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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and LeUyen PhamNigel Baines|title=The Princess in BlackA Tricky Kind of Magic

|summary=Princess Magnolia has a double lifeCooper loves to perform magic tricks. On one hand she has His father was a perfectly primmagician, proper and pink castle turret to live in, on named Cooper after the other she has a secret escape tunnelgreat Tommy Cooper. On her head she has a tiaraBut sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, on her finger a monster alarmor how to be. Her life is also full of threats – on one side a horrid, blue, goat-eating beastieAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on the other a prim and proper visitor intent on finding out if the perfect Princess has any secrets. Well we know she has, but will they be discovered – and which is the greater threat?anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763678880</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joan Aiken and Quentin BlakeJane Lightbourne|title=Mortimer and the Sword ExcaliburMy Cat Called Red|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers|summary=If you think about all Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the many unsuitable items freckles that Mortimer the raven has eaten, from staircases to bowler hats, go along with it. He's surprising that hebeen bullied and mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!''s still in as good a shape as he isKids are mean. This time, Mortimer finds himself left alone with Mrs JonesBut red hair is not Robin' sewing machines only misery in life. I'm still not sure why Mrs Jones ever lets him out of her sight, since he has an unerring capacity for trouble, yet here we find him, gobbling down the pink material that is intended for ArabelHe's new dress, swiftly followed by the needle! When Mortimer eventually discovers the foot pedal that makes the sewing machine go he and Arabel are turfed out of the house and allowed to go across the road already lost his dad to the park where a crowd has gathered around an interesting find in a large hole…mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806929</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joan Aiken Francesca Simon and Quentin BlakeSteve May|title=The Spiral Stair|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I'm rather fond of Arabel and Mortimer. I like the outlandish situations that they find themselves in, and the way Joan Aiken wrote the stories without speaking down to her readers in any way, inserting humour for the grown ups reading them too. Here our terrible twosome have been sent to Uncle Urk at the zoo whilst Mr Jones is in hospital. Aunt Effie, however, has little patience for a noisy raven. Will Mortimer land them both in trouble? Or will they somehow manage to save the zoo from a scurrilous animal-stealing plot?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806945</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benedict Blathwayt|title=The Little House by the SeaTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=If Dani leaves her school for the summer holidays with one souvenirIn a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, it will either who are eager to be the memories of the fabulous friendship she formed with Ellavery worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, who struck as they cause havoc at a chord in [[My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|book one]] then moved awaybirthday party, or it will be chaos whilst tracking a book she has written troll, and compiled undertake a grand journey to remind her of all the happiness she has encountered along the way. raid Bad Island with their friends! That is not quite finished, for the following day is They get up to be the great end all kinds of year partymischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and her classroom decorations are complete and her dress has been bought new specially. But not all their crazy cast of life is happiness and jollity – and Dani is removed from the classroom to face very bad newsfriends. What ending is in store, for her book and for ours?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1927271894</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T Smith1838593187|title=Claude: Lights! Camera! ActionGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|summary=AhTilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, Claude! pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. How I do enjoy reading these funny little stories about this sweet doggy! Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. This time Claude finds himself embroiled in shenanigans on Dad wants to know how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a film setscrap ''book''?) Well, actually, helping with wigs and make up and a film star gorilla! Tilly did find exciting stuff. Claude is as endearing as everThere are sequins, glittered paper and Mr Bobblysock continues all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to enchant us with his hot flushes and requirements for a little lie downguess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926470</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cheeky CharlieInnosanto Nagara|authortitle=Mat WaughM is for Movement

