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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Ardagh and Tom Morgan-JonesNigel Baines|title=Norman the Norman from Normandy (Little Gems)A Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers|summary=Meet NormanCooper loves to perform magic tricks. Norman His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the Norman, from Normandygreat Tommy Cooper. Not Big Bad Norman the Norman from NormandyBut sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and not Norma the Norman from Normandy – and not even Nora the Norman from, well it now Cooper doesn't sayquite know who to be, but my guess is Normandyor how to be. Norman isnAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't very big at all – heknow what's just a little boygoing on anymore!|isbn=1444960261}}{{Frontpage|author=Jane Lightbourne|title= My Cat Called Red|rating= 4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Robin has red hair. He hates it, and hethe freckles that go along with it. He's not badbeen bullied and mocked at school because of it. Or at least he doesn't think he is'Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But because his father, Big Bad Norman, red hair is buried in three parts (don't ask), and little baby Norman has inherited Big Bad Normannot Robin's big bad Norman sword, heonly misery in life. He's going already lost his dad to visit the three parts – but only good will happen… Right?a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126976</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan Tubridy Francesca Simon and P J LynchSteve May|title=Patrick and the PresidentTwo Terrible Vikings

|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Meet Patrick. Such In a direction is a little facetious heresmall Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, because it's who ''he's'' going are eager to meet that's be the key. very worst Vikings ever! He lives in New RossNothing can stop their mad marauding, County Wexford, and his school has been chosen to perform as they cause havoc at a choir for the much-anticipated arrival of President J F Kennedybirthday party, as the man traces the path of his Irish ancestrychaos whilst tracking a troll, in what (in addition to stop-overs in England and Italy on the same trip) was undertake a grand journey to be his last state visit abroad. raid Bad Island with their friends! But surely just being one among three hundred on such an auspiciousThey get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, yet briefalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, occasion is not enough for such an enterprising lad? Well, no, for his connected parents have got another trick up and their sleeve for him…crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406366927</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Hancher1838593187|title=Taking Flight: How Guess What I Found in the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesPlayground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=FlightTilly is excited. It happens all around us, wherever we may beShe's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and many are the young audience members for this book who have taken he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the air alreadyplayground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. But it Dad wants to know how school was once something impossible to take , but ''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for grantedher scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, and this book easily takes us back to those daysactually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. It presents us with danger, determinationThere are sequins, glittered paper and a certain pair all sorts of American brothers going all out other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to get both their names in the history books and their feet in the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>guess.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilda OffenInnosanto Nagara|title=Message from the MoonM is for Movement

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers|summary=YesSet in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, that this is really a 'Message from story about social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, the Moon' you receive courtesy of this bookis neither boring nor preachy. You also get the point of view of the sea itselfIt educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, as well as children seeing the city night from their bedroom window and other it portrays how social movements need people witnessing geese flying overwho will try, and you even get a message from a snailwhen it seems that they will fail. The range of verses in this book message is however but a positive one of its many qualities…; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909991430</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Earle1949471004|title= SuperDad's Day OffDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating= 4.5

|summary= Stanley's dad What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is tired. It reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not be exhausting work being a Superhero. For six days of the week he saves the world from disasters ones you've been working on and defeats encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the baddies as Dynamo Danyoung dyslexic than a child without that problem. Stanley decides his poor dad needs a day off and is determined You need to be able to make sure that he gets buy books at a proper restreasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. So they head off to You need a story which engages the park for some much needed Dad young mind and Son bonding timeyou need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. However people don Some online support and games wouldn't seem go amiss, either. Reading - and ''learning'' to understand that even Superheroes need time to recuperateread - should be a pleasure. The requests for help keep on coming so what can poor Stanley do other than step in to save the dayIt should be ''fun''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126844</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuval Zommer099334030X|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=One You're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the many issues people have with the TV nature programmetitle page, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], is you'll find out what the obvious one of all the blood book's called and guts that it features – yes, in amongst all 's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesy, comical ones, whatillustration - and there's worse)a gap. ''You'll be pleased ' are going to put your name there. It's ''your'' responsibility to know, however, that provide the pictures for this book is very light on death and destructionabout one of the largest creatures ever to roam the earth. Yes, here are lions sharing There's some chunks of meat (while the females that caught and killed it sit and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plentyhelp available, but there your name is so little on the title page - and you have work to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary school.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Quentin Blake1609809335|title= The Story of the Dancing FrogLizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating= 4.52|genre= Dyslexia Friendly Emerging Readers |summary= When Jo's Great Aunt GertrudeOne day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don's sea captain husband is drowned at sea she is grief-stricken andt even get told how it arrived, in despair, she goes for a walk alone. During this walk she notices a small frog on a lily-padbut it certainly appeared. But he is no ordinary frog - hePeople took against it, and if they weren's t shrugging it off as a dancing frog and the two quickly become good friends. Soon the duo are touring the world with their routinehallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, spreading joy and fun - and carrying out the occasional rescue - wherever they gowanted something done about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125910</amazonuk> Can something be done about it, though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1789016320|title=Forest Life Tadcaster and Woodland Creaturesthe Bullies|author=Richard Rutherford

