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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris Judge and Andrew JudgeNigel Baines|title=Create Your Own Alien AdventureA Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5

|summary=Choose Your Own Adventure books were massive during the 80sCooper loves to perform magic tricks. They allowed the young reader to pick up His father was a book magician, and be named Cooper after the hero; your choices determined if you live or diegreat Tommy Cooper. InvariablyBut sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, it was a game of leaving your finger in the previous page and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to make sure you could skip back should the fate that befell you not be , or how to your likingbe. Well, its 2016 and just choosing your adventure is no longer enough, we want And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to interact even more with the storyhim, we want to create our own adventure.he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407158090</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Eng Gee FanJane Lightbourne|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Frida KahloMy Cat Called Red|rating=4

|summary=Frida Kahlo was born in MexicoRobin has red hair. When she was a young schoolgirl she contracted polio He hates it, and was left the freckles that go along with a leg which was it. He's been bullied and mocked at school because of it. ''skinny as a rakeGinger Minger! Carrots!'', but she bore the problem stoically and in some ways delighted in being differentKids are mean. Then one day Frida was But red hair is not Robin's only misery in a bus which crashed into a carlife. She was badly injured and even when she was over the worst she still had He's already lost his dad to rest in bed and filled the time by drawing pictures, including a self portrait. Eventually she showed her pictures to a famous artist - Diego Rivera - who liked the pictures, ''mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and'' Fridais taken into hospital. They married and Rivera encouraged FridaShe doesn's painting. She exhibited, eventually in New York, to great acclaimt come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Francesca Simon and Ana AlberoSteve May|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Coco ChanelTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=Gabrielle Chanel lived in an orphanage in In a French town small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and after the death of her mother she went to a strict convent school. The fact that she was ''different'' didn't make her life ''easy''Whack, but there were early indications that she was going who are eager to be a seamstress. After she left school she sewed by day and sang by night and it was as she sang that she gained her nickname - ''Coco'' - which came from the soldiers in the audience. very worst Vikings ever! But her dream was designing clothes and the first step was designing and making hats: this led to her opening a hat shop. One eveningNothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday party she realised that , chaos whilst tracking a lot of the women weren't dancing: their corsets were so tight that they could hardly breathe troll, and it was this that prompted Coco undertake a grand journey to create a new style. raid Bad Island with their friends! Her clothes were simpleThey get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, straight and comfortable to weartheir crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807712</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1838593187|title=Ghost for Sale|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=When Mr and Mrs Rundle see an advert in the paper for a wardrobe for sale, complete with ghost, Mrs Rundle decides that they absolutely ''must'' have it! They own The Dog and Duck Inn and Mrs Rundle feels that addition of a ghost will add interest to their Inn and bring them custom. The arrival of the wardrobe certainly shakes things up for the Rundles, though perhaps not Guess What I Found in the way they'd imaginedPlayground!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112518X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julian Gough and Jim Field|title=Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit's Bad HabbitsVictoria Thompson

|summary=When Bear wakes up early from her hibernation, she decides that if she can't sleep then she might as well do something which sheTilly is excited. She's always wanted to do - build just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a snowmanbig grin on her face. ItDad's whilst shecome to collect her and her brother and he ''has''s doing this that to try to guess what she meets Rabbitfound in the playground today, who tells her although she concedes that hewill never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but ''obviously'' that's an Expert in Gravitynot important. Whatever he is, it doesnCould Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't seem to make him particularly happy as he never smiles and isnthat so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''t exactly big on fun?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. But there There are avalanches around as well as hungry wolves sequins, glittered paper and Rabbit soon comes to the conclusion all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that it's good not what she wants Dad to have a friend on your side - even if you have just stolen their foodguess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444929313</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen CraigInnosanto Nagara|title=The Orchard Book of Bedtime Fairy TalesM is for Movement

