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David Melling
The Scallywags
Hodder 9780340884065
The most recent paperback from this prolific but reliably high-quality book creator has two delightfully wayward young wolves out for fun and nothing but. A mixture of the size and placing of text emphasises the comedy, with one double-page spread turned top-to-toe as well. These jolly looking wolves leave a chaotic trail of broken things and total mess everywhere they go but in the end the only way they're able to keep their friends is by applying some thoughtfulness and good manners. It's extremely funny and with so many facial expressions and incidental happenings in each picture there's far more here than in the words alone.

David Melling's story The Tale of Jack Frost has been animated on TV and his series about a hapless knight and his horse reached the third book with The Three Wishes.

David Melling
Stone Goblins
Hodder (90 pages + extra sketches) 9780340930489
This is the first in a series of perfect material for 7s to 9s with lots of detailed drawings from an author/ illustrator who is also an animator and creator of fine picture books. The proper names and introductory 'portraits' are inviting and a strong indicator of the style of the contents. Chief Cheesyfeet, Dribbledraws, Saggypants and Seepage are part of the goblin bunch, with a mania for collecting stones, in this episodic story. A dragon interferes and all the extremely annoying powers of various goblins are needed to get rid of it. But the dragon takes with it the plug and chain keeping the water in the lake - another problem to be tackled with perfect silliness.