Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It
  • Published: 29 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241351390
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $19.99

Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It

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15 Jan 2010
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29 Aug 2019
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Magic and family collide in this brand new book from the brilliant Susie Day, perfect for 8+ readers.

Max wants to be just like his dad - fun, loud and strong. He loves their trips to the fair and Dad's no-nonsense attitude when Max gets in trouble at school. But everything changes when mysterious boxes and even more mysterious wads of cash start turning up at their house, and when Dad disappears it's up to Max to look after his three sisters until Dad comes home.

Determined to keep the family together, Max takes his sisters to a remote village in Wales, where he's convinced that no one will find them. What Max doesn't expect to find is new friends, new questions, and a very old legend. Just how easy is it to look after three kids with no grown ups around? Where did Dad go, really? And what are the whispers Max keeps hearing, of a golden dragon, asleep under the mountain...?
  • Published: 29 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241351390
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Susie Day

Susie Day grew up in Penarth, Wales, with a lisp and a really unfortunate choice of first name.

She has had lots of jobs, including guiding tourists and professional nappy-changing - but she always wanted to be a writer. Her first book, Whump! in which Bill falls 632 miles down a manhole, won the BBC Talent Children's fiction prize, and was published in 2004.

Susie now lives in Oxford, England, and eats a lot of cake and drinks a lot of tea.

Also by Susie Day

Doctor Who: The Target Storybook
The Secrets of the Superglue Sisters
The Secrets of Billie Bright
The Secrets of Sam and Sam
Pea's Book of Holidays
Pea's Book of Birthdays
Pea's Book of Big Dreams
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Praise for Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It

"Wonderfully diverse and effortlessly entertaining, Susie's books are a must for all school libraries"

BOOKLOVER JO, BLOGGER AND LIBRARIAN

A beautifully written story to make you laugh and cry

Jacqueline Wilson

If Jacqueline Wilson ganged up with Alan Garner and remixed A Monster Calls, with dragons. Powerful and deep.

Louie Stowell, author of The Dragon in the Library

Utterly lovely . . . Enid Blyton meets Jacqueline Wilson meets Jenny Nimmo, with all the humour and warmth you'd expect in a Susie Day novel

Sally Nicholls, author of Things a Bright Girl Can Do