Anisha, Accidental Detective (Anisha, Accidental Detective) Book 1

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Fun, quick paced and exciting, children will love racing round with Anisha and her friend Milo as they get into all sorts of scrapes and try to discover who really kidnapped Uncle Tony. That's Yasmine by the way, Milo says he can talk to animals, and she's not so happy about the situation either. First in a really charming, fresh, funny series starring a STEM-loving, British-Indian Sikh girl and her huge, hilarious extended family. She lives in the West Midlands with her family and believes all children deserve to feel seen in the stories they read and that books are an important tool for empathy.

Serena Patel (Author) Serena Patel is the author of the Anisha, Accidental Detective series which won the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award for Fiction. Except, Granny Jas has turned up as a surprise chaperone, and she won't stop showing everyone my embarrassing baby photos. This book is delightfully illustrated by Emma McCann in an expressive and amusing way – and the graphic elements of the text make this book accessible and a fun read. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I've since illustrated many titles for a wide variety of publishers and clients including Ladybird, Oxford University Press, Girlguiding, Bear Grylls Ventures, and Usborne.

A laugh out loud tale of mishap, misbehaving grannies, grumpy neighbours and large, loving families. Anisha's personality leaps off the page, completely realistic for a girl of her age and the various embarrassments caused by grown ups in her life that kids of that age can easily relate to. Milo can't wait to see the wildlife, Manny's learning survival skills, and even Granny's going to have a go at archery. Milo and I have been looking forward to this half-term for what feels like FOREVER - we're finally going to the National Space Centre, to meet a real-life space engineer!

Full of gentle humour while addressing some of the big issues that affect many of our children, here is another story which is an absolute delight – packed with fun, written and illustrated with charm and one that covers the excitement and concerns of both a residential visit and the prospect of a new baby in the family.The holiday park's mascot, Delilah the duck, has been DESTROYED, and my new friend Cleo is everyone's number one suspect. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I’ve just found a ransom note, pushed through the letter box, saying Uncle Tony, Bindi’s husband-to-be, has been kidnapped, and will only be freed if the wedding is cancelled!

I've been working sooo hard with Milo and Govi to make our super-erupting volcano for the school science fair. Emma McCann (Illustrator) Emma McCann is a freelance illustrator, sporadic painter/print maker, occasional cake baker, and regular mess maker. The books are fun and entertaining but also encourage critical thinking and highlight STEM subjects, which is a bonus. And, as it's nearly DIWALI, Granny Jas is cooking non-stop, and Auntie Bindi is determined to BRING THE BLING. We are eagerly anticipating the second book; I hope to hear much more from this author in the future.year-old Anisha’s ultra dramatic Aunty Bindi is getting married tomorrow so tensions are already running high before the ‘wedding of the year’ - and things only get worse when Anisha gets a note saying Bindi’s groom Uncle Tony has been kidnapped, and won’t be released until the wedding is cancelled! We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

One minute we were in the lab practising our science demo, and the next thing we knew, our volcano exploded and flooded the corridors. When the money goes missing, it's up to Omar and his friends to become super spies to track down the culprit!She needs to use her scientific skills of logic and deduction to track down Uncle Tony in time for his wedding. It's up to Anisha to find Uncle Tony with the help of her best friend Milo, and she has a hunch the culprit is somebody close to the family. Serena Patel is the author of the Anisha, Accidental Detective series which won the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award for Fiction. And now someone is messing with our habitat project - breaking things and dumping litter on the beach. You can feel the effort that has gone into making the story engaging and the 'twists and turns' of the story leave you wondering what will happen next.