“Dog Detectives – Lost in London is such a fab book, it is the story of some ravens playing hide and seek and going missing! Everyone is worried for London for if the ravens go missing the kingdom could crumble according to legend. Good job the dog detectives get on the case. This is a delightful story of two dogs searching for the missing ravens. Their search takes them all… Read More »Lost In London – Reviewed by ‘Book Reviews for Mums’
Well we were seeing stars in the Maverick office after discovering the reviews on the babywebsite.com. Out of eight reviews, only one had less than full amount of stars. – – – Here’s a few of the comments… “I think the book is definately value for money and im sure we will be seeing it grow ever so popular in the shops!” – James – “This is a brilliant book… Read More »The Baby Website Reviews… The Fearsome Beastie
Author of the Fearsome Beastie, Giles Paley-Phillips, popped over to Eastbourne Waterstone’s at the weekend and did a beastie book signing. The event was a sucess, with the children loving the scary story and it’s main character, the fearsome beastie! We even had a few children draw their own monsters! Maverick want to thank the fantastic staff at Eastbourne Waterstone’s for inviting Giles to their store.
“This funny app for iPad is more than an ebook (or e-story), it’s an interactive application that allows you to touch the illustrations. It’s also an audio book because if you don’t want to read it by yourself you can listen to it narrated by a professional narrator. The app includes 2 surprises for you: a puzzle game….and a “connect the dots†game” To read the whole review, click here.… Read More »Four Little Pigs App Reviewed!
Mrs MacCready is already becoming a bit of a celebrity in the cake department. The book has already inspired some fantastic creations…Here are a few: If you would like to see how Tasha and Milo made the above Mrs MacCready cake, then you can find the recipe on their Bookish Bites blog. If you have made any Mrs MacCready cakes please let us know as we would love to post… Read More »Mrs MacCready Inspired Cakes!
Hello everyone! Tom here. As you all know the Four Little Pigs book is about my Granny magicking me into the Three Little Pigs fairy tale. Now not all of us have a magical granny (though all granny’s are amazing – you just have to see the granny in the Fearsome Beastie!) – so for those of you who haven’t got a magical can now use the Four Little Pigs iPad… Read More »Transported into the Four Little Pigs!
Fantastic Review for the Dog Detectives Gift Set  from Our Book Reviews Online. Reviewed by The Mole This is a gift set of 3 Dog Detective Books The Dog Detectives are Detective Jack and Deputy Poco Loco and each story sees them in a different part of the world doing their bit to save the day. With each page being a full colour picture that is bright and cheerful and with… Read More »Dog Detectives Gift Set Review!
The Dog Detectives authors, Fin & Zoa, are coming to England with the two dogs! They will be doing a book tour starting from Portsmouth and ending back in London. You can see a rough route here: They will be book signing enroute at various book stores around the country. Here are a few of the posters for their first few stops (click to enlarge):
Published World is a local company whose aim is to bring some of the books from small publishers to schools. To get the ball rolling they are holding a Road Show, starting at Crawley. – You can find some Maverick books for sale at the event! To find out more about their event, click here for the leaflet!
Yo! It’s Gran here. Ok so the Beastie Brownies recipe doesn’t contain any Fearsome Beastie but beasties do love them (so you can use them for bait or even tempt a fearsome beastie to a brownie rather than a child). So how do you make them? 1 cup vegetable oil 2 cups sugar 2 Teaspoons Vanilla 4 Large eggs 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder 2/3 cup Coco Powder 1/2 Teaspoon Salt… Read More »Beastie Brownies
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