Grubtown Tales

Philip Ardagh’s
GRUBTOWN TALES

Children’s books just got a whole lot siller!

An extremely exciting and exceptionally silly new series from the creator of Eddie Dickens. Grubtown is 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 …

Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky
Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky

STINKING RICH AND JUST PLAIN STINKY
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 …

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The Year That It Rained Cows
The Year That It Rained Cows

THE YEAR THAT IT RAINED COWS
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. Underground, meanwhile, there lies another big surprise …

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COMING LATER IN 2009
THE FAR FROM  GREAT ESCAPE