Tracey Corderoy, the multi-award-winning children’s author of the hugely successful Shifty and Sam series, will be participating in this year’s Cheltenham Literature Festival.

Tracey will be joining multi-award-winning illustrator Steven Lenton on Monday 9th October from 1.30pm at The Hive for an event celebrating the release of the seventh picture book in the Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam series, Train Trouble, as well as 10 years of everyone’s favourite baking doggy duo!

“Celebrate 10 paw-some years of everyone’s favourite baking doggy duo, Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam, the fur-bulous crime-fighting doggy detectives. Expect interactive storytelling, live illustration and drawing games as author and illustrator, Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton, bring the series to life. Don’t forget to bring along your sketchbook or paper and pencils for the draw along.”

To book your place, see here, and for more information on Cheltenham Literature Festival, see here.

A brand-new instalment of the smash-hit rhyming picture book series, Train Trouble sees the return of familiar foe Kitty Le Claw, the fabulously mischievous villain in Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Cat Burglar.

Train Trouble is out now. Grab your copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

Follow Tracey on Twitter @TraceyCorderoy.