Ottoline Goes to School (2008)

by Chris Riddell

Series: Ottoline (2)

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Ottoline and Mr. Munroe, her very helpful dog, enroll in the Alice B. Smith School for the Differently Gifted and while Ottoline worries that she may not have a special gift, Mr. Munro worries about the ghost that is said to haunt the school at night.

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The Professor's Daughter by Joann Sfar (nessreader)
nessreader: Both of these are picture books for genteel grownups who eat cucumber sandwiches with a twinkle in their eye. Sfar's sepia romance between a mummy and a debutante, or Ottoline's pen + ink detail about a fantasy finishing school - both are really jokes about terribly proper behaviour.… (more)

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When Ottoline meets and befriends the wealthy Cecily Forbes-Lawrence III, she decides that she should go away to boarding school just like Cecily does, so she and her cohort Mr. Munroe set off for the Alice B. Smith School for the Differently Gifted. Is it possible the school is actually haunted?

This is a quirky tale with lots of quirky illustrations and kids who are into the quirky will delight in it. Me? It's not really my thing. (

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abbylibrarian | Oct 30, 2009 |

This is the best book I've ever read. (

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Sylviemlg | Oct 6, 2008 |

Second in the series featuring our fun heroine, who goes to a rather different school. There are some weird goings on and Ottoline investigates with Mr Monroe, her guardian (a Norwegian swamp man, whom everyone else thinks is a dog). A great story for 7 year olds, together with fantastic retro-feel illustrations, b/w pen drawings, this time hightlighted with blue (vol 1 was red). More please! (

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gaskella | Feb 21, 2008 |

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2008

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Ottoline Brown

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Cecily Forbes-Lawrence III

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For my sister, Lynn

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Ottoline lived in Apartment 243 of the P. W. Huffledinck Tower, which everybody called the Pepperpot Building because it looked like one.

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Ottoline and Mr. Munroe, her very helpful dog, enroll in the Alice B. Smith School for the Differently Gifted and while Ottoline worries that she may not have a special gift, Mr. Munro worries about the ghost that is said to haunt the school at night.

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