The Monster Crisp-Guzzler

A hilarious tale of a very unusual teacher from award-winning author Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. The novels in her Noughts &amp; Crosses sequence have won several awards, including the Children's Book Award, and she has won many other awards for her books for the Random House list. Both Hacker and Thief! won the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award - Malorie is the only author to have won this award twice - while Hacker also won the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award in 1994. Her work has appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial. Malorie has also written a number of titles for younger readers. 
 
In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children's books. 
 
In 2008, she was then honoured with an OBE for her services to Children's Literature.

At her new school, Mira discovers she has a very unusual teacher - a teacher who turns into a real-life dragon when she eats crisps! This comes in very handy when the class run into trouble on a school trip to the seaside...

Malorie Blackman

Sami Sweeten

Blackman's perceptions of the world of children and their emotions are as true to form as ever, and the illustrations by Sweeten help to make the story one that children will enjoy

A beautifully warm tale from an award-winning author . . . The perfect festive gift to keep the winter chill at bay for those aged five to seven

Snow Dog is a lovely, wintery story and would make a great Christmas stocking filler for young readers

"IT'S GOING TO BE WOOF-ONDERFUL!" 
 
There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum and Dad don't want a dog. Then Grandad has an idea - he and Nicky can make a dog: a snow-dome dog. Even better, he has some special clay, found at the end of a rainbow, so that the dog will be extra-special. Maybe even magic . . .

Sami Sweeten

Praise for Snow Dog

Blackman's perceptions of the world of children and their emotions are as true to form as ever, and the illustrations by Sweeten help to make the story one that children will enjoy

A beautifully warm tale from an award-winning author . . . The perfect festive gift to keep the winter chill at bay for those aged five to seven

Snow Dog is a lovely, wintery story and would make a great Christmas stocking filler for young readers

Blackman's perceptions of the world of children and their emotions are as true to form as ever, and the illustrations by Sweeten help to make the story one that children will enjoy

A beautifully warm tale from an award-winning author . . . The perfect festive gift to keep the winter chill at bay for those aged five to seven

Snow Dog is a lovely, wintery story and would make a great Christmas stocking filler for young readers

Blackman's perceptions of the world of children and their emotions are as true to form as ever, and the illustrations by Sweeten help to make the story one that children will enjoy

A beautifully warm tale from an award-winning author . . . The perfect festive gift to keep the winter chill at bay for those aged five to seven

Snow Dog is a lovely, wintery story and would make a great Christmas stocking filler for young readers

Books by Sami Sweeten

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