Synopsis:  How is Clinky Monkey, the stray with the diamond collar, connected to the kidnapped boy Timothy Potts-Smythe? Why does the butler tie? Why does the ransom note stink so? Who is hiding in the zoo? Three brothers have a hilarious adventure solving the mysteries.

Review: Just the adventure any Key Stage 1 reader would like to have, involving animals, baddies, ...

Synopsis: Alice's brother Oliver is a terrible loser, and Alice has been losing to him all her life. But one day she beats him at the Alphabet Game, sets a world record, and wins a special prize - but Oliver doesn't take it well...

Review: A simple, short story about a typical family, in which we meet toddler Rosie, who blames her favourite toy for everything naught ...

Synopsis: Olivia has lost her favourite toy and she is furious. She looks everywhere for him and has a dreadful tantrum but when she eventually finds him the dog has been there first.

Review: Just like many children Olivia has a favourite toy. When she discovers he is missing she goes on a frantic search all around the house, screaming at everyone as she does so. Eventually ...

Synopsis: The Wolf family live in a smelly, dirty cave in a far away place. Mum and Dad send Little Wolf and his littler brother Smellybreff out to catch dinner. They don’t have much success until they decide to play ‘What’s the time?’ with the mice and rabbits in the woods.

Review: The Wolf family are all bad except for Little wolf tries his ‘ ...

Synopsis: Sylvie loves to swim, although she can't quite do it on her own yet. She goes every Saturday with her mum and baby brother. One Saturday the big children are splashing and being noisy and Sylvie gets put off. But when she visits the aquarium and sees the baby seahorses swimming as soon as they are born, she is more determined than ever to get it right!

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Synopsis: When a rich little boy disappears from his luxurious home, his parent and neighbours are frantic with worry. But three local children get special help from his dog, and follow a series of unexpected clues to find him in a most unlikely spot!

Review: This is a tale of a lost dog, a missing boy and a stake out in a zoo. The dog in a diamond collar appears in the gar ...

Synopsis: Would you like to have an ostrich for a pet? Ross has big problems when one turns up in the school playground. How can he save her from the men in black who want to kill her? And why is Katie stuck in the boys' toilets?

Review: Mad Iris, who escaped from an Ostrich Farm, is the mascot of Pudding Lane Primary. When she goes missing before a vital football match ...

Synopsis: Illustrated in two colours, this reader uses different media - posters, letters, signs, alphabetti spaghetti - to tell a story about a young girl who loves signs so much that when she grows up she starts her own sign-making business.

Review: One of the Walker ‘Starters’ series this book is aimed at ‘newly confident’ readers. Alpha Betty lo ...

Synopsis: What do Egg and Bird do? What is their relationship? What will Egg become?

Review:This is one of those deceptively simple little books that tells us much more than at first appears. ‘Egg is Egg. Bird is Bird.’ we are told, and the most basic of illustrations shows us how they independently spend their days. Although nothing is said or shown to ...

Synopsis: Max and Maddy are the children of world-famous detectives. But when a team of highly-trained St Bernard dogs begin robbing Swiss banks, it is the children who must fly to Switzerland and solve the mystery.

Review: Bloomsbury has recently reissued a selection of Alexander McCall Smith’s children’s books, with the original awful covers, in an attempt to ...