Elephant Trouble
Written by Karen Hinge
Illustrated by Roger Twiname
Publisher: Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd
ISBN 13: 978-1-86978-026-5
Summary/Back cover:
Rosie and David love to visit the zoo. Their favourite animals are the elephants, Kashin and Burma.
One day they visit and find that Burma has gone missing! David suggests she’s in disguise, sneakily tiptoeing around the zoo to stay out of sight!
David and Rosie ask one giraffe, two hippos, three lions, four goats, five meerkats, six seals, seven wallabies, eight parrots and nine monkeys if they can tell them Burma’s whereabouts.
Roger Twiname’s true-to-life illustrations are a wonderful way to introduce children to animals at the zoo, and Karen Hinge’s carefully crafted text will have readers counting the animals as well as trying to figure out the mystery of the missing elephant.
Review:
Having recently visited the Auckland Zoo I wondered why the zebra/giraffe enclosure looked so familiar, before realising this was a New Zealand-produced book. I would expect that in real life if an elephant escaped its enclosure the zoo would be evacuated, as opposed to children being left to wander around searching for the missing animal. Reality aside, it’s not a bad book, but I think the age ratings on the back (reading together: 3+, reading alone: 5+) are probably worth adhering to. I felt it was a bit too wordy to hold the interest of my two year old children.
My rating: 3.5 out of 5
Review written by team_s
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