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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author=Gavin Puckett and Tor Freeman|title=Colin the Cart Horse|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Meet Colin. He's a perfectly regular cart horse, carrying the crops, tools and children around the farm. He's happy with a life of labour, resting after his shift is done about three every afternoon, and a life of hay – that is, however, until he wonders what his fellow farm animals are eating. What could be the consequence of him trying out every other farm food on the market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315437</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andrea Beaty and David RobertsNigel Baines|title= Ada Twist, Scientist|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The first thing you must know about Ada Marie is the way she said nothing until the day she was three. Now that's a way to pique your interest from the start. After all what sort A Tricky Kind of child does not speak until she turns three? In this case it's a very smart little girl.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721372</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dr Seuss|title=Horton Hears a WhoMagic
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|summary=Some books are classics Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and they prove this by never going out of printnamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. Do you want But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to pick up a copy of a Dr Seuss novel? The chances are that you will be able , or how to find a brand new one in any book shopbe. HoweverAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, do these tales still stand the test of time? Can Horton’s adventures with the Whos remain the wonderful story it was the day it was written?he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007455941</amazonuk>1444960261
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva ErikssonJane Lightbourne|title= Life According to DaniMy Cat Called Red|rating=54
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|summary=Meet Dani – and if you haven't throughout [[:Category:Rose Lagercrantz Robin has red hair. He hates it, and Eva Eriksson|the three previous books]] then you certainly shouldfreckles that go along with it. Her life has He's been up bullied and down, considering she's only just finished the first year mocked at school because of primary school, but at the moment it. ''s on the up, with caveatsGinger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. SheBut red hair is not Robin's only misery in an idyllic place – staying with the best friend imaginable for the entire summer holidays, on what might as well be life. He's already lost his dad to a private island, mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and in constant contact with her fatheris taken into hospital. The caveats concern what happened in [[When I Am Happiest by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|book three]] and the fact that her father has been run over, but at least he calls every night at teatime. Until, that is, the night that he She doesn't…t come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776570715</amazonuk>1838216812
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon RenttaFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title=A Day at the Animal Post OfficeTwo Terrible Vikings|rating=34
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|summary= Some people love their work In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and I have Whack, who are eager to say that I enjoy minebe the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, but give me the option of winning the Euro Millions and spending the rest of my days drinking Pina Coladas on as they cause havoc at a superyachtbirthday party, or the officechaos whilst tracking a troll, and I choose the beach. undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! For children there is sometimes a glamour that emanates from the working week; what tales They get up to all kinds of majesty can Bob the Builder tell me? The fact is that work can be dull at times mischief and repetitivenaughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, but a book written for children about gainful employment should make it sound fun?and their crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407162543</amazonuk>0571349498
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838593187|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Tilly is excited. She'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 he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the 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 found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guess.}}{{Frontpage|author=Clara Vulliamy Innosanto Nagara|title=Dotty Detective M is for Movement
|rating=4
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|summary=Dorothy Constance Mae LouiseSet in Indonesia, otherwise known as Dotin the not too distant past, has just moved house and has had to this is a story about social change schools. Luckily she soon finds a friend Dealing with some difficult issues, Beanssuch as political corruption and nepotism, and together they form the top-secret 'Join the Dots Detectives'book is neither boring nor preachy. Both Dot It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and Beans are huge fans of the TV programme 'Fred Fantastic – Ace Detective'it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will fail. They've watched every episode and memorised all Fred's techniques. It's just as well they have because their classmate Laura has hatched The message is a plot to prevent shy Amy singing positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the talent contest and it's up power to Dot and Beans to uncover the planinstigate change. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008132496</amazonuk>1609809351
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elli Woollard 1949471004|title=The Secret Pirate (Swashbuckle LilDog on a Log Chapter Books: The Secret Pirate) Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes
