First published in Great Britain by
HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2017
HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd,
HarperCollins Publishers
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
The HarperCollins website address is:
Text copyright © David Baddiel 2017
Illustrations copyright © Jim Field 2017
All rights reserved.
Cover illustration copyright © Jim Field 2017
David Baddiel and Jim Field assert the moral right to be identified as the author and illustrator of the work respectively.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
Source ISBN: 9780008200473
Ebook Edition © 2017 ISBN: 9780008200497
Version: 2018-09-18
To Grandpa Colin
Contents
Part 1: For he’s a jolly good fellow …
Chapter 3: The Star-Watcher Explorer
Chapter 5: When you wish upon a star
Chapter 9: This could get complicated
Chapter 12: A packet of Werther’s Originals, some shoelaces and a jar of Duraglit
Chapter 13: It always just points straight back at me
Chapter 14: Can’t make out what you’re saying there at all
Part 2: For he’s a jolly good fellow …
Chapter 18: Sir Guinea Pig and the Green Knight
Chapter 21: Especially on your birthday
Chapter 23: That island in the middle of the river
Chapter 30: Over the waves of a concrete sea
Chapter 33: The one thing you definitely need on a dangerous secret mission