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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano|title=Life on Earth: Jungle: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=We're constantly being asked to save something. Save the hedgerows, save the elephant, save our seas. There's absolutely nothing wrong with any of those goals – some of them are larger than the others, and more demanding, but they are all worthy. But seeing as it's (a) the largest land feature we need to save, and (b) it's the most worthwhile to save, why not just go for the jugular – and try and save the Amazonian rainforest? Forget jugular, you'll be saving the jaguar; you'll be protecting the source of a lot of our food, spices and medicines – and when did a hedgerow near you have almost fifty different species of ant on a singular tree? The first step to saving anything is to understand it, to let us appreciate it, and this primer is how we get in touch with what's important about jungles so we can deem them worthwhile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809014</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth Dale and Giusi CapizziNigel Baines|title=Cool Duck and Lots A Tricky Kind of Hats (Early Reader)Magic

|summary=Children are a little like Pokemon; you may not be able Cooper loves to house them in perform magic tricks. His father was a Pokeballmagician, but they are always evolvingand named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. Your little kiddo may have spent the first couple of years or so intent to sit on your lap But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and listen now Cooper doesn't quite know who to you read a storybe, but at some point they are going or how to want to read themselvesbe. This is not the moment And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to lend them your copy of him, he ''Lord of the Ringsreally''doesn' as their own first books will actually be simpler stories than the books that you have shared together. You need to t know your ducks and your hats before you can tackle what 's going on Earth a Gruffalo is.anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848862490</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter SchossowJane Lightbourne|title=Where is Grandma?My Cat Called Red|rating=54

|summary=Meet HenryRobin has red hair. He hates it, and the freckles that go along with it. He's a young lad being taken by a nanny to hospital to check up on his grandma, whobeen bullied and mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in having had an accidentlife. ItHe's a shame, then, that said nanny is so busy yacking into her phone to look after him, for he ends up going off on already lost his own adventure dad to find a mountaineering accident when his gran. And what an adventure – babies being born, people with stomach problems, chemo, beans stuck up their nose… all life mum gets ill and is here in this taken into hospital, and both that and the lad. She doesn's mishap are clearly and very pleasantly conveyedt come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776571541</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill Atkins Francesca Simon and Barbara VagnozziSteve May|title=Peck, Hen, Peck! and Ben's Pet (Early Reader)Two Terrible Vikings

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers|summary=It probably sounds obviousIn a small Viking village there live two twins, but you really shouldn't keep your pet chickens in a bagHack and Whack, who are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! WellNothing can stop their mad marauding, that's what I learned from this book which tells us first the story of Tom who puts his hen in as they cause havoc at a bag. The hen pecks through the bagbirthday party, as hens are wont to dochaos whilst tracking a troll, and escapesundertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! A simple They get up to all kinds of mischief and somewhat tragic tale! This is swiftly followed by a story about Ben's pet. Will it be another hennaughty behaviour, I wondered? Noalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, actually, after several incorrect guesses, we discover that Ben's pet is only a rabbit!and their crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848862482</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Louise Forshaw1838593187|title=Buzz and Jump! Jump! (Early Reader) |rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=After hearing a mysterious buzzing Guess What I Found in the kitchen, mum traps a fly in a jar, but then she hears the buzzing again...what could be going on? Meanwhile, Ken the Kangaroo (who declares himself to be the best at jumping), is jumping everywhere he can. In this red level book, aimed generally at those who have completed their reception year in school, there are two simple, sweet stories in one book, perfect for those who are just learning to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862504</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPlayground!|author=Alice Hemming and Julia Seal|title=Bamboo and I Wish (Early Reader) Victoria Thompson|rating=4.5

|summary=With two stories in one bookTilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, therepigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. Dad's plenty come to like about this simple, collect her and her brother and funnyhe ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, early readeralthough she concedes that he will never guess. The first storyDad wants to know how school was, Bamboo, deals with a cheeky panda who has run off to hidebut ''obviously'' that's not important. Where can he beCould Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? The second story is about (Isn't that so much more sensible than a wishing well which is granting wishes leftscrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, right glittered paper and centre! Evaluated as a red level bookall sorts of other things in her pocket, it sets itself as being about the right level for those around the end of their reception yearbut that's not what she wants Dad to guess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862512</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephan LompInnosanto Nagara|title=Wilfred and Olbert’s Totally Wild ChaseM is for Movement

