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Babita Sharma, Author
Ali Pye, Illustrator
Series: Priya Mistry
Imprint: Orchard Books
Publication date: May 22, 2025
Category: Picture storybooks
ISBN: 9781408366349
Priya Mistry – corner shop super sleuth – is back! She’s a Mistry by name, and mysteries are her game . . .
When items of lost property start appearing around her family’s corner shop, it’s a job for Priya Mistry to solve! She digs out her special mission kit and her imagination takes her on a magical adventure, from fairytale parties to pirate ships. Will Priya be able to do it again and trace the belongings back to their owners in time for tea?
A fantastically fun and mischievously mysterious picture book that is perfect for little detectives!
More Corner Shop adventures:
Priya Mistry and the Paw Prints Puzzle
Babita Sharma is a corner shop super fan, as well as an author, journalist and TV personality. She has spent fifteen years covering major global news events as a presenter for BBC News. Babita’s book on the history of the corner shop in Britain was published by Two Roads in Spring 2019, and follows her critically-acclaimed documentary Booze, Beans & Bhajis: The Story of the Corner Shop on BBC Four. She lives in Belfast with her family.
Ali Pye had two ambitions when she was a child – to be a police dog trainer and to work as an illustrator. Luckily for the police dogs of Britain, Ali’s life took her in a different direction – but she did get to achieve her second aim and has illustrated more than 30 books, including Girls Can Do Anything by Caryl Hart. Ali has also written her own stories for picture books and young fiction. She lives in London with her family.