A hopeful little frog tries to turn himself into a handsome prince by piecing together the torn pages of a spell book.

Emily Gravett was born in Brighton. After leaving school with few qualifications she spend eight years living on the road before getting a place on the BA Illustration course at Brighton university. She won the Macmillan Prize for illustration with Wolves which was published to great acclaim in August 2005, winning many prizes and making the beginning of an internationally stellar career creating extraordinary books for children. She now lives back in Brighton with her partner, daughter and two pet rats.

Emily is one of Booktrust's Best New Illustrators 2008.

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Fresh from a jungle trip, Peter, his exuberant assistant Punky and their friend Harold discover their beloved ice-skating rink has been over-populated with some dubious-looking penguins.

Mick Manning has carefully recreated the hair-raising tales his father told him about life as an RAF tail-gunner during the Second World War

The facts in this book will make you laugh out loud and possibly answer some of life's great mysteries such as why eating bogeys is good for you.

Mitchell Symons was born in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied Law. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. Currently he writes an award-winning column for the Sunday Express. Mitchell has won the Blue Peter Best Book with Facts Awards twice, for Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You and Do Igloos have Loos?

A quirky debut novel laced with humour and a dollop of magic

Sparkes justifiably won the Blue Peter Children's Book Award 2010 with this novel, almost a twenty-first century update of a Blyton Famous Five adventure.