A Case for Buffy (Detective Gordon Series)

by Ulf Nilsson, Gitte Spee (Illustrator)

Overview

The final story in this big-hearted series takes on the most important case ever investigated in Detective Gordon's forest—where is Buffy's mother? Gordon faces his old nemesis, the fox, in an investigation that leads to the edges of the forest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781776571802
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/01/2024
Series:	Detective Gordon Series , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	108
Lexile:	550L (what's this?)
File size:	10 MB
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Ulf Nilsson (1948-2021) was a celebrated Swedish children's author, who wrote more than 100 books for all ages, winning numerous awards and translated into over a dozen languages.
Gitte Spee is a leading children's book illustrator who graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, a renowned academy of fine art and design in Amsterdam, and St Martins School of Art in London.

Editorial Reviews

"[W]himsical perfection."—starred, Shelf Awareness

From the Publisher

2018-05-28
A very personal case for the detectives of the sweet little police station in the forest.Detective Buffy (a young mouse) and Detective Gordon (an old toad) handle nice, small cases like lost scarves and naughty, littering children in their forest district. When two students from the local kindergarten, a baby toad and a baby mouse, come to train as "small police," they mention their mothers so often that Buffy becomes sad. She doesn't remember hers. Detective Gordon encourages her to write poetry to remember, and her verse leads to memories of her past. The four head out to Cave Island to discover what happened to Buffy's newly remembered mother and siblings. The island is across a mountain and, of course, a bit of water—and there is a fox there to deal with…will he eat the police? Nilsson's fourth case for kind, wise (and tired) Detective Gordon and his cake-loving mouse protégée is no less charming than its predecessors. Marshall's deft, homey translation and Spee's colorful, plentiful illustrations of anthropomorphic animals give the book the feel of a classic you just hadn't discovered until now. A good choice for family reading time or newly minted readers of chapters.A gentle, mothercentric mystery that couldn't be less threatening and a fine addition to the series. (Mystery. 6-10)

Kirkus Reviews