A lively, gorgeously illustrated story from Dynamic Duo, Reeve and McIntyre! Along with his new friends, a grumpy old albatross, a short-sighted mermaid, and a friendly island called Cliff, Oliver goes off in search of his missing parents. But before he can put his rescue plan into action there's the evil Stacey de Lacey and an army of greasy, green sea monkeys to contend with . . .

 

This book was recognised in the Ages 7-11 Years category by the UK Literacy Association Book Award. It was recognised in the Best Story category by the Blue Peter Book Award. The Blue Peter Book Awards are a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme Blue Peter. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999. The Awards have been managed by reading charity, Booktrust, since 2006.

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Oxford University Press .

Sarah McIntyre loves wild hats, enormous wigs and making silly comics with her friends. Plus she blogs almost every day: http://www. jabberworks. co. uk; Twitter: @jabberworks. Philip Reeve is a hugely talented author. He won the Carnegie Medal for Here Lies Arthur and is also the author of the Mortal Engines series, and Goblins which was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.