Sticky Mildred by Alastair Chisholm

Sticky Mildred by Alastair Chisholm

For exasperated parents of sticky children comes a hilariously unexpected and surreal cautionary tale on cleanliness to get even the most reluctant kids excited about bath time.

Mildred Honeyfur LOVES being sticky and REFUSES to have a bath. She sets off to find the stickiest things in the world – doughnuts, pond slime, toffees and glue – until she becomes a ball of stickiness, rolling through the town sticking to everything … and everyone! Stuck in the ULTIMATE sticky situation, will Mildred ever be stopped?

Written by the winner of Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year and the Queen's Knickers Award, Alastair Chisholm, with wildly imaginative pictures by Rikin Parekh, illustrator of Greg Jenner's Totally Chaotic History series.

- Hilarious read-aloud chaos with a satisfyingly soapy ending.
- Relatable themes: mess, consequence, saying sorry and starting fresh.
- Adorable animal characters in a fun, detail-filled world.

Alastair Chisholm is the author of Blackwell's Children’s Book of the Year Adam-2; Orion Lost, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year; I Am Wolf; I Am Raven; and the fantasy chapter book series, Dragon Storm. His picture books include Inch and Grub illustrated by David Roberts, which won the Queen Knickers Award and Scottish Book Trust’s Bookbug Picture Book Prize. Alastair lives in Edinburgh with his family and Maudie the cat. Find him online at alastairc.com and on Instagram as @alastairchisholm.

Rikin Parekh is the illustrator of the Totally Chaotic History series by Greg Jenner; Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Christmas Factory; the Iguana Boy series by James Bishop; The Worst Class in the World series by Joanna Nadin; There’s a Dog in my Brain! by Caroline Green; and picture book Rabbit on the Rampage by comedian Lorna Watson, reviewed by Richard Osman as "Funny, charming and original." Find him on Instagram as @r1k1n_parekh.