What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks is a delightful rhyming adventure with a tonne of noisy zoo-animal creatures to meet and even an appearance from the Queen. Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh, the two evildoers, are back! Although they are now in the city rather than the farm, they still steal. They are actually even more ambitious. To pinch the Queen's crown, they intend to take a monkey from the zoo. Unfortunately for them, they are unaware that a certain ladybird who fights crime is vacationing in the same city and has a brilliant idea to ensure the villainous pair won't get away with it!