These read-aloud stories tell of Harvey Stoat and his friends Olivia Vole, Charity Rabbit, Badger and Hog, who all go to the same school in Crack Willow Wood. So too does Billy Weasel, who sits next to Harvey and is always causing trouble. In fact, Harvey gets so fed up with Billy that in one story he tries to make time stand still so that he won't have to go to school! Read too about how Billy Weasel nearly gets Charity Rabbit into trouble over an important parcel and turns up uninvited at Harvey's birthday party; how Badger gets a bad case of the Tuesday blues and how Harvey discovers an old skull and learns some truths about the tooth fairies! Sam McBratney is the winner of a Bass Ireland Arts Prize and twice winner of the Bisto Award, and has written "Art, You're Magic", "The Green Kids", "Flash Eddie and the Big Bad Wolf". and "Guess How Much I Love You" (shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award and the British Book Awards, and Children's Illustrated Book of the Year). Ivan Bates has also illustrated Sam McBratney's "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs".
- ISBN10 0744532256
- ISBN13 9780744532258
- Publish Date 4 September 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 November 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Walker Books Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 60
- Language English