Cecily Sawyer: How To Be a Spy

Paperback

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…

RRP: £7.99

Imprint

HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

ISBN

978-0-00-864445-1

Publication Date

19-06-2025

Format

Paperback

Pages

240 pages

Dimensions

129x198mm

Product Description

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…

Author

Iona Rangeley, Illustrated by David Tazzyman

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.

Imprint

HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

ISBN

978-0-00-864445-1

Publication Date

19-06-2025

Format

Paperback

Pages

240 pages

Dimensions

129x198mm

Product Description

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…

Author

Iona Rangeley, Illustrated by David Tazzyman

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.