|summary=I'll take it pretty much as read that you know the story of Peter PanSet in Indonesia, in the young boy who left his shadow behindnot too distant past, and in collecting it took three children this is a story about social change. Dealing with him to a fantasy world full of nasty mensome difficult issues, danger such as political corruption and mystery. I knownepotism, the lad book is totally irresponsibleneither boring nor preachy. You may well know It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and it from pantoportrays how social movements need people who will try, or from Disney – and even when it's the latter seems that this book is concerningthey will fail. It's The message is a very snappy capture of positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the story that won't take long at all power to read, but it's what that text is paired with that makes it worth attentioninstigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405287012</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeff Brown and Rob Biddulph1949471004|title=Flat StanleyDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Stanley was four feet tall, about a foot wide, What do you do when your child has dyslexia and half an inch thick.''you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? YesYou can risk buying early readers, there's proof that this is but the sounds in the original text of this classic children's book – at least itmight not be the ones you's not ve been updated to metric. So while the illustrations working on and encountering words which are new, we get the real deal, with just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young Stanley squished one night, dyslexic than a child without that problem. You need to such an extent he can limbo under shut doors, get airmailed be able to America to visit relativesbuy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, become without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a kite for his younger brother to play with, story which engages the young mind and moreyou need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. But then you don Some online support and games wouldn't need go amiss, either. Reading - and ''learning'' to update perfectionread - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405288108</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philippa Pearce and Cate James099334030X|title=The Ghost in Annie's Room (Little Gems)Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyCrafts|summary=Emma is on You're going to get a family holiday in an older relativehint of what this book's seaside cottage, where she is to sleep in the room in the atticabout very quickly. Her brother has passed on When you see the title page, you'll find out what he says he has overheard – the book's called and that it is haunted's been written by Peter Lynas. But even with Then we move on to who has done the mementos of the person that once lived illustration - and there all around her, and with 's a strange feeling gap. ''You'' are going to put your name there. It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of being watched, even with the stormy winds knocking tree limbs on largest creatures ever to roam the window – Emma can sleep through it allearth. But thatThere's not some help available, but your name is on the title page - and you have work to say things will forever be that way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126852</amazonuk>do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner1609809335|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Hee-Haw HoorayThe Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating= 42|genre= Emerging Readers|summary=Two collected stories from Mudpuddle Farm series – ''Nowt to Worry About'One day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don' t even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared. People took against it, and if they weren''Tickety-Boo''t shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it. How will the animals react when the sky goes strange and horrifying noises abound? Changes are afoot that could mark the end of Mudpuddle farm; or is Can something be done about it just a new beginning, though?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008241988</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Powell1789016320|title= Search and Find: Pride & Prejudice: A Jane Austen Search Tadcaster and Find Book|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Search and find books are usually aimed at children. They are a good bit of fun, but they are also a good study tool for adult readers alike. Jane Austen is a fantastic novelist, but her style of writing can be daunting for those not used to such heavy prose. It is very easy to become lost in the myriad of dialogue, characters and events. I find a good plot summary helps when approaching her works, this was especially so in the case of the perplexing and long-winded Emma. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783708271</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBullies|author=Pip Jones and Adam Stower|title=Piggy Handsome: Guinea Pig Destined for Stardom!Richard Rutherford|rating=3.54

|summary=Meet Piggy HandsomeIn some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. He is a very bequiffed guinea pig, They flew kites and he is frustrated that everyone in his long line of Handsome guinea pigs has become famous for something, except himwent sledging if there was snow around. Annoyed that he has not even got his face Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the local newspaper, he has complained to his friend Jeffry the Budgie more than oncenineteen seventies. But on this daySomething which hasn't changed, unfortunately, Jeff has a chance to solve the issue is bullying and get some peace two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and quiet Mary but for himself – there is a chip eating contest other children who gather in townthe playground. But can Piggy get there in time, can Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he down a bowl of chips quickly enough 's beginning to winfeel responsible for his younger sister, and what about the pair of idiot thieves that also have something on their mind?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571327540</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Alien Invasion|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary=This collected edition contains who's two stories from Mudpuddle Farm: ''Alien Invasion'' and ''Mumyears younger than him, but he's not yet at the Word''. When the bees swarm the animals panic over a new creature that appears in the farmstage where he knows how to deal with bullies. In the second story that greedy goat has vanished and when he returns something darned odd happens…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007275137</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Roberts and Alan MacDonaldB01N0OZQOD|title=My Burptastic Body Book (Dirty Bertie)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Oh, to be young and innocent, and to be full of questions. Questions like 'is eating my bogies good for me', or 'why is poo brown', or 'what makes sweat smell'. You don't have to be a kid like Dirty Bertie to want to know the answers – respectively, no; it's down to dead bacteria; and it doesn't – it's other bacteria again. If you think you have a lad (or, let's face it, a lass) interested in learning such stuff, this book could well be the place to turn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNickerbacher|author=Michael Bond and R W Alley|title=Best-loved Paddington StoriesTerry John Barto

