Kevin and the Biscuit Bandit

After a lot of posts about other people's books, here's a post about one of mine...

Kevin and the Biscuit Bandit is the third book in the Roly Poly Flying Pony series which I co-author with Sarah McIntyre. Here's the trailer she created for it:

We always have fun coming up with stories together, but we really upped the stakes with this one. A spate of biscuit burglaries has shaken the small town of Bumbleford, and all the clues point straight to its roliest, poliest, flying-pony-est resident, the biscuit-loving Kevin. Kevin and his friends set out to clear his name and unmask the real biscuit bandit, while adventure-loving guinea pigs Neville and Beyoncé start plotting a heist of their own. It's thrill-a-minute stuff, and chock full of stupid action sequences, which Sarah has done an amazing job of turning into pictures...

Sarah's website also has a page of activities based around the new book, including drawing guides, suggestions for making your own comics, a teachers' pack, and even a crochet-your-own-Kevin pattern created by Andrea Stewart (below). You can find it all here.

The story will make sense even if you haven't read the first two Roly Poly Flying Pony books, but if you want to catch up on those too they are called The Legend of Kevin and Kevin's Great Escape, and like Kevin and the Biscuit Bandit they should be available from all good UK bookshops. The excellent Nottingham comics shop Page 45 do international mail order and are offering free limited edition bookplates with the first 100 copies they sell...

But if you have a local independent bookshop (there's a handy map of more than 500 of them here), please consider buying it from them - like authors (and everybody else) they need support in These Trying Times.

Kevin and the Biscuit Bandit was edited by Clare Whitston and designed by Holly Fulbrook. It's published in the UK by Oxford University Press.

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