Book info

• Title The Girl With the Lost Smile
• Author Miranda Hart
• Year 2017
• Genre Childrens

Chloe Long has lost her smile. She's looked everywhere for it. (Under her pillow. Under her bed. Under her nose. Obviously.) She's tried everything to bring it back. (Her favourite cake. Her favourite gran. Her favourite joke. Obviously.) But nothing seems to be working! Until one night, something utterly magical happens - and Chloe finds herself on an adventure that is out of this world...

Thoughts

I do so love Miranda that even though this is a kid’s book, I had to read it. Poor Chloe who loses her smile when life starts to get on top of her, she has to go on a handful of adventures to try and find it again. As an adult, reading this, the allegories with real life are obvious, but as a kid, I think this is an important story that will hopefully help anyone in the same situation.

The adventure pieces were great, they reminded me of Wizard of Oz style adventures - where you take normal, everyday objects or situations and twist them just ever so slightly to make them exciting or dangerous, comforting or terrifying, and have to work your way through to the other side. A little frantic in places but otherwise a lovely work.

Rating: 4 / 5