Granny McFlitter Stitches Up a Storm

Name: Granny McFlitter Stitches Up a Storm
Price: 21.00 NZD
ISBN: 9781776957170

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When a purler of a storm tears apart the campground, champion knitter Granny McFlitter is determined to stitch it back together. But there’s a bothersome goat chasing after her tasty knitting, and she’ll need to be more creative than ever before... Kids will love this wild-weather adventure from the award-winning creators of Granny McFlitter!

Can our favourite champion knitter use her speedy needles to turn a stormy beach holiday into a triumph?

Granny McFlitter is ready for some sun and surf! She hitches up her caravan and heads to the coast, but camping soon proves anything but relaxing when her tasty knitting attracts a troublesome billy goat. And far worse is in store:
That night there was chaos - tents tossed to the ground,
the wind flinging fistfuls of leaves all around.

Wild weather wrecks the campground, and Granny needs an assistant to help her stitch all the unhappy campers' vacations back together. And this is where Guzzle the goat can put his talents to good use...

With bouncing rhyme and exuberant illustrations from the award-winning Heather Haylock and Lael Chisholm, Granny McFlitter's charming fifth adventure proves that even the wildest, stormiest vacation can be a triumph when you have knitting needles and a good angora jumper to hand!

Read all the bestselling Granny McFlitter books by Heather Haylock and Lael Chisholm!
Granny McFlitter, the Champion Knitter
Granny McFlitter: A Country Yarn
Granny McFlitter: The Knit Before Christmas
Granny McFlitter's Eggcellent Easter

Published: 11 February 2025
ISBN: 9781776957170
Imprint: Picture Puffin
Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
RRP: $21.00

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About the authors

Heather Haylock

As a child, Heather Haylock could often be found reading a book while sitting on her horse, or perched way up high in a tree. Nowadays Heather loves the challenge of knitting words into stories of her own. She is the author of the popular and award-winning Granny McFlitter series - Granny McFlitter the Champion Knitter (2018), which won a Storylines Notable Book Award 2019 and was shortlisted for the Best Picture Book category of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults; Granny McFlitter: A Country Yarn (2019); Granny McFlitter: The Knit Before Christmas (2022); Granny McFlitter's Eggcellent Easter (2023); all of which are recipients of Storylines Notable Picture Book awards. Granny McFlitter Stitches Up a Storm (2025) is the crafty character's latest adventure. Thanks to all Heather's research for the Granny McFlitter stories, she is able to knit yarn into jumpers and other clever shapes. And if you want to find her, try looking up. She may be reading, writing or knitting way up high in a tree.

Lael Chisholm

Lael Chisholm lives in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and has loved drawing ever since she was old enough to hold a pencil. After winning the Storylines Gavin Bishop Award in 2017 at the age of 19, Lael has been illustrating picture books in her free time, and has since worked on several award-winning books, most notably the Granny McFlitter series with author Heather Haylock.

Praise for Granny McFlitter Stitches Up a Storm

After a week of demanding nightly re-reads, my four year old had learned the words ‘belched, ‘mangled’ and ‘chaos’. This book is now firmly lodged in our regular rotation, and I cannot recommend it highly enough! Perfect for fans of Grandma McGarvey, Kuwi the Kiwi and Hairy Maclary.
Bex Popham, The Sapling

The illustrations are bold and colourful, the narrative, told through spirited rhymes, filled with interest and humour and Granny herself, a bright, brave, and sprightly hero.
Judges' comments, NZ Booklovers Award