About This Book
Laugh-out-loud funny and a wonderful story about finding your voice. I loved it! – David Walliams
‘Anarchically silly fun!' – Guardian
Sidesplitting middle grade comedy, with serious heart (and one very funny llama). Illustrated by Allen Fatimaharan, the official illustrator for World Book Day 2022.
It's the Christmas holidays and Yasmin is miserable. Her family don't celebrate Christmas so she doesn't understand all the hype, plus Ezra has gone to Jamaica for 2 weeks and Levi is away on a mission.
Then a snowstorm hits London, meaning Yasmin's enemy Tia can't fly to her luxury holiday in France. Yasmin is horrified when she gets sent a solo mission – to give Tia the best Christmas ever!
Soon Tia is bossing Yasmin around and without her friends to help, Yasmin starts to wonder if making her arch nemesis happy might be mission: impossible . . .
Reviews
I adored this book! […] Funny and meaningful, a delight from start to finish.', Netgalley reviewer
'Levi is brilliant fun and is possibly the best talking animal since Donkey in Shrek', Netgalley reviewer
''Anarchically silly fun!'', Guardian
"Featuring mixed heritage characters, it is full of mayhem and zany humour, and accompanied by hilarious black-and-white illustrations." – BookTrust
About the author
Annabelle Sami is a writer, director and performer who currently works in the arts. While reading children's books when babysitting she realised there was a lack of representation of funny girls and diverse characters in children's books – and she decided to do something about it. Growing up mixed-race, she never found her own life reflected in a book and now it's her mission to make sure that every spirited, witty and adventurous girl has her own special book that she can relate to.
Allen Fatimaharan is an award-winning illustrator whose first middle grade book, Llama Out Loud by Annabelle Sami, won the inaugural Spark Book Award, was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and Longlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards. He is also the official illustrator for World Book Day 2022.
