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<p><b>An endearing adventure story about finding a place to call home.</b><br><br>This is the story of a band of seven furry brothers. They live in a nice, safe, warm home – a very small hole. Yet as they grow up they become too big for the tiny space and are forced out into the world. And so their adventure begins – a quest for a new place to call their own! This determined little unit tackle the elements: crossing the sea, climbing a mountain, trawling across the desert and surviving a labyrinth until, finally, they reach the edge of the world... What will they see here and will they ever find a place they can call home?</p>

<p>Alexis Deacon is a writer and illustrator, his first book, <i>Slow Loris</i>, was published in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award. In 2015 it was named one of the hundred best children's books of all time by <i>Time </i>magazine.<br>Since then, he has worked across ages and genres, from picture books such as <i>Beegu</i> and <i>I Am Henry Finch</i> to the three part graphic novel series, <i>Curse of the Chosen. </i>He has worked in collaboration with some of the best authors in children's literature and was the illustrator for Russell Hoban's last published story, <i>Soonchild</i><i>. </i>From 2020–2022 he worked as the lead background designer on Hanna Barbera's cartoon series, <i>The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe.</i><br>He has twice been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal and is a two time recipient of <i>The New York Times </i>Best Illustrated Children's Books Award. In 2014 <i>The River</i> won the <i>Observer</i>/Jonathan Cape/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize. In 2008 he was chosen by Booktrust as one of the ten best new illustrators of the preceding decade.<br>In addition to his own practice, Alexis also teaches illustration at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and at Goldsmiths, University of London.</p>

Author of <i>The Adventures of a Nose</i>, described by The Guardian as "a very clever book - and enormous fun."