Keep children reading this summer by joining the Summer Reading Challenge at your local library. The Branford Boase Award highlights debut authors, and often discovers the 'big names' at the start of their writing careers. Links to friendship, trust, belief and problem solving.ġ60 pages / Ages 7+ / Reviewed by Donna Burkert, teacherīranford Boase judge Sajeda Amir on choosing the 2023 shortlist I can imagine a class full of 7 year olds roaring with laughter as this story is read out to them. This was my first time reading about the escapades of Kevin and it left me wanting to read lots more. Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre create a hilarious whodunnit that will keep readers giggling at the play on words and funny asides throughout. His innocence and love of biscuits shines through in every page. But will they find the real culprit (and the missing biscuits) before the police find them and send Kevin to Pony Prison? The only biscuits left are the sprout squashies that taste of squashed sprouts and nobody wants to eat those! Kevin and Max escape arrest from the Bumbleford Police and go in search of friends and clues to help them to clear Kevin's name. All the evidence points to Kevin and yet he cannot remember eating the biscuits, and surely he would remember eating all those lovely biscuits! - especially the custard creams? Mmmm biscuits. In Kevin and the Biscuit Bandit, when Kevin, the Roly-Poly Flying Pony, is accused of stealing all the biscuits in Bumbleford, it looks like he is going to end up being taken away from Max and his family.
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