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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances Durkin and Grace CookeNigel Baines|title=A Roman Adventure (The Histronauts)Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5

|summary= I have studied propaganda in my time Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and as a rule of thumb named Cooper after the most persuasive arguments are those people dongreat Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't notice. The same can quite know who to be said when educating kids. Some children lap up textbooks and non-fiction, but others need or how to be eased in. Tricking them is perhaps a harsh termAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, but would you rather learn about Ancient Rome via a dry fact book or an adventure title written in the form of a cartoon and packed full of puzzles and activities?he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911509101</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester ClarkJane Lightbourne|title= Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of The Wizard of OzMy Cat Called Red

|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The timeless story Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the freckles that we all know as The Wizard of Oz is given a twist in this original interpretation by master story-crafter Michael Morpurgogo along with it. ItHe's the tale been bullied and mocked at school because of a character that seems to be so often overlooked in the well-known story: Dorothyit. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin's faithful dog, Totoonly misery in life. We hear the whole story from his point of view, told in first person narrative from the moment the tornado sweeps across DorothyHe's Kansas farm. Toto continues already lost his dad to tell the story as it happens to him in a witty mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and charming manner as their house is lifted taken into the air and whisked away to the mysterious land of Ozhospital. Of course, Toto and Dorothy meet the absurd but loveable scarecrow without a brain, tin man without a heart and lion who lacks courage, and together they set off along the yellow brick road to find the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, hoping that he might help Toto and Dorothy return She doesn't come home. Along the way, the tin man, scarecrow and lion learn that what they think they are missing might have been there all alongagain. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008134596</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dodie Smith, Peter Bently Francesca Simon and Steven LentonSteve May|title=The Hundred and One DalmatiansTwo Terrible Vikings|rating=54

|summary=A dog is for lifeIn a small Viking village there live two twins, not just for ChristmasHack and Whack, who are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as we were constantly told when I was young – I dare say people are still saying itthey cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, but it was quite prevalent way back then. and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! I'm sure many people reading this will know that the Dearlys end They get up with 101 Dalmatians for Christmas themselves, and it must be debatable whether they stayed in the same house as them to all come the new year. But what is beyond doubt is that the getting kinds of so many cute pups was full of drama – drama that fills this young reader to burstingmischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and drama that comes in illustrations like these with no end their crazy cast of charmfriends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281669</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Wright1838593187|title=The Twelve Days of Christmas (Magnificent Creatures)Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=One Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the problems classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a Christmas-themed book big grin on her face. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''has is '' to try to guess what she found in making itself relevant at other times of the yearplayground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. This charming little encapsulation of the well-known yuletide poem (known in English in 1780Dad wants to know how school was, but older than ''obviously'' that, trivia fans) gets round 's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that by (so much more sensible than ascrap ''book''?) being a counting book for the very young that they could gain from on any date they chose Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and (b) just being really pleasing all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to look atguess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571338933</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cynthia Ryland and Mary BlairInnosanto Nagara|title=Walt Disney's Cinderella: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)M is for Movement

