SuitabookPizza Pete and the Perilous Potions
Carrie Sellon
- Reading
- If eviction, bullying or mental health are sensitive subjects for your reader, pause after the relevant scenes and check in. Otherwise, read it as a lively adventure, returning to how the jokes and mishaps affect people.
- Themes
- Family security and money: Pete and his father face losing both their flat and pizza shop because money is owed. The financial threat is a serious pressure, while the close relationship between Pete and his father is described as deeply loving.
- Humour around serious experiences: The story combines serious themes with magical mayhem and comic incidents. The book presents competing or mixed signals about this.
- Ingenuity and consequences: Pete and Anna find magical potions and consider adding them to pizzas to attract customers. The plan is presented as ingenious and drives the adventure, but the resulting extraordinary effects also produce mishaps.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes possible loss of home and business, money owed on rent, mental health, bullying, magical mishaps, a fire-breathing dog and an exploding headteacher. The comic framing may soften, but does not erase, these pressures.