You are pre-ordering Colin's Monster, Colin's Grandma and Colin's Castle by Holly Swain, who your child will be meeting on Thursday 1st October at Tetherdown. When ordering please use the notes section to write your child's full name and class. This will ensure your child receives their signed book on the day. Please place orders by 10am on Thursday 24th September.
Colin's Monster
Colin and Duck are back – and this time, there’s something lurking in the castle dungeon!
The third book in the award-winning Colin and Duck series!
Welcome back to Colin’s Castle – where Colin and Duck have noticed a VERY strange noise! They search from top to bottom, finding rooms they have never been in before – and rooms they will never go in again. Soon there is only one place left to look … the DUNGEON!
Uh-oh! Colin and Duck have never been inside the dungeon. What – or who – is making the noise … and why?!
• Check out this seriously suspenseful picture book!
• The perfect book to share or gift during spooky season!
• A hilarious readaloud story
Colin’s Castle won the English Association 4–11 Picture Book Award 2024 and the Oxfordshire Book Awards Best Picture Book 2025.
Colin's Grandma
The brilliantly funny follow-up to the award-winning Colin’s Castle!
Colin and Duck are back!
Colin and Duck are now friends. They’re happily sharing their castle – and they’re expecting a visitor … Grandma!
Grandma’s brought lots of luggage – and her pet crocodile. Eek! Will she like Colin’s unconventional castle? Will she like his vegetarian cooking? And will she like … DUCK?!
The highly anticipated sequel to Colin’s Castle, with hilarious new characters and a brilliantly funny final twist.
Colin's Castle
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?
- holly swain tetherdown
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