PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780571242320
- Categories BX, BXOS, C RD, Children's Books, Reading Books, WBD
- Author(s) Philip Ardagh
- Publisher Faber & Faber
- Pages 160
- Format Childrenext
- Dimensions 19.8cm x 0.9cm x 12.7cm
- Weight 0.12 kg
product description
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. It's certainly a town and certainly grubby - except for the squeaky clean parts - but everything else we know about the place comes from Beardy Ardagh, town resident and author of these tales. 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 ...