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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frank Cottrell BoyceNigel Baines|title=DesirableA Tricky Kind of Magic
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers|summary=Poor George. He knows that he is not popular but when even his own Grandad doesn't want Cooper loves to stay around for his birthday party he realises that things are even worse than he thoughtperform magic tricks. However this His father was before he discovered the contents of the present from his Grandad a magician, and experienced named Cooper after the dramatic impact on his life an aged bottle of aftershave would bringgreat Tommy Cooper. Although George tries But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to think himself invisible in order be, or how to cope today he is not invisiblebe. In fact And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he is not only visible but desirable too''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124248</amazonuk>1444960261
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelly L Bingham and Paul O ZelinskyJane Lightbourne|title=Circle, Square, MooseMy Cat Called Red|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers|summary=If you have children you have no doubt read loads of books about shapes; the circleRobin has red hair. He hates it, and the square, the dodecahedronfreckles that go along with it. He's been bullied and mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. They are all variations of the same things – this wheel is round like a circle, this bread reminds me of a square, what on earth But red hair is a dodecahedron? Why not spice the book up by throwing Robin's only misery in a moose, but not just any mooselife. This is He's already lost his dad to a moose that brings chaos to everything he touches mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and must be chased from the book!is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783441860</amazonuk>1838216812
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony Ross|title=Rita's Rhino|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Rita really wants a pet, but when she asks her Mum for one she isn’t so keen. They’re smelly and greedy Francesca Simon and take lots of hard work. Eventually she relents, and gives Rita a jar with a flea in it, his name is Harold. Obviously, Rita isn’t happy with this so she decides to take matters into her own hands. What will she do, and how will she manage to hide a Rhino from her pet-fearing mother?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440252</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSteve May|title=The Illustrated Old Possum|author=T S Eliot and Nicolas BentleyTwo Terrible Vikings
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers|summary=This title is clearly of importance In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the house of Faber. very worst Vikings ever! To this day their puff mentions it was one of Nothing can stop their first childrens' booksmad marauding, after the author sent his publisher's sonas they cause havoc at a birthday party, his godsonchaos whilst tracking a troll, some writings based on jellicle cats and some of their scrapes. It's clearly undertake a book that's important grand journey to Andrew Lloyd Webber, too, but we'll gloss speedily over that. raid Bad Island with their friends! It's a book that was important They get up to me as well – I certainly had a copyall kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, a thinalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, barely illustrated, old-fashioned style paperback of it once I had seen the musical. And with the excellent writing here and the ability their crazy cast of it to delight so many people of so many ages, it has the power to be important to a future generationfriends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk>0571349498
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838593187|title=Nonsense Limericks (Faber Children's Classics)Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)Victoria Thompson
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=There was Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a young man whose critique<br>Of this book big grin on her face. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was submitted one week<br>When they asked , but ''obviously'' that'Was it fines not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn'<br>He said t that so much more sensible than a scrap 'No denyin' –<br>book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. Thereare sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's very little here they could tweak!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>not what she wants Dad to guess.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Katie's London ChristmasInnosanto Nagara|authortitle=James MayhewM is for Movement
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|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers|summary=We have never been strict about Christmas Set in our house. It's usually my husband who starts itIndonesia, with a carol or two during in the summer! It's hard to resist that Christmas urge if you're not too distant past, this is a die-hard fan of the season! story about social change. I have a friend who keeps all her Christmas related stories safely in a cupboardDealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, brought out in a special basket only during the season itselfbook is neither boring nor preachy. WeIt educates gently, meanwhilewith vibrant, have Christmas stories all year round because, honestlychallenging illustrations, and it portrays how social movements need people who doesn't like a bit of Father Christmas magic now and then?! Anywaywill try, this is all to say even when it seems that here they will fail. The message is a Christmas story positive one; that some purists will tuck away until Christmas Eve but in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have quite happily read during Halloween! Katie is back, and heading back to London, but this time she's on a mission the power to help Father Christmas..instigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408326418</amazonuk>1609809351
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=Good Dog Lion (Little Gems)on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Alexander McCall SmithPamela Brookes|rating=54
