Sammy and the Extra-Hot Chilli Powder: Book 1 - Softcover

Brooks, Charlie P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008719284 ISBN 13: 9780008719289

Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2025

Synopsis

A warm and brilliantly funny family comedy told from the perspective of Sammy the sniffer dog – perfect for younger readers aged 7 and up

Setterpoo Sammy has a BRILLIANT sense of smell. She can sniff out ANYTHING – watches, explosives, even parrots!

But one day, Sammy sniffs some EXTRA-HOT chilli powder and loses her sense of smell COMPLETELY. It’s up to Sammy’s Best Human Friend, Beanie, to help her get it back.

And when Sammy finds out that someone is planning to steal a precious DIAMOND, she’ll have to use ALL her instincts to save the day!

About this title

About the Authors

Charlie Brooks left Eton to become a stable lad for racing legend Fred Winter. After riding in the Grand National, and winning the Cheltenham Festival as an amateur jockey, he became the youngest racehorse trainer in England. He has broadcast for Radio Five and Bloomberg TV and hosted his own sports programme, 'The Charlie Brooks Show'. He is a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and lives on his farm in the Cotswolds. His autobiography, Crossing the Line, was widely acclaimed.

Born in Hastings and now a seasoned Londoner Steve has been a life-long doodler, studying fine art and film making in Nottingham and Animation at the Royal College of Art.

Steve has honed his scratchy, spontaneous anarchic illustration style to make him the perfect partner for some of today’s leading childrens authors. His energetic black and white line and anarchist tendencies made him a great match for Puffin's best-selling Dennis the Menace fiction series and with his surreal sense of humour he was a natural pairing for Harry Hill's Matt Mills series and Francesca Simon’s Terrible Viking books published by Faber and Faber.

Steve has been happily immersed in a world of terrible vikings, living beards, Super Nans, talking dogs, farting horses & a graphic novel about talking poo as part of his varied work with authors like Phil Earle, Guy Bass, Gareth P Jones & James Turner.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008719284
• ISBN 13: 9780008719289
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: May Steve
• Number of pages: 240