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Le storie di Grubtown

Questa serie narra storie da una città peculiare e inspiegabile che non compare su nessuna mappa. Immergiti in un mondo popolato da personaggi eccentrici, dalle ragazze cantanti a una famiglia che odia le anatre. Segui i residenti mentre affrontano eventi bizzarri che stravolgono le loro vite. È una lettura avvincente piena di umorismo e colpi di scena inaspettati.

Grubtown Tales: The Wrong End of the Dog
Grubtown Tales: The Far From Great Escape
Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky
Grubtown Tales: Splash, Crash and Loads of Cash
Grubtown Tales: The Year that it Rained Cows
Grubtown Tales: Trick Eggs and Rubber Chickens

Ordine di lettura consigliato

  1. 1

    You won't find Grubtown on any maps. The last time any map-makers were sent anywhere near the place they were found a week later wearing nothing but pages from a telephone directory, and calling for their mothers. It's certainly a town and certainly grubby - except for the squeaky clean parts - but everything else we know about the place comes from Beardy Ardagh, town resident and author of these tales. Grubtown is full of oddballs - from the singing Grumbly girls to a family of duck-haters, and an out-sized mayor who's knitting a new house - but Manual Org is too repulsive even for them. Getting him to leave town is top priority, until the discovery of a humongous diamond changes everything...

    Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky
  2. 2

    A startled cow falling out of nowhere onto Limbo Goulash while he's riding Marley Gripe's bicycle marks the start of a chain of events strange even by Grubtown's standards. Soon damaged property includes Purple Outing's Music Shack and Minty Glibb's attempt at the world's largest (strawberry) jelly- trifle.

    Grubtown Tales: The Year that it Rained Cows
  3. 3

    You won't find Grubtown on any maps. The last time any map-makers were sent anywhere near the place they were found a week later wearing nothing but pages from a telephone directory, and calling for their mothers. When the local lighthouse is plunged into darkness and a ship runs aground it's hard to imagine things can get much worse in Grubtown.

    Grubtown Tales: The Far From Great Escape
  4. 4

    When famous film star Tawdry Hipbone visits Grubtown for the world premiere of her latest movie, Mayor Gomez couldn't be more excited but, as usual, nothing goes to plan. Miss Hipbone's dog is snatched by a low-flying pelican, and it's a race against time to find him, in a rescue attempt involving Grubtown's usual ragbag of bungling buffoons.

    Grubtown Tales: The Wrong End of the Dog
  5. 5

    If Beardy Ardagh is to be believed, things all start going on the bonkers side of very wrong when Mayor Flabby Gomez finally finishes knitting his new home and declares a public holiday in Grubtown for its official opening. And, if that weren't bad enough, there's the matter of a serious leak at Grubtown's new aquarium.

    Grubtown Tales: Trick Eggs and Rubber Chickens
  6. 6

    When a yachting trip turns to disaster and the shipwrecked crew, including Mango Claptrap, ends up using the impressively large Flabby Gomez as a man- made floating island, they need help. Who better to rescue them than the exceedingly useless lifeboat crew over at Limp, assisted by Grubtown's very own chief of police Grabby Hanson?

    Grubtown Tales: Splash, Crash and Loads of Cash