One of the three original Rastamouse picture books that preceded the hugely popular CBeebies television series, RASTAMOUSE AND THE CRUCIAL PLAN introduces Bandulu, a super bad thief with a weakness for all things cheesy. He has a bite out of his ear and wears a red and white bandana . . . and he's stolen every last piece of cheese in Mouseland. And how do you catch a crook that loves to cook? Rastamouse has a crucial plan: the lure of an awesome Cheese Pie Competition!

 

There are 40 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2012 by Pan Macmillan .

Genevieve Webster studied Graphics and Illustration at Canterbury and Norwich Schools of Art before moving to London in 1988. She has worked in children's books for over twenty years. It was Genevieve's passion for language and dialect and her love of Caribbean culture that inspired her to co-create Rastamouse. Michael de Souza left his native Trinidad to join his parents in London in 1960. He has spent most of the last fifteen years teaching swimming, and it was his love of teaching and working with children that inspired Michael to pursue a career in writing.