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Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam by Tracey Corderoy - Activity packs

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam by Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are two hapless robber dogs who decide on a career change after one bungled burglary too many. Their adventures are full of japes, scrapes and mysteries to solve, and prove just what fun a life of baking can be! There are two Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam picture books and three hilarious young readers.

This download contains four paw-some puzzle pages:
- A step-by-step guide to drawing Kitty Le Claw, Shifty and Sam’s feisty feline foe
- Which character are you? Take the quiz!
- The Bakemobile’s lost! Can you help Shifty and Sam escape the maze?
- Wordsearch: can you find all ten missing words?’

The publisher would love to see how your activities. You can do this on social media using #ShiftyMcGifty and tags ‘@NosyCrow’, ‘@readingagency’, ‘@TraceyCorderoy’ and ‘@StevenLenton’.

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