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.
Recommended reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
Kim Geyer is a children’s author and illustrator. Her picture book debut, Go to Sleep, Monty!, is about Max, a child who gets the puppy he wants and then discovers that caring for a puppy is not as easy as he expected. The book has 32 pages and was published in hardcover on 4 June 2015.
Geyer illustrated Judith Eagle’s middle-grade mystery The Pear Affair, a Paris-set adventure about Penelope Magnificent searching for her old au pair, Pear. The Pear Affair was published by Faber & Faber in March 2020, carries ISBN 9780571346851, and is recommended for readers aged 9–12.
Geyer has also illustrated fiction by other writers, including Justin Davies’s Help! I Smell a Monster, a 288-page paperback published on 13 June 2019. She provided chapter-head illustrations for Judith Eagle’s The Accidental Stowaway, a Liverpool-set adventure beginning in 1910 on the steamship RMS Glorious.

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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