What would happen if every creature on land and sea were free to be as rotten as possible? If every day was a free-for-all, if plants grew barbed wire, if the ocean were poison? That's life on Rotten Island...
Brilliant art by everyone's favourite artist, Quentin Blake combine with the classic tale of WIZZIL by William Steig in brilliant style. William Steig is the author of SHREK and Quentin Blake worked in collaboration with Roald Dahl on many books.
Why do unfortunates suffer from Montezuma's revenge? Just what was so Great about Peter, Catherine, Frederick and Alexander? What did Cleopatra see to admire in the fat man with a beard - Mark Anthony? Learn all this and more in Will Cuppy's humorous romp through the great names of world history.
When it was first published in 1950 The Decline and Fall of Almost Everybody was on the New York Times best-seller list for four months. An hysterically funny (yet historically accurate) romp through world history by a great American humourist and raconteur.
For creatures that slither, creep, and crawl (not to mention kick, bite, scratch, and play nasty tricks), Rotten Island is paradise. But then, on a typically rotten day, something truly awful happens. Something that could spoil Rotten Island forever. Out of a bed of gravel on the scorched earth, a mysterious, beautiful flower begins to grow.