Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky
Grubtown isn’t on any maps. It’s a grubby, stinky secret. The last time map-makers went anywhere near the place, they were found a week later crying out for their mothers, and wearing nothing but pages from a telephone directory. Grubtown is home to all kinds of freaks and oddballs, from the singing Grumbly girls to the super-sized mayor who’s knitting a new house. But Manual Org is so stinky and repulsive that even the Grubtowners want him gone – until the discovery of a great big diamond changes everything!
- Winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2009
- Hilarious fun by best-loved author Philip Ardagh
- Philip writes The Grunts and the Eddie Dickens series
- Bursting with giggles and fun to keep children reading
“Genius!” Barney Harwood, BBC Radio 4
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Recent reviews
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Manual’s story is really sad and romantic .
9 March 2014
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Humorous!
8 March 2013
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