One Saturday, in the middle of June,
one bright and windy afternoon,
all the creatures by Piggyback Wood
were getting ready - as fast as they could.

There was only a short time left to prepare
for the birthday party at Badger's lair.
On the invitation was written in red:
Will guests please arrive with a hat on their head?

Harry and Lil are getting ready for Badger's party, but just as Lil goes to get her hat off the washing line, it flies away. Oh no! If only shrews could fly...

"If birds fly, why can't shrews fly, too?"

Adventure abounds in this delightful third Harry and Lil book from the author who brought you Hog in the Fog and The Hog, the Shrew and the Hullabaloo.

Julia Copus was born in London, near to the Young Vic theatre, and now lives in Somerset. Her two previous collections, The Shuttered Eye and In Defence of Adultery, were both Poetry Book Society Recommendations. She has won First Prize in the National Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (2010). She is the celebrated picture book author of The Hog in the Fog and The Hog, the Shrew and the Hullabaloo. She also writes for radio; her first play, Eenie Meenie Macka Racka, was awarded the BBC's Alfred Bradley prize. She is a Lector for the Royal Literary Fund, and in 2008 was made an Honorary Fellow at the University of Exeter.