The Year That It Rained Cows, or, That Well-Known Secret Door (Grubtown Tales Book 2)

Author(s): Philip Ardagh

Early Reader

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. 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...

General Information

  • : 9780571242337
  • : Faber and Faber
  • : Faber Children's Books
  • : 0.122
  • : 07 May 2009
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Philip Ardagh
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 823.914
  • : 160
  • : Fiction

More About The Product

The second book in an extremely exciting and exceptionally silly brand new series from Philip Ardagh, creator of Eddie Dickens.

Philip 'Beardy' Ardagh is the award-winning author of the Eddie Dickens adventures, currently in over 30 languages. He wrote BBC radio's first truly interactive radio drama, collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney on his first children's book and is a 'regularly irregular' reviewer of children's books for the Guardian. Married with a son, he divides his time between Tunbridge Wells and Grubtown, where he cultivates his impressive beard.