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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon RenttaNigel Baines|title=A Day at the Animal Post OfficeTricky Kind of Magic|rating=34.5

|summary= Some people love their work and I have Cooper loves to say that I enjoy mineperform magic tricks. His father was a magician, but give me and named Cooper after the option of winning the Euro Millions great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and spending the rest of my days drinking Pina Coladas on a superyachtnow Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or the office, and I choose the beachhow to be. For children there is sometimes a glamour that emanates from the working week; And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what tales of majesty can Bob the Builder tell me? The fact is that work can be dull at times and repetitive, but a book written for children about gainful employment should make it sound fun?'s going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407162543</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clara Vulliamy Jane Lightbourne|title=Dotty Detective My Cat Called Red|rating=4

|summary=Dorothy Constance Mae Louise, otherwise known as Dot, Robin has just moved house and has had to change schoolsred hair. Luckily she soon finds a friend, BeansHe hates it, and together they form the top-secret freckles that go along with it. He'Join the Dots Detectives'. Both Dot s been bullied and Beans are huge fans mocked at school because of the TV programme it. 'Fred Fantastic – Ace Detective'. TheyGinger Minger! Carrots!'ve watched every episode and memorised all Fred's techniquesKids are mean. It But red hair is not Robin's just as well they have because their classmate Laura has hatched a plot to prevent shy Amy singing only misery in the talent contest and itlife. He's up already lost his dad to Dot a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and Beans to uncover the planis taken into hospital. She doesn't come home again. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008132496</amazonuk>1838216812

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elli Woollard Francesca Simon and Steve May|title=The Secret Pirate (Swashbuckle Lil: The Secret Pirate) Two Terrible Vikings

|summary=''OhIn a small Viking village there live two twins, The Places You'll Go'' is Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the classic Dr Seuss tale of one man's journey through a bizarre land. very worst Vikings ever! The book takes you on Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a trip into the imagination of an author who was never shy of the bizarre. You will sail high into the sky in birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a hot air balloon troll, and walk through strange forests undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with trees that you have never seen. their friends! One thing is for sureThey get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, this will not be a dull outing and if you are new to Dr Seuss, one you may never forgettheir crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008122113</amazonuk>0571349498

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pip Jones1838593187|title=Squishy McFluff: Seaside RescueGuess What I Found in the Playground! |author=Victoria Thompson

|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse For Sharing|summary= Ava and her invisible cat – Squishy McFluff – are off to the seaside for their latest adventure togetherTilly is excited. They have great fun digging in She's just come dashing out of the sand towards Australia classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and sitting a big grin on the beach eating ice cream. (Although the adults who fall in their hole and the ice cream man may not share their enthusiasmher face.) Everything is purr-fect until invisible cat Squishy decides to chase an invisible fish. Now it Dad's up come to Ava to stage a collect her and her brother and he ''has'seaside rescue'…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571320686</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Posy Simmonds|title= Lulu and to try to guess what she found in the Chocolate Wedding|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Unusualplayground today, quirky children's books can be hit or missalthough she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but this one is a definite hit. Told in cartoon strip form, with illustrations reminiscent of the brilliant ''Raymond Briggsobviously'', it mixes the real world with dreamy fantasies that 's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a touch scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of [[Aliceother things in her pocket, but that's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Sir John Tenniel]] not what she wants Dad to themguess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344407X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Swapna Haddow Innosanto Nagara|title=Dave Pigeon M is for Movement

|summary=A long time ago Set in a galaxy farIndonesia, far away… Wellin the not too distant past, ours, last year, really… this is a story about social change. A film came along that seriously impressed lots of mature audience members who had very valid reasons to doubt itDealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and that made goggle-eyed popcorn munchers of a lot of youngstersnepotism, the book is neither boring nor preachy. It had rollicking spacecraft dog-fightseducates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and it had emotional revisits for well-loved charactersportrays how social movements need people who will try, and had a sting in its tail even when it seems that lasted at least a couple of days before being leaked to the wider worldthey will fail. I know there The message is a DVD and Blu-Ray of it coming within days of me writing thispositive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, but I can only assume the reason the junior books about we do still have the film are being released now and not in time with its cinematic release is down power to the chatter of the young and their rampant ability to say what they shouldn't – which includes what happens about eighteen pages before the end of the story hereinstigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405284021</amazonuk>1609809351

