WINNER! The English Association 4–11 Picture Book Award 2024
WINNER! Oxfordshire Book Awards Best Picture Book 2025
LONGLISTED! UKLA Book Awards 3-6 Category 2026
NOMINATED! Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2025
A Children's Book Club pick for Spooky Halloween Books – BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
When a vegetarian vampire moves into his dream castle, he soon discovers he has an unwanted house guest …
Colin’s new castle is perfect in every way – apart from the DUCK.
The duck pops up when Colin’s in the bath. When he’s watching telly. When he’s ON THE LOO. QUACK!
But where there’s a will, there’s a way. Colin has a PLAN. Will he succeed in banishing Duck from his castle and leading the bird-free life that he dreams of?
• The perfect book to share or gift during spooky season!
• A brilliantly funny readaloud story that will have kids hooked.
• Fun-filled artwork is packed with detail and humour.
Kids will love this hilarious fairy tale adventure packed with clever twists, familiar characters and page-turning fun.
The second book in a fabulous new magical, middle-grade series filled with adventure, wonder and wildness,
This is Book 1 in the A Colin and Duck Story Series. See all A Colin and Duck Story books here.
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Holly Swain was born and grew up in Canterbury, Kent. She went on to study Illustration at U.W.E Bristol, and this was followed by a Masters in Narrative Illustration at the University of Brighton. She now lives in Hove with her husband and two young daughters.
Debbie Singleton grew up in Middlesbrough. She has a degree in Chemical Engineering from Cambridg
