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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allan PlenderleithNigel Baines|title=The Bonkers Banana|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Father Christmas has a problem. Because the house had no chimney he had to use his magic dust to shrink himself down so that he could slip into the house through the keyhole. All went well until the very tiny Santa bumped into a fruit bowl containing just one banana and all his magic dust flew up in the air - and landed on the banana. The banana was rather pleased - brought to life he jumped up and down and began dancing and singing - but Father Christmas was distraught. Without the magic dust he couldn't ride his sleigh and deliver all the presents. Eventually the banana calmed down sufficiently to realise that Santa had a problem and the only way out A Tricky Kind of it was for banana to fly Santa to the moon so that he could get more magic dust. Yes - I know - it's bonkers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613126</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other Stories|author=Sylvia Plath and David RobertsMagic

|summary=Problems are afoot in Tuptown, leading up the annual Butterfly Ball – bit by bit the whole thing is being stolenCooper loves to perform magic tricks. Harold has made His father was a special statue for the occasion, but has awoken to find it missingmagician, the berries for the catering have vanished – and someone's even run off with named Cooper after the butterfliesgreat Tommy Cooper. ItBut sadly Cooper's up father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to our heroes Harold (the hamster) and Pigsticks (the, erbe, pig) or how to don their stereotypical detective outfits and save the daybe. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406346039</amazonuk>1444960261

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Witch DogJane Lightbourne|authortitle=Margaret Mahy and Sam UsherMy Cat Called Red|rating=4.5

|summary=Every witch needs a catRobin has red hair. Everyone knows He hates it, and the freckles thatgo along with it. He's been bullied and mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But when we meet Mrs Rose, she’s red hair is not really a witchRobin's only misery in life. She’s He's already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum whose children have left home, gets ill and now she’s finding herself with a bit of time on her handsis taken into hospital. Her husband suggests she join him with his hobby of Bowls, but that’s a bit boring, thinks Mrs Rose, so instead she decides to do an evening class. In how to become a witchShe doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444011340</amazonuk>1838216812

 {{newreview|title=It's Snow DayFrontpage|author=Richard Curtis and Rebecca Cobb|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We all remember the best sort of school days, don’t we? Snow days. Waking up in the morning and seeing the glow of white through the curtains, Francesca Simon and looking out of the window to see the whole world of our back gardens and rooftops turned white. This is a book all about that, and the only two people who turn up at school on this particular snow day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723288925</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSteve May|title=Horrid Henry's Haunted House|author=Francesca Simon and Tony RossTwo Terrible Vikings|rating=54

|summary=Horrid Henry is In a character I remember vaguely in passingsmall Viking village there live two twins, a bit like ''Just William''. I knew the books existed Hack and regularly saw them in the children’s room of the libraryWhack, but I didn’t bother who are eager to pick them up. The clue was in be the name. And I was the sort of girl who didn’t want stories about nastyvery worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, horrible boys. Having read my first Horrid Henry story nowas they cause havoc at a birthday party, thoughchaos whilst tracking a troll, I can let you in on and undertake a little secret. He’s actually grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! quite a funny boy They get up to all kinds of mischief and not the naughty thing his nickname would suggestbehaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009079</amazonuk>0571349498

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)1838593187|author=Jackie Morris|ratingtitle=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=You probably haven't heard of Mergichans – although if you pronounce it correctly in your head, in connection with spirits and magic, you will work out what they are. One of them is the totem, if you like, of a hidden Himalayan valley, and she is Guess What I Found in the form of a snow leopard, singing existence as she sees fit and protecting the Shangri-La type location. But she cannot protect it from all-comers, least of all when she's trying to sing to find a successor. Mergichans do not have it all their own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Cat, the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf and Grandma's WardrobePlayground!|author=Diane Fox and Christyan FoxVictoria Thompson|rating=4.5

