Café Chaos: The Way the Cookie Crumbles

Hope Crumble and her family serve up cakes, coffee and calamity in this hilarious new series from much-loved author Catherine Wilkins. Illustrated throughout by the brilliant Katie Abey. The second heartwarming and hilarious story in the Café Chaos series. Hope's mum has mistakenly over-ordered the beans and they only have two months to get through them all! Several hilarious family meetings take place to discuss ideas: Aunt Rita comes over all 'flavours of Mexico' while Connor wants a bean-eating competition to catch the post-gym crowd. Hope is trying to distance herself from it all in a bid to have 'time to be a child' and let her family sort out their own crises. But she can't deprive her family of her problem-solving abilities for long. Rescue comes in the unlikely form of Skyla - Hope's arch enemy and school bully - who needs a place to hold her charity fashion show. Praise for Café Chaos: "A beautifully funny story - effortlessly brilliant." - Romesh Ranganathan"This funny and relatable story will appeal to fans of Jacqueline Wilson, as well as children who, like Hope, have to stand up to their families to make their wishes heard." - The Bookseller Look out for these the laugh-out-loud funny books by Catherine Wilkins:

- Café Chaos: My Family is not a piece of cake

- My Best Friend and Other Enemies: A Jess Jackson Book

- You're Not the Boss of Me! (WINNER Lollies 2024, Teen)

- My Brilliant Life and Other Disasters: A Jess Jackson Book

- And more café capers in upcoming Café Chaos books!

© 2026 Nosy Crow Ltd (Ebook): 9781805134565

Release date

Ebook: 12 March 2026