Cricket

The long-awaited new book by Annet Schaap, the author of Lampie

She had six brothers. Five of them drowned at sea, her stepmother says, but Eliza doesn’t believe a word of it. She wants to look for them, even if that means she’ll have to go all the way to the White Cliffs. She sets off with the one brother she has left: Cricket. A scaredy-cat, a cry-baby, nothing more than a burden, in fact.

Everything goes wrong, but Eliza and Cricket go on searching. Through the storm. Against the wind. Against what everyone else says and thinks.

Cricket

• Published March 2025 | 10 years and up | Hardback | Black and white illustrations | 15 x 21.5 cm | 400 pag.

• A classic adventure story about courage and perseverance

• Set in the same world as Lampie but can be read as a standalone story

• With atmospheric black-and-white illustrations

• Rights sold: German, Italian

• Rights under option: African, Albanian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, French, Frysk, Greek, Gronings, Hungarian, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, World-English