Cafe Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake

Hope Crumble and her family serve up cakes, coffee and calamity in this hilarious new series from much-loved author Catherine Wilkins. Illustrated throughout by the brilliant Katie Abey."A beautifully funny story - effortlessly brilliant." - Romesh RanganathanRunning a bustling cafe is Hope's family's dream - it's just not hers! While Dad and Gran battle it out in the kitchen, Mum tries to balance the books while serving quiche to hordes of hungry pensioners. Meanwhile Hope's dramatic sister Stacey is determined to turn all of life into a stage and her "wishes-he-was-on-Wall-Street" cousin Connor decides to buy novelty costumes to advertise the business. And then Auntie Rita rocks up...Cafe Crumble is tipping straight into Cafe Chaos! Luckily for her family, Hope is there to save the day, though ideally this wouldn't involve dressing up as a giant ice cream and dancing outside the school gates.You'll laugh (a lot), you'll cry (with even more laughter), you'll develop a strange yearning for caroons (whatever they are!). Welcome to Cafe Chaos!"This funny and relatable story will appeal to fans of Jacqueline Wilson, as well as children who, like Hope, have to stand up to their families to make their wishes heard." - The BooksellerLook out for these the laugh-out-loud funny books by Catherine Wilkins: My Best Friend and Other Enemies: A Jess Jackson Book You're Not the Boss of Me! (WINNER Lollies 2024, Teen) My Brilliant Life and Other Disasters: A Jess Jackson Book And more cafe capers in upcoming Cafe Chaos stories!

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Catherine Wilkins, Wilkins Catherine
• Mitarbeit: Katie Abey (Illustration), Abey Katie (Illustration)
• Verlag: Nosy Crow
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: 9 bis 12 Jahre
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 13.03.2025
• EAN: 9781805132660
• ISBN: 978-1-80513-266-0
• Seiten: 272
• Serie: Café Chaos
• Themen: Kinder- und Jugendbücher > Kinderbücher bis 11 Jahre; JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, School stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: School stories, Interest age: from c 9 years, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2 (England and Wales)