The Fairy Tale Fan Club: Legendary Letters Collected by C.C. Cecily

Actor/comedian Ayoade presents a tongue-in-cheek collection of purported letters to and from well-known fairy-tale characters from Western tradition. * Kirkus *THE FAIRY TALE FAN CLUB is an excellent romp for kids who are graduating from their emergent reader phase. The epistolary style will give the much needed dopamine hits of finishing a section (or ‘letter’) on their own, and the different voices (from the kids writing the letters, to the different fairy tale characters, and to C.C. Cecily!) will amuse young readers to no end. Also, Ayoade’s vast vocabulary (which has been channelled into the many letters) will pique interest and maybe even encourage some use of the dictionary! I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and I am certain your kids will too! * idreamofallthebooks via Instagram *

Richard Ayoade is a highly-tolerated British comedian, BAFTA-winning actor ( The IT Crowd), writer, director and TV presenter (the 2021 BAFTAS, Have I Got News For You?, Travel Man). He regularly appears on comedy panel shows such as 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year. He wrote and directed the film Submarine from the novel by Joe Dunthorne, and directed and co-wrote (with Avi Korine) The Double. He has written three books on film. His highly-acclaimed first children’s book, The Book That No One Wanted to Read, was published in 2022.

David Roberts is the author-illustrator of the Dirty Bertie books and the illustrator of many books for children, including the bestselling Rosie Revere, Engineer and Ada Twist, Scientist, written by Andrea Beaty; the Kate Greenaway-shortlisted The Dunderheads; non-fiction children’s book Suffragette: The Battle for Equality; and the picture books The Dumpster Diver and His Royal Tinyness. Born in Liverpool, he now lives in London.