Book description
Jackson Winstanley Sweettooth (or Jack for short) is a mouse who lives
with Matthew and the rest of the Bailey family. He gets the blame for a
lot of things - Mrs Bailey thinks he's swallowed her ruby and nibbled at
Shani's birthday cake. And Jack's biggest enemy is Beauregard
Battersby-Bunge, the pesky ginger cat from next door. But everything
gets better when another mouse, Blossom, comes to stay with the Baileys
- soon Blossom and Jack are the best of friends!
Malorie Blackman is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative
and convincing writers for young readers. The novels in her Noughts
& Crosses sequence have won several awards, including the
Children's Book Award, and she has won many other awards for her books
for the Random House list. Both Hacker and Thief! won
the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award - Malorie is the only author to have
won this award twice - while Hacker also won the WH Smith
Mind-Boggling Books Award in 1994. Her work has appeared on screen,
with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie
Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial. Malorie has
also written a number of titles for younger readers.
In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in
recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of
children's books.
In 2008, she was then honoured with an OBE for her services to
Children's Literature.
