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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Roberts and Alan MacDonaldNigel Baines|title=My Burptastic Body Book (Dirty Bertie)A Tricky Kind of Magic

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers|summary=OhCooper 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 now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be young and innocent, and or how to be full of questions. Questions like 'is eating my bogies good for meAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, or he 'why is poo brown', or really'what makes sweat smell'. You dondoesn't have to be a kid like Dirty Bertie to want to know what's going 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 the answers – respectively, no; freckles that go along with it. He's down to dead bacteria; been bullied and mocked at school because of it doesn. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'t – it's other bacteria againKids are mean. If you think you have a lad (or, letBut red hair is not Robin's face it, a lass) interested only misery in learning such stuff, this book could well be the place life. He's already lost his dad to turna mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Bond Francesca Simon and R W AlleySteve May|title=Best-loved Paddington StoriesTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=With the sad passing of Michael Bond there Tilly is no time like the present to revisit some excited. She's just come dashing out of the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddingtonclassroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. As the character Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''has proved so timeless regular re-issues of '' to try to guess what she found in the books playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have appeared and found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''Best-loved Paddington Storiesbook'' brings three of these stories together?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. Does this collection really reflect the best There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that the bear has 's not what she wants Dad to offer or are they just three random tales stuck together with marmalade?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008245037</amazonuk>guess.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Enid BlytonInnosanto Nagara|title= The Seaside FamilyM is for Movement|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The Caravan Family (MummySet in Indonesia, Daddyin the not too distant past, Mikethis is a story about social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, Belinda such as political corruption and Ann) are all ready for nepotism, the holidaysbook is neither boring nor preachy. It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and what better place to spend time together than at the seaside? They can play it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will fail. The message is a positive one; that in the seaan increasingly uncertain world, picnic on we do still have the sand and generally enjoy each other's company. It will be marvellouspower to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405286733</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn Cramb1949471004|title=National TrustDog on a Log Chapter Books: Complete Night Explorer's KitStep 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=There is a misfortune What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the modern worldwonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in that we the book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have killed off more of a common hobby from when I was negative effect on the young dyslexic than a ladchild without that problem. Nowadays light pollution is so awful it's certainly not uncommon for people You need to hardly see any of the stars and be able to get to learn the constellations, and while I only went out to go 'meteor huntingbuy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, it's patently obvious that without anything else being thrown into the chance to lie down and stargaze is a dying onemix. Elsewhere You need a story which engages the nocturnal youth can struggle to have much opportunity to explore young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the night-time nature as this book suggests – it begins with setting up a tent in your back garden, learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and too many dongames wouldn't even get that chancego amiss, for want of possession of oneeither. Yes, if this book is only read once in the daytime Reading - and never referred ''learning'' to again, due to lack of opportunity, it really will read - should be a crying shamepleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Walliams and Tony Ross099334030X|title=The World's Worst Children 2Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=I sometimes wonder if David Walliams gets sick You're going to get a hint of the comparisons with Roald Dahl that he gets. Itwhat this book's such an easy comparison to make, however, because both wrote very funny, and yet really about very dark stories for childrenquickly. They donWhen you see the title page, you't shy away from ll find out what the nastiness, book's called and ugliness in life and instead face that it head 's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on, to who has done the illustration - and flip it around, and make you laugh along the waythere's a gap. This is a rollercoaster ride through a wide range of truly dreadful children who range from being a fussy eater, ''You'' are going to a spoiled brat, put your name there. It's ''your'' responsibility to Harry, who never, provide the pictures for this book about one of the largest creatures ever did his homework! to roam the earth. YesThere's some help available, their dark deeds vary in despicableness, and along with dreadfulness galore there are fabulous illustrations, a large variety of fonts, unusual but your name is on the title page layouts - and a Royal introduction from the Queen...