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=With the sad passing of Michael Bond there Nickerbacher is no time like the present to revisit some of the adventures of doing his most iconic creation; Paddingtondragonly duty as all dragons do. As the character has proved so timeless regular reThat dragonly duty is, of course, princess-issues of guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the books have appeared whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''Best-loved Paddington StoriesThe Late Knight Show'' brings three of these stories together. Does this collection really reflect the best that the bear has Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to offer or are be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they just three random tales stuck together with marmalade?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008245037</amazonuk>don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Enid Blyton0008265836|title= The Seaside FamilyRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The Caravan Family (MummyTen-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's a detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, Daddythen, Mike, Belinda Cassidy moves in next door and Ann) are all ready for the holidays, he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and what better place to spend time together than is at the seaside? They can play in the sea, picnic on the sand and generally enjoy each otherrisk of dying but no-one else will believe he's companyin danger. It will be marvellous's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the truth and save a life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405286733</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn Cramb0192758748|title=National Trust: Complete Night Explorer's KitHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=There is When Harriet, aged seven and a misfortune quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the modern world, in that we have killed off a common hobby from when I was a ladPark on Her Own' (i.e. Nowadays light pollution is so awful itwith her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can's certainly not uncommon for people to hardly see any t believe her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the stars and Third (or Horace for short) starts to get to learn the constellations, and while I move. He not only went out to go 'meteor hunting'moves but stamps his foot, itshouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's patently obvious that the chance to lie mum, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and stargaze is quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a dying onenew – and more suitable – home. Elsewhere His sights are firmly set on the nocturnal youth can struggle Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to have much opportunity Harriet to explore the night-time nature as this book suggests – it begins with setting up persuade him that there must be a tent in your back gardenbetter alternative. Sadly, and too many donHorace't even get that chances visits to the museum, cinema, train station, for want of possession of one. Yesplayground, if this book is only read once in the daytime bank and never referred to againlibrary all cause mayhem. Luckily, due to lack of opportunityhowever, it really will be a crying shamecompetition in the park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Walliams and Tony RossSaulles_Bee|title=The World's Worst Children 2Bee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=I sometimes wonder if David Walliams gets sick of the comparisons with Roald Dahl that he gets. ItYoung Mel's such an easy comparison to make, however, because both wrote very funny, and yet really very dark stories for children. They don't shy away from the nastiness, and ugliness in life and instead face it head on, friend has left and flip it around, and make you laugh along the way. This beehive is a rollercoaster ride through a wide range of truly dreadful children who range from being a fussy eater, now his to a spoiled brat, to Harry, who never, ever did his homework! Yeslook after. Unfortunately, their dark deeds vary Mel lives in despicableness, a tower block and along with dreadfulness galore there are fabulous illustrations, a large variety not all of fonts, unusual page layouts and his neighbours agree that it is the correct place for a Royal introduction from the Queenhive.Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008259623</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeff Brown and Rob BiddulphDavidson_Night|title=Stanley and the Magic Lamp (Flat Stanley)Night Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=It was far too recently that I picked up [[Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and Rob Biddulph|Flat Stanley]] has a world of magic and met with a character now fifty years old imagination opened up for him. Will is the first time, new Night Zookeeper and found out how he got his tenure in the role of protector to be flat and what happened as a resultmagical world starts with the repulsion of a dangerous invasion. Bizarrely, however, despite  Joshua Davidson has written about the success of that first book it was twenty full years Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the author picked up the pen to give Stanley character but this sequelmarks a new launch and a new series. Or perhaps it's This is not such just a book but a surprise – without giving too much away, the character had met whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a certain change at the end of book one, and therefore wasn't exactly ready for more of the samepush to get children using their own imagination. Well, over The story itself mirrors what the decades there have been six official books by Jeff Brown, and this was author is trying to achieve in real life; the first instance where I could find out for myself if '''I''' was ready for more power of the same…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140528806X</amazonuk>imagination makes everything better.