Summer Mysteries
Marco Magnone, Sara De Martino, Alessandro Gatti, Loredana Lipperini, Davide Morosinotto, Lucia Perrucci
Detecticat. The caterpillar beyond the hedge – vol. 7
Humorous
Mystery
Framed, arrested, and caught in a trap. Investigatto has to clear his name — and fast. Because someone’s playing dirty.
This time, Detecticat is in serious trouble: an old friend, Al Cappone, has asked him to keep a briefcase for a few days. But just after Al Cappone leaves, Detecticat is arrested by the Purrlice, accused of being an accomplice of the Panda Gang, the notorious criminal group. How will Detecticat clear his name and catch the real criminals?
- Engaging detective stories for early readers, featuring small, humorous mysteries that captivate children’s curiosity and encourage independent reading.
- Clues clearly visible to readers: each story provides clear, easy-to-spot clues that enable young readers to anticipate solutions before the protagonist, Detecticat, does.
From the same series (Detecticat): Detecticat and the Bullglar, Crime and Fisherment, The Mastiff Always Plays Twice, The Window Overlooking the Pigsty, Arsenic and Old Wolves, Big Octopus in Little China, The Sunday Weasel.
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Target:
5-7
Year:
2025
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario
Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.
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