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FLYING FURBALLS  2016-2020

Written and illustrated by Donovan Bixley
Softcover 
210 x 148mm (portrait), 112 pages 

 

Flying Furballs is a fully illustrated junior fiction series aimed at 6–10 year olds. It's pussycats in planes in Paris!

Our hero is Claude D’Bonair, a young pilot in the Cat Air Corps, keen to prove his worth to the older pilots and live up to the memory of his father. Will cats and dogs ever live in harmony again? And will Claude survive with his nine lives intact? With cat tricks and catastrophe, Dogfight is the first in an explosive new series that will have young readers wanting to read beyond the very last page. Full of the romance of Paris at the dawn of aviation, and fully illustrated on every page, you'll be barking mad if you don't get your paws on Flying Furballs.

“A well-thought-out, brilliantly sustained and thoroughly witty series. Flying Furballs is a great series because it combines painstaking attention to detail (lovingly restored aircraft, complete with detailed plans) with the world’s most awful wordplay. It is genuinely funny on several levels… Donovan Bixley’s splendid illustrations are on almost every page, adding an extra layer of delight to the verbal mayhem. Particular pictorial pleasure is offered by the endpapers.” 
Trevor Agnew, Magpies Children's Book review

REVIEWS FROM AMAZON

FIVE STARS FLYING FURBALLS 5 KIT-NAPPED

Daughter urges you to read these!

This series jump started my child's love for adventure stories. She reads and re-reads them! Worth getting the whole series!

 

FIVE STARS FLYING FURBALLS 3 MOST WANTED

Our family loves these books 

We have read the Flying Furballs books multiple times aloud to our boys (7 & 9) at bedtime. Mom and Dad love them as much, if not more, than the kids do. Fun and hilarious, great story telling. We are eager for more!


FIVE STARS FLYING FURBALLS 6 DOUBLE CROSS

Continued fun adventures!

My daughter is 8 years old and has just downed this entire series. She was so excited when we discovered the 6th book was out. I do recommend starting at the beginning of the series. Enjoy these adventures! Great for getting younger kids into reading bigger books. Fantastic!


FIVE STARS FLYING FURBALLS 3 MOST WANTED

My picky 7 year old son loved this book

My 7 year old son loved this book with theme of War and plane fights and its illustrations (yes my son checks to see if there are illustrations before reading the book. I loved it because it's well written with good vocabulary, range of adjectives and good sentence structure. Good wholesome content and would highly recommend it.

  

 

CHECK OUT THE WHOLE SERIES

Book 1: DOGFIGHT

Claude must go on a rescue secret mission to a dark and dangerous castle to save the most famous pilot in Katdom. 

 

Book 2: HOT AIR

Claude journeys to snowy Switzerland to stop the DOGZ latest dastardly plan.

 

Book 3: UNMASKED

Our heroes must go under cover on a secret mission to the enchanting city of Venice to recover some stolen plans.

 

Book 4: MOST WANTED

Claude is on the run behind enemy lines, when his plane goes down in DOGZ occupied Holland.

 

Book 5: KIT-NAPPED

Claude and Syd travel to Egypt to rescue CATs' chief inventor, but soon find themselves wrapped up in a bigger mission.

 

Book 6: DOUBLE CROSS

Claude and Syd take a well earned rest in London, but it's no holiday when the DOGZ jare on your tail.

 

Book 7: BREAKOUT

Claude must join forces with an old enemy as he heads to Russia in his coolest adventure yet.

 

Book 8: DOWNFALL

It's an epic catfight when Claude discovers the spy at CATs HQ, but who will be left standing when teh dust settles?

 

Book 9: NINE LIVES

Has Claude really lost all his 9 lives? Will cats and dogs ever live in peace again? Find out how it all ends in this explosive series finale.