Children's Laureate 2001-2003
Carnegie Medal 1989, 1992
Whitbread Award 1993, 1996
Guardian Fiction Award 1990
What's it like to be stuck in a room all day alone? Hugo is about to find out!
If he wants a gerbil, Hugo must prove to Dad that life in a cage isn't so bad. But can he stand it, or will he crack?
See how he decides in this funny story for young readers.
This chapter book for newly fluent readers has:
Countdown, a book for younger readers, was first published in 1996. It has been reissued, most recently in the Crabtree Publishing Company's Yellow Bananas series, in April 2006, as both hardback (ISBN: 978-0-7787-0958-9) and paperback (ISBN: 978-0-7787-1004-2).