Author: O'Connell, David

Reading age: from c 6 years

Published on 13 February 2025 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Beastie Bros' series.

Paperback / softback | 160 pages
198 x 129 | 0g

An accessible, funny, black-and-white highly illustrated young

fiction series from David O'Connell, starring a hilarious firefly

and snail duo. Perfect for readers aged 6+ and fans of Jamie

Smart, Toto the Ninja Cat and Dave Pigeon.

Dash is a little firefly. One of his wings is shorter than the

other so he flies more slowly than everyone else, but that doesn't

stop him getting where he wants to go. When he's happy, his

bottom lights up! And he's happiest when he's eating custard and

hanging out with his adoptive brother, Dribble the snail. Dribble

is never in a hurry. He likes to invent things - and eat cabbage.

He keeps all kinds of useful objects hidden inside his shell.

They help to keep him out of trouble, which is never far away...

Join our minibeast heroes on their first adventure as they foil

a master criminal plot involving a crystal worm, ancient custard,

a stolen Roboslug and some dastardly dung beetles...

A witty, brilliantly author-illustrated project from David O'Connell,

the illustrator behind Tom Vaughan's Hercules, Pip

Bird's The Naughtiest Unicorn, and many more.

A winning blend of the chaos, wacky humour, adventure and comic-style

art of graphic novels like Bunny vs Monkey and Investigators,

and a more traditional, wittily written fiction

story.

A laugh-out-loud tale packed with hilarious characters like Flattened

Dominic the slug and Mr Truffle the ball of dung!