Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids

Vain Georgina, aka Gorgeous George, will do anything to become a beauty queen.

Living just outside Totnes in Devon, in a country house called Little Babylon, renowned for its gardens full of hedge sculptures, Hemp Sock is the son of the Duke of Devonshire, aka the Hippy Lord.

B.S. Brogan is a boy who talks fifteen to the dozen and does not believe in using punctuation when he writes, because punctuation stops the flow of words.

Attention seeking Charlie Chicken tells lies. His biggest is that he is a superhero called Fearlessman and to prove it he will walk out into traffic.

Eustace Colon eats worms, because it grosses out girls especially his little sister.

Ida is a big girl because she lives on the sofa and does nothing for herself.

Frank Einstein is a firework freak, who is given the chance to light the biggest firework on bonfire night if he can build the best Guy in the village.

A vicious girl who admires the single-minded violence meted out by her cat, grows her nails and slashes her way to power, only to drown accidentally, like many cats before her, in the neighbour's uncovered swimming pool.

Gulab Gobby loves the sound of his own voice, so much so that he becomes the youngest politician in history, but when he falls foul of The Speaker by shouting her down, she assigns the Undertaker to take care of him.

All Petal wants is for people to love her and tell her how pretty she is; and for strangers to gasp when she comes into a room and say; "Doesn't that name suit her."

A boy who NEVER says thank youy for his birthday and Christmas presents is paid a visit by The Wrap Man, who parcels him up and posts him to his Great Aunt in Ireland to make him say thank you in person.

A girl who disrespects her elders and thinks that old people are as worthless as old boiler chickens falls foul of the Old Peoples's Dead Army and has her neck wrung by a short-sighted farmer.

Tom and Jerry Ganglion are two brothers who fight tooth and nail. Their mother, a feng shui expert, warns them to stop because all their bad energy has got to go somewhere.