Cecily Sawyer: How To Be a Spy

By Iona Rangeley, Illustrated by David Tazzyman

A thrilling, mysterious and very, very funny new adventure from the award-winning author of EINSTEIN THE PENGUIN, with brilliant illustrations from bestseller David Tazzyman.

Cecily Sawyer has spent the evening in the attic, training her pet mouse, Mrs Maple Syrup – an unusually intelligent mouse, in Cecily’s opinion – when her parents disappear.

Luckily, Cecily is more than ready to investigate such a thing. She has wanted to be a spy her whole life, and has all the spy handbooks, manuals and code-cracking kits a girl could need.

But soon, Cecily discovers several very strange things in her city. She’s not the only spy out there – far from it, in fact. And Mrs Maple Syrup is not the only unusually intelligent mouse…

Format: Paperback
Ageband: from 7
Release Date: 19 Jun 2025
Pages: 304
ISBN: 978-0-00-864445-1
Price: £7.99, £7.99 (Export Price) , €None
Iona Rangeley grew up in Norfolk and studied English at Oxford, where she developed a love of children\'s books. She has wanted to be a writer since her debut novel, Sam and the Pig, which she wrote when she was five.David Tazzyman is an internationally acclaimed award-winning illustrator.

Praise for EINSTEIN THE PENGUIN: -

”'Funny, intriguing and utterly heart-warming . . . Wonderful” - Booktrust

”'A delight” - Sunday Times