A chapter book by Jack Trevithick COMING
Kit finds steps cut into the rock at Wreckers Cove — leading down to a sealed door below the tideline. Doors below the tideline shouldn't exist. This one does.
In Kit and the Smugglers' Stair, Wreckers Cove feels like the sort of place where the sea has been keeping secrets for years. When Kit notices steps cut into the rock, they lead to something impossible: a sealed door below the tideline. With salt on the air and the tide always in mind, this chapter book turns one strange discovery into a deliciously shivery Cornish mystery.
For seven-to-nine-year-olds, the sentences have a clear, onward pull for newly confident readers, while still sounding lively shared aloud at bedtime. There is enough peril in the rocks, the sealed door and the rising-and-falling sea to feel exciting, but the tone remains steady, warm and safe. Kit’s curiosity gives children a brave way into the puzzle, with space for wry village humour and plenty to wonder about between chapters.
As part of Polperran Adventures, Kit and the Smugglers' Stair lets readers aged 7-9 range a little further around the shared village of Polperran, where coves, paths and old names carry stories of their own. It brushes the series’ Hoard thread through the image of hidden steps and a door that should not be there, while keeping the focus on Kit, Wreckers Cove and a mystery scaled just right for this age.