Review: What's a Young Boy to do When the New Neighbour is a Girl and She Wants to Hang Out With Him and His Friends
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
This is the second book in this series I've read and have to say I'm quite impressed with it.  This one does give a couple of pages introducing characters of the neighbourhood this world is set in, which is a little weird if you were reading it without knowing a thing about the others, as those characters aren't actually in this one at all.  The only other character besides the main kid Nico, is a new neighbour, a young blond girl.  She wants him to introduce her to his friends, Nico of course doesn't want to, as well you know she's a girl, and in his eyes the clearly inferior gender.  Girls can't do anything boys can do is his motto.  Of course he couldn't be more wrong.  I really liked his neighbour character and hope she returns for other books in the future.If you are unfamiliar with this series, basically each story has the look of a comic book but has written text between the illustrations rather than speech bubbles which is much better for kids learning to read. The illustrations remind me of Denis the Menace, Family Circus, Casper the Ghost and other from, well I don't know the 1950s or whenever they were around.