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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex T SmithNigel Baines|title=Claude Going for Gold!|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I've been a fan of Claude from the beginning. He charmed me from the start, with his plump tummy, little legs, red jumper and rather fetching beret. I can't help but love a dog who wears a beret! He also has a charming best friend, Sir Bobblysock, (who is indeed a woolly sock) who always makes me laugh. In this particular book they are off on another hunt for an adventure, and although it seems for a while that there is simply no fun to be had outside A Tricky Kind of the house they finally fall, literally, into a Very Exciting Sports Competition!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926489</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A A Milne and E H Shepard|title=Eeyore Loses a Tail (Winnie the Pooh Classics)Magic

|summary=Eeyore, the Old Grey Donkey stood in the thistly corner of the forest and thought about thingsCooper loves to perform magic tricks. He His father was quite a philosopher in his own waymagician, but his most profound thought occured when Winnie-and named Cooper after the-Pooh came along great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and enquired as now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how he wasto be.  And when his dad''Not very hows prop rabbit starts talking to him, he '', he said. really''I dondoesn't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.'know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281359</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Polly Faber and Clara Vulliamy Jane Lightbourne|title= Mango and Bambang: Tapir All At SeaMy Cat Called Red|rating= 54

|summary= Mango is a sensibleRobin has red hair. He hates it, resourceful little girl who is good at a great many things including playing and the clarinet freckles that go along with it. He's been bullied and karatemocked at school because of it. Most importantly she ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is good at being kind, especially to her best friend, Bambang, a slightly timid Malaysian tapir. In this second book not Robin's only misery in the series Bambang learns to become a little braverlife. He has 's already lost his dad to really, as he becomes involved in a series of daring escapades involving dancing classes, a diamond ring, time spent behind bars mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and a particularly dangerous enemy. Throughout all of this Bambang is accompanied by his faithful friend, Mangotaken into hospital. Sometimes, even the closest friendship may be taken for grantedShe doesn't come home again. Will Bambang remember what matters most?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140636147X</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil Griffiths Francesca Simon and Janette LoudenSteve May|title=The Dog with No NameTwo Terrible Vikings

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Ella and Harry had been nagging their parents ''forever'' about getting In a dogsmall Viking village there live two twins, but it wasn't until after the death of the goldfish ''Hack and'' Whack, who are eager to be the Russian hamstervery worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, which as they'd only seen five times because it was nocturnalcause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, that and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their parents relented. friends! Off they went They get up to the dog rescue centre all kinds of mischief and after what seemed like ''ages'' naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and lots their crazy cast 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 homefriends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908702249</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Colgan1838593187|title=Polly and Guess What I Found in the PuffinPlayground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Polly was in bed when there was LOUD bang from downstairsTilly is excited. It wasnShe't s just come dashing out of the storm which was raging outside. It wasn't a monster or an alien from outer space. It was a puffin who had crashed through the front door classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and he had a broken wingbig grin on her face. PollyDad's mummy got the first aid kit out whilst Polly went come to get the puffin some food collect her and her brother and he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the next day they went playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to see the vetknow how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not important. By then Polly had decided Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that the puffin would be called Neil so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and the vet asked all sorts of other things in her if she would be able to look after Neil until his wing was betterpocket, on the strict understanding but that he would then have to return 's not what she wants Dad to the wildguess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349131902</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian BeckInnosanto Nagara|title=Grey Island Red BoatM is for Movement|rating=54

