Five lucky readers now have the chance to win a full signed set of Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam books, as well as a PAWSOME baking kit to help you make your own tasty reading time treats…a perfect Christmas gift for beginning and early readers! Full details of the competition, which closes on 6th December, can be found on the World Book Day website.

Created by the multi-award-winning author-illustrator team Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton, Shifty McGifty and Slippery 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!

Santa’s Stolen Sleigh, the latest instalment in the popular picture book series, sees Shifty and Sam race to save Christmas as Santa’s elves fall ill and a mysterious stranger promises to ‘help’…

If you just can’t wait to get your hands on a copy, you can grab it here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

Follow Tracey on Twitter @TraceyCorderoy.