The Café at the Edge of the Woods 3 Books Collection Set by Mikey Please - Ages 4-8 - Paperback

Titles in This Set
The Café at the Edge of the Woods
The Cave Downwind of the Café
The Thieves Beneath the Floorboards

Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Age Range: Ages 4-8 (Pre-K-Grade 3)

Overview
Step into the wonderfully weird world of Rene and Glumfoot with this brand new 3 Books Collection Set from The Café at the Edge of the Woods series by Mikey Please, whose debut picture book won the Waterstones Children's Book of the Year 2025. An aspiring chef opens a café beside an enchanted forest and discovers her customers have a taste for the bizarre. Across three funny, illustrated picture books, Rene and Glumfoot find clever solutions for ogres, cave creatures, and thieving pests beneath the floorboards, delighting every young reader who loves a good fairy tale twist.

About the Books
In The Café at the Edge of the Woods, chef Rene has finally opened her dream restaurant beside an enchanted forest, with the help of her newfound waiter, Glumfoot, ready to serve up fine cuisine. Her very first customer, a huge, lumpy-headed ogre, has no interest in her cooking and instead demands pickled bats and battered mice. With Glumfoot's quick thinking, Rene learns that compromise can turn even the pickiest monster into a loyal regular, and soon the café is packed with hungry creatures from all across the woods. The story continues in The Cave Downwind of the Café, which expands the irresistible world of the original book as Rene and Glumfoot venture beyond the café and discover that not every neighbor is easy to please. In The Thieves Beneath the Floorboards, Rene hears strange gnawing, clawing, and scratching sounds from underneath the café floor, setting up a hilarious chef-versus-pest showdown with unexpected visitors hiding right beneath her feet. Written in bouncy, read-aloud rhyme and brought to life with richly detailed illustrations, all three books showcase Mikey Please's background as an award-winning animator. Each story blends gothic, fairy-tale atmosphere with laugh-out-loud humor, gentle lessons about compromise and teamwork, and a cast of endearingly grotesque monsters that young readers will want to meet again and again on every visit to the woods.

Key Benefits

• Complete 3-book paperback set of the Waterstones Children's Book of the Year-winning series
• Bouncy rhymes build reading fluency in young children
• Vivid illustrations from animator Mikey Please
• Gentle lessons on compromise wrapped in monster humor
• A gift-ready set for birthdays, holidays, or classrooms

Book-by-Book Guide
The Café at the Edge of the Woods — Rene wins over a picky, pickled-bat-loving ogre with Glumfoot's help.
The Cave Downwind of the Café — Rene and Glumfoot meet an even stranger neighbor in the woods.
The Thieves Beneath the Floorboards — Rene hears scratching beneath the café and finds unexpected visitors.

About the Author
Mikey Please is a British author, illustrator, animator, and BAFTA award-winning, Oscar-nominated director. He is best known in film for co-directing the acclaimed stop-motion tribute for Over the Garden Wall's tenth anniversary and for the animated short Robin Robin. His picture book debut, The Café at the Edge of the Woods, won the Waterstones Children's Book of the Year 2025, bringing gothic charm and dark humor to the page. Please's background in stop-motion animation shines through in Rene, Glumfoot, and their grotesque cast of monster customers, delighting young readers everywhere.

Why You'll Love This Collection
This monstrously funny 3 Books Collection Set delivers non-stop giggles, gorgeous illustrations, and just the right amount of gross-out humor for kids who love a good fairy tale twist. A great pick for a birthday gift, holiday stocking stuffer, classroom library, or bedtime read, it turns reluctant readers into eager fans.

Please Note: This is the UK edition with the ISBN as listed; the cover may vary slightly from the image shown.