|summary=Have you ever sat down to read Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a story aloud big grin on her face. Dad's come to someone collect her and found that they interrupt at every given opportunity, asking questions, making comments, her brother and generally fidgeting with anything and everything? Ihe ''has'm sure if you've spent any time with a toddler then this will be a familiar experience. This story plays on that, with a cat trying, very hard, to tell a dog try to guess what she found in the story of Little Red Riding Hoodplayground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. But dog can't sit still, and he Dad wants to know what Redhow school was, but ''obviously''s superpower is, because if she has a cape she must be a superhero, and hethat's pretty sure that Red must not important. Could Tilly have zapped the wolf with found more collectable things for her kindness ray when she met him...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277002</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Dance Teacher|author=Simon Milne and Chantal Stewart|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Miss Sylvie is scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a dance teacher to the many girls and boys in her town. One dayscrap ''book''?) Well, a little girl called Isabelle walks through her door and says she wants to start balletactually, so she joins the Saturday classTilly did find exciting stuff. As months and then years pass, some friends come and go There are sequins, glittered paper and others try different forms all sorts of dancingother things in her pocket, but only Isabelle sticks with balletthat's not what she wants Dad to guess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743313314</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Three Little MagiciansInnosanto Nagara|authortitle=Georgie Adams and Emily BolamM is for Movement

|summary=The ''Three Little Magicians'' are just thatSet in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a group of young friends who like magic story about social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and are pretty good at itnepotism, but they're nothing compared to the likes of their neighbour book is neither boring nor preachy. It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and magician extraordinaireit portrays how social movements need people who will try, Mr Marzipaneven when it seems that they will fail. When The message is a mishap takes him out of the running for the important magic show at the Crystal Castlepositive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the three friends offer their servicespower to instigate change. But will the evil Zigzag thwart their plans and steal the prize for himself?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444011456</amazonuk>1609809351

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Mackay1949471004|title=Always Last (On the Ball)Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Ben was always last. Last 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 bathroom sounds in the morning, last to breakfast, last into school..book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. You get the picture. These didn't worry him overly much but Ben's a football enthusiast - and he was always last need to be picked when able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the captains were choosing teamsmix. Even You need a story which engages the girls were picked before him young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there was always a bit of grumbling when someone had to take him onto their sidebeing any large jumps. But then an anonymous friend gave him some advice in a letter Some online support and although Ben couldngames wouldn't see how it could go amiss, either. Reading - and ''possiblylearning'' work, he decided to give it read - should be a trypleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781276978</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=Winnie's Big Bad RobotCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Valerie Thomas Peter Lynas and Korky PaulCharlie Roberts

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Winnie You're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the Witch is something of an institution in children’s literature these daystitle page, you'll find out what the book's called and with good reasonthat it's been written by Peter Lynas. From Then we move on to who has done the very first illustration - and there's a gap. ''You'' are going to put your name there. It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book in about one of the largest creatures ever to roam the earth. There's some help available, but your name is on the series Valerie Thomas title page - and Korky Paul managed you have work to capture a wonderful sense of fundo!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1609809335|title=The Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, mischief Nick Caistor (translator) and adventure. This addition to the series is no exception.Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=2|genre=Emerging Readers |amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>0192738720</amazonuk>One day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don't even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared. People took against it, and if they weren't shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it. Can something be done about it, though?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016320|authortitle=Zanib Mian Tadcaster and Laura Ewing Ferrerthe Bullies|titleauthor=Never too SmallRichard Rutherford

