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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Astrid Desbordes and Pauline MartinNigel Baines|title=Travels A Tricky Kind of an Extraordinary HamsterMagic|rating=34.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261}}{{Frontpage|author=Jane Lightbourne|title= My Cat Called Red|rating= 4

|summary=Meet HamsterRobin has red hair. He's a bit curt with his so-called friendshates it, and the other animals in the Clearing – Mole, Snail, Ant, Bear, Hedgehog, Rabbit and Squirrelfreckles that go along with it. He demands one 's been bullied and mocked at school because of them build him a spaceshipit. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in life. He is far too dismissive of another's attempts at writing already lost his dad to a thousand-page novelmountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. But considering he She doesn't really get on with anything and anyone, there is no chance of him joining in when they all go to meet the Bear's Arctic cousin, is there?come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1927271835</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher MyersFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title=My PenTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=How long does it take you to read In a picture book? Don't worry counting the number of wordssmall Viking village there live two twins, forget totalling the pagesHack and Whack, and ignore how many times you may return who are eager to bring it off be the shelf. very worst Vikings ever! What matters so much more than how long it takes to scan Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a page can be how long it lies in the memorytroll, and what it can lead undertake a grand journey to. raid Bad Island with their friends! This exampleThey get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, for instance, can be perused in seconds, but creates a vivid and longalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-standing mental imageBitey, and will if it hits the right buttons lead to untold future activities. You can't judge something like this on the value their crazy cast of timefriends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423103718</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Chapman and Kate Hindley1838593187|title=Best Friends’ Bakery: Birthdays and BiscuitsGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|summary=Mum, Tom, Tillyis excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, Lily pigtails flapping behind her and Eddie wanted to go a big grin on holiday and camping seemed like the ideal way to goher face. Lily Dad's come to collect her and Tilly thought it was a brilliant idea her brother and they had some experience, although their he ''tenthas' did look just a little bit like a duvet over a chair. It's surprising what you need for a holiday, but Lily and Tilly had to be told try to start again when Mum saw guess what they'd packed! But finally, Tom began to load the car and off they went.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780408X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=W Awdry|title=Thomas she found in the Tank Engine 70th Anniversary Slipcase|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Thomasplayground today, if you don't know, is a little Tank Engine, who is very quick to build up a head of steam and move his coaches and trucks around the train yards and networks although she concedes that he works onwill never guess. That does mean that he has Dad wants to be shown up by the largerknow how school was, slower engines when he continually blows his whistle to disturb their rest, and can even forget to bring any carriages with him when hebut ''obviously'' that's pulling a train, but he does mean wellnot important. HeCould Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn's t that so much more sensible than a warmscrap ''book''?) Well, actually, feisty little characterTilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and was probably always bound to become a bit all sorts of a favourite with warmother things in her pocket, feisty young readers, especially those brought up with an eye but that's not what she wants Dad to the romance of the railways. But he wasn't the first we met in the series that in public shorthand at least bears his nameguess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277270</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Francesca Simon and Tony RossInnosanto Nagara|title=Horrid Henry and the Comfy Black ChairM is for Movement

