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Muddle Earth
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Welcome to the hilarious and downright outrageous world of Muddle Earth... now with an eye-catching new cover look!
Where would you find a perfumed bog filled with pink sticky hogs and exploding gas frogs? A place that's home to a wizard with only one spell, an ogre who cries a lot and a very sarcastic budgie? Welcome to Muddle Earth. A place where anything can happen - and usually does.
Joe Jefferson, an ordinary schoolboy from ordinary earth, is about to find his life changed forever. Prepare for a great battle of good, evil and sort of OK...
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Muddle Earth
Welcome to the hilarious and downright outrageous world of Muddle Earth... now with an eye-catching new cover look! Where would you find a perfumed bog filled with pink sticky hogs and exploding gas frogs? A place that's home to a wizard with only one spell, an ogre who cries a lot and a very sarcastic budgie? Welcome to Muddle Earth....Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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ISBN: 9780330538763
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 March 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Edition: Unabridged edition
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 29.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 319g
Pages: 464
About the Author
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell are the geniuses behind the phenomenally successful Edge Chronicles, the Rabbit and Hedgehog picture books and, for Macmillan, The Blobheads. They both have hugely successful careers separately, Paul as a writer of children's books and Chris as an illustrator and cartoonist for the New Statesman and the Observer. They both live in Brighton, where they met picking up their children from school.
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