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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg McLarenNigel Baines|title=Pigeon PA Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricks.I His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. And 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= My Cat Called Red|rating=34

|summary=The world Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the freckles that go along with it. He's been bullied and mocked at school because of birds it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in a flaplife. TheyHe're being nabbed – plucked from the air (or at least from their cages)s already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. Murray MacMurray, the brilliant pigeon private eye, She doesn't want anything to do with crime now his old partner has flown the roost, but an eager and bright young thing might just about persuade him to take up the casecome home again. But both will have to be plucky to survive the dangers it leads to…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783444835</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catharina Valckx Francesca Simon and Nicolas HubeschSteve May|title=BrunoTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=Meet Bruno. NoIn a small Viking village there live two twins, not that Bruno – for pity's sakeHack and Whack, this is a book for who are eager to be the under-eights and not a character from teen comedy movies. very worst Vikings ever! NoNothing can stop their mad marauding, Bruno is as they cause havoc at a quite unmistakeable catbirthday party, in chaos whilst tracking a bright blue cloth captroll, and this is undertake a book regarding various days in his life that he thinks are of note – whether they're the day the power goes out, or a day that would be completely uninteresting were it not for a joke from his best friend. grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! But don't you dare make the mistake They get up to all kinds of thinking this sounds mundane – here is a background couple, of a hippo mischief and a crocodile, just walking past the heroes. Here is said best friend, an elderly ponynaughty behaviour, forced somehow to walk backwards. Here is when Bruno is playing host to a turtle dove addicted to jam, who is forced to hide when a wet along with their wolf gate-crashes. I think you'll agree that any day spent reading this book will not be a boring onecub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776571258</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Colgan1838593187|title=Polly and Guess What I Found in the Puffin: The New FriendPlayground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Polly was just about to start Big School and, being honest, she wasn't keenTilly is excited. She couldn't wear her spotty wellies for one thing, but worst s just come dashing out of allthe classroom, she couldn't take Neil with pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on herface. We heard about Neil the rescued puffin in the [[Polly Dad's come to collect her and the Puffin by Jenny Colgan|first book]] in this series her brother and although Neil now he ''has a nest '' to try to guess what she found in the nearby lighthouseplayground today, although she concedes that he and Polly are still very closewill never guess. When she gets Dad wants to know how school Polly doesnwas, but ''obviously''t really feel like joining in any of the games: shethat's the lonely little figure on the edge of everythingnot important. Her teacher suggests that she and Ronita make friends: Could Tilly have you ever noticed how ''difficult'' it is to even speak when someone suggests something like thatfound more collectable things for her scrap box? Polly and Ronita don(Isn't make friends - they end up shouting at each other in that so much more sensible than a scrap 'mine's bigger/better than yoursbook'' argument. ?) What about? Well, birds of courseactually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. Ronita has a macawThere are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510200908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau IsaInnosanto Nagara|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Marie CurieM is for Movement

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers|summary=Some little girls want to be princessesSet in Indonesia, but in the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be not too distant past, this is a scientiststory about social change. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined to do well Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and won a gold medal for her studiesnepotism, the book is neither boring nor preachy. In PolandIt educates gently, in the middle of the nineteenth centurywith vibrant, only men were allowed to go to Universitychallenging illustrations, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar languageand it portrays how social movements need people who will try, but was soon the best maths and science student. It was here even when it seems that she met and married Pierre Curie, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this workwill fail. Marie was the first woman to receive the honour. Pierre was killed The message is a positive one; that in a road accidentan increasingly uncertain world, but Marie went on we do still have the power to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistry. Her work is still benefiting people todayinstigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa Munso1949471004|title=Little People, Big DreamsDog on a Log Chapter Books: Agatha ChristieStep 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=As a What do you do when your child Agatha Christie has dyslexia and her mother would read a book together every afternoonyou need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but there were early signs 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 what a negative effect on the future novelist would become: she always had young dyslexic than a better idea about how the story should endchild without that problem. She would read in bed You need to be able to buy books at night and detective novels were always her favouritesa reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. In You need a story which engages the First World War Agatha, who was then in her early twenties, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons young mind and toxic potions would be put to good use when her first detective novels were published just after you need stages which progress steadily through the end of the warlearning process without there being any large jumps. Most people have heard of her first Some online support and most famous detective games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - Hercule Poirot and ''learning'' to read - or of Miss Marpleshould be a pleasure. Mrs ChristieIt should be ''fun''s novels were widely read and her plays were very popular in theatres.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross099334030X|title=Barking for BagelsCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=You're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the title page, you'Barking for Bagelsll find out what the book's called and that it' is s been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the story of Schnipp the dog, who loves her owners very much, though she does find their snickering illustration - and there's a little annoying from time gap. ''You'' are going to timeput your name there. One day, whilst out It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for a walk in this book about one of the park, she starts largest creatures ever to run away, and she finds that once she starts running she canroam the earth. There't stops some help available, and she runs and she runs until she finds Bessie but your name is on the Bagel lady title page - and thus discovers her new favourite food, and her new home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344505X</amazonuk>you have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Szirtes and Tim Archbold1609809335|title=How to be a TigerThe Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=4.52|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers |summary=One day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don''Wet againt even get told how it arrived, yet again! but it certainly appeared. Down People took against it drips, little fingertips, tapping and snapping as if the rain were cross.they weren''<br>''See the branches toss? See the puddles grow? Has t shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it stopped raining?NO.'' Yes, sometimes only a quote will dothey wanted something done about it. After allCan something be done about it, we do come to poetry for snappy concision, and that's what we get here…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959200</amazonuk>though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim Field1789016320|title=Rabbit Tadcaster and Bear: The Pest in the NestBullies|author=Richard Rutherford

