Fred and the Fantastic Tub-Tub

Fred, a young girl, and her Grandpa travel to the island of Papa-Nupi to see, or rather hear, the mysterious Tub-Tub; a plant that flowers every 200 years and which ‘ produces music so beautiful even the birds in the trees stop singing to hear it.’ But even if they can get there, can they manage to bring a recording back with them to prove what they’ ve heard?

Anja Uhren is a storyteller - working with images as well as words to deliver narratives. She was chosen to illustrate one of the books in Nicola Davies’ s Shadows and Light series, Mother Cary’ s Butter Knife, which published in 2016. Zeb Soanes is a children’ s author and broadcaster. He presents weekday evenings on Classic FM. For over 20 years, he was a newsreader and reassuring voice of the Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4. He has written for The Observer, Country Life, and The Literary Review and his best-selling first book for children, Gaspard the Fox began a series of stories based on the real urban fox that visits him at home in London. He has earned a reputation as ‘ the go-to person for music narration’ with the UK’ s leading orchestras, performing favourite works for children.