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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ulf Stark and Eva ErikssonNigel Baines|title=When Dad Showed Me the UniverseA Tricky Kind of Magic

|summary=Dads are wonderful, aren't they? Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. One minute they can be working as His father was a dentistmagician, and named Cooper after the next they can be showing you the universe, and even tell you how cold it isgreat Tommy Cooper. Mind youBut sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, mothers can and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be fabulous too, making sure you're going or how to be warm enough if you go out to see the universe. But dads are best – they even make sure you get chewing gum as provisions And when you're exploring the universe. And what a universe it is – from whathis dad's right under your feet prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's right out in the furthest reaches of the night sky…going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1927271819</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heinz Janisch and Wolf ErlbruchJane Lightbourne|title=The King and the SeaMy Cat Called Red|rating=34

|summary=Meet Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the Kingfreckles that go along with it. He's a very good King – or is he? been bullied and mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. He has to be taught by a cat that there But red hair is more to worship – the sunnot Robin's rays, for oneonly misery in life. He is so powerful yet he cannot get a trumpet 's already lost his dad to play without him being its servant, and giving it his air; he cannot persuade a cloud to stay and enjoy mountaineering accident when his kingdom; mum gets ill and even he is resigned to a shadow that turns his petite, glistening gold crown taken into a large grey shape on the floorhospital. No, the King might think he has it all, but he hasnShe doesn'tcome home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1877579947</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Bond Francesca Simon and R W AlleySteve May|title=Paddington at the Zoo|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Cast your mind back to the weeks before the ''Paddington'' movie enchanted the world. There was a lot of press at the time about how the film had such mild peril and sexual innuendo that it was a PG-rated movie, and not a U. It became headlines due to the unassailable fact that Paddington just never seems to carry any threat to the audience, and to not have a single daunting bone in his body. But those larger books can easily be daunting to the very young people in which you wish to instil love of the character, which is where the picture book range of stories comes in. They're a lot smaller than the chapters in the main novels, and while those main books were still being produced as well they were quite uncommon occurrences, but with the [[Michael Bond's Original Paddington Bear Books in Chronological Order|'proper']] books out the way, these were pretty much all Michael Bond was producing as regards our favourite bear. Which can only mean one thing – they're equally brilliant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0006647448</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Zoa|title=The Dog Dectectives in an American AdventureTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=Whatever you might think of In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the USAvery worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, you cannot deny that it is as they cause havoc at a country birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with fantastic natural surroundings from the mountains their friends! They get up to the beaches to the vast cactus strewn deserts. This children’s book embraces this all kinds of mischief and takes the Dog Detectives naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their new crazy cast of friends on a whistle-stop tour of the country which is a great way to introduce some facts to young readers.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848860986</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Barnes1838593187|title=Wild Thing Goes Camping|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Wild Thing is truly wild, keeping worms in her grandma's handbag, building dens in muddy holes in the garden, or setting up camps, complete with sticks ready for a fire, Guess What I Found in her big sister's bedroom! She's the sort of child who sends her parents grey in their twentiesPlayground! Poor Kate, her older sister, is stuck being the sensible one in the family, trying to keep an eye on Wild Thing and help her dad out (her mum died when Wild Thing was very little), and the strain of always being sensible and reliable begins to show and Kate starts to think maybe she'd like to be wild too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407137972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Laura Vaccaro Seeger|title=Bully|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=He's a bit of a... well, a bully, really. The farm animals want to play with him, but he just calls them names. He proceeds to insult each one until a brave little goat stands up to him and calls HIM a bully. How will Bully react to that?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442131</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alice Hemming and James Lent|title=RobopopVictoria Thompson

