What’s In Store? by Pippa Goodhart and Joelle Dreidemy (Egmont, £10.99) (From The Northern Echo)

What’s In Store? by Pippa Goodhart and Joelle Dreidemy (Egmont, £10.99)

11:50am Saturday 22nd August 2009 in Children's By Jenny Needham, Features Editor

USING a similar, but slightly more sophisticated idea, this entertaining book follows Jo-Jo on a shopping expedition for her birthday party. But when she arrives at the department store with her family, she’s surrounded by all sorts of weird and wonderful fellow shoppers including a child-eating witch, Santa and a pair of wicked pirates. Again, the reader is invited to study the busy pictures to spot all the characters, and there are plenty of visual jokes just right for a newly-developing sense of humour. (Age 4+)