|summary=Fairy Tales have been around for centuries and reflect Set in Indonesia, in the tradition of oral history; stories spoken from one person's memory to anothernot too distant past, this is a story about social change. This Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, the book is why some Fairy Tales seem to have subtle differences depending upon where you were brought upneither boring nor preachy. Did you hear It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that the three little pigs boiled the wolf alive, or perhaps you think he just walked away in frustration? they will fail. Helen Craig The message is a talented illustrator who has decided positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to tackle the tricky Fairy Tale compilationinstigate change. Will her retelling of classic stories match your own?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408338408</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Keris Stainton1949471004|title= Lily and the Christmas Wish|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary=I In the small town of Pinewood the people are busy preparing for Christmas. This year they are doing something special to celebrate. Each person will write down Dog on a secret wish and tie it to the Christmas tree in the town square. Although nine year old Lily likes this idea she is more than a little sceptical that wishes can come true, no matter how much you may want them to. Then a strange storm blows in and scatters all the wishes across the town. Lily wakes up the following morning to discover that Bug, her pug puppy, can talk! That was not what Lily had wished for but maybe it was someone else's wish? The Christmas magic has definitely gone wrong. Can Lily, her younger brother Jimmy and, of course, Bug put things right before Christmas Day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405125</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLog Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Anthea Bell and Anna Morgunova|title=Vasilisa the Beautiful (Russian Folktales)Pamela Brookes

|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=When I say What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to you achieve the first response I had on picking up this book was 'Oohwonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, someone knows their Klimt', and that I thought I had seen Kandinsky but the sounds in the art inside, it tells book might not be the ones you 've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the aesthetic is definitely to the fore hereyoung dyslexic than a child without that problem. (That latter claim was You need to be able to buy books at a bit false – but therereasonable price which concentrate on what you's definitely a touch of Picassove been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix.) Of course there is You need a story, which engages the young mind and a more-than decent story it is too, but with you need stages which progress steadily through the intriguinglearning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, detailed either. Reading - and unusual artwork of Anna Morgunova, this picture book with many words really does come ''learning'' to liferead - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9888342517</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke Pearson099334030X|title=Hilda Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and the TrollCharlie Roberts

|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Hilda, You're going to get a rather delightful small, blue-haired girl, is never far from an adventurehint of what this book's about very quickly. She is confident and excitableWhen you see the title page, brave you'll find out what the book's called and creative, that it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the illustration - and her stories there's a gap. ''You'' are slightly madgoing to put your name there. It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of the largest creatures ever to roam the earth. There's some help available, but your name is on the title page - and very, very readableyou have work to do!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263788</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lindsay Mattick and Sophie Blackall1609809335|title=Finding Winnie: The Story of the Real Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-PoohLizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=52|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=A little boy called Cole wanted One day a storygiant lizard appears in the city. He particularly wanted a true story and We don't even get told how it had to be about a bear. It was getting latearrived, but Mummy said that she would do her bestit certainly appeared. Her story began about a hundred years before Cole was born People took against it, and if they weren't shrugging it was about a man called Harry Colebourn who lived in Winnipeg. He was off as a vet and was hallucination brought on his way to Europe to look after the horses of the soldiers fighting in the Great War when he met a trapper with a baby bear: his head might have said that there was nothing he could doby tiredness just as they fled it, but his heart told him to get hold of the bear and he gave the trapper $20they wanted something done about it. Winnipeg, as he named the bear, went on the train with Captain Coulbourn and his troopCan something be done about it, across the ocean and finally arrived in England.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408340232</amazonuk>though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1789016320|title= Chris Higgins Tadcaster and Lee Wildishthe Bullies|titleauthor= My Funny Family Gets Funnier Richard Rutherford|rating=4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Mattie is nine years old and the second child in In some ways it was a wonderfully big and loving familygentler time: video games were around, where all sorts of very funny things are prone but children usually went outside to happenenjoy themselves. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Like Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the day Uncle Veznineteen seventies. Something which hasn's brother and his wifet changed, unfortunately, Uncle Bruce is bullying and Aunty Sheila (two lads are making life miserable not their real names!) turn up on just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the doorstepplayground. They Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he're visiting from their home in Australia and it isns beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who't long before theys two years younger than him, but he're causing quite a stir in s not yet at the Butterfield household – and beyondstage where he knows how to deal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492575X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan PlenderleithB01N0OZQOD|title=The Tiny TreeNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto|rating=3.54|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Deep down in the woods there was a tiny pine treeNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. That's what dragons are for, stranded in a clearing and surrounded by BIG pine treesafter all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She dreamed of being a big tree finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and hoped that one day she would be beautifully dressed and surrounded by laughter and love. is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The other trees thought that she was being sillyLate Knight Show''. Actually, they were quite Nickerbacher likes ''nastyThe Late Knight Show'' to her and rather too full of themselves. Then one day the big machine came and started cutting down trees - and Tiny Tree was cut down by mistake. But who is going in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to want be a tiny Christmas tree?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613924</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=Michael Escoffier and Kris Di Giacomo 0008265836|title=Take Away the A Rory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar|rating=35

|summary=What happens when you take away the letter Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn'A' from the word 'Beastt just a normal kid. He's a detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? You get Rory doesn'Bestt know where to start but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and 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'! Similarly without the s dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he'Bs in danger. It' s up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the 'Bride' goes for truth and save a 'Ride' or without the 'C' the 'Chair' has 'Hair'life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443448</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Garrett0192758748|title=Stampy's Lovely Book|rating=3|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=If you still think of Stampy as the elephant in ''The Simpsons'', you need to get with it. For one thing, TV is so last century – now it's all about Minecraft and other computer game worlds, and often second-screening between different new media at Horace & Harriet Take on the same time. So why does this book from a Youtube star of Minecraft tasks, pranks and other activities, remind me of a certain TV programme that used to invite us to turn off and do something more active instead?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281561</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTown|author=Alan MacDonald and David Roberts|title=Aliens! (Dirty Bertie)Clare Elsom

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=For my sins I have never met Bertie before now – something that from When Harriet, aged seven and a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the merits of this book I now think should have been corrected a long time agoPark on Her Own' (i.e. Hewith her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can's a friendly young chap, and we meet him in friendly, short episodest believe her eyes. Here are three The statue of them, which I have Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (or Horace for short) starts to assume is the normmove. One shows him quite gullible if well-meaningHe not only moves but stamps his foot, the next has shouts something that would get him stuck in a situation he dislikes where he still gets the upper handserious trouble with Harriet's mum, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the third is a sustained look at what happens when he starts a hole town as Horace searches for himself with a simple, poor decisionnew – and more suitable – home. HeHis sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a lad such as you probably have close by youbetter alternative. Sadly, heHorace's amiablevisits to the museum, he's not too smartcinema, train station, playground, bank and he's really quite likeable – even if he does apparently have library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a very snotty nose…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184715512X</amazonuk>competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tony Ross and Wendy FinneySaulles_Bee|title= Where's Gilbert? The Not So Little PrincessBee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles|rating= 34.