The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat (by Enid Blyton)

It’s been a busy month and I haven’t read as many books as I expected to. My ‘Goodreads’ challenge, I had decided, was a modest 100 books for 2021. I had read 98 books by Christmas Eve, so should easily have reached my target. But although I’m in the middle of four different books currently, I realised it was going to be difficult to finish any of them in two days - and I wouldn’t enjoy them.

So I decided instead to re-read a couple of my children’s books. A young friend has been borrowing, ...