Cool as a Cucumber - Couverture souple

Michael Morpurgo, who has been the Children's Laureate, is widely recognized as a master story-teller, and has won numerous awards for his work, including the Smarties Book Prize, the Writer's Guild Award and the Children's Book Award (for "The Wreck of the Zanzibar"). Michael lives in Devon where he and his wife Clare run three charity farms. Tor Freeman received a degree in Illustration from Kingston University in 1999 and went on to become a freelance illustrator. Tor lives in London.

At first Peter isn't keen on his teacher's plan to dig a vegetable garden to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee. Then he starts to dig up some interesting things - a huge worm, a big beetle, bits of china, an old coin and what looks like a giant cucumber but turns out to be a lot more exciting!