Edition:
CD-Audio
ISBN:
9780571269303
Published:
04.11.2010
No of pages:
None
Other Editions: Paperback
Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky
Philip Ardagh
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 ...
Winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Book Prize 2009.
www.visitgrubtown.com - the new online home of the Grubtown Tales.
Tags
Categorised as:
Faber Children's
Sub-categories:
Children's
Places:
Grubtown
Genres & Themes:
Community;
Mayhem;
Oddballs;
Comedy
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