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|summary=Being a firm fan of Alexander McCall Smith's novels for adults, I wasn't surprised What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to find achieve the wonder that I thoroughly enjoyed this children's story. is reading? Written with You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the same gentle understanding of human nature, and so very deftly told, I read this story with a great deal of pleasure. Although book might not be the story behind Timoones you's life is rather sad, with his father leaving him ve been working on and his mother when Timo is only young, and his mother then struggling to find enough money to raise both encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of them, it never descends into tragedy but remains positive and upbeat. It's a story of strength, and bravery, and I'm not just talking about Timo and his mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123721</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Allan Plenderleith|title=The Bonkers Banana|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Father Christmas has negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. Because the house had no chimney he had You need to use his magic dust be able to shrink himself down so that he could slip buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the house through the keyholemix. All went well until the very tiny Santa bumped into You need a fruit bowl containing just one banana and all his magic dust flew up in story which engages the air - young mind and landed on you need stages which progress steadily through the bananalearning process without there being any large jumps. The banana was rather pleased - brought to life he jumped up and down and began dancing Some online support and singing - but Father Christmas was distraught. Without the magic dust he couldngames wouldn't ride his sleigh and deliver all the presentsgo amiss, either. Eventually the banana calmed down sufficiently Reading - and ''learning'' to realise that Santa had read - should be a problem and the only way out of it was for banana to fly Santa to the moon so that he could get more magic dustpleasure. Yes - I know - itIt should be ''fun''s bonkers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613878</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other StoriesCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Sylvia Plath Peter Lynas and David Charlie Roberts
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|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=IYou've said it before and Ire going to get a hint of what this book'll say it again, that s about very quickly. When you should always approach classical authors through their least typicalsee the title page, shortest and more individual works – you won't gain much insight perhaps into why they were famous, but you will ll find more entertainment out what the book's called and greater pleasures that it's been written by staying outside the canonPeter Lynas. And Then we move on to who has done the lovely people at Faber illustration - and Faber have there's a case in point – rather than plough through serious dross from Eliot, why not stick gap. ''You'' are going to [[The Illustrated Old Possum by T S Eliot and Nicolas Bentley]]? put your name there. And with Sylvia Plath I cannot think It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of a better place the largest creatures ever to start with her oeuvre than with these snappy roam the earth. There's some help available, but your name is on the title page - and delightful pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314643</amazonuk>you have work to do!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1609809335|title=Pigsticks and Harold and the Tuptown ThiefThe Lizard|author=Alex MilwayJose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=3.52|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Problems are afoot One day a giant lizard appears in Tuptown, leading up the annual Butterfly Ball – bit by bit the whole thing is being stolencity. Harold has made a special statue for the occasionWe don't even get told how it arrived, but has awoken to find it missingcertainly appeared. People took against it, the berries for the catering have vanished – and someoneif they weren's even run t shrugging it off with the butterfliesas a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it. It's up to our heroes Harold (the hamster) and Pigsticks (theCan something be done about it, er, pig) to don their stereotypical detective outfits and save the day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346039</amazonuk>though?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016320|title=The Witch DogTadcaster and the Bullies|author=Margaret Mahy and Sam UsherRichard Rutherford|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Every witch needs In some ways it was a catgentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. Everyone knows that They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. But when we meet Mrs Rose, she’s not really Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a witchbusiness in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. She’s a mum whose children have left home Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and now she’s finding herself with a bit of time on her handsMary but for other children who gather in the playground. Her husband suggests she join Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him with his hobby of Bowls, but that’s a bit boring, thinks Mrs Rose, so instead she decides to do an evening class. In he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to become a witchdeal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011340</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B01N0OZQOD|title=It's Snow DayNickerbacher|author=Richard Curtis and Rebecca CobbTerry John Barto|rating=54|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=We Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all remember the best sort dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of school dayscourse, don’t we? Snow daysprincess-guarding. Waking up in the morning and seeing the glow of white through the curtainsThat's what dragons are for, and looking out of the window to see after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole world of our back gardens princessing thing quite boring really and rooftops turned whiteshe is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. This is Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to be a book all about that, and the only two people who turn stand-up at school comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on this particular snow dayPrincess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723288925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008265836|title=Horrid Henry's Haunted HouseRory Branagan Detective|author=Francesca Simon Andrew Clover and Tony RossRalph Lazar
