Train Trouble, the brand-new Shifty and Sam adventure by multi-award-winning children’s author Tracey Corderoy, has been praised in a review by Pam Norfolk of Lancashire Evening Post.

In the review, which you can read in full here, Pam Norfolk writes:

“It’s all aboard for an exciting escapade starring crooks, cakes, cookies… and a super-posh train!

With Corderoy’s trademark warmth, wit and charm radiating from every page of this rollicking rhyming romp, Lenton’s busy, bold and fun-filled illustrations capturing all the carnival chaos, and an eye-catching, gold-foiled cover, this is the ideal book to love and share with all the family.”

Written by Tracey Corderoy and illustrated by 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 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 is out now. Grab your copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

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