Amelia Cheeseheart Investigates: Mummy Mayhem

LoveReading4Kids Says

Amelia Cheeseheart is an intrepid adventurer and investigator who lives inside a hot air balloon, which hangs in the museum gift-shop, with her banana loving best friend, Webster the Spider. In Mummy Mayhem, the friends take to the skies in Amelia’s plane to solve the mystery of why special objects from the museum’s Ancient Egyptian room keep disappearing.

Graphic novels and comics are growing in popularity with child readers and should be taken seriously. The combination of words and images requires a coming together of sophisticated reading and visual literacy skills, enabling a young reader to draw together the full meaning of the text. Amelia Cheeseheart Investigates is a good example of the form for the youngest readers.

Its well-paced adventure, endearing characters and accessible format will appeal to five to seven year-olds, who are becoming more fluent and independent. I gave this to two children in my class who were sitting together on the train on the way to a school trip and they absolutely devoured it. The font is very accessible for a young audience and the action is easy to follow, whilst the chapter format is great for building reading stamina.

Building on from this, children will love other titles like Jamie Smart’s Max and Chaffy series or Mark Bradley’s Bumble and Snug series.

Reviewed by Charlotte Hacking
Charlotte Hacking is a teacher, primary literacy consultant and speaker.
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About Amelia Cheeseheart Investigates: Mummy Mayhem

A comic-form mystery series for emerging readers starring sparky mouse aviator, Amelia Cheeseheart and her best friend Webster, a banana-loving spider; they investigate mysterious goings-on in their home at the museum - things are going missing, and are found in the Ancient Egyptian room.

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