Anonymoose and Owlfred (special agents for Woodland HQ) are one case away from solving their 100 th case. Then Camo Cameleon (Agent Moose’s arch rival) solves his 100 th case first. Anonymoose is not amused. When they travel to Camo Cameleon’s patch to find a missing witness from Camo’s last case- everything is not as it seems.

So, you might not know this but Agent Moose first started out life as Agent Mouse. When I was first thinking up ideas for my next project my agent, Gemma Cooper said , ‘I accidentally typed ‘Anonomouse’ the other day instead of anonymous. Maybe there’s a character there?’

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Our Book of the Month for ages 5+ is Agent Moose: For Your Spies Only, the amazing bind-up of all three Agent Moose adventures! Join Agent Moose and his assistant Owlfred as they embark on a number of super detective missions, from missing turtles to strange flash floods – can they solve the mystery and save Big Forest? Jess Bradley's illustrations are absolutely fantastic. These are books that you can read over and over again. Agent Moose (Annonymoose) has to prove himself after mistakenly thinking that the moon had been moonnapped, when there had just been a total lunar eclipse. Another agent - CamoCameleon - is being celebrated for being the first agent to solve one hundred cases. Agent Moose is very cheesed off as HE wanted to be the first to one hundred.

BOOK 2: Moose on a Mission - There’s big news in the Big Forest! The circus is in town, Granny Moose is coming to visit, and someone is stealing from innocent animals. Agent Moose and Owlfred rush to investigate, with Granny along for the ride! There’s big news in the Big Forest! The circus is in town, Granny Moose is coming to visit, and someone is stealing from innocent animals. Agent Moose and Owlfred rush to investigate, with Granny along for the ride! I loved creating the world of Big Forest with its newspaper ‘ News of the Wild’. We wanted to make all the characters really distinct and give them all a chance to shine. The world they inhabit has to seem real too. You have to feel at home there. But always we are looking for the ridiculous. I loved comics as a kid! I grew up with the Dandy and Beano (which I’m now a writer for, which is pretty awesome. I think 10 year-old me would be happy!), and also Whizzer and Chips and Buster. When I was a teenager I discovered X-Men and then got into a lot of American comics, especially indie comics. I was a huge fan of Manga too and everything I read has played a huge part in influencing my own art. My work on The Phoenix is very much based on what I know I would have loved reading as a kid; very odd characters in odd situations and lots of toilet humour! I love making the extraordinary ordinary so you’ll find a lot of magical creatures doing boring things like getting their homework done on time and washing up!

The Agent Moose Series in Order (3 Books)

You are also very involved with SCBWI and with the Pulse what does this entail and are there ways that libraries can support any of your work? There’s some lovely inventive funny moments with ‘ News of the Wild’ and it feels a well realised habitat filled with humour and fun, how much world building was involved? Towards the end there’s a threat by the perpetrator (no spoilers in this interview!) ‘You haven’t seen the last of me’ can we expect any future outings? Brilliantly illustrated by the winner of the 2021 Blue Peter Best Book with Facts Award for A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You.

You are an actor as well as a writer, does this inform your writing and events at all? Conversely, do you feel your writing influences your acting? Jess Bradley also kindly took part in the interview, we asked Jess if she read comics as a child and also about her work on The Phoenix comic The winners of the Diverse Book Awards 2023 have been announced, with one winner from each of the four categories announced: Picture book, Children... Our Book of the Month for children aged 5+ is the latest title in the Agent Moose series, Operation Owl. We absolutely love this series, it’s so funny and punny, and Agent Moose truly does for spies what our beloved Dog Man does for superheroes.CWISL (Children’s Writers and Illustrators for Stories and Literacy), Herne Hill Station Hall, Herne Hill Forum and Tales on Moon Lane bookshop were all involved in the creation and running of the festival. We all hope to take it forward to continue to connect local kids with authors and illustrators. We are hoping to run the story making contest ( stories can be told in word, drawing or video) this year and we’ll have to see if circumstances allow us to hold any in person festival events. Mo, you’ve also written the massively enjoyableMy Big Fat Zombie Goldfish, picture books like the brilliantRomeosaurs and Juliet Rexand now a graphic novel. What differences in approach are needed, do you have a preferred form to work in and are there any forms you’d like to try your hand at? I hope that we can all be creative in these next several months to try and have virtual events together perhaps and to make plans for when we can all meet up in person again. Dapo Adeola, Tracy Darnton, Joseph Coelho and Chitra Soundar are among the 19 authors and illustrators longlisted for the Inclusive Books for Child...