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The Great Cheese Robbery: Pocket Pirates

by Chris Mould

Interest age: 8 to 11
Reading age: 7+

Published by Hodder Children’s Books, 2015

  • Adventure
  • Funny

About this book

On a dusty shelf in a shabby old junk shop, full of cobwebs, sits a ship in a bottle - and when no one's looking, its tiny pirate crew emerges to explore and seek adventure.

When the skirting board mice kidnap the ship's cat for a cheese ransom, the pirates are ready for action, embarking on a perilous rescue mission to the dangerous (and very cold) place called 'Fridge'…

With lots of brilliant and detailed drawings bringing the story to life, this light-hearted adventure is fast-moving and fun.

About the author

Chris is an award-winning illustrator who went to art school at 16. A sublime draftsman with a penchant for the gothic, he has illustrated the gamut from picture books and young fiction, to theatre posters and satirical cartoons for national newspapers. His stunning reimagining of Ted Hughes’ The Iron Man was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal, was a Waterstones’ selection of best books of 2019 and shortlisted by Foyles’ for Book of the Year 2019.
 
He lives in Yorkshire with his wife, has two grown-up daughters, and when he’s not drawing and writing, you’ll find him… actually, he’s never not drawing or writing.

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