Wobble Books

Free funny bedtime stories for ages 5 to 9: illustrated adventures full of wobbly blobs, grumbling gobstoppers and whispering wellies. Every book is free to download, every story comes in a dyslexic edition too, and you can listen to chapters read aloud.

Ages 5–9 20 illustrated books Free PDFs

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Wally Whifflepuff

Wally Whifflepuff is a walking disaster — his knees wobble like jellyfish, his elbows wave at strangers, and his house is padded with sofa cushions for everyone's safety. But when a simple turnip delivery goes spectacularly wrong and a bronze statue goes flying, Wally stumbles into the biggest, crashiest, most accidentally heroic adventure Blunderburg has ever seen. Hold on to your turnips.

🎧 Listen: 14 chapters
Chapter 1: Wally Whifflepuff and the Art of Tripping Over Air
Chapter 2: The Hiccup in the Haystack
Chapter 3: The Mayhem of Mismatched Mittens
Chapter 4: Mayor Guzzlewink's Glinty Gambit
Chapter 5: The Perilous Pudding Swamp
Chapter 6: The Great Gumball Guardian's Sticky Situation
Chapter 7: The Wisdom in the Walls
Chapter 8: The Great Golden Escape (and a Sticky Plan)
Chapter 9: A Hiccup Cure, a Library Heist, and a Guinea Dragon's Sizzling Encore
Chapter 10: The Workshop of Wobbly Wishes
Chapter 11: Wobbleburg is Born!
Chapter 12: Wally's Wobbly Wisdom and