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Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky: Philip Ardagh

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Synopsis:

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.

 

 

Tags:

Categorised as:

Faber Kids

Sub-categories:

General Fiction

Places:

Grubtown

Genres & Themes:

Comedy; Community; Mayhem; Oddballs

Awards & Prizes:

Roald Dahl Funny Book Prize (7-14) - Winner 2009

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