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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil Griffiths and Janette LoudenNigel Baines|title=The Dog with No Name|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ella and Harry had been nagging their parents ''forever'' about getting a dog, but it wasn't until after the death of the goldfish ''and'' the Russian hamster, which they'd only seen five times because it was nocturnal, that their parents relented. Off they went to the dog rescue centre and after what seemed like ''ages'' and lots A Tricky Kind of red tape they had their very own dog. He'd not been in the centre long and had no name but the whole family fell for him and brought him home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908702249</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenny Colgan|title=Polly and the PuffinMagic

|summary=Polly was in bed when there was LOUD bang from downstairsCooper loves to perform magic tricks. It wasn't the storm which His father was raging outside. It wasn't a monster or an alien from outer space. It was a puffin who had crashed through magician, and named Cooper after the front door and he had a broken winggreat Tommy Cooper. PollyBut sadly Cooper's mummy got the first aid kit out whilst Polly went father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to get the puffin some food and the next day they went be, or how to see the vetbe. By then Polly had decided that the puffin would be called Neil and the vet asked her if she would be able And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to look after Neil until his wing was betterhim, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on the strict understanding that he would then have to return to the wild.anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349131902</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian BeckJane Lightbourne|title=Grey Island My Cat Called Red Boat|rating=54

|summary=Princess Opal lived with her fatherRobin has red hair. He hates it, and the king, on the Island of Ashesfreckles that go along with it. It was a grey island, set in a grey sea He's been bullied and Opal lived in a grey castle surrounded by a cold grey moatmocked at school because of it. The gardens were grey and so were the trees and flowers''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. Princess Opal even sat on a grey granite throne But red hair is not Robin's only misery in life. He's already lost his dad to a grey granite room - mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and she wished that her life could be differentis taken into hospital. She couldndoesn't help but think that something was missingcome home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112521X</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo Francesca Simon and Sam UsherSteve May|title=We Are Not FROGS!Two Terrible Vikings

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers|summary=After the storm the frogs In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the toads all came out onto the lawn to play long jump. very worst Vikings ever! This was the frogs' choice Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they could jump further and the toads just wanted an easy life. But - through cause havoc at a series of unfortunate incidents involving lorriesbirthday party, dogs, childrenchaos whilst tracking a troll, and undertake a cart and an ice cream container, first the toads ended grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up in the ice cream container to all kinds of mischief and after they sold the frogs down the river in exchange for being put into a muddy ditchnaughty behaviour, the frogs along with their wolf- all twenty two of them cub Bitey- were in the same prison Bitey, and it was only thanks to Mutt the dog that they escapedtheir crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125120</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Holly Webb1838593187|title= Sammy Guess What I Found in the Shy KittenPlayground!|author=Victoria Thompson|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary= An adorablyTilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, warm pigtails flapping behind her and cute story about what happens when Emma falls in love with a tiny sweet feral kitten whom she names Sammybig grin on her face. To persuade Mum and Dad 's come to let collect her and her keep him she must learn all she can about taming wild kittens – brother and, of course, win little Sammyhe ''has's confidence and trust.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156487</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rachel Hamilton |title=Unicorn in New York: Louie Lets Loose! |rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Louie's parents are worried when Louie announces he wants to leave home try to enrol at guess what she found in the New York School of Performing Artsplayground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. He 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 unicorn and they canscrap ''book't believe he'll be happy without the sunlit meadows?) Well, actually, enchanted waterfalls and beautiful maidens of Story LandTilly did find exciting stuff. But There are sequins, like glittered paper and all good parentssorts of other things in her pocket, they accept that Louie must make his own way in the world. Luckily Louie always looks for the positive in life – a skill but that's going not what she wants Dad to prove essential when he arrives in New Yorkguess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192744976</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang and Yu Yan Chen (translator)Innosanto Nagara|title=Mr Horton's ViolinM is for Movement

