Alex Milway’s Hotel Flamingo is a sunny, funny story for 7 year olds about a crumbling seaside hotel where a bear works the door and the guests are all animals.<\/p>\n
Anna Dupont steps out of a taxi and sees the hotel she’s just been left in a will. The paint is peeling, the revolving door is broken and the lobby smells of mouldy old socks (with a hint of lemon).<\/p>\n
There are two staff left. T. Bear is the doorman, with a tiny red hat sitting between his ears. Lemmy the lemur is dozing at the front desk. Neither has been paid, and there hasn’t been a guest for three years. They’ve stayed because it’s home.<\/p>\n
So Anna hands out the mops and dusters. What follows is a lovely run of problems and fixes. A very old tortoise comes down in the lift, having hibernated in room 202 the whole time. (She owes three years of bills, which is rather handy.) New staff arrive, including a giraffe who’s good with a hammer, a hippo who sneezes at dust and a chef called Madame Le Pig who must NOT be disturbed.<\/p>\n
Then come the guests, and that’s where the fun is. No two animals want the same thing and Anna hasn’t a clue what any of them need. Flamingos don’t want beds. They sleep standing up and they’d like a pool, please. A party of cockroaches shares one room and it takes four of them to carry the key. Can you get a litter tray on room service? The cat in the raincoat certainly expects one.<\/p>\n
Up on the hill sits the Glitz, the big shiny hotel that pinched everyone’s guests in the first place. The Glitz turns cockroaches away. Anna’s rule is that everyone is welcome.<\/p>\n
It’s a warm, busy book to read. Anna is bossy in the nicest way, and she isn’t always sure of herself. At one point she flops into a chair and admits she’s out of her depth. Then a guest she’s been kind to offers to help. That happens a lot here!<\/p>\n
If your reader likes animals with jobs and a plan coming together, this is an easy one to say yes to. It’s the first Hotel Flamingo book.<\/p>\n
For another stay, try Hotel Flamingo: Carnival Caper. Anna and her staff have one week to build a carnival float, and six parrots have just asked for a pole instead of beds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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