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Rabbit was struggling. There he In some ways it was having a nicegentler time: video games were around, peaceful sleep in his friend Bear's cave when a terrible noise woke himbut children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. Was it thunder? No, it They flew kites and went sledging if there was Bear snoringsnow around. Very loudlyTim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Rabbit tried putting his paws over his ears although thatSomething which hasn's t changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not very successful when you have small paws just for Tim and very big earsMary but for other children who gather in the playground. But there was something good: when Rabbit went outside Tim's probably about ten - just at the cave stage where he realised that spring had sprung. Suddenly he felt 's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who'strong''. After a winter spent in his friend Bears two years younger than him, but he's cave it was time not yet at the stage where he knows how to go home to his burrow. Only there was a surprise lurking there - and it looked suspiciously like a snakedeal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934260</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy LeeB01N0OZQOD|title=Amy Lee and the Darkness HexNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto|rating=34

|summary=Amy Lee wakes up from one Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of her usual dreamscourse, where she combats an evil pirateprincess-guarding. You would think that was the only nastiness in her life – she lives in a lovely place in the Land of LoveThat's what dragons are for, and doesnafter all. But Gwendolyn isn't have to worry about paying for steaks for her nine dogs, nor salmon for her catsany princess. She can go to her favourite tree who will entertain her with a story, finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she can go adventuring with her bottomless rucksack, and spend all day daydreaming of a wicked new house for her dogs… Until is much less interested in fairy tales than she sees threatening purple clouds over the forestsis in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. And not even Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in this fantasy world do you want fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to see purple clouds…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407172239</amazonuk>be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary McKay0008265836|title=The Sticky WitchRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=Tom and EllieTen-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's parents have set sail around the world on a raft made of rubbish! They tell the children that they will be gone for detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three years? Rory doesn't know where to start but, but it will go by very quickly then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as theysoon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy'll be safe s dad has been poisoned and happy is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in the company of Aunt Tabdanger. But who is this strange lady who applied for the job of caring for two wonderful children It's up to Rory and their cat, Whiskers? She doesn't seem Cassidy to be uncover the kind guardian that the children need, truth and why is everything in her house so very, very sticky?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125996</amazonuk>save a life.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Escoffier and Kris Di Giacomo0192758748|title=Where's Horace & Harriet Take on the BaBOOn?Town|author=Clare Elsom|rating=3.54|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The title of When Harriet, aged seven and a book quarter, decides 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 be an important indication 't believe her eyes. The statue of what you are about 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 yourself intohim in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can''Wheret resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's the BaBOOn?'' is mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a subtly different than ''Wherebetter alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to the Baboon?'' Can you spot the surprising difference? One book is about finding the missing monkeymuseum, cinema, train station, playground, the other is waiting for the missing monkey to find youbank and library all cause mayhem. ThereforeLuckily, grab this book at your perilhowever, knowing that at some point a Baboon will say BOO!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444827</amazonuk>competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andy Croft and Alan MarksSaulles_Bee|title=Tarzan and Bee Boy: Clash of the BlackshirtsKiller Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=1930s London, Young Mel's friend has left and the streets are rife with racial divides, beehive is now his to the extent that people on one side of the road, generally of one ethnic origin, hate the residents from some other background living on the otherlook after. Our narrator Sam has no reason to hate anyoneUnfortunately, apart from those Mel lives in a tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that it is the other gangs, like Alfcorrect place for a hive. But Things change when they latch on to each other as best friends, despite Sam being Jewish and Alf having Irish blood, it seems nothing Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can stop thembecome a bee. But in times like that – and, of course, in times like 2017 – that doesn't necessarily mean friendships can't be broken…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910170399</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonDavidson_Night|title=IncredibuildsNight Zookeeper: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=How do you create a houseA straight-elf like Dobby? Well, you have laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a tennis ball on a string, world of magic and point actors so they look at it, and say their lines to a pretty-much empty spaceimagination opened up for him. You then film Toby Jones doing Will is the elf's lines, and use that sound file new Night Zookeeper and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – tenure in the first major character role of protector to come from the digital realm in the ''Harry Potter'' films. You can throw in a few puppets, and now and again a gifted small person, particularly at magical world starts with the end of film #7… Or, repulsion of course, you can get this gift set, and press the wooden parts out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsilldangerous invasion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul Thurlby|title= NY is for New York|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Long gone are Joshua Davidson has written about the days when children didn't travel, Night Zookeeper before and picture books had to be about animals. And while your pre-schoolers might not be planning solo trips there are online cartoons devoted to the States any time soon, it's never too early to get them character but this marks a new launch and older siblings interested in other places and other culturesa new series. ''NY is for New York'' This is not just a themed alphabet book, based around the city that never sleeps, and it's chock full of facts and figures about a city I love, teaching me many new things I didn't know about but a place I'm familiar whole online event with from visits huge educational tie-ins and TV shows and many, many Manhattan booksa push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what the author is trying to achieve in real life; the power of the imagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444930311</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Read|title=I Can Read With My Eyes Shut

