Boots and Cats
A beatboxing book with audio
Published on 30. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-1-0350-3308-9 (ISBN)
Description
Have fun with sounds in this super silly beatboxing book - perfect for kids who like to read aloud!
Introducing Boots and Cats, silly brilliant fun from author Hazel Gardner and prolific illustrator Fred Blunt. Enjoy the free audio track from professional beatboxer Conrad Murray - scan the QR code and beatbox along!
With bobbing bunnies, guinea pig wigs and a high-wire act from an elephant this innovative, entertaining book is bursting with wild, unexpected sounds. Inspired by the rhythms of beatboxing, it's hilariously satisfying to read aloud. Beatbox along with the audio QR code, toe-tapping guaranteed!
Using the well-known beatboxing starting point pattern of Boots and Cats this book takes you on a fantastical, magical ride, down to a deep-sea diner, a nightclub where ducks dance and an exhilarating rollercoaster ride.
Bold, wacky and brilliantly funny, Boots and Cats tickles the imagination, reminding us all to find the fun in reading aloud - and to do it together!
Introducing Boots and Cats, silly brilliant fun from author Hazel Gardner and prolific illustrator Fred Blunt. Enjoy the free audio track from professional beatboxer Conrad Murray - scan the QR code and beatbox along!
With bobbing bunnies, guinea pig wigs and a high-wire act from an elephant this innovative, entertaining book is bursting with wild, unexpected sounds. Inspired by the rhythms of beatboxing, it's hilariously satisfying to read aloud. Beatbox along with the audio QR code, toe-tapping guaranteed!
Using the well-known beatboxing starting point pattern of Boots and Cats this book takes you on a fantastical, magical ride, down to a deep-sea diner, a nightclub where ducks dance and an exhilarating rollercoaster ride.
Bold, wacky and brilliantly funny, Boots and Cats tickles the imagination, reminding us all to find the fun in reading aloud - and to do it together!
Reviews / Votes
This book will have even the most unrhythmical reader beatboxing and sounding cool in minutes.. It's genius * Emily Drabble, The Island of Brilliant *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 3 to 5 years
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 243 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
184 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0350-3308-9 (9781035033089)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Hazel Gardner is a children's author who lives in Preston with her human, cat and tortoise family. After a Master's degree and a string of serious jobs, she now enjoys nothing more than bringing her very unserious sense of humour to picture books and children's fiction. When she isn't writing, Hazel can often be found feeding her local murder of crows. Hazel enjoys writing everything from bold and bright laugh-out-loud picture books like Boots and Cats, to mindful, gentle stories.
Fred Blunt has illustrated dozens of books including Boots and Cats. Humour has always been top of Fred's list when it comes to drawing and writing. Right from those early (rather unflattering) portraits of teachers, Fred knew he wanted to entertain with his work. Now writing and illustrating his own, very silly picture books and children's fiction - Fred couldn't be happier. Fred lives in Wiltshire, with his wife Clare, two children Bonnie and Sonny, and their retired Greyhound, Olive.
Conrad Murray is an award-winning writer, rapper, beatboxer, teacher and artistic director of the Beatbox Academy at the BAC. Well-regarded in the beatbox space, Conrad runs an incredibly diverse, grassroots initiative for free with Battersea Arts Centre.
Fred Blunt has illustrated dozens of books including Boots and Cats. Humour has always been top of Fred's list when it comes to drawing and writing. Right from those early (rather unflattering) portraits of teachers, Fred knew he wanted to entertain with his work. Now writing and illustrating his own, very silly picture books and children's fiction - Fred couldn't be happier. Fred lives in Wiltshire, with his wife Clare, two children Bonnie and Sonny, and their retired Greyhound, Olive.
Conrad Murray is an award-winning writer, rapper, beatboxer, teacher and artistic director of the Beatbox Academy at the BAC. Well-regarded in the beatbox space, Conrad runs an incredibly diverse, grassroots initiative for free with Battersea Arts Centre.