Izzy Gizmo and the Invention Convention

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WH SMITH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019!

Izzy and Fixer are back for more machine mayhem . . .

While their fellow contestants at the Invention Convention are intent on making shiny new things using old power, can Izzy and Fixer build a recycling machine fuelled by nature... AND win the coveted Genius Guild badge along the way

A joyful celebration of the magic of make-do-and-mend from the creators of the much-loved Izzy Gizmo.

PRAISE FOR IZZY GIZMO:

Joness loping, engaging rhymes and Ogilvies vivacious images evoke both inspiration and frustration The Guardian

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Pip Jones is a Londonbased children's author,feature writer, columnist and editor,most often found writing or herding children. She is the author of the award-winning Squishy McFluff series for Faber. Sara Ogilvie is one of Booktrust's Best New Illustrators.Since graduating in 1993 with an illustration/printmaking BA Hons and a PG diploma in 1994 from Edinburgh College of Art, Sarahas continued to create and develop work which has been exhibited across the UK and abroad.She has won numerous awards for her work including a Commonwealth heads of Government commission to create a co-published lithograph with Edinburgh Printmakers, presented to Nelson Mandela, HRH the Queen and heads of State. Sara Ogilvie is an illustrator and printmaker. She was the 2011 Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award winner and was shortlisted for the Best Emerging Illustrator Award 2010. Dogs Dont Do Ballet, which she illustrated, was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010 and the Booktrust Early Years Award 2010. Sara lives in lives in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North of England.