|summary=Meet Mr HortonSet in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a story about social change. He is one of the world's most famous and rich musical instrument playersDealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and has done it all – exceptnepotism, that the book is, stumble on a music treeneither boring nor preachy. You have to stumble on themIt educates gently, with vibrant, for not carpenterschallenging illustrations, not sculptorsand it portrays how social movements need people who will try, not even simple woodsmen would give them a second look and think of them as anything special. But when Mr Horton does find one he is able to fashion the best, most magical violin imaginable out of its woodit seems that they will fail. The only problem after message is a positive one; that is working out who deserves in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to play it…instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993215459</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang and Yu Yan Chen (translator)1949471004|title=The Chief CellistDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Meet 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 be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the Chiefyoung dyslexic than a child without that problem. A new cellist in You need to be able to buy books at a quite horrible orchestrareasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, he has suddenly turned their fortunes – and his – roundwithout anything else being thrown into the mix. He is now You need a superstar, story which engages the young mind and asking for more and more grandeur and help in his lifeyou need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. But one night, when his chauffeur doesnSome online support and games wouldn't turn up for him after yet one more sterling performancego amiss, he finds himself alone in either. Reading - and ''learning'' to read - should be a world that doesnpleasure. It should be ''fun''t care how good a cellist he is, but one where destiny might just depend on him learning the power of teamwork…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215440</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Judge and Andrew Judge099334030X|title=Create Your Own Alien AdventureCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersCrafts|summary=Choose Your Own Adventure books were massive during the 80sYou're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. They allowed When you see the title page, you'll find out what the young reader to pick up a book 's called and be that it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the hero; illustration - and there's a gap. ''You'' are going to put your choices determined if you live or diename there. Invariably, it was a game It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of leaving your finger in the previous page largest creatures ever to make sure you could skip back should roam the fate that befell you not be to your likingearth. WellThere's some help available, its 2016 and just choosing but your adventure name is no longer enough, we want to interact even more with on the story, we want title page - and you have work to create our own adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407158090</amazonuk>do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Eng Gee Fan1609809335|title=Little PeopleThe Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Big Dreams: Frida KahloNick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=42|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Frida Kahlo was born One day a giant lizard appears in Mexicothe city. When she was a young schoolgirl she contracted polio and was left with a leg which was ''skinny as a rake'We don't even get told how it arrived, but she bore the problem stoically and in some ways delighted in being differentit certainly appeared. Then one day Frida was in a bus which crashed into People took against it, and if they weren't shrugging it off as a car. She was badly injured and even when she was over the worst she still had to rest in bed and filled the time hallucination brought on by drawing picturestiredness just as they fled it, including a self portraitthey wanted something done about it. Eventually she showed her pictures to a famous artist - Diego Rivera - who liked the picturesCan something be done about it, ''and'' Frida. They married and Rivera encouraged Frida's painting. She exhibited, eventually in New York, to great acclaim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1789016320|title=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Tadcaster and Ana Alberothe Bullies|titleauthor=Little People, Big Dreams: Coco ChanelRichard Rutherford

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Gabrielle Chanel lived in an orphanage in In some ways it was a French town and after the death of her mother she gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to a strict convent schoolenjoy themselves. The fact that she was ''different'' didn't make her life ''easy'', but They flew kites and went sledging if there were early indications that she was going to be a seamstresssnow around. After she left school she sewed by day and sang by night Tim and it was as she sang that she gained her nickname - ''Coco'Mary' s great- which came from the soldiers grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the audiencenineteen seventies. But her dream was designing clothes Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the first step was designing and making hats: this led to her opening a hat shopplayground. One evening, Tim's probably about ten - just at a party she realised that a lot of the women werenstage where he't dancing: their corsets were so tight that they could hardly breathe and it was this that prompted Coco s beginning to create a new style. Her clothes were simplefeel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, straight and comfortable but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to weardeal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807712</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry DearyB01N0OZQOD|title=Ghost for Sale|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=When Mr and Mrs Rundle see an advert in the paper for a wardrobe for sale, complete with ghost, Mrs Rundle decides that they absolutely ''must'' have it! They own The Dog and Duck Inn and Mrs Rundle feels that addition of a ghost will add interest to their Inn and bring them custom. The arrival of the wardrobe certainly shakes things up for the Rundles, though perhaps not in the way they'd imagined!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112518X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNickerbacher|author=Julian Gough and Jim Field|title=Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit's Bad Habbits|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Bear wakes up early from her hibernation, she decides that if she can't sleep then she might as well do something which she's always wanted to do - build a snowman. It's whilst she's doing this that she meets Rabbit, who tells her that he's an Expert in Gravity. Whatever he is, it doesn't seem to make him particularly happy as he never smiles and isn't exactly big on fun. But there are avalanches around as well as hungry wolves and Rabbit soon comes to the conclusion that it's good to have a friend on your side - even if you have just stolen their food.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444929313</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Helen Craig|title=The Orchard Book of Bedtime Fairy TalesTerry John Barto