|summary=Meet Hamster. He's a bit curt with his so-called friendsSet in Indonesia, the other animals in the Clearing – Molenot too distant past, Snail, Ant, Bear, Hedgehog, Rabbit and Squirrel. He demands one of them build him this is a spaceshipstory about social change. He Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, the book is far too dismissive of another's attempts at writing a thousand-page novelneither boring nor preachy. But considering he doesn't really get on It educates gently, with anything vibrant, challenging illustrations, and anyoneit portrays how social movements need people who will try, there even when it seems that they will fail. The message is no chance of him joining a positive one; that in when they all go an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to meet the Bear's Arctic cousin, is there?instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1927271835</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Myers1949471004|title=My PenDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=How long does it take What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to read a picture bookachieve the wonder that is reading? DonYou can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not be the ones you't worry counting the number ve been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of words, forget totalling a negative effect on the pagesyoung dyslexic than a child without that problem. You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, and ignore how many times you may return to bring it off without anything else being thrown into the shelfmix. What matters so much more than how long it takes to scan You need a page can be how long it lies in story which engages the memory, young mind and what it can lead toyou need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. This exampleSome online support and games wouldn't go amiss, for instance, can be perused in seconds, but creates a vivid and longeither. Reading -standing mental image, and will if it hits the right buttons lead ''learning'' to untold future activitiesread - should be a pleasure. You canIt should be ''fun''t judge something like this on the value of time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423103718</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Chapman and Kate Hindley099334030X|title=Best Friends’ Bakery: Birthdays Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and BiscuitsCharlie Roberts

|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=In You're going to get a hint of what this, book's about very quickly. When you see the fourth story in the Best Friends’ Bakery seriestitle page, Hannah is recovering from her sadness at being thrown off you'll find out what the Junior Baker show book's called and that it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on TVto who has done the illustration - and there's a gap. Fortunately there’s plenty ''You'' are going on in her town and at her mum’s bakery to keep her busyput your name there. There’s a new beauty shop opening It's ''your'' responsibility to bake provide the pictures for, a doggy rescue centre in trouble, and a new girl who seems intent on stopping anyone from befriending herthis book about one of the largest creatures ever to roam the earth. How will Hannah get There's some help available, but your name is on with these new challenges in her life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011944</amazonuk>the title page - and you have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Garland1609809335|title=Eddie's Tent The Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and How to go CampingLucia Caistor (translator)|rating=52|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Mum, Tom, Tilly, Lily and Eddie wanted to go on holiday and camping seemed like One day a giant lizard appears in the ideal way to gocity. Lily and Tilly thought We don't even get told how it was a brilliant idea and they had some experiencearrived, although their 'tent' did look just a little bit like a duvet over a chairbut it certainly appeared. It's surprising what you need for a holidayPeople took against it, but Lily and Tilly had to be told to start again when Mum saw what if theyweren'd packed! But finallyt shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, Tom began to load the car and off they wentwanted something done about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780408X</amazonuk> Can something be done about it, though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=W Awdry1789016320|title=Thomas Tadcaster and the Tank Engine 70th Anniversary SlipcaseBullies|author=Richard Rutherford|rating=54|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=ThomasIn some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. They flew kites and went sledging if you donthere was snow around. Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Something which hasn't knowchanged, is a little Tank Engineunfortunately, who is very quick to build up a head of steam bullying and move his coaches two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and trucks around Mary but for other children who gather in the train yards and networks he works onplayground. That does mean that Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he has 's beginning to be shown up by the larger, slower engines when he continually blows feel responsible for his whistle to disturb their restyounger sister, and can even forget to bring any carriages with him when hewho's pulling a traintwo years younger than him, but he does mean well. He's a warm, feisty little character, and was probably always bound not yet at the stage where he knows how to become a bit of a favourite with warm, feisty young readers, especially those brought up deal with an eye to the romance of the railwaysbullies. But he wasn't the first we met in the series that in public shorthand at least bears his name.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277270</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francesca Simon and Tony RossB01N0OZQOD|title=Horrid Henry and the Comfy Black ChairNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Horrid Henry just can’t catch a breakNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. Perfect Peter has been interfering with his weekend morning television watchingThat dragonly duty is, of course, but mum and dad princess-guarding. That's what dragons are clear it’s first come first servedfor, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. So Horrid Henry hatches a plan to get up a bit earlier She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than usual and be the first one downstairs, gaining full uninterrupted access to the remote control she is in the processwatching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. It seems like Perfect Peter has the same ideaNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, though, and however early Henry gets it's his favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand-up, Peter’s already down there, beating him to it. Week after week he’s thwartedcomedian himself. Can he pull He tries out a signature, and horrid, trick to finally get his own way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144400882X</amazonuk>jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross0008265836|title=Horrid Henry's Mothers DayRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Horrid Henry isn’t always horridTen-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. Did you know that? Sometimes He's a detective and he tries hard but someone still comes along has a mystery to out-do him. Like goody two shoes Perfect Peter. With Mothers’ Day around the corner, Horrid Henry is determined to up solve – why did his game, shame his brother and show he’s the best son. Yeah, I dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know. Even when he’s trying where to be nice he’s being a little horridstart but, reallythen, but still. It’s the thought that counts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Aby King Cassidy moves in next door and Sam Usher|title=Lupo and the Secret he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of Windsor Castle|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Based on the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's real dog, this ideas. This is Lupojust as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's story, dad has been poisoned and although it uses the real Royals it is, of course, a fictional story as you soon realise with the talking mice from MI5 and the evil villain in the form at risk of dying but no-one of the Queenelse will believe he's Dorgiin danger. It's (a cross between a corgi up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the truth and save a Dachshund). If you're looking for a fantasy animal adventure, with plenty of action, then look no furtherlife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444921444</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Chapman and Kate Hindley0192758748|title=Best Friends' Bakery: Cupcakes and ContestsHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Hannah's favourite TV show is Junior Brilliant BakerWhen Harriet, aged seven and when she hears that they are auditioning for new contestants for a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the show Park on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she simply can't wait believe her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (or Horace for short) starts to applymove. She rushes to tell her best friendHe not only moves but stamps his foot, Miashouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, about and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the competition town as sheHorace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's also mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a fanbetter alternative. Sadly, but then what will happen if only one of them gets on Horace's visits to the show? And what would they bake for museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the auditions? And would park reveals the show live up to everything they've imagined?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011928</amazonuk>perfect answer.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ulf Stark and Eva ErikssonSaulles_Bee|title=When Dad Showed Me Bee Boy: Clash of the UniverseKiller Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Dads are wonderful, arenYoung Mel't they? One minute they can be working as a dentist, s friend has left and the next they can be showing you the universebeehive is now his to look after. Unfortunately, Mel lives in a tower block and even tell you how cold not all of his neighbours agree that it is. Mind you, mothers can be fabulous too, making sure you're going to be warm enough if you go out to see the universecorrect place for a hive. But dads are best – they even make sure you get chewing gum as provisions Things change when you're exploring the universeMel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee. And what a universe it is – from what's right under your feet to what's right out in the furthest reaches of the night sky…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271819</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heinz Janisch and Wolf ErlbruchDavidson_Night|title=Night Zookeeper: The King and the SeaGiraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson|rating=35|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet the KingA straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and imagination opened up for him. He's a very good King – or Will is he? He has the new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the role of protector to be taught by a cat that magical world starts with the repulsion of a dangerous invasion. Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and there is more are online cartoons devoted to worship – the sun's rays, for onecharacter but this marks a new launch and a new series. He This is so powerful yet he cannot get not just a book but a trumpet to play without him being its servant, whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and giving it his air; he cannot persuade a cloud push to stay and enjoy his kingdom; and even he get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what the author is resigned trying to a shadow that turns his petite, glistening gold crown into a large grey shape on achieve in real life; the floor. No, power of the King might think he has it all, but he hasn'timagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579947</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bond and R W AlleySeuss_Read|title=Paddington at the ZooI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Cast your mind back to the weeks before the ''PaddingtonThe more that you read,''<br>'' movie enchanted the worldThe more things you will know. There was a lot of press at the time about how the film had such mild peril and sexual innuendo ''<br>''The more that it was you learn,''<br>''The more places you'll go.'' This is a PG-rated movieclassic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and