Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Causing Chaos
Louie Stowell
Walker Books

In Loki’s latest month of diary entries, each one begins with a Loki Virtue Score card (virtue points are awarded for good deeds and taken away when as Loki says, ‘I do anything fun’.) This month we find Loki behaving in a very strange way and unusually it’s not for the most part of his own volition.

When newly appointed guardian, Freya, turns up, she’s wearing a necklace, one with magical powers and pretty soon things start turning chaotic. Friends Valerie and Georgina suddenly become enemies, Heimdall intends declaring his love for one of the teachers, Mrs Wiliams, The Giants suddenly love Thor and vice-versa, and Loki’s sworn enemy, Vinir, follows him everywhere offering him gifts and an invitation. Then Loki wonders if perhaps he does now like his new admirer after all. All the while Loki is endeavouring to break whatever spell is causing the chaos.

My head was spinning by the time I got to the end of this only to find the words, ‘TO BE CONTINUED … ’
Hilarity rules in this fifth story and it’s made even funnier by the liberal sprinkling of Louie Stowell’s drawings. Older primary readers will, like this reviewer, giggle their way from Day One where we see a drippy nosed Loki saying, ‘I card breade!’