Pog and Pickle's Great Escape
What if your pet guinea pigs went on holiday? A fun rhyming picture book comedy perfect for summer storytimes, by multi-award-winning author Ross Montgomery, ages 3-7
$19.47
- Paperback
40 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2026
Summary
An action-packed rhyming picture book comedy from Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year winner and New York Times bestseller Ross Montgomery.
Meet Pog and Pickle, a guinea pig couple who are never apart. Pickle loves life in their cosy hutch, but Pog dreams of exploring the world. Late one night, Pog seizes her chance to sneak into the family’s luggage for a holiday to Peru … leaving Pickle all alone! It’s time for Pickle to make an inventive escape plan of his own as he must…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529523058 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529523052 |
| Author: | Ross Montgomery, Sarah Warburton |
| Publisher: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 226mm x 266mm |
| Audience Age: | 3-7 |
Critics Review
This fun rhyming comedy written by award-winning author Montgomery tells the story of a guinea pig couple that are never apart… Warburton’s colourful illustrations ably bring to life both the comfortable chaos of a family home and the exotic environment of Peru. – Caroline Carpenter * The Bookseller *
Ross Montgomery
Ross Montgomery is the author of Ten Delicious Teachers, Penguin Huddle, Ant Party and Pog and Pickle’s Great Escape illustrated by Sarah Warburton. His novel I Am Rebel won the Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year, and The Midnight Guardians was the Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month. His books have been nominated for the Costa Children’s Book of the Year, the Branford Boase Award, the Laugh-Out-Loud Book Awards and the Carnegie Medal. His first book for adults, The Murder at World’s End, published to great acclaim and was chosen as a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick. He lives in London.
Sarah Warburton is the illustrator of a number of popular titles and is sold into 40 languages. She has illustrated Ten Delicious Teachers, Penguin Huddle, Ant Party and Pog and Pickle’s Great Escape by Ross Montgomery, Letters to a Monster by Patricia Forde, the Princess series by Caryl Hart, the Twinkle series by Katherine Holabird, One Camel Called Doug, Mavis the Bravest and Basil Dreams Big by Lu Fraser, and Dinosaurs in the Supermarket, Dinosaurs in my School and Pirates in the Supermarket by Timothy Knapman. Sarah lives in Bristol with her family.
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