Book Synopsis:
Bertie the Buffalo is based on a true story of when a Water Buffalo escaped from a Buffalo Park in Fife, near Dundee, Scotland.
A rhyming book about the adventures Bertie got up to and how he safely returned home, demonstrating how important each of us is no matter how insignificant we feel.
Bertie felt that no one noticed him. But he didn’t need to think that as we are all special. We are all a part of one big family.
Bertie The Buffalo is published in paperback on the 16th November, pre-order your copy here.
My Review:
Bertie the Buffalo is a wonderful children’s story about a very cute buffalo that my kid’s absolutely loved. It has taken pride of place in my daughter’s book shelf and she has asked for it as her bedtime story the last three nights, so I think I will soon know it off by heart!
The book is beautifully illustrated with lovely bright illustrations that help bring the story to life and helped keep my kids interest. They enjoyed looking at them and finding out all the smaller details that were included, like rabbits etc. My six year old liked reading the small speech bubbles on each page too which helped boast his reading confidence.
The story is very easy to follow and the lovely rhyming words are always a huge hit with my children. Rhyming stories help children with their reading as it helps them to pick up sounds within words so, as well as being a great story, it is also educational!
There is a lovely message to this story about how everyone is special no matter how small. My six year old had a different slant on it that kids were able to have adventures knowing that they always had a safe place to go which I thought was really lovely. He also said that the ending was his favourite bit as Bertie got home safely to his family.
Huge thanks to Kelly from Love Books Tours for inviting me onto the blog tour and to the Publisher for our copy of this book.
About The Author:
Award Winning Author Wendy H. Jones lives in Scotland, and her police procedural series featuring Detective Inspector Shona McKenzie, is set in the beautiful city of Dundee, Scotland. Wendy has led a varied and adventurous life. Her love for adventure led to her joining the Royal Navy to undertake nurse training. After six years in the Navy she joined the Army where she served as an Officer for a further 17 years. This took her all over the world including Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. Much of her spare time is now spent travelling around the UK, and lands much further afield. As well as nursing Wendy also worked for many years in Academia. This led to publication in academic textbooks and journals. Killer’s Countdown is her first novel and the first book in the Shona McKenzie Mystery series. Killer’s Crew won the Books Go Social Book of the Year 2107. There are now six books in this series with Killer’s Crypt being released in August, 2017. The Dagger’s Curse is the first book in The Fergus and Flora Mysteries for Young Adults. This book is currently shortlisted for the Woman Alive Magazine Readers Choice Award Book of the Year. She is also a highly successful marketer and she shares her methods in the book, Power Packed Book Marketing.
She is currently writing a new series called, Cass Claymore Investigates. The first book. Antiques and Alibis will be released in January
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