Violet Mackerel’s Remarkable Recovery

By Anna Branford
Illustrated by Sarah Davis
Walker Books Australia, 2011
ISBN 9781921529184
Hardback $24.99

Violet Mackerel is having her tonsils out and she not very happy about it, although she is tempted by the ice-cream and the possibility that she’ll have a new voice after it’s done – she quite fancies being an opera singer! At the hospital she’s nervous but a nice old lady called Iris reassures Violet while she’s waiting, and they agree to meet up after they’ve had their operations. Once she gets home Violet realises she doesn’t know how to find Iris, until they have a surprise radio encounter. A charming read full of Violet’s bright ideas. Ages five plus.