Author: Amy Timberlake

Reading age: from c 7 years

Published on 4 December 2025 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Skunk and Badger’ series.

Hardback | 168 pages
210 x 164 x 22 | 482g

Join this best-selling, award-winning odd-couple on their

third and final adventure.

Skunk and Badger

face a winter they’ll never forget when two young rats, Zeno and

Zephyr arrive in need of a place to live and some adult supervision.

The rats cause chaos!

Badger has Important Rock Work to do, but it is not getting

done. And it’s winter, so the adults need to find

time for hibernation!

With snow, snowshoes, chickens in parakas and a climax that takes

place at the sheep’s Spaghetti Dinner at Herdick Lodge, this

is a brilliantly witty final addition to the series.

In a gifty hardback volume that includes full-colour plates and

additional black-and-white illustrations by Caldecott medalist

Jon Klassen, Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake

takes readers on the final adventure in the new

series reviewers have called an instant classic, with comparisons

to Winnie-the-Pooh and Wallace & Gromit.

With a gorgeous jacketed hardcover and illustrated endpapers,

this is a great gift for fans of the series.

The perfect blend of silly humour and clever facts to entertain

the whole family.