Another exhilarating adventure in the great outdoors, from HOTEL FLAMINGO author Alex Milway
Welcome to Big Sky Mountain: a home for everyone!
Life never stays still for long on Big Sky Mountain. Rosa and Grandma Nan are off on an adventure to Toe-Dipper Bay, to see who's in trouble - a distress flare has gone up! When they arrive they find the beach covered in plastic rubbish, and a family of beach otters farming seaweed, while doing their best to tidy up. Rosa and Grandma Nan join in, but they have to find out who sent the distress flare - because who is that wrecked out at sea? Rosa and Grandma Nan will need the otters' help to build a raft to get to them . . .
An action-packed story featuring curious otters, wise hermit crabs and peckish puffins ,which addresses pollution and recycling in a gentle and friendly way for young children.
The third in a new four-book young fiction series from the author of HOTEL FLAMINGO, Alex MilwayContains around 60 two-colour illustrations, in black and blueHOTEL FLAMINGO has sold over 56,000 copies across all four books; the first book in the series is a BookTrust Pick as well as being shortlisted for the Alligator's Mouth Award 2020, and international rights in the series have been sold in 14 territoriesBIG SKY MOUNTAIN is a love letter to nature and the wild, inspired by Alex's own childhood with his grandma in the Malvern Hills, and the woodland and cabin he now owns in KentThe books have a fictional, non-specified location, but draw on inspiration from the landscape of the Highlands of Scotland as well as the wilderness of North America. The four books will span the four different natural environments of Big Sky Mountain, from river to forest to mountain to coast, with stories and adventures set in diverse natural habitats and with different animalsBIG SKY MOUNTAIN captures what it is to be young and free in the wilderness while also considering themes of rewilding and climate change, our place in nature and the respect we should have for itEach book will feature additional material at the end for budding naturalists and outdoor adventurers and makers - including a 'spot the ...' feature where readers can look out for particular plants and animals throughout the stories, and 'how to make' and 'how to help' ideas 
