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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelly L Bingham and Paul O ZelinskyNigel Baines|title=Circle, Square, MooseA Tricky Kind of Magic

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers|summary=If you have children you have no doubt read loads of books about shapes; the circle, the squareCooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the dodecahedrongreat Tommy Cooper. They are all variations of the same things – this wheel is round like a circleBut sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, this bread reminds me of a squareand now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, what on earth is a dodecahedron? Why not spice the book up by throwing in a moose, but not just any mooseor how to be. This is a moose that brings chaos And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to everything him, he touches and must be chased from the book''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783441860</amazonuk>1444960261

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony RossJane Lightbourne|title=Rita's RhinoMy Cat Called Red|rating=54|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers|summary=Rita really wants a petRobin has red hair. He hates it, but when she asks her Mum for one she isn’t so keenand the freckles that go along with it. They’re smelly and greedy He's been bullied and take lots mocked at school because of hard workit. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in life. Eventually she relents, and gives Rita He's already lost his dad to a jar with a flea in it, mountaineering accident when his name mum gets ill and is Haroldtaken into hospital. Obviously, Rita isn’t happy with this so she decides to take matters into her own handsShe doesn't come home again. What will she do, and how will she manage to hide a Rhino from her pet-fearing mother?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440252</amazonuk>1838216812

  {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Illustrated Old PossumFrancesca Simon and Steve May|authortitle=T S Eliot and Nicolas BentleyTwo Terrible Vikings

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers|summary=This title is clearly of importance In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the house of Faber. very worst Vikings ever! To this day their puff mentions it was one of Nothing can stop their first childrens' booksmad marauding, after the author sent his publisher's sonas they cause havoc at a birthday party, his godsonchaos whilst tracking a troll, some writings based on jellicle cats and some of their scrapes. It's clearly undertake a book that's important grand journey to Andrew Lloyd Webber, too, but we'll gloss speedily over that. raid Bad Island with their friends! It's a book that was important They get up to me as well – I certainly had a copyall kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, a thinalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, barely illustrated, old-fashioned style paperback of it once I had seen the musical. And with the excellent writing here and the ability their crazy cast of it to delight so many people of so many ages, it has the power to be important to a future generationfriends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk>0571349498

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838593187|title=Nonsense Limericks (Faber Children's Classics)Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)Victoria Thompson

|summary=We have never been strict about Christmas in our houseTilly is excited. ItShe's usually my husband who starts itjust come dashing out of the classroom, with pigtails flapping behind her and a carol or two during the summer! big grin on her face. ItDad's hard come to resist that Christmas urge if youcollect her and her brother and he ''has''re a die-hard fan of the season! I have a friend who keeps all her Christmas related stories safely to try to guess what she found in a cupboard, brought out in a special basket only during the season itself. Weplayground today, meanwhile, have Christmas stories all year round because, honestly, who doesn't like a bit of Father Christmas magic now and then?! Anyway, this is all to say although she concedes that here is a Christmas story that some purists he will tuck away until Christmas Eve but we have quite happily read during Halloween! never guess. Katie is back, and heading back Dad wants to Londonknow how school was, but this time she''obviously'' that's on a mission to help Father Christmasnot important...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326418</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Good Dog Lion Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Little Gems)|author=Alexander McCall Smith|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Being Isn't that so much more sensible than a firm fan of Alexander McCall Smithscrap ''s novels for adults, I wasnbook't surprised to find that I thoroughly enjoyed this children's story. ?) Written with the same gentle understanding of human natureWell, and so very deftly toldactually, I read this story with a great deal of pleasureTilly did find exciting stuff. Although the story behind Timo's life is rather sadThere are sequins, with his father leaving him glittered paper and his mother when Timo is only young, and his mother then struggling to find enough money to raise both all sorts of themother things in her pocket, it never descends into tragedy but remains positive and upbeat. Itthat's a story of strength, and bravery, and I'm not just talking about Timo and his motherwhat she wants Dad to guess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123721</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allan PlenderleithInnosanto Nagara|title=The Bonkers BananaM is for Movement

|summary=Father Christmas has Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a problemstory about social change. Because Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, 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 keyholebook is neither boring nor preachy. All went well until the very tiny Santa bumped into a fruit bowl containing just one banana It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and all his magic dust flew up in the air - and landed on the bananait portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will fail. 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 message is a positive one; that Santa had a problem and in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the only way out of it was for banana power to fly Santa to the moon so that he could get more magic dust. Yes - I know - it's bonkersinstigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841613878</amazonuk>1609809351

