wedding|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=What on earth was Prissy Polly thinking? If she had wanted her wedding to Pimply Paul to go without a hitch, why, oh why had she insisted on asking her awful cousin Horrid Henry to be a page boy? One thing is for certain: when 'The more that you take a certain horrid boy with a reputation for mischief and force him to wear a lilac shirtlearn, green satin knickerbockers, tights, a pink cummerbund and white satin shoes with gold buckles, you are just asking for trouble...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001213''</amazonukbr>}}''The more places you'll go.''

{{newreview|title=Foxy Tales - The Cunning Plan|author=Caryl Hart and Alex T Smith|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Foxy DuBois This is on a mission to get rich quick classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and to get rid one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of that pestmy children's school library! The book is very silly, Alphonso the Alligator for goodas Dr Seuss always is, otherwise the greedy alligator but is going to eat Foxy for breakfast. However she needs Alphonso’s help to ensure that her plan will succeed. In order for the scheme to work Alphonso must dress as also a lady dog walker and distract a rich old lady while Foxy kidnaps her small dogs. Alphonso will then pretend good rhyming ode to find the dogs and the rich old lady, full joys of gratitude, will give them a generous reward. How could this possibly go wrong? Very, very easily..reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444909312</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela BannerNeal_Words|title=Ant Words and Bee and Kind DogYour Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=When you learn to read it has to be fun. You have to master the skill but Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it mustn't be ''too'' daunting or you're ''not'' going to enjoy it and s-called-this-week- worst of ing – all - you might be put off reading for life. It's best if you can share the reading until you get to grips with decoding what's on the page, so if an adult could read most of act as proof that the words but you read others to which you've already been introduced adage about sticks and which are in a different colour then that stones is going to be actually a helplot of piffle. If the words are introduced with In a nice big picture and if they appear in alphabetical orderworld where we all have hearts, then we should have a heart that's going what we say to be funother people is positive. We can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, isn't it? It's going to we can make reading easier too if the book is the right size for your hands each other smile, laugh, sing and has a nice firm cover which is easy to hold - be happy together, and wipes clean if there's an accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405270756</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Famous Five Colour Reads: A Lazy Afternoon|author=Enid Blyton|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Perhaps bit by bit the only thing world can be a better than a favourite author publishing a new book, is one of their old works that you missed first time around being re-releasedplace. The Famous FiveAnd hang the 'no, after you see, didn’t just feature ' attitude some people would have in their most well-known talesresponse. They also had some short story adventures that were first seen There, I've given the entire plot of this book away in albums and magazines and whatnotmy summary, but are now being published as books in their own rightthat's not really an issue. Hurrah!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444916297</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Blamehounds (Little Gems)|author=Ross Collins|rating=5|genre=Confident ReadersFrontpage|summaryisbn=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 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>}} {{newreviewTavares_Red|title=Barbapapa's Ark|author=Annette Tison and Talus Taylor|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=''Barbapapa’s Ark'' is the fourth book in the popular series about a shape-shifting pink blob, his wife Red and seven children. It follows on from the previous book, in which Barbapapa and his family built themselves a beautiful house in a peaceful valley. One day, after a picnic, the family decide to take a leisurely ride along the river, but are horrified to see sick and injured animals suffering from the effects 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 safe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331381</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Convertible SpaceshipLulu|author=Claire Philip and Belinda GallagherMatt Tavares

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=When is Meet Red and Lulu. They're a bookcommitted couple of cardinals and they have lived for some time in someone's garden, not a book? When it is also a playmat and also a spaceshipsafely in an evergreen tree. With ‘Convertible Spaceship’ you get all three; a book It seems to them that folds out into every year people mention their home in a playmat or into a spaceshiplovely song, which tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. Can I hear But one year, just as the excitement from here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782094970</amazonuk>seasons turn for the cold of winter, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dickens_Search|title=Mr Monkey Search and the Birthday Party (Early Reader)Find A Christmas Carol|author=Linda Chapman Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Sam HearnLouise Pigott|rating=43.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=What is Recently I got to applaud a young girl to do? Anya wants to go with book that branched away from the rest of her primary school class to a swimming party, but sheWhere's worried of being laughed at for staying at toddlers' depthWally? style volume, for she is not and taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a confident swimmer-searching. As luck would have Well, itseems tweaking the form is going to be a big thing, she has been picked for this book tries yet another different approach – to take home the class teach us about a fictional story. They'pet', ve started at the cuddly toy called Mr Monkeydeep end, for the weekwith a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and just as luck would have one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it, he's actually at a secretly magical beingcertain time of the year for its ageless lesson. But could does the rich content of Dickens, even he get Anya out of her jam and make a Cinderella moment come trueat his most populist, survive this quirky variation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009850</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Eggs|title=Chocolate Porridge (Early Reader)Scrambled Eggs Super|author=Margaret Mahy and Terry MilneDr Seuss

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Young Timothy has been drummed out of his motherPeter T. Hooper doesn's kitchen by her and his sisterst mean to show off, so but he cannot join in with their bakingis ''very'' good at cooking. Instead Some would say he goes to the garden and devises chocolate porridge – a lot of mudis ''The Best'' capital T, plus some other ingredientscapital B. But only when heAnd his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that's happy quite an easy dish, one with his craft does he begin which it's a little hard to realise that showcase one's prowess, but not even calling mud chocolate porridge makes it edibleso. For Peter T. Oh Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is a boy the choice of the egg itself, and he will go out of his way to do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011308</amazonuk>procure the best of the best from whatever nest.

{{newreview|title=Fleatectives: Case of the Stolen Nectar|author=Jonny Zucker|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Someone has been stealing all the nectar. The bees are in a buzz! One hive is blaming another hive and although the Sheriff is investigating, Buzz and Itch decide to take the case Move on themselves to try and figure out what exactly is going on. How will they manage to figure out the truth of what's happened? And will they manage to do it without being crushed to death by 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 knight. It seems like everyone else in his family is a knight. Nobody takes Harry very seriously though because Harry is quite small. He's very determined, however, and so he decides that he will go on a mission to prove his worth as a knight. The mission that he sets himself is to catch a dragon!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011049</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Entertainment Reviews]]