Sticky Mildred

Name: Sticky Mildred
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SKU: 9781529516975
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Get kids excited about bath time in a hilarious cautionary tale on cleanliness from an award-winning author, for ages 3, 4, 5, 6

By Alastair Chisholm

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For exasperated parents of sticky children comes a riotously funny picture book about a sticky squirrel called Mildred who does NOT want to take a bath. A hilariously unexpected and surreal cautionary tale on cleanliness to get every sticky child excited about bath time. Mildred Honeyfur... Read More

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Description

For exasperated parents of sticky children comes a riotously funny picture book about a sticky squirrel called Mildred who does NOT want to take a bath.

A hilariously unexpected and surreal cautionary tale on cleanliness to get every sticky child excited about bath time.

Mildred Honeyfur LOVES being sticky and REFUSES to have a bath. She sets off to find the stickiest things in the world – doughnuts, pond slime, toffees and glue – until she becomes a ball of stickiness, rolling through the town sticking to everything … and everyone! Will Mildred ever be stopped?

Written by the winner of Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year and the Queen's Knickers Award, Alastair Chisholm, with wildly imaginative pictures by Rikin Parekh, illustrator of Greg Jenner's Totally Chaotic History series.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529516975

Publisher: Walker Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 February 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Walker Books Ltd

Contributors:

Illustrated by Rikin Parekh

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 245.0mm

Height: 270.0mm

Weight: 270g

Pages: 32

Collections

Alastair Chisholm Children's Books Children's Early Years Children's Fiction Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational

About the Author

Alastair Chisholm is the author of Blackwell's Children’s Book of the Year Adam-2; Orion Lost, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year; I Am Wolf; I Am Raven; and the fantasy chapter book series, Dragon Storm. His picture books include Inch and Grub illustrated by David Roberts, which won the Queen Knickers Award and Scottish Book Trust’s Bookbug Picture Book Prize. Alastair lives in Edinburgh with his family and Maudie the cat. Find him online at alastairc.com and on Instagram as @alastairchisholm.

Rikin Parekh is the illustrator of the Totally Chaotic History series by Greg Jenner; Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Christmas Factory; the Iguana Boy series by James Bishop; The Worst Class in the World series by Joanna Nadin; There’s a Dog in my Brain! by Caroline Green; and picture book Rabbit on the Rampage by comedian Lorna Watson, reviewed by Richard Osman as "Funny, charming and original." Find him on Instagram as @r1k1n_parekh.

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