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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pip Jones and Adam StowerNigel Baines|title=Piggy Handsome: Guinea Pig Destined for Stardom!A Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=34.5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Meet Piggy HandsomeCooper loves to perform magic tricks. He is His father was a very bequiffed guinea pigmagician, and he is frustrated that everyone in his long line of Handsome guinea pigs has become famous for something, except himnamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. Annoyed that he has not even got his face in the local newspaperBut sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, he has complained and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to his friend Jeffry the Budgie more than once. But on this daybe, Jeff has a chance or how to solve the issue and get some peace and quiet for himself – there is a chip eating contest in townbe. But can Piggy get there in timeAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, can he down a bowl of chips quickly enough to win, and ''really'' doesn't know what about the pair of idiot thieves that also have something 's going on their mind?anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571327540</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo RaynerJane Lightbourne|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Alien InvasionMy Cat Called Red

|genre= Emerging Readers|summary=This collected edition contains two stories from Mudpuddle Farm: Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the freckles that go along with it. He's been bullied and mocked at school because of it. 'Alien Invasion'Ginger Minger! Carrots!' and 'Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin'Mums only misery in life. He's the Word'already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again. 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007275137</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Roberts Francesca Simon and Alan MacDonaldSteve May|title=My Burptastic Body Book (Dirty Bertie)Two Terrible Vikings|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of friends.|isbn=0571349498}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838593187|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Oh, to be young and innocentTilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and to be full of questionsa big grin on her face. Questions like Dad'is eating my bogies good for mes come to collect her and her brother and he ', or 'why is poo brownhas', or 'to try to guess what makes sweat smell'she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. You don't have to be a kid like Dirty Bertie to want Dad wants to know the answers – respectivelyhow school was, no; itbut ''obviously's down to dead bacteria; and it doesn't – itthat's other bacteria againnot important. If you think you Could Tilly have a lad found more collectable things for her scrap box? (or, letIsn's face it, t that so much more sensible than a lassscrap ''book''?) interested Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in learning such stuffher pocket, this book could well be the place but that's not what she wants Dad to turnguess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Bond and R W AlleyInnosanto Nagara|title=Best-loved Paddington StoriesM is for Movement

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers|summary=With Set in Indonesia, in the sad passing of Michael Bond there not too distant past, this is no time like the present to revisit a story about social change. Dealing with some of difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddingtonbook is neither boring nor preachy. As the character has proved so timeless regular re-issues of the books have appeared It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and ''Best-loved Paddington Stories'' brings three of these stories togetherit portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will fail. Does this collection really reflect the best The message is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the bear has power to offer or are they just three random tales stuck together with marmalade?instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008245037</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Enid Blyton1949471004|title= The Seaside Family|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The Caravan Family (Mummy, Daddy, Mike, Belinda and Ann) are all ready for the holidays, and what better place to spend time together than at the seaside? They can play in the sea, picnic Dog on the sand and generally enjoy each other's company. It will be marvellous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405286733</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewa Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn Cramb|title=National Trust: Complete Night Explorer's KitPamela Brookes

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

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

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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeff Brown and Rob Biddulph1609809335|title=Stanley The Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and the Magic Lamp Lucia Caistor (Flat Stanleytranslator)|rating=3.52|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=It was far too recently that I picked up [[Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown and Rob Biddulph|Flat Stanley]] and met with One day a character now fifty years old for giant lizard appears in the first time, and found out how he got to be flat and what happened as a resultcity. Bizarrely, howeverWe don't even get told how it arrived, despite the success of that first book but it was twenty full years before the author picked up the pen to give Stanley this sequelcertainly appeared. Or perhaps People took against it's not such a surprise – without giving too much away, the character had met with a certain change at the end of book one, and therefore wasnif they weren't exactly ready for more of the sameshrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it. WellCan something be done about it, over the decades there have been six official books by Jeff Brown, and this was the first instance where I could find out for myself if '''I''' was ready for more of the same…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140528806X</amazonuk>though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Chapman and Us Now1789016320|title=The Story of the Car|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… cars. I can't think of many other subjects that inspired the young me to have a full non-fiction book about them on my juvenile shelves. Most of course I lost interest in with maturity. But the young child these days won't be much different, for good or bad, Tadcaster and so they will like as not want a book about broom-brooms for the shelf. And this is pretty much the go-to volume for such an interest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBullies|author=Libby Walden|title=In Focus: CitiesRichard Rutherford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt TavaresDavidson_Night|title=Lighter than AirNight Zookeeper: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman PilotThe Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=We're in Paris, A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and – not to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiotsimagination opened up for him. For one, it seems they think Will is the new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the perfect place role of protector to experiment a magical world starts with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle repulsion of the biggest city in the worlda dangerous invasion. For another, they think only men could suffer  Joshua Davidson has written about the slightly colder Night Zookeeper before and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women would never be able there are online cartoons devoted to copethe character but this marks a new launch and a new series. Meanwhile, This is not just a young girl is dreaming of flight, as so many are wont book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to do, completely unaware that she will soon marry one of the most famed balloonistsget children using their own imagination. They will have joint journeys skyward, before his early demise – leaving The story itself mirrors what the young woman, Sophie Blanchard, author is trying to go it alone and become achieve in real life; the power of the first female pilotimagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy HusbandSeuss_Read|title=The Story of SpaceI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=I have no actual idea how I first got an interest in space. Perhaps it's there because I'm so old to almost coincide with the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon (and The more thatyou read,''<br>'s pretty old, it's been so long) and it kind of rubbed off on meThe more things you will know. Perhaps in fact all young children are interested in space anyway''<br>''The more that you learn, and don't need any impetus or reason to look up in wonder'<br>''The more places you'll go. But if they do'' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, this is and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the newest way wall of nudging the newer child towards a keenness for all things celestial. And itmy children's school library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a pretty good way indeedrhyming ode to the joys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh and Tom Morgan-JonesNeal_Words|title=Norman the Norman from Normandy (Little Gems)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Meet Norman. Norman the Norman, from Normandy. Not Big Bad Norman the Norman from Normandy, Words and not Norma the Norman from Normandy – and not even Nora the Norman from, well it doesn't say, but my guess is Normandy. Norman isn't very big at all – he's just a little boy, and he's not bad. Or at least he doesn't think he is. But because his father, Big Bad Norman, is buried in three parts (don't ask), and little baby Norman has inherited Big Bad Norman's big bad Norman sword, he's going to visit the three parts – but only good will happen… Right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126976</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewYour Heart|author=Ryan Tubridy and P J Lynch|title=Patrick and the PresidentKate Jane Neal

