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Danny McGee Drinks the Sea

Andy Stanton

Neal Layton

Danny McGee goes to the seaside with his sister and makes a bet that he can drink the sea all up!

And he does. He drinks it all through a straw.

And then he eats a tree, and then he eats a cat drinking some tea, and then he eats a man learning to ski . . . And so it goes on, until the only thing that is left on the planet is Danny McGee and his little sister . . . And she has a surprise for him!

Andy Stanton

Andy Stanton has written eight books about Mr Gum along with further successful fiction and picture book titles. He was overall winner of the Red House Children's Book Award in 2007 for You're a Bad Man Mr Gum! and in 2008 won the inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize for Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear. He has twice won the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Book With Pictures and been shortlisted for a host of other awards.

Neal Layton has illustrated more than 40 books working with award-winning authors such as Cressida Cowell Michael Rosen and Roger McGough. He has won the Smarties Book Prize twice for Bartholomew and the Bug and Oscar and Arabella both of which he wrote and illustrated and won the same award for That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown written by Cressida Cowell. He has won numerous other awards both in the UK and overseas and been shortlisted for many more including the Red House and Blue Peter book awards and the Booktrust Early Years Award. He lives with his family in Portsmouth.

Neal Layton

Neal is an award-winning illustrator and author of children's books. He has worked on more than 80 titles to date, working with authors such Cressida Cowell and Michael Rosen, and won several prizes including a Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize for That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown. His books have also been shortlisted for the Red House Book Awards, the Blue Peter Book Awards, the Booktrust Early Years Award, Funfzig Jahre Deutcher Jugendliteraturpreis and New York Public Library's annual list of Best Children's Books.He also writes his own books, such as eco-picture book A Planet Full of Plastic and 'The Invincible Tony Spears' fiction series. His books are currently in print in more than 16 languages worldwide. He lives in Portsmouth with his wife and two daughters.