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|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Horrid Henry is Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a character I remember vaguely in passing, normal kid. He's a bit like ''Just William''. I knew the books existed detective and regularly saw them in the children’s room of the library, but I didn’t bother he has a mystery to pick them up. The clue solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, then, Cassidy moves in the namenext door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. And I was the sort 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 girl who didn’t want stories about nasty, horrible boys. Having read my first Horrid Henry story now, though, I can let you dying but no-one else will believe he's in on a little secretdanger. He’s actually quite a funny boy It's up to Rory and not Cassidy to uncover the naughty thing his nickname would suggesttruth and save a life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192758748|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)Horace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Jackie MorrisClare Elsom|rating=3.54|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=You probably havenWhen Harriet, aged seven and a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't heard believe her eyes. The statue of Mergichans – although if you pronounce it correctly in your headLord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in connection serious trouble with spirits Harriet's mum, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a new – and magic, you will work out what they more suitable – home. His sights are. One of them is firmly set on the totemMayor's mansion and it, if you liketherefore, of falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a hidden Himalayan valleybetter alternative. Sadly, and she is in Horace's visits to the form of a snow leopardmuseum, cinema, train station, playground, singing existence as she sees fit bank and protecting the Shangri-La type locationlibrary all cause mayhem. But she cannot protect it from all-comersLuckily, however, least of all when she's trying to sing to find a successorcompetition in the park reveals the perfect answer. Mergichans do not have it all their own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Saulles_Bee|title=The Cat, Bee Boy: Clash of the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf and Grandma's WardrobeKiller Queens|author=Diane Fox and Christyan FoxTony De Saulles|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Have you ever sat down Young Mel's friend has left and the beehive is now his to read look after. Unfortunately, Mel lives in a story aloud to someone tower block and found not all of his neighbours agree that they interrupt at every given opportunity, asking questions, making comments, and generally fidgeting with anything and everything? I'm sure if you've spent any time with a toddler then this will be it is the correct place for a familiar experiencehive. This story plays on that, with a cat trying, very hard, to tell a dog the story of Little Red Riding Hood. But dog can't sit still, and Things change when Mel suddenly realises he wants to know what Red's has an amazing superpower is, because if she has ; he can become a cape she must be a superhero, and he's pretty sure that Red must have zapped the wolf with her kindness ray when she met himbee...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277002</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Davidson_Night|title=Night Zookeeper: The Dance TeacherGiraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Simon Milne and Chantal StewartJoshua Davidson
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|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Miss Sylvie A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and imagination opened up for him. Will is a dance teacher to the many girls new Night Zookeeper and boys his tenure in her town. One day, a little girl called Isabelle walks through her door and says she wants to start ballet, so she joins the Saturday class. As months and then years pass, some friends come and go, and others try different forms role of dancing, but only Isabelle sticks protector to a magical world starts with ballet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743313314</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Three Little Magicians|author=Georgie Adams and Emily Bolam|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The ''Three Little Magicians'' are just that, a group of young friends who like magic and are pretty good at it, but they're nothing compared to the likes repulsion of their neighbour and magician extraordinaire, Mr Marzipan. When a mishap takes him out of the running for the important magic show at the Crystal Castle, the three friends offer their servicesdangerous invasion. But will the evil Zigzag thwart their plans and steal the prize for himself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011456</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Frances Mackay|title=Always Last (On Joshua Davidson has written about the Ball)|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Ben was always last. Last Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the bathroom in the morning, last to breakfast, last into schoolcharacter but this marks a new launch and a new series... You get the picture. These didn't worry him overly much This is not just a book but Ben's a football enthusiast whole online event with huge educational tie- ins and he was always last a push to be picked when the captains were choosing teamsget children using their own imagination. Even The story itself mirrors what the girls were picked before him and there was always a bit of grumbling when someone had author is trying to take him onto their side. But then an anonymous friend gave him some advice achieve in a letter and although Ben couldn't see how it could ''possibly'' work, he decided to give it a tryreal life; the power of the imagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781276978</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Read|title=Winnie's Big Bad RobotI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky PaulDr Seuss
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|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Winnie the Witch is something of an institution in children’s literature these days''The more that you read, and with good reason. From the very first book in the series Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul managed to capture a wonderful sense of fun, mischief and adventure. This addition to the series is no exception''<br>''The more things you will know.|amazonuk=''<amazonukbr>0192738720''The more that you learn,''</amazonukbr>}}''The more places you'll go.''
