A picture book by Morwen Tresidder COMING
Buns keep vanishing from Chough's Bakery. Kit investigates: not Gwylan (alibi: pasty), not Pilchard (asleep), not Jory (crumbs on his jumper — but from yesterday). The real culprit is smaller than anyone guessed.
In The Saffron Bun Thief, Chough's Bakery smells of warm spice and mystery. Buns are disappearing before anyone can say “more butter”, and Kit is determined to find out why. Gwylan has a pasty-perfect alibi, Pilchard is fast asleep, and Jory’s crumb-covered jumper may not mean what it seems. This is a cosy little whodunnit with floury fingerprints, gentle suspense and a very small surprise waiting in the bakery.
Four- to seven-year-olds will enjoy the satisfying pattern of Kit’s questions, the comic suspicion around each familiar face, and the delicious silliness of taking bun-theft so seriously. The peril stays tiny and safe: no scary villains, just a puzzle to solve and feelings to set right. With Morwen Tresidder’s warm read-aloud pacing, it invites joining in, guessing ahead, and giggling over crumbs, naps and pasties.
As part of Polperran Tales, The Saffron Bun Thief lets younger readers step into the village at its most welcoming: the bakery counter, the harbour characters, the everyday bustle that makes Polperran feel real. It shares the series’ gentle threads of neighbourliness, observation and kindness, giving children a first taste of the storybook Cornish village they can return to, book by book, as they grow.