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=There In some ways it was once a young boy who didn't try to do things because he felt that he was too smallgentler time: video games were around, but he was lucky. He had a good friend and that friend wrote him a letter children usually went outside to tell him that people are never too small, or too big, or too old to try something newenjoy themselves. There was also a little girl They flew kites and she went sledging if there was afraid of the darksnow around. It was her brother who wrote her Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a letter to tell her that he would always be there for herbusiness in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. There was the boy who wouldnSomething which hasn't try new things to eatchanged, the young girl who was afraid of heightsunfortunately, a boy who was terrified about going to school is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and a girl Mary but for other children who was frightened of spidersgather in the playground. They all had that special someone who took Tim's probably about ten - just at the time stage where he's beginning to write them feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at the letter which gave them the confidence stage where he knows how to overcome their fearsdeal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956419658</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross and Wendy FinneyB01N0OZQOD|title=What's My Name? (The Not So Little Princess)Nickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Now, I Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do hope that what I'm about to tell you won't be too upsetting. The Little Princess That dragonly duty is growing up and it's causing a problem in the palace. You see the little princess has always been known as, wellof course, the Little Princessprincess-guarding. Whilst the Queen was helping to make cucumber sandwiches the King was striding up and downThat's what dragons are for, wearing the carpet out and making his shoes squeakafter all. He had a problem - a big problemBut Gwendolyn isn't any princess. Now that She finds the little princess was growing up was it whole princessing thing quite boring really appropriate to continue calling her the Little Princess? There was an open secret and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in the palace: everyone knew the little princesswatching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes 's 'The Late Knight Show'real'too - in fact, it' name s his favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand- up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but no one was prepared to tell her what it wasthey don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395799</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=WolfmanRory Branagan Detective|author=Michael Rosen Andrew Clover and Chris MouldRalph Lazar|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=People are panickingTen-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. The police are afraidHe'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 full of ideas. The army have run awayThis is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in danger. Who or what could possibly be so scary? It’s Wolf Man. And he’s on It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the loosetruth and save a life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192758748|title=Danloria: The Secret Forest of Germania Horace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Gloria D GonsalvesClare Elsom

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Stan loves When Harriet, aged seven and a quarter, decides to go for walks in to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the forest Park on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't believe her eyes. The statue of Danloria, located in Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the seven hills of GermaniaThird (or Horace for short) starts to move. He goes with not only moves but stamps his father almost every day. One particular dayfoot, Stanshouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's father is ill in bed mum, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't take him outresist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. And thatHis sights are firmly set on the Mayor's when Fern appears. Stan notices the plant waving mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him and canthat there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace't help but investigate. Fern has an invitation for Stan. He wants to take him s visits to the secret parts of the forestmuseum, cinema, train station, to a party. Stan has a fabulous timeplayground, meeting bank and library all the plants and finding out about the various ways in which they benefit humanitycause mayhem. The following springLuckily, however, Stan is racking his brains to think of a competition in the park reveals the perfect gift for his mother's fortieth birthday party when Fern appears againanswer. More friends of the forest supply presents more wonderful than Stan could ever have dreamed of. A firm friendship ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1491876964</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Saulles_Bee|title=Mine!Bee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Jerome Keane and Susana de DiosTony De Saulles

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Horse Young Mel's friend has left and Fox are really bored. Nothing had happened for ages, until the egg arrivedbeehive is now his to look after. In this lovely bookUnfortunately, they are forced to try Mel lives in a tower block and share, but they aren't particularly good at not all of his neighbours agree that it. I really love is the style of this book, it uses bold, different colour schemes to make it instantly eye catching and engagingcorrect place for a hive. The text Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an immediately obvious sense of humour whilst still managing to be simple enough for early readers to graspamazing superpower; he can become a bee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331365</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=Buckle and Squash and the Monstrous Moat-DragonI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Sarah CourtauldDr Seuss

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=In this story we have two sisters. There is Eliza''The more that you read, 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''<br>''The more things you will know. Will poor Lavender ever escape? Will Eliza get to be the hero? And what about these monstrous moat dragons?!|amazonuk=''<amazonukbr>1447255550''The more that you learn,''</amazonukbr>}}''The more places you'll go.''

{{newreview|title=Lucky|author=David Mackintosh|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=''We're having This is a surprise at dinner tonight. Mum says so.'' Leo classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and his brother are desperate to figure out just what one that I painstakingly stickered onto the surprise might be. Could it be crinkly chips? A new bike? Tickets wall of my children's school library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a good rhyming ode to the Amazing Yo-Yo Super show? Or maybe, just maybe..joys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007463030</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Neal_Words|title=The Almost Fearless Hamilton SquidleggerWords and Your Heart|author=Timothy Basil EringKate Jane Neal

