Café Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake

Name: Café Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781805132660
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By Catherine Wilkins

Series: Café Chaos

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Running a bustling café is Hope's family's dream - it's just not hers! Hope has a lot on her plate starting secondary school, but a surprise side dish of outrageous auntie makes things extra spicy in this hilarious new series from much-loved author Catherine Wilkins. While... Read More

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Hope Crumble and her family serve up cakes, coffee and a large helping of calamity in this hilarious new series from much-loved author Catherine Wilkins.

Hope Crumble and her family serve up cakes, coffee and a large helping of calamity in this hilarious new series from much-loved author Catherine Wilkins.

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While Dad and Gran battle it out in the kitchen, Mum tries to balance the books while serving quiche to hordes of hungry pensioners. Meanwhile, Hope's dramatic sister Stacey is determined to turn all of life into a stage, and her "wishes-he-was-on-Wall-Street" cousin Connor decides to buy novelty costumes to advertise the business.

And then Auntie Rita rocks up.

Café Crumble is tipping straight into Café Chaos! Luckily for her family, Hope is there to save the day, though ideally this wouldn't involve dressing up as a giant ice cream and dancing outside the school gates...

You'll laugh (a lot), you'll cry (with even more laughter), you'll develop a strange yearning for caroons (whatever they are!). Welcome to Café Chaos!

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Café Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake

Running a bustling café is Hope's family's dream - it's just not hers! Hope has a lot on her plate starting secondary school, but a surprise side dish of outrageous auntie makes things extra spicy in this hilarious new series from much-loved author Catherine Wilkins. While Dad and Gran battle it out in the kitchen, Mum tries to balance the...

By Catherine Wilkins

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Café Chaos: The Way the Cookie Crumbles

The second heartwarming and hilarious story in the Café Chaos series. Hope's mum has mistakenly over-ordered the beans and they only have two months to get through them all! Several hilarious family meetings take place to discuss ideas: Aunt Rita comes over all 'flavours of Mexico' while Connor wants a bean-eating competition to catch the post-gym crowd. Hope is trying...

By Catherine Wilkins

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781805132660

Publisher: Nosy Crow Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 March 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Nosy Crow Ltd

Contributors:

Illustrated by Katie Abey
Illustrated by Katie Abey

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 272

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Catherine Wilkins Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Series: Café Chaos Young Adult

About the Author

Catherine Wilkins (Author)
Catherine Wilkins is a writer and comedian. She writes jokes and stories which she performs around the country to strangers in the dark, trying to make them laugh. Catherine has always wanted to write funny stories for children and is finding the whole process more exciting than that time she bungee jumped. Which is pretty exciting. If you think about it.

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