|summary= Horrid Henry just can’t catch Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a breakstory about social change. Perfect Peter has been interfering Dealing with his weekend morning television watchingsome difficult issues, but mum and dad are clear it’s first come first served. So Horrid Henry hatches a plan to get up a bit earlier than usual such as political corruption and be the first one downstairsnepotism, gaining full uninterrupted access to the remote control in the processbook is neither boring nor preachy. It seems like Perfect Peter has the same ideaeducates gently, with vibrant, thoughchallenging illustrations, and however early Henry gets upit portrays how social movements need people who will try, Peter’s already down there, beating him to even when it. Week after week he’s thwarted. Can he pull out a signature, and horrid, trick to finally get his own way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144400882X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|title=Horrid Henry's Mothers Day|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Horrid Henry isn’t always horrid. Did you know seems that? Sometimes he tries hard but someone still comes along to out-do himthey will fail. Like goody two shoes Perfect Peter. With Mothers’ Day around the corner, Horrid Henry The message is determined to up his game, shame his brother and show he’s the best son. Yeah, I know. Even when he’s trying to be nice he’s being a little horridpositive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, really, but we do still. It’s have the thought that countspower to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014757</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aby King and Sam Usher1949471004|title=Lupo and the Secret of Windsor CastleDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Based on the Duke What do you do when your child has dyslexia and Duchess of Cambridge's real dog, this is Lupo's story, and although it uses you need books which will help them to achieve the real Royals it wonder that isreading? You can risk buying early readers, of course, a fictional story as you soon realise with the talking mice from MI5 and but the evil villain sounds in the form of one of book might not be the Queenones you's Dorgi's (ve been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a cross between negative effect on the young dyslexic than a corgi and child without that problem. You need to be able to buy books at a Dachshund)reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. If You need a story which engages the young mind and youneed stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and ''learning''re looking for to read - should be a fantasy animal adventure, with plenty of action, then look no furtherpleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444921444</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Chapman and Kate Hindley099334030X|title=Best Friends' Bakery: Cupcakes and Contests|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Hannah's favourite TV show is Junior Brilliant Baker, and when she hears that they are auditioning for new contestants for Can You Draw the show she simply can't wait to apply. She rushes to tell her best friend, Mia, about the competition as she's also a fan, but then what will happen if only one of them gets on the showDragosaur? And what would they bake for the auditions? And would the show live up to everything they've imagined?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011928</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ulf Stark Peter Lynas and Eva Eriksson|title=When Dad Showed Me the UniverseCharlie Roberts

|genre=Emerging ReadersCrafts|summary=Dads are wonderful, arenYou're going to get a hint of what this book't they? s about very quickly. One minute they can be working as a dentistWhen you see the title page, the next they can be showing you 'll find out what the universe, book's called and even tell you how cold that it is's been written by Peter Lynas. Mind you, mothers can be fabulous too, making sure you're going to be warm enough if you go out Then we move on to see who has done the universeillustration - and there's a gap. But dads ''You'' are best – they even make sure you get chewing gum as provisions when you're exploring the universegoing to put your name there. And what a universe it is – from whatIt's right under ''your feet '' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of the largest creatures ever to whatroam the earth. There's right out in some help available, but your name is on the furthest reaches of the night sky…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271819</amazonuk>title page - and you have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heinz Janisch and Wolf Erlbruch1609809335|title=The King Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and the SeaLucia Caistor (translator)|rating=32|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet One day a giant lizard appears in the Kingcity. HeWe don's a very good King – or is he? He has to be taught by a cat that there is more to worship – the sun's rayst even get told how it arrived, for onebut it certainly appeared. He is so powerful yet he cannot get a trumpet to play without him being its servantPeople took against it, and giving if they weren't shrugging it his air; he cannot persuade off as a cloud to stay and enjoy his kingdom; and even he is resigned to a shadow that turns his petitehallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, glistening gold crown into a large grey shape on the floorthey wanted something done about it. No, the King might think he has Can something be done about it all, but he hasn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579947</amazonuk>though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bond and R W Alley1789016320|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, Tadcaster 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>}}{{newreviewBullies|author=Zoa|title=The Dog Dectectives in an American AdventureRichard Rutherford