|title=Dr Seuss: A Classic Treasury|rating=4.5 |genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Sitting on my shelf is well thumbed book. I have had it since a child and even to this day pick it up once in a while and read its contents. What is this tome? A slice of classic children's literature 'The more that taught me all about the absurd and that words could be played with. This was not you read,''Wind in the Willows<br>'' or 'Swiss Family RobinsonThe more things you will know.'', my classic is a Dr Seuss Omnibus that contained four of his books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007234260</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview|author=Alex T Smith|title=Santa Claude|rating=5|genre=For Sharing |summary=Ah Claude! He is such an endearing little dog. He's back on an adventure with Sir Bobblysock and this time it is a Christmas adventure. There are baubles and trees and carols and reindeer and'The more that you learn, of course, there's trouble! For who else but Claude would accidentally handcuff Santa to an armchair on Christmas Eve, and then need to deliver all the presents himself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926497'</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview|author= Benji Davies|title= ''The Storm Whale in Winter|rating= 4more places you'll go.5''|genre= For Sharing|summary= The Storm Whale in Winter This is a sequel to the highly popular The Storm Whale. Noi's father embarks on one last fishing trip before the Arctic Winter sets in. All alone, with his six catsclassic Dr Seuss quote from this book, Noi patiently waits for his father's return. As night sets and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the sea begins to freeze, Noi starts to worry and believes he can see his Dadwall of my children's boat from his bedroom window. Full of courage, he sets off out in the snow to find his Dad. school library! Getting lost in the blizzard, Noi is in need of help which comes in the form of his old friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147111998X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jill Tomlinson and Paul Howard|title= The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= If you think you know everything about owls, think again. Even the basic things that you THINK are a given may turn out to be wrong. Plop book is an adorable 8 week old baby owl and he has the feathers and the beak and the all-around owl look, with two crucial differences: he's not very good at flyingsilly, and he's afraid of the dark. Which, for a nocturnal creatureas Dr Seuss always is, but is also a bit good rhyming ode to the joys of a problemreading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281847</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neal_Words|title=Beatrix Potter Words and Quentin BlakeYour Heart|titleauthor=The Tale of Kitty-in-BootsKate Jane Neal

