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|title=The Pets You Get!

|sort=Pets You Get!, The

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-1842706428

|pages=32

|publisher=Andersen

|date=September 2012

|website=http://www.davidhigham.co.uk/clients/Reynolds.htm

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There's much to enjoy in ''The Pets You Get!'' It's full of gentle lessons, such as appreciating what you have. There's a very strong sense of rhythm throughout, but interestingly the rhythm changes between sections, which is a neat difference from most picture books. It doesn't always scan perfectly, but there's enough charm to brush over this. Slightly more grating are some of the forced rhymes:

It always feels so unnecessary to have a line like that. Many other lines work brilliantly, such as the boy and his imagined grizzly bear eating chips in a mountainous lair. The imagery is quirky and creative - and the illustration is particularly cute. Where the rhymes click, it's like the very best nursery rhymes. It's just that they don't always click.

''The Pets You Get!'' is a good, solid read, perhaps best suited to borrowing from the library. It's got a lot going for it, and you will get a few enjoyable storytimes out of it, but you might not pull it back off the shelf month after month. For anyone particularly into cute guinea pigs, it's well worth a look.

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