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Monstrous meals Incredible illustrations Ingenious rhyming text Welcome to the Café at the Edge of the Woods, the utterly charming and mesmerising new picture book from BAFTA award-winning writer Mikey Please.

Welcome to the Café at the Edge of the Woods, the utterly charming and mesmerising new picture book from BAFTA award-winning writer Mikey Please.

Glumfoot saves the day once again in another brilliantly disgusting story about hungry bellies, bogey broth and human-eating ogres from award-winning author Mikey Please Every night, Glumfoot dreams of delicious meals and every night he is served the same thing: his dad’s bogey broth. He is overjoyed one day to discover the new café at the edge of the woods – but when one very hungry ogre decides he’ll eat the owner, it’s down to Glumfoot to save the chef, and with it, his dreams of ever having a good meal. Revisit the Cafe at the Edge of the Woods and rejoin Rene and Glumfoot in this return to their gloriously gruesome culinary world where you're never quite sure what's on the menu – or who the customer will be…

Hilarious, surprising, and delightfully disgusting, the latest picture book from co-director of the acclaimed stop-motion tribute for Over the Garden Wall's 10th anniversary, BAFTA Award-winning, and Oscar-nominated animation director Mikey Please expands the outrageously irresistible world of the smash hit, The Caf at the Edge of the Woods.In Glumfoot's cave, there's only one item on the menu: booger stew.But he dreams of puff pastry and sweet sorbet.Then one day, a human named Rene builds a nearby log cabin smelling of all the delicious foods one could eat. But a local ogre thinks Rene smells rather tasty too Can Glumfoot save Rene--and his chance at a decadent meal--with his quick thinking?This riotously clever addition to the Caf at the Edge of the Woods world will thrill fans of the first installment featuring Glumfoot, Rene, and the monstrous clientele of the caf .

Everyone, everywhere on earth, is reduced in a flash to the height of a pint glass. What is responsbile for the sudden change and how will we cope with our new shrunken perspective on the world? The Expanded Earth is book one in a beautifully illustrated trilogy from the spellbinding mind of BAFTA award-winning storyteller Mikey Please

THE TOP TEN TIMES BESTSELLER'An excellent, inventive novel' Financial Times'I loved the fantastic, horrifying, heartwarming, mind-boggling adventure of it' Emma Hooper'Mikey Please has one of the most brilliant minds I know' Daniel Kwan, director of Everything Everywhere All At OnceA siren-song sounds around the world and in an instant humankind shrinks to the height of a handspan. Everyone wakes up tiny: in years to come the moment will be known as The Descent.Many do not survive. This story is about what happens to those who do.Those who wake to find themselves transformed, the world around them reshaped and magnified into a place of astounding abundance and deadly peril. Who travel their altered lands and must adapt, forge new communities, or fight against them.Those who will come to know the Godlike force that has been awakened, not in the skies as we've been taught to expect, but in the oceans below . . .Welcome to the micropcalypse. Welcome to The Expanded Earth.

Katinka åbner sin drømmecafe i kanten af skoven. Hun vil lave den fineste mad med de lækreste ingredienser og perfekt præsentation, men væsnerne fra den mørke skov kan bedre lide en lidt anden slags mad. Katinka får brug for hjælp ... En gourmethistorie for børn, fortalt på vers.

Join Rene and Glumfoot at the Café at the Edge of the Woods – this time with some unexpected visitors beneath the floorboards … When Rene hears gnawing, clawing and scratching sounds from underneath the café, she just can't ignore them. Using every skill she can muster, she lays an elaborate trap – but what she finds will put all of her hopes and dreams in jeopardy … Full of Mikey's unparalleled world-building and imaginative storytelling, rejoin Rene and Glumfoot once again for more folklore figures, culinary escapades and entirely unexpected guests. Rhyming text for easy reading aloud – Catchy rhymes make bedtime reading a breeze Parent- & Educator-Approved Quality – The story is aligned with EYFS guidelines to encourage imaginative play and social-emotional learning Praise for The Café at the Edge of the Woods: '[An] accomplished debut … the artwork is sublime … so original, so distinctive, it suddenly makes the competition look bland' The Times 'An unusual, intricate, delightfully grotesque rhyming picture book' Guardian ‘Exasperated parents of picky eaters will love this gorgeously illustrated, gothic gourmet giggle’ Daily Mail 'I really, really love this story' Jon Klassen, creator of I Want My Hat Back '[Mikey Please] has one of the most brilliant minds I know' Daniel Kwan, director of Everything Everywhere All at Once ‘A captivating picture book debut' Bookseller

Riinan unelma on vihdoin käynyt toteen. Hän on avannut oman pienen kuppilansa lumotun metsän reunalle, ja siellä hän aikoo tarjota vain hienointa gourmetruokaa. Mutta kun kuppilaan ei meinaa löytyä asiakkaita, lähtee Riinan uusi tarjoilija Synkkäkoipi lumottuun metsään – ja hakee ihka oikean jätin heidän ensimmäiseksi asiakkaakseen! Riinan harmiksi jätti kuitenkin vaatii lautaselleen lepakoita ja liiskattuja hiiriä eikä mitään hienouksia. Voiko Synkkäkoipi pelastaa tämänkin tilanteen, vai täytyykö Riinan luopua unelmastaan ja laittaa lappu kuppilansa luukulle? Metsänreunan kuppila on hurmaavan hulvattomasti riimittelevä kuvakirja unelmista, yhteistyöstä ja yllättävien tilanteiden kohtaamisesta. Bestseller-listoilla keikkunut kirja on voittanut vuonna 2025 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize -palkinnon ja käännetty jo 11 kielelle. Mikey Please on Lontoossa asuva kirjailija, kuvittaja, ohjaaja ja animaattori, joka on saanut englantilaisen elokuva-alan BAFTA-palkinnon ja ollut Oscar-palkintoehdokkaana. Hän kirjoittaa sekä lapsille että aikuisille. Suositusikä 4+ ”Upea... ja vallankumouksellinen” – The Times ”Ilahduttavan groteski” – The Guardian ”Loistavasti kuvitettu goottilainen gourmetherkku” – The Daily Mail

The first book in a brand new trilogy for 8+ readers, set in the world of the best-selling, award-winning The Café at the Edge of the Woods – perfect for fans of The Wild Robot, The Last Bear and The Hobbit. Everything is going wonderfully for Rene and Glumfoot at the Café at the Edge of the Woods until one day disaster strikes – a creature most foul and dangerous stumbles across the café during a storm: a human! Humans, in Rene’s opinion, are monsters. And after Glumfoot discovers that humans have also been venturing into the enchanted world of Wandthorn Woods, threatening to disturb the lives of all of the creatures who live within it, he and Rene must set out on a mission to uncover who the intruders are, what they want, and how to stop them from destroying everything they hold dear. It is a mission that will set in motion a series of events that may very well change the world forever… Award-winning author-illustrator Mikey Please expands the world of his best-selling picture book The Café at the Edge of the Woods in this incredible story, the first in a brand new trilogy for 8+ readers featuring Rene and Glumfoot. Funny, exciting, warm-hearted, and beautifully illustrated throughout with stunning black and white artwork, The Rambler's Curse is an unmissable adventure.