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|genre= Emerging Readers Dyslexia Friendly|summary= School girl Lil is a secret pirate. Her classmates think she's an ordinary girl What do you do when your child has dyslexia and assume they're just imagining things when they hear her bag squawk. They don't know you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that's where she keeps her parrot (whose name is Carrot). Her teacherreading? You can risk buying early readers, Miss Lubber, thinks Lilbut the sounds in the book might not be the ones you's naughty ve been working on and is unaware encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that Lilproblem. You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you's really trying to save the teacher from ve been working on, without anything else being kidnapped by thrown into the wicked pirate, Stinkbeardmix. But Lil doesn't You need a story which engages the young mind because she knows and you need stages which progress steadily through the truth – shelearning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn's a bold t go amiss, either. Reading - and brave pirate and all her adventures are true (at least ''learning'' to her)read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509808825</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Seuss099334030X|title=Oh, Can You Draw the Places You'll GoDragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging ReadersCrafts|summary=You're going to get a hint of what this book'Ohs about very quickly. When you see the title page, The Places Youyou'll Gofind out what the book's called and that it' is s been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the classic Dr Seuss tale of one manillustration - and there's journey through a bizarre landgap. ''You'' are going to put your name there. The It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book takes you on a trip into about one of the imagination of an author who was never shy of largest creatures ever to roam the bizarreearth. You will sail high into There's some help available, but your name is on the sky in a hot air balloon title page - and walk through strange forests with trees that you have never seen. One thing is for sure, this will not be a dull outing and if you are new work to Dr Seuss, one you may never forget.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008122113</amazonuk>do!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pip Jones1609809335|title=Squishy McFluff: Seaside Rescue! The Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=4.52|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse Emerging Readers |summary= Ava and her invisible cat – Squishy McFluff – are off to the seaside for their latest adventure together. They have great fun digging One day a giant lizard appears in the sand towards Australia and sitting on the beach eating ice creamcity. (Although the adults who fall in their hole and the ice cream man may not share their enthusiasm We don't even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared.) Everything is purr-fect until invisible cat Squishy decides to chase an invisible fish. Now People took against it, and if they weren's up to Ava to stage t shrugging it off as a 'seaside rescue'…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571320686</amazonuk>hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it. Can something be done about it, though?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Posy Simmonds1789016320|title= Lulu Tadcaster and the Chocolate WeddingBullies|author=Richard Rutherford|rating= 54|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= UnusualIn some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, quirky but childrenusually went outside to enjoy themselves. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Tim and Mary's books can be hit or missgreat-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but this one is a definite hit. Told for other children who gather in cartoon strip form, with illustrations reminiscent of the brilliant playground. Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he'Raymond Briggs's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, it mixes the real world with dreamy fantasies that have a touch of [[Alicebut he's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Sir John Tenniel]] not yet at the stage where he knows how to themdeal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344407X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Swapna Haddow B01N0OZQOD|title=Dave Pigeon Nickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto
|rating=4
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=The tag line Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. 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 the cover of ''Dave PigeonThe Late Knight Show'' probably sums this story up. ItNickerbacher likes 's about 'The Late Knight Show'How to Deal with Bad Cats and Keep (most of) Your Feathers''. Or, if you want a bit moretoo - in fact, it's about two Pigeons – Dave and his trusty friend Skipper – who are unceremoniously attacked by favourite TV show because he wants to be a cat while on a routine croissant heiststand-up comedian himself. Dave's wing is injured so he and Skipper set He tries out to get their own back at the vicious cat. They plan to evict Mean Cat from his home and install themselves in his place with the kind Human Lady and her enviable supply of biscuits. You won't be surprised that things jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't go exactly to planalways come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571323308</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elys Dolan0008265836|title= Steven Seagull Action HeroRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Steven Seagull is Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a retired copnormal kid. He used 's a detective and he has a mystery to patrol Beach City solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but those days are over. He was fired, you seethen, so that retirement wasn't entirely voluntaryCassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. Fired for being ''This is just as well as they soon discover a renegadevery serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he' (quite a fancy word)s in danger. But a crime wave is underway It's up to Rory and no one has been able Cassidy to find uncover the culprittruth and save a life. Can Steven be coaxed out of retirement to see if he can help?