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  • Published: 17 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9781662641404
  • Imprint: Astra Publishing House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 136
  • RRP: $28.00

Dog Days

The Crush and Other Stories



Mia and Willow share the peaks and the potholes that come with friendship in this the first volume in a funny and addictive middle grade graphic novel series.

Mia and Willow are best friends and they’d have it no other way--but Mia's giantcrush on a skateboarding cat named Jesse is ruining Willow's life! The two buddiescome together and apart as all BFFs do--riding bikes, complaining about homework,eating ice cream, and getting up to all kinds of hijinks. In fourteen delightful bite-sizechapters drawn in comics-style panels, Dog Days is a new graphic novel seriesperfect for ages 8-12. It features Claudia Boldt's quirky unique art style andcharacters in interconnected stories. Cheeky chapter titles and ridiculous situationsmake for laughs on every page. Kids will relate to Mia and Willow as they take on thetrials of tweendom—together!

  • Published: 17 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9781662641404
  • Imprint: Astra Publishing House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 136
  • RRP: $28.00

About the author

Claudia Boldt

Claudia's work has been exhibited in London, Zürich and Berlin and has been selected to show at the illustrators' exhibition in Bologna. In 2011 she was awarded the Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award in the UK. She attended Glasgow's School of Art and then Kingston University, graduating with her Masters in Illustration in 2007 - the same year she founded Cloud Cuckoo Studio with fellow illustrator Katharina Koall in London's East End.

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