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=At night a seriousTrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, wellwhatever-behaved and (letit's be honest) rather ''superior'' young black cat goes out hunting-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of piffle. WellIn a world where we all have hearts, if we're being ''totally'' honest, there's should have a little bit of poaching in there tooheart that what we say to other people is positive. By day she is Miss Catherine St QuintinWe can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, although her owner calls her Kittyand bit by bit the world can be a better place. Other cats call her ''QAnd hang the 'no, after you'attitude some people would have in response. There, or ''Squintums'I've given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, but they are very common cats and Kittythat's owner would have been scandalised had she known that there was not really an acquaintance. The reaction would have been even stronger had she known that Miss Kitty went out in a gentleman's Norfolk jacket and fur-lined boots. With a gunissue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247594</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan PlenderleithTavares_Red|title=The Snowman Strikes BackRed and Lulu|author=Matt Tavares|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=ItMeet Red and Lulu. They's not easy being re a snowman, you know - particularly when you are made by Ernest Green-Bogle, who delights committed couple of cardinals and they have lived for some time in tormenting you. Sometimes he'd make you upside down or looking like a pig (itsomeone's just plain ''undignified''garden, you know)safely in an evergreen tree. That's not the worst of it. He has been known It seems to attack snowman with them that every year people mention their home in a hairdryerlovely song, feed his carrot nose to a rabbit and even encase him in a block of ice. The snow clown was ''not'' funny and which tells the snow ice cream cone even less tree thy leaves are sounchanging. But one day everything changed when Ernest came home and there was a big boy year, just as the seasons turn for the cold of winter, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with him. Ernest had a black eye and the big boy was threatening him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613932</amazonuk>it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr SeussDickens_Search|title=The LoraxSearch and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= It seemed Recently I got to me applaud a book that environmentalism was invented sometime in branched away from the early 90s. All of a sudden my schooling was about Greenhouse gases Where's Wally? style volume, and how we taught the children have explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Well, it seems tweaking the future in our hands. Could form is going to be a big thing, for this Generation X solve the problems caused by Generations A-W? I doubt it because if you look back book tries yet another different approach – to 1971 and teach us about a fictional story. They've started at the publishing of ''The Lorax''deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, you will see and one that for decades has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people like Dr Seuss have been trying returning to teach it at a certain time of the kids to think greenyear for its ageless lesson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007455933</amazonuk>But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Puckett and Tor FreemanSeuss_Eggs|title=Colin the Cart Horse|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Meet Colin. He's a perfectly regular cart horse, carrying the crops, tools and children around the farm. He's happy with a life of labour, resting after his shift is done about three every afternoon, and a life of hay – that is, however, until he wonders what his fellow farm animals are eating. What could be the consequence of him trying out every other farm food on the market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315437</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|title= Ada Twist, Scientist|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The first thing you must know about Ada Marie is the way she said nothing until the day she was three. Now that's a way to pique your interest from the start. After all what sort of child does not speak until she turns three? In this case it's a very smart little girl.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721372</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewScrambled Eggs Super

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Some books are classics and they prove this by never going out of printPeter T. Do you want to pick up a copy of a Dr Seuss novel? The chances are that you will be able Hooper doesn't mean to find a brand new one in any book shop. Howevershow off, do these tales still stand the test of time? Can Horton’s adventures with the Whos remain the wonderful story it was the day it was written?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007455941</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|title= Life According to Dani|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Dani – and if you havenbut he is ''very''t throughout [[:Category:Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|the three previous books]] then you certainly shouldgood at cooking. Her life has been up and down, considering sheSome would say he is ''The Best's only just finished the first year of primary school, but at the moment it's on the upcapital T, with caveatscapital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. SheYou might think that's in quite an idyllic place – staying with the best friend imaginable for the entire summer holidayseasy dish, on what might as well be a private island, and in constant contact one with her father. The caveats concern what happened in [[When I Am Happiest by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|book three]] and the fact that her father has been run over, but at least he calls every night at teatime. Until, that is, the night that he doesnwhich it't…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570715</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sharon Rentta|title=A Day at the Animal Post Office|rating=3|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Some people love their work and I have s a little hard to say that I enjoy mineshowcase one's prowess, but give me the option of winning the Euro Millions and spending the rest of my days drinking Pina Coladas on a superyacht, or the office, and I choose the beachnot so. For children there Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is sometimes a glamour that emanates from the working week; what tales choice of majesty can Bob the Builder tell me? The fact is that work can be dull at times and repetitive, but a book written for children about gainful employment should make it sound fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407162543</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clara Vulliamy |title=Dotty Detective |rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Dorothy Constance Mae Louiseegg itself, otherwise known as Dot, has just moved house and has had he will go out of his way to change schools. Luckily she soon finds a friend, Beans, and together they form procure the top-secret 'Join the Dots Detectives'. Both Dot and Beans are huge fans best of the TV programme 'Fred Fantastic – Ace Detective'. They've watched every episode and memorised all Fred's techniques. It's just as well they have because their classmate Laura has hatched a plot to prevent shy Amy singing in the talent contest and it's up to Dot and Beans to uncover the planbest from whatever nest. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008132496</amazonuk>