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Kes Gray, Author
Nick East, Illustrator
Imprint: Hodder Children's Books
Publication date: February 26, 2026
Category: Picture storybooks
ISBN: 9781444971903
A hilarious fable from the bestselling author of Oi Frog and Friends, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide.
One day, Ivan and his sister discover a very strange egg in the forest.
“It is the egg of an ogg,” the old man of the forest tells them. “Now leave it be.” But the children and their neighboursare curious. What IS an ogg?
Will it walk? Will it fly? Will it like cherry pie?
Will it sing? Will it dance? Will it hop? Will it prance?
But when the egg of an ogg finally hatches, it is stranger and BIGGER than any of them could have imagined. Can the children stop the ogg growing before it flattens the town? And will they ever learn to leave strange things be?
Kes Gray is the bestselling author of the OI FROG AND FRIENDS series of books that has sold over 1.5 million copies and has been adapted into a theatre show. He is a multi-award-winning author with over 70 books published. He eats Ideaflakes for breakfast, spreads silliness on his toast and loves to write books that will make children laugh out loud. He has won the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award and the Laugh Out Loud Book Award and has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Kes is based in Essex.
Nick East is the illustrator of the bestselling TOTO THE NINJA CAT series, written by Dermot O’Leary. He is also the illustrator of Michelle Robinson’s popular GOODNIGHT . . . series. He worked for many years as a museum designer but has always been a storyteller whether, as a child, filling sketchbooks with quirky characters or, as a designer, displaying a collection of ancient artefacts. Nick is based in York.