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Grimwood: Five Freakishly Funny Fables: World Book Day 2022 Synopsis
Welcome to Grimwood! Join the residents of the woods where anything can happen, as they tell stories around the campfire. You’ll hear weird and wonderful tales from Titus the stag, mayor of Grimwood, Nancy the fox with attitude, Willow the excitable rabbit, Frank the no-nonsense owl, and Ingrid the movie-star duck.
Expect the unexpected, and be warned: you may laugh your head off . . .
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781398509665 |
| Publication date: |
17th February 2022 |
| Author: |
Nadia Shireen |
| Publisher: |
Simon & Schuster Children's UK |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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Press Reviews
Nadia Shireen Press Reviews
Praise for the Grimwood series;
Gloriously anarchic, properly funny and highly illustrated with dynamic black-and-white art, this is a quirky delight for children - and their parents, too. - The Bookseller
Funny, anarchic, original and gloriously silly. -- Richard Osman
This book made my face hurt! Relentlessly funny. -- Rob Biddulph
Like Watership Down, but funny. You'll laugh hysterically on every page. -- Caitlin Moran
Fantastic -- Lauren Laverne
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About Nadia Shireen
Nadia Shireen enjoyed making homemade magazines and comics as a child, and during her time studying law at university and her subsequent career in journalism, she started to sketch again. Her debut book Good Little Wolf received a mention in the Bologna Ragazzi Opera Prima Award, and went on to win the UKLA Book Award. Nadia’s subsequent books have since been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, The Sainsbury’s Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.
Nadia now writes and draws full time, and dedicates her spare moments to tweeting about pop music and championing diversity and tolerance, values that are powerfully depicted in all her books. In 2017, she collaborated with Book Trust to promote their Time To Read campaign, sending 700,000 copies of The Bumblebear to school children all across the UK. Nadia joined forces with Book Trust once more, as their official Writer and Illustrator In Residence for 2018. In addition, Nadia is an official friend of the Ministry of Stories, and supports the Penguin’s Write Now initiative for discovering under-represented voices. She lives in London with her son. Billy and the Beast was recently shortlisted for the inaugural Booktrust Story Time Prize.
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A special World Book Day adventure in the wildly funny new series from award-winning Nadia Shireen.
Our Kids Reader Review Panel loved the first Grimwood adventure! Abigail Morrow said "If you sat down and started reading this book, you would be there for hours without even noticing!" and Alex Urban said "This book has been able to entertain me for hours non-stop while making me laugh out loud and I am hoping for more."
Read all the reviews and download a the first chapter of Grimwood here!
