Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam, award-winning children’s author Tracey Corderoy‘s bestselling doggy duo, are celebrating 10 years together. That’s 10 years of cakes, crooks, and canine capers… Congratulations, Tracey!

Written by Tracey Corderoy and illustrated by multi-award-winning illustrator Steven Lenton, Shifty and Sam is a hugely successful, action-packed series about two baker-dogs who used to be robbers, but now solve mysteries and sniff out crimes!

The forthcoming seventh picture book in the series, Train Trouble, sees Shifty and Sam encounter a familiar feline foe…

When Shifty and Sam are asked to bake on board the Pawrient Express, travelling to Venice for Carnival night, they find themselves caught up in a robbery. A sneaky thief has stolen the posh passengers’ gems and she’s making her escape in a getaway gondola! The doggy detectives are hot on her tail, but can they unmask that kitty-cat criminal and save the day?

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

Train Trouble will be released on 3rd August 2023. Pre-order your copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

Follow Tracey on Twitter @TraceyCorderoy.