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katrina Pallant and Robert Ball1949471004|title=Star Wars Bounty HuntDog on a Log Chapter Books: Lift the FlapStep 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=34|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=If What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to give credit to achieve the Star Wars universe for anythingwonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, beyond sheer entertainment, it may be the way it makes such great store of putting evil characters to but the fore. They're often the more memorable for being sounds in tune with the dark side of book might not be the Force, and even if weones you're not meaning full-ve been working on Darth Vader or the like we're talking about Hutts, bounty hunters and sheer nasty people as the focus encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the storiesyoung dyslexic than a child without that problem. All in all the good guys will win the dayYou need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, but without anything else being thrown into the baddies have a heck of a lot more attention given them than in some franchisesmix. And such is You need a story which engages the case here, where we have a small episode in young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the life of devious learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and dogged bounty hunter Bosskgames wouldn't go amiss, who was in films 5 either. Reading - and 6 and the Clone Wars animation, but isn't generally well'learning'' to read -known on the streetshould be a pleasure. Or in the nursery school, for this is seriously geared at the younger end of the SW audienceIt should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405279907</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T Smith099334030X|title=Claude Going for Gold!Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=IYou've been re going to get a fan hint of Claude from the beginningwhat this book's about very quickly. He charmed me from When you see the starttitle page, with his plump tummy, little legs, red jumper you'll find out what the book's called and rather fetching beretthat it's been written by Peter Lynas. I can't help but love a dog Then we move on to who wears a beret! He also has done the illustration - and there's a charming best friend, Sir Bobblysock, (who is indeed a woolly sock) who always makes me laughgap. In this particular book they ''You'' are off on another hunt for an adventure, and although it seems for a while that going to put your name there is simply no fun . It's ''your'' responsibility to be had outside provide the pictures for this book about one of the house they finally falllargest creatures ever to roam the earth. There's some help available, literally, into a Very Exciting Sports Competitionbut your name is on the title page - and you have work to do!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926489</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H Shepard1609809335|title=Eeyore Loses a Tail The Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (Winnie the Pooh Classicstranslator)|rating=4.52|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Eeyore, the Old Grey Donkey stood One day a giant lizard appears in the thistly corner of the forest and thought about thingscity. He was quite a philosopher in his own way, but his most profound thought occured when Winnie-the-Pooh came along and enquired as to how he was. We don''Not very t even get told how''it arrived, he saidbut it certainly appeared. ''I donPeople took against it, and if they weren't seem to have felt at all how for shrugging it off as a long timehallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281359</amazonuk> Can something be done about it, though?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Polly Faber and Clara Vulliamy 1789016320|title= Mango Tadcaster and Bambang: Tapir All At Seathe Bullies|author=Richard Rutherford|rating= 54|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Mango is In some ways it was a sensiblegentler time: video games were around, resourceful little girl who is good at a great many things including playing the clarinet but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. They flew kites and karatewent sledging if there was snow around. Most importantly she Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is good at being kind, especially to her best friend, Bambang, a slightly timid Malaysian tapir. In this second book probably set in the series Bambang learns to become a little bravernineteen seventies. He has to really Something which hasn't changed, as he becomes involved in a series of daring escapades involving dancing classesunfortunately, a diamond ring, time spent behind bars is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and a particularly dangerous enemyMary but for other children who gather in the playground. Throughout all of this Bambang is accompanied by Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his faithful friendyounger sister, Mango. Sometimeswho's two years younger than him, even but he's not yet at the closest friendship may be taken for grantedstage where he knows how to deal with bullies. Will Bambang remember what matters most?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140636147X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Griffiths and Janette LoudenB01N0OZQOD|title=The Dog with No NameNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Ella and Harry had been nagging their parents Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. That''forever'' about getting a dogs what dragons are for, but it wasnafter all. But Gwendolyn isn't until after any princess. She finds the death of the goldfish 'whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on 'and'The Late Knight Show' the Russian hamster, which they'd only seen five times because it was nocturnal, that their parents relented. Off they went to the dog rescue centre and after what seemed like 'Nickerbacher likes 'ages'The Late Knight Show' and lots of red tape they had their very own dog. He'd not been too - in the centre long and had no name but the whole family fell for him and brought him home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908702249</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenny Colgan|title=Polly and the Puffin|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Polly was in bed when there was LOUD bang from downstairs. It wasnfact, it't the storm which was raging outside. It wasn't a monster or an alien from outer space. It was a puffin who had crashed through the front door and s his favourite TV show because he had wants to be a broken wingstand-up comedian himself. Polly's mummy got the first aid kit He tries out whilst Polly went to get the puffin some food and the next day they went to see the vet. By then Polly had decided that the puffin would be called Neil and the vet asked her if she would be able to look after Neil until his wing was better, jokes on the strict understanding that he would then have to return to the wildPrincess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349131902</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Beck0008265836|title=Grey Island Red BoatRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Princess Opal lived with her fatherTen-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, the kingthen, on the Island Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of Ashesideas. It was This is just as well as they soon discover a grey island, set in a grey sea very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and Opal lived is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in a grey castle surrounded by a cold grey moatdanger. The gardens were grey It's up to Rory and so were Cassidy to uncover the trees truth and flowers. Princess Opal even sat on save a grey granite throne in a grey granite room - and she wished that her life could be different. She couldn't help but think that something was missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112521X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Sam Usher0192758748|title=We Are Not FROGS!Horace & Harriet Take on the Town|author=Clare Elsom

