y separately published work icon Nursery Crimes series - author   children's fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Nursery Crimes
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'The Nursery Rhyme world is rife with crime! But don’t let a prissy dress and large pink bow fool you. Amateur sleuth, Little Miss Muffet, is up to any challenge. She laughs in the face of cover ups, corruption and confusingly incomplete rhymes.

'Nursery Crimes reveals the terrible crimes behind our much loved nursery rhymes.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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y separately published work icon Baaa Baa Black Sheep : The Fleeced Fleece John Barwick , Newport : Big Sky Publishing , 2019 16750538 2019 single work children's fiction children's detective

'Case 1: Baaa Baa Black Sheep, The Fleeced Fleeced

'Baaa Baa Black Sheep is suspicious.

'What’s Farmer Fred up to?

'Why is he giving all her precious black wool away? They could make a killing on the white-market!

'Is Baaa Baa being fleeced?

'Will the feisty Little Miss Muffet, amateur detective and world-renowned arachnid expert, solve the mystery before it’s too late?

'And how did Little Bo Peep get mixed up in all this? It all sounds a bit crook …'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
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y separately published work icon Little Bo Peep : Phone Alone John Barwick , Newport : Big Sky Publishing , 2020 18430830 2020 single work children's fiction children's detective

'While a shepherdess chats to her friends on her mobile phone, all her sheep escape. Will she find them again? And why are the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker hiding in the bushes? Little Miss Muffet cracks the case!'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
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y separately published work icon Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat : Cat-tastrophe at the Palace John Barwick , Newport : Big Sky Publishing , 2020 18430910 2020 single work children's fiction children's detective

' A pussy cat discovered that the Queen is in danger. The evil Lord Chamberlain is plotting to kidnap her and replace her with a wicked fairy queen. She rushes to London to warn her. Will she and Little Miss Muffet get there in time?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
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y separately published work icon Humpty Dumpty : The King's Malady John Barwick , Newport : Big Sky Publishing , 2020 18430969 2020 single work children's fiction children's detective

'A badly fractured egg is certain that he was pushed off the wall. But who pushed him? Together with Little Miss Muffet, he sets out to solve the mystery. They discover that his "accident" is all part of a fiendish plot to take over the King's kingdom.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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