{{newreview|author=Zanib Mian and Laura Ewing Ferrer|title=Never too Small|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=There was once This is a young boy who didn't try to do things because he felt that he was too smallclassic Dr Seuss quote from this book, but he was lucky. He had a good friend and one that friend wrote him a letter to tell him that people are never too smallI painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's school library! The book is very silly, or too bigas Dr Seuss always is, or too old to try something new. There was but is also a little girl and she was afraid of the dark. It was her brother who wrote her a letter good rhyming ode to tell her that he would always be there for her. There was the boy who wouldn't try new things to eat, the young girl who was afraid of heights, a boy who was terrified about going to school and a girl who was frightened joys of spiders. They all had that special someone who took the time to write them the letter which gave them the confidence to overcome their fearsreading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956419658</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Neal_Words|authortitle=Tony Ross Words and Wendy FinneyYour Heart|titleauthor=What's My Name? (The Not So Little Princess)Kate Jane Neal
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|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=NowTrolling, I do hope bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that what I'm the adage about to tell you won't be too upsetting. The Little Princess sticks and stones is growing up and it's causing actually a problem in the palacelot of piffle. You see the little princess has always been known asIn a world where we all have hearts, well, the Little Princesswe should have a heart that what we say to other people is positive. Whilst We can examine our world and the Queen was helping to sound it makes through communication, we can make cucumber sandwiches the King was striding up each other smile, laugh, sing and downbe happy together, wearing and bit by bit the carpet out and making his shoes squeak. He had world can be a problem - a big problembetter place. Now that And hang the little princess was growing up was it really appropriate to continue calling her 'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response. There, I've given the Little Princess? There was an open secret entire plot of this book away in the palace: everyone knew the little princessmy summary, but that's ''real'' name - but no one was prepared to tell her what it wasnot really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395799</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tavares_Red|title=WolfmanRed and Lulu|author=Michael Rosen and Chris MouldMatt Tavares
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|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=People are panicking. The police are afraidMeet Red and Lulu. The army They're a committed couple of cardinals and they have run awaylived for some time in someone's garden, safely in an evergreen tree. Who or what could possibly be It seems to them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the tree thy leaves are so scary? It’s Wolf Manunchanging. And he’s on But one year, just as the loose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>seasons turn for the cold of winter, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dickens_Search|title=Danloria: The Secret Forest of Germania Search and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Gloria D GonsalvesCharles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingEmerging Readers |summary=Stan loves Recently I got to go for walks in applaud a book that branched away from the forest of Danloria, located in the seven hills of Germania. He goes with his father almost every day. One particular day, StanWhere's father is ill in bed Wally? style volume, and can't take him out. And that's when Fern appears. Stan notices taught the plant waving to him and can't help but investigate. Fern has an invitation for Stan. He wants to take him to the secret parts of the forest, to explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a party-searching. Stan has a fabulous timeWell, meeting all it seems tweaking the plants and finding out about the various ways in which they benefit humanity. The following spring, Stan form is racking his brains going to think of the perfect gift for his mother's fortieth birthday party when Fern appears again. More friends of the forest supply presents more wonderful than Stan could ever have dreamed of. A firm friendship ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1491876964</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Mine!|author=Jerome Keane and Susana de Dios|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Horse and Fox are really bored. Nothing had happened be a big thing, for ages, until the egg arrived. In this lovely book, they are forced tries yet another different approach – to try and share, but they arenteach us about a fictional story. They't particularly good ve started at it. I really love the style of this deep end, with a bookhastening towards being two centuries old, it uses boldand one that has been adapted countless times before now, different colour schemes yet always has people returning to make it instantly eye catching and engaging. The text has an immediately obvious sense at a certain time of humour whilst still managing to be simple enough the year for early readers to graspits ageless lesson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331365</amazonuk>But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Seuss_Eggs|title=Buckle and Squash and the Monstrous Moat-DragonScrambled Eggs Super|author=Sarah CourtauldDr Seuss
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|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=In this story we have two sistersPeter T. There Hooper doesn't mean to show off, but he is Eliza, who dreams of being a swashbuckling hero, whilst her sister Lavender spends her time mooning over pictures of princes, hoping to become a real princess''very'' good at cooking. One day Lavender gets kidnapped out in the forest by a rather dreadful villainSome would say he is ''The Best'' capital T, Mordmontcapital B. Will poor Lavender ever escape? Will Eliza get to be the hero? And what about these monstrous moat dragons?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447255550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lucky|author=David Mackintosh|rating=3his signature dish is scrambled eggs.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=You might think that's quite an easy dish, one with which it'Wes a little hard to showcase one're having a surprise at dinner tonights prowess, but not so. For Peter T. Mum says Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so.'' Leo super is the choice of the egg itself, and he will go out of his brother are desperate way to figure out just what procure the surprise might be. Could it be crinkly chips? A new bike? Tickets to best of the Amazing Yo-Yo Super show? Or maybe, just maybe..best from whatever nest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007463030</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=The Almost Fearless Hamilton Squidlegger|author=Timothy Basil Ering|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Little froglet Hamilton Squidlegger prides himself Move on his bravery. Armed with his wooden sword and shield, he loves to battle imaginary monsters, such as the skelecragon, bracklesneed and fire-breathing frackensnapper. Hamilton fears nothing. Nothing that is, except BEDTIME. As soon as the sun goes down he jumps from his own mud bed and clambers in with mum and dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353795</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Entertainment Reviews]]