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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allan PlenderleithNigel Baines|title=The Tiny TreeA Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers|summary=Deep down in the woods there Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a tiny pine treemagician, stranded in a clearing and surrounded by BIG pine treesnamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. She dreamed of being a big tree But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and hoped that one day she would now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be beautifully dressed and surrounded by laughter and love. The other trees thought that she was being silly. ActuallyAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, they were quite he ''really''nastydoesn't know what' to her and rather too full of themselves. Then one day the big machine came and started cutting down trees - and Tiny Tree was cut down by mistake. But who is s going to want a tiny Christmas tree?on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841613924</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Escoffier and Kris Di Giacomo Jane Lightbourne|title=Take Away the A My Cat Called Red|rating=34|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=What happens when you take away Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the letter 'A' from the word 'Beast'? You get 'Best'! Similarly without the 'B' the 'Bride' goes for a 'Ride' or without the 'C' the 'Chair' has 'Hair'freckles that go along with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443448</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joseph Garrett|title=StampyHe's Lovely Book|rating=3|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=If you still think been bullied and mocked at school because of Stampy as the elephant in it. ''The SimpsonsGinger Minger! Carrots!'', you need to get with itKids are mean. For one thing, TV But red hair is so last century – now itnot Robin's all about Minecraft and other computer game worlds, and often second-screening between different new media at the same timeonly misery in life. So why does this book from He's already lost his dad to a Youtube star of Minecraft tasks, pranks mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and other activities, remind me of a certain TV programme that used to invite us to turn off and do something more active instead?is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281561</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan MacDonald Francesca Simon and David RobertsSteve May|title=Aliens! (Dirty Bertie)Two Terrible Vikings

|summary=For my sins I have never met Bertie before now – something that from the merits of this book I now think should have been corrected a long time ago. He's In a friendly young chapsmall Viking village there live two twins, Hack and we meet him in friendlyWhack, short episodes. Here who are three of them, which I have eager to assume is be the norm. very worst Vikings ever! One shows him quite gullible if well-meaningNothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday party, the next has him stuck in chaos whilst tracking a situation he dislikes where he still gets the upper handtroll, and the third is undertake a sustained look at what happens when he starts a hole for himself grand journey to raid Bad Island with a simple, poor decision. their friends! He's a lad such as you probably have close by youThey get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, he's amiable, he's not too smartalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and he's really quite likeable – even if he does apparently have a very snotty nose…their crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184715512X</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tony Ross and Wendy Finney1838593187|title= Where's Gilbert? The Not So Little PrincessGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson|rating= 34.5|genre= Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=This title Tilly is part excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a new series which develops Tony Ross's unforgettable Little Princess for older children reading big grin on their ownher face. The Not So Little Princess hasn Dad't really grown out of s come to collect her and her teddy bearbrother and he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, Gilbertalthough she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but she''obviously'' that's old enough to not important. Could Tilly have become self-conscious when found more collectable things for her friend Ollie finds scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her telling stories pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to the teddy in the garden. She denies and abandons Gilbertguess. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443049</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret Mahy and Jonathan AllenInnosanto Nagara|title=The Great White Man-Eating SharkM is for Movement|rating=54

|summary=This Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a story about social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, the story of Norvin book is neither boring nor preachy. It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and it portrays how social movements need people who was ''will try, even when it seems that they will fail. The message is a good actor but rather plainpositive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to instigate change. In fact he looked like |isbn=1609809351}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=Dog on a shark…'' There were Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not many parts in be the world ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of theatre for boys who looked like sharks so Norvin took up swimminga negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. Soon he was You need to be able to shoot buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the water learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and ''like a silver arrowlearning'' but he found it tedious having to share the delightful space of Caramel Cove with all the other swimmersread - should be a pleasure. Almost every young reader will It should be able to guess what Norvin did next – but they might not anticipate the way in which his plan goes wrong''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014382</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michelle Magorian and Sam Usher099334030X|title= SmileCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyCrafts|summary= Josh is tired, fed up and feeling put out and ignored. No, he isnYou't having re going to get a tantrum – something big has happened (well, two things actually) and his world has turned upside downhint of what this book's about very quickly. You When you see the title page, you'll find out what the book'The Howler's called and that it' s been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has arrived and everything has changed and not, so far, for done the better. Baby brother Charlie is just seventeen days old illustration - and is not only taking up all of his parentsthere' time, but also stopping everyone in the house from getting enough sleep with his constant howlings a gap. Will the crying ''You'ever' stop? And are going to put your name there. It's worse because ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of the really terrible thing is largest creatures ever to roam the babyearth. There's arrival meant a very special event had some help available, but your name is on the title page - and you have work to be cancelled. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125007</amazonuk>do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mandi Kujawa and Claude St Aubin1609809335|title=Jacqueline the Singing CrowThe Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=42|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Jacqueline One day a giant lizard appears in the crowcity. SheWe don's perfectly happy up in Canadat even get told how it arrived, with a whole forest of trees to choose from, enough to eatbut it certainly appeared. People took against it, and if they weren't shrugging it off as a whole sky into which she can thrust her birdsong in celebration. She hashallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, in fact, a lot to crow they wanted something done aboutit. Until she hears humans talk of her as drably blackCan something be done about it, dumb, and ugly to both look at and to hear. What she chooses to do as a response is a surprise worth discovering in this large format picture book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992150876</amazonuk>though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Broom and Kristjana S Williams1789016320|title=The Wonder Garden: Wander through Tadcaster and the world's wildest habitats and discover more than 80 amazing animalsBullies|author=Richard Rutherford

