Hello, Dear Reader Are you sitting, lying down, standing on your head, eating a jam sandwich comfortably? Then I'll begin I want to introduce you to a boy called Vince, whose birthday it is todayVince is an normal boy with an unusual dislike for animals Well, you'd feel the same if your father was always working at a zoo and your mother had run off with a lion tamer Then, on his twelfth birthday, Vince discovers he has the gift He can talk to animals! You think this is amazing? Perhaps you should meet the spoiled and demanding zoo animals that Vince encounters There's a penguin who wants fish fingers, a flamingo that wants pink candyfloss and an owl that wants sugared mice Now Vince is expected to meet their demands on his birthday! But everyone seems to have forgotten about thatA hilarious, delightful debut for 6+ readers by actress, Sophie Thompson, with black and white illustrations by the wonderfully talented Rebecca Ashdown

 

This is volume 2 in Zoo Boy .

This book has been graded for interest at 5-7 years.

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Faber & Faber .

Sophie Thompson is an Olivier Award-winning actress and also the winner of Celebrity Masterchef 2014. Her films include Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Emma and Four Weddings and a Funeral. She has two teenage boys and lives in North London. Rebecca Ashdown was born in Chichester. After a Masters at Central Saint Martin's, she worked for the BBC until her lifelong passion for children's books led her to start creating them. She now lives and works near Stroud with her husband and two children.