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|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)
|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His Heart
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Tortot. He's a camp chef for an army, with a cold heart – he sheds no tears, or at least as much as does a fish – and a brilliant way of gauging the warfare going on around him. The book even starts with him crossing the battlefield to start work for the enemy the night before they turn the tables on his previous employers and defeat them, leaving Tortot on the winning side once more. But now he's not alone – for he has managed to also inherit an assistant, who lives in a barrel of the Emperors' favourite and most important gherkins…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jessica Townsend
|summary=It's not enough these days, you know, to have just one franchise. No, you have to match it with another. You have to mash ''Doctor Who'' with the ''Mister Men''. You need zombies in your [[Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith|Pride and Prejudice]] (don't laugh, the book was much better than the film). Batman has to have a Lego equivalent (and don't laugh, for the film was awfully unfunny). Even when you're a Disneyfied, new-film-every-year-like-it-or-not behemoth like ''Star Wars'', you need some secondary property to latch on to. Hence this, which as the title suggests, is the second book asking you to find the Wookie in the Wally/Waldo-esque scenes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284188</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Dodie Smith, Peter Bently and Steven Lenton
|title=The Hundred and One Dalmatians
|rating=5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=A dog is for life, not just for Christmas, as we were constantly told when I was young – I dare say people are still saying it, but it was quite prevalent way back then. I'm sure many people reading this will know that the Dearlys end up with 101 Dalmatians for Christmas themselves, and it must be debatable whether they stayed in the same house as them all come the new year. But what is beyond doubt is that the getting of so many cute pups was full of drama – drama that fills this young reader to bursting, and drama that comes in illustrations like these with no end of charm.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281669</amazonuk>
}}