Stephen Mangan

A high-energy, brilliantly silly, fully illustrated collection of weird and wonderful linked short stories by much-loved actor Stephen Mangan and talented artist Anita Mangan. Welcome to Weird Street... what appears to be a very ordinary place, filled with very ordinary houses and very ordinary people... but wait. When Sarah moves to the street and sees a cat prowling up and down, she decides to find its owner and return it. She knocks on each door and discovers a wonderfully weird and a little bit dangerous array of delights within: from a haunted painting to a headmaster whose alter ego is a clown, to a jet-powered garden swing, a ghost-pet adoption agency and a wild hall of mirrors. Short stories starring the unexpected inhabitants of the houses on Weird Street - bite-size, page-turning tales perfect for less confident readers From the bestselling creators of The Fart That Changed the World and The Day I Fell Down the Toilet Incredibly funny and wildly imaginative storytelling at its finest    Praise for Stephen & Anita's books: "Brilliant, clever, kind of genius" Graham Norton  "Manages to feel both classic and modern at the same time" Good Housekeeping  "A beautiful and exciting adventure that ignites the imagination" Edith Bowman   Stephen Mangan is a bestselling author, actor and presenter. His comic gift is seen in shows such as Green Wing, I'm Alan Partridge and Episodes. Stephen appears in drama such as BBC One's The Split and regularly performs on stage in roles such as a much-praised Scrooge in The Old Vic's A Christmas Carol. Stephen presents Portrait and Landscape Artist of the Year and new gameshows Password and The Fortune Hotel. He is a guest presenter on Pointless and Have I Got News for You. Anita Mangan is a successful illustrator and designer whose remarkable artwork sparks with wit and style. She worked for Comic Relief before becoming a designer and illustrator. Since then, she has worked on award-winning books and the bestselling "Be a Unicorn, Sloth, Flamingo..." series - as well as illustrating Stephen's children's novels. Stephen and Anita have appeared together on Celebrity Gogglebox

ALL the fun and madcap adventure of THE FART THAT BROKE WORLD BOOK DAY continues in this planet-hopping, fart-powered-spaceship-shaking, laugh-out-loud story! When Saskia is captured by aliens who plan to turn her into a human fart-machine, Perks, Jezza and Leslie blast off on a mission to bring her back down to Earth. Things get even more complicated when they discover the spaceship holds some top-secret cargo… a gadget that the most dangerous, double-crossing villains in the galaxy are in hot pursuit of… Throw in a pitstop at the universe's worst restaurant, a visit to the Milky Way Museum of Oddities and a deeply strange encounter with a praying mantis wearing a big bouffant wig and sparkly platform booties and it's truly an OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD adventure for our heroes. But when the mysterious gadget falls into the wrong hands, the kids must be the heroes the universe needs… and could the day be saved by one teeny, tiny FART? The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy for young readers who love brilliantly silly stories. Packed with pictures by Stephen Mangan's sister Anita Mangan. Escape the Rooms, The Fart That Changed the World, The Great Reindeer Rescue and The Day I Fell Down the Toilet have been huge bestsellers: Stephen and Anita are comic dynamite.

A high-energy, laugh-out-loud, fully illustrated adventure story by much-loved actor Stephen Mangan and talented artist Anita Mangan. It's the most important day of the year for King Fabian as he is hosting all the neighbouring rulers. Everything simply must go perfectly. King Fabian wakes up, stretches, and farts. His wife's fury is so huge that he panics and blames the butler, who is carted off to the dungeons. Leaving behind a big problem: Fabian isn't really the brains behind the crown: it is the butler... how will dithery Fabian manage to pull off this high-pressure event alone? His small and smelly fart looks like it will kick off a crisis... Frank - a kitchen boy with a big imagination - is drafted in as an emergency butler. As the banquet descends into a food fight and processions catapult out of control, Frank finds himself in an all-out farty farce. Can he save the day? Wildly funny and endlessly surprising, this is delightfully imaginative, surreal storytelling with a message that small events can trigger big change, and children can be heroes!