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The Beasts of Knobbly Bottom: Rise of the Zombie Pigs
Someone or something in the village of Knobbly Bottom is eating up EVERYTHING! When a chocolate cake goes missing, Maggie gets the blame. But when entire vegetable plots are devoured overnight, huge bite marks are found in garden furniture and even her friend Fred's grandad's disgusting courgettes are gobbled up, she kicks off an investigation! However, when the ravenous local pigs start doubling in size and acting VERY strangely, Maggie and Fred wonder whether they have bitten off more than they can chew. How can they fend off the rise of the ZOMBIE PIGS?
258 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 4, 2024
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Emily-Jane Clark
13 books6 followers Emily-Jane Clark is a comedy writer and mother of two VERY lively daughters.
She writes for the UK's top satirical news site, The Daily Mash as well as the Mash Report, Mock The Week, BBC Writers Room, Crooked Pieces, The Show What You Wrote and by Director's Cut Theatre.
She was also a finalist ion the Funny Women Awards 2017 and won the Craft of Comedy UK new writing competition in 2018.
She writes more important stuff that's not funny for Metro UK, Huffington Post and the New Statesman.
She is also a former Red Coat and a failed pop singer.
Sleep is for the Weak: How to survive when your baby won't go the fzZk to sleep is her first book.
She writes for the UK's top satirical news site, The Daily Mash as well as the Mash Report, Mock The Week, BBC Writers Room, Crooked Pieces, The Show What You Wrote and by Director's Cut Theatre.
She was also a finalist ion the Funny Women Awards 2017 and won the Craft of Comedy UK new writing competition in 2018.
She writes more important stuff that's not funny for Metro UK, Huffington Post and the New Statesman.
She is also a former Red Coat and a failed pop singer.
Sleep is for the Weak: How to survive when your baby won't go the fzZk to sleep is her first book.
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December 28, 2023
Maggie MacKay is back in this second adventure from Knobbly Bottom. Is it as god as the first? Certainly is!
Maggie and Fred from next door are concerned about food that keeps going missing - Maggie is definitely not happy about a large chocolate cake that went missing before they'd eaten any! Then worse follows as everyone edible and some not so edible gets tried out with large bite marks everywhere.
When collecting apples for pie, they notice the pigs at the local farm seem to be getting bigger as they eat the apples - and they are turning green! But Gary (the great and evil child-eater NOT) assures the children that the gateway to the bad magic under Knobbly Bottom was safely secured under his freezer. And Nan Helsing (famed Beast Hunter of Knobbly Bottom) is away on holiday in Spain to recuperate from the Vampire Sheep episode (read the first book!).
Can Maggie and Fred find the evidence they need? Can they get hold of Nan in time to help? And just what is Mum's superpower?
Absolutely as good as the first. Lots of laugh out loud moments (Lucy eating the wrong sort of apple pie is pretty funny!) Highly recommend to children wanting a funny, not too long (looks normal size but lots of pics/different text) book. Great for those Christmas book tokens.
Thanks to Harriet at Scholastic for this advance copy. The book is released on 4th January.
Looking forward to taking this to school as the first book is well read.
TA, ESCP.
Maggie and Fred from next door are concerned about food that keeps going missing - Maggie is definitely not happy about a large chocolate cake that went missing before they'd eaten any! Then worse follows as everyone edible and some not so edible gets tried out with large bite marks everywhere.
When collecting apples for pie, they notice the pigs at the local farm seem to be getting bigger as they eat the apples - and they are turning green! But Gary (the great and evil child-eater NOT) assures the children that the gateway to the bad magic under Knobbly Bottom was safely secured under his freezer. And Nan Helsing (famed Beast Hunter of Knobbly Bottom) is away on holiday in Spain to recuperate from the Vampire Sheep episode (read the first book!).
Can Maggie and Fred find the evidence they need? Can they get hold of Nan in time to help? And just what is Mum's superpower?
Absolutely as good as the first. Lots of laugh out loud moments (Lucy eating the wrong sort of apple pie is pretty funny!) Highly recommend to children wanting a funny, not too long (looks normal size but lots of pics/different text) book. Great for those Christmas book tokens.
Thanks to Harriet at Scholastic for this advance copy. The book is released on 4th January.
Looking forward to taking this to school as the first book is well read.
TA, ESCP.
May 8, 2025
Noah: Loved the zombie theme, that they were pigs, the bad magic and the fact they learnt how to do the macarena at the end! Best bit was when they trashed the kitchen!
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