Where's Pilchard?

In Where's Pilchard?, a tiny game of peekaboo ripples through Polperran. Someone is looking for Pilchard: is he tucked in the nets, curled in the bread basket, hiding under Bosun's ear, or sitting in the lobster pot? Each sturdy page turns on the same delicious question and the same comic “No…!”, building gentle anticipation until little listeners are ready to spot him too.

Made for babies and toddlers, this board book keeps the play clear, funny and reassuring. The repeated question invites children to join in long before they can read, while the predictable “No…!” gives every page turn a satisfying bounce. There is no peril here, only cosy suspense, soft humour and the pleasure of looking closely at familiar objects with a trusted grown-up beside them.

Pilchard's Polperran is the youngest doorway into Little Chough Press's shared Cornish story village, where readers grow up alongside Polperran. Pip Trelawny's board books offer first meetings with the harbour world: nets, baskets, boatside bustle and friendly Bosun, all shaped for tiny hands and short attention spans. Where's Pilchard? plants early threads of place, character and rhythm for the Polperran stories to come.