Speedwheels 3000: The Race Against Crime
Jenny Pearson, illustrated by Katie Kear and Nick East
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“Jenny is someone I admire hugely. She writes brilliantly but she started as a primary school teacher and you can feel that in the books that she writes — the humour, the heart, her instinctive understanding of what makes children keep turning the pages… I think she’s one of the most important children’s authors around today. Her characters are really well drawn, she has a gift for dialogue that sounds exactly like how children speak, and she knows how to land a joke.” Read more...
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