Bertha & Blink Take To The Skies
Nicola Colton
Little Tiger

When Bertha discovers that her erstwhile friend, now her inventor nemesis, Finnius Fink, has allowed filthy smoke to belch from the chimneys of his new factory in the jungle, she and her roommate, robo-bird Blink, are horrified. With thick smog everywhere, they need to step up their mission to save the jungle from complete destruction and that means asking some of their fellow animals to join them.

The creatures gather at Bertha’s treehouse where she shows them down to her secret workshop to see her latest invention: a plane with lots of additional features – even more once her new friends start to help. Said friends are shocked to learn that Bertha intends Finnius i to steal the invention and enter it into the Invention Competition as his own. During his absence at the competition the plan is that Bertha et al will destroy Finnius’s factory. It’s certainly a daring plan but can they possibly pull it off, get rid of the factory and set about replenishing the jungle trees and plants? Let’s just say that teamwork is dreamwork and sometimes dreams come true.

A fun, early chapter book with lots of speech bubbles and highly engaging illustrations. What will Bertha and Blink’s new mission entail, readers will be eager to discover.