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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Nigel Baines|title=A Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261}}{{Frontpage|author=Jane Lightbourne|title= My Cat Called Red|rating= 4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=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. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in life. He's already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|isbn=1838216812__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title=Dork Diaries: Holiday HeartbreakTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=This being the sixth full-length novel to feature Nikki Maxwell In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and her crush on BrandonWhack, there is little point in doing a summary or resume at great length. who are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! They're still at schoolNothing can stop their mad marauding, and as they're still finding being in any kind of friendship both socially awkward and hampered by the presence of the evil Mackenziecause havoc at a birthday party, Nikki's cute but catty rival. All you really need to know is this volume covers an entire Februarychaos whilst tracking a troll, in order – and manages undertake a grand journey to finish raid Bad Island with the Valentine's night school dance. their friends! YesThey get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, it has weird circumstancesalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, Nikki getting embarrassed and jealous, and moretheir crazy cast of friends. But I haven't told you about the greatest surprise yet…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471117669</amazonuk>0571349498

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tamara Macfarlane1838593187|title=Amazing EsmeGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson

|summary=Esme leaves behind her circus home for Set in Indonesia, in the first time to spend the summer not too distant past, this is a story about social change. Dealing with her cousins Magnussome difficult issues, Cosmo such as political corruption and Gus at Maclinkey Castle and discovers that it nepotism, the book is not quite as she expectedneither boring nor preachy. It is very easy to get lost inside the castle educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and all sorts of weird and wonderful animals can be found in unlikely placesit portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will fail. The children are cared for by Mrs Larder the housekeeper who allows delights such as message is a ''bad-mannered tea party''. Despite the fun and laughter Esme misses her dear friend Donk, a loveable half donkey- half horse until positive one day a mysterious parcel arrives for her. It is then ; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the adventures really beginpower to instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999934</amazonuk>1609809351

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T Smith1949471004|title=Claude in the SpotlightDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=54|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=You have met Claude, haven't What do you do when your child has dyslexia and youneed books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? He's a funnyYou can risk buying early readers, plump little dog whose best friend is Sir Bobblysock and but the two of them frequently get themselves embroiled sounds in all sorts the book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of adventuresa negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. This time Claude headsYou need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, accidentally, towards without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a career on stagestory which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. But something is Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss in the theatre, either. Can Claude help save the show?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444909290</amazonuk>Reading - and ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombie099334030X|title=Can You, Me Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Thing 4: The Mummy That Went MooCharlie Roberts

|genre=Emerging ReadersCrafts|summary=Do You're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you remember Thing? Yessee the title page, thatyou'll find out what the book's right, hecalled and that it's that funny little creature been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to whohas done the illustration - and there's a bit like a troll or a fairy or a squirrel or agap. ''You'' are going 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 you have work to do!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1609809335|title=The Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, wellJ Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=2|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=One day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don't even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared. People took against it, and if they weren't shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, they wanted somethingdone about it. Can something be done about it, though?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=Tadcaster and the Bullies|author=Richard Rutherford|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=In some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Something which hasn' t changed, unfortunately, is bullying and he lives two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the woods playground. Tim's probably about ten - just at the bottom of Rubystage where he's garden. Ruby and Jackson became friends thanks beginning to discovering Thingfeel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, and now they try but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to take care of him deal with bullies.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B01N0OZQOD|title=Nickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as best they canall dragons do. That dragonly duty is, and keep him out of trouble if at course, princess-guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all possible. Unfortunately with ThingBut Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's wayward magical powers it isnhis favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always easy to do!come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=Rory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers |amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>0571272630</amazonuk>Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's a detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't 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's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the truth and save a life.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Lyon and Vanina Starkoff0192758748|title=The Cautionary Tale of Horace & Harriet Take on the Childe of HaleTown|author=Clare Elsom

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=There was When Harriet, aged seven and a giant who lived in Hale and if you care quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to you can visit the cottage and grave of John Middleton who reputedly topped nine feet tall and had to sleep Park on Her Own' (i.e. with his feet dangling out of his cottage windowsher Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't believe her eyes. Rachel Lyon tells the lightly-fictionalised story The statue of how Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Childe - as he was known - was taken up by the king, commanded Third (or Horace for short) starts to move to London . He not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and given every luxuryclimbs down from his pillar. For a while he didnUnderstandably Harriet can't regret leaving Hale at resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all - around the town as Horace searches for once he was dry, slept in a comfortable bed new – and had clothes which fit himmore suitable – home. He mixed with His sights are firmly set on the royal family Mayor's mansion and the court - and life seemed goodit, therefore, until the day when the king commanded falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to fightthe museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. This was bad enoughLuckily, but even then however, a competition in the park reveals the king's motives were not exactly as you might expectperfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860951</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony RossSaulles_Bee|title=Prince CharmlessBee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens|author=Tony De Saulles

