Guinea Wigs: Fur Power!

Guinea Wigs: Fur Power!

Rebecca McRitchie

Shiloh Gordon

HarperCollins, 2026

144pp., pbk., RRP $A16.99

9781460767184

On a search for adventure because playing hide and seek in the park isn’t exciting enough, five guinea pigs – best friends Jet, Minnie, Meatball, Bud and Tofu – decide to sign up for Project X in exchange for free croissants.  Although they find themselves too late to join, nevertheless their adventures are just about to start because they accidentally discover a box of wigs and it seems their dream of forming a band might come true.  Until they discover that wearing the wigs give them superpowers – including a stinky breath, extra sensitive hearing, brute strength, karate expertise and extreme size

And it would seem it is just in time because someone in town is stealing all the chickens… How can they work together to use their unique new powers to find out the who and the why, and put a stop to it?

Capitalising on the current penchant for anything to do with guinea pigs, this is a highly illustrated story – the first in the series – that is quirky, funny and just the sort of story that is going to carry newly independent readers forward on their reading journeys, particularly as there are clues to follow so they, themselves, can become part of the investigation as they work out the significance of what they discover and predict where it might lead. Perhaps they might even imagine being part of the gang with their own superpower to contribute.