Tick-Tock

Skip's mum's most treasured possession was her cuckoo clock. Her parting words as she went out were, 'NO JUMPING ON THE CHAIRS! Something might get broken.' But the chairs were too bouncy to resist with the inevitable consequence. Skip and Brainy take the clock to Weasel's bicycle repair shop, Hedgehog the Cobbler and 'Owl's Fix-It Shop', with some interesting but unexpected results. Scientific and technologically minded readers, in particular, will enjoy the detailed alterations affected to the cuckoo clock by its would-be repairers, not to mention the wealth of detail in both the large and small scenes. In fact, the illustrations extend and add to the storyline, much of which is conveyed through lively dialogue.