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Whatever you might think of the USA, you cannot deny that In some ways it is was a country with fantastic natural surroundings from the mountains to the beaches gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to the vast cactus strewn desertsenjoy themselves. This children’s book embraces this They flew kites and takes the Dog Detectives went sledging if there was snow around. Tim and their new friends on Mary's great-grandfather started a whistle-stop tour of business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the country nineteen seventies. Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is a great way bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the playground. Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to introduce some facts feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to young readersdeal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860986</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma BarnesB01N0OZQOD|title=Wild Thing Goes CampingNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Wild Thing Nickerbacher is truly wilddoing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, keeping worms in her grandmaprincess-guarding. That's handbag, building dens in muddy holes in the garden, or setting up camps, complete with sticks ready what dragons are for a fire, in her big sisterafter all. But Gwendolyn isn's bedroom! t any princess. She's finds the sort of child who sends her parents grey whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in their twenties! Poor Kate, her older sister, fairy tales than she is stuck being the sensible one in the family, trying to keep an eye watching comedy on Wild Thing and help her dad out (her mum died when Wild Thing was very little)''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, and the strain of always being sensible and reliable begins to it's his favourite TV show and Kate starts because he wants to think maybe shebe a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don'd like to be wild too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407137972</amazonuk>t always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Vaccaro Seeger0008265836|title=BullyRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's a bit 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. This is just as well as they soon discover avery 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.It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the truth and save a life.. well}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0192758748|title=Horace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=When Harriet, aged seven and a bullyquarter, reallydecides 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't believe her eyes. The farm animals want statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (or Horace for short) starts to play move. He not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble with himHarriet's mum, but he just calls them namesand 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. He proceeds His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to insult each one until persuade him that there must be a brave little goat stands up better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to him the museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and calls HIM library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a bullycompetition in the park reveals the perfect answer. How will Bully react to that?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442131</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and James LentSaulles_Bee|title=RobopopBee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Some say Young Mel's friend has left and the grass beehive is always greener on the other side of the hillnow his to look after. Others say better the devil you know. Dylan Unfortunately, Mel lives in a tower block and Daisy don’t say either not all of these things, but his neighbours agree that it is the sentiment is there. Other people’s fathers are much better / funnier / more normal than their dadcorrect place for a hive. Why can’t Things change when Mel suddenly realises he be more like everyone else? The thing is, their dad is has an inventor of sorts, so well placed to teach them amazing superpower; he can become a lesson they’ll never forget. Welcome Robopop, a robot dad in a box! He’s going to babysit Dylan and Daisy for the afternoon…if they last that longbee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861664</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bond and R W AlleyDavidson_Night|title=Paddington At Night Zookeeper: The PalaceGiraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=I’m not someone who bangs on about being proud to be BritishA straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and imagination opened up for him. I find it odd that people can seem so fulfilled based on Will is the fact they were born new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the role of protector to a magical world starts with the repulsion of a certain nationdangerous invasion. And anyway I’d much rather be  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 citizen of the worldnew series. But every so often I come across This is not just a book, typically aimed at little ones, that does bring me out in but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a touch of national pridepush to get children using their own imagination. London The story itself mirrors what the author is trying to achieve in real life; the power of the obvious choice, and in cases like [[The Queen's Hat by Steve Antony]] it can result in frightfully good booksimagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007104405</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbro Lindgren and Eva ErikssonSeuss_Read|title=Max's WagonI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Max had a wagon and he began putting his treasures into it. First it was his bear''The more that you read, then the dog, who was asleep on the chair and looking decidedly disinterested in what was going on, but he played his part''<br>''The more things you will know. Then it was Max's ball and the contents begin to seem just a little ''precarious<br>'' and were even The more so when Maxthat you learn,'s car was added to the pile, but bear sat astride Dog and Max pushed the wagon whilst holding the car on top of the ball with the other. Then he added his cookie and Dog began to look just the tiniest bit '<br>'distracted'The more places you' and bear fell outll go. Dog got bear '' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and brought him back and he did one that I painstakingly stickered onto the same when the car and the ball fell off the wagon (in the literal sense wall of the phrase). my children's school library! Then The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a good rhyming ode to the cookie fell out..joys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett and Matthew MyersNeal_Words|title=Battle Bunny|rating=3|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Young children do not always have the best poker face so when they are given a gift they don’t really want, they may not spare your feelings. The little boy who received Birthday Bunny was seriously unimpressed, so much so that he has taken out his pencils and rewritten the story. Gone is the tale of a rabbit trying to work out if any of his animal friends have remembered his birthday Words and instead we get an epic battle of bunny versus the animal kingdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140636018X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewYour Heart|author=Danielle Wright (editor) and Mique Moriuchi (illustrator)|title=My Village: Rhymes from Around the WorldKate Jane Neal