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008259623</amazonuk>you have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeff Brown and Rob Biddulph1609809335|title=Stanley The Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and the Magic Lamp Lucia Caistor (Flat Stanleytranslator)|rating=3.52|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=It was far too recently that I picked up [[Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown and Rob Biddulph|Flat Stanley]] and met with One day a character now fifty years old for giant lizard appears in the first time, and found out how he got to be flat and what happened as a resultcity. BizarrelyWe don't even get told how it arrived, however, despite the success of that first book but it was twenty full years before the author picked up the pen to give Stanley this sequelcertainly appeared. Or perhaps People took against it's not such a surprise – without giving too much away, the character had met with a certain change at the end of book one, and therefore wasn't exactly ready for more of the same. Well, over the decades there have been six official books by Jeff Brown, and this was the first instance where I could find out for myself if '''I''' was ready for more of the same…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140528806X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Giles Chapman and Us Now|title=The Story of the Car|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… cars. I canthey weren't think of many other subjects that inspired the young me to have shrugging it off as a full non-fiction book about them hallucination brought on my juvenile shelves. Most of course I lost interest in with maturity. But the young child these days won't be much different, for good or badby tiredness just as they fled it, and so they will like as not want a book wanted something done about broom-brooms for the shelfit. And this is pretty much the go-to volume for such an interest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk>Can something be done about it, though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden1789016320|title=In Focus: CitiesTadcaster and the Bullies|author=Richard Rutherford

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=The [[In Focussome ways it was a gentler time: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book in this series]] promised 101 close-ups, cross sections and/or cutwaysvideo games were around, but here we're restricted children usually went outside to just tenenjoy themselves. Why? They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Because the subject matters are Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so much bigger – one our story is home to 37 million people, of all thingsprobably set in the nineteen seventies. Yes, weSomething which hasn're talking cities, and while this book tries to follow the previous – different artist every paget changed, an exclusive inside look within the volumeunfortunately, is bullying and a self-deceiving page count – we two lads are definitely making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in new territorythe playground. WeTim're seeking s probably about ten - just at the trivialstage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, the geographical and the culturalwho's two years younger than him, all so that the inquisitive young student can find out but he's not yet at the variety stage where he knows how to be had in the world's metropolisesdeal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geraldo ValerioB01N0OZQOD|title=My Book of BirdsNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=I never really caught the birdNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-watching habitguarding. That's what dragons are for, even with after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the opportunity of growing up whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere''The Late Knight Show''. It was Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in the familyfact, too, but I resigned myself it's his favourite TV show because he wants to never seeing much that was spectacular, and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinkingbe a stand-up comedian himself. If IHe tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don'd had this book as a youngster, who knows – I may have t always come out of it differently, having been shown the diversity of the bird world in snippets of text, and some off quite unusual illustrations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>as Nickerbacher intended.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danna Smith and Bagram Ibatoulline0008265836|title= The Hawk of the Castle: A Story of Medieval FalconryRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse Emerging Readers |summary=I donTen-year-old Rory Branagan isn't know just a normal kid. He's a detective and he has a mystery to solve – why I did his dad disappear when he was surprised by this book – Ithree? Rory doesn've read enough volumes for the young audiences t know where to know that as far as subject matter start but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is concerned, pretty much anything goesfull of ideas. But this This is about falconry, of all things – the use of just as well as they soon discover a once-wild very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and still pretty much freeis at risk of dying but no-spirited bird of prey to hunt down animals, either for the heck of it or for the potone else will believe he's in danger. An attractive girl and her father get their hawk ready, and leave the castle with all the equipment in tow – bells It's up to hear the landed bird Rory and what it's captured, the hood Cassidy to act as blinkers for it on the way there, uncover the lure if necessary. The story concerns just one trip out, girl, father, hound – truth and hawksave a life. But while that may surprise you as a subject matter of choice, it was the whole artistic approach that won me over here…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376698</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth P Jones0192758748|title=Beards From Outer SpaceHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= You might not realise it but Earth is under constant alien attack. Luckily we humans donWhen Harriet, aged seven and a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 't need Going to worry because the Pet Defenders Park on Her Own' (a secret society of our domestic petsi.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) are always on standby to keep us safeshe can't believe her eyes. The activities statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Pet Defenders are normally kept secret Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but Stripes Publishing are kindly allowing human children a brief glimpse into their exciting adventuresstamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and climbs down from his pillar. In Understandably Harriet can''Beards From Outer Space'' we are able to read how t resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a dog new – and cat more suitable – secret agents Biskit home. