Stephen Mangan

All the fun and madcap adventure of The Fart That Broke World Book Day continues in this story, as a group of kids stowaway on a fart-powered spaceship to explore wonderfully wild planets and be pursued across the universe by bounty hunters. The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy for a middle grade audience.

Cantankerous old King Chisel is a ruler without an heir. He is persuaded to create a competition called the Crown Duels, inviting the best kids from five regions of his country to vie with one another to become king or queen one day. This gruesome gang of children will compete in a multi-discipline game of knock-out to determine the winner....

A king wakes up one morning, stretches, and farts—his wife, who was about to remind him to wish the Prime Minister a happy birthday at their meeting that morning, is so annoyed with him that she forgets. This very small and smelly act—much like the butterfly flapping its wings in a forest eventually leading to a hurricane on the other...