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Second in a hilarious full-colour graphic novel series by the award-winning Tor Freeman, perfect for fans of Jamie Smart's Bunny vs Monkey. Come with Shirley as she falls down a hole into the Under-Underworld... Shirley follows her cockroach companion George into the Under-Underworld and finds herself...
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Second in a hilarious full-colour graphic novel series by the award-winning Tor Freeman, perfect for fans of Jamie Smart's Bunny vs Monkey. Come with Shirley as she falls down a hole into the Under-Underworld...
Shirley follows her cockroach companion George into the Under-Underworld and finds herself immediately crowned as queen. With Peels, a banana-skin royalist, Shirley travels across the junkyard of this new world to rescue George and confront the Huge Beast who has been terrorising the land.
Praise for Boss of the Underworld:
'Genuinely laugh out loud funny' Louie Stowell
'This is very funny - and more crucially, it's weird' Cariad Lloyd
'Out of this underworld!' Steven Lenton
'A tour de force of silliness' Gary Northfield
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ISBN: 9781444976410
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hodder Children's Books
Audience: General / adult, Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 148.0mm
Height: 208.0mm
Weight: 320g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Tor Freeman was born and grew up in London and California. She is an author and illustrator, published in the UK and worldwide, and had two ongoing strips in the weekly comic The Phoenix. Her books include Ten Fat Sausages by Michelle Robinson and The Book that No One Wanted to Read by Richard Ayoade. She has been awarded the Sendak Fellowship, and won the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize.
While finding her feet as an illustrator Tor had other jobs, including being a medical secretary for five years, teaching art in a primary and secondary school and guest lecturing on the Southampton Illustration BA. Tor lives and works in London. She has many hobbies including sewing, ceramics, making comics and trying to read all of Stephen King's books, and spends a lot of her spare time walking her dog Rusty.Also by Tor Freeman
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