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Detective Gordon. A case for Buffy

August 9, 2018 by mstuart720

Ulf Nilsson Gitte Spee Gecko Press ISBN 9781776571796 RRP $15.99 Ages 7 – 9 Date of publication August 2018 This is essentially a detective story but it is full of gentle characters who are wise, gentle and caring. Many of them we have met before in “The first case” and “A case in any case”. The books are well written and beautifully presented. The illustrations, the colours and even the paper they are printed on all contribute to making this book […]

Categories: Children's Books, Gecko Press, humour, Junior Novel, Miscellaneous, Reviewer - Megan Stuart, Series • Tags: Children, Detective Stories, Gecko Press, humour, Junior Novel, Reviewer - Megan Stuart

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Timmy Failure Now Look What You’ve Done

April 15, 2014 by kyliecalwell

Stephen Pastis Candlewick Press Timmy Failure bk 2 ISBN: 9781406356342 RRP: $17.95 Age: 7+ Key Words: Humour, School Stories, Detective Stories Published: 25th Feb 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Timmy Failure believes himself to be the greatest detective ever and he is going to solve the biggest problem of the missing globe. There are many things he has to contend with along the way : a very lazy partner, a best friend with an abnormal interest in learning an arch nemesis who […]

Categories: Junior Novel, Middle Grade • Tags: Detective Stories, humour, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell, School Stories, Stephan Pastis, Timmy Failure

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Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

April 10, 2013 by kyliecalwell

Stephan Pastis Walker Books ISBN:  9781406339819 RRP: $26.99 Age:  8+ Key Words: Detective Story, Humour Published: 28th Feb 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Timmy Failure is a private detective, with a polar bear called Total who is his business partner, this of course does not make for a very good business name ‘Total Failure’. Timmy has several cases on the go at once;  missing candy, who TP’d someones house and what happened to the Failuremobile? There is also of course his greatest rival […]

Categories: Middle Grade • Tags: 8+ years, Detective Stories, humour, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell, Stephan Pastis, Walker Books

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