A hilarious and madcap adventure from a delightfully quirky debut authorBilly Slipper is a fairly normal boy with a definitely notsofairly normal family All he wants to do is add to his Collectabillya an assortment of weird and wonderful objects he finds in peace but his cleaningmad mum she even clingfilms the carrots and his fantastically horrid twin sister have other ideasHowever they dont bargain on Billy finding his best ever Collectabillya Jumblecat Jumblecat is a well a jumbledup cat who talks by the way and hes set to change the Slippers lives forever With the help of his batty oldlady nextdoorneighbour Billy must battle to win the town pet show top prize 10000 find a vet who can unjumble Jumblecat price 10000 RESCUE Jumblecat when he is stolen culprit an insane taxidermyobsessed general and then stop Jumblecat from getting stuffed all with the help of his dads milk float Sounds easy Well you just havent met Jumblecat yet Beautifully illustrated by the Greenaway Medal nominated artist Kate Hindley JUMBLECAT is sure to capture your heartABOUT THE AUTHORArchie KimptonEver since reading sodium monofluorophosphate on the side of a toothpaste tube Archie Kimpton has enjoyed putting words together and seeing what comes out He graduated from Manchester University in 1991 and has spent the last twenty years in preparation for this moment of authordom flogging salami script writing book binding and care working in the interim JUMBLECAT is his first novel He lives in south London with his wife kids and Doonican the diabetic cat and sometimeinspiration for his animal cruelty based stories only joking Dooni Follow Archie at wwwarchiekimptonwordpresscom or on Twitter ArchieKimptonKate HindleyKate lives and works in Birmingham near the chocolate factory She studied illustration at Falmouth College of Art and went on to work for two years as a childrens print designer at a studio in Northampton whilst working on childrens books and greetings cards She has exhibited with her good chums Girls Who Draw and Inkygoodness across the UK and had a jolly good time painting up a totem pole for the Pictoplasma Character Walk exhibition 2011 Things Kate finds inspiring include Bob Godfrey Richard Scarry The Magic Roundabout in particular Dougal and the Blue Cat and Sharps Doom Bar Kates first picture book THE GREAT SNORTLE HUNT written by Claire Freedman was published by Simon Schuster in August 2013 and was longlisted for the 2013 Kate Greenaway Medal Follow Kate at wwwkatehindleycom or on Twitter hindleyillos