The Longest Story in the World

To liven up her creative writing lessons, Mrs P has got Class Five towrite a story on a roll of wallpaper. Each child must add a sentence to make itthe longest story ever. Soon we are swept along in the tale of King Fred, whonarrowly escapes death at the hands of pirates and attempts to save mermaidsfrom the monstrous Wugblammer. (But he fails - it ate them all.) While EckyThump indulges his imagination, Noah Mount, who hates English, keeps trying tokill everyone off. Little does he or anyone else realize that in a parallelfantasy world all their characters come to life, in the whirlwind of action thatis the story. It's when the children make spelling mistakes or forget what'shappened that things get interesting. The 'holey' archbishop finds himself intatters, fluttering along like a ghost, while an army of 'nights' has plungedthe kingdom into complete darkness. The story twists and turns with ever morehilarious consequences. Fully illustrated in black and white line and tone thisis a truly original and captivating book.BLHighly illustrated insides (in black and white line and tone) from an excitingnew and sought-after illustrator, Jago, whose first picture book Fig's Giant isalso written by Geraldine and will be published by OUP in autumn 05