The Bolds on Vacation

by Julian Clary, David Roberts (Illustrator)

Overview

It's summertime, and the Bolds are going camping by the sea, where new adventures await them. Uncle Tony becomes a surfing sensation. The family befriends a chatty puffin with lung trouble and a cougar with a dark past.

Bobby must assume yet another disguise, pretending to be the family's pet dog! But it's not long before trouble sniffs them out, and Bobby goes missing. Can the Bolds come to the rescue and salvage their vacation, while maintaining their human masquerade?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781541586819
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/04/2020
Series:	Bolds Series , #3
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	1,069,566
Product dimensions:	4.80(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	690L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 9 Years

About the Author

Julian Clary is a comedian, entertainer, and novelist who has toured across the world with his one-man shows. He lives in Kent, England, with his partner, dogs, and several chickens.

David Roberts has illustrated many books for young readers. He lives in London.

Editorial Reviews

2018-03-04
When the Bold family (hyenas living incognito as London suburbanites) and friends head to the seaside on holiday, with Bobby disguised as family dog "Stinky," nothing goes as planned.The deceit begins when an encounter with a school bully leaves Bobby with a sprained leg. Certain that a doctor would see through his disguise, his parents follow ursine neighbor Mr. McNumpty's suggestion and take Bobby to a veterinarian instead, overcoming Bobby's reluctance by letting him choose his name. Still healing, Stinky remains in disguise on the Cornish coast. Meanwhile, the vacation must go on: A sand castle is built, then destroyed; Uncle Tony and Miranda the marmoset prove surprisingly adept at surfing (why is revealed later). Jealous of Bobby's freedom to express his hyena nature, his twin, Betty, teases him, but when he disappears, she's as worried as their parents. New friends Pamela, a short-winded puffin (she used to smoke), and dolphins Galileo and his chums don't hide their animal natures; Bertha, owner of Tiddles Tea Shop, is a cougar. Disguised or not, each assists in the hunt for Bobby. The series' best illustrations thus far take full advantage of the maritime setting and depict human characters as racially diverse. The genially intrusive narrator throws in a little suspense and points the occasional moral. The Bolds don't just tolerate difference, they embrace it. Mr. Bold's ubiquitous, cheerily horrible Christmas-cracker puns should amuse young riddle aficionados along with a few limericks (the sort found in your classier crackers).More amiably subversive, anarchic fun. (Animal fantasy. 7-10)

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