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Foxy Tales, For National Curriculum Key Stage 1, Interest age: from c 5 years, Fiction, Animal stories (Children's / Teenage), Humorous stories (Children's / Teenage), Humour & jokes (Children's / Teenage)
The third crazy story in the series bursting with ridiculous scrapes and slapstick humour from two of the hottest talents around.
Foxy DuBois and Alphonso the Alligator find themselves in a very tight place. Can they escape? Or will it be a life behind bars for these two hapless rogues?
This is the third title in an hilarious series for young readers from an award-winning author-illustrator team. Alex's first fiction series - Claude - was selected for the Richard and Judy Children's Book Club and the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and has been optioned for TV by Sixteen South. Alex is the World Book Day Illustrator 2014. Follow him at http://alextsmith.blogspot.co.uk and http://twitter.com/Alex_T_Smith
Caryl has been shortlisted for the Red House Award and won many awards including the Stockport Award. Follow her at www.carylhart.com and http:/twitter.com/carylhart1
'Wildly illustrated on every page by Alex T. Smith. Early reading made highly enjoyable.' Independent on Sunday
Praise for Foxy Tales: The Great Jail Break: Book 3
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Comedy geniuses Smith and Hart collaborate for a crazy new series... aimed at developing readers. - Children's Bookseller
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Foxy Tales are smart books for upercucumbercool kids, packed with delightfulness, devious critters and a belly-aching laugh on every page. NOT TO BE MISSED. - Booksniffer
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A laugh on every page. - Manchester Evening News
Caryl Hart
Caryl Hart is an award-winning children's author who writes picture books and young fiction. She runs creative literacy workshops for schools, libraries, communities and festivals. The Girl who Planted Trees won Teach Early Years' Best Picture Book Award, 2022 and was chosen as one of the best books of 2022 by the U.K Children's Laureate, Joseph Coelho.
Meet the Oceans was one of Waterstones' Best Books for Babies and Toddlers and Books for Topics' Best EYFS Curriculum Support in 2021, and Girls Can Do Anything was shortlisted for the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award in 2019.
Her best-selling Princess series has sold over a quarter of a million copies, and her books are published in numerous languages all over the world.
Caryl lives in Sheffield with her family and loves walking in the hills, cycling and wild swimming.
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