Reviewed by Kathleen Grace
Hip hooray! It’s Christmas Day! For ten meerkats it’s
time to play. In rhyming couplets, a story is told of each of the meerkats as
they celebrate. One is dressed as a reindeer, another is doing tricks, one is
even lighting up the Christmas tree. All the meerkats are wearing sweaters
numbered one to ten which would help a small reader learn his numbers. Finally,
the ten animals create a human pyramid (shaped and decorated with electric
lights) so they look like a Christmas tree. However, one of the meerkats
sneezes and the whole of them topple (‘Meerkats falling down, down, down!
CRASH! Giggling, laughing, rolling around.’)
This simple story is accompanied by lively illustrations
including the opening fly pages which show meerkats on assembly lines preparing
gifts for children at Christmas and on the closing pages showing meerkats
around a Christmas tree and enjoying a lunchtime feast.
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