- Imprint: Red Fox
- ISBN: 9781849415620
- Length: 32 pages
- Dimensions: 275mm x 10mm x 241mm
- Weight: 201g
- Price: £7.99
Hermelin
The Detective Mouse
Hermelin is a noticer. He is also a finder. The occupants of Offley Street are delighted when their missing items are found, but not so happy to learn that their brilliant detective is a mouse! What will happen to Hermelin? Will his talents go unrewarded?
Alex O'Connell, The TimesLike a good brie, you feel Hermelin will only improve with age.
Lorna Bradbury, The Daily TelegraphGrey's work is intricate and stylish, the images often as wordy as the narrative itself.
Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times, Children's Book of the WeekGrey's pictures are nostalgic, comic, decorative and dramatically composed, and invite budding detectives to pay attention.
The Times, Children's Book of the WeekIt's rare to find such a talented illustrator who can tell a gripping, original tale so effortlessly.
Robert Dunbar, Irish TimesFans of Grey's work will once again relish the hectic pace of her storytelling, its humour, its intertextual allusions, its typographical playfulness and its general layout.
The GuardianMini Grey's extra details and clues in her artwork are always so entertaining and hopefully this is just the beginning for this charming and astute mouse and his detecting friend Emily.
The Oxford TimesIt's full of hilarious tiny details, which our sharp-eyed hero - and clever parents and children - can spot to solve the mysteries.
Books for KeepsThis is picture book storytelling at its best. Text and illustration perfectly integrated so that the eye moves easily across the page and the attention is held. Every page is carefully designed allowing different perspectives, creating excitement and movement through the juxtaposition of whole page and split page spreads as well as techniques adopted from graphic novel or film. There are not enough picture books that can reach older children. This is one - and it is a delight.
Parents in TouchThis is an utterly delightful book, packed with quirky text and illustrations and reall unusual.
Xena's Mom, Librarian's QuestHow can you not want to read this book over and over again? How can you not want to share it with everyone you meet?
About Mini Grey
Mini Grey was given her name after being born in a Mini in a car park in Newport, Wales. She studied for an MA in Sequential Illustration at Brighton under the tutelage of John Vernon Lord. Mini also worked as a primary school teacher in Oxford, where she now lives. Her books include Egg Drop, The Pea and the Princess (shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal), Biscuit Bear (winner of the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award), Traction Man is Here (winner of the Boston Horn Book Award and shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal), The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon (winner of the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Bronze Award and winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal), and Traction Man meets Turbodog. Mini Grey is one of the Big Picture's ten Best New Illustrators.
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All editions
- Paperback 2015
- Ebook 2014
- Ebook 2014