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other StoriesDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Sylvia Plath and David RobertsPamela Brookes|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=I've said it before and I'll say it again, that What do you should always approach classical authors through their least typical, shortest do when your child has dyslexia and more individual works – you won't gain much insight perhaps into why they were famous, but you need books which will find more entertainment and greater pleasures by staying outside help them to achieve the canon. wonder that is reading? And You can risk buying early readers, but the lovely people at Faber and Faber have a case sounds in point – rather than plough through serious dross from Eliot, why the book might not stick to [[The Illustrated Old Possum by T S Eliot be the ones you've been working on and Nicolas Bentley]]? And with Sylvia Plath I cannot think encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a better place to start with her oeuvre negative effect on the young dyslexic than with these snappy and delightful pagesa child without that problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314643</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Pigsticks and Harold and You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the Tuptown Thief|author=Alex Milway|rating=3mix.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Problems are afoot in Tuptown, leading up You need a story which engages the annual Butterfly Ball – bit by bit young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the whole thing is learning process without there being stolenany large jumps. Harold has made a special statue for the occasionSome online support and games wouldn't go amiss, but has awoken to find it missing, the berries for the catering have vanished – either. Reading - and someone's even run off with the butterflies'learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. Itshould be ''fun''s up to our heroes Harold (the hamster) and Pigsticks (the, er, pig) to don their stereotypical detective outfits and save the day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346039</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=The Witch DogCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Margaret Mahy Peter Lynas and Sam UsherCharlie Roberts

|genre=Emerging ReadersCrafts|summary=Every witch needs You're going to get a cathint of what this book's about very quickly. Everyone knows When you see the title page, you'll find out what the book's called and thatit's been written by Peter Lynas. But when Then we meet Mrs Rose, she’s not really move on to who has done the illustration - and there's a witchgap. ''You'' are going to put your name there. She’s a mum whose children have left home, and now she’s finding herself with a bit It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of time on her handsthe largest creatures ever to roam the earth. Her husband suggests she join him with his hobby of Bowls There's some help available, but that’s a bit boring, thinks Mrs Rose, so instead she decides your name is on the title page - and you have work to do an evening class. In how to become a witch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011340</amazonuk>!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1609809335|title=It's Snow DayThe Lizard|author=Richard Curtis Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Rebecca CobbLucia Caistor (translator)|rating=52|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=One day a giant lizard appears in the city. We all remember the best sort of school daysdon't even get told how it arrived, don’t we? Snow daysbut it certainly appeared. Waking up in the morning People took against it, and seeing the glow of white through the curtainsif they weren't shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, and looking out of the window to see the whole world of our back gardens and rooftops turned whitethey wanted something done about it. This is a book all Can something be done about thatit, and the only two people who turn up at school on this particular snow day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723288925</amazonuk>though?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=Horrid Henry's Haunted HouseTadcaster and the Bullies|author=Francesca Simon and Tony RossRichard Rutherford|rating=54|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Horrid Henry is In some ways it was a character I remember vaguely in passinggentler time: video games were around, a bit like ''Just William''but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. I knew the books existed Tim and regularly saw them Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the children’s room of the librarynineteen seventies. Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but I didn’t bother to pick them up. The clue was for other children who gather in the nameplayground. And I was Tim's probably about ten - just at the sort of girl stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who didn’t want stories about nasty's two years younger than him, horrible boys. Having read my first Horrid Henry story now, though, I can let you in on a little secret. He’s actually quite a funny boy and but he's not yet at the naughty thing his nickname would suggeststage where he knows how to deal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009079</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B01N0OZQOD|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)Nickerbacher|author=Jackie MorrisTerry John Barto|rating=3.54|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=You probably haven't heard Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of Mergichans – although if you pronounce it correctly in your headcourse, in connection with spirits and magic, you will work out princess-guarding. That's what they dragons arefor, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. One of them is She finds the totem, if you like, of a hidden Himalayan valley, whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in the form of a snow leopard, singing existence as fairy tales than she sees fit and protecting the Shangri-La type locationis in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. But she cannot protect it from allNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too -comersin fact, least of all when sheit's trying his favourite TV show because he wants to sing to find be a successorstand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. Mergichans do not have it all their own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=The Cat, the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf and Grandma's WardrobeRory Branagan Detective|author=Diane Fox Andrew Clover and Christyan FoxRalph Lazar

