Mrs Thatcher the Paper Snatcher



Poor scientist is terrified of the wrath of

 



the lovely Mrs T who gives the scientist

 



an ear-bashing and demands he snatches the paper back

The Secret Plans

 

Happy memories of mass unemployment and house repossession, the miner's strike, destruction of heavy industry, war-mongering, milk snatching etc flood back in this 1980s special when an inept scientitst gives away secret plans to a girl who calls round to his office, collecting scrap paper for her school.

 

 

Luke's verdict: I quite liked the story but why was Mr Camewrong wearing a blonde wig and ladies scarf?

 

The pages swallowed up by the cupboard under the stairs and other monsters

These kids are wise to be wary

 




For the poems are quite scary

But worst of all...

 

 

Every ghost and every ghoul  

 

Is eating through this book

 

 

To find some kids to cook.

 

 

 

 

Dirty bird in waddle-by attack




Did this depressed-looking goose try and escape?






Gulls spend a lot of time in coastal kitties

Apparently, at night, birds like to roast together

Pages are dirtier than city streets 

 

 

Swallows like to feed on mosquitoes and midgets

 

 

Goodbye Birds of the City

 

 

Birds of the City

A fond farewell to Birds of the City after Luke is the last to have the privilege to read this 1980s special about...birds living in cities. Since Samuel read the book a few months ago, one of the geese finally had enough of being trapped on its grubby pages and tried to beak its way out.

Luke's verdict: Dirty birds in a dirty book.

Guess the plot

 Girl is kidnapped and 

 



the villagers decide to rescue her





but evil Grabbers steal plot too

 



 

The Rescue of Ker

 

In this 1970s special, villagers have to rescue Ker from nasty knife-carrying villagers called the Grabbers who tie her up. Then we have to guess what happens as there are six pages missing. We have to assume the Grabbers have stolen the most interesting part of the book too as the school would never allow the kids to read a book in such a condition.

 

Laurie's verdict: Worst book in the world.

 

Rats come to life and eat book

Could this...

these....

and these

be responsible for this...

and this... or it just because IT'S REALLY OLD?

Paddy and the Ratcatcher

Naughty town council doesn't pay the ratcatcher's bill. In revenge, he magics away all the parents with his saxophone playing and infests the town with a plague of rats, leaving the kids in charge until the town council coughs up.

Laurie's verdict: I loved this story but the book's so old it makes you feel dirty when you read it.

Fat-legged spider boy

Mum pulls off the legs of a large spider and attaches them to her son

Kelso takes his spider legs to bed much to the horror of dinosaur

Look out behind you

Shame he can't fix the book 

 Kelso's Carnival

Kelso's Carnival sees Kelso dress up as a rather too convincing spider to raise money to plant trees in this 1994 falling-apart-at-the-seams special.

Laurie's verdict: The pictures freak me out. He looks too like a real spider.

Tim and the Hidden Illustrations

The front page has almost been washed away by the waves...or 20 years of little fingers? 

Inside fares little better with the pages looking like they've been soaked by the sea 

The Storm over the Sea 

A boy and his friends are trying to escape some witches but their boat gets caught up in a storm in this 20 year-old cellotaped special.


Tom's verdict:  A bit grubby and a bit boring.