Thank you to the publishers for this early review copy. If you know me well you know I generally don’t read celebrity books but I decided to make an exception for Jamie Oliver.
I started this book really hoping it would simply be a fun read and yes I did expect plenty food references.

So firstly, I would suggest you prepare a picnic before you start to read it – I was just in need of food / snacks the entire time.

It is set out in a way that it is a bedtime time story for children being made up by the parent over if I remember correctly 3 nights.
I found this book to be full of fun, friendship, family, food, imagination and adventure. Enough danger to keep the pages turning while very much focusing on friendship and I loved the ending, it melted my heart. The promise of more to come turning this in to a series is good news for everyone who loves this first book. I would certainly be happy to see where the adventure takes us next.

I would have loved the brilliant illustrations to be colour – I know costs and everything but I just thought they were fantastic and the environment of the story could have come to life even more with colour.

(There is a bully in the story and the part with the photograph made me feel a little uncomfortable.)

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