When the animals start rebelling, and Aubrey is stung by a very polite wasp, he realises there is something weird going on in the valley below Rushing Wood. And as he’s the only boy he knows of who can talk with animals, he is determined to find out what. With help from his friends Ariadne the house spider, Silvio the silverfish and Lupo the Huskey pup, the young warrior sets out to find the terrible Terrible Spiders and their genius creator Big B and, just maybe, save the world.

Horatio Clare's first book for children Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot, won the Branford Boase Award for a first children's novel in 2016. His second book in the series, Aubrey and the Terrible Ladybirds, was longlisted for the Carnegie and the UKLA book awards. Horatio has also written a number of award-winning creative non-fiction titles including Running for the Hills, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, and was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Truant, A Single Swallow, and the travelogue Down to the Sea in Ships, winner of the Standford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2015.