Mighty Mo

Welcome to Golden Dodo Zoo, where rhinos can skate on ice, gorillas bake spectacular cakes, but where a little racoon called Mo is bored, bored. He too wants to be brilliant at SOMETHING. So he tries ice-cream-making and blowing up balloons, all things his friends can do well, but his attempts prove disastrous. The pictures tell us just how disastrous, and are worth searching. Finally he thinks he has found the perfect skill… hairdressing! Mo the Majestic Hairdo Hero! But after Mo’s attempts the animals lose patience with him, and Mo declares he will never try anything again. Then panic breaks out as Penguin shouts, ‘HELP! BIG RON has stolen our Golden Dodo statue!’ It seems only Mo is super-fast enough and super-strong enough to catch thieving Ron. After a superb chase, Ron lands SPLAT in a pile of elephant poo, and he blubs that Mo is nothing but a rotten racoon. ‘Oh no,’ declares our hero, ‘I’m the MARVELLOUS, the MAGNIFICENT, MIGHTY MO!’ Readers will enjoy hunting the pictures for early signs of Big Ron hiding, and discussing how important it is not to give up when the going gets tough!