A Storey Street novel: Scaredy Cat, Scaredy Cat - Softcover

Earle, Phil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444013939 ISBN 13: 9781444013931

Publisher: Orion Children's, 2018

Synopsis

From the author of DEMOLITION DAD, the CBBC Book of the Month June 2017, comes the fourth and final hilarious Storey Street by Phil Earle, illustrated by Waterstones Children's Book Prize-shortlisted artist, Sara Ogilvie. Perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, Liz Pichon and David Walliams.

Kay Catt has a nickname - Scaredy Catt. And with good reason. You've never met a more timid, anxious girl in your life. And when you meet her dad, you'll start to understand why. But when a mysterious old man is spotted on Storey Street, it heralds the start of a great adventure for Kay. Because Wilf Wilkinson isn't your average, cardigan-wearing, sherbet lemon-sucking old codger. Oh no. Wilf wears a cloak, and a strange pointy hat, and his walking stick looks suspiciously like an over-sized wand.

Wilf couldn't be a wizard ... could he?

About this title

About the Author

Phil Earle was born in the great city of Hull in 1974, and spent the next eighteen years playing a lot of sport, messing around in plays and trying to sing in bands. He has had jobs as a care worker in a residential kids' home and a bookseller, and now works as sales and marketing director for David Fickling books. In 2016, Phil was appointed as Reading charity BookTrust's new writer-in-residence. He lives on a hill in Yorkshire with his wife and three children and his favourite place to write is on the bus. Visit Phil's website, www.philearle.com, or follow him on twitter @philearle.

Review

Phil "BOOKCRUSHER" Earle has written one, funny, fabulous, pile driving BLAST of a book. (Read it in Lycra for full wrestling experience.)―Liz Pichon on DEMOLITION DAD

Hilarious and sometimes heart-breaking Phil chooses, like in 'The War Next Door', to take the usually one dimensional characters and allow us, the reader, to discover what has shaped them and made them the way they are. [...] I'm extremely sad to see the end of the Storey Street stories but I know that they will live in the imaginations of the children in my school for a long time to come.

Hilarious and sometimes heart-breaking Phil chooses, like in 'The War Next Door', to take the usually one dimensional characters and allow us, the reader, to discover what has shaped them and made them the way they are. [...] I'm extremely sad to see the end of the Storey Street stories but I know that they will live in the imaginations of the children in my school for a long time to come.―Jo Clarke, Book Lover Jo

A laugh-out-loud read full of capes and japes! If you like Superheroes this is right down your Street!―Danny Wallace, presenter and bestselling author on SUPERHERO STREET

this is a lovely book with all the right ingredients -- goodies, baddies and the very mysterious Wilf.―Carousel

This is a lovely book with all the right ingredients -- goodies, baddies and the very mysterious Wilf.

Superbly illustrated by Sara Ogilvie, this is a hilarious story with a very positive and encouraging conclusion... sad it is the last in the series.

Superbly illustrated by Sara Ogilvie, this is a hilarious story with a very positive and encouraging conclusion... sad it is the last in the series.―Parents in Touch

Sara Ogilvie's beautifully drawn illustrations add real life and humour―David Tazzyman, illustrator of MR GUM

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion Children's
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1444013939
• ISBN 13: 9781444013931
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192