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Little froglet Hamilton Squidlegger prides himself on his bravery. Armed with his wooden sword and shieldTrolling, bullying, he loves to battle imaginary monsterscyber-shaming, such whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the skelecragon, bracklesneed adage about sticks and fire-breathing frackensnapperstones is actually a lot of piffle. Hamilton fears nothing. Nothing In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to other people ispositive. 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 better place. And hang the 'no, except BEDTIMEafter you' attitude some people would have in response. As soon as There, I've given the sun goes down he jumps from his own mud bed and clambers entire plot of this book away in with mum and dadmy summary, but that's not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353795</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tavares_Red|title=ElephantRed and Lulu|author=Suzi EszterhasMatt Tavares|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Meet Red and Lulu. They''Elephant'' is part re a committed couple of the wonderful cardinals and they have lived for some time in someone''Eye on s garden, safely in an evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the Wild'' series by award-winning wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhastree thy leaves are so unchanging. The book follows But one year, just as the journey seasons turn for the cold of a young bull elephant calf from birth through adulthood. The vivid full-page photographs show heartwarming snapshots of life in winter, the herd; a purely matriarchal society where strong females form a close family bond and work hard rearing and protecting their young.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805035</amazonuk>tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dickens_Search|title=TigerSearch and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Suzi EszterhasCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=''Tiger'' is Recently I got to applaud a simply stunning picture book following the lives of a tiger family that branched away from birth to adulthood. Each page is filled with enchanting pictures of the tigers in Where's Wally? style volume, and taught the wild, taken by awardexplorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-winning photographer Suzi Eszterhassearching.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805043</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Marshmallows for Martians|author=Lee WildishWell, Adam Guillain and Charlotte Guillain|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=What kid doesn't like sweets or aliens? This book combines it seems tweaking the two as George packs up and leaves his house on form is going to be a mission big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to Mars to find out what sweets aliens love bestteach us about a fictional story. He builds They've started at the deep end, with a spaceship book hastening towards being two centuries old, and takes offone that has been adapted countless times before now, meeting some very surprising aliens along yet always has people returning to it at a certain time of the wayyear for its ageless lesson. From But does the first pagerich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, I knew I would enjoy survive this story and I wasn't disappointed at all. I laughed throughout and looked forward to turning each page to find out what happened next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266813</amazonuk>quirky variation?

 {{newreview|title=The Secret Dinosaur: Giants Awake|author=N S BlackmanFrontpage|ratingisbn=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Marlin Maxton goes on a school visit to the local museum, he is looking forward to seeing Protos - the dinosaur that his Uncle Gus remembers so fondly. But Protos is nowhere to be seen and the museum's Mr Grubbler seems to be doing his utmost to take all the fun out of the school visit Marlin had been anticipating with such excitement. So Marlin sneaks off to explore by himself...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992752507</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSeuss_Eggs|title=My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.)Scrambled Eggs Super|author=Peter BrownDr Seuss

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=School can be a difficult place for childrenPeter T. Hooper doesn't mean to show off, especially if your teacher but he is a stomping''very'' good at cooking. Some would say he is ''The Best'' capital T, roaring monster like Miss Kirbycapital B. Bobby spends most of And his time worrying about what to do about his monster of a teacher, and the best place for him to think about it signature dish is in the parkscrambled eggs. He goes there You might think that's quite an easy dish, one day with which it's a little hard to contemplate the situationshowcase one's prowess, but who does he meet? Miss Kirby! She isn't stomping or roaring thoughnot so. For Peter T. Hooper, she what makes his scrambled eggs so super is feeding the duckschoice of the egg itself, and he will go out of his way to procure the best of the best from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447257472</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Sir Scallywag and the Deadly Dragon Poo|author=Giles Andreae and Korky Paul|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=King Colin has spent his fortune Move on a giant sweet machine, which he guzzles from each and every day. The entire kingdom has grown fat and lazy, except for Sir Scallywag. It's lucky somebody in the castle still has their wits about them, because Baron Greedyguts has heard all about their sweet machine, and he's coming to get it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718197364</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Max the Brave|author=Ed Vere|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=I can truly believe that Curiosity Killed the Cat, if the cat is anything like Max from ‘Max the Brave’ by Ed Vere. Thankfully, as well as being curious, cats are also known for having several lives, Max uses some of them up in this adventure. Being an cat of action Max wishes to go out in the big world and chase some mice, but he is also young so does not know what a mouse is. After asking several animals if they are a mouse (including one with big ears, whiskers and a penchant for cheese), Max is pointed in the direction of something a little larger and greener than your average rodent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723286698</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Entertainment Reviews]]