Walker Styles’s The Case of the Missing Tiger’s Eye is a doggy detective story for 6 year olds, and it’s the very first Rider Woofson case.<\/p>\n
Rider is Pawston’s top detective, in a big city where every citizen is an animal. He wears a hat and a slightly crooked tie. His only problem is that things have been far too quiet lately.<\/p>\n
Not for long. Overnight, a priceless golden tiger with jewels for eyes vanishes from a brand-new jewellery shop. The guard dog swears he saw a shadow twenty feet tall.<\/p>\n
So Rider brings in his team. There’s Westie, who’s always building gadgets (right now it’s a jetpack made out of a vacuum cleaner). There’s Rora, a clever poodle who doesn’t believe in shadow monsters for one second. And there’s Ziggy, the youngest, who is ALWAYS hungry.<\/p>\n
Ziggy’s stomach turns out to be very handy. He slips on a banana skin at the crime scene, and it’s their first real clue.<\/p>\n
This is a lovely first mystery. The clues are there if you’re looking, and a young reader can have a go at solving it before Rider does. He explains the whole thing at the end, so nobody’s left puzzling.<\/p>\n
It’s packed with puns too. The shop owner is a cat called Mr Meow, who’s “hiss-terical” about the theft, and there’s lots more where that came from (your reader may groan, which is half the fun). There’s a big chase through a theatre and across town, with a cream pie, a motorbike and a jetpack that won’t do as it’s told.<\/p>\n
It’s short and fast, and there’s nothing very scary in it. The shadow giant sounds spooky for a page or so before the team start working out what it really is.<\/p>\n
If your reader is just starting on chapter books and loves a gang of friends solving things together, this should suit them nicely.<\/p>\n
For another animal detective, try Ra the Mighty. Ra is Pharaoh’s very lazy cat, but when a scruffy kitchen cat begs him to help a servant girl accused of stealing an amulet, he has to get up from beside the pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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