Book description
The twins, Ant and Perry, vegetable loving Beany, Sun Dance and their
scruffy mongrel, Old Blanket, specialize in creating mayhem. They
attempt to entice guests in to Mrs Brogan's Bed and Breakfast, teach
Robin how to be brave, and, most importantly, help him work out how he
can keep the abandoned dog he finds on the beach ... Hilary McKay won
the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize with her first novel,
The Exiles
. Her subsequent work has achieved recognition: The Exiles at Home
won the Smarties Prize, whilst Saffy's Angel
, the first in the Casson Family series, won the Whitbread Award, for
which the third book, Permanent Rose
, was also shortlisted.