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=Is In some ways it any wonder that this book calls the was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside world The Wonder Garden? to enjoy themselves. I know things They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in fiction books, on TV and 1899 so our story is probably set in games can be fabulous, but can they compete – really – with what nature has presented? the nineteen seventies. You only need a gate through Something which to gohasn't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and a willingness to explore. This book provides those gates – there they two lads are, shining luxuriously on making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the cover of this jumbo-sized hardbackplayground. And in five easyTim's probably about ten -just at the stage where he's beginning to-take steps, the rest of the book provides feel responsible for that explorationhis younger sister, taking us down south in Amazoniawho's two years younger than him, down below the waters of the Great Barrier Reef, and up – to deserts and mountains, via Germanybut he's own Black Forest. And not yet at the trip is nothing if not spectacular stage where he knows how to look atdeal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806473</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Haake and Georgia CherryB01N0OZQOD|title=City Atlas: Discover the world with 30 city mapsNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=It's not every time I mention the feel of the book I'm reviewing, but this time it's worth a mention. This volume has been lavishly presented in a roughened card cover, Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as opposed to the gloss of others in this format from this publisher, and so looks and feels like an old stamp catalogueall dragons do. The title image That dragonly duty is indeed a stamp, stuck on the centre of the covercourse, princess-guarding. And just as all stamps the world over That's what dragons are practically the same yet completely different in designfor, so are the worldafter all. But Gwendolyn isn's citiest any princess. The point of this book is to bring She finds the common elements as well as the unique features of all the world's capitals to the fore, to show that while a city may be a city whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is a city, their constant variety much less interested in fairy tales than she is what makes each and every one worth a visit. With that being in watching comedy on the costly side, this is a decent enough substitute''The Late Knight Show''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806481</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and LeUyen Pham|title=Nickerbacher likes ''The Princess Late Knight Show'' too - in Black|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Princess Magnolia has a double life. On one hand she has a perfectly primfact, proper and pink castle turret it's his favourite TV show because he wants to live in, on the other she has be a secret escape tunnelstand-up comedian himself. On her head she has a tiara, on her finger a monster alarm. Her life is also full of threats – He tries out his jokes on one side a horrid, blue, goat-eating beastie, on the other a prim and proper visitor intent on finding out if the perfect Princess has any secrets. Well we know she has, Gwendolyn but will they be discovered – and which is the greater threat?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763678880</amazonuk>don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joan Aiken and Quentin Blake0008265836|title=Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=If you think about all the many unsuitable items that Mortimer the raven has eaten, from staircases to bowler hats, it's surprising that he's still in as good a shape as he is. This time, Mortimer finds himself left alone with Mrs Jones' sewing machine. 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 Arabel'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 to the park where a crowd has gathered around an interesting find in a large hole…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806929</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRory Branagan Detective|author=Joan Aiken Andrew Clover and Quentin Blake|title=The Spiral StairRalph Lazar

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=ITen-year-old Rory Branagan isn'm rather fond of Arabel and Mortimert just a normal kid. I like the outlandish situations that they find themselves in, He's a detective and the way Joan Aiken wrote the stories without speaking down he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to her readers start but, then, Cassidy moves in any way, inserting humour for the grown ups reading them toonext door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. Here our terrible twosome have This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been sent to Uncle Urk poisoned and is at the zoo whilst Mr Jones is risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in hospitaldanger. Aunt Effie, however, has little patience for a noisy raven. Will Mortimer land them both in trouble? Or will they somehow manage It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the truth and save the zoo from a scurrilous animal-stealing plot?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806945</amazonuk>life.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benedict Blathwayt0192758748|title=The Little House by Horace & Harriet Take on the SeaTown|author=Clare Elsom

