David Roberts – illustratör

Det var en gång en väldigt hungrig kung som bestämde sig för att skaffa en kock. Men av alla kockar i hela kungariket var det ingen som lagade tillräckligt god mat. Men så får kungen syn på kocken Lättskrämde Bob. Kanske kan Bob laga kungens favoriträtt? Problemet är bara att Bob är rädd för precis allting så hur ska han kunna laga mat? Kungen och Bob ger sig ut på en äventyrlig matlagningsresa där kungen hjälper Bob att övervinna sina rädslor.  

Kocken och kungen är en fyndig och underhållande berättelse skapad av den prisbelönta barnboksduon Julia Donaldson och David Roberts. Med detaljrika och roliga illustrationer och en humoristisk text skriven på rim, kommer denna bok garanterat roa både små och stora.  

En hysteriskt rolig ombytta-roller-komedi The Observer  

En bok som gör att man tänker till och som ställer fler frågor än den besvarar, vilket är ganska uppfriskande bland dagens ofta alltför förenklade barnböcker [ ] Mycket att diskutera vid middagsbordet. The Times Children s Book of the Week  

En underbar saga på rim om självförtroende och att klara sig själv, med humoristiska och fartfyllda illustrationer. Daily Mail

It''s winter, and what better than a ghostly holler-day by the sea? But how are the ghosties to decide between Frighten-on-Sea and Scare-borough? A postcard from their friend Headless Leslie decides for them: Headless is in Frighten and cannot remember how to get home. He wrote the address on the postcard, then he forgot what the address was. So the friends set of on an exciting ghostie caper involving a haunted Frighten pier, a fun fair, and a mysterious phantom magician. But wil it all end in spooky fun or devilish disaster? And will Leslie keep his head?

''Ghost School is stupid and rubbish, and, um, I''m not going to Ghost School ever again!'' Bumping is Humphrey Bump''s best thing - even better than cakes and lollipops! But the nasty headmaster at ghost school doesn''t agree. He expels Humphrey for - you''ve got it! - bumping. So the other ghosties - Agatha, Tabitha and Wither -find Humphrey a place at still-alive school. They are also on hand to help him make friends. Wither invisibly writes a spooky poem on the board, Agatha sends children whirling into the clouds, and they all whisp out of Humphrey''s satchel during lessons. The still-alive children are so mean they only run away. But they are nothing compared to the still-alive headmaster who is the biggest bully ever. Can Humphrey gather all the ghosties together to fight the bully, save the school and make lots of new friends?

It''s holler-day time again, but things never run smoothly for our ghosties. Intead of a luxury cruise, the friends find themselves aboard a ship of phantom pirates - how frightful! And when the friendly ghosties discover that the pirates plan to invade a still-alive ship, they simply have to help - after all, it is the polite thing to do!

Uncle Montague lives alone in a big house and his regular visits from his nephew give him the opportunity to relive some of the most frightening stories he knows.

But as the stories unfold, a newer and more surprising narrative emerges, one that is perhaps the most frightening of all.

Uncle Montague''s Tales of Terror, it transpires, are not so much works of imagination as dreadful lurking memories. Memories of an earlier time in which Uncle Montague lived a very different life to his present solitary existence.

At the Old Inn, which clings precariously to a cliff top above a storm-lashed ocean, two sick children are left alone while their father fetches the doctor. Then a visitor comes begging for shelter, and so begins a long night of storytelling, in which young Ethan and Cathy, who have an unnatural appetite for stories of a macabre persuasion, sit out the last throes of the storm in the company of a sailor with more than enough grisly tales to satisfy them.

But something about this sailor puts Ethan on edge, and he becomes increasingly agitated for his father''s return. Only when the storm blows itself out can Ethan relax - but not for long, for the new dawn opens the children''s eyes to a truth more shocking, more distressing than anything they heard the night before.