Grubtown Tales Series

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1. Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky

   • Philip Ardagh

   • 160 pages
   • 6 hours of reading

   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...

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2. Grubtown Tales: The Year that it Rained Cows

   • Philip Ardagh

   • 160 pages
   • 6 hours of reading

   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. Soon damaged property includes Purple Outing's Music Shack and Minty Glibb's attempt at the world's largest (strawberry) jelly- trifle.

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3. Grubtown Tales: The Far From Great Escape

   • Philip Ardagh

   • 160 pages
   • 6 hours of reading

   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. When the local lighthouse is plunged into darkness and a ship runs aground it's hard to imagine things can get much worse in Grubtown.

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