The Extraordinary Exploding Frog

"Milo's life was so boring, until...in hopped something green and terrible! CROAK, SLURP, BURP - could things get any more scary? Or dangerous, disgusting and extraordinary!?" The Extraordinary Exploding Frog tells the story of Milo Meeker, an adventurous, inquisitive, animal-loving 8 year old boy and his extraordinary encounter with an enormous and VERY hungry frog. This fast-paced and funny, fully illustrated rhyming story for 5 to 9 year old children has all the things that kids love to read about: heroes, villains, slime, gloop, goo, a very big explosion and a happy ending!Author, Jonathan Stevenson lives in Harpenden, Hertfordshire with his wife and three young children. This is Jonathan's first children's book. Illustrator, Mark Beech is a renowned children's illustrator, having illustrated "The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner" and "Dragons at Crumbling Castle" both by Terry Pratchett, The "Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder" series by Jo Nesbo; various Enid Blyton titles, and many others.

4th December 2016, Mail on Sunday EVENT magazine "Children's Books of the Year 2016": "Lovers of slime and goo will delight in this laugh-out-loud book stuffed with fun rhyming prose and entertaining pictures. Milo isn't allowed pets, but sneaks some tadpoles home from the park and gets a nasty surprise when one becomes an enormous frog which devours the contents of his house and school (including his horrible headmaster).