This book is in a way inspirational. When we got it my 8-year-old daughter said about the 12-year-old illustrator of this book that "she's only 12 but some of her drawings are really very good." A couple of days later she wrote me a little book with illustrations about me saving the city from aliens (as is my life) for my birthday. I felt it was somewhat inspired by being able to relate to a girl illustrator around her age.
Anyway this book is made up of three short stories and also has a few pages of extra bits at the end, similar to the other Wendy Quill books that precede it (this being the third in the series). In all the stories Wendy Quill is at least a little bit full up of wrong, although all three cure her of this and have happy endings and a moral to the story too.
The first story sees Wendy Quill "feeling full of wrong" for "slightly-squashing-someone" with her "brand-new, second-hand red bike."
The second story (incidentally called Act 2 like in previous books, but also lesson 2 as it again teaches a lesson) sees Wendy full up of wrong because she tells a "slightly dreadful lie."
The third story or lesson sees Wendy Quill all full up of wrong for sneaking a glance inside her older sister Tawny's "TOTALLY private diary."
The stories are school based with the characters having first-name surname names throughout, which got a little irritating when it was over-and-over-again, and that is not how my daughter calls her friends, with her only referring to their first-names. But the book is nicely presented because of the layout with pictures, lists, interesting facts and so on breaking up the text (I wonder who of the mother daughter team suggested the picture subtitle "mums are always so wise"). And the stories all teach lessons, for example some nice road safety tips. There is maybe a Charlie and Lola influence in the way Wendy Quill narrates so it's not totally original stuff but it is fun, and, as previously mentioned maybe just a little bit inspirational for young girls.
Publication date: 3 Jul 2014
Available from Amazon UK (£5.99 at the time of writing): Wendy Quill is Full Up of Wrong
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