‘They raced over heathland and chased through plush vales. Snippy thought to himself: Now, I’ll have some fine tales!
But PHUT…went the engine, and PHUT-PHUT some more. Then the bike stop-stalled dead on a barren bleak more. The night wrapped around them, a velveteen towel,
Shushing silent the world till the screech of an owl…
TWITTTWOOOOO! It rang out like a call from the dead While its ghostly white form slid by overhead.’

Oh dear! Snippy’s in trouble again…

Packed with crabtastic words and rumbustious rhymes, Snippy the Crab’s Laboratory Lockdown is the 4th in the series of longer-length, rhyming picture stories for the advancing and adventurous reader from The National Poetry Library author Alison Miles

With vibrant illustrations from Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2021 artist, Alison Miles, these books are destined to become heart-warming family favourites.

Poor Snippy gets scooped up by a kindly young scientist and taken to a laboratory far from his home. He misses his rock pool and his friends very much. Snippy nearly comes to a disastrous end but is sprung from the lab in a nighttime raid, making in a midnight dash across the deserted moorland! Snippy is also keen to inform readers that, through an unexpected turn of events, he discovers he has a new talent! Dip in to discover more…