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers |summary=I'm thinking that of all the kinds of books that have ability to surpriseTrolling, high up on the list are poetry books. You can generally see the stylebullying, idea or genre of a novel from the covercyber-shaming, and beyond a few shocks and twists nothing changes. But take poetry on board, and there are surprises on each page whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the concentrated form of the literature surely gives the author more chance to bedazzle, to pull the rug over the readers' eyes adage about sticks and to generally give something the audience didn't expect. And so it stones is with this book, for while [[:Category:Michael Rosen|Michael Rosen's]] introduction spoke to us of nursery rhymes, I had already flicked through and still was not expecting actually a spread lot of thempiffle. Even when he itemised the various kinds I didn't foresee finding them In a world where we all on the pageshave hearts, although that is what I got. Who would we should have thought that such a small, succinct and varied little volume would have heart that much capacity what we say to surprise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806279</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Betty G Birney|title=Imagination According to Humphrey|rating=3other people is positive.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=If you haven't alreadyWe can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, meet Humphrey – the most squeakily vocal inhabitant of Classroom 26. The charming sing and inventive hamster is here with yet another of his main novels – as opposed to early readersbe happy together, quiz and joke books, anthologies, [[Humphrey's World of Pets bit by Betty G Birney|guides to having pets]] – there are so many around that my edition didn't try to put them all on one inventory page, but chose to leave bit the world can be a few outbetter place. Here the series continues with Humphrey and And hang the same children as he's befriended over the last few volumesno, and itafter you's storytime. The class is being read a novel about a boy and the dragons doing evil to his village's weather, and everyone is trying to write creatively about flying as a attitude some people would have in response. But when someone threatens to bring a real-life dragon to classThere, how could the little class pet be safe, especially when he hasnI't ve given the imagination to see what the result could be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571282512</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Frank Cottrell Boyce|title=Desirable|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|entire plot of this book away in my summary=Poor George. He knows , but that he is 's not popular but when even his own Grandad doesn't want to stay around for his birthday party he realises that things are even worse than he thought. However this was before he discovered the contents of the present from his Grandad and experienced the dramatic impact on his life really an aged bottle of aftershave would bring. Although George tries to think himself invisible in order to cope today he is not invisibleissue. In fact he is not only visible but desirable too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124248</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tavares_Red|title=Kelly L Bingham Red and Paul O ZelinskyLulu|titleauthor=Circle, Square, MooseMatt Tavares

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=If you Meet Red and Lulu. They're a committed couple of cardinals and they have children you have no doubt read loads of books about shapes; the circlelived for some time in someone'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 squaretree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one year, just as the dodecahedron. They are all variations of seasons turn for the same things – this wheel is round like a circle, this bread reminds me cold of a squarewinter, what on earth is a dodecahedron? Why not spice the book up by throwing in a moosetree vanishes, but not just any moose. This is a moose that brings chaos to everything he touches and must be chased from the book!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441860</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony RossDickens_Search|title=Rita's RhinoSearch and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Rita really wants Recently I got to applaud a petbook that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, but when she asks her Mum for one she isn’t so keen. They’re smelly and greedy and take lots of hard worktaught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Eventually she relentsWell, and gives Rita a jar with a flea in it, his name seems tweaking the form is Harold. Obviouslygoing to be a big thing, Rita isn’t happy with for this so she decides book tries yet another different approach – to take matters into her own handsteach us about a fictional story. What will she doThey've started at the deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and how will she manage one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to hide it at a Rhino from her pet-fearing mothercertain time of the year for its ageless lesson. But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440252</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Illustrated Old Possum|authorisbn=T S Eliot and Nicolas Bentley|rating=4|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=This title is clearly of importance to the house of Faber. To this day their puff mentions it was one of their first childrens' books, after the author sent his publisher's son, his godson, some writings based on jellicle cats and some of their scrapes. It's clearly a book that's important to Andrew Lloyd Webber, too, but we'll gloss speedily over that. It's a book that was important 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 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 generation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSeuss_Eggs|title=Nonsense Limericks (Faber Children's Classics)Scrambled Eggs Super|author=Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)Dr Seuss

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers |summary=There was a young man whose critique<br>Of this book was submitted one week<br>When they asked Peter T. Hooper doesn't mean to show off, but he is 'Was it fine?'<br>He said very'No denyin' –<br>good at cooking. Some would say he is 'There's very little here they could tweak!The Best'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Katie's London Christmas|author=James Mayhew|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=We have never been strict about Christmas in our housecapital T, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. ItYou might think that's usually my husband who starts itquite an easy dish, one with a carol or two during the summer! Itwhich it's a little hard to resist that Christmas urge if youshowcase one're a die-hard fan s prowess, but not so. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of the season! I have a friend who keeps all her Christmas related stories safely in a cupboard, brought out in a special basket only during the season egg itself. We, 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 that here is a Christmas story that some purists he will tuck away until Christmas Eve but we have quite happily read during Halloween! Katie is back, and heading back go out of his way to London, but this time she's on a mission to help Father Christmas.procure the best of the best from whatever nest..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326418</amazonuk>