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary=This title is part of a new series which develops Tony RossYoung Mel's unforgettable Little Princess for older children reading on their ownfriend has left and the beehive is now his to look after. The Not So Little Princess hasn't really grown out of her teddy bear, GilbertUnfortunately, but she's old enough to have become self-conscious when her friend Ollie finds her telling stories to the teddy Mel lives in a tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that it is the gardencorrect place for a hive. She denies and abandons GilbertThings change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443049</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Mahy and Jonathan AllenDavidson_Night|title=Night Zookeeper: The Great White Man-Eating SharkGiraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=This is the story A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of Norvin who was ''creativity and has a good actor but rather plainworld of magic and imagination opened up for him. In fact he looked like a shark…'' There were not many parts Will is the new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the role of protector to a magical world starts with the repulsion of theatre for boys who looked like sharks so Norvin took up swimminga dangerous invasion. Soon he was able  Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to shoot through the water ''like character but this marks a new launch and a silver arrow'' new series. This is not just a book but he found it tedious having a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to share the delightful space of Caramel Cove with all the other swimmersget children using their own imagination. Almost every young reader will be able to guess The story itself mirrors what Norvin did next – but they might not anticipate the way author is trying to achieve in which his plan goes wrongreal life; the power of the imagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014382</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michelle Magorian and Sam UsherSeuss_Read|title= SmileI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary= Josh is tired''The more that you read, fed up and feeling put out and ignored. No, he isn't having a tantrum – something big has happened (well, two '<br>''The more things actually) and his world has turned upside downyou will know. You see ''<br>''The Howlermore that you learn,''<br>''The more places you' has arrived and everything has changed and not, so far, for the betterll go. Baby brother Charlie '' This is just seventeen days old a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and is not only taking up all one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of his parentsmy children' times school library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also stopping everyone in the house from getting enough sleep with his constant howling. Will the crying 'ever' stop? And there's worse because the really terrible thing is the baby's arrival meant a very special event had good rhyming ode to be cancelledthe joys of reading. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125007</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neal_Words|title=Mandi Kujawa Words and Claude St AubinYour Heart|titleauthor=Jacqueline the Singing CrowKate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Jacqueline the crow. She's perfectly happy up in CanadaTrolling, with a whole forest of trees to choose frombullying, enough to eatcyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones is actually a whole sky into which she can thrust her birdsong in celebrationlot of piffle. She has, in factIn a world where we all have hearts, we should have a lot heart that what we say to crow aboutother people is positive. Until she hears humans talk of her as drably blackWe can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, dumblaugh, sing and ugly to both look at be happy together, and to hearbit by bit the world can be a better place. What she chooses to do as a And hang the 'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response is a surprise worth discovering in . There, I've given the entire plot of this large format picture bookaway in my summary, but that's not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992150876</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Broom and Kristjana S WilliamsTavares_Red|title=The Wonder Garden: Wander through the world's wildest habitats Red and discover more than 80 amazing animalsLulu|author=Matt Tavares|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=Is it any wonder that this book calls the outside world The Wonder Garden? I know things Meet Red and Lulu. They're a committed couple of cardinals and they have lived for some time in fiction bookssomeone's garden, on TV and safely in games can be fabulous, but can they compete – really – with what nature has presented? You only need a gate through which an evergreen tree. It seems to go, and them that every year people mention their home in a willingness to explore. This book provides those gates – there they arelovely song, shining luxuriously on which tells the cover of this jumbo-sized hardbacktree thy leaves are so unchanging. And in five easy-to-take stepsBut one year, just as the rest of the book provides seasons turn for that exploration, taking us down south in Amazonia, down below the waters cold of winter, the Great Barrier Reeftree vanishes, and up – to deserts and mountains, via Germany's own Black Forest. And the trip is nothing if not spectacular to look at.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806473</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title=Martin Haake Search and Georgia CherryFind A Christmas Carol|titleauthor=City Atlas: Discover the world with 30 city mapsCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=It's not every time Recently I mention got to applaud a book that branched away from the feel of the book IWhere'm reviewings Wally? style volume, but this time it's worth and taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a mention-searching. This volume has been lavishly presented in a roughened card coverWell, as opposed to it seems tweaking the gloss of others in this format from this publisher, and so looks and feels like an old stamp catalogue. The title image form is indeed going to be a stampbig thing, stuck on the centre of the cover. And just as all stamps the world over are practically the same for this book tries yet completely another different in design, so are the world's citiesapproach – to teach us about a fictional story. The point of this book is to bring the common elements as well as the unique