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738704</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bond0192758748|title=Love from PaddingtonHorace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Consider some of When Harriet, aged seven and a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the more pertinent questions of literaturePark on Her Own' (i.e. Would things have been better if Rhett Butler ''did'' give a damn? What would Jane Eyre have done if the men with the truth hadnher Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't made believe her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the church Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in time? And, of course, how does a little bear serious trouble with a fondness for marmalade actually turn up in Paddington StationHarriet's mum, so very, very far and climbs down from home? Well, while the actual short stories may never have answered any of those questions, this work does – in amongst suggesting why bears donhis pillar. Understandably Harriet can't play cricket, resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a host new – and moresuitable – home. As a result His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and it may have , therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a very different structure better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to the original books of linked short storiesmuseum, cinema, train station, playground, but it's just as wonderful bank and characterfullibrary all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008164355</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harriet Whitehorn and Becka MoorSaulles_Bee|title=Violet and the Smugglers|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Violet's godfather has inherited a sailing boat and invites Violet and her family and friends to join him on a sailing adventure in the Mediterranean. How could Violet possibly say no? This turns out not to be quite as relaxing as you may imagine. It is not long before our heroine has suspicions about the captain of another boat and Violet's detective skills are needed again. With the help Bee Boy: Clash of her friends, Rose and Art, Violet is determined to solve the mystery. Will she be able to put a stop to a dangerous smuggling ring? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122638</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller Queens|author=Elizabeth Schaefer and Brian Rood|title=Star Wars The Force Awakens Illustrated StorybookTony De Saulles
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Well, ours, last year, really… A film came along that seriously impressed lots of mature audience members who had very valid reasons Young Mel's friend has left and the beehive is now his to doubt it, and that made goggle-eyed popcorn munchers of a lot of youngsterslook after. It had rollicking spacecraft dog-fights, it had emotional revisits for well-loved charactersUnfortunately, and had a sting Mel lives in its tail that lasted at least a couple of days before being leaked to the wider world. I know there is a DVD tower block and Blu-Ray not all of his neighbours agree that it coming within days of me writing this, but I can only assume the reason the junior books about the film are being released now and not in time with its cinematic release is down to the chatter of the young and their rampant ability to say what they shouldn't – which includes what happens about eighteen pages before the end of the story herecorrect place for a hive. Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284021</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katrina Pallant and Robert BallDavidson_Night|title=Star Wars Bounty HuntNight Zookeeper: Lift the FlapThe Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson|rating=35|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If you need to give credit to the Star Wars universe for anything, beyond sheer entertainment, it may be the way it A straight-laced student makes such great store one defiant act of putting evil characters to the forecreativity and has a world of magic and imagination opened up for him. They're often Will is the more memorable for being new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in tune with the dark side role of protector to a magical world starts with the Force, and even if we're not meaning full-on Darth Vader or the like we're talking about Hutts, bounty hunters and sheer nasty people as the focus repulsion of the storiesa dangerous invasion. All in all  Joshua Davidson has written about the good guys will win Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the day, character but the baddies have this marks a heck of new launch and a lot more attention given them than in some franchisesnew series. And such This is the case here, where we have not just a small episode in the life of devious and dogged bounty hunter Bossk, who was in films 5 and 6 and the Clone Wars animation, book but isn't generally wella whole online event with huge educational tie-known on the streetins and a push to get children using their own imagination. Or in The story itself mirrors what the nursery school, for this author is seriously geared at trying to achieve in real life; the younger end power of the SW audienceimagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405279907</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T SmithSeuss_Read|title=Claude Going for Gold!I Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=I've been a fan of Claude from the beginning. He charmed me from the start, with his plump tummy, little legs, red jumper and rather fetching beret. I can't help but love a dog who wears a beret! He also has a charming best friend, Sir Bobblysock, (who is indeed a woolly sock) who always makes me laugh. In this particular book they are off on another hunt for an adventure, and although it seems for a while The more that there is simply no fun to be had outside of the house they finally fallyou read, literally, into a Very Exciting Sports Competition!''<br>|amazonuk=''The more things you will know.''<amazonukbr>1444926489''The more that you learn,''</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview|author=A A Milne and E H Shepard|title=Eeyore Loses a Tail (Winnie the Pooh Classics)|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Eeyore, the Old Grey Donkey stood in the thistly corner of the forest and thought about things. He was quite a philosopher in his own way, but his most profound thought occured when Winnie-the-Pooh came along and enquired as to how he was''The more places you'll go.''
