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Agents of the Wild #3
Operation Sandwhiskers
Third in the AGENTS OF THE WILD series: fun-packed young fiction with wildlife conservation themes.
Agnes and Attie - AGENTS OF THE WILD - are off to the Sahara Desert on a mission to rescue rare baby animals from illegal wildlife traders.
When a lesser flamingo crashes into Agnes's window-box with an urgent message for SPEARS, Agnes is ready for the call. Three rock hyrax pups have been kidnapped from their burrow in Egypt, and other baby animals are missing across Africa. Soon Agnes and Attie find themselves trapped in an ancient Egyptian tomb at the mercy of animal poachers - can they save the animals and themselves?
SPECIES IN DANGER? GIRL AND SHREW TO THE RESCUE!
Agnes and Attie - AGENTS OF THE WILD - are off to the Sahara Desert on a mission to rescue rare baby animals from illegal wildlife traders.
When a lesser flamingo crashes into Agnes's window-box with an urgent message for SPEARS, Agnes is ready for the call. Three rock hyrax pups have been kidnapped from their burrow in Egypt, and other baby animals are missing across Africa. Soon Agnes and Attie find themselves trapped in an ancient Egyptian tomb at the mercy of animal poachers - can they save the animals and themselves?
SPECIES IN DANGER? GIRL AND SHREW TO THE RESCUE!
184 pages, Paperback
Published June 3, 2021
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Jennifer Bell
78 books153 followersLondoner Jennifer Bell began working in children’s books as a specialist bookseller at Foyles, Charing Cross Road, one of the world’s most famous bookstores. After having the privilege of listening to children talk about their favorite books for many years, she started writing a book of her own on her lunch breaks.
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February 2, 2023My daughter (8), who brought this home from the library, and I, continue to disagree about this series. She loves it.
I think the language and topics are too complicated for the font size--it looks like it's for an early reader, and I imagine it would be disheartening to stumble over the large number of complex words, like masqueraded, manoeuvre, archaeological and synchronized.
I also dislike the inference that telling children how terrible the world is (in this book, how poaching to support the illegal animal trade is wiping out endangered species, in surprisingly graphic detail) will make them feel empowered to change it, rather than helpless in the face of adults. The advice to children is to educate others about the illegal animal trade, to tell their parents not to buy illegal holiday souvenirs, and to sign petitions.
In this story Agnes feels ashamed that
My daughter enjoys this series of stories of a child going on wild adventures with talking animals, but (for the entire series) I have concerns about the age-appropriateness of the real-life content, the depiction of adult/child relationships, and the idea that it's children's responsibility to sort out the mess adults have made.
I think the language and topics are too complicated for the font size--it looks like it's for an early reader, and I imagine it would be disheartening to stumble over the large number of complex words, like masqueraded, manoeuvre, archaeological and synchronized.
I also dislike the inference that telling children how terrible the world is (in this book, how poaching to support the illegal animal trade is wiping out endangered species, in surprisingly graphic detail) will make them feel empowered to change it, rather than helpless in the face of adults. The advice to children is to educate others about the illegal animal trade, to tell their parents not to buy illegal holiday souvenirs, and to sign petitions.
In this story Agnes feels ashamed that
My daughter enjoys this series of stories of a child going on wild adventures with talking animals, but (for the entire series) I have concerns about the age-appropriateness of the real-life content, the depiction of adult/child relationships, and the idea that it's children's responsibility to sort out the mess adults have made.
November 11, 2021
Endnu en spændende og informativ fortælling om agenterne Agnes og Attie. Man er underholdt fra første side og jeg lærer lidt hver gang jeg læser en bog i serien. Eneste anke er at det gerne måtte være lidt billeder i bogen både der understøtter fortællingen men også når man når til faktadelen bagi hvor der står noget om truede dyr.
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