Book description
Set in the Viking world of long boats, looting and grand adventure, The
Goose Pimple Bay Sagas relate the hilarious tales of a ruling family
with a difference. In book two, Whiff Erik, now ruler of Goose Pimple
Bay discovers his brother, Spike Carbuncle at sea. He's escaped from his
wife's island and he's taken a rare seed with him. Back at home, Whiff
Erik plants the seed, but it's not long before a gigantic plan blots out
the sky and a great green thing appears in the leaves. Oh dear, Whiff
Erik knows they're in big, big trouble... Karen's first novel for
older readers, Raspberries on the Yangtze was short-listed for the
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The first in her series for younger
readers, The Crunchbone Castle Chronicles, published by A&C Black,
was selected for the Summer Reading Challenge in 2006.