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Have you ever sat down to read Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a story aloud to someone and found that they interrupt at every given opportunity, asking questions, making comments, and generally fidgeting with anything and everything? Inormal kid. He'm sure if you've spent any time with s a toddler then this will be detective and he has a familiar experience. This story plays on that, with a cat trying, very hard, mystery to tell a dog the story of Little Red Riding Hood. But dog cansolve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't sit stillknow where to start but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and he wants to know what Reddiscovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's superpower is, because if she dad has a cape she must be a superhero, been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's pretty sure that Red must have zapped the wolf with her kindness ray when she met himin danger...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277002</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Dance Teacher|author=Simon Milne It's up to Rory and Chantal Stewart|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Miss Sylvie is a dance teacher Cassidy to uncover the many girls truth and boys in her town. One day, save a little girl called Isabelle walks through her door and says she wants to start ballet, so she joins the Saturday classlife. As months and then years pass, some friends come and go, and others try different forms of dancing, but only Isabelle sticks with ballet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743313314</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192758748|title=The Three Little MagiciansHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Georgie Adams and Emily BolamClare Elsom

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The ''Three Little Magicians'' are just thatWhen Harriet, aged seven and a group of young friends who like magic and are pretty good at itquarter, but theydecides to go to Princes Park to practise 're nothing compared Going to the likes of their neighbour and magician extraordinaire, Mr MarzipanPark on Her Own' (i.e. When a mishap takes him out of the running for the important magic show with her Grandad walking at the Crystal Castle, the three friends offer their servicesleast thirty steps behind) she can't believe her eyes. But will The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the evil Zigzag thwart their plans and steal the prize Third (or Horace for himself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011456</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Frances Mackay|title=Always Last (On the Ballshort)|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Ben was always laststarts to move. Last to the bathroom He not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in the morningserious trouble with Harriet's mum, last to breakfast, last into schooland climbs down from his pillar.Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home.. You get His sights are firmly set on the picture. These didn't worry him overly much but BenMayor's a football enthusiast - mansion and he was always last it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be picked when the captains were choosing teamsa better alternative. Even Sadly, Horace's visits to the girls were picked before him museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and there was always a bit of grumbling when someone had to take him onto their sidelibrary all cause mayhem. But then an anonymous friend gave him some advice in a letter and although Ben couldn't see how it could ''possibly'' workLuckily, however, he decided to give it a trycompetition in the park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781276978</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Saulles_Bee|title=Winnie's Big Bad RobotBee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky PaulTony De Saulles

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Winnie the Witch is something of an institution in children’s literature these days, Young Mel's friend has left and with good reason. From the very first book in the series Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul managed to capture a wonderful sense of fun, mischief and adventure. This addition to the series beehive is no exception.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738720</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Zanib Mian and Laura Ewing Ferrer|title=Never too Small|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=There was once a young boy who didn't try now his to do things because he felt that he was too small, but he was luckylook after. He had a good friend and that friend wrote him a letter to tell him that people are never too smallUnfortunately, or too big, or too old to try something new. There was also Mel lives in a little girl tower block and she was afraid not all of his neighbours agree that it is the darkcorrect place for a hive. It was her brother who wrote her a letter to tell her that Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he would always be there for her. There was the boy who wouldn't try new things to eat, the young girl who was afraid of heights, a boy who was terrified about going to school and can become a girl who was frightened of spiders. They all had that special someone who took the time to write them the letter which gave them the confidence to overcome their fearsbee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956419658</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Tony Ross and Wendy Finney|title=What's My Name? (The Not So Little Princess)|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Now, I do hope that what I'm Joshua Davidson has written about to tell you won't be too upsetting. The Little Princess is growing up the Night Zookeeper before and it's causing a problem in the palace. You see the little princess has always been known as, well, the Little Princess. Whilst the Queen was helping there are online cartoons devoted to make cucumber sandwiches the King was striding up character but this marks a new launch and down, wearing the carpet out and making his shoes squeaka new series. He had This is not just a book but a problem whole online event with huge educational tie- ins and a big problempush to get children using their own imagination. Now that The story itself mirrors what the little princess was growing up was it really appropriate author is trying to continue calling her the Little Princess? There was an open secret achieve in real life; the palace: everyone knew power of the little princess's ''real'' name - but no one was prepared to tell her what it wasimagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395799</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Wolfman|author=Michael Rosen This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and Chris Mould|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=People are panicking. one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's school library! The police are afraid. The army have run away. Who or what could possibly be so scary? It’s Wolf Man. And he’s on book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a good rhyming ode to the loosejoys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Neal_Words|title=Danloria: The Secret Forest of Germania Words and Your Heart|author=Gloria D GonsalvesKate Jane Neal

