Oh No! Or should that be "Oh NO!" Mo the Racoon is a well-meaning little fellow but try as he might, he just can't seem to get anything right!

Living at the Golden Dodo Zoo, Mo kicks his heels around as bored as bored could be. So what CAN he be good at?

In Alison Brown's latest fantastic book, we meet Mo who really only wants to be good at something - anything - but keeps messing up. Mo tries his hand at Hairdressing, to disastrous results. Mo tries to be an ice cream man, but no one's going to want to clear up the catastrophic mess left in his wake (and no flake!)

Perhaps though, Mo has hidden talents - only revealed when a sneaky and nasty burglar goes on the prowl in the zoo, looking to steal the infamous golden dodo (look out for him on every page - Charlotte absolutely LOVED spotting him and finding him and your tiddlers will too!)

Fun and energetic, with Alison's fabulous illustrations and storytelling prowess coming to the fore. Another corker of a summer read for Little Tiger Press's Reading Rocks campaign!


Charlotte's best bit: Looking out for that sneaky burglar, creeping around the zoo (and hiding in the most amusing places!)

Daddy's Favourite bit: Alison Brown makes it look SO EASY to produce such lovely books. A corker!

(Kindly sent to us for review as part of Reading Rocks Week by Little Tiger Press. Join in the fun!)

You know how much we love monster books, right? You know how much Charlotte always looks for the darkly-tinged bedtime stories (while mummy and I try desperately to steer her away from anything that will give her nightmares)? Well how about a book that, rather cleverly, works in two ways. On the one hand it does feature one mean and nasty monster who keeps invading poor Harry's lovely dreams at night, causing Harry to wake up with a squeak...

Harry and the Monster. Someone ought to give that monster a real telling off!

On the other hand it's actually a tale that should go some way to assuring kids that dreams are harmless, and the biggest scariest monster that pops into your imagination and runs gleefully around causing havoc and chaos is actually quite scared of something too.

Like all great children's picture books, there's a twist in this tale and Sue keeps us hanging on till quite near the end when the twist is revealed. Alongside Nick's fabulous art (with lots of truly gorgeous detail and such a meany monster!) this is an immensely satisfying book that ticked our 'monster book' boxes good and proper (and don't forget to look elsewhere on the blog today as we feature a mini interview with Sue and Nick, and our all time top-ten monster book recommendations!)

The evolution of a monster! Nick East's fantastic character drawings for "The Monster"

"Harry and the Monster" is available from Little Tiger Press. Please do join in with their "Reading Rocks" Campaign for the summer and keep kids reading (and loving doing so, of course!)

Charlotte's best bit: So what is it that a monster is scared of? Charlotte LOVED the twist reveal. So awesome!

Daddy's Favourite bit: We do love a good monster yarn and we particularly do love a meany monster (as long as they see the error of their ways!). A corking good read!

(Kindly sent to us for review as part of the awesome "Reading Rocks!" summer campaign by Little Tiger Press)

We really enjoyed "No!" by Tracey Corderoy and Tim Warnes. But it got us thinking. What would life be like if you could only ever answer questions with "YES!" or "NO!".

It'd be fun to do an interview with someone and just have them hold up speech bubbles that said either yes or no, so who better to interview than the tiny teeny powerhouse behind this very blog - Ladies and Gentlemen I give you Charlotte, the busiest little bookworm on the planet.

ReadItDaddy: Hello Charlotte. We're really grateful that you agreed to an interview with, er, me. So did you really enjoy "NO!" by Tracey Corderoy and Tim Warnes?


Great! So do you think Archie was a really good little rhino for most of this book?

Oh dear, but he was great at the end wasn't he once he'd discovered his new favourite word...now what was it, it's on the tip of my tongue...


Ahh of course. That was it. So this is definitely not a book to end up in the charity shop pile then?


OK. Would you like to see more adventures with Archie in them if Tracey and Tim did another Archie book?

Now I'm confused. Is that a yes or a no?


Aha! Great! So do you think I've got what it takes to be a real interviewer?


Oh poo! I thought I've found my niche at last. Anyway, thank you for the interview Charlotte. Do you think we should sneak downstairs and raid mum's secret chocolate biscuit stash now?

Awesome! Let's do it!

"No!" by Tracey Corderoy and Tim Warnes (Little Tiger Press) is out now! Thank you for joining us as part of Little Tiger Press's awesome "Reading Rocks" Summer!

Don't forget to visit the other blogs on the tour too!