|summary=I'm sure almost all my readers are au fait with Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a story of Cinderellaabout social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and of how she went from nepotism, the gutter to the stars in one romantic swoopbook is neither boring nor preachy. It's only a good thing the relevant people didn't have foot fetishes or phobiaseducates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, for then the tale would have been utterly different. Disney made and it slightly different, of courseportrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they made the animated classic based on the legendwill fail. The message is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, and this book, complete with art from the time the film was being made, is evidence of just how the look and the emotion of we do still have the piece were intended power to beinstigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405286997</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Scieszka and Mary Blair1949471004|title=Walt Disney's Alice in WonderlandDog on a Log Chapter Books: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=I'll take What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is as read reading? You can risk buying early readers, but 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 some knowledge more of a negative effect on the story of Alice in Wonderland – certainly when she got young dyslexic than a child without that problem. You need to be 150 years old able to buy books at a couple of years back there were no end of editions of her story. And as reasonable price which concentrate on what you know've been working on, 150 years is a heck of a lot of unbirthdayswithout anything else being thrown into the mix. But her You need a story got to be slightly different, which engages the young mind and if anything only more loved, courtesy of you need stages which progress steadily through the Disney cartoonlearning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and the fact that this book features artwork that was generated during the production of that film is the unique selling point''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405287004</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre099334030X|title=Pug-a-Doodle-Do!Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|summary=I was reading You're going to get a hint of what this book so utterly different to this the other day, it has to bear mention's about very quickly. It was an exceedingly academic book about graphic novels and comics for When you see the YA audiencetitle page, you'll find out what the book's called and that it featured an essay picking up 's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the way books like the fillillustration -in-bits-yourself entries in the Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries series (such as [[Dork Diaries: How there's a gap. ''You'' are going to put your name there. It's ''your'' responsibility to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|provide the pictures for this book about one]]) let you interact with of the franchise, and also largest creatures ever to create your own contentroam the earth. There was 's some weird highhelp available, but your name is on the title page -falutin' academic language to describe such books – but and you know what? I say (redacted) have work to that – let's just hang it and have fun. And this book, spinning off from the four books this partnership has so far been responsible for, is certainly a provider of that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192764047</amazonuk>do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Strong and Jamie Smith1609809335|title=Nellie Choc-IceThe Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Penguin Explorer Nick Caistor (Little Gemstranslator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=4.52|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=Meet Nellie Choc-Ice. Thus named by her grandparents (and grandparents have One day a habit giant lizard appears in this book of making unusual names for their grandchildren, whichever species they belong to), she is a pretty little Macaroni penguin, complete with pink feet, bright yellow eyebrows and a woolly hat with the world's biggest pompom on the endcity. She has a habit of going exploring and finding out whatWe don's over the next ridge in the ice, and the nextt even get told how it arrived, and the nextbut it certainly appeared. But when disaster happens People took against it, and the ice she is if they weren't shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on is knocked off Antarctica by a submarinetiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it. Can something be done about it, even she can have no idea as to where she will end up…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127212</amazonuk>though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Papp1789016320|title=Madeleine Finn Tadcaster and the Library DogBullies|author=Richard Rutherford|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Madeleine Finn doesn't like to read - not anything. It's not really her fault, you know. Her teacher tries to encourage her, but In some of the other kids giggle when she makes mistakes. And they pull faces of the type which would have given me my head in my hands to play with when I ways it was a child. The words just don't seem to come out right for her. The other gentler time: video games were around, but children are getting gold stars (I've ''never'' liked that system) but all Madeleine gets is a heart sticker which tells her usually went outside to keep tryingenjoy themselves. She's got plenty of thoseThey flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. All week she tries her best but doesn't get the star she longs for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646326</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano|title=Life on Earth: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions Tim and 70 Lift-flaps!|rating=5|genre=ChildrenMary's Nongreat-Fiction |summary=I was a big fan of dinosaurs when I was grandfather started a nipper. Since then the science regarding them has evolved leaps and bounds. We've got business in touch with them perhaps being feathered, and have assumed colours and noises they made – we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesight, hearing and 1899 so much more may have been like. But science will never stop, and the next generation will need to be on board with our story is probably set in the job of discovering them, analysing them, and presenting them to a world that never seems to get enough of the nasty, superlative beasties of Hollywood renownnineteen seventies. As youSomething which hasn're the kind of person to ask questionst changed, unfortunately, you may well ask 'how do you get that next generation ready for their place in the field and in the laboratory?' I would put this as the answer – even if it is made itself of a hundred questions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano|title=Life on Earth: Jungle: With 100 Questions bullying 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 two lads are larger than the others, making life miserable not just for Tim and more demanding, Mary but they are all worthyfor other children who gather in the playground. But seeing as itTim's (a) probably about ten - just at the largest land feature we need to save, and (b) itstage where he's the most worthwhile beginning to save, why not just go feel responsible for the jugular – and try and save the Amazonian rainforest? Forget jugularhis younger sister, youwho'll be saving the jaguar; you'll be protecting the source of a lot of our foods two years younger than him, 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 whatbut he's important about jungles so we can deem them worthwhile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809014</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elizabeth Dale and Giusi Capizzi|title=Cool Duck and Lots of Hats (Early Reader)|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Children are a little like Pokemon; you may not be able to house them in a Pokeball, but they are always evolving. Your little kiddo may have spent the first couple of years or so intent to sit on your lap and listen to you read a story, but yet at some point they are going to want to read themselves. This is not the moment stage where he knows how to lend them your copy of ''Lord of the Rings'' as their own first books will actually be simpler stories than the books that you have shared together. You need to know your ducks and your hats before you can tackle what on Earth a Gruffalo isdeal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862490</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter SchossowB01N0OZQOD|title=Where is Grandma?|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Henry. He's a young lad being taken by a nanny to hospital to check up on his grandma, who's in having had an accident. It'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 his own adventure to find his gran. And what an adventure – babies being born, people with stomach problems, chemo, beans stuck up their nose… all life is here in this hospital, and both that and the lad's mishap are clearly and very pleasantly conveyed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571541</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNickerbacher|author=Jill Atkins and Barbara Vagnozzi|title=Peck, Hen, Peck! and Ben's Pet (Early Reader)Terry John Barto