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=By the seaWhen Harriet, on the Isle of Mull, there was aged seven and a ruined cottagequarter, but it wasndecides 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 entirely uninhabitedbelieve her eyes. The roof had fallen in and statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the windows were empty Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that didnwould get him in serious trouble with Harriet't stop the mice finding snug s mum, and dry homes in the wallsclimbs down from his pillar. Rabbits enjoyed the weeds in the garden Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the doorway to the cottage was used town as Horace searches for a shelter by the sheep when it rainednew – and more suitable – home. Sparrows nested under His sights are firmly set on the roof Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a stray cat slept in the pile of leaves in the fireplacebetter alternative. Then one day Finn came along. He was a fisherman and he began Sadly, Horace's visits to repair the house. He worked too - catching fish museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and taking tourists to see the seals and Fingal's cavelibrary all cause mayhem. But what about Luckily, however, a competition in the birds and animals who had lived in park reveals the cottage before Finn came along?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780273142</amazonuk>perfect answer.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Catherine StorrSaulles_Bee|title= Clever Polly and Bee Boy: Clash of the Stupid WolfKiller Queens|author=Tony De Saulles|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Polly opens Young Mel's friend has left and the door one day beehive is now his to find a large black wolf standing on the doorsteplook after. With no preamble whatsoeverUnfortunately, not even Mel lives in a cursory hello, the wolf informs Polly that he intends to eat her up. Incredibly Polly invites the wolf into her home tower block and even into the kitchen! What can she be thinking not all of? Well, young Polly is clever, resourceful, independent and charming. The wolf is a wolf of very little brain. Therefore his neighbours agree that it is not long before she is able to outwit the wolf and send him packingcorrect place for a hive. This first story is very short but sets the scene for the ongoing battle of wits between Polly and the wolf that will continue for the remaining twelve short stories in this charming and entertaining bookThings change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141360232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Julian Clary and David RobertsDavidson_Night|title= Night Zookeeper: The Bolds|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The Bolds, Mr and Mrs and their two small children, live in an ordinary semi-detached house in suburban Teddington. They have jobs; Mrs Bold designs and sells flamboyant hats and Mr Bold writes jokes for Christmas crackers. But they are most definitely not an ordinary family. Oh no! They are in fact hyenas. So far they have managed to successfully pretend to be human beings. Although very hairy and prone to laughing a lot they have kept the truth (and their tails!) a secret from everyone. But their grumpy next door neighbour, Mr McNumpty, is growing suspicious and then a trip to the local safari park has repercussions. Will the Bolds' carefully long kept secret be revealed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443057</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGiraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|title=When I Am HappiestJoshua Davidson

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If Dani leaves her school for the summer holidays with A straight-laced student makes one souvenir, it will either be the memories defiant act of the fabulous friendship she formed with Ella, who struck a chord in [[My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz creativity and Eva Eriksson|book one]] then moved away, or it will be has a book she has written world of magic and compiled to remind her of all the happiness she has encountered along the wayimagination opened up for him. That Will is not quite finished, for the following day is new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the role of protector to be a magical world starts with the great end repulsion of year party, a dangerous invasion. Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and her classroom decorations there are complete online cartoons devoted to the character but this marks a new launch and her dress has been bought a new speciallyseries. But This is not all of life is happiness just a book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and jollity – and Dani is removed from the classroom a push to face very bad newsget children using their own imagination. What ending The story itself mirrors what the author is trying to achieve in store, for her book and for ours?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271894</amazonuk>real life; the power of the imagination makes everything better.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T SmithSeuss_Read|title=Claude: Lights! Camera! Action!I Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Ah''The more that you read, Claude! How I do enjoy reading these funny little stories about this sweet doggy! This time Claude finds himself embroiled in shenanigans on a film set, helping with wigs and make up and a film star gorilla! Claude is as endearing as ever, and Mr Bobblysock continues to enchant us with his hot flushes and requirements for a little lie down.|amazonuk=''<amazonukbr>1444926470''The more things you will know.''</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview|title=Cheeky Charlie|author=Mat Waugh|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''My book is about all the naughty things The more that my brother Charlie has done. Some of it is funnyyou learn, some of it is a bit sad, and lots of it is disgusting, because that's what Charlie can be. It might even make '<br>''The more places you be sick, so get ready'll go.''