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and Mitzy – team up it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to rid the world of an army of alien beardsmuseum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157858</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ghillian Potts and Ed BoxallSaulles_Bee|title=The Old Woman from Friuli|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=On top Bee Boy: Clash of a hill in Italy there was a castle and in that castle there lived a duke. Every day he would go up to the highest tower and look out at all that he could see and marvel that he owned it all. Except that is for one small house, a sturdy house with stone walls and a solid wooden door, a garden and a field.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190920840X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller Queens|author=Holly Webb|title=The Homeless KittenTony De Saulles

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Lily loves their rescue dog, Hugo. However, Lily also really wants a cat – or better still a kitten. She, therefore, canYoung Mel't believe her luck when Hugo sniffs out three abandoned kittens while out of his walk with Lily s friend has left and her dad. Better still (from Lily's point of view at least) the animal shelter beehive is full so Lily's mum and dad reluctantly offer now his to hand-rear the tiny kittens until they're old enough to be rehomedlook after. Lily's Unfortunately, Mel lives in heaven looking after a tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that it is the kittens, especially the little fluffy white one whom she names Stanleycorrect place for a hive. There is just one problem – it's going to break her heart Things change when the time comes to say goodbyeMel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157831</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt TavaresDavidson_Night|title=Lighter than AirNight Zookeeper: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=We're in Paris, and – not to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For one, it seems they think the perfect place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle of the biggest city in the world. For another, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women would never be able to cope. Meanwhile, a young girl is dreaming of flight, as so many are wont to do, completely unaware that she will soon marry one of the most famed balloonists. They will have joint journeys skyward, before his early demise – leaving the young woman, Sophie Blanchard, to go it alone and become the first female pilot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy Husband|title=The Story Giraffes of Space|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I have no actual idea how I first got an interest in space. Perhaps it's there because I'm so old to almost coincide with the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon (and that's pretty old, it's been so long) and it kind of rubbed off on me. Perhaps in fact all young children are interested in space anyway, and don't need any impetus or reason to look up in wonder. But if they do, this is the newest way of nudging the newer child towards a keenness for all things celestial. And it's a pretty good way indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWhispering Wood|author=Philip Ardagh and Tom Morgan-Jones|title=Norman the Norman from Normandy (Little Gems)Joshua Davidson

|summary=Meet PatrickA straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and imagination opened up for him. Such a direction Will is a little facetious here, because it's who ''he's'' going to meet that's the key. He lives in New Ross, County Wexford, new Night Zookeeper and his school has been chosen tenure in the role of protector to perform as a choir for magical world starts with the much-anticipated arrival repulsion of President J F Kennedy, as a dangerous invasion. Joshua Davidson has written about the man traces Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the path of his Irish ancestry, in character but this marks a new launch and a new series. This is not just a book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what (in addition the author is trying to stop-overs achieve in England and Italy on real life; the power of the same trip) was to be his last state visit abroadimagination makes everything better. But surely just being one among three hundred on such an auspicious, yet brief, occasion is not enough for such an enterprising lad? Well, no, for his connected parents have got another trick up their sleeve for him…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366927</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam HancherSeuss_Read|title=Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=Flight''The more that you read,''<br>''The more things you will know. It happens all around us''<br>''The more that you learn, wherever we may be''<br>''The more places you'll go.'' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and many are one that I painstakingly stickered onto the young audience members for this book who have taken to the air already. wall of my children's school library! But it was once something impossible to take for granted, and this The book easily takes us back to those days. It presents us with dangeris very silly, determinationas Dr Seuss always is, and but is also a certain pair of American brothers going all out good rhyming ode to get both their names in the history books and their feet in the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>joys of reading.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilda OffenNeal_Words|title=Message from the MoonWords and Your Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers |summary=YesTrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones is really actually a 'Message from the Moon' you receive courtesy lot of this bookpiffle. In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to other people is positive. You also get We can examine our world and the point of view of the sea itselfsound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, as well as children seeing the city night from their bedroom window sing and other people witnessing geese flying overbe happy together, and bit by bit the world can be a better place. And hang the 'no, after you even get a message from a snail' attitude some people would have in response. The range There, I've given the entire plot of verses in this book is however away in my summary, but one of its many qualities…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991430</amazonuk>that's not really an issue.