Precious e le scimmie

5★“One thing, you see, does not always lead to another. That is something all detectives learn very early in their career, and Precious had already learned it, and she was only seven.” What a delightful short audio experience this was! I didn’t know that there were children’s books about the very spe Leggi tutto

The Great Cake Mystery introduces young readers to the lovely setting of Botswana and a precocious young girl named Precious who likes to figure things out. Although she thinks it may be many years before she’ll have a mystery to solve, it turns out that someone in her school is eating people’s snac Leggi tutto

Alexander McCall Smith, creator of the popular No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, about a woman detective in Botswana, turns to the childhood of his popular character, Precious Ramotswe, in this first beginning chapter-book adventure. An observant child with a kind heart, Precious decides fr

There was once a time, best beloved, when the early chapter book section of your local lending library was a veritable wasteland of white characters. Oh, every once in a while you might be able to get your hands on Stories Julian Tells or My Name is Maria Isabel but by and large they were it, man. T Leggi tutto

A cute, easy middle-grades introduction to the main character of The #1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. The story is sweet, with a lesson about kindness built into it. I especially enjoyed the fantastic illustrations by Iain McIntosh and the helpful name pronunciations.

This is a cute mystery story for young children. It advocates values like honesty and kindness through the experiences of likable and believable characters.