Product Description

Charlie and Lola, first seen in I Will Not Ever NEVER Eat a Tomato, are set to be stars of the screen and page. A major animation acquisition for the BBC and first airing on prime time children’s TV in October 2005, Charlie and Lola are set for superstardom! Lola loves dogs. So when Charlie takes Lola and her friend Lotta to the park with his friend Marv and Marv’s dog Sizzles, Lola is thrilled. Marv lets her and Lotta look after Sizzles on the promise that they don’t let him off the lead. But Lola and Lotta are so over-excited that, of course, they let Sizzles go and then have a panicky search for him all round the park. Imagine their relief when Sizzles appears – until he's followed by an identical dog. They know that Sizzles is extremely very clever and so can tell which dog is the right Sizzles - he's the one that he sits down when they tell him. Yet another crisis averted for Lola!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88290 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

About the Author
Lauren Child is the multi-talented prize-winning creator of the characters Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean and Hubert Horatio Bobton-Trent. She has won the Smarties Gold Award, Smarties Bronze Award, Kate Greenaway Medal and been shortlisted for the Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. Lauren lives in London.

Customer Reviews

Disappointed - not quite the real thing
We love Charlie and Lola. Admire Lauren Child. However, this book is plodding, worthy and completely lacking in the leaps of childlike thinking that make Charlie and Lola such great characters. This is compared to, say, "I will not ever, never eat a Tomato". I looked at the small print as I could not believe the difference. On my copy, neither the story nor the illustrations are actually credited to Lauren Child. It seems to be a hammed together spinnoff book from the success of the TV series. I felt something not very far off having been swizzed. A shame as the "real" books are so brilliant.

Perhaps someone from the publishers would care to comment.

If someone could help tell which were "originals" and which were "spin-offs" it would encourage me to buy more, but currently I am wary and disappointed.

Made for TV - not the real thing
We (me, husband and 2 kids, aged 2 & 6) all love I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato, I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed and I Am Too Absolutely Small for School. I bought this new TV-spin off book the other day and it is a v poor impersonation of these original books. It's so repetitive that I genuinely thought they had reprinted one of the pages by accident. The stickers are nice, and my 2 year old probably doesn't notice the shabbiness of the tale but I certainly won't be reading it to her very often. This is one of a whole suite of new books following on from the TV show, and I shall now not bother buying any of the rest - just stick to the original C&L books above, or try Lauren Child's other childrens books which are also lovely and imaginative - eg That Pesky Rat.

We Honestly can look after your dog
This is not as good as the rest of the Charlie and Lola books. Although it says that it was written by Lauren Child the flyleaf states that the text was compiled from a script for the TV show and doesn't list Lauren Child as the author at all. The Charlie and Lola books are great - but watch out for the TV spin off's - they lack the flow and the feel of the "real" books.