|summary=Max had a wagon and he began putting his treasures into itTilly is excited. First it was his bear, then She's just come dashing out of the dogclassroom, who was asleep on the chair pigtails flapping behind her and looking decidedly disinterested in what was going a big grin on, but he played his parther face. Then it was MaxDad's ball come to collect her and her brother and the contents begin to seem just a little he ''precarioushas'' and were even more so when Max's car was added to try to guess what she found in the pileplayground today, but bear sat astride Dog and Max pushed the wagon whilst holding the car on top of the ball with the otheralthough she concedes that he will never guess. Then he added his cookie and Dog began Dad wants to look just the tiniest bit know how school was, but ''obviously'distracted'that' and bear fell outs not important. Dog got bear and brought him back and he did the same when the car and the ball fell off the wagon Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (in the literal sense of the phraseIsn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. Then the cookie fell out..There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett and Matthew MyersInnosanto Nagara|title=Battle BunnyM is for Movement|rating=34

|summary=Young children do Set in Indonesia, in the not always have the best poker face so when they are given too distant past, this is a gift they don’t really wantstory about social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, they may not spare your feelingsthe book is neither boring nor preachy. The little boy It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and it portrays how social movements need people who received Birthday Bunny was seriously unimpressedwill try, so much so even when it seems that he has taken out his pencils and rewritten the storythey will fail. Gone The message is the tale of a rabbit trying to work out if any of his animal friends positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have remembered his birthday and instead we get an epic battle of bunny versus the animal kingdompower to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140636018X</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Wright (editor) and Mique Moriuchi (illustrator)1949471004|title=My VillageDog on a Log Chapter Books: Rhymes from Around the WorldStep 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|summary=Poor George. He knows What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that he is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not popular but when even his own Grandad doesnbe the ones you't want to stay around for his birthday party he realises that things ve been working on and encountering words which are even worse just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than he thoughta child without that problem. However this was before he discovered 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 contents of mix. You need a story which engages the present from his Grandad young mind and experienced you need stages which progress steadily through the dramatic impact on his life an aged bottle of aftershave would bringlearning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Although George tries Reading - and ''learning'' to think himself invisible in order to cope today he is not invisibleread - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''. In fact he is not only visible but desirable too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124248</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kelly L Bingham and Paul O Zelinsky099334030X|title=Circle, Square, MooseCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=If you have children you have no doubt read loads You're going to get a hint of books what this book's about shapes; very quickly. When you see the circletitle page, you'll find out what the square, book's called and that it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the dodecahedronillustration - and there's a gap. They ''You'' are all variations of going to put your name there. It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the same things – pictures for this wheel is round like a circle, this bread reminds me book about one of a square, what on the largest creatures ever to roam the earth is a dodecahedron? . Why not spice the book up by throwing in a mooseThere's some help available, but not just any moose. This your name is a moose that brings chaos on the title page - and you have work to everything he touches and must be chased from the bookdo!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441860</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross1609809335|title=Rita's RhinoThe Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=52|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Rita really wants One day a petgiant lizard appears in the city. We don't even get told how it arrived, but when she asks her Mum for one she isn’t so keenit certainly appeared. They’re smelly and greedy and take lots of hard work. Eventually she relents People took against it, and gives Rita a jar with if they weren't shrugging it off as a flea in hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, his name is Haroldthey wanted something done about it. Obviously, Rita isn’t happy with this so she decides to take matters into her own hands. What will she do Can something be done about it, and how will she manage to hide a Rhino from her pet-fearing motherthough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440252</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=The Illustrated Old PossumTadcaster and the Bullies|author=T S Eliot and Nicolas BentleyRichard Rutherford

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers |summary=This title is clearly of importance In some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to the house of Faberenjoy themselves. To this day their puff mentions it They flew kites and went sledging if there was one of their first childrenssnow around. Tim and Mary' books, after s great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the author sent his publishernineteen seventies. Something which hasn's sont changed, his godsonunfortunately, some writings based on jellicle cats is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and some of their scrapesMary but for other children who gather in the playground. ItTim's clearly a book thatprobably about ten - just at the stage where he's important beginning to Andrew Lloyd Webberfeel responsible for his younger sister, toowho's two years younger than him, but we'll gloss speedily over that. Ithe's a book that was important not yet at the stage where he knows how to me as well – I certainly had a copy, a thin, barely illustrated, old-fashioned style paperback of it once I had seen the musical. And deal with the excellent writing here and the ability of it to delight so many people of so many ages, it has the power to be important to a future generationbullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Nonsense Limericks (Faber Children's Classics)|author=Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=There was a young man whose critique<br>Of this book was submitted one week<br>When they asked 'Was it fine?'<br>He said 'No denyin' –<br>'There's very little here they could tweak!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B01N0OZQOD|title=Katie's London ChristmasNickerbacher|author=James MayhewTerry John Barto

