The Perfect Guest

By Author / Illustrator

Paula Metcalf, Paula Metcalf

Genre

Adventure

Age range(s)

Publisher

Walker Books Ltd

ISBN

9781406376173

Format

Paperback / softback

Published

02-02-2017

Synopsis

In this heart-warming, laugh-out-loud story of friendship, accident-prone Pansy tries her very hardest to be the most perfect guest to her friend Walter ... with hilarious and calamitous results!

From children's author and illustrator, Paula Metcalf, comes a witty and fun-filled story of friendship. Walter is really a very neat and tidy dog. His house is his pride and joy and he gets quite nervous when guests come round... When his best friend Pansy asks to stay, though, Walter is so excited! She's just a teeny weeny squirrel after all, how much trouble can she possibly be?! But when Pansy tries her very best to be helpful things just seem to keep going wrong! Nothing - from Walter's trousers to his curtains to his beloved brand-new teapot - is safe from accident-prone Pansy! Is she turning out to be the worst guest there ever was?

Reviews

Walter loves his home neat and tidy; in his beautiful home, everything is in its right place. When his squirrel-friend, Pansy, comes to visit, Walter's world is turned up-side-down as Pansy is very accident prone indeed! The Perfect Guest is a lovely story showing how opposites can make very good friends. Walter is a bit obsessed with keeping his house and garden just so, whereas Pansy is impulsive and untidy. This leads to a number of disasters for poor Walter, yet Pansy is so willing to help and so keen to do the right thing that he can't be cross with her. The story shows perfectly how real friendship needs give and take and the importance of being flexible with others. The illustrations are delightful - full of detail and humour. I love Walter's frilly little pinny that he wears whilst doing his housework, the trousers-shaped hole in the curtains and the fabulous range of expressions on Walter's face as he tries to cope with Pansy's mishaps! A lovely story. Picture book / Ages 3+ / Reviewed by Sue Wilsher, teacher.