Compulsive worrier Limpet (real name Liam but you’ll have to read the 1st Shop of Impossible Ice creams to know why) is feeling pretty good about things. He’s made new friends in the small seaside town of Splottpool and his mum’s Shop of Impossible Ice creams is popular and successful with it’s weird flavours and names.

Now Mum is off for a couple of weeks and Dad has stepped in to look after the shop and spend some quality time with Limpet. Limpet wouldn’t mind so much if he didn’t have to wear a cucumber costume to advertise the shop.

Splottpool is small but special with its very own fairy fort which is in plain sight on a traffic island. The thing with this island is that when you enter the bushes the island reveals its true self – a much bigger space and forest indeed. An old lady named Mrs Cricket looks after everything here as there are some very special plants to be looked after.

She too needs Limpet’s help. There is an exceptional berry plant growing and a fairy feeling on the wind that someone wants to steal it. Limpet the worrier is worried that he can’t help mum, help Mrs Cricket, learn to juggle like his dad and keep everyone safe in the process. Especially when he and his friends learn there are not one, not two, but three villains up against them.

Can Limpet master his worries, his juggling, and the stink eye needed to fix things before Mum comes back?

The 2nd in this funny series about a boy trying to do his best for everyone. It’s best to read the 1st book in the series first to help you understand this episode better, but there is plenty of action, tension and laughs for Big Berry Robbery to be a fun read on its own.

A pet chicken called Curtis, an evil pigeon with a mean stink eye, and a dad who knows less than nothing about ice cream, stirs Limpet and his friends into a mystery to solve and ultimately a tale of redemption.

There are many funny illustrations throughout the book sharing the action with the reader. Looking forward to more in this series.

Author – Shane Hegarty

Illustrator – Jeff Crowther

Age – 7+

Read a review of Limpet’s first adventure in Splottpool (Click on the Cover)

(2022, Humour, Friendship, Mystery, Action, Secret, Series, Crime, Chicken, Pigeon, Nemesis, Competition, Magic, Fantasy, Juggling)