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The Clumsies - The Clumsies Make a Mess of the Zoo (The Clumsies, Book 4)

By Sorrel Anderson

The Clumsies are back in their fourth hilarious and very messy adventure . . .

Everyone’s favourite biscuit-munching, tea-drinking, talking mice are back and this time they are making a mess of the zoo.

Quality writing and side-splitting humour combine in these brilliant stories that will be loved by children and adults alike.

Format: Paperback
Ageband: from 7
Release Date: 09 Jun 2011
Pages: 224
ISBN: 978-0-00-733937-2
Price: £5.99 (Export Price) , £5.99, €None
Sorrel Anderson hasn’t always been a writer. Once upon a time she worked as a civil servant, and it was there that she found the inspiration for her characters – quite literally. One morning she came into work to find a pair of mice in a plastic bag under her desk, eating up her biscuits. She named them Purvis and Mickey Thompson, and that very day, the Clumsies were born!

Praise for The Clumsies Make a Mess: -

”'Anderson has a gift for combining simple, sparse elements - meek man, bully boss, shabby office, talking mice - to wonderfully surreal effect.” - Financial Times

'Charming debut… With its stylish cartoons and pages that look crumpled, blotted and scattered with biscuit crumbs, this book will win youngsters over with its child-like illogicality and the way in which Howard goes happily along with anything that the anarchic inventiveness of the Clumsies leads him to.' Sunday Times Culture - Children’s Book of the Week -

'Occasionally a book comes along that makes my children collapse into fits of giggles… my children were near hysterical by the end of the first paragraph.'The Telegraph Magazine -

'The kids will love getting mucky with them' Irish World -

'If you enjoy these stories as much as I did, you will be waiting for the next book in the series' Families Magazine -