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Prince Charmless was probably born complaining Young Mel's friend has left and every day there the beehive is something new now his to complain aboutlook after. Amongst his complaints are that he wants to be a panda rather than a prince; he wants to live Unfortunately, Mel lives in a big, gold palace instead of a silly, silver, little one; tower block and he wants to get up in the middle not all of his neighbours agree that it is the night rather than in the morningcorrect place for a hive. If he can find something to complain about, he will, and Prince Charmless does not worry about upsetting people Things change when Mel suddenly realises he does complain. Unsurprisingly, the palace staff has had enough and all decide to leavean amazing superpower; he can become a bee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395128</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Jane Simmons|title=Come On Daisy!|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Daisy the duckling is having too much fun exploring the riverbank to listen to Mamma Duck. Mamma Joshua Davidson has told her to stay close, but where is written about the fun in that? After all, Night Zookeeper before and there are lots of interesting creatures living in online cartoons devoted to the river character but this marks a new launch and Daisy wants a new series. This is not just a book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to make friends with themget children using their own imagination. Then, of course, there are The story itself mirrors what the giant lily pads. Daisy loves author is trying to bounce on achieve in real life; the power of the lily pads. ''Bouncy, bouncy bouncy. Bong bong!'' But when Daisy stops playing, she notices something. She is all aloneimagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843622726</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Simon Rickerty|title=Monkey Nut|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Two curious little spiders find This is a monkey nut lying on the ground. They don’t know what it isclassic Dr Seuss quote from this book, but they do know that they both want it and one that they don’t want to share. But what I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's school library! The book is this strangevery silly, knobbly object? Is it a chair? A musical instrument? Maybe a boat? Whatever it as Dr Seuss always is, the two little spiders are not the only ones interested. A much bigger, hairier spider but is lurking in the shadows, waiting for the chance also a good rhyming ode to grab the monkey nut for himself, but will he succeed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075764</amazonuk>joys of reading.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David McKeeNeal_Words|title=Elmer Words and Aunt ZeldaYour Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal

|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Elmer Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the patchwork elephant was reminded by his cousin Wilbur adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of piffle. In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that they had promised what we say to visit Aunt Zeldaother people is positive. We can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, who is getting old and bit by bit the world can be a little bit deafbetter place. And hang the 'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response. There, I've given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, but that's not really an issue.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Tavares_Red|title=Red and Lulu|author=Matt Tavares|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Meet Red and Lulu. Their visit is peppered with misheard words They're a committed couple of cardinals and misunderstandings but there’s they have lived for some time in someone's garden, safely in an obvious affection between evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the two generationstree thy leaves are so unchanging. Aunt Zelda is very proud But one year, just as the seasons turn for the cold of winter, the two youngsterstree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Dickens_Search|title=Search and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Elmer Louise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=Recently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, and Wilbur just love Zelda for what she istaught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. There’s never hint of impatience or frustrationWell, no matter how wrong Zelda hears what it seems tweaking the two young elephants have form is going to be a big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to sayteach us about a fictional story. But - just in case Elmer was feeling They've started at all superior - he finds when he gets home the deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and one that he’s has been rather forgetful tooadapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it at a certain time of the year for its ageless lesson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842707515</amazonuk>But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela BannerSeuss_Eggs|title=More and More Ant and BeeScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Right at the beginning, when youPeter T. Hooper doesn're just starting t mean to read books which have more words than picturesshow off, you need a book thatbut he is ''very''s structured to help yougood at cooking. You need a book which Some would say he is comfy to hold in small hands and which has a firm cover so that everything keeps ''straightThe Best''capital T, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You need to share the reading and to know might think that's quite an easy dish, one with which words youit're going s a little hard to read and you might perhaps appreciate a showcase one''hint'' in s prowess, but not so. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the form choice of a picture which the egg itself, and he will help you go out of his way to get procure the word all on your own. Most best of all though, you need to have a proper story and a feeling that you've achieved something when you get to the end. You need Ant and Beebest from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266732</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Johanne Mercier|title=Arthur and the Earthworms|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Arthur has got himself a new job. He might be only seven but a boy can never start too soon. He's going to be selling earthworms from a table at the side of the road and the idea came when his pet duck started pulling up the worms. They were his favourite food, you see and on a rainy day you could find a lot of them just near the surface. He and Grandad managed to get quite a few worms together, but trade wasn't very brisk Move on the first and the woman who was determined to buy his pet duck did rather scare him. But the next day, trade picked up (although some of the customers did look suspiciously ''family'') and then the big order came in...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912177</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Entertainment Reviews]]