|summary=Princess Opal lived with her fatherSet in Indonesia, in the kingnot too distant past, on the Island of Ashesthis is a story about social change. It was a grey islandDealing with some difficult issues, set in a grey sea such as political corruption and Opal lived in a grey castle surrounded by a cold grey moatnepotism, the book is neither boring nor preachy. The gardens were grey It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and so were the trees and flowers. Princess Opal it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even sat on a grey granite throne in a grey granite room - and she wished when it seems that her life could be differentthey will fail. She couldn't help but think The message is a positive one; that something was missingin an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112521X</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Sam Usher1949471004|title=We Are Not FROGS!Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|summary=After What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the storm wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the frogs and sounds in the toads all came out onto book might not be the lawn to play long jump. This was the frogsones you' choice as they could jump further ve been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the toads just wanted an easy lifeyoung dyslexic than a child without that problem. But - through You need to be able to buy books at a series of unfortunate incidents involving lorries, dogs, childrenreasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a cart and an ice cream container, first story which engages the toads ended up in the ice cream container young mind and after they sold the frogs down you need stages which progress steadily through the river in exchange for learning process without there being put into a muddy ditchany large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, the frogs - all twenty two of them either. Reading - were in the same prison and it was only thanks ''learning'' to Mutt the dog that they escapedread - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125120</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Holly Webb099334030X|title= Sammy Can You Draw the Shy KittenDragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging ReadersCrafts|summary= An adorablyYou're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the title page, warm you'll find out what the book's called and that it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the illustration - and cute story about what happens when Emma falls in love with there's a tiny sweet feral kitten whom she names Sammygap. ''You'' are going to put your name there. To persuade Mum and Dad It's ''your'' responsibility to let her keep him she must learn all she can provide the pictures for this book about taming wild kittens – and, one of course, the largest creatures ever to roam the earth. win little SammyThere's confidence some help available, but your name is on the title page - and trust.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156487</amazonuk>you have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Hamilton 1609809335|title=Unicorn in New York: Louie Lets Loose! The Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=42

|summary=Louie's parents are worried when Louie announces he wants to leave home to enrol at One day a giant lizard appears in the New York School of Performing Artscity. He We don's a unicorn t even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared. People took against it, and if they canweren't believe he'll be happy without the sunlit meadowsshrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, enchanted waterfalls and beautiful maidens of Story Landthey wanted something done about it. But, like all good parents Can something be done about it, they accept that Louie must make his own way in the world. Luckily Louie always looks for the positive in life – a skill that's going to prove essential when he arrives in New York.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192744976</amazonuk>though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1789016320|title=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang Tadcaster and Yu Yan Chen (translator)the Bullies|titleauthor=Mr Horton's ViolinRichard Rutherford

