When the Pope visited Spain, an American company decided to cash in on the event by printing special T-shirts for sale there ...except that instead of reading: 'I saw the Pope' (El Papa) they read 'I saw the Potato' (La Papa)! This book presents a romp through impressive mistakes, blunders, faux pas, misunderstandings, and misinterpretations.

The Terrible Times is a fire-and-brimstone newspaper published on the east coast of North America, but owned by Eddie Dickens's family back in England. When the six-monthly figures fail to reach Awful End, it is decided that Eddie must go to America to find out what is wrong.

You won't find Grubtown on any maps. The last time any map-makers were sent anywhere near the place they were found a week later wearing nothing but pages from a telephone directory, and calling for their mothers. When the local lighthouse is plunged into darkness and a ship runs aground it's hard to imagine things can get much worse in Grubtown.

When both of Eddie's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow and smell of hot-water bottles, it's agreed that he should go to stay with relatives at Awful End. Sadly for Eddie, those relatives are Mad Uncle Jack and Even-Madder Aunt Maud.

Eddie Dickens narrowly avoids an explosion, a hot-air balloon and arrest, only to find himself falling for a girl with a face like a camel's, and into the hands of a murderous gang of escaped convicts who have a little job for him to do.

Introduces Henry, an ordinary boy in an extraordinary house; Jaggers the caretaker; and, a quirky cast of characters as they find out about the human body.

The setting is an unidentified country, suffering from an unexpected outbreak of very large holes. The McNally children find themselves in The Dell hotel surrounded by a strange assortment of ridiculous characters ranging from Charlie Twinkle Toes , to Tweedy, the house detective.

Meet Henry, an ordinary boy in an extraordinary house. There's a pyramid in the back garden and a pharaoh in the living room. Step inside Henry's House and join Henry, Jaggers the caretaker and a quirky cast of characters as they find out about ancient Egyptians.

Meet Henry, an ordinary boy in an extraordinary house. There's a diplodocus in the basement and fossil footprints in the garden. This work lets readers step inside Henry's House and join Henry, Jaggers the caretaker and a quirky cast of characters as they find out about dinosaurs.

There's a big bug in the wardrobe and a scorpion in the shed. Featuring Henry, an ordinary boy in an extraordinary house, this title lets you step inside Henry's House and join Henry, Jaggers the caretaker and a quirky cast of characters as they find out about creepy-crawlies.

Contains one copy each of 'Awful End', 'Dreadful Acts' and 'Terrible Times'. RRP 14.97. Exclusive to Gardners Books.

About 4u2read.ok is a unique new series for the seriously struggling reader aged 8-13. They can be used individually or with the original edition of the book in a mixed ability class.

Grubtown is full of oddballs - from the singing Grumbly girls to a family of duck-haters, and an out-sized mayor who's knitting a new house - but Manual Org is too repulsive even for them. Getting him to leave town is top priority, until the discovery of a humongous diamond changes everything...

For reluctant readers, reading age 8+, interest age 8-12.

Filled with incredible facts and figures, this book contains a list for every day of the year. The list includes: six of the world's smelliest cheeses, eight theories that are impossible to prove, five animals that look like something else, four Runners-up who became more famous than the actual winners, eight different types of hat, and more.

Filled with eye-openingly absurd facts, lies, half-truths, thoughts, suggestions and musings with more footnotes than an orchestra of millipedes, this work features lists that include: Possessors of Notable Moustaches , What MI5 Look For When Recruiting , Basic Requirements for Being A Pirate Captain , and Animal Breakouts .

After a serious accident involving a gorse bush, Eddie Dickens finds himself being cared for by monks of the Bertian order, founded by Ethelbert the Funny, and with absolutely no memory of who he is. Back at Awful End, he leaves behind a baby discovered in the bulrushes, his father flattened by a chimney in what was probably a deliberate act, and the fairly well-known engineer Fandango Jones ...

A startled cow falling out of nowhere onto Limbo Goulash while he's riding Marley Gripe's bicycle marks the start of a chain of events strange even by Grubtown's standards. With Mayor Flabby Gomez throwing a wobbly, all chief of police, Grabby Hanson, can do is have the cow-fearing townsfolk watch the skies.

Eddie Dickens finds himself embroiled in an attempt to foil a plot to steal an oil painting of Mad Uncle Jack, mistakenly commissioned by the War Office (who thought he was the other Major Dickens).

A cross between Dickens and Monty Python, this is the second book in the Unlikely Explots trilogy chronicling the adventures of the McNally family.