The book on a colourful banner declaring it the 2025 best illustrated book and overall winner of the Waterstones children's book prize.
The cover shows a cook in an apron with a mixing bowl looking worried, a shorter green character with a tail, and behind them looms a big black shape with clawed feet and wonky eyes.
The @waterstones.bsky.social Children's Book Prize was announced last night.
Big congrats to winner Mikey Please with the Cafe at the Edge of the Woods - an adorable and beautifully illustrated rhyming tale of pursuing your dreams, innovating, ogres and other fantastical creature diners!
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