Ottoline and the Yellow Cat (Ottoline, 1)

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Ma seems to know that Ottoline got a diploma and that the Bear is now living with them in Apartment 243. At the end the pets decided they wanted to actually keep their owner and the yellow cat was put into prison. My favourite character was Mr Munroe because he had long hair down to his toes and he didn't like the rain and didn't like brushing his hair.

Yellow Cat was finally caught at the end of the book, after trying to steal from Ottoline's parents. I think I'd have liked the storytelling itself to have had a more engaging voice to it, as some pages felt a little bland. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award [1] and the Red House Children's Book Award for Younger Readers. Winner of the Nestle Prize, and crammed with black-and-white illustrations, Ottoline and the Yellow Cat is perfect for young and reluctant readers. I read this with my daughter and we really enjoyed the quirky storyline and Riddell’s unique style of illustration.

Ottoline (who luckily has a diploma from the Who-R-U Academy of Disguise) and Mr Munroe go undercover - and expose an ingenious scam masterminded by furry feline crook, the Yellow Cat.

So, they are the first to the scene of the crime when a string of high society dog-nappings and jewel thefts hits Big City.

It is hinted in Ottoline's parent's letter that the Bear lives with Ottoline and Mr Munroe after being found. Ottoline is good at solving mysteries, in part due to her eavesdropping habit and in part because of her qualification as a mistress of disguise. Together they look after the Brown family's eclectic collections - and dabble in a spot of detective work. But the students were able to pick up on the different proportions in each of the pictures and the physical distance between the characters on each page not to mention the postcards from Ottoline's parents allowed them to begin framing their response to the story. His includes the bestselling Ottoline books, The Emperor of Absurdia, and, with Paul Stewart, the Muddle Earth books, the Scavenger series and the Blobheads series.