Tracey Corderoy, the multi-award-winning children’s author of the hugely successful Shifty and Sam series, will be participating in an online event for this year’s Reading is Magic Festival.

Tracey will be joining multi-award-winning illustrator Steven Lenton on Friday 6th October from 10.30am 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 this fur-bulous crime-fighting double-act as they use their doggy detective skills to save the day! Join Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton for a fantastic event all about these robber dogs turned crime-solving baking duo! Expect interactive storytelling and live illustration, as they bring the series to life. Drawing, games – it’s sure to be PAW-some!”

To book your place, see here, and for more information on the Reading is Magic 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.