Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth

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Shortlisted for the 2017 Carnegie Medal and selected for the Tom Fletcher Book Club, Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth by Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an adventure about the Blythes: a big, warm, rambunctious family who live on a small farm and sometimes foster children. Now Prez has come to live with them. But, though he seems cheerful and helpful, he never says a word. Then one day Prez answers the door to someone claiming to be his relative. This small, loud stranger carries a backpack, walks with a swagger and goes by the name of Sputnik. The family all think Sputnik is a dog and chaos is unleashed as suddenly household items come to life – like a TV remote that fast-forwards people and a toy lightsaber that entertains guests at a children's party, until one of them is nearly decapitated by it – and Prez is going to have to use his voice to explain himself. As Sputnik takes Prez on a journey to finish writing his guidebook to Earth called Ten Things Worth Doing on Earth, each adventure seems to take Prez nearer to the heart of the family he is being fostered by, but they also take him closer to the day that he is due to leave them forever . . . This edition features fantastic cover artwork and black and white inside illustrations from the incredible Steven Lenton.

Steven Lenton is a multi-award winning illustrator, originally from Cheshire, now working from his studios in Brighton and London with his dog, Big Eared Bob. He has illustrated many children?s books including ?Head Kid? and ?The Taylor Turbochaser? by David Baddiel, ?The Hundred And One Dalmatians? adapted by Peter Bently, the ?Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam? series by Tracey Corderoy and the Sainsbury?s Prize winning ?The Nothing To See Here Hotel? series written by Steven Butler. He has illustrated two World Book Day titles and regularly appears at literary festivals and live events across the UK. Steven has his own ?Draw-along? YouTube Channel, showing how to draw a range of his characters. Steven has also written his own picture book ?Princess Daisy and the Dragon and the Nincompoop Knights? and his new illustrated fiction series ?Genie and Teeny?.

Steven Lenton

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