Mike Spoor

0. Alice's Shooting Star - Paperback £4.99

by Tim Kennemore
(Books/All genres) (ISBN:9781842702390)

Alice becomes the star of the neighbourhood when her little sister Rosie sabotages her nursery school's Christmas show, because she videos everything as the events unroll.The tall vegetables fall over like dominoes, and the 'small ones' are watered with an awful mixture of glue and black paint, and all the other people videoing leap forward to help with the rescue. But just how much was Rosie responsible for?

0. Alice's Birthday Pig - Paperback £3.99

by Tim Kennemore
(Books/All genres) (ISBN:9781842702406)

Alice is teased by older brother Oliver because she pronounces ‘animal’ as ‘aminal’. When Alice decides to avoid saying the word altogether, she is mortified to learn that her class project is to be ‘Farm Animals’. On the school visit to a farm Alice falls in love with a pig with a limp and decides she wants it as a pet, but in the end has so settle for one of the traditional ‘Guinea’ variety – naming it ‘Aminal’

Awards & Reviews

Out of Shadows

by Jason Wallace

'Excellent. [Out of Shadows is] the
latest lacerating addition to the
boarding-school-as-living-hell genre
... read on if you have the courage.
The author attended a similar
establishment at the age of 12,
and gives every indication of knowing
exactly what he is writing about.'

Independent

Elmer's Special Day

by David McKee

'The first Elmer book seemed like a great and original one-off, McKee's extraordinary imagination and colourful art have between them maintained originality and delight over all these years: amazing.' Chris Brown, School Librarian