WELL, DIP ME IN HISTORY AND CALL ME A TIME TRAVELLER! It's the brand new book from the author of the award-winning and bestselling Mr Gum series! NATBOFF! is a hysterical collection of stories, all set in Mr Gum's hometown of Lamonic Bibber. Strap on your laughter goggles as you embark on a time-travelling journey through the funniest and maddest moments in history. From the Stone Age to Medieval times, from the Great Fire to the First World War, to one million years in the future, it's all here - and it's all completely crazy. Meet the town's most famous residents, including: Natboff the caveman! Princess Snowflake! A malcontent squirrel! Strange Mildred the witch! A talking grape called Plover! Cribbins, the mysterious Victorian inventor, who invented mysterious Victorian things! And plenty more besides! Packed full of stories, poems, an extremely odd history of the British monarchy, and even a 'Shakespearian' play (penned by William's less-famous brother, Terry) - and with plenty of Easter eggs for Mr Gum fans to spot along the way - this book is perfect for fans of Horrible Histories, Roald Dahl and David Walliams. Plus it's the only one that's got the word 'kingandqueeniest' in it, most likely. With hilarious illustrations by David Tazzyman. Have you collected all the well brilliant Mr Gum books? You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum! Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire Mr Gum and the Goblins Mr Gum and the Power Crystals Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear What's for Dinner, Mr Gum? Mr Gum and the Cherry Tree Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout Praise for Mr Gum: 'They are the funniest books ... I can't recommend them enough' - Stephen Mangan 'Smooky palooki! This book is well brilliant!' - Jeremy Strong 'Worryingly splendid' - Guardian Andy Stanton studied English at Oxford but they kicked him out. Before becoming a children's writer he was a film script reader, a market researcher, an NHS lackey, a part-time sparrow and a plum. Today he is best-known for the hilarious and much-loved Mr Gum books, which have sold over 3.6 million copies in the UK alone and have been translated into 32 languages. The series has won numerous awards, including the inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Red House Children's Book Award and two Blue Peter Book Awards.

Alan Coren's irresistible humour takes front stage in these wonderfully fun wild west and detective story books. Two great adventures appear in each book in the series.

Three farmers who each claim the moon as their own go to the Teacher to find out who actually owns it

Entries in McBroom's almanac include farm tips, how-to's, McProverbs, nature lore, cartoons, and McBroom's Calendar of Important Dates.

When Nessie finds an ancient map showing a network of Monster tunnels she decides to leave her life in Loch Ness and sets off on an adventure. She doesn't know if there are other monsters out there but she needn't worry, she discovers lots of new friends. The only trouble is that the tunnels are getting blocked with waste - so Nessie makes a plan.

The second novel in the A Girl for All Time(R) series, AMELIA'S INHERITANCE tells the story of 13-year old orphan Amelia Elliot growing up in Victorian London. Follow Amelia as she leaves her ordinary schoolgirl life and is thrust into a shadowy world of subterfuge, treachery and unlikely friendship. In a fight to reclaim the mysterious family chest left to her by her Tudor ancestor Matilda, she begins a thrilling journey which will lead her from glittering ballrooms to the slums of the Rookeries, from society séances to the lime-lit stages of the London music hall.

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The reader goes on a field trip to the E. Ville Creeper Botanical Gardens and must collect data from four different deadly gardens without growing a green thumb . . . and hand . . . and arm . . . in a scary adventure with more than twenty endings. Original.

The Rotten School students try to get rid of Mr. Skruloose, an extremely strict teacher.

A classic French story from Nobel Prize-winner Patrick Modiano and celebrated illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé. Beautifully illustrated, this is a love letter to Paris, ballet and childhood for fans of The Little Prince, Le Petit Nicholas and Madeline.Catherine lives with her gentle father, Georges Certitude, who runs a shipping business in Paris with a failed poet named Casterade. Father and daughter share the simple pleasures of daily life: sitting in the church square, walking to school, going to her ballet class every Thursday afternoon. But just why did Georges change his name to Certitude? What kind of trouble with the law did Casterade rescue him from? And why did Catherine's ballerina mother leave to return to New York?

A narrative poem chronicling the life of the Civil War president.

"How do you stop a little girl from crying? When Juliet falls in the park, her mother in vain tries kissing her, and the equally counterproductive measure taken by a passing dog, cat and crow is to fall in line behind, making their own competing noises...'all the way home.'"-Kirkus Reviews

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets Bugsy Malone for 9+ readers. In a city where all chocolate and sweets have been banned, Nelle Faulkner is a 12-year-old private detective looking for her next case. So when candy gangster Eddie de Menthe walks into her office (her dad's garden shed) and asks her to find a missing teddy bear, the chase is on.