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It's a strong series opener, with no padding and flannel to get us up to speed – as I say we're straight in to high drama from page one. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Walker Books) Bonnie’s visit to the Hornville with Gramps is full of curiosities and lemon sherbets.
They would also only drop off a case of books and leave us to run it – it was so lovely to have you on hand to chat to the children and recommend them books, as well as the small (but appreciated! Bonnie and Grampa Banks are faced with new challenges of how this murder could have happened because the door had been locked from the inside. Sounds like the world’s best detective needs to make an appearance and discover what happened and who the murderer/thief is. When a dead body and an empty display case are discovered, in a room which is locked from the inside, Monsieur Bonbon springs into action: taking notes, collecting clues and investigating suspects. In this story, Bonnie’s visit to the local museum of curiosities is somewhat interrupted by he small matter of a murder, and the theft of the most famous exhibit: the Widdlington Eagle.
With lovely black-and white illustrations throughout, this is the perfect cosy mystery to tuck into.
Perfect for confident readers in Year 4 upwards, it’s really lovely to see a book with so many pictures in it aimed at the top end of primary school; this, coupled with the book’s relatively short length of 304 pages, will make this a really tempting read for many young readers.In a nice little twist for the young audience, we don't have a child detective solving the crimes here, we have a child disguised as an adult (Poirot-like?