This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children''Not s school library! The book is very how''silly, as Dr Seuss always is, he said. ''I don't seem but is also a good rhyming ode to have felt at all how for a long timethe joys of reading.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281359</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Polly Faber and Clara Vulliamy Neal_Words|title= Mango Words and Bambang: Tapir All At Sea|rating= 5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Mango is a sensible, resourceful little girl who is good at a great many things including playing the clarinet and karate. Most importantly she is good at being kind, especially to her best friend, Bambang, a slightly timid Malaysian tapir. In this second book in the series Bambang learns to become a little braver. He has to really, as he becomes involved in a series of daring escapades involving dancing classes, a diamond ring, time spent behind bars and a particularly dangerous enemy. Throughout all of this Bambang is accompanied by his faithful friend, Mango. Sometimes, even the closest friendship may be taken for granted. Will Bambang remember what matters most?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140636147X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewYour Heart|author=Neil Griffiths and Janette Louden|title=The Dog with No NameKate Jane Neal
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Ella and Harry had been nagging their parents ''forever'' about getting a dogTrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, but whatever-it wasn't until after s-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the death adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of the goldfish ''piffle. 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 Russian hamstersound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, which they'd only seen five times because it was nocturnalsing and be happy together, that their parents relentedand bit by bit the world can be a better place. Off they went to And hang the dog rescue centre and 'no, after what seemed like you'attitude some people would have in response. There, I'ages'' and lots ve given the entire plot of red tape they had their very own dog. Hethis book away in my summary, but that'd s not been in the centre long and had no name but the whole family fell for him and brought him homereally an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908702249</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny ColganTavares_Red|title=Polly Red and the PuffinLulu|author=Matt Tavares
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Polly was in bed when there was LOUD bang from downstairsMeet Red and Lulu. It wasnThey't the storm which was raging outside. It wasnre a committed couple of cardinals and they have lived for some time in someone't a monster or s garden, safely in an alien from outer spaceevergreen tree. It was seems to them that every year people mention their home in a puffin who had crashed through lovely song, which tells the front door and he had a broken wingtree thy leaves are so unchanging. Polly's mummy got But one year, just as the first aid kit out whilst Polly went to get seasons turn for the puffin some food and the next day they went to see cold of winter, the vet. By then Polly had decided that the puffin would be called Neil and the vet asked her if she would be able to look after Neil until his wing was bettertree vanishes, on the strict understanding that he would then have to return to the wild.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349131902</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian BeckDickens_Search|title=Grey Island Red BoatSearch and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Princess Opal lived with her fatherRecently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, and taught the kingexplorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Well, on it seems tweaking the Island of Ashes. It was form is going to be a grey islandbig thing, set in a grey sea and Opal lived in a grey castle surrounded by for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a cold grey moatfictional story. The gardens were grey and so were They've started at the trees and flowers. Princess Opal even sat on deep end, with a grey granite throne in a grey granite room - book hastening towards being two centuries old, and she wished one that her life could be differenthas been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it at a certain time of the year for its ageless lesson. She couldn't help but think that something was missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112521X</amazonuk>But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Sam UsherSeuss_Eggs|title=We Are Not FROGS!|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=After the storm the frogs and the toads all came out onto the lawn to play long jump. This was the frogs' choice as they could jump further and the toads just wanted an easy life. But - through a series of unfortunate incidents involving lorries, dogs, children, a cart and an ice cream container, first the toads ended up in the ice cream container and after they sold the frogs down the river in exchange for being put into a muddy ditch, the frogs - all twenty two of them - were in the same prison and it was only thanks to Mutt the dog that they escaped.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125120</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewScrambled Eggs Super|author= Holly Webb|title= Sammy the Shy KittenDr Seuss|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= An adorably, warm and cute story about what happens when Emma falls in love with a tiny sweet feral kitten whom she names Sammy. To persuade Mum and Dad to let her keep him she must learn all she can about taming wild kittens – and, of course, win little Sammy's confidence and trust.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156487</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rachel Hamilton |title=Unicorn in New York: Louie Lets Loose! |rating=4
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|summary=LouiePeter T. Hooper doesn's parents are worried when Louie announces t mean to show off, but he wants to leave home to enrol is ''very'' good at the New York School of Performing Artscooking. HeSome would say he is 's a unicorn and they can't believe heThe Best''ll be happy without the sunlit meadowscapital T, enchanted waterfalls and beautiful maidens of Story Landcapital B. But, like all good parents, they accept that Louie must make And his own way in the worldsignature dish is scrambled eggs. Luckily Louie always looks for the positive in life – a skill You might think that's going to prove essential when he arrives in New York.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192744976</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Wenhua Wangquite an easy dish, Amann Wang and Yu Yan Chen (translator)|title=Mr Hortonone with which it's Violin|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Mr Horton. He is a little hard to showcase one of the world's most famous and rich musical instrument playersprowess, and has done it all – exceptbut not so. For Peter T. Hooper, that what makes his scrambled eggs so super isthe choice of the egg itself, stumble on a music tree. You have to stumble on them, for not carpenters, not sculptors, not even simple woodsmen would give them a second look and think he will go out of them as anything special. But when Mr Horton does find one he is able his way to fashion procure the best, most magical violin imaginable out of its wood. The only problem after that is working out who deserves to play it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215459</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang and Yu Yan Chen (translator)|title=The Chief Cellist|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet the Chiefbest from whatever nest. A new cellist in a quite horrible orchestra, he has suddenly turned their fortunes – and his – round. He is now a superstar, and asking for more and more grandeur and help in his life. But one night, when his chauffeur doesn't turn up for him after yet one more sterling performance, he finds himself alone in a world that doesn't care how good a cellist he is, but one where destiny might just depend on him learning the power of teamwork…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215440</amazonuk>
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