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and the animals, plants and trees in In some ways itwas a gentler time: video games were around, then you're only going but children usually went outside to be itching to go enjoy themselves. They flew kites and explore the woods for yourselfwent sledging if there was snow around. ItTim and Mary's for great-grandfather started a very young audiencebusiness in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick is bullying and easy tasks, two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and a few lessonsMary but for other children who gather in the playground. The balance between carrot and stickTim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, or duty and rewardwho's two years younger than him, is great – but what exactly is he's not yet at the edutainment going stage where he knows how to provide, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>deal with bullies.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKB01N0OZQOD|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out the sort Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of lower-casecourse, almostprincess-a-subtitle wording on the front of a bookguarding. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending to come here and learn That's what dragons are for, after all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointed. If you take it But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the book, then all well and goodThe Late Knight Show''. And even better, if you expect yourself to Nickerbacher likes ''makeThe Late Knight Show'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to 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=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano0008265836|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I'm sure I was full of questions when I was a nipper – which means I was too full of questions. Parents just don't need to be deflecting questions all the time, do they? Living on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere as I did, I knew quite a lot about farms and farming – that different animals gave different results, that different vehicles meant different things and that the crops behind our house changed. But for the inner city child, there is a chance they have never met a cow or seen a silo. This colourful book, bright in both senses of the word, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countryside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRory Branagan Detective|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions Andrew Clover and 70 Lift-flaps!Ralph Lazar

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=I wonder how much time ITen-year-old Rory Branagan isn've saved in not being t just a normal kid. He's a parent – detective and therefore not having had he has a mystery to answer such pesky questions as solve – why is the sky blue, where did I come from, his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where does my wee come fromto start but, what is earwaxthen, Cassidy moves in next door and why do I have he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as they soon discover a spleen? Still, apart from the first two, those questions very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and the answers is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to them Rory and more are in this book, which is a lovely primer for biology, Cassidy to uncover the truth and save a great source of quick facts for the very young, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approachlife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft0192758748|title=Amazing Animal Babies|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to their own. However, someone needs to give them Horace & Harriet Take on the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTown|author=Clara Vulliamy|title=The Midnight Mystery (Dotty Detective, Book 3)Clare Elsom

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If you havenWhen Harriet, aged seven and a 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't alreadybelieve 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, meet Dot. Sheshouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's an ace child detective, inspired by her favourite TV programmemum, and her pet dog and best friend climbs down from schoolhis pillar. But at least one of those is left behind this time, as Dot Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the rest of her class go to an adventure camp playground town as Horace searches for a couple of nightsnew – and more suitable – home. Daytimes His sights are spent being sporty firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and adventurousit, therefore, as are the evenings supposed falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be, but someone seems intent on ruining things for Dot. What is the evil and bragging Laura up to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008132429</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Meg McLaren|title=Pigeon P.I.|rating=3|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The world of birds is in a flapbetter alternative. TheySadly, Horace're being nabbed – plucked from s visits to the air (or at least from their cages)museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Murray MacMurrayLuckily, the brilliant pigeon private eyehowever, doesn't want anything to do with crime now his old partner has flown a competition in the roost, but an eager and bright young thing might just about persuade him to take up park reveals the caseperfect answer. But both will have to be plucky to survive the dangers it leads to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444835</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catharina Valckx and Nicolas HubeschSaulles_Bee|title=Bruno|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Bruno. No, not that Bruno – for pity's sake, this is a book for the under-eights and not a character from teen comedy movies. No, Bruno is a quite unmistakeable cat, in a bright blue cloth cap, and this is 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. But don't you dare make the mistake of thinking this sounds mundane – here is a background couple, Bee Boy: Clash of a hippo and a crocodile, just walking past the heroes. Here is said best friend, an elderly pony, 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 wolf gate-crashes. I think you'll agree that any day spent reading this book will not be a boring one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571258</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller Queens|author=Jenny Colgan|title=Polly and the Puffin: The New FriendTony De Saulles

