The Porridge of Knowledge

Milk lives in the grubby seaside town of Slopp-on-Sea--a rubbish name for a rubbish town. But Milk's life is pretty rubbish too, so it fits. She loves her Granddad, but these days he's always wandering off somewhere, or asking her befuddled questions. Then one day, he comes back from one of his jaunts with a battered book in his hand containing a recipe for The Porridge of Knowledge. Intrigued, Milk enlists the help of her friend Carp to try the recipe.

At first it looks like all they've managed to create is a lump of malodorous goo--but then they notice that the ants that have been nibbling the porridge are building a mashed potato replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa...So they decide to try it out themselves. The results are incredible! Suddenly Milk and Carp are the cleverest people in town and Grandad is back to his normal self. Milk and Carp are about to discover that sometimes a little bit of knowledge goes a long way...

* The second book from a fantastically funny new book in children's fiction

* Archie's first book Jumblecat was incredibly well receieved and Archie's writing has often been compared to David Walliams and Roald Dahl

* Illustrated by the brilliant and highly-acclaimed Kate Hindley

About the Author

Ever since reading 'sodium monofluorophosphate' on the side of a toothpaste tube, Archie Kimpton has enjoyed putting words together and seeing what comes out. He graduated from Manchester University in 1991 and has spent the last twenty years in preparation for this moment of authordom - flogging salami, script writing, book binding and care working in the interim. Jumblecat was his first novel. He lives in south London with his wife, kids and Doonican, the diabetic cat and sometime-inspiration for his animal cruelty based stories (only joking, Dooni).

About the Illustrator

Kate lives and works in Birmingham (near the chocolate factory). She studied illustration at Falmouth College of Art, and went on to work for two years as a children's print designer at a studio in Northampton, whilst working on children's books and greetings cards. She has exhibited with her good chums Girls Who Draw and Inkygoodness across the UK, and had a jolly good time painting up a totem pole for the Pictoplasma Character Walk exhibition 2011. Things Kate finds inspiring include Bob Godfrey, Richard Scarry, The Magic Roundabout (in particular Dougal and the Blue Cat), and Sharps Doom Bar. Kate's first picture book The Great Snortle Hunt, written by Claire Freedman, was published by Simon & Schuster in August 2013, and was longlisted for the 2013 Kate Greenaway Medal.