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Barbie Spin ‘N Ride Pups is a fun new Barbie playset available from Smyths featuring Barbie and her two dogs. Barbie rides a bike and the dogs ride along side on skateboards.

This is a fun playset with simple well built pieces that easily fit together for play. Barbie can ride her bike alone, or you can attach one or both of the skateboards for play. There are two dogs included, a big and small one each with appropriately sized skateboards which they simply attach to.

Barbie has a removal floral vest top, although her trousers are moulded on due to the way her legs are required to move on the bicycle. Her boots are removal and she does have normal Barbie size feet underneath, so she can easily be dressed in other outfits you may have. Miss M loved that Barbie has a removal bike helmet almost identical to her own. She has long blonde hair which Miss M tied back in a ponytail to make it easier to put the helmet on.

The fun part about this Barbie toy is that Barbie actually cycles along as you push the bike. Her feet clip into the pedals and her hands push through the handles on the handlebar enabling her to stay in place and move like she is really cycling. As she moves the biggest dog nearer her moves along too and the cute little puppy on the small skateboard actually spins a full 360 degrees around the bigger dog. You do need to try this on different floorings to get the best effect and movement for the small skateboard.

Miss M has a lots of fun playing with this Barbie, she loves the idea of her on a bike, being a keen cyclist herself! With a bit of imagination you can take Barbie on all sorts of journeys with this toy and she easily fits in with other Barbie toys and can bring her dogs along to share the fun!

All reviews are my own and my family’s opinions and we received the Barbie in order to write the review.

Muddypaws is a dog belonging to a young boy called Ben. When Ben attends school he leaves Muddypaws at home, until one day when Ben takes Muddypaws to puppy school for the day. This is a delightful story from Parragon books that teaches about friendship and having fun.

With beautiful lifelike illustrations, the pages are engaging to look at and my children enjoyed looking at was going on as they listened to the story. Muddypaws gets to make new friends at puppy school as well as learning new doggy skills, which with perseverance and encouragement from his friends he finally masters.

This is a cute story of friendship and shows the support and fun of having friends, both new and old. My children both enjoyed listening to this story, Miss M even took a turn of reading it out loud to Mister B. A great story for animal lovers.