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=It probably sounds obviousNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, but you really shouldn't keep your pet chickens in a bag! Wellof course, thatprincess-guarding. That's what I learned from this book which tells us first the story of Tom who puts his hen in a bagdragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. The hen pecks through She finds the bag, as hens are wont to do, whole princessing thing quite boring really and escapes! A simple and somewhat tragic tale! This she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is swiftly followed by a story about Benin watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''s pet. Will Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it be another hen, I wondered? No, actually, after several incorrect guesses, we discover that Ben's pet is only his favourite TV show because he wants to be a rabbit!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862482</amazonuk>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=Alice Hemming and Louise Forshaw0008265836|title=Buzz Rory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Jump! Jump! (Early Reader) Ralph Lazar

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=After hearing Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a mysterious buzzing in the kitchen, mum traps normal kid. He's a fly in detective and he has a jarmystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, but then she hears the buzzing again...what could be going on? Meanwhile, Ken the Kangaroo (Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who declares himself to be the best at jumping), is jumping everywhere he canfull of ideas. In this red level book, aimed generally This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at those who have completed their reception year risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in school, there are two simple, sweet stories in one book, perfect for those who are just learning danger. It's up to Rory and Cassidy to readuncover the truth and save a life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862504</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Julia Seal0192758748|title=Bamboo and I Wish (Early Reader) |rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=With two stories in one book, there's plenty to like about this simple, and funny, early reader. The first story, Bamboo, deals with a cheeky panda who has run off to hide. Where can he be? The second story is about a wishing well which is granting wishes left, right and centre! Evaluated as a red level book, it sets itself as being about the right level for those around Horace & Harriet Take on the end of their reception year.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862512</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTown|author=Stephan Lomp|title=Wilfred and Olbert’s Totally Wild ChaseClare Elsom

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=Meet Wilfred When Harriet, aged seven and Osbert. Theya quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 're not only the kind Going to completely flout the rules Park on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't believe her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the natural history explorer's club they belong Third (or Horace for short) starts to, move. He not only moves but when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly togetherstamps his foot, they are the kind to fight tooth and claw to be the first to lay claim to it aloneshouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and devil take the other oneclimbs down from his pillar. What they donUnderstandably Harriet can't know is that 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 drama that ensues when theyMayor're tailing this particular specimen will involve no end of peril – nearly drownings mansion and it, therefore, almost being eaten by falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a lionbetter alternative. Sadly, crashing a hot air balloon one of them just so happened Horace's visits to have in his pocket… Thisthe museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, thenhowever, is a fun and silly biology lesson – but that's only competition in the park reveals the best kind, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>perfect answer.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer ColemanSaulles_Bee|title=Hidden WorldBee Boy: ForestClash of the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=Sometimes, less Young Mel's friend has left and the beehive is morenow his to look after. But Unfortunately, Mel lives in a wood doesn't understand tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that, does it – it just stretches on and on, expanding outwards and outwards, and upwards and upwards – it's quite a galling thing is the correct place for a young person to understandhive. This book reverts to the very basic detail that will let the very young student get Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a grip on the life in the forest, whether they can actually see it for the trees in real life or not…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>bee.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Craig ShuttlewoodDavidson_Night|title=Town and Country (Turnaround Book)Night Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=I know I should have been working but I've just spent the last hour pouring over ''Town A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and Country''imagination opened up for him. On Will is the face of it there's a very simple idea here: on each double-page spread you get examples of what happens in towns new Night Zookeeper and what happens his tenure in the countryside role of protector to a magical world starts with regard to various activities, modes the repulsion of transport and even things like beaches and snowa dangerous invasion. You turn  Joshua Davidson has written about the book one way for Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the country scene character but this marks a new launch and then flip it over for what happens in the towna new series. Down the side of each page there's This is not just a book but a list of things for you to find, complete whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a thumbnail of push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what it the author is you're looking fortrying to achieve in real life; the power of the imagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo RaynerSeuss_Read|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Cock-A-Doodle-DooI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= This is an anthology book containing two titles from the Mudpuddle Farm series (''MossopThe more that you read,''s Last Chance<br>''The more things you will know.'' and <br>''AlbertineThe more that you learn, Goose Queen'')<br>''The more places you'll go. In '' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the first wall of these we see all the animals work together to save the saggy old cat-puss from being fired. my children's school library! The second story sees our resident genius tested by an encounter with book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a crafty fox whilst the farmer decides good rhyming ode to avoid all the fuss by going for a shavejoys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007270127</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neal_Words|title=Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson Words and Mary BlairYour Heart|titleauthor=Walt Disney's Peter Pan: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Kate Jane Neal|rating=3.54|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=ITrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it'll take it pretty much s-called-this-week-ing – all act as read proof that you know the story adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of Peter Panpiffle. In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to other people is positive. We can examine our world and the young boy who left his shadow behindsound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and in collecting it took three children with him to a fantasy world full of nasty menbe happy together, danger and mysterybit by bit the world can be a better place. I knowAnd hang the 'no, the lad is totally irresponsibleafter you' attitude some people would have in response. You may well know it from pantoThere, or from Disney – and itI's ve given the latter that entire plot of this book is concerning. It's a very snappy capture of the story that won't take long at all to readaway in my summary, but itthat's what that text is paired with that makes it worth attentionnot really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405287012</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tavares_Red|title=Jeff Brown Red and Rob BiddulphLulu|titleauthor=Flat StanleyMatt Tavares

