A Canterbury toy shop is offering a dream job to one lucky youngster.

Whirligig, in Sun Street, is looking for a toy reviewer between the ages of five and 10 who can help test new products.

The successful applicant will be asked to try out games, puzzles and creative activities that the shop, which specialises in things for children to 'make and do', is considering adding to its range.

In return for a two-minute video review, they will receive a brand new toy once every two months for a year which they can keep afterwards and a store discount.

Whirligig's marketing assistant Samantha Wood explains: "The only requirement is they need to be between five and 10, and they need to be able to collect the toys from the shop on a regular basis. They don't need to live in the immediate area.

"All we ask if for them to do a review for each product they receive, and in that review they just have to talk about how they got on with it, and if the toy engaged them.

"They'll be asked to take pictures as they're making the product or playing with the product, and to send these to us along with a two-minute video telling us how they found it, did they like it, with a rating, and do they think the age that's on the product is appropriate.

"We would like honest reviews, as we don't want to be selling things that don't work."

A seven-year-old boy from America known as Ryan topped last year's YouTube highest earners list for his online toy reviews, which earned him £17.3m in a year and gained him 17 million followers.

Whirligig, which has branches in Canterbury, Tunbridge Wells, Brighton and Chichester and stocks toys from 150 different independent suppliers, is recruiting one reviewer for each shop to join its panel.

Interested candidates have until the end of April to apply by emailing a video, shot in landscape, of up to two minutes of themselves talking about any toy they are passionate about to info@whirligigtoys.co.uk.

For more information go to www.whirligigtoys.co.uk/be-a-toy-reviewer.