Café Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake
by Catherine Wilkins, illustrated by Katie Abey
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Pub Date 13 Mar 2025 | Archive Date Not set
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Description
“Catie Wilkins has written a beautifully funny story – effortlessly brilliant.” - Romesh Ranganathan
Hope Crumble and her family serve up cakes, coffee and a large helping of calamity in this hilarious new series from Catherine Wilkins, the much-loved author of My Best Friend and Other Enemies.
Running a bustling café is Hope's family's dream - it's just not hers! Hope has a lot on her plate starting secondary school, but a surprise side dish of outrageous auntie makes things extra spicy in this hilarious new series from much-loved author Catherine Wilkins.
While Dad and Gran battle it out in the kitchen, Mum tries to balance the books while serving quiche to hordes of hungry pensioners. Meanwhile Hope's dramatic sister Stacey is determined to turn all of life into a stage and her "wishes-he-was-on-Wall-Street" cousin Connor decides to buy novelty costumes to advertise the business.
And then Auntie Rita rocks up.
Café Crumble is tipping straight into Café Chaos! Luckily for her family, Hope is there to save the day, though ideally this wouldn't involve dressing up as a giant ice cream and dancing outside the school gates...
You'll laugh (a lot), you'll cry (with even more laughter), you'll develop a strange yearning for caroons (whatever they are!). Welcome to Café Chaos!
Catherine Wilkins is a writer and comedian. She writes jokes and stories which she performs around the country to strangers in the dark, trying to make them laugh. Catherine has always wanted to write funny stories for children and is finding the whole process more exciting than that time she bungee jumped. Which is pretty exciting. If you think about it.
Advance Praise
Praise for Catherine Wilkins
“Catherine Wilkins is hilarious!” - Harry Hill
“Empowering and witty with it.” - The i
“Unpredictable, revealing and very funny.” - BookTrust
“Properly funny.” - The Independent
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781805132660 |
PRICE | £7.99 (GBP) |
PAGES | 224 |
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Featured Reviews
Hope has it tough. She's loved and looked after, but no-one at home seems to have time for her. Everyone is busy trying to make their cafe make a profit, and then Auntie Rita appears and is dumped in Hope's room. Luckily, she has a fantastic best friend who helps her deal with Skyla, the bully that has followed them to Y7. This is funny abd heartwarming, and there's lots of cake!