A four-book mini series. Collectable and enables good shelf presence. Integrated b&w illustrations throughout support the text and add humour. Vikings are studied at KS2. Equal boy / girl appeal. Karen Wallace is very much a high-profile author following the sucess of Raspberries on the Yangtze and her other older fiction, but is equally known for her younger fiction, including A&C Black's Crunchbone Castle Chronicles.

Set in the Viking world of long boats, looting and grand adventure, The Goose Pimple Bay Sagas relate the hilarious tales of a noble family with a difference. In the final book of the quartet, a message reaches Goose Pimple Bay that Chief Thunderstruck is in trouble. He's been trapped in a cave on an ice flow by a fierce polar bear, who has a nasty glint in his eye when he looks at Chief Thunderstruck's bearskin coat. Together Whiff Erik, Spike Carbuncle and Fangtrude sail off to the rescue. But it's up to Fangtrude, being part wolverine, to save the day.