The Adventures with Barbie series was originally published in the early 90's and has since been reissued in a variety of countries with various reading orders - sometimes under the same names but not always. In Australia, this series was reissued as Barbie Sweethearts and featured covers with Barbie dolls. The series follows Barbie on her every day adventures featuring recurring characters, different careers, new places and friends and some mysteries. Barbie always has a smile and is always willing to lend a hand, making this a perfect series for tween readers.

In Wildlife Rescue Barbie, Ken and Kira go to Africa to photograph the endangered animals for a charity calendar but on their first night they run into trouble from poachers. Jim, their guide, explains that the poachers hunt the local wildlife, in particularly targeting elephants for the ivory that their tusks are made of. The gang see first hand how this affects the elephant families when they find a baby elephant wander into their camp - dusty, injured and hungry. When the poachers won't stop coming after the baby elephant, Barbie comes up with a plan to poach the poachers.

I enjoyed this one. It's a bit more intense than the others in the series. It reminded me of Holiday in the Wild on Netflix (great film btw) - but without the romance and humour. Well it had a little humour I guess. My rating 3 stars. Target audience, 4 stars. ( )

The Adventures with Barbie series was originally published in the early 90's and has since been reissued in a variety of countries with various reading orders - sometimes under the same names but not always. In Australia, this series was reissued as Barbie Sweethearts and featured covers with Barbie dolls. The series follows Barbie on her every day adventures featuring recurring characters, different careers, new places and friends and some mysteries. Barbie always has a smile and is always willing to lend a hand, making this a perfect series for tween readers.

In Wildlife Rescue Barbie, Ken and Kira go to Africa to photograph the endangered animals for a charity calendar but on their first night they run into trouble from poachers. Jim, their guide, explains that the poachers hunt the local wildlife, in particularly targeting elephants for the ivory that their tusks are made of. The gang see first hand how this affects the elephant families when they find a baby elephant wander into their camp - dusty, injured and hungry. When the poachers won't stop coming after the baby elephant, Barbie comes up with a plan to poach the poachers.

I enjoyed this one. It's a bit more intense than the others in the series. It reminded me of Holiday in the Wild on Netflix (great film btw) - but without the romance and humour. Well it had a little humour I guess. My rating 3 stars. Target audience, 4 stars. ( )

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