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Mr HortonIn 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 there was snow around. He Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is one of probably set in the worldnineteen seventies. Something which hasn's most famous and rich musical instrument playerst changed, and has done it all – exceptunfortunately, that is, stumble on a music treebullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the playground. You have Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to stumble on them, feel responsible for not carpentershis younger sister, not sculptorswho's two years younger than him, but he's not even simple woodsmen would give them a second look and think of them as anything special. But when Mr Horton does find one yet at the stage where he is able knows how to fashion the best, most magical violin imaginable out of its wooddeal with bullies. The only problem after that is working out who deserves to play it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215459</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang and Yu Yan Chen (translator)B01N0OZQOD|title=The Chief CellistNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet the Chief. A new cellist in a quite horrible orchestra, he has suddenly turned their fortunes – and Nickerbacher is doing his – rounddragonly duty as all dragons do. He That dragonly duty is now a superstar, and asking of course, princess-guarding. That's what dragons are for more , after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and more grandeur and help she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in his lifewatching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. But one nightNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, when it's his chauffeur doesn't turn favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand-up for him after yet one more sterling performance, he finds comedian himself alone in a world that doesn. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don'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>always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Judge and Andrew Judge0008265836|title=Create Your Own Alien AdventureRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar|rating=45|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Choose Your Own Adventure books were massive during the 80sTen-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. They allowed the young reader to pick up He's a book detective and be the hero; your choices determined if you live or die. Invariably, it was he has a game of leaving your finger in the previous page mystery to make sure you could skip back should the fate that befell you not be solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to your liking. Wellstart but, then, its 2016 Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just choosing your adventure as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no longer enough, we want -one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory and Cassidy to interact even more with uncover the story, we want to create our own adventuretruth and save a life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407158090</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Eng Gee Fan0192758748|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Frida KahloHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico. When she was a young schoolgirl she contracted polio Harriet, aged seven and was left with a leg which was quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park on Her Own'skinny as a rake(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, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, but she bore the problem stoically and in some ways delighted in being differentclimbs down from his pillar. Then one day Frida was in Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a bus which crashed into a carnew – and more suitable – home. She was badly injured and even when she was over His sights are firmly set on the worst she still had to rest in bed Mayor's mansion and filled the time by drawing picturesit, therefore, including falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a self portraitbetter alternative. Eventually she showed her pictures Sadly, Horace's visits to a famous artist - Diego Rivera - who liked the picturesmuseum, cinema, train station, playground, ''bank and'' Fridalibrary all cause mayhem. They married and Rivera encouraged Frida's painting. She exhibitedLuckily, however, eventually a competition in New York, to great acclaimthe park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Ana AlberoSaulles_Bee|title=Little People, Big DreamsBee Boy: Coco ChanelClash of the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Gabrielle Chanel lived in an orphanage in a French town and after the death of her mother she went to a strict convent school. The fact that she was Young Mel''different'' didn't make her life ''easy'', but there were early indications that she was going to be a seamstress. After she s friend has left school she sewed by day and sang by night and it was as she sang that she gained her nickname - ''Coco'' - which came from the soldiers in the audience. But her dream was designing clothes and the first step was designing and making hats: this led beehive is now his to her opening a hat shoplook after. One eveningUnfortunately, at Mel lives in a party she realised that a lot tower block and not all of the women weren't dancing: their corsets were so tight his neighbours agree that they could hardly breathe and it was this that prompted Coco to create is the correct place for a new stylehive. Her clothes were simple, straight and comfortable to wearThings change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807712</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry DearyDavidson_Night|title=Ghost for SaleNight Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=When Mr A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and Mrs Rundle see an advert has a world of magic and imagination opened up for him. Will is the new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the paper for role of protector to a wardrobe for sale, complete magical world starts with ghost, Mrs Rundle decides that they absolutely ''must'' have it! They own The Dog the repulsion of a dangerous invasion. 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 Duck Inn a new series. This is not just a book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and Mrs Rundle feels that addition of a ghost will add interest push to get children using their Inn and bring them customown imagination. The arrival of story itself mirrors what the wardrobe certainly shakes things up for author is trying to achieve in real life; the Rundles, though perhaps not in power of the way they'd imagined!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112518X</amazonuk>imagination makes everything better.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim FieldSeuss_Read|title=Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit's Bad HabbitsI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=When Bear wakes up early from her hibernation''The more that you read, she decides ''<br>''The more things you will know.''<br>''The more that if she canyou learn,''t sleep then she might as well do something which she<br>''The more places you's always wanted to do - build a snowmanll go. It's whilst she's doing  This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this that she meets Rabbitbook, who tells her and one that heI painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's an Expert in Gravity. school library! Whatever he The book isvery silly, 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 Dr Seuss always is, but is also a good rhyming ode to the conclusion that it's good to have a friend on your side - even if you have just stolen their foodjoys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444929313</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen CraigNeal_Words|title=The Orchard Book of Bedtime Fairy TalesWords and Your Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Fairy Tales have been around for centuries and reflect the tradition of oral history; stories spoken from one personTrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's memory to another. This is why some Fairy Tales seem to have subtle differences depending upon where you were brought up. Did you hear -called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the three little pigs boiled the wolf alive, or perhaps you think he just walked away in frustration? Helen Craig adage about sticks and stones is actually a talented illustrator who has decided to tackle the tricky Fairy Tale compilation. Will her retelling lot of classic stories match your own?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408338408</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Keris Stainton|title= Lily and the Christmas Wish|rating= 4piffle.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary=I In the small town of Pinewood the a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to other people are busy preparing for Christmasis positive. This year they are doing something special to celebrate. Each person will write down a secret wish We can examine our world and tie the sound it to makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, and bit by bit the Christmas tree in world can be a better place. And hang the town square. Although nine year old Lily likes this idea she is more than a little sceptical that wishes can come true'no, no matter how much after you may want them to. Then a strange storm blows ' attitude some people would have in and scatters all the wishes across the townresponse. Lily wakes up There, I've given the following morning to discover that Bug, her pug puppyentire plot of this book away in my summary, can talk! That was not what Lily had wished for but maybe it was someone elsethat's wish? The Christmas magic has definitely gone wrongnot really an issue. Can Lily, her younger brother Jimmy and, of course, Bug put things right before Christmas Day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405125</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthea Bell and Anna MorgunovaTavares_Red|title=Vasilisa the Beautiful (Russian Folktales)|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=When I say to you the first response I had on picking up this book was 'Ooh, someone knows their Klimt', Red and that I thought I had seen Kandinsky in the art inside, it tells you the aesthetic is definitely to the fore here. (That latter claim was a bit false – but there's definitely a touch of Picasso.) Of course there is a story, and a more-than decent story it is too, but with the intriguing, detailed and unusual artwork of Anna Morgunova, this picture book with many words really does come to life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9888342517</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLulu|author=Luke Pearson|title=Hilda and the TrollMatt Tavares