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=''Stanley was four feet tall, about a foot wide, Meet Red and half an inch thickLulu.They'' Yes, there's proof that this is the original text re a committed couple of this classic children's book – at least it's not been updated to metric. So while the illustrations are new, we get the real deal, with the young Stanley squished one night, to such an extent he can limbo under shut doors, get airmailed to America to visit relatives, become a kite cardinals and they have lived for his younger brother to play with, and more. But then you don't need to update perfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405288108</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Philippa Pearce and Cate James|title=The Ghost some time in Anniesomeone's Room (Little Gems)|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Emma is on a family holiday garden, safely in an older relative's seaside cottage, where she is evergreen tree. It seems to sleep them that every year people mention their home in the room in the attic. Her brother has passed on what he says he has overheard – that it is haunted. But even with the mementos of the person that once lived there all around her, and with a strange feeling of being watchedlovely song, even with which tells the stormy winds knocking tree limbs on to the window – Emma can sleep through it allthy leaves are so unchanging. But that's not to say things will forever be that way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126852</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Hee-Haw Hooray|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary=Two collected stories from Mudpuddle Farm series – ''Nowt to Worry About'' and ''Tickety-Boo''. How will one year, just as the animals react when seasons turn for the sky goes strange and horrifying noises abound? Changes are afoot that could mark the end of Mudpuddle farm; or is it just a new beginning?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008241988</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Powell|title= Search and Find: Pride & Prejudice: A Jane Austen Search and Find Book|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Search and find books are usually aimed at children. They are a good bit cold of fun, but they are also a good study tool for adult readers alike. Jane Austen is a fantastic novelistwinter, 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 dialoguetree vanishes, 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>taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title=Pip Jones Search and Adam StowerFind A Christmas Carol|titleauthor=Piggy Handsome: Guinea Pig Destined for Stardom!Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott

|summary=Meet Piggy HandsomeRecently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. He Well, it seems tweaking the form is going to be a very bequiffed guinea pigbig thing, and he is frustrated that everyone in his long line of Handsome guinea pigs has become famous for somethingthis book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a fictional story. They've started at the deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, except him. Annoyed and one that he has not even got his face in the local newspaperbeen adapted countless times before now, he yet always has complained people returning to his friend Jeffry the Budgie more than once. But on this day, Jeff has it at a chance to solve certain time of the issue and get some peace and quiet year for himself – there is a chip eating contest in townits ageless lesson. But can Piggy get there in timedoes the rich content of Dickens, can he down a bowl of chips quickly enough to wineven at his most populist, and what about the pair of idiot thieves that also have something on their mindsurvive this quirky variation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571327540</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo RaynerSeuss_Eggs|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Alien Invasion|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary=This collected edition contains two stories from Mudpuddle Farm: ''Alien Invasion'' and ''Mum's the Word''. When the bees swarm the animals panic over a new creature that appears in the farm. In the second story that greedy goat has vanished and when he returns something darned odd happens…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007275137</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewScrambled Eggs Super|author=David Roberts and Alan MacDonald|title=My Burptastic Body Book (Dirty Bertie)Dr Seuss

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=Oh, Peter T. Hooper doesn't mean to be young and innocentshow off, and to be full of questions. Questions like but he is ''is eating my bogies good for mevery', or 'why good at cooking. Some would say he is poo brown', or 'what makes sweat smellThe Best''capital T, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You donmight think that't have to be a kid like Dirty Bertie to want to know the answers – respectivelys quite an easy dish, no; one with which it's down a little hard to dead bacteria; and it doesn't – itshowcase one's other bacteria againprowess, but not so. For Peter T. If you think you have a lad (orHooper, let's face itwhat makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of the egg itself, a lass) interested in learning such stuff, this book could well be and he will go out of his way to procure the best of the place to turnbest from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>