Do you like bears called Padlock? Do you like hot-air balloons? Do you like tall sailing ships with mad sea captains, and horrifying old villains and words like 'wab!', 'tungler' and 'kelp'? This book's got all of those things - and a lot more besides.

Mr Gum is a truly nasty old man. He's absolutely grimsters. But this book is not just about him. There is also a little girl called Polly, an evil butcher, heroes and sweets and stuff, and Jake the dog, who must be saved from terrible, terrible evil.

Features the following characters - Mr Gum, the gingerbread man named Alan Taylor who has electric muscles, as well as the little girl called Polly, the evil butcher called Billy William The Third, and the very wise man, Friday O'Leary, Jake the dog, and the angry fairy who lives in Mr Gum's bathtub and whacks him on the head with a frying-pan.

Old roo-de-lally Mr Gum and hideous Billy William the Third are once more mucking things up for everyone. They're a-schemin' and a-hatchin' an' making their bad plans up on Goblin Mountain. Can the brave travellers make it past the Three Impossible Challenges of Goblin Mountain and save the town from a fate worse than something very bad indeed?

There is an ancient curse on the town of Lamonic Bibber. The old roo-de-lally Mr Gum and his trusty sidekick Billy William the Third have something to do with it. But heroes Polly and Friday and the gingerbread biscuit Alan Taylor are determined to save the town.

Matthew Buzzington has a special secret power - he can turn into a fly. Only problem is, it doesn't work! The school bully's making his life a misery - can he summon up his powers to take revenge? Hilarious comedy from the hugely successful author of the Mr Gum books. Interest age 9-12. Reading age 8+.