The Cunning Plan (Foxy Tales #1)

Author: Alex T. Smith

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  • : $13.00 AUD
  • : 9781444909319
  • : Hachette Children's Books
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  • : December 2013
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 12.99
  • : March 2014
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  • : Foxy Tales #1
  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9781444909319
9781444909319

Description

Foxy DuBois is on a mission to get rich quick. Only one thing stands in her way - Alphonso the Alligator! Can Foxy's hair-brained schemes make enough money to keep Alphonso fed? Or will Foxy DuBois find herself on the menu? An hilarious new series for young readers from an award-winning author-illustrator team. Alex's first fiction series - Claude - was selected for the Richard and Judy Children's Book Club 2011 and the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. Caryl has been shortlisted for the Red House Award and won many awards including the Stockport Award.

Reviews

Praise for Claude:'The author is a comparative newcomer to picture books; on this evidence, he should go far.'The Independent on Sunday'A handsome creation.'The Children's Bookseller'I loved everything about this book.' -- Bookbag

Author description

After briefly considering careers in space travel, cookery and being a rabbit, Alex T. Smith finally decided to become an illustrator. In 2006 he graduated from Coventry University with a degree in Illustration and won second place in the Macmillan Prize for Children's Illustration. For such a young newcomer, Alex has already achieved great things. His first fiction series - Claude - has been selected for the Richard and Judy Children's Book Club 2011 and Bella and Monty recently won the Dundee Award. Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero (Scholastic) was the first picturebook Alex illustrated and it won the Coventry Inspiration Book Award, and was longlisted for the Greenaway Medal in 2009. Alex was also shortlisted for The Best Emerging Illustrator by The Book Trust in 2008. He has since written and illustrated his own picture books including Egg (Hodder), Bella & Monty (Hodder), Home (Scholastic).