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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alex T SmithNigel Baines|title= Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers |summary= Mr Penguin is a brand new ''Professional Adventurer''. He has a dashing hat, a large magnifying glass and an important looking office in his igloo to prove it. All he needs now is an adventure to go on. Just as he is beginning to despair A Tricky Kind of ever being asked to solve a mystery Boudicca Bones from the museum phones and asks for help. Can he and his trusty sidekick, Colin (the spider with expertise in martial arts!) find her missing treasure? Will the adventure become too dangerous for them? And will Mr Penguin ever have time to eat his fish finger sandwich packed lunch?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444932063</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Colleen Jacey and Zed Jacey|title=Madge Eekal's ChristmasMagic
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|summary=It was nearly Christmas and all the witches except Madge Eekal were busy putting up their festive lights. Madge's pet dragon, Ashon, wanted to know what had happened to their fairy lights. The truth was that Madge had ''tried'' to get them to work, but it seemed that the fairies were on strike: she ''couldn't'' get them to work. Ashon knew that it would, of course, have been much easier if they had electricity, like everyone else and that decided Madge - they would make their own electricity. She knew the perfect spell. Ashon was doubtful... and rightly so as it turned out
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{{newreview
|author=Emma Yarlett
|title=Nibbles: The Dinosaur Guide
|rating=3.5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Some of you may already be aware of NibblesCooper loves to perform magic tricks. He is His father was a little monster that likes to nibble everything. Nibbles nibbles socks, Nibbles nibbles clocks, but the thing that Nibbles likes to nibble most is books! Thereforemagician, putting him in a book is not the safest place as he will try and eat his way out. Whilst named Cooper after the first book saw the tyke getting into trouble in fairy tales, this time it is non-fiction that has whetted his appetite and in particular a book all about dinosaurs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696914</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexandre Lacroix and Ronan Badel|title=Dragons: Father and Son|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=You know dragonsgreat Tommy Cooper. TheyBut sadly Cooper're there to look splendid and fierces father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to burn down human villages in rampagesbe, with or without treasure in mind. But they need how to be trained in that. And our father dragon has just tasked when his son dragon with that very errand - dad's prop rabbit starts talking to go and torch a human house. The lad is reluctant to cook anything more severe than lunch - him, he ''really'' doesn't know what could possibly happen?'s going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910277231</amazonuk>1444960261
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester ClarkJane Lightbourne|title= Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of The Wizard of OzMy Cat Called Red
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|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dodie Smith, Peter Bently Francesca Simon and Steven LentonSteve May|title=The Hundred and One DalmatiansTwo Terrible Vikings|rating=54
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|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Wright1838593187|title=The Twelve Days of Christmas (Magnificent Creatures)Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cynthia Ryland and Mary BlairInnosanto Nagara|title=Walt Disney's Cinderella: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)M is for Movement
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|genre=Emerging Readers
|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
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{{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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre099334030X|title=Pug-a-Doodle-Do!Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crafts
|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!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Strong and Jamie Smith1609809335|title=Nellie Choc-IceThe Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Penguin Explorer Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (Little Gemstranslator)|rating=4.52|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=Meet Nellie Choc-IceOne day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don't even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared. Thus named by her grandparents (People took against it, and grandparents have if they weren't shrugging it off as a habit in this book of making unusual names for their grandchildrenhallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, whichever species they belong to)wanted something done about it. Can something be done about it, she is though?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=Tadcaster and the Bullies|author=Richard Rutherford|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=In some ways it was a pretty little Macaroni penguingentler time: video games were around, complete with pink feet, bright yellow eyebrows but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. They flew kites and a woolly hat with the world's biggest pompom on the endwent sledging if there was snow around. She has a habit of going exploring Tim and finding out whatMary's over the next ridge great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the icenineteen seventies. Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and the next, two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the nextplayground. But when disaster happens and Tim's probably about ten - just at the ice she is on is knocked off Antarctica by a submarinestage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, even she can have no idea as but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to where she will end up…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127212</amazonuk>deal with bullies.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa PappB01N0OZQOD|title=Madeleine Finn and the Library DogNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Madeleine Finn doesn't like to read Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess- not anythingguarding. ItThat's not really her faultwhat dragons are for, you knowafter all. Her teacher tries to encourage her, but some of But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the other kids giggle when whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she makes mistakes. And they pull faces of the type which would have given me my head is in my hands to play with when I was a child. watching comedy on ''The words just donLate Knight Show''t seem to come out right for her. The other children are getting gold stars (INickerbacher likes 've 'The Late Knight Show'never'too - in fact, it' liked that system) but all Madeleine gets is s his favourite TV show because he wants to be a heart sticker which tells her to keep trying. She's got plenty of thosestand-up comedian himself. All week she He tries her best out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but doesnthey don't get the star she longs foralways come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646326</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano0008265836|title=Life on Earth: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions Rory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and 70 Lift-flaps!Ralph Lazar
