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|author=Dr Seuss
|title=Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Going back and revisiting characters once an author has died is not always the best idea, too often the result smacks of a cash in that does not have any of the charm of the original. However, revisiting lesser works by the author is a different thing. If a fan has all the writer's books, but never managed to get their hands on their obscure short stories or tales written for magazines, a new collection may just work. Even for as eccentric an author as Dr Seuss.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008131279</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author= Matt Griffin
|summary=And so we're back with Ruby and Charlie, in war-torn China in the late 1920s. Without giving anything of [[Ghosts of Shanghai by Julian Sedgwick|the first book]] away, a rescue mission is needed, and the help Ruby has had in the spirit world may well not appear. Charlie knows who would help – the Communists, but for Ruby, even though she was born in China she's definitely an outsider, an alien. With their quarry sailing off upstream amidst a storm of warfare, the friends have to take to the Yangtze waterways in pursuit – but just as in every corner of the mysterious city they're leaving, things quite strange to them will be appearing – shadow warriors, weaponised trains and ghost ships amongst them…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444924494</amazonuk>
}}