The Pear Affair by Judith Eagle
The phrase ‘a rollicking good yarn’ appears to have dropped out of fashion in recent years, but if any book warrants its re-introduction, it’s this one. The Pear Affair is an ideal class reader for years 5&6 in KS2.
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Kim Geyer is a British children’s book illustrator and author working across picture books and illustrated middle-grade fiction. She trained in textile and fabric design at Loughborough College of Art and Design before focusing on children’s publishing.
Geyer’s picture book work includes writing and illustrating Go to Sleep, Monty! and illustrating non-fiction and fiction projects for a range of publishers. Her middle-grade illustration credits include Judith Eagle’s novels The Secret Starling, The Pear Affair and The Accidental Stowaway, Nick Tomlinson’s The Ghouls of Howlfair and Molly Thompson and the Crypt of the Blue Moon, and Justin Davies’s Help! I Smell a Monster and Woah! I Spy a Werewolf.
Her debut picture book, Go to Sleep, Monty!, was published in 2015.
The phrase ‘a rollicking good yarn’ appears to have dropped out of fashion in recent years, but if any book warrants its re-introduction, it’s this one. The Pear Affair is an ideal class reader for years 5&6 in KS2.
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