not a U. It became headlines due to the unassailable fact one that Paddington just never seems to carry any threat to I painstakingly stickered onto the audience, and to not have a single daunting bone in his body. wall of my children's school library! But those larger books can easily be daunting to the The book is very young people in which you wish to instil love of the charactersilly, which as Dr Seuss always 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 is also a good rhyming ode to 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 bearjoys of reading. Which can only mean one thing – they're equally brilliant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0006647448</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=ZoaNeal_Words|title=The Dog Dectectives in an American AdventureWords and Your Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Whatever you might think of the USATrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, you cannot deny whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that it the adage about sticks and stones is actually a country with fantastic natural surroundings from the mountains lot of piffle. In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to the beaches to the vast cactus strewn desertsother people is positive. This children’s book embraces this We can examine our world and takes the Dog Detectives sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, and their new friends on bit by bit the world can be a whistle-stop tour of better place. And hang the country which is a great way to introduce 'no, after you' attitude some facts to young readerspeople would have in response. There, I've given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, but that's not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860986</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma BarnesTavares_Red|title=Wild Thing Goes CampingRed and Lulu|author=Matt Tavares|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Wild Thing is truly wild, keeping worms Meet Red and Lulu. They're a committed couple of cardinals and they have lived for some time in her grandmasomeone's handbaggarden, building dens safely in muddy holes an evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the gardentree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one year, or setting up camps, complete with sticks ready just as the seasons turn for a fire, in her big sister's bedroom! She's the sort cold of child who sends her parents grey in their twenties! Poor Kate, her older sisterwinter, is stuck being the sensible one in the familytree vanishes, 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>taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Vaccaro SeegerDickens_Search|title=BullySearch and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=HeRecently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about a bit of non-fiction subject as they went a-searching... wellWell, it seems tweaking the form is going to be a bullybig thing, reallyfor this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a fictional story. The farm animals want to play They've started at the deep end, with hima book hastening towards being two centuries old, but he just calls them names. He proceeds to insult each and one until a brave little goat stands up that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to him and calls HIM it at a bullycertain time of the year for its ageless lesson. How will Bully react to thatBut does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442131</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and James LentSeuss_Eggs|title=RobopopScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Some say the grass is always greener on the other side of the hillPeter T. Others say better the devil you know. Dylan and Daisy don’t say either of these thingsHooper doesn't mean to show off, but the sentiment he is there''very'' good at cooking. Other people’s fathers are much better / funnier / more normal than their dad. Why can’t Some would say he be more like everyone else? is ''The thing is, their dad is an inventor of sortsBest'' capital T, so well placed to teach them 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 long.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861664</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Bond and R W Alley|title=Paddington At The Palace|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=I’m not someone who bangs on about being proud to be British. I find it odd that people can seem so fulfilled based on the fact they were born in a certain nationcapital B. And anyway I’d much rather be a citizen of the worldhis signature dish is scrambled eggs. But every so often I come across a book, typically aimed at little ones, You might think that does bring me out in a touch of national pride. London is the obvious choice, and in cases like [[The Queen's Hat by Steve Antony]] it can result in frightfully good books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007104405</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Barbro Lindgren and Eva Eriksson|title=Max's Wagon|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Max had a wagon and he began putting his treasures into it. First it was his bearquite an easy dish, then the dog, who was asleep on the chair and looking decidedly disinterested in what was going on, but he played his part. Then one with which it was Max's ball and the contents begin to seem just a little ''precarious'' and were even more so when Maxhard to showcase one's car was added to the pileprowess, but bear sat astride Dog and Max pushed not so. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the wagon whilst holding the car on top choice of the ball with the other. Then egg itself, and he added will go out of his cookie and Dog began way to look just the tiniest bit ''distracted'' and bear fell out. Dog got bear and brought him back and he did the same when the car and the ball fell off the wagon (in procure the literal sense best of the phrase). Then the cookie fell out..best from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570014</amazonuk>