Rex Dinosaur in Disguise: Museum Mystery
Elys Dolan
Walker Books

This is the third tale of dinosaur hero Rex (now a PE teacher/netball coach) and his nine year old human friend Sandra, her investigations partner Anish, et al.

Rex can hardly wait for his first trip to the city museum but he and his friends learn from a security guard that strange things have been happening with exhibits moved around. The guard quits his job, Rex is interviewed and goes undercover as his replacement. This enables him to be there overnight to investigate and try to find the cause of the havoc before the museum’s biggest event of the year, The Big MuZZZeum Sleepover, the following evening. Of course he’s going to need the help of Sandra, Anish and Bigfoot.

Unexpectedly Rex makes a new friend; it’s an ancient Egyptian mummy named Amenphut 11 or Phut for short.

This mummy absolutely loves pizza but he really needs help to return to his own land; however he has an awful lot of stuff including a stuffed ferret, Imhotep. Can Rex help him catch his plane and crucially, can he make the museum sleepover the greatest ever?

With a plethora of laugh out loud moments, many of which are illustrated, this is a great book for KS2 readers. Hot chocolate anyone?