Beastie Bros: The Cabbage Juice Crime chapter book and activity pack
Beastie Bros: The Cabbage Juice Crime chapter book and activity pack
- Includes an exclusive poster
- UK shipping from £3.50 (Free on orders over £25)
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- Recyclable packaging
A hilarious highly illustrated adventure full of minibeasts, mystery and mayhem!
Young readers aged 5+ will laugh out loud at Beastie Bros: The Cabbage Juice Crime by David O'Connell. Plus they'll have fun with the accompanying activity pack which we created for Parrot Street Book Club subscribers in April 2025.
“With cartoon-style illustrations throughout, a cast of wacky minibeast characters and bags of humour, Beastie Bros was an easy pick for our Parakeet boxes! The first in a brand new series and perfect for newly independent readers.”
~Sarah
Dash is a little firefly. One of his wings is shorter than the other so he flies more slowly than everyone else, but that doesn't stop him getting where he wants to go.
When he's happy, his bottom lights up! And he's happiest when he's eating custard and hanging out with his adoptive brother, Dribble the snail. Dribble is never in a hurry. He likes to invent things - and eat cabbage. He keeps all kinds of useful objects hidden inside his shell. They help to keep him out of trouble, which is never far away...
Join our minibeast heroes on their first adventure as they foil a master criminal plot involving a crystal worm, ancient custard, a stolen Roboslug and some dastardly dung beetles...
David O’Connell is a writer and illustrator living in England. He works mostly in children’s books, particularly humorous picture books and young fiction. His best known books are The Naughtiest Unicorn series, The Sunday Times best-selling How to Grow Up and Feel Amazing (both as illustrator) and The Chocolate Factory Ghost (as writer).
The activity pack includes book club-style questions to ponder, fun facts about minibeasts, and a delicious recipe for rice crispy insects, alongside stickers, jokes and further reading recommendations. Solve our minibeast anagrams, design a t-shirt and make a bug hotel!
Activity packs are a handy A5 size and printed on uncoated paper which is fully recyclable.
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- Standard UK Royal Mail delivery £3.50 (free on orders over £25)
- UK Express delivery also available from £8.75
- International shipping available to select destinations (calculated at checkout according to weight)
Our packs are wrapped in a simple paper sleeve and sent out in a cardboard book wrap – we would be so grateful if you could recycle both.
We don't include any paperwork in our parcels so you can send our book gifts directly to the recipient with confidence.
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We are a monthly book subscription by post for children aged 5 to 14, focused on helping families discover new and different chapter books.
This title was sent to subscribers in the Parakeet reading group, aged roughly 5 to 8, who are emerging or newly independent readers. Many in this group prefer to listen to the books being read aloud by an adult.
