Sticky Mildred
Get kids excited about bath time in a hilarious cautionary tale on cleanliness from an award-winning author, for ages 3, 4, 5, 6
Published on 12. February 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-1-5295-1697-5 (ISBN)
Description
For exasperated parents of sticky children comes a hilariously unexpected and surreal cautionary tale on cleanliness to get even the most reluctant kids excited about bath time.
Mildred Honeyfur LOVES being sticky and REFUSES to have a bath. She sets off to find the stickiest things in the world - doughnuts, pond slime, toffees and glue - until she becomes a ball of stickiness, rolling through the town sticking to everything ... and everyone! Stuck in the ULTIMATE sticky situation, will Mildred ever be stopped?
Written by the winner of Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year and the Queen's Knickers Award, Alastair Chisholm, with wildly imaginative pictures by Rikin Parekh, illustrator of Greg Jenner's Totally Chaotic History series.
Mildred Honeyfur LOVES being sticky and REFUSES to have a bath. She sets off to find the stickiest things in the world - doughnuts, pond slime, toffees and glue - until she becomes a ball of stickiness, rolling through the town sticking to everything ... and everyone! Stuck in the ULTIMATE sticky situation, will Mildred ever be stopped?
Written by the winner of Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year and the Queen's Knickers Award, Alastair Chisholm, with wildly imaginative pictures by Rikin Parekh, illustrator of Greg Jenner's Totally Chaotic History series.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 3 to 7 years
Dimensions
Height: 266 mm
Width: 242 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
186 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5295-1697-5 (9781529516975)
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Persons
Alastair Chisholm is the author of Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year Adam-2; Orion Lost, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book of the Year; I Am Wolf; I Am Raven; and the fantasy chapter book series, Dragon Storm. His picture books include Inch and Grub illustrated by David Roberts, which won the Queen Knickers Award and Scottish Book Trust's Bookbug Picture Book Prize. Alastair lives in Edinburgh with his family and Maudie the cat. Find him online at alastairc.com and on Instagram as @alastairchisholm.
Rikin Parekh is the illustrator of the Totally Chaotic History series by Greg Jenner; Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Christmas Factory; the Iguana Boy series by James Bishop; The Worst Class in the World series by Joanna Nadin; There's a Dog in my Brain! by Caroline Green; and picture book Rabbit on the Rampage by comedian Lorna Watson, reviewed by Richard Osman as "Funny, charming and original." Find him on Instagram as @r1k1n_parekh.
Rikin Parekh is the illustrator of the Totally Chaotic History series by Greg Jenner; Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Christmas Factory; the Iguana Boy series by James Bishop; The Worst Class in the World series by Joanna Nadin; There's a Dog in my Brain! by Caroline Green; and picture book Rabbit on the Rampage by comedian Lorna Watson, reviewed by Richard Osman as "Funny, charming and original." Find him on Instagram as @r1k1n_parekh.