You know what? That's about the size of it. After Harry has introduced herself - she's almost seven years old, she doesn't like her freckles, she's used to people thinking that someone called Harry ought to be This is a boyclassic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and she has a younger brother, who is three and called Charlie. This is Harryone that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's school library! The book about Charlie. Charlie is a cheeky chappie. He never shuts up. He likes to push his luck. Andvery silly, having pushed his luck onceas Dr Seuss always is, he likes to push it again. And again. And again. This but is much also a good rhyming ode to Harry's exasperation, as she explains by dint of a book full the joys of anecdotes..reading. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1508910510</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Astrid Desbordes and Pauline MartinNeal_Words|title=Travels of an Extraordinary Hamster|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Hamster. He's a bit curt with his so-called friends, the other animals in the Clearing – Mole, Snail, Ant, Bear, Hedgehog, Rabbit Words and Squirrel. He demands one of them build him a spaceship. He is far too dismissive of another's attempts at writing a thousand-page novel. But considering he 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271835</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewYour Heart|author=Christopher Myers|title=My PenKate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=How long does Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it take you to read a picture book? Don't worry counting s-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the number adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of wordspiffle. In a world where we all have hearts, forget totalling the pages, and ignore how many times you may return we should have a heart that what we say to bring it off the shelfother people is positive. What matters so much more than how long it takes to scan a page We can be how long examine our world and the sound it lies in the memorymakes through communication, and what it we can lead to. This examplemake each other smile, laugh, for instancesing and be happy together, and bit by bit the world can be perused in seconds, but creates a vivid and long-standing mental imagebetter place. And hang the 'no, and will if it hits the right buttons lead to untold future activitiesafter you' attitude some people would have in response. You canThere, I't judge something like this on ve given the value entire plot of timethis book away in my summary, but that's not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423103718</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Chapman and Kate HindleyTavares_Red|title=Best Friends’ Bakery: Birthdays Red and BiscuitsLulu|author=Matt Tavares

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=In thisMeet Red and Lulu. They're a committed couple of cardinals and they have lived for some time in someone's garden, the fourth story safely in an evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the Best Friends’ Bakery seriestree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one year, Hannah is recovering from her sadness at being thrown off just as the Junior Baker show on TV. Fortunately there’s plenty going on in her town and at her mum’s bakery to keep her busy. There’s a new beauty shop opening to bake seasons turn forthe cold of winter, a doggy rescue centre in troublethe tree vanishes, and a new girl who seems intent on stopping anyone from befriending her. How will Hannah get on taking Lulu with these new challenges in her life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011944</amazonuk>it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah GarlandDickens_Search|title=Eddie's Tent Search and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and How to go CampingLouise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Mum, Tom, TillyRecently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, Lily and Eddie wanted to go on holiday and camping seemed like taught the ideal way to goexplorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Lily and Tilly thought Well, it was seems tweaking the form is going to be a brilliant idea and they had some experiencebig thing, although their 'tent' did look just a little bit like a duvet over for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a chairfictional story. ItThey's surprising what you need for ve started at the deep end, with a holidaybook hastening towards being two centuries old, but Lily and Tilly had to be told to start again when Mum saw what they'd packed! But finallyone that has been adapted countless times before now, Tom began yet always has people returning to load it at a certain time of the car and off they wentyear for its ageless lesson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780408X</amazonuk>But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=W AwdrySeuss_Eggs|title=Thomas the Tank Engine 70th Anniversary SlipcaseScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Thomas, if you donPeter T. Hooper doesn't knowmean to show off, but he 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 he works on'' good at cooking. That does mean that Some would say he has to be shown up by the largeris ''The Best'' capital T, slower engines when he continually blows capital B. And his whistle to disturb their rest, and can even forget to bring any carriages with him when hesignature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that's pulling a trainquite an easy dish, but he does mean well. Heone with which it's a warm, feisty little character, and was probably always bound hard to become a bit of a favourite with warmshowcase one's prowess, feisty young readers, especially those brought up with an eye 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 name.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277270</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|title=Horrid Henry and the Comfy Black Chair|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Horrid Henry just can’t catch a breakbut not so. Perfect For Peter has been interfering with his weekend morning television watching, but mum and dad are clear it’s first come first servedT. So Horrid Henry hatches a plan to get up a bit earlier than usual and be the first one downstairsHooper, gaining full uninterrupted access to what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the remote control in choice of the process. It seems like Perfect Peter has the same idea, thoughegg itself, and however early Henry gets up, Peter’s already down there, beating him to it. Week after week he’s thwarted. Can he pull will go out a signature, and horrid, trick to finally get of 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 that? Sometimes he tries hard but someone still comes along to out-do him. Like goody two shoes Perfect Peter. With Mothers’ Day around the corner, Horrid Henry is determined to up his game, shame his brother and show he’s procure the best son. Yeah, I know. Even when he’s trying to be nice he’s being a little horrid, really, but still. It’s the thought that counts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Aby King and Sam Usher|title=Lupo and the Secret of Windsor Castle|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Based on the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's real dog, this is Lupo's story, and although it uses the real Royals it is, of course, a fictional story as you soon realise with the talking mice best from MI5 and the evil villain in the form of one of the Queen's Dorgi's (a cross between a corgi and a Dachshund). If you're looking for a fantasy animal adventure, with plenty of action, then look no furtherwhatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444921444</amazonuk>