When you're bullied at school, you've got no friends or pocket money and your Mum can't cook, life can be grim. That's when you need an adventure, and that's what Percy gets - a superb, magnificent, magical adventure, plus pudding with custard! There's also Grumbo, who may be old, but he's certainly not grown up, a reindeer with attention deficit disorder, an insanitary parrot, a talking tortoise, a terrifying teacher and a comfortingly satisfactory Aunt Lucy to ensure a happy ending. -Oh, and all the rest of course.... Perfect for readers aged 7 to 9 and great fun for the 9 to 90s ! This is a chapter book with some illustrations and is perfect for bridging that gap between early readers and proper full length novels.