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Rabbit and Bear: The Bog of Frogs

Book 7: The hilarious modern classic and next step from picture books

Julian Gough, Author

Jim Field, Illustrator

Series: Rabbit and Bear

Imprint: Orchard Books

Publication date: October 8, 2026

Category: Animal stories (Children's / Teenage)

ISBN: 9781444982015

Series: Rabbit and Bear

Imprint: Orchard Books

Publication date: April 1, 2027

Category: Animal stories (Children's / Teenage)

ISBN: 9781444982022

Meet the classic animal double-act in this hilarious million-selling series. Gorgeously illustrated, this is a brilliantly funny story of a rabbit and a bear … and how to understand the world using science, and your friends. Ideal for readers moving on from picture books.

‘A perfect animal double-act.’ The Times, Book of the Week

Rabbit loves the sky at night. But what are the stars made of? Where do they go in the daytime? WHY are they?

Bear knows that Castor will be able to answer these big questions with his Far-Looking Machine. But that just makes Rabbit feel tiny in a big world. Maybe his new friends in the Bog of Frogs will be able to see things from a different angle …

Discover the world with Rabbit and Bear, in the classic series that has taken the world by storm: this is a story of friendship, science, and being up to your eyeballs in bog.

Read all the Rabbit and Bear books:
1. Rabbit’s Bad Habits
2. The Pest in the Nest
3. Attack of the Snack
4. A Bite in the Night
5. A Bad King is a Sad Thing
6. This Lake is Fake!
7. The Bog of Frogs

Julian Gough

Julian Gough is the author of several novels, a children’s book, some BBC radio plays, and the narrative at the end of the wonderful computer game, Minecraft (TIME magazine’s computer game of the year). His first children’s book, Rabbit’s Bad Habits, published in 2016, has been widely critically-acclaimed; Neil Gaiman called ‘a laugh-out-loud story’, and Eoin Colfer called ‘an instant modern classic’. Julian has won the BBC National Short Story Award and has been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. He also, in his youth, wrote the words (and sang) on four albums by the cult Galway group, Toasted Heretic, and had a top-ten hit in Ireland with ‘Galway and Los Angeles’, a song about not kissing Sinead O’Connor. He was born in London, raised in Tipperary, educated in Galway and now lives in Berlin.

Jim Field

Jim Field is an award-winning illustrator, character designer and animation director. He has illustrated many bestselling children’s books, including Oi Frog! (written by Kes Gray) and The Lion Inside (written by Rachel Bright). Jim is also the illustrator of the Rabbit and Bear series, J.K. Rowling’s The Christmas Pig and his debut author-illustrator bilingual picture book, Monsieur Roscoe on Holiday. He lives near Paris with his wife and daughter.