Shane Hegarty Books

This fun, entrepreneurial adventure is the first in a comic, heart-warming illustrated series, for ages 7 and up and will appeal to fans of The Nothing to See Here Hotel and Charlie Changes into a Chicken .

When a boy called Limpet moves with his mum and evil little sister to the seaside town of Splottpool, he is worried about all the Things That Could Go (Badly) Wrong. His mum wants to open the Shop of Impossible Ice Creams where she will serve all sorts of weird and (possibly) wonderful flavours and his sister will no doubt embarrass him by telling everyone why his nickname is Limpet when he should be called Liam.

He starts a new school and soon meets Norman, who helps him on the adventure that is about to begin. Limpet discovers that Splottpool already has an ice cream shop run by Mr Fluffy and it’s his Mega Emporium of Amazing and Spectacular Ice Creams. But all is not as it seems. How will his mum’s business survive if people don’t like Brussels sprouts ice cream? How can they ever compete with Mr Fluffy? Limpet needs to tap into his entrepreneurial spirit to find a way for the shop to thrive against the odds. After a heart-warming and humorous adventure, Limpet comes to realise that with good friends and perseverance, you make your own luck.

The story is engaging and funny and this, coupled with great characters, leads to a storytime-read that is tricky to put down. The cartoon style, black and white illustrations interspersed throughout the story add to the amusement with a few pages being dedicated to larger pictures on their own.