This lively story with a Greek island setting tells how Amanda and David plot to outwit the unpleasant local mayor and help their Greek friend, Yani. The villagers, and especially the mayor, depend on their donkeys for transport. If the children are to blackmail them successfully the donkeys must disappear. And disappear they do, to the consternation of the whole village . . . “. . . a rarity. Gerald Durrell has written a comedy that should be welcomed by readers of all sorts and sizes.” Growing Point