Awards
- Long-listed for Our Best Book Award (Leicester Libraries) 2019
Overview
A fun football tale for little readers packed with laughs, friendship and a spot of superstition … Ridiculous injuries … strange illnesses … cancelled games … Everything's going wrong for the Saints this season, and Stanley's team-mates believe they finally know why. Their football kit is cursed! But the team's attempts to break the curse take things from bad to worse. Soon, they're ready to call it quits. Stanley's still got some tricks up his sleeve … but will his curse-cracking ideas save the team in time for the last game of the season?
Full Product Details
Author: Phil Earle ,
Steve May
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: Barrington Stoke Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 12.60cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 16.80cm
Weight: 0.140kg
ISBN: 9781781128503
ISBN 10: 1781128502
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 02 May 2019
Recommended Age: From 5 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Young adult
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Children / Juvenile
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
Perfectly pitched (no pun intended) -- The Letterpress Project A great fun read for football fans young and old -- The Book Activist, Blog Laughs, friendship and a spot of superstition in a big-hearted football tale from the consistently brilliant Phil Earle -- The Bookseller The action flows, both on the pitch and in the dressing room, and the story feels as real and authentic as a pair of muddy football boots. Steve May's illustrations are bang on and in Barrington Stoke style, this is accessible even to reluctant or dyslexic readers. A winner! -- LoveReading4Kids
"""Perfectly pitched (no pun intended)"" -- The Letterpress Project ""A great fun read for football fans young and old"" -- The Book Activist, Blog ""Laughs, friendship and a spot of superstition in a big-hearted football tale from the consistently brilliant Phil Earle"" -- The Bookseller ""The action flows, both on the pitch and in the dressing room, and the story feels as real and authentic as a pair of muddy football boots. Steve May’s illustrations are bang on and in Barrington Stoke style, this is accessible even to reluctant or dyslexic readers. A winner!"" -- LoveReading4Kids"
""Perfectly pitched (no pun intended)"" – The Letterpress Project ""A great fun read for football fans young and old"" – The Book Activist, Blog ""Laughs, friendship and a spot of superstition in a big-hearted football tale from the consistently brilliant Phil Earle"" – The Bookseller ""The action flows, both on the pitch and in the dressing room, and the story feels as real and authentic as a pair of muddy football boots. Steve May’s illustrations are bang on and in Barrington Stoke style, this is accessible even to reluctant or dyslexic readers. A winner!"" – LoveReading4Kids
Author Information
PHIL EARLE was born and raised in Hull and kick-started his love of books with a job as a children's bookseller. Phil now works in children's publishing and is the award-winning author of several books for young readers including Get Me Out of Here, a recent collaboration with Andy McNab, and the young adult novels Being Billy, and Mind the Gap. Phil's When the Sky Falls was Waterstones Children's Book of the Month for June 2021. Steve May has been a life-long doodler, studying fine art and film making in Nottingham and Animation at the Royal College of Art. Steve's scratchy spontaneous illustration style made him the perfect partner for Puffin's best-selling Dennis the Menace fiction series, Harry Hill's Matt Mills series and Francesca Simon's Terrible Viking books. He has also been happily immersed in a world of burps, beards and bogeys as part of his collaboration with Gareth Jones on the Pet Defenders series.
