But somehow Butterfly keeps getting it wrong. Will Monkey ever find his mum?
I can’t imagine that anyone other than Axel could have given such character and humour
Meet Wildebeest and Warthog, Spotted Hyena, Lappet-Faced Vulture and Marabou Stork. People call them the Ugly Five . . . but are they really?
Straight away I knew I would have to write a book about them.
I have also written two musicals for adults to perform to children, the scripts of
A string of paper dolls go on a fantastical adventure through the house and out into the garden. They soon escape the clutches of the toy dinosaur and the snapping jaws of the oven-glove crocodile, but then a very real pair of scissors threatens…
illustrations capture the joy of childhood; between them she and the Children’s Laureate have
My readers collapsed in heaps, and then had to have it read again. And again.”
Leo’s running from her past. Finlay’s running into trouble. Together they stumble into a crazy new world of secrets, lies and Chinese food. But someone is on Leo’s trail … Don’t tread on the cracks. If you tread on a crack it could be him.
I have dramatised six scenes from the early sections of the book, so that they can
What is this sign that all the animals keep making? The jackdaw just can’t understand . . . but he’s flying into danger.
Sharratt at the launch of What the Jackdaw Saw I am hard of hearing myself, and have
jaunty rhyming narrative and Scheffler’s brilliantly funny illustrations that will have
They have subsequently been performed by various amateur groups.
So when the books at her owner Peter’s school have disappeared one morning, Detective