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Stan loves to go for walks in the forest of DanloriaTrolling, bullying, located in the seven hills of Germania. He goes with his father almost every day. One particular daycyber-shaming, Stanwhatever-it's father is ill in bed and can't take him out. And -called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that's when Fern appears. Stan notices the plant waving to him adage about sticks and can't help but investigate. Fern has an invitation for Stan. He wants to take him to the secret parts stones is actually a lot of the forest, to a partypiffle. Stan has In a fabulous time, meeting world where we all the plants and finding out about the various ways in which they benefit humanity. The following springhave hearts, Stan we should have a heart that what we say to other people is racking his brains to think of the perfect gift for his mother's fortieth birthday party when Fern appears againpositive. More friends of We can examine our world and the forest supply presents more wonderful than Stan could ever have dreamed of. A firm friendship ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1491876964</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Mine!|author=Jerome Keane sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and Susana de Dios|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Horse be happy together, and Fox are really boredbit by bit the world can be a better place. Nothing had happened for ages, until And hang the egg arrived. In this lovely book'no, they are forced to try and share, but they arenafter you't particularly good at itattitude some people would have in response. There, I really love 've given the style entire plot of this bookaway in my summary, it uses bold, different colour schemes to make it instantly eye catching and engaging. The text has but that's not really an immediately obvious sense of humour whilst still managing to be simple enough for early readers to graspissue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331365</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tavares_Red|title=Buckle and Squash Red and the Monstrous Moat-DragonLulu|author=Sarah CourtauldMatt Tavares

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=In this story we have two sistersMeet Red and Lulu. There is Eliza, who dreams They're a committed couple of being a swashbuckling hero, whilst her sister Lavender spends her cardinals and they have lived for some time mooning over pictures of princesin someone's garden, hoping safely in an evergreen tree. It seems to become them that every year people mention their home in a real princesslovely song, which tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. One day Lavender gets kidnapped out in But one year, just as the seasons turn for the forest by a rather dreadful villaincold of winter, Mordmont. Will poor Lavender ever escape? Will Eliza get to be the hero? And what about these monstrous moat dragons?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447255550</amazonuk>tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dickens_Search|title=LuckySearch and Find A Christmas Carol|author=David MackintoshCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Recently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where''We're having s Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a surprise at dinner tonight-searching. Mum says soWell, 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'' Leo ve started at the deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and his brother are desperate one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to figure out just what it at a certain time of the surprise might beyear for its ageless lesson. Could it be crinkly chips? A new bike? Tickets to But does the Amazing Yo-Yo Super showrich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation? Or maybe, just maybe...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007463030</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Eggs|title=The Almost Fearless Hamilton SquidleggerScrambled Eggs Super|author=Timothy Basil EringDr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Little froglet Hamilton Squidlegger prides himself on his braveryPeter T. Armed with his wooden sword and shieldHooper doesn't mean to show off, but he loves to battle imaginary monstersis ''very'' good at cooking. Some would say he is ''The Best'' capital T, such as the skelecragon, bracklesneed and fire-breathing frackensnappercapital B. Hamilton fears nothingAnd his signature dish is scrambled eggs. Nothing You might think that is's quite an easy dish, one with which it's a little hard to showcase one's prowess, except BEDTIMEbut not so. For Peter T. As soon as Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of the sun goes down egg itself, and he jumps will go out of his way to procure the best of the best from his own mud bed and clambers in with mum and dadwhatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353795</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Elephant|author=Suzi Eszterhas|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''Elephant'' is part of the wonderful ''Eye Move on the Wild'' series by award-winning wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas. The book follows the journey of a young bull elephant calf from birth through adulthood. The vivid full-page photographs show heartwarming snapshots of life in 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>}}to [[Newest Entertainment Reviews]]