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|date=July 2017

|isbn=9781776571543

|aznuk=1776571541

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I call this an investigative story, as we get by osmosis the great variety of people working in the building, and the simple moral of the scale of it and the danger of being alone in it. The book clearly has the intention of being dramatic, which it is, but also of showing us different aspects of the hospital, from the waiting rooms to the surgeons coming out of heart operations. What it isn't is a book to help a young child with worries about walking under the flashing red cross and seeing the sick and injured – this is here for entertainment and not reassurance or education in that regard. Finally, then, with the text being a well-presented font size, and with a perfectly clear simplicity (and a really great and unexpected literary in-joke for the parents), there is nothing to mark this book down for. It's quietly informative, it has an engaging scenario, and the artist's style is both distinctive and yet universally appealing. This is certainly one book to look at for the under-eights.

It's a different beast entirely, but [[The Hawk of the Castle: A Story of Medieval Falconry by Danna Smith and Bagram Ibatoulline]] had had my vote for large-format early reader of the year up til now. Now I'm split both ways.