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The Cave Downwind of the Café
- Author
- Mikey Please
- Narrator
- Mikey Please
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 25 September 2025
- Run Time
- 10 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
'Glumfoot grew up in a cave, where every morning, father made a bogey broth, served with a spade. He dreamed of something sweeter…'
Glumfoot saves the day once again in another brilliantly disgusting story about hungry bellies, bogey broth and human-eating ogres from award-winning author Mikey Please
A new rhyming picture book from Waterstones Prize Winner Mikey Please, author of The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods
Every night, Glumfoot dreams of delicious meals and every night he is served the same thing: his dad’s bogey broth. He is overjoyed one day to discover the new café at the edge of the woods – but when one very hungry ogre decides he’ll eat the owner, it’s down to Glumfoot to save the chef, and with it, his dreams of ever having a good meal.
Revisit the Cafe at the Edge of the Woods and join Rene and Glumfoot in this return to their gloriously gruesome culinary world where you're never quite sure what's on the menu – or who the customer will be…
Perfect Halloween Picture Book – A monster-filled rhyming story for children aged 3-5 years
Rhyming text for easy read-alouds – Catchy rhymes make bedtime reading a breeze
Parent- & Educator-Approved Quality – The story is aligned with EYFS guidelines to encourage imaginative play and social-emotional learning
Critics Review
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'[an] accomplished debut … the artwork is sublime … so original, so distinctive, it suddenly makes the competition look bland' The Times
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'An unusual, intricate, delightfully grotesque rhyming picture book' The Guardian
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‘Exasperated parents of picky eaters will love this gorgeously illustrated, gothic gourmet giggle’ Daily Mail
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'I really, really love this story' Jon Klassen
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'[Mikey Please] has one of the most brilliant minds I know' Daniel Kwan, director of Everything Everywhere All at Once
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‘A captivating picture book debut' Bookseller
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'A funny, tautly plotted delight … The Café at the Edge of the Woods is a brilliantly accomplished debut that will appeal to children and their parents’ Bookseller
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Details
- Author
- Mikey Please
- Narrator
- Mikey Please
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9780008639099
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Picture storybooks, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Mythic fantasy / Myths and Legends fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Magical realism / Magical fantasy
Synopsis
'Glumfoot grew up in a cave, where every morning, father made a bogey broth, served with a spade. He dreamed of something sweeter…' Glumfoot saves the day once again in another brilliantly disgusting story about hungry bellies, bogey broth and human-eating ogres from award-winning author Mikey Please A new rhyming picture book from Waterstones Prize Winner Mikey Please, author of The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods Every night, Glumfoot dreams of delicious meals and every night he is served the same thing: his dad’s bogey broth. He is overjoyed one day to discover the new café at the edge of the woods – but when one very hungry ogre decides he’ll eat the owner, it’s down to Glumfoot to save the chef, and with it, his dreams of ever having a good meal. Revisit the Cafe at the Edge of the Woods and join Rene and Glumfoot in this return to their gloriously gruesome culinary world where you're never quite sure what's on the menu – or who the customer will be… Perfect Halloween Picture Book – A monster-filled rhyming story for children aged 3-5 years Rhyming text for easy read-alouds – Catchy rhymes make bedtime reading a breeze Parent- & Educator-Approved Quality – The story is aligned with EYFS guidelines to encourage imaginative play and social-emotional learning
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