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil EarleTavares_Red|title= SuperDad's Day Off|rating= 4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Stanley's dad is tired. It can be exhausting work being a Superhero. For six days of the week he saves the world from disasters Red and defeats the baddies as Dynamo Dan. Stanley decides his poor dad needs a day off and is determined to make sure that he gets a proper rest. So they head off to the park for some much needed Dad and Son bonding time. However people don't seem to understand that even Superheroes need time to recuperate. The requests for help keep on coming so what can poor Stanley do other than step in to save the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126844</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLulu|author=Yuval Zommer|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Matt Tavares

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=One Meet Red and Lulu. They're a committed couple of the many issues people cardinals and they have with the TV nature programme, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], is the obvious one of all the blood and guts it features – yes, lived for some time in amongst all the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesy, comical ones, whatsomeone's worse)garden, safely in an evergreen tree. You'll be pleased It seems to know, however, them that this book is very light on death and destruction. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat (while the females that caught and killed it sit and wait every year people mention their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while home in a time of plentylovely song, but there is which tells the tree thy leaves are so little to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect unchanging. But one year, just as the seasons turn for the home shelf or that in a primary school.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Quentin Blake|title= The Story cold of winter, the Dancing Frog|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly |summary= When Jo's Great Aunt Gertrude's sea captain husband is drowned at sea she is grief-stricken and, in despairtree vanishes, she goes for a walk alone. During this walk she notices a small frog on a lily-pad. But he is no ordinary frog - he's a dancing frog and the two quickly become good friends. Soon the duo are touring the world taking Lulu with their routine, spreading joy and fun - and carrying out the occasional rescue - wherever they go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125910</amazonuk>it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DK|title=Forest Life and Woodland Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and the animals, plants and trees in it, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourself. It's for a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasks, and a few lessons. The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and reward, is great – but what exactly is the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Sharks and Other Sea Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out the sort of lower-case, almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of a book. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending to come here and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointed. If you take it on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the book, then all well and good. And even better, if you expect yourself to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoDickens_Search|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions Search 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>}}{{newreviewFind A Christmas Carol|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I wonder how much time I've saved in not being a parent – and therefore not having had to answer such pesky questions as why is the sky blueCharles Dickens, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what is earwax, and why do I have a spleen? Still, apart from the first two, those questions and the answers to them Sarah Powell and more are in this book, which is a lovely primer for biology, and a great source of quick facts for the very young, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approach.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|title=Amazing Animal BabiesLouise Pigott

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch Recently I got to applaud a dog or watch a puppybook that branched away from the Where's Wally? A cat or style volume, and taught the explorer about a kitten? A meerkat or non-fiction subject as they went a smaller meerkat? The answer -searching. Well, it seems tweaking the form is going to be a no brainer big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to most children who enjoy teach us about a fictional story. They've started at the wide-eyed stumbling of youth deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and one that is not dissimilar has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to their ownit at a certain time of the year for its ageless lesson. HoweverBut does the rich content of Dickens, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packhameven at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara VulliamySeuss_Eggs|title=The Midnight Mystery (Dotty Detective, Book 3)Scrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If you havenPeter T. Hooper doesn't alreadymean to show off, meet Dotbut he is ''very'' good at cooking. SheSome would say he is ''The Best'' capital T, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that's quite an ace child detectiveeasy dish, inspired by her favourite TV programmeone with which it's a little hard to showcase one's prowess, and her pet dog and best friend from schoolbut not so. For Peter T. But at least one Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of those is left behind this timethe egg itself, as Dot and the rest he will go out of her class go his way to an adventure camp playground for a couple procure the best of nights. Daytimes are spent being sporty and adventurous, as are the evenings supposed to be, but someone seems intent on ruining things for Dotbest from whatever nest. What is the evil and bragging Laura up to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008132429</amazonuk>