Room for One More
Age 3+
Picture Storybooks
A heartwarming introduction to what happens when you have to share a best friend, from the award-winning Frances Stickley and Jessica Ciccolone.
Badger and squirrel are best friends, until one day . . . along comes Fox!
Can you have more than one best friend? Fox doesn’t think so. He wants to prove to Squirrel that he should be her best friend, not Badger, and he knows just the thing to settle it: a friendship competition! But Badger is terrible at the games Fox sets up, and he starts to think he might not be a very good friend...
Creators
Frances Stickley is a primary school teacher who first realised her love for writing with the poem, 'My Dad's Milkfloat', when she was six. She is an award-winning academic, a trained children's literacy specialist, and winner of the Bloomsbury and National Literacy Trust short story prize 2017. She lives with her family and a big-eared dog in Derbyshire. And when she is not writing, you'll find her in the forest pretending to be a dragon with her daughters.
Jessica Ciccolone graduated with Distinction from the MA in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art in 2022. In 2022 she won the Sebastian Walker Prize for Illustration. She is from Italy, but now based in London.
