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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Harriet Whitehorn Nigel Baines|title=A Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and Becka now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. MoorAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261}}{{Frontpage|author=Jane Lightbourne|title=Violet and the SmugglersMy Cat Called Red

|summary=A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Well, ours, last year, really… A film came along that seriously impressed lots of mature audience members who had very valid reasons to doubt Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the freckles that made goggle-eyed popcorn munchers of a lot of youngstersgo along with it. It had rollicking spacecraft dog-fights, it had emotional revisits for well-loved characters, He's been bullied and had a sting in its tail that lasted mocked at least a couple school because of days before being leaked to the wider worldit. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. I know there But red hair is a DVD and Blu-Ray of it coming within days of me writing this, but I can not Robin's only assume the reason the junior books about the film are being released now and not misery in time with its cinematic release is down life. He's already lost his dad to the chatter of the young a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and their rampant ability to say what they shouldnis taken into hospital. She doesn't – which includes what happens about eighteen pages before the end of the story herecome home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405284021</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katrina Pallant Francesca Simon and Robert BallSteve May|title=Star Wars Bounty Hunt: Lift the FlapTwo Terrible Vikings|rating=34

|summary=If you need to give credit to the Star Wars universe for anythingIn a small Viking village there live two twins, beyond sheer entertainmentHack and Whack, it may who are eager to be the way it makes such great store of putting evil characters to the fore. very worst Vikings ever! They're often the more memorable for being in tune with the dark side of the Force, and even if we're not meaning full-on Darth Vader or the like we're talking about HuttsNothing can stop their mad marauding, bounty hunters and sheer nasty people as the focus of the stories. All in all the good guys will win the daythey cause havoc at a birthday party, but the baddies have chaos whilst tracking a heck of troll, and undertake a lot more attention given them than in some franchises. grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! And such is the case here, where we have a small episode in the life They get up to all kinds of devious mischief and dogged bounty hunter Bossknaughty behaviour, who was in films 5 and 6 and the Clone Wars animation, but isn't generally wellalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-known on the street. Or in the nursery schoolBitey, for this is seriously geared at the younger end and their crazy cast of the SW audiencefriends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405279907</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T Smith1838593187|title=Claude Going for GoldGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|summary=ITilly is excited. She've been a fan s just come dashing out of Claude from the beginningclassroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. He charmed me from Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the startplayground today, with his plump tummyalthough she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, little legs, red jumper and rather fetching beretbut ''obviously'' that's not important. I canCould Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't help but love that so much more sensible than a dog who wears a beret! scrap ''book''?) He also has a charming best friendWell, Sir Bobblysockactually, (who is indeed a woolly sock) who always makes me laughTilly did find exciting stuff. In this particular book they There are off on another hunt for an adventuresequins, glittered paper and although it seems for a while all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that there is simply no fun 's not what she wants Dad to be had outside of the house they finally fall, literally, into a Very Exciting Sports Competition!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926489</amazonuk>guess.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne and E H ShepardInnosanto Nagara|title=Eeyore Loses a Tail (Winnie the Pooh Classics)|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Eeyore, the Old Grey Donkey stood in the thistly corner of the forest and thought about things. He was quite a philosopher in his own way, but his most profound thought occured when Winnie-the-Pooh came along and enquired as to how he was. ''Not very how'', he said. ''I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281359</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Polly Faber and Clara Vulliamy |title= Mango and Bambang: Tapir All At Sea|rating= 5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Mango is a sensible, resourceful little girl who is good at a great many things including playing the clarinet and karate. Most importantly she M is good at being kind, especially to her best friend, Bambang, a slightly timid Malaysian tapir. In this second book in the series Bambang learns to become a little braver. He has to really, as he becomes involved in a series of daring escapades involving dancing classes, a diamond ring, time spent behind bars and a particularly dangerous enemy. Throughout all of this Bambang is accompanied by his faithful friend, Mango. Sometimes, even the closest friendship may be taken for granted. Will Bambang remember what matters most?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140636147X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Neil Griffiths and Janette Louden|title=The Dog with No NameMovement

|summary=Polly was Set in Indonesia, in bed when there was LOUD bang from downstairs. It wasn't the storm which was raging outside. It wasn't not too distant past, this is a monster or an alien from outer spacestory about social change. It was a puffin who had crashed through Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, the front door and he had a broken wingbook is neither boring nor preachy. Polly's mummy got the first aid kit out whilst Polly went to get the puffin some food It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and the next day it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they went to see the vetwill fail. By then Polly had decided The message is a positive one; that the puffin would be called Neil and the vet asked her if she would be able to look after Neil until his wing was betterin an increasingly uncertain world, on we do still have the strict understanding that he would then have power to return to the wildinstigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349131902</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Beck1949471004|title=Grey Island Red Boat|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Princess Opal lived with her father, the king, Dog on the Island of Ashes. It was a grey island, set in a grey sea and Opal lived in a grey castle surrounded by a cold grey moat. The gardens were grey and so were the trees and flowers. Princess Opal even sat on a grey granite throne in a grey granite room - and she wished that her life could be different. She couldn't help but think that something was missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112521X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLog Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Michael Morpurgo and Sam Usher|title=We Are Not FROGS!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 people are busy preparing for Christmas. This year they are doing something special to celebrate. Each person will write down a secret wish and tie it to the Christmas tree in the town square. Although nine year old Lily likes this idea she is more than world where we all have hearts, we should have a little sceptical heart that wishes can come true, no matter how much you may want them what we say toother people is positive. Then a strange storm blows in We can examine our world and scatters all the wishes across the town. Lily wakes up the following morning to discover that Bugsound it makes through communication, her pug puppywe can make each other smile, can talk! That was not what Lily had wished for but maybe it was someone else's wish? The Christmas magic has definitely gone wrong. Can Lilylaugh, her younger brother Jimmy sing andbe happy together, of course, Bug put things right before Christmas Day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405125</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anthea Bell and Anna Morgunova|title=Vasilisa bit by bit the Beautiful (Russian Folktales)|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=When I say to you world can be a better place. And hang the first response I had on picking up this book was 'Oohno, someone knows their Klimtafter you'attitude some people would have in response. There, and that I thought I had seen Kandinsky 've given the entire plot of this book away in the art insidemy summary, it tells you the aesthetic is definitely to the fore here. (That latter claim was a bit false – but therethat'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 not really does come to lifean issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9888342517</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke PearsonTavares_Red|title=Hilda Red and the TrollLulu|author=Matt 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't mean to show off, but he is ''Avery' from the word 'Beastgood at cooking. Some would say he is '? You get 'The Best'! Similarly without the 'capital T, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that' the 'Brides quite an easy dish, one with which it' goes for s a little hard to showcase one'Ride' or without s prowess, but not so. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of the egg itself, and he will go out of his way to procure the 'C' best of the 'Chair' has 'Hair'best from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443448</amazonuk>