$15.29
- Paperback
48 pages
- Release Date
7 July 2025
Summary
WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN’S BOOK PRIZE 2025
‘An unusual, intricate, delightfully grotesque rhyming picture book’ The Guardian
‘[a] gorgeously illustrated, gothic gourmet giggle’ Daily Mail
Welcome to the Café at the Edge of the Woods, the utterly charming and mesmerising new picture book from BAFTA award-winning writer Mikey Please.
Rene’s dreams have finally come true! She’s opened a café beside an enchanted wood, an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008639013 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0008639019 |
| Author: | Mikey Please |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 48 |
| Release Date: | 7 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 3mm x 220mm x 280mm |
| Audience Age: | 4 |

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Critics Review
’[an] accomplished debut … the artwork is sublime … so original, so distinctive, it suddenly makes the competition look bland’ The Times
‘An unusual, intricate, delightfully grotesque rhyming picture book’ The Guardian
‘Exasperated parents of picky eaters will love this gorgeously illustrated, gothic gourmet giggle’ Daily Mail
‘I really, really love this story’ Jon Klassen
’[Mikey Please] has one of the most brilliant minds I know’ Daniel Kwan, director of Everything Everywhere All at Once
‘A captivating picture book debut’ Bookseller
‘A funny, tautly plotted delight … The Café at the Edge of the Woods is a brilliantly accomplished debut that will appeal to children and their parents’ Bookseller
Mikey Please
Mikey Please is a BAFTA award-winning and OSCAR nominated animation director and writer based in London. He is an alumnus of Wimbledon School of Art, the Royal College of Art and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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