While Lester enjoys showing off some skateboarding tricks to his baby sister, Lucy, he breaks one of Mrs Large's china ornaments. He tries to cover up the accident but his brother Luke - fresh from the toy shop in a new detective's outfit - is hot on the trail...A TV tie-in paperback.Lester loves to muck around on his skateboard, especially when baby Lucy provides a willing audience. Lucy is delighted when Lester goes a step too far and breaks one of Mrs Large's China ornaments - a pink elephant. At first he tries to cover up his deed. Unluckily for him, his brother Luke has returned from the toy shop with a new detective's outfit and is hot on the trail of the missing ornament. Lester asks Laura - who's good at making things - to try and help him fix it. Luke overhears them at work and mistakenly believes that it was Laura who broke it. He enjoys telling his mum about this and Mrs Large gathers the children to get to the bottom of it all. Lester finally owns up, and learns that honesty is always the best answer.
Kids will love this hilarious fairy tale adventure packed with clever twists, familiar characters and page-turning fun.
The second book in a fabulous new magical, middle-grade series filled with adventure, wonder and wildness,
This is Book 9 in the Large Family Series. See all Large Family books here.
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Jill Murphy Biography
Born on 5th July 1949, Jill Murphy is a British writer and illustrator of children's books, best known for The Worst Witch stories and The Large Family picture books.
Jill’s work has won numerous