features of all the worldThey's capitals to ve started at the foredeep end, to show that while with a city may be a city is a citybook hastening towards being two centuries old, their constant variety is what makes each and every one worth that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it at a visitcertain time of the year for its ageless lesson. With that being on But does the costly siderich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this is a decent enough substitute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806481</amazonuk>quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and LeUyen PhamSeuss_Eggs|title=The Princess in BlackScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Princess Magnolia has a double lifePeter T. On one hand she has a perfectly prim, proper and pink castle turret Hooper doesn't mean to live in, on the other she has a secret escape tunnel. On her head she has a tiara, on her finger a monster alarm. Her life is also full of threats – on one side a horrid, blue, goat-eating beastie, on the other a prim and proper visitor intent on finding out if the perfect Princess has any secrets. Well we know she hasshow off, but will they be discovered – and which he is the greater threat?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763678880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joan Aiken and Quentin Blake|title=Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=If you think about all the many unsuitable items that Mortimer the raven has eaten, from staircases to bowler hats, it's surprising that he's still in as very'' good a shape as at cooking. Some would say he is. This time, Mortimer finds himself left alone with Mrs Jones' sewing machine. I'm still not sure why Mrs Jones ever lets him out of her sight, since he has an unerring capacity for trouble, yet here we find him, gobbling down the pink material that is intended for ArabelThe Best's new dress, swiftly followed by the needle! When Mortimer eventually discovers the foot pedal that makes the sewing machine go he and Arabel are turfed out of the house and allowed to go across the road to the park where a crowd has gathered around an interesting find in a large hole…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806929</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joan Aiken and Quentin Blake|title=The Spiral Stair|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I'm rather fond of Arabel and Mortimer. I like the outlandish situations that they find themselves in, and the way Joan Aiken wrote the stories without speaking down to her readers in any waycapital T, inserting humour for the grown ups reading them toocapital B. Here our terrible twosome have been sent to Uncle Urk at the zoo whilst Mr Jones And his signature dish is in hospitalscrambled eggs. Aunt EffieYou might think that's quite an easy dish, however, has little patience for a noisy raven. Will Mortimer land them both in trouble? Or will they somehow manage to save the zoo from a scurrilous animal-stealing plot?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806945</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benedict Blathwayt|title=The Little House by the Sea|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=By the sea, on the Isle of Mull, there was a ruined cottage, but one with which it wasn't entirely uninhabited. The roof had fallen in and the windows were empty but that didn't stop the mice finding snug and dry homes in the walls. Rabbits enjoyed the weeds in the garden and the doorway s a little hard to the cottage was used as a shelter by the sheep when it rained. Sparrows nested under the roof and a stray cat slept in the pile of leaves in the fireplace. Then showcase one day Finn came along. He was a fisherman and he began to repair the house. He worked too - catching fish and taking tourists to see the seals and Fingal's caveprowess, but not so. But what about the birds and animals who had lived in the cottage before Finn came along?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780273142</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Catherine Storr|title= Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Polly opens the door one day to find a large black wolf standing on the doorstepFor Peter T. With no preamble whatsoever, not even a cursory helloHooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the wolf informs Polly that he intends to eat her up. Incredibly Polly invites choice of the wolf into her home and even into the kitchen! What can she be thinking of? Wellegg itself, young Polly is clever, resourceful, independent and charming. The wolf is a wolf he will go out of very little brain. Therefore it is not long before she is able his way to outwit procure the wolf and send him packing. This first story is very short but sets the scene for the ongoing battle best of wits between Polly and the wolf that will continue for the remaining twelve short stories in this charming and entertaining book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141360232</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Julian Clary and David Roberts|title= The Bolds|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The Bolds, Mr and Mrs and their two small children, live in an ordinary semi-detached house in suburban Teddington. They have jobs; Mrs Bold designs and sells flamboyant hats and Mr Bold writes jokes for Christmas crackers. But they are most definitely not an ordinary family. Oh no! They are in fact hyenas. So far they have managed to successfully pretend to be human beings. Although very hairy and prone to laughing a lot they have kept the truth (and their tails!) a secret best from everyonewhatever nest. But their grumpy next door neighbour, Mr McNumpty, is growing suspicious and then a trip to the local safari park has repercussions. Will the Bolds' carefully long kept secret be revealed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443057</amazonuk>