Boris in Switzerland by Lucinda Gifford

Boris in Switzerland by Lucinda GiffordA romp of a read, with an ingenious mystery to solve, and packed with endearing illustrations. Boris is attending the Institute of International Excellence, a fancy Swiss boarding school while his parents are staying with Great Aunt Orfilia. Although worried about being the only wolf, and having to navigate around the rude vice principal, he quickly makes friends, learns how to ""log in"" and heli board, and has plentiful supply of cake, Boris can't

Without all the kids he'd played with and known

teenage tribulations and longstanding friendships

But poor Bobo is alone

from prehistory to the present day

Some offer fresh contextually and ethically informed readings

he has rubbed shoulders with some of the best-known and least-known of his countrymen and women

practical terms how we can get there

but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle - one of many which combine to create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece

conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child

The Power of Trees is a love letter to the forest and a passionate argument for protecting nature's boundless diversity - not only for the trees

This link was preserved for a further fifty years through the constable's late son

and martyrs to the cause of sheep well-being - all carried along with a dose of Slim Dusty for good measure