Chasing the Shy Town | Paperback | Children's Books on Feelings & Emotions

From Dublin-based author Erika McGann comes a fun and playful story about the impossibility of perfection. With illustrations throughout, this is the perfect chapter book for early readers of 6 years and older.
Senan uses his binoculars to spy out the Shy Town, a sweet little place on a hill, with winding streets and red and yellow roofs. Senan calls it the Shy Town because it often hides and is hard to find. He tells his next-door friend Joshua about the Shy Town, and they set off, with Senan’s grandmother in a ramshackle wheelchair, to find this elusive place. Along the way they make friends with Paperboy. Who is, as you’d expect, a boy made of paper.
With the help of a kruckle (a sort of Shy Town creature) that they meet on their journey, they find the Shy Town, only its real name is Perfection, because it is absolutely perfect. But all is not well in Perfection: the inhabitants are constantly worrying about making it more and more perfect. But since more perfect than perfect is an impossibility, they are constantly exhausted.
What can Senan and friends do to save the kruckles from their obsession with perfection?
►Authors: Erika McGann, Toni Galmés
►Reading Age: 6 to 9 Years
►Details: Paperback | 154 pages | 12.7 x 19.6 cm
►About the Authors: Erika McGann is an award-winning children’s author based in Dublin. Originally from Drogheda, Co. Louth, she studied Animal Behaviour and Welfare before moving into publishing, and eventually writing for children. She writes for all ages and has a wide range of books available, from picture books to novels for older readers.
Toni Galmés was born in Mallorca, a sunny Mediterranean island. Later he moved to Barcelona to study Fine Arts. There he learned, read, and worked as a storyboard artist for film and advertising. He fell in love with a bookseller and, from that love, his work as an illustrator of children's books and graphic novels was born.