By Josephine Park

Cover Blurb:

Welcome to the seventh collection of stories featuring our two mischievous doggy friends, Woodstock and Churchill. Once more the fun loving pair find themselves making new friends, causing chaos and sometimes helping in dramatic rescues! Read how the two dogs and a human friend win tickets for an international rugby match, which ends with them all becoming heroes! Follow Woodstock and Churchill as they travel down-under to sunny Australia, where they learn to surf the waves and get very wet in Sydney Opera House. Find out how the ambitious dogs get on in a music contest against other animals, including a recorder playing cat and a musical mouse on a mouth organ. And finally, as Christmas approaches, Woodstock and Churchill's owner, Charlie, takes them and some of their doggy friends on a festive stream train. A curious puppy and too many mince pies are involved in the unfolding events in this wintry trip...! Each story is accompanied by enchanting and imaginative illustrations which bring all the characters to life.

All Aboard By Author Michael McCarthy – Book Review

You won’t be able to help but smile as you delight in the mishaps and misadventures of our two mischievous mutts.

Woodstock and Churchill are two loveable rogues who can’t help but get into trouble wherever they go. This book is divided into four chapters each detailing one of their many adventures! As the pair bounce from the rugby World Cup to Australia to the Santa express, they cause an absurd amount of chaos which definitely brings smiles and laughter to those who read the book! 

Although the pair are engaging enough that you do want to keep reading, the stories do come across slightly list-like in places; rather than labour on details, the story seemingly jumps very quickly from one bit of trouble or event to the next. However, it would be a shame to cut out any of the mayhem! The book could also do with further editing just to tighten up on some grammar and punctuation but on the whole, this is not too distracting for the reader. 

On the whole, a charming and amusing rollercoaster of energy and excitement that just needs a bit of tightening up. The Book Dragon reviewed this book on behalf of the author and gives it 3.5 stars. 

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