The first title in a laugh-out-loud new series of picture books starring a truly terrible piece of fruit.
This is Apple.

He’s not a normal,

nice kind of apple.

Not a peaceful piece

of fruit, no sir.

He’s rotten to the core.



In this hilarious story about a really bad apple by award-winning author and polar explorer Huw Lewis Jones, a series of simple rhymes is transformed into a sequence of events that will have readers splitting their sides with laughter. As one silly scenario unfolds after the other, a common piece of fruit shows readers what he’s really made of by making life miserable for Pear, Pea, Cat, Spud and Spoon, among others. In a very dark twist at the end, he receives his comeuppance...

Shortlisted in the Teach Primary Books Awards 2021