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Fairy Tales have been around for centuries and reflect the tradition Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of oral history; stories spoken from one personcourse, princess-guarding. That's memory to anotherwhat dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. This She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is why some Fairy Tales seem to have subtle differences depending upon where you were brought upmuch less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Did you hear that the three little pigs boiled the wolf aliveNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, or perhaps you think it's his favourite TV show because he just walked away in frustration? Helen Craig is wants to be a talented illustrator who has decided to tackle the tricky Fairy Tale compilationstand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. Will her retelling of classic stories match your own?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408338408</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Keris Stainton0008265836|title= Lily Rory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and the Christmas WishRalph Lazar|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary=I In the small town of Pinewood the people are busy preparing for Christmas. This Ten-year they are doing something special to celebrate-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. Each person will write down He's a secret wish detective and tie it he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to the Christmas tree start but, then, Cassidy moves in the town squarenext door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. Although nine year old Lily likes this idea she This is more than just as well as they soon discover a little sceptical that wishes can come true, no matter how much you may want them to. Then a strange storm blows in very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and scatters all the wishes across the town. Lily wakes up the following morning to discover that Bug, her pug puppy, can talk! That was not what Lily had wished for is at risk of dying but maybe it was someone no-one elsewill believe he's wish? The Christmas magic has definitely gone wrongin danger. Can Lily, her younger brother Jimmy It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the truth and, of course, Bug put things right before Christmas Day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405125</amazonuk>save a life.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthea Bell and Anna Morgunova0192758748|title=Vasilisa Horace & Harriet Take on the Beautiful (Russian Folktales)Town|author=Clare Elsom

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=When I say Harriet, aged seven and a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to you the first response I had Park on picking up this book was Her Own'Ooh, someone knows their Klimt(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 Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but stamps his foot, and shouts something that I thought I had seen Kandinsky would get him in the art insideserious trouble with Harriet's mum, it tells you and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the aesthetic is definitely to the fore here. (That latter claim was town as Horace searches for a bit false new – and more suitable – but therehome. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's definitely mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a touch of Picassobetter alternative.) Of course there is a storySadly, Horace's visits to the museum, cinema, and a more-than decent story it is tootrain station, but with the intriguingplayground, detailed bank and unusual artwork of Anna Morgunovalibrary all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, this picture book with many words really does come to lifea competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9888342517</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke PearsonSaulles_Bee|title=Hilda and Bee Boy: Clash of the TrollKiller Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=HildaYoung Mel's friend has left and the beehive is now his to look after. Unfortunately, Mel lives in a rather delightful small, blue-haired girl, tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that it is never far from the correct place for a hive. Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an adventureamazing superpower; he can become a bee. She is confident and excitable, brave and creative, and her stories are slightly mad, and very, very readable!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263788</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lindsay Mattick and Sophie BlackallDavidson_Night|title=Finding WinnieNight Zookeeper: The Story Giraffes of the Real Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-PoohWhispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=A little boy called Cole wanted straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a storyworld of magic and imagination opened up for him. He particularly wanted a true story Will is the new Night Zookeeper and it had his tenure in the role of protector to be about a bearmagical world starts with the repulsion of a dangerous invasion. It was getting late,  Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the character but Mummy said that she would do her best. Her story began about this marks a hundred years before Cole was born new launch and it was about a man called Harry Colebourn who lived in Winnipegnew series. He was This is not just a vet and was on his way to Europe to look after the horses of the soldiers fighting in the Great War when he met book but a trapper whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a baby bear: his head might have said that there was nothing he could do, but his heart told him push to get hold of the bear and he gave the trapper $20children using their own imagination. Winnipeg, as he named The story itself mirrors what the bear, went on author is trying to achieve in real life; the train with Captain Coulbourn and his troop, across power of the ocean and finally arrived in Englandimagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408340232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Higgins and Lee WildishSeuss_Read|title= I Can Read With My Funny Family Gets Funnier Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss

|summary=What happens when you take away the letter 'A' from the word The more that you read,'Beast'? You get <br>'Best'! Similarly without the The more things you will know.'B' the <br>'Bride' goes for a 'RideThe more that you learn,' or without the 'C' the 'Chair' has 'Hair'.|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1783443448</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joseph Garrett|title=Stampy's Lovely Book|rating=3|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=If The more places you still think of Stampy as the elephant in ''The Simpsonsll go.'' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, you need to get with it. For and one thing, TV is so last century – now itthat I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's all about Minecraft and other computer game worlds, and often second-screening between different new media at the same time. school library! So why does this The book from a Youtube star of Minecraft tasksis very silly, pranks and other activitiesas Dr Seuss always is, remind me of but is also a certain TV programme that used good rhyming ode to invite us to turn off and do something more active instead?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281561</amazonuk>the joys of reading.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neal_Words|title=Alan MacDonald Words and David RobertsYour Heart|titleauthor=Aliens! (Dirty Bertie)Kate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=For my sins I have never met Bertie before now Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – something all act as proof that from the merits adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of this book I now think should have been corrected a long time agopiffle. He's In a friendly young chapworld where we all have hearts, and we meet him in friendly, short episodes. Here are three of them, which I should have a heart that what we say to assume other people is positive. We can examine our world and the norm. One shows him quite gullible if well-meaningsound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, the next has him stuck in a situation he dislikes where he still gets the upper handsing and be happy together, and bit by bit the third is a sustained look at what happens when he starts world can be a hole for himself with a simple, poor decisionbetter place. HeAnd hang the 's a lad such as no, after you probably ' attitude some people would have close by youin response. There, heI's amiableve given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, hebut that's not too smart, and he's really quite likeable – even if he does apparently have a very snotty nose…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184715512X</amazonuk>an issue.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tavares_Red|title= Tony Ross Red and Wendy FinneyLulu|titleauthor= Where's Gilbert? The Not So Little PrincessMatt Tavares|rating= 34.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary=This title is part of a new series which develops Tony Ross's unforgettable Little Princess for older children reading on their ownMeet Red and Lulu. The Not So Little Princess hasnThey't really grown out re a committed couple of her teddy bear, Gilbert, but shecardinals and they have lived for some time in someone's old enough garden, safely in an evergreen tree. It seems to have become self-conscious when her friend Ollie finds her telling stories to the teddy them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the gardentree thy leaves are so unchanging. She denies and abandons Gilbert. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443049</amazonuk>But one year, just as the seasons turn for the cold of winter, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title=Margaret Mahy Search and Jonathan AllenFind A Christmas Carol|titleauthor=The Great White Man-Eating SharkCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=This is Recently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the story of Norvin who was 'Where's Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a good actor but rather plain-searching. In fact he looked like Well, it seems tweaking the form is going to be a shark…'' There were not many parts in the world of theatre big thing, for boys who looked like sharks so Norvin took up swimmingthis book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a fictional story. Soon he was able to shoot through They've started at the water ''like deep end, with a silver arrow'' but he found book hastening towards being two centuries old, and one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it tedious having to share the delightful space at a certain time of Caramel Cove with all the other swimmersyear for its ageless lesson. Almost every young reader will be able to guess what Norvin did next – but they might not anticipate But does the way in which rich content of Dickens, even at his plan goes wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014382</amazonuk>most populist, survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michelle Magorian and Sam UsherSeuss_Eggs|title= SmileScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary= Josh is tired, fed up and feeling put out and ignoredPeter T. NoHooper doesn't mean to show off, but he isnis 't having a tantrum – something big has happened (well, two things actually) and his world has turned upside down'very'' good at cooking. You see Some would say he is ''The HowlerBest'' has arrived and everything has changed and notcapital T, so far, for the bettercapital B. Baby brother Charlie And his signature dish is just seventeen days old and is not only taking up all of his parentsscrambled eggs. You might think that' times quite an easy dish, but also stopping everyone in the house from getting enough sleep one with his constant howling. Will the crying 'ever' stop? And therewhich it's worse because the really terrible thing is the baby's arrival meant a very special event had little hard to be cancelled. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125007</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mandi Kujawa and Claude St Aubin|title=Jacqueline the Singing Crow|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Jacqueline the crow. Sheshowcase one's perfectly happy up in Canadaprowess, with a whole forest of trees to choose from, enough to eat, and a whole sky into which she can thrust her birdsong in celebrationbut not so. For Peter T. She hasHooper, in fact, a lot to crow about. Until she hears humans talk what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of her as drably black, dumbthe egg itself, and ugly he will go out of his way to both look at and to hearprocure the best of the best from whatever nest. What she chooses to do as a response is a surprise worth discovering in this large format picture book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992150876</amazonuk>