|summary=Meet Patrick. Such a direction is a little facetious hereTrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, because whatever-it's who ''he's'' going to meet -called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that's the keyadage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of piffle. In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to other people is positive. He lives in New RossWe can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, County Wexfordlaugh, sing and his school has been chosen to perform as a choir for the much-anticipated arrival of President J F Kennedybe happy together, as and bit by bit the man traces world can be a better place. And hang the path of his Irish ancestry'no, after you' attitude some people would have in what (in addition to stop-overs in England and Italy on the same trip) was to be his last state visit abroadresponse. But surely just being one among three hundred on such an auspiciousThere, yet briefI've given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, occasion is but that's not enough for such really an enterprising lad? Well, no, for his connected parents have got another trick up their sleeve for him…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366927</amazonuk>issue.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam HancherTavares_Red|title=Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesRed and Lulu|author=Matt Tavares

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=FlightMeet Red and Lulu. It happens all around us, wherever we may be, They're a committed couple of cardinals and many are the young audience members for this book who they have taken to the air already. But it was once something impossible to take lived for grantedsome time in someone's garden, and this book easily takes us back to those dayssafely in an evergreen tree. It presents us with danger, determination, and a certain pair of American brothers going all out seems to get both them that every year people mention their names home in a lovely song, which tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one year, just as the seasons turn for the history books and their feet in cold of winter, the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilda OffenDickens_Search|title=Message from the MoonSearch and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers |summary=Yes, Recently I got to applaud a book that is really a 'Message branched away from the MoonWhere' you receive courtesy of s Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Well, it seems tweaking the form is going to be a big thing, for this booktries yet another different approach – to teach us about a fictional story. You also get They've started at the point of view of the sea itselfdeep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, as well as children seeing the city night from their bedroom window and other one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people witnessing geese flying over, and you even get returning to it at a message from a snailcertain time of the year for its ageless lesson. The range But does the rich content of verses in Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this book is however but one of its many qualities…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991430</amazonuk>quirky variation?

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

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=One of the many issues people have with the TV nature programme, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], is the obvious one of all the blood and guts it features – yes, in amongst all the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesy, comical ones, what's worse)Peter T. YouHooper doesn'll be pleased t mean to knowshow off, however, that this book but he is ''very light on death and destruction. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat (while the females that caught and killed it sit and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plenty, but there is so little to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary school.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Quentin Blake|title= The Story of the Dancing Frog|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly |summary= When Jo's Great Aunt Gertrude's sea captain husband is drowned good at sea she is grief-stricken and, in despair, she goes for a walk alonecooking. During this walk she notices a small frog on a lily-pad. But Some would say he is no ordinary frog - he's a dancing frog and the two quickly become good friends. Soon the duo are touring the world with their routine, spreading joy and fun - and carrying out the occasional rescue - wherever they go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125910</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Forest Life and Woodland Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=This book knows that if youThe Best''re going to learn about forest life and the animalscapital T, plants and trees in it, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourselfcapital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. ItYou might think that's for a very young audience, so always expects quite an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasksdish, and a few lessons. The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and reward, is great – but what exactly is the edutainment going to provide, and what will one with which it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Sharks and Other Sea Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out the sort of lower-case, almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of a book. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending hard to come here and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointed. If you take it on board that the showcase one'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the books prowess, then all well and goodbut not so. And even better, if you expect yourself to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I'm sure I was full of questions when I was a nipper – which means I was too full of questionsFor Peter T. Parents just don't need to be deflecting questions all the timeHooper, do they? Living on what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the edge choice of a village in the middle of nowhere as I didegg itself, I knew quite a lot about farms and farming – that different animals gave different results, that different vehicles meant different things and that the crops behind our house changed. But for the inner city child, there is a chance they have never met a cow or seen a silo. This colourful book, bright in both senses of the word, he will allow the very young reader the opportunity go out of their own fantasy trip his way to procure the working countryside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I wonder how much time I've saved in not being a parent – and therefore not having had to answer such pesky questions as why is best of the sky blue, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what is earwax, and why do I have a spleen? Still, apart best from the first two, those questions and the answers to them and more are in this book, which is a lovely primer for biology, and a great source of quick facts for the very young, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approachwhatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>