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Polly was just about Young Mel's friend has left and the beehive is now his to start Big School and, being honest, she wasn't keenlook after. She couldn't wear her spotty wellies for one thing, but worst of allUnfortunately, she couldn't take Neil with her. We heard about Neil the rescued puffin in the [[Polly and the Puffin by Jenny Colgan|first book]] Mel lives in this series and although Neil now has a nest in the nearby lighthouse, he tower block and Polly are still very close. When she gets to school Polly doesn't really feel like joining in any of the games: she's the lonely little figure on the edge not all of everything. Her teacher suggests his neighbours agree that she and Ronita make friends: have you ever noticed how ''difficult'' it is to even speak when someone suggests something like that? Polly and Ronita don't make friends - they end up shouting at each other in the correct place for a 'mine's bigger/better than yours' argumenthive. What about? Well, birds of course. Ronita Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a macawbee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510200908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau IsaDavidson_Night|title=Little People, Big DreamsNight Zookeeper: Marie CurieThe Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=Some little girls want to be princesses, but the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a scientist. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined to do well world of magic and won a gold medal imagination opened up for her studieshim. In Poland, Will is the new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the middle role of the nineteenth century, only men were allowed protector to go to University, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar language, but was soon a magical world starts with the best maths and science studentrepulsion of a dangerous invasion. It was here that she met  Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and married Pierre Curie, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win there are online cartoons devoted to the Nobel Prize for Physics for character but this workmarks a new launch and a new series. Marie was the first woman to receive the honour. Pierre was killed in This is not just a road accident, book but Marie went on a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistryget children using their own imagination. Her work The story itself mirrors what the author is still benefiting people todaytrying to achieve in real life; the power of the imagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa MunsoSeuss_Read|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Agatha Christie|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=As a child Agatha Christie and her mother would read a book together every afternoon, but there were early signs of what the future novelist would become: she always had a better idea about how the story should end. She would read in bed at night and detective novels were always her favourites. In the First World War Agatha, who was then in her early twenties, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons and toxic potions would be put to good use when her first detective novels were published just after the end of the war. Most people have heard of her first and most famous detective - Hercule Poirot - or of Miss Marple. Mrs Christie's novels were widely read and her plays were very popular in theatres.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross|title=Barking for BagelsDr Seuss

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=''Barking for Bagels'The more that you read,' is the story of Schnipp the dog, who loves her owners very much, though she does find their snickering a little annoying from time to time. One day, whilst out for a walk in the park, she starts to run away, and she finds that once she starts running she can't stop, and she runs and she runs until she finds Bessie the Bagel lady and thus discovers her new favourite food, and her new home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344505X</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview|author=George Szirtes and Tim Archbold|title=How to be a Tiger|rating=4''The more things you will know.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse'<br>|summary=''Wet againThe more that you learn, yet again! Down it drips, little fingertips, tapping and snapping as if the rain were cross.''<br>''See the branches toss? See the puddles grow? Has it stopped raining?NOThe more places you'll go.''

