From award-winning Katherine Rundell comes a picture book about bravery, friendship and adventure, illustrated by bestselling Sara Ogilvie
Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author whose novels
for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer and
The Good Thieves. She has won the Costa Children’s Book Award, the
Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize,
amongst many others. She was a 2021 World Book Day author and has
also published two picture books for children and three non-fiction
books for adults, including Super-Infinite: The Transformations of
John Donne, winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize, and The
Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure, shortlisted for the 2022
Waterstones Book of the Year. Her books have sold millions of
copies worldwide.
Katherine spent her childhood in Africa and Europe before taking
her degree at the University of Oxford and becoming a Fellow of All
Souls College. As well as writing, she studies Renaissance
literature and occasionally goes climbing on the rooftops late at
night.
Sara Ogilvie is an award-winning illustrator and printmaker,
who has illustrated many bestselling and much-loved children's
books, including The Detective Dog and The Hospital Dog by Julia
Donaldson, and Dogs Don't Do Ballet by Anna Kemp. Born and bred in
Edinburgh, she now lives with her family in Newcastle upon
Tyne.
Joyously anarchic in both word and illustration, sizzling with
imagination and colour
*Guardian*
An intoxicating adventure
*Observer Picture Books of the Month*
Fizzing with anarchic energy, this beautifully illustrated escapade
is a romp from start to finish
*Daily Mail*
Rundell and Ogilvie have more than earned their stripes as a duo
with this pacy zebra caper
*The Times*
A delightful modern-day classic with a strong-willed and determined
young girl whose passion for fighting for what is right is
something all readers can aspire to
*Books for Keeps*
Rundell has identified a need in the children’s books market:
longer, wordier picture books for five to seven-year-olds that have
the large pages and beautiful pictures of titles for younger
children but with more challenging language, a meatier story and
some very fruity baddies
*Times Children's Book of the Week*
Utterly engaging
*Sunday Times*
The year's most magnificent adventure
*Guardian - Best Children's Books of the Year*
A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and wild imagination
*Philip Pullman*
One of our most talented writers for children
*Observer*
Rundell’s playful style is paired with the bright, bustling
drawings of Ogilvie to tell an intoxicating adventure.
*The Guardian*
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