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=I was a big fan of dinosaurs when I was Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a nippernormal kid. Since then the science regarding them has evolved leaps and bounds. WeHe've got in touch with them perhaps being feathered, s a detective and have assumed colours and noises they made he has a mystery to solve we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesightwhy did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, hearing and so much more may have been like. But science will never stopthen, and the Cassidy moves in next generation will need to be on board with the job of discovering them, analysing them, door and presenting them to a world that never seems to get enough he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of the nasty, superlative beasties of Hollywood renownideas. As youThis is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy're the kind s dad has been poisoned and is at risk of person to ask questions, you may well ask dying but no-one else will believe he'how do you get that next generation ready for their place s in danger. It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the field truth and in the laboratory?' I would put this as the answer – even if it is made itself of save a hundred questionslife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano0192758748|title=Life Horace & Harriet Take on Earth: Jungle: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!the Town|author=Clare Elsom|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=WeWhen Harriet, aged seven and a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 're constantly being asked Going to save somethingthe Park on Her Own' (i. Save the hedgerows, save the elephant, save our sease. Therewith her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can's absolutely nothing wrong with any of those goals – some t believe her eyes. The statue of them are larger than Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the others, and more demanding, but they are all worthy. But seeing as it's Third (aor Horace for short) the largest land feature we need starts to savemove. He not only moves but stamps his foot, and (b) itshouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's the most worthwhile to savemum, why not just go for the jugular – and try climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and save quickly finds herself dragged all around the Amazonian rainforest? Forget jugular, you'll be saving the jaguar; you'll be protecting the source of town as Horace searches for a lot of our food, spices new – and medicines more suitable home. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and when did a hedgerow near you have almost fifty different species of ant on a singular tree? The first step it, therefore, falls to saving anything is Harriet to understand itpersuade him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to let us appreciate itthe museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and this primer is how we get library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in touch with what's important about jungles so we can deem them worthwhilethe park reveals the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809014</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Dale and Giusi CapizziSaulles_Bee|title=Cool Duck and Lots Bee Boy: Clash of Hats (Early Reader)the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles
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|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Children are a little like Pokemon; you may not be able Young Mel's friend has left and the beehive is now his to house them look after. Unfortunately, Mel lives 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 tower block and listen to you read a story, but at some point they are going to want to read themselves. This is not the moment to lend them your copy of ''Lord all of his neighbours agree that it is the Rings'' as their own first books will actually be simpler stories than the books that you have shared togethercorrect place for a hive. You need to know your ducks and your hats before you Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can tackle what on Earth become a Gruffalo isbee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862490</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter SchossowDavidson_Night|title=Where is Grandma?Night Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson
|rating=5
|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Henry. He's A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a young lad being taken by a nanny to hospital to check world of magic and imagination opened up on for him. Will is the new Night Zookeeper and his grandma, who's tenure in having had an accidentthe role of protector to a magical world starts with the repulsion of a dangerous invasion. It's  Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the character but this marks a shame, then, that said nanny new launch and a new series. This is so busy yacking into her phone not just a book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to look after him, for he ends up going off on his get children using their own adventure to find his granimagination. And The story itself mirrors what an adventure – babies being born, people with stomach problems, chemo, beans stuck up their nose… all life the author is here trying to achieve in this hospital, and both that and real life; the power of the lad's mishap are clearly and very pleasantly conveyedimagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571541</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Atkins and Barbara VagnozziSeuss_Read|title=Peck, Hen, Peck! and Ben's Pet (Early Reader)I Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=It probably sounds obvious''The more that you read, but ''<br>''The more things you really shouldnwill know.''<br>''t keep your pet chickens in a bag! WellThe more that you learn, that's what I learned '<br>''The more places you'll go.'' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book which tells us first , and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the story wall of Tom who puts his hen in a bag. my children's school library! The hen pecks through the bagbook is very silly, as hens are wont to doDr Seuss always is, and escapes! A simple and somewhat tragic tale! This but is swiftly followed by also a story about Ben's petgood rhyming ode to the joys of reading. Will it be another hen, I wondered? No, actually, after several incorrect guesses, we discover that Ben's pet is only a rabbit!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862482</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Louise ForshawNeal_Words|title=Buzz Words and Jump! Jump! (Early Reader) |rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=After hearing a mysterious buzzing in the kitchen, mum traps a fly in a jar, but then she hears the buzzing again...what could be going on? Meanwhile, Ken the Kangaroo (who declares himself to be the best at jumping), is jumping everywhere he can. In this red level book, aimed generally at those who have completed their reception year in school, there are two simple, sweet stories in one book, perfect for those who are just learning to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862504</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewYour Heart|author=Alice Hemming and Julia Seal|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 the end of their reception year.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862512</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephan Lomp|title=Wilfred and Olbert’s Totally Wild ChaseKate Jane Neal
