Riddell, Chris. 2008. Ottoline and the Yellow Cat. HarperCollins. 171 pages.
This one is short. Very short. At least if you're an adult reading it! I finished it in about thirty minutes. Which reminds me, if I was eight and needing a book to write a report on or give a report on...I so would have chosen something like this! Because there are illustrations here, there, and everywhere. Some pages are mainly illustrations with only a few sentences. (In other words, this is a book Alice would have wanted to read too!)
Anyway, Ottoline is our heroine. She lives with Mr. Monroe, a hairy little guy from a bog. (Her parents travel the world and aren't in the picture much except for sending her postcards every now and then.) The book is a funny mystery. It's the start of a series too. So this one has many different reasons why it could be an appealing choice for young readers in the mid-elementary grades.
© Becky Laney of Young Readers
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