Reviewed by Kellie Nissen
What child doesn’t want to be an Adventurologist? The
job allows you travel the world, see nature at its best and help, little by
little, to make a difference and save our planet.
Pearly Woe certainly wants that life. She wants to
follow in the footsteps of her Grandpa Gordon, her mum Angel and her dad Ricky.
And she wants to achieve it all with her trusty and loyal companion, Pig, by
her side. Pearly is very well equipped for the role, with her quirky ability to
understand and speak animal tongue – a skill nobody else in her family
possesses.
The thing is – Pearly is a worrier. The other thing
is that mishaps tend to follow her wherever she goes. The two problems don’t
exactly lend themselves to becoming a fully-fledged member of Adventurologists’
Guild any time soon.
Pearly and Pig and the Lost City of Mu
Suvan is the second book in Sue Whiting’s Pearly and Pig series. In the first
book (Pearly and Pig and the Great Hairy Beast), Pearly survives her
trip to Antarctica as a stowaway on an icebreaker and manages to find both her
parents and Pig (who was pig-napped). This time, Pearly finds herself with Pig
and her family on the Mekong River, heading for Anachak and ready to help her
parents and grandfather find the lost city of Mu Suvan.
The Woes soon realise there is more missing that
just the city – the King and his entire kingdom are gone too, with only the
King’s brother and a few of his followers left behind, along with a host of
animals, particularly monkeys. There is a scary rumbling afoot as well, and the
residents are convinced is has to do with the Divine Sow, the current one of
which just happens to be Pig’s mother.
Feeling very unwelcome and foiled at every attempt
to assist, Pig is locked away and Pearly’s parents disappear when they go in
search of the lost city. Then, Pearly herself ends up lost in the jungle.
How will she get out of this? Will the monkeys help
her, or are they on the side of the King’s brother and his minions? And, does
that lost city even exist?
Sue Whiting is the author of a wide range of
children’s literature, from picture books through to young adult, with stories
that never fail to inspire. Pearly and Pig and the Lost City of Mu Suvan does
not disappoint and fits beautifully into the junior fiction genre, appealing to
readers aged 8 and over who love adventure.
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