Sticky Mildred
Get kids excited about bath time in a funny story of mess, mayhem, and getting clean again! From an award-winning author, for ages 2-5
$14.44
- Paperback
32 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2026
Summary
For exasperated parents of sticky children comes a riotously funny picture book about a sticky squirrel called Mildred who does NOT want to take a bath.
A hilariously unexpected and surreal cautionary tale on cleanliness to get every sticky child excited about bath time.
Mildred Honeyfur LOVES being sticky and REFUSES to have a bath. She sets off to find the stickiest things in the world – doughnuts, pond slime, toffees and glue – until she becomes a ball of s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529516975 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529516978 |
| Author: | Alastair Chisholm, Rikin Parekh |
| Publisher: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 4mm x 242mm x 268mm |
| Audience Age: | 3-7 |
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Critics Review
With Chisholm’s subtle, fun-filled lessons about consequences and saying sorry, and Parekh’s brilliantly anarchic illustrations, this surreal cautionary tale of cleanliness is sure delight exasperated parents… and maybe make even the most reluctant kids excited about bath time! – Pam Norfolk * Lancashire Post *
Told with laugh-out-loud visuals, jokes and hilarious animal characters, this is a standout picture book story for 3+ year olds. * School Reading List *
Rikin Parekh portrays the chaos caused by Mildred brilliantly in his detailed, sometimes scribbly style illustrations and Alastair Chisholm’s slightly surreal telling that sometimes breaks into rhyme is a cautionary tale of the adhesive kind that could just coerce young listeners into having regular baths and enjoying so doing. A really fun read aloud. – Jill R. Bennett * Red Reading Hub *
What a fun story Sticky Mildred is – my 7yr old was laughing lots from the zany story to Rikin’s brilliant illustrations. Perfect for those children not keen on bathing, this is also a story to get young children predicting about what Mildred will get stuck to next! Bright, funny and unpredictable, Sticky Mildred is lots of fun! * Check ‘Em Out Books *
Alastair Chisholm
Alastair Chisholm is the author of Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year Adam-2; Orion Lost, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year; I Am Wolf; I Am Raven; and the fantasy chapter book series, Dragon Storm. His picture books include Inch and Grub illustrated by David Roberts, which won the Queen Knickers Award and Scottish Book Trust’s Bookbug Picture Book Prize. Alastair lives in Edinburgh with his family and Maudie the cat.
Rikin Parekh is the illustrator of the Totally Chaotic History series by Greg Jenner; Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Christmas Factory; the Iguana Boy series by James Bishop; The Worst Class in the World series by Joanna Nadin; There’s a Dog in my Brain! by Caroline Green; and picture book Rabbit on the Rampage by comedian Lorna Watson, reviewed by Richard Osman as “Funny, charming and original.”
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