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Bad to the Bone

By Alex Willmore
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The brand-new laugh-out-loud picture book from critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning Alex Willmore – THE FUNNIEST VOICE IN UK PICTURE BOOKS! You’ve got to be Bad to the Bone if you want to protect your pack, right? Wrong! When tiny chihuahua Nash causes chaos in the local café,... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
$1999
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The brand-new laugh-out-loud picture book from critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning Alex Willmore – THE FUNNIEST VOICE IN UK PICTURE BOOKS!

A brilliantly funny rhyming children’s illustrated picture book new for 2026

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The brand-new laugh-out-loud picture book from critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning Alex Willmore – THE FUNNIEST VOICE IN UK PICTURE BOOKS!

You’ve got to be Bad to the Bone if you want to protect your pack, right? Wrong! When tiny chihuahua Nash causes chaos in the local café, his pack (aka family) decide enough is enough.

Banished to the garden, Nash is faced with tough questions … Do his pack still need him? Do they still love him?! Does he want to be Bad to the Bone …?!

From the winner of the Lollies 2024!

• Laugh-out-loud story!

• Illustrations packed with detail!

• Perfect for dog lovers!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008828462

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 August 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Farshore

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 2.0mm

Width: 245.0mm

Height: 275.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 32

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About the Author

Alex Willmore is the bestselling illustrator of The Runaway Pea, winner of the Shropshire Bookfest Picture Book Award and the Federation of Children's Book Groups Children's Book Award, as well as being nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal and a finalist in the 2020 Oscar's Book Prize. His other illustrator titles include The Runaway Pea Washed Away and The Runaway Pea Left Behind, along a string of author-illustrator titles, including The Great Paint, The Big Trip and It's My Sausage, all of which have been translated into multiple languages. Alex lives in his hometown of Northampton with his wife and two children.

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