Little Gems - The Unlucky Eleven

by Phil Earle

Ridiculous injuries ... strange illnesses ... cancelled games ... Everything's going wrong for the Saints this season, and Stanley's team-mates believe they finally know why. Their football kit is cursed! But the team's attempts to break the curse take things from bad to worse. Soon, they're ready to call it quits. Stanley's still got some tricks up his sleeve ... but will his curse-cracking ideas save the team in time for the last game of the season?

104 pages, Paperback

Published May 2, 2019

About the author

Phil was born in Hull in 1974, and he studied English and Drama at Hull University. He worked for a year as a carer in a children’s home, then after training as a drama therapist, he worked in a therapeutic community in London, which cared for multiply abused adolescents. Then, changing tack completely, he chose a marginally more sedate life as a children’s bookseller. It was here that he developed an obsession for kid’s literature, in particular, young adult fiction.

After three years at Ottakar’s, he became a sales rep, and then a key account manager for Transworld/Random House, and is now sales director at Simon and Schuster Children’s Books.

Phil lives in South East London with his wife and three young children.

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was pretty good! It was nice and simple, with some challenging words thrown in. The plot was pretty cute but it moved very quickly. The detailed description of the matches will really engaged younger football fans and uses language they’ve likely heard through commentary etc before.

[Kirsty Louise · Rating 5 out of 5]

We both gave it full stars.

Ideal to read to my 6 year old, pictures on pretty much every page in colour. Simple football related book ideal to get them use to slightly longer stories.