In honour of Valentine's day today, I have reviewed this lovely animal themed children's book set around the time of Valentine's day. This book was sent to me kindly by the publishers for review.

Isla's mum runs Abbey Park Vets as well as them owning a Cat cafe called Poppy's place after their cat. Tilda is Isla's sister who helps out and runs the website whilst Isla writes most of the blog posts for it. Milo is their younger brother who loves his cat Dynamo to pieces, he is also hard of hearing and uses a hearing aid to help him. This is a great feature purely because it can help children understand some disabilities easier and more clearly from an early age.

In this book, which is the third in the series so far, the cafe is struggling with rehoming the cats and finding them their 'forever homes'. Isla has the idea to have a 'Great cat-tacular event and advertise all the cats they have available to adopt in order to hopefully find them long term loving homes.
Isla also has her friends to help her plan the event when they're not preoccupied thinking of the upcoming Valentine's disco at school.
After an accident at the cafe which is the conservatory attached to their home, plans are put on hold and a cat, Milo's favourite, Dynamo, has gone missing.
Will the cat-tacular be able to go ahead and will they make the disco? One thing's for sure, they have an action packed Valentine's day.
I don't want to spoil the book, so you'll have to read it to find out what happens yourself, but I enjoyed it and it made me reminisce on when I was younger and read Lucy Daniels, Anna Wilson and Linda Chapman animal themed books.

The book also features simple yet detailed sketches to help the book come to life and will stimulate children's imagination and keep them engaged. The story flows very well and is full of action and animals. It also entertains the idea of young relationships becoming more than friendships, the girls are pre-teens by around a year, but two of the girls have dates to the disco. It shows how each young person feels at the age when feelings start to change as you enter the beginning of your teenage years.

Princess Fuzzypants here:
I am a cat so when the subject of a story is cats, especially rescuing cats and finding them furever homes, you have me by the paw. Cat cafes are becoming popular all around the world and most encourage adoptions of the residents. Cats are an important feature but the cafe is still the primary focus.
In this story a young girl manages to convince her entire family to turn their conservatory into a cat cafe where the cats from a local sanctuary can promote the cats who are ready for their own family. When the sanctuary is so crowded that unless some cats are adopted, there will be no more space to rescue any more. So the pressure is on to make this a success.
When flood waters seep into the house and destroy all the fittings, it looks like this disaster will thwart the rescue plans. Everyone pulls together to make sure this does not happen.
It is a lovely story for younger readers but not exclusively. The characters are charming and it does a great job of describing how matches are made between human and cat. Of course, we all know, it is the cat who chooses and not the human.
I give this five purrs and two paws up.