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Neighbours!   With their embellished house, exotic plants and posh car, Holly’s neighbours, the Banes, think they are the king and queen of the street – and spoiled little Phoebe Bane a princess.  Ever watchful for neighbourly wrong-doings, woe betide the Smith family if someone accidentally knocks a ball over the fence or their car takes up a couple of centimeters of Bane parking space. But it is the family’s beloved dog, Spidey, who comes in for the most flak – as Holly says,  “you’d think he was the hound of the Baskerville’s with knobs instead of a soft, slobbery pooch who wouldn’t hurt a fly.”

Then came the day that Mr Bane built the rabbit hutch.  But not just any old ordinary hutch, oh no!  And that was when the whole amazing story began.

Based on a well-known urban myth, this hilarious story tells how a

one-parent family rises above snobbery and bullying with dignity

and humour, and ends up with a delicious secret. The knock-out

surprise ending will have young readers laughing out loud.

Ages 7-9

48pp

Full colour illustrations by the author

£5.99

Red Fox £5.99

CAROUSEL

..all are thoughtful, involving, often moving. It is sometimes difficult to spot the original until the end, sometimes obvious from the start, but it doesn’t matter because they are satisfying stories in their own right, well written and very, very readable.

Jan Mark

Red Fox £3.99

Some other picture  books written by Caroline:

BROWN BEAR’S WONDERFUL SECRET

Illustrated by Tina Macnaughton (Sept 06)

FOR EVERY CHILD

(in association with UNICEF)

GRANDPA BODLEY AND THE PHOTOGRAPHS

Illustrated by Peter Bowman

PHOEBE AND THE MONSTER MAZE

Illustrated by Susie Jenkin Pearce

THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE

Illustrated by Peter Weevers

HERBERT BINNS AND THE FLYING TRICYCLE

Illustrated by Peter Weevers

Young Readers

QED, Quarto

On Amazon:

ROSIE PUGH AND THE GREAT CLOTHES WAR

Ages 9+

UK: Piccadilly Press/Red Fox  o/p

Germany:   Bertelsmann     US:  Barrons

Books

WHITE FANG and THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

Retellings, OUP Treetops,  £4.75

LITTLE ZEB BOOKS

Illustrated by Sam Childs

“Full of the joys of spring’  Sunday Times

“Gilly Freeborn is quite possibly the most screamingly funny teenage character ever written.”   Will  Davis’s Top Ten Literary Teenagers, The Guardian

TALES OF BEAUTY AND CRUELTY (with Kate Petty)

Ages 10+

The fairy story origins create interesting conjunctions of style where loyalty and goodness meet cynicism... Arresting openings make the moral ground clear... Endings mix hope and pathos that has the simplicity of song... these are modern stories with a reassuring belief in goodness and the underlying power of love.'

David Buckley, TES