Bad to the Bone

By Alex Wilmore

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The brand-new laugh-out-loud picture book from critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning Alex Willmore – THE FUNNIEST VOICE IN UK PICTURE BOOKS!

You’ve got to be Bad to the Bone if you want to protect your pack, right? Wrong! When tiny chihuahua Nash causes chaos in the local café, his pack (aka family) decide enough is enough.

Banished to the garden, Nash is faced with tough questions … Do his pack still need him? Do they still love him?! Does he want to be Bad to the Bone …?!

From the winner of the Lollies 2024!

• Laugh-out-loud story!

• Illustrations packed with detail!

• Perfect for dog lovers!

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About the Author

Author: Alex Wilmore

Format: Paperback

Release Date: 13 Aug 2026

ISBN: 978-0-00-882846-2

Alex Willmore is a multi-award-winning picture book maker, creator ofSpyceratopsandI Did See a Mammoth, winner of the Lollies 2024 Book Awards and the InspiREAD Picture Book Award 2023. He is the illustrator ofThe Runaway Pea, winner of the Shropshire Bookfest Picture Book Award and the Federation of Children’s Book Groups Children’s Book Award, as well as being nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal and a finalist in the 2020 Oscar’s Book Prize. His other illustrator titles includeCan You Find Santa’s Pants?,The Runaway Pea Washed AwayandThe Runaway Pea Left Behind, along a string of author-illustrator titles, includingThe Great Paint,The Big TripandIt’s My Sausage, all of which have been translated into multiple languages. Alex lives in his hometown of Northampton with his wife and two children.