Uncle Shawn and Bill and the Great Big Purple Underwater Underpants - Adventure

The fourth book in a hilarious, heart-warming series for children from Costa Award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, illustrated by celebrated cartoonist Gemma Correll.Hold onto your underpants - there's a mysterious purple bottom explosion problem plaguing the world, and no one knows what to do! No one, that is, apart from Uncle Shawn. He knows he and his best friend, Badger Bill, can fix everything by visiting the Living Fish Tree at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. As long as there is no dastardly villain with an army of evil clockwork clones on the loose, everything will be fine. And how likely is that...?

About the author

A. L. Kennedy is a prolific writer of novels, short stories, non-fiction, plays and film scripts. She often features on R4 and is both an associate professor of creative writing and an occasional stand-up comedian. After over 30 years of writing for adults, she now also writes for children, including the hilarious Uncle Shawn series, illustrated by Gemma Correll, and most recently she abridged Charles Dickens' Great Expectations for middle-grade readers. She is the winner of multiple UK and international prizes, including the Costa Book of the Year Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. She lives in Scotland.

Product details

• Authors: A. L. Kennedy, Alison Louise Kennedy, Kennedy A. L.
• Assisted by: Gemma Correll (Illustration), Correll Gemma (Illustration)
• Publisher: Walker Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 11
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781406398816
• ISBN: 978-1-4063-9881-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Uncle Shawn
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, Humorous Stories (Children's/Ya)