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=We have never been strict about Christmas in our houseNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. It's usually my husband who starts itThat dragonly duty is, with a carol or two during the summer! It's hard to resist that Christmas urge if you're a die-hard fan of the season! I have a friend who keeps all her Christmas related stories safely in a cupboardcourse, brought out in a special basket only during the season itselfprincess-guarding. WeThat's what dragons are for, meanwhile, have Christmas stories after all year round because, honestly, who doesn. But Gwendolyn isn't like a bit of Father Christmas magic now any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and then?! Anyway, this she is all to say that here much less interested in fairy tales than she is a Christmas story that some purists will tuck away until Christmas Eve but we have quite happily read during Halloween! Katie is backin watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, and heading back to London, but this time sheit's on his favourite TV show because he wants to be a mission to help Father Christmasstand-up comedian himself.He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326418</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=Good Dog Lion (Little Gems)Rory Branagan Detective|author=Alexander McCall SmithAndrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=Being Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a firm fan of Alexander McCall Smithnormal kid. He's novels for adults, I wasna detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't surprised know where to find that I thoroughly enjoyed this children's story. Written with the same gentle understanding of human naturestart but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and so very deftly told, I read this story with a great deal he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of pleasureideas. Although the story behind TimoThis is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's life is rather sad, with his father leaving him dad has been poisoned and his mother when Timo is only young, and his mother then struggling to find enough money to raise both at risk of them, it never descends into tragedy dying but remains positive and upbeatno-one else will believe he's in danger. It's a story of strength, up to Rory and bravery, Cassidy to uncover the truth and I'm not just talking about Timo and his mothersave a life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123721</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Plenderleith0192758748|title=The Bonkers BananaHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Father Christmas has When Harriet, aged seven and a problem. Because the house had no chimney he had quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to use his magic dust practise 'Going to shrink himself down so that he could slip into the house through Park on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't believe her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the keyholeThird (or Horace for short) starts to move. All went well until the very tiny Santa bumped into a fruit bowl containing just one banana and all He not only moves but stamps his magic dust flew up foot, shouts something that would get him in the air - and landed on the banana. The banana was rather pleased - brought to life he jumped up serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and climbs down and began dancing and singing - but Father Christmas was distraughtfrom his pillar. Without the magic dust he couldnUnderstandably Harriet can't ride his sleigh resist following and deliver quickly finds herself dragged all around the presentstown as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. Eventually His sights are firmly set on the banana calmed down sufficiently to realise that Santa had a problem Mayor's mansion and the only way out of it was for banana , therefore, falls to fly Santa Harriet to the moon so persuade him that he could get more magic dustthere must be a better alternative. Yes - I know - itSadly, Horace's bonkersvisits to the museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613878</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Saulles_Bee|title=The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other StoriesBee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Sylvia Plath and David RobertsTony De Saulles

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=IYoung Mel've said it before and I'll say it again, that you should always approach classical authors through their least typical, shortest and more individual works – you won't gain much insight perhaps into why they were famous, but you will find more entertainment s friend has left and greater pleasures by staying outside the canonbeehive is now his to look after. And the lovely people at Faber Unfortunately, Mel lives in a tower block and Faber have a case in point – rather than plough through serious dross from Eliot, why not stick to [[The Illustrated Old Possum by T S Eliot and Nicolas Bentley]]? And with Sylvia Plath I cannot think all of his neighbours agree that it is the correct place for a hive. Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a better place to start with her oeuvre than with these snappy and delightful pagesbee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314643</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Davidson_Night|title=Pigsticks and Harold and the Tuptown ThiefNight Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Alex MilwayJoshua Davidson|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Problems are afoot A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and imagination opened up for him. Will is the new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in Tuptown, leading up the annual Butterfly Ball – bit by bit role of protector to a magical world starts with the whole thing is being stolenrepulsion of a dangerous invasion. Harold  Joshua Davidson has made a special statue for written about the occasion, but has awoken Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to find it missing, the berries for the catering have vanished – character but this marks a new launch and someone's even run off 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 butterflies. It's up author is trying to our heroes Harold (achieve in real life; the hamster) and Pigsticks (power of the, er, pig) to don their stereotypical detective outfits and save the dayimagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346039</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Read|title=The Witch DogI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Margaret Mahy and Sam UsherDr Seuss

