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Where's the Meerkat? Journey Through Time by Paul Moran (view source)
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|summary=A kind of history primer courtesy of the meerkats that don't sell insurance – they just get lost, ready for you to find in detailed double-page spread images.
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|prize=a copy of ''Where's the Meerkat? Journey Through Time'' by Paul Moran
|text=Three people will each win a copy of this hardback book. For your chance to win just answer the following question:
To which family of animals do meerkats belong?
|date=19 December 2012
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It seems that one way for creators to keep kids poring over the pages of their books is to do what the people behind this have done – take most of the words out. There are a few hundred, giving us some brief story about a bunch of meerkats using a time machine, partly by accident, and therefore visiting several different major historical points in time, but one can ignore them, for it is the artwork that one has to scour for ten meerkats, a squirrel and a hawk. And that search is what is going to keep the young of all ages engaged in for quite some time…