Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are the world's most useless burglars, and their new master plan for a robbery is going hopelessly wrong! Will their neighbours catch them red-handed?

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are two hapless robber dogs who can never seem to fill their swag bags. They've tried the bank, the bookshop, the bike shop . . . and even a plot to rob their neighbours is foiled! But when they decide on a career change and open up a café they realize that, although crime doesn't pay, cupcakes certainly do! Join the fun in this hilarious rhyming picture book adventure.

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam is a hugely successful, action-packed series about two baker-dogs who used to be robbers, but now solve mysteries and sniff out crimes!

Tracey Corderoy is a multi-award-winning author and has written over 70 books for children including collaborations with Rosalind Beardshaw and Sarah Massini.

Steven Lenton has created many books with Tracey Corderoy and also illustrates books by David Baddiel, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Peter Bently. His books have won awards such as the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and have been selected for the WHSmith Children's Book of the Year and Tom Fletcher Book Club.

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Read all the Shifty and Sam picture book adventures:

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Cat Burglar

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Diamond Chase

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Missing Masterpiece

Have you read Shifty and Sam's two-colour early readers?

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: Jingle Bells!

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: Up, Up and Away!

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Spooky School

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Aliens Are Coming!