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Every witch needs a cat''The more that you read,''<br>''The more things you will know. Everyone knows ''<br>''The more that. But when we meet Mrs Roseyou learn, she’s not really a witch''<br>''The more places you'll go. She’s '' This is a mum whose children have left homeclassic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and now she’s finding herself with a bit one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of time on her hands. Her husband suggests she join him with his hobby of Bowlsmy children's school library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but that’s is also a bit boring, thinks Mrs Rose, so instead she decides good rhyming ode to do an evening classthe joys of reading. In how to become a witch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011340</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Neal_Words|title=It's Snow DayWords and Your Heart|author=Richard Curtis and Rebecca CobbKate Jane Neal|rating=54|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=We Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all remember act as proof that the best sort adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of school dayspiffle. In a world where we all have hearts, don’t we? Snow daysshould have a heart that what we say to other people is positive. Waking up in the morning We can examine our world and seeing the glow of white sound it makes through the curtainscommunication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, and looking out of bit by bit the window to see world can be a better place. And hang the whole world of our back gardens and rooftops turned white'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response. This is a book all about thatThere, and I've given the only two people who turn up at school on entire plot of this particular snow daybook away in my summary, but that's not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723288925</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tavares_Red|title=Horrid Henry's Haunted HouseRed and Lulu|author=Francesca Simon and Tony RossMatt Tavares|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Horrid Henry is Meet Red and Lulu. They're a character I remember vaguely committed couple of cardinals and they have lived for some time in passingsomeone's garden, a bit like ''Just William''safely in an evergreen tree. I knew the books existed and regularly saw It seems to them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the children’s room of the librarytree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one year, but I didn’t bother to pick them up. The clue was in just as the name. And I was seasons turn for the sort cold of girl who didn’t want stories about nastywinter, horrible boys. Having read my first Horrid Henry story nowthe tree vanishes, though, I can let you in on a little secret. He’s actually quite a funny boy and not the naughty thing his nickname would suggest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009079</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dickens_Search|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)Search and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Jackie MorrisCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=You probably havenRecently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where't heard of Mergichans – although if you pronounce it correctly in your heads Wally? style volume, in connection with spirits and magic, you will work out what taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they arewent a-searching. One of them Well, 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 totemdeep end, if you like, of with a hidden Himalayan valleybook hastening towards being two centuries old, and she is in the form one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it at a certain time of a snow leopard, singing existence as she sees fit and protecting the Shangri-La type locationyear for its ageless lesson. But she cannot protect it from all-comersdoes the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, 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>survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Eggs|title=The Cat, the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Scrambled Eggs, the Wolf and Grandma's WardrobeSuper|author=Diane Fox and Christyan FoxDr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Have you ever sat down Peter T. Hooper doesn't mean to read a story aloud to someone and found that they interrupt show off, but he is ''very'' good at every given opportunity, asking questions, making comments, and generally fidgeting with anything and everything? Icooking. Some would say he is ''The Best'm sure if you've spent any time with a toddler then this will be a familiar experiencecapital T, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. This story plays on You might think that's quite an easy dish, one with which it's a cat trying, very little hardto showcase one's prowess, to tell a dog the story of Little Red Riding Hoodbut not so. For Peter T. But dog can't sit stillHooper, and he wants to know what Red's superpower makes his scrambled eggs so super is, because if she has a cape she must be a superherothe choice of the egg itself, and he's pretty sure that Red must have zapped will go out of his way to procure the best of the wolf with her kindness ray when she met himbest from whatever nest...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277002</amazonuk>