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=After When Harriet, aged seven and a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the storm Park on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't believe her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the frogs Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and the toads climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all came out onto around the lawn to play long jumptown as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. This was His sights are firmly set on the frogsMayor' choice as they could jump further s mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to the toads just wanted an easy life. But - through a series of unfortunate incidents involving lorriesmuseum, cinema, dogstrain station, childrenplayground, a cart bank and an ice cream containerlibrary all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, first the toads ended up in the ice cream container and after they sold the frogs down the river in exchange for being put into a muddy ditch, the frogs - all twenty two of them - were competition in the same prison and it was only thanks to Mutt park reveals the dog that they escapedperfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125120</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Holly WebbSaulles_Bee|title= Sammy Bee Boy: Clash of the Shy KittenKiller Queens|author=Tony De Saulles|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= An adorablyYoung Mel's friend has left and the beehive is now his to look after. Unfortunately, warm and cute story about what happens when Emma falls Mel lives in love with a tiny sweet feral kitten whom she names Sammy. To persuade Mum tower block and Dad to let her keep him she must learn not all she of his neighbours agree that it is the correct place for a hive. Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can about taming wild kittens – and, of course, win little Sammy's confidence and trustbecome a bee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156487</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Hamilton Davidson_Night|title=Unicorn in New YorkNight Zookeeper: Louie Lets Loose! The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson|rating=45

|summary=Louie's parents are worried when Louie announces he wants to leave home to enrol at the New York School A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of Performing Arts. He's creativity and has a unicorn world of magic and they can't believe he'll be happy without imagination opened up for him. Will is the sunlit meadows, enchanted waterfalls new Night Zookeeper and beautiful maidens of Story Land. But, like all good parents, they accept that Louie must make his own way tenure in the role of protector to a magical worldstarts with the repulsion of a dangerous invasion. Luckily Louie always looks for  Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the positive in life – character but this marks a new launch and a new series. This is not just a book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a skill that's going push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what the author is trying to prove essential when he arrives achieve in New Yorkreal life; the power of the imagination makes everything better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192744976</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang and Yu Yan Chen (translator)Seuss_Read|title=Mr Horton's ViolinI Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Mr Horton''The more that you read,''<br>''The more things you will know. He ''<br>''The more that you learn,''<br>''The more places you'll go.'' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of the worldmy children's most famous and rich musical instrument playersschool library! The book is very silly, and has done it all – exceptas Dr Seuss always is, that but is, stumble on also a music tree. You have good rhyming ode to stumble on them, for not carpenters, not sculptors, not even simple woodsmen would give them a second look and think of them as anything special. But when Mr Horton does find one he is able to fashion the best, most magical violin imaginable out joys of its woodreading. The only problem after that is working out who deserves to play it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215459</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neal_Words|title=Wenhua Wang, Amann Wang Words and Yu Yan Chen (translator)Your Heart|titleauthor=The Chief CellistKate Jane Neal

