Allan, Nicholas – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:07:53 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Allan, Nicholas – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The King’s pants https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-kings-pants/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=31941 Shortlisted for the British Book of the Year Awards, a hilarious story jam-packed with royal pants from the author of the award-winning, bestselling, funny family favourite The Queen’s Knickers!The King cannot rule without his Royal Pants. He has a pair for every occasion: coronation pants (he can’t be crowned without them), organic pants (edible in royal emergencies) and even inflatable space-pants (because one never knows when they might come in handy). But in a boxer-shorts blunder at the Royal Mail, the King’s undies have been posted to his subjects nationwide! With his Y-fronts gone wandering, how will the King possibly cope?’A delightful tale’ GuardianThe Queen’s Knickers has been a bestselling family favourite for 30 years, and won The Sheffield Children’s Book Award and The Coventry Inspirational Award. Praise for The Queen’s Knickers:’Made my four-year-old son hoot with laughter’ Daily Telegraph’Cheerily irreverent’ Guardian’Pure fun’ The Mail on Sunday’Naughty and charming’ Evening Standard

]]> Queens Knickers https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/queens-knickers/ Sat, 16 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/queens-knickers/ It’s a busy year for the Queen – she has lots of important events to attend. Meanwhile, a little girl is wondering what knickers Her Majesty will choose to wear on a school visit! Will they be her ‘at home’ knickers – adorned with corgis – or her ‘garden party’ knickers, or perhaps her woolly Balmoral ones…?

Both children and adults will love this very special and endearing insight into a child’s imagination, from the best-selling author-illustrator of Father Christmas Needs A Wee and Jesus’ Christmas Party.

Recently, the Queen visited a nursery in Norfolk and enjoyed a display based on the book:

“…just to make it special, there was one element that was not quite so traditional: pants. These were not just any pants, either. They were the Queen’s Knickers, and at Dersingham Infant and Nursery School, in Norfolk, they were put on special display in honour of their royal visitor” ~ Valentine Low, The Times

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