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Hilda, Meet Red and Lulu. They're a rather delightful small, blue-haired girlcommitted couple of cardinals and they have lived for some time in someone's garden, is never far from safely in an adventureevergreen tree. She is confident and excitableIt seems to them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, brave and creativewhich tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one year, and her stories are slightly madjust as the seasons turn for the cold of winter, and verythe tree vanishes, very readable!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263788</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title=Lindsay Mattick Search and Sophie BlackallFind A Christmas Carol|titleauthor=Finding Winnie: The Story of the Real Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-PoohCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=A little boy called Cole wanted Recently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a story-searching. He particularly wanted a true story and Well, it had seems tweaking the form is going to be about a bear. It was getting latebig thing, but Mummy said that she would do her best. Her story began for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a hundred years before Cole was born and it was about a man called Harry Colebourn who lived in Winnipegfictional story. He was a vet and was on his way to Europe to look after They've started at the horses of the soldiers fighting in the Great War when he met a trapper deep end, with a baby bear: his head might have said book hastening towards being two centuries old, and one that there was nothing he could dohas been adapted countless times before now, but his heart told him yet always has people returning to get hold it at a certain time of the bear and he gave the trapper $20year for its ageless lesson. Winnipeg, as he named But does the bearrich content of Dickens, went on the train with Captain Coulbourn and even at his troopmost populist, across the ocean and finally arrived in England.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408340232</amazonuk>survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Higgins and Lee WildishSeuss_Eggs|title= My Funny Family Gets Funnier Scrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss

|summary=What happens when you take away the letter Peter T. Hooper doesn'At mean to show off, but he is ' from the word 'Beastvery'? You get 'Best'! Similarly without the 'B' the 'Bride' goes for a 'Ride' or without the 'C' the 'Chair' has 'Hair'good at cooking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443448</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joseph Garrett|title=Stampy's Lovely Book|rating=3|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=If you still think of Stampy as the elephant in Some would say he is ''The SimpsonsBest''capital T, you need to get with itcapital B. For one thing, TV And his signature dish is so last century – now it's all about Minecraft and other computer game worlds, and often second-screening between different new media at the same timescrambled eggs. So why does this book from a Youtube star of Minecraft tasks, pranks and other activities, remind me of a certain TV programme that used to invite us to turn off and do something more active instead?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281561</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alan MacDonald and David Roberts|title=Aliens! (Dirty Bertie)|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=For my sins I have never met Bertie before now – something You might think that from the merits of this book I now think should have been corrected a long time ago. He's a friendly young chap, and we meet him in friendly, short episodes. Here are three of them, which I have to assume is the norm. One shows him quite gullible if well-meaningan easy dish, the next has him stuck in a situation he dislikes where he still gets the upper hand, and the third is a sustained look at what happens when he starts a hole for himself one with a simple, poor decision. Hewhich it's a lad such as you probably have close by you, helittle hard to showcase one's amiableprowess, he's but not too smartso. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of the egg itself, and he's really quite likeable – even if he does apparently have a very snotty nose…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184715512X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tony Ross and Wendy Finney|title= Where's Gilbert? The Not So Little Princess|rating= 3.5|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 own. The Not So Little Princess hasn't really grown will go out of her teddy bear, Gilbert, but she's old enough to have become self-conscious when her friend Ollie finds her telling stories his way to procure the teddy in best of the garden. She denies and abandons Gilbertbest from whatever nest. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443049</amazonuk>