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|title=Mysteries According to Humphrey

|author=Betty G Birney

|publisher=Faber and Faber

|date=February 2012

|summary=Not the best adventure in this series, but the charming style and simple storytelling are still there in abundance.

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Also, for a book that is released in the UK in February, and which I'm rating in January, the hook of Halloween is a bit odd. It's not used much, and things I thought were going to be flaws - like the unusual vocab used in the initial lesson being a bit too American-sounding - weren't. There never are major flaws in books as charming, simple and uniform as these. But here I could definitely see a difference between my favourite instances of the series and this one. I would never say don't buy it, but perhaps consider it as a wine - lay it down for a season when your regular Humphrey books have been read to death. Perhaps then it might actually be Halloween...

If you'd prefer to read of guinea pigs, we quite liked [[The Tales of Olga Da Polga by Michael Bond]].