Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam

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He likes going back again and again to this story and its sequel Shifty McGifty, Slippery Sam: The Cat Burglar. The two adorable robber dogs are back in the kitchen, but they'd better watch out when Kitty-le-Claw is about! Thinking it might be easier to rob their neighbours than the bank or the zoo, they invite them all to a tea party so they can rob the empty houses. His books have won awards such as the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award and have been selected for the WHSmith Children’s Book of the Year and Tom Fletcher Book Club.

But when they’re asked to bake for a pirate party, they find themselves caught up in the middle of a robbery. Instead of retribution, however, their victims offer career counseling: "Why don't you open a caf instead? This funny, quirky story, deliciously dished up by debut artist, Steven Lenton, is full of depth of detail and colour, which little ones will pore over time and time again – and the two robber dogs are adorable comic characters! Two hapless canine robbers a roly-poly bulldog and a tall brown hound believe they've hit on a truly cunning plan: they'll throw a tea party. Lenton works on a single plane but sidesteps staginess by playing with the possibilities of horizontal and vertical space; he's as adept at depicting an angry mob of zoo animals chasing Shifty and Sam after a botched caper as he is crafting a precarious tower of delicately decorated cupcakes.BOOK OF THE MONTH - A heart-warming and hilarious story told in 25 chapters, perfect for the countdown to Christmas. The flowing rhyming text is beautifully complemented by Steven Lenton’s gorgeous illustrations (spot the spider on every page! From cats robbing banks, penguins stealing tiaras and burgled fancy hotels, to Christmas mysteries, missing masterpieces and even ALIENS, Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are two busy pups solving crime, all while baking delicious cakes!

He enjoyed pretending to be Shifty, dressing as a baker, making cakes and decorating them – and eating them of course! You will find many creative activities based on each book to make reading even more enjoyable and interactive. Noah asked why Shifty and Sam had pink cheeks at the end of the story and we talked about being embarrassed and how they felt when they realized their neighbours were upset. There are lots of wonderful comic touches in the illustrations and my daughter enjoys looking for the spider hidden on each page.Noah really likes looking back at particular pages with dramatic scenes– for example Shifty and Sam’s attempted Zoo robbery and when Kitty is hanging from the roof in book two. But Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam's life is everything but boring, and soon enough they're the ones to sniff out CRIME!