|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Meet the Chief. A new cellist in a quite horrible orchestraTrolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, he has suddenly turned their fortunes whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and his – roundstones is actually a lot of piffle. He is now In a superstarworld where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to other people is positive. We can examine our world and asking for more the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and more grandeur be happy together, and help bit by bit the world can be a better place. And hang the 'no, after you' attitude some people would have in his liferesponse. But one nightThere, when his chauffeur doesnI't turn up for him after yet one more sterling performanceve given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, he finds himself alone in a world but that doesn't care how good a cellist he is, but one where destiny might just depend on him learning the power of teamwork…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215440</amazonuk>s not really an issue.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tavares_Red|title=Chris Judge Red and Andrew JudgeLulu|titleauthor=Create Your Own Alien AdventureMatt Tavares|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Choose Your Own Adventure books were massive during the 80sMeet Red and Lulu. They allowed the young reader to pick up 're a book committed couple of cardinals and be the hero; your choices determined if you live or die. Invariablythey have lived for some time in someone's garden, it was a game of leaving your finger safely in the previous page an evergreen tree. It seems to make sure you could skip back should them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the fate that befell you not be to your likingtree thy leaves are so unchanging. WellBut one year, its 2016 and just choosing your adventure is no longer enoughas the seasons turn for the cold of winter, we want to interact even more with the storytree vanishes, we want to create our own adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407158090</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dickens_Search|title=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Search and Eng Gee FanFind A Christmas Carol|titleauthor=Little PeopleCharles Dickens, Big Dreams: Frida KahloSarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=43.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico. When she was Recently I got to applaud a young schoolgirl she contracted polio book that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, and was left with taught the explorer about a leg which was ''skinny non-fiction subject as they went a rake''-searching. Well, but she bore it seems tweaking the problem stoically and in some ways delighted in being form is going to be a big thing, for this book tries yet another different. Then one day Frida was in a bus which crashed into approach – to teach us about a carfictional story. She was badly injured and even when she was over They've started at the worst she still had to rest in bed deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and filled the time by drawing picturesone that has been adapted countless times before now, including a self portrait. Eventually she showed her pictures yet always has people returning to it at a famous artist - Diego Rivera - who liked certain time of the pictures, ''and'' Fridayear for its ageless lesson. They married and Rivera encouraged Frida's painting. She exhibitedBut does the rich content of Dickens, eventually in New Yorkeven at his most populist, to great acclaim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>survive this quirky variation?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Ana AlberoSeuss_Eggs|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Coco Chanel|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Gabrielle Chanel lived in an orphanage in a French town and after the death of her mother she went to a strict convent school. The fact that she was ''different'' didn't make her life ''easy'', but there were early indications that she was going to be a seamstress. After she left school she sewed by day and sang by night and it was as she sang that she gained her nickname - ''Coco'' - which came from the soldiers in the audience. But her dream was designing clothes and the first step was designing and making hats: this led to her opening a hat shop. One evening, at a party she realised that a lot of the women weren't dancing: their corsets were so tight that they could hardly breathe and it was this that prompted Coco to create a new style. Her clothes were simple, straight and comfortable to wear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807712</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewScrambled Eggs Super|author=Terry Deary|title=Ghost for SaleDr Seuss

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=When Mr and Mrs Rundle see an advert in the paper for a wardrobe for salePeter T. Hooper doesn't mean to show off, complete with ghost, Mrs Rundle decides that they absolutely but he is ''very''mustgood at cooking. Some would say he is '' have it! They own The Dog and Duck Inn and Mrs Rundle feels Best'' capital T, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that addition of 's quite an easy dish, one with which it's a ghost will add interest little hard to their Inn and bring them customshowcase one's prowess, but not so. For Peter T. The arrival Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of the wardrobe certainly shakes things up for egg itself, and he will go out of his way to procure the Rundles, though perhaps not in best of the way they'd imagined!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112518X</amazonuk>best from whatever nest.