Pugly On Ice

By Pamela Butchart and Gemma Correll

When Pugly straps on his blades of glory, he knows he is the best ice skater EVER! But someone wants the gold medal very badly and they will stop at nothing to get it. Can Pugly pirouette on to the podium, or will he be cut down in his furry prime?
Pugly On Ice is the third in the laugh-out-loud series about a very adventurous pug, written by Pamela Butchart, winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Award and the Children's Book Award. The hilarious illustrations are by Gemma Correll and the books are perfect for early readers.
Have you read about Pugly's other adventures?
Pugly Bakes a Cake
Pugly Solves a Crime

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nosy Crow Ltd
• Release date: Nov 3, 2016
• ISBN: 9780857638977

Pamela Butchart

Pamela lives in Dundee with her baby boy and their two awesome cats, Bear & Carlos. If she wasn't working as a writer and a teacher she'd like to open a luxury hotel for stray cats. As a child, Pamela was lucky enough to grow up in a house full of pets and go to a primary school where lots of spooky and weird things happened (well, in her imagination at least). As a student, Pamela's student jobs included: fishwife, teaching basketball in America, phlebotomist and Artist Liaison for a (really bad) Abba tribute band. Her top selling stories include The Spy Who Loved School Dinners which won the Blue Peter Best Story Award and My Head Teacher is a Vampire Rat which won The Children's Book Award. Two of her books, Petunia Perry and the Curse of the Ugly Pigeon and There's a Werewolf in My Tent, were shortlisted for the Lollies - the Laugh Out Loud Awards.

Book preview

Clem the cat got me ICE SKATES for my birthday, which is BRILLIANT because I love ICE and ICE SKATING and wearing my awesome BOBBLE HAT!

When I tried the ice skates on I felt something SLIMY between my toes.

It was a piece of old lettuce.

Erm… I MIGHT have found them in a bin, said Clem. Happy birthday, Pugly.

But I didn’t even CARE about the bin OR the slimy old lettuce leaf because I had a

CLEM! I screamed.

"I’m going to enter

It’s a big ice-skating competition and it’s coming to OUR town. I saw a flyer about it a few days ago."

I threw myself at the FLAPPY BIN LID and went tumbling into the bin.

WHAT are you doing?! said Clem.

WHAT? I shouted. I can’t hear you! I’m in the bin!

It was a bit dark inside the bin (and SMELLY!) but I eventually managed to find the Pets on Ice flyer.

I leapt out of the bin to show Clem.

STAY BACK! she hissed. You smell disgusting! I was going to tell you about the competition. I thought we could––

LOOK, Clem! I yelled as I picked baked beans off the flyer and waved it at her. I am SO excited because I am TOTALLY going to WIN!

Yes, but–– Clem started but I just ignored her and put my bobble hat and scarf on. She can sometimes be a bit rude about my PUGTASTIC IDEAS and I didn’t want her to kill my dream.

Where are you going? said Clem.

To the ice rink to sign up for the competition, of course! I said. "You can be my

PROFESSIONAL TRAINER.

Let’s go!"

As soon as we arrived at the ice rink I realised that I was going to have some SERIOUS competition. There were LOADS of dogs on the ice.

Clem, I said. "Do you think they’re all here to practise for Pets