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|title=Amazing Esme

|author=Tamara Macfarlane

|publisher=Hodder Children's Books

|date=May 2013

|website=http://amazingesme.com/

|summary=A fun-filled story with everything young readers enjoy: excitement, animals, humour and an unusual but appealing heroine. This is perfect for children just starting chapter books.

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Esme leaves behind her circus home for the first time to spend the summer with her cousins Magnus, Cosmo and Gus at Maclinkey Castle and discovers that it is not quite as she expected. It is very easy to get lost inside the castle and all sorts of weird and wonderful animals can be found in unlikely places. The children are cared for by Mrs Larder the housekeeper who allows delights such as a ''bad-mannered tea party''. Despite the fun and laughter Esme misses her dear friend Donk, a loveable half donkey- half horse until one day a mysterious parcel arrives for her. It is then that the adventures really begin.