Cecily Sawyer: How to Be a Spy, the latest children’s book from wunderkind Iona Rangeley—author of the “delightful” (The Bookseller) Einstein the Penguin—has been featured in Metro newspaper’s  ‘ultimate school holiday reading list’.

In the article, renowned children’s critic Imogen Russell Williams wrote:

“A splendidly silly espionage caper, enhanced by David Tazzyman’s illustrations.”

Read the article here.

Cecily Sawyer has spent the evening in the attic, training her pet mouse, Mrs Maple Syrup – an unusually intelligent mouse, in Cecily’s opinion – when her parents disappear.

Luckily, Cecily is more than ready to investigate such a thing. She has wanted to be a spy her whole life, and has all the spy handbooks, manuals and code-cracking kits a girl could need.

But soon, Cecily discovers several very strange things in her city. She’s not the only spy out there – far from it, in fact. And Mrs Maple Syrup is not the only unusually intelligent mouse…

Cecily Sawyer: How to Be a Spy is out now. Grab your copy here or, better, via your local bookstore or bookshop.org.

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