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Chapman and Us NowSeuss_Read|title=The Story of the CarI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… cars''The more that you read,''<br>''The more things you will know. I can't think of many other subjects '<br>''The more that inspired the young me to have you learn,''<br>''The more places you'll go.'' This is a full non-fiction classic Dr Seuss quote from this book about them on my juvenile shelves. Most of course , and one that I lost interest in with maturity. But painstakingly stickered onto the young child these days wonwall of my children't be much differents school library! The book is very silly, for good or badas Dr Seuss always is, and so they will like as not want but is also a book about broom-brooms for good rhyming ode to the shelf. And this is pretty much the go-to volume for such an interestjoys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby WaldenNeal_Words|title=In Focus: CitiesWords and Your Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=The [[In Focus: 101 Close UpsTrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, Crosswhatever-it's-called-Sections and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book in this series]] promised 101 close-ups, cross sections week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and/or cutwaysstones is actually a lot of piffle. In a world where we all have hearts, but here we're restricted should have a heart that what we say to just tenother people is positive. Why? Because We can examine our world and the subject matters are so much bigger – one is home to 37 million peoplesound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, of all things. Yeslaugh, we're talking citiessing and be happy together, and while this book tries to follow bit by bit the previous – different artist every page, an exclusive inside look within world can be a better place. And hang the volume'no, and a self-deceiving page count – we are definitely after you' attitude some people would have in new territoryresponse. WeThere, I're seeking ve given the trivialentire plot of this book away in my summary, the geographical and the cultural, all so but that the inquisitive young student can find out the variety to be had in the world's metropolisesnot really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geraldo ValerioTavares_Red|title=My Book of BirdsRed and Lulu|author=Matt Tavares|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=I never really caught the bird-watching habitMeet Red and Lulu. They're a committed couple of cardinals and they have lived for some time in someone's garden, even with the opportunity of growing up on the edge of a village safely in the middle of nowherean evergreen tree. It was in the family, too, but I resigned myself seems to never seeing much them that was spectacularevery year people mention their home in a lovely song, and once you've seen which tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one blackbird you've seen them allyear, was my thinking. If I'd had this book just as a youngster, who knows – I may have come out the seasons turn for the cold of it differentlywinter, having been shown the diversity of the bird world in snippets of texttree vanishes, and some quite unusual illustrations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danna Smith and Bagram IbatoullineDickens_Search|title= The Hawk of the Castle: Search and Find A Story of Medieval FalconryChristmas Carol|author=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse Emerging Readers |summary=Recently I don't know why I was surprised by this got to applaud a book – Ithat branched away from the Where've read enough volumes for s Wally? style volume, and taught the young audiences to know that as far as subject matter is concerned, pretty much anything goes. But this is explorer about falconry, of all things – the use of a oncenon-wild and still pretty much freefiction subject as they went a-spirited bird of prey to hunt down animalssearching. Well, either for the heck of it or for seems tweaking the pot. An attractive girl and her father get their hawk readyform is going to be a big thing, and leave the castle with all the equipment in tow for this book tries yet another different approach – bells to hear teach us about a fictional story. They've started at the landed bird deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and what it's capturedone that has been adapted countless times before now, the hood yet always has people returning to act as blinkers for it on at a certain time of the way there, the lure if necessaryyear for its ageless lesson. The story concerns just one trip out, girl, father, hound – and hawk. But while that may surprise you as a subject matter does the rich content of choiceDickens, it was the whole artistic approach that won me over here…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376698</amazonuk>even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth P JonesSeuss_Eggs|title=Beards From Outer SpaceScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= You might not realise it but Earth is under constant alien attackPeter T. Luckily we humans donHooper doesn't need mean to worry because the Pet Defenders (a secret society of our domestic pets) are always on standby to keep us safeshow off, but he is ''very'' good at cooking. Some would say he is ''The activities of the Pet Defenders are normally kept secret but Stripes Publishing are kindly allowing human children a brief glimpse into their exciting adventures. In Best''Beards From Outer Spacecapital T, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that's quite an easy dish, one with which it' we are able s a little hard to read how a dog showcase one's prowess, but not so. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of the egg itself, and cat – secret agents Biskit and Mitzy – team up he will go out of his way to rid procure the world best of an army of alien beardsthe best from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157858</amazonuk>