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Spyceratops

Alex Willmore

Picturebook

Meet the little dinosaur who is the GREATEST SECRET AGENT IN THE WORLD.

Spyceratops has all the skills: sneaking, peeking, blending in, daredevil manoeuvres.

She has all the kit: groovy gadgets, loyal sidekick, awesome spymobile.

And luckily the perfect opportunity has arisen for Spyceratops to share her spy skills with YOU, the reader.

GRANDAD is acting very suspiciously. Can he be trusted? BIG FAT NO. Spyceratops is on the case, determined to uncover Grandad’s secret plotting and show off her extraordinary spy skills . . .

Spyceratops is Mission Impossible meets Scooby Doo in a Flintstones-esq dinosaur world – come on in and join the fun!

I Did See a Mammoth! is the winner of the InspiREAD Award 2023.

Mikey the Dinosaur absolutely does not want to share his donuts, but they keep going missing and he cannot work out where they’re disappearing to. He suspects and then challenges the reader – Did you steal them? Can you turn the page without touching the donuts? Or the crumbs? Or the frosting? Whose shadow is that in the background, anyway?

Poor old Mikey goes through all the emotions until he finally figures out all his friends have been sneaking the donuts…it wasn’t you after all! So you can share his last donut (and another plateful, if you’re lucky!).

Donut Touch is a delightful read-aloud suitable for EYFS and KS1 classes, and would be brilliant shared between parent and child. Lots to giggle at with the opportunity to make silly faces and voices; but with a nice message about not jumping to conclusions and how nice it is to share. Highly recommended. Cheerfully illustrated without being garish, I think this will be a firm favourite for story times.

I Did See a Mammoth

Alex Willmore

Picturebook

Welcome to the Antarctic, where an intrepid bunch of explorers is making an in-depth study of penguins. Penguins. Penguins. Penguins. So many penguins . . .

But one young explorer has discovered something different. Something totally wild, spectacularly cool and quite a lot . . . EXTINCT.

Alex Willmore’s hilariously funny picture book brings the prehistoric woolly mammoth dancing, swimming and SKATEBOARDING back to life. But will anyone believe it?

Would YOU?!

Winner of the InspiREAD Award 2023.

Superhero Baby!

Alex Willmore & Patricia Hegarty

Picturebook

What happens when disaster strikes? Who you gonna call? Superhero Baby! Shes the bravest of them all! GO GO BABY POWER!
A rhyming, comic caper guaranteed to get you giggling!

Where Does My Food Come From?

Alex Willmore & Annabel Karmel

Non-fiction

Children often charge to the chocolate aisle, but do they know their favourite treat started out as a bean? They might lap up ketchup, but can they guess how many tomatoes it takes to fill a ketchup bottle? Young learners will discover that llamas and camels have a hand (or hoof) in cheese-making, that bees spit runny honey from their tummies into honeycomb and beat their wings to make it thicker, and how strawberries can be used to clean teeth!

Each food selected is presented through an information section, a foodie craft and two delicious recipes to get children up-close to the ingredient they’ve been learning about.

The Runaway Pea

Alex Willmore & Kjartan Poskitt

Picturebook

This is the story of one excitable pea in search of somewhere more fun to be than a plate of food at dinner time! Primary classes love The Runaway Pea for its exciting storyline, vibrant illustrations and a good dose of humour. The food-based characters add a fun element, making the story enjoyable and engaging for young readers. We love the expressions of surprise on the vegetables’ faces as their little green friend catapults himself off the plate and lands with a splat in a pile of ketchup. A series of mishaps follow, until the little pea accidentally finds himself making a brilliant new start.

With its playful themes of friendship and spirit of adventure, along with rhyming verses and repetition, this ensures a lively and entertaining storytime that young children always giggle along with.