Yes, sometimes only This is a classic Dr Seuss quote will do. After all, we do come to poetry for snappy concisionfrom this book, and one thatI painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's what we get here…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959200</amazonuk>school library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a good rhyming ode to the joys of reading.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim FieldNeal_Words|title=Rabbit Words and Bear: The Pest in the NestYour Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Rabbit was strugglingTrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of piffle. There he was having In a niceworld where we all have hearts, peaceful sleep in his friend Bear's cave when we should have a terrible noise woke himheart that what we say to other people is positive. Was We can examine our world and the sound it thunder? Nomakes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, it was Bear snoringand bit by bit the world can be a better place. Very loudly. Rabbit tried putting his paws over his ears although thatAnd hang the 's not very successful when no, after you ' attitude some people would have small paws and very big earsin response. But there was something good: when Rabbit went outside There, I've given the cave he realised entire plot of this book away in my summary, but that spring had sprung. Suddenly he felt ''strong''. After a winter spent in his friend Bear's cave it was time to go home to his burrow. Only there was a surprise lurking there - and it looked suspiciously like a snakenot really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934260</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy LeeTavares_Red|title=Amy Lee Red and the Darkness HexLulu|author=Matt Tavares|rating=34.5

|summary=Amy Lee wakes up from one Meet Red and Lulu. They're a committed couple of her usual dreamscardinals and they have lived for some time in someone's garden, where she combats safely in an evil pirateevergreen tree. You would think It seems to them that was the only nastiness in her life – she lives every year people mention their home in a lovely place in song, which tells the Land of Lovetree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one year, and doesn't have to worry about paying just as the seasons turn for steaks for her nine dogsthe cold of winter, nor salmon for her cats. She can go to her favourite the tree who will entertain her with a storyvanishes, and she can go adventuring taking Lulu with her bottomless rucksack, and spend all day daydreaming of a wicked new house for her dogs… Until she sees threatening purple clouds over the forests. And not even in this fantasy world do you want to see purple clouds…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407172239</amazonuk>it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary McKayDickens_Search|title=The Sticky Witch|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Tom and Ellie's parents have set sail around the world on a raft made of rubbish! They tell the children that they will be gone for three years, but it will go by very quickly and they'll be safe and happy in the company of Aunt Tab. But who is this strange lady who applied for the job of caring for two wonderful children and their cat, Whiskers? She doesn't seem to be the kind guardian that the children need, Search and why is everything in her house so very, very sticky?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125996</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFind A Christmas Carol|author=Michael Escoffier Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Kris Di Giacomo|title=Where's the BaBOOn?Louise Pigott

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The title of Recently I got to applaud a book can be an important indication of what you are about to get yourself into. ''Where's that branched away from the BaBOOn?'' is a subtly different than ''Where's the BaboonWally?'' Can you spot style volume, and taught the surprising difference? One book is explorer about finding the missing monkeya non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Well, it seems tweaking the other form is waiting going to be a big thing, for the missing monkey this book tries yet another different approach – to find youteach us about a fictional story. ThereforeThey've started at the deep end, grab this with a book at your perilhastening towards being two centuries old, knowing and one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it at some point a Baboon will say BOO!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444827</amazonuk>certain time of the year for its ageless lesson. But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andy Croft and Alan MarksSeuss_Eggs|title=Tarzan and the BlackshirtsScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=1930s London, and the streets are rife with racial divides, 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 other. Our narrator Sam has no reason to hate anyone, apart from those in the other gangs, like Alf. But when they latch on to each other as best friends, despite Sam being Jewish and Alf having Irish blood, it seems nothing can stop themPeter T. But in times like that – and, of course, in times like 2017 – that Hooper doesn't necessarily mean friendships can't be broken…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910170399</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jody Revenson|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=How do you create a house-elf like Dobby? Well, you have a tennis ball on a string, and point actors so they look at it, and say their lines to a pretty-much empty space. You then film Toby Jones doing the elf's linesshow off, and use that sound file and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character to come from the digital realm in the but he is ''Harry Pottervery'' films. You can throw in a few puppets, and now and again a gifted small person, particularly good at the end of film #7… Or, 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 windowsillcooking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul Thurlby|title= NY Some would say he is for New York|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Long gone are the days when children didn't travel'The Best'' capital T, and picture books had to be about animalscapital B. And while your pre-schoolers his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might not be planning solo trips to the States any time soonthink that's quite an easy dish, one with which it's never too early a little hard to get them and older siblings interested in other places and other culturesshowcase one's prowess, but not so. For Peter T. ''NY Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is for New York'' is a themed alphabet book, based around the city that never sleepschoice of the egg itself, and it's chock full he will go out of his way to procure the best of facts and figures about a city I love, teaching me many new things I didn't know about a place I'm familiar with the best from visits and TV shows and many, many Manhattan bookswhatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444930311</amazonuk>