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=Meet Wilfred Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and Osbertstones is actually a lot of piffle. They're not only the kind In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to completely flout other people is positive. We can examine our world and the rules of the natural history explorer's club they belong tosound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, but when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly togetherlaugh, they are the kind to fight tooth sing and claw to be the first to lay claim to it alonehappy together, and devil take bit by bit the other oneworld can be a better place. What they don't know is that And hang the drama that ensues when they're tailing this particular specimen will involve no end of peril – nearly drowning, almost being eaten by a lionafter you' attitude some people would have in response. There, crashing a hot air balloon one I've given the entire plot of them just so happened to have this book away in his pocket… Thismy summary, then, is a fun and silly biology lesson – but that's only the best kind, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>not really an issue.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tavares_Red|title=Libby Walden Red and Stephanie Fizer ColemanLulu|titleauthor=Hidden World: ForestMatt Tavares
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Emerging Readers |summary=Sometimes, less is moreMeet Red and Lulu. But They're a wood doesn't understand that, does it – it just stretches on committed couple of cardinals and on, expanding outwards and outwards, and upwards and upwards – itthey have lived for some time in someone's quite a galling thing for a young person to understandgarden, safely in an evergreen tree. This book reverts It seems to the very basic detail them that will let the very young student get every year people mention their home in a grip on lovely song, which tells the life in the foresttree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one year, whether they can actually see it for the trees in real life or not…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Craig Shuttlewood|title=Town and Country (Turnaround Book)|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I know I should have been working but I've just spent the last hour pouring over ''Town and Country''. On the face of it there's a very simple idea here: on each double-page spread you get examples of what happens in towns and what happens in as the countryside with regard to various activities, modes of transport and even things like beaches and snow. You seasons turn the book one way for the country scene and then flip it over for what happens in the town. Down the side of each page there's a list cold of things for you to findwinter, complete with a thumbnail of what it is you're looking for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Cock-A-Doodle-Doo|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= This is an anthology book containing two titles from the Mudpuddle Farm series (''Mossop's Last Chance'' and ''Albertinetree vanishes, Goose Queen''). In the first of these we see all the animals work together to save the saggy old cat-puss from being fired. The second story sees our resident genius tested by an encounter taking Lulu with a crafty fox whilst the farmer decides to avoid all the fuss by going for a shave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007270127</amazonuk>it…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title=Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson Search and Mary BlairFind A Christmas Carol|titleauthor=Walt Disney's Peter Pan: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott
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|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Recently I'll take it pretty much as read got to applaud a book that you know branched away from the story of Peter PanWhere's Wally? style volume, and taught the young boy who left his shadow behind, and in collecting it took three children with him to explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a fantasy world full of nasty men, danger and mystery-searching. I knowWell, it seems tweaking the lad form is totally irresponsible. You may well know it from pantogoing to be a big thing, or from Disney – and it's the latter that for this book is concerning. It's tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a very snappy capture of the fictional story that won. They't take long ve started at all to readthe deep end, but it's what that text is paired with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and one that makes has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it worth attentionat a certain time of the year for its ageless lesson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405287012</amazonuk>But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeff Brown and Rob BiddulphSeuss_Eggs|title=Flat StanleyScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Peter T. Hooper doesn''Stanley was four feet tallt mean to show off, about a foot wide, and half an inch thick.but he is '' Yes, therevery's proof that this is the original text of this classic children's book – good at least it's not been updated to metriccooking. So while the illustrations are new, we get the real deal, with the young Stanley squished one night, to such an extent Some would say he can limbo under shut doors, get airmailed to America to visit relatives, become a kite for his younger brother to play with, and more. But then you donis ''t need to update perfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405288108</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Philippa Pearce and Cate James|title=The Ghost in AnnieBest's Room (Little Gems)|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Emma is on a family holiday in an older relative's seaside cottagecapital T, where she is to sleep in the room in the atticcapital B. Her brother has passed on what he says he has overheard – that it And his signature dish is hauntedscrambled eggs. But even with the mementos of the person You might think that once lived there all around her's quite an easy dish, and with a strange feeling of being watched, even one with the stormy winds knocking tree limbs on to the window – Emma can sleep through which it all. But that's not a little hard 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 – showcase one''Nowt to Worry About'' and ''Tickety-Boo''. How will the animals react when the sky goes strange and horrifying noises abound? Changes are afoot that could mark the end of Mudpuddle farm; or is 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 of funs prowess, but they are also a good study tool for adult readers alikenot so. For Peter T. Jane Austen is a fantastic novelistHooper, but her style of writing can be daunting for those not used to such heavy prose. It what makes his scrambled eggs so super is very easy to become lost in the myriad choice of dialoguethe egg itself, characters and events. I find a good plot summary helps when approaching her works, this was especially so in he will go out of his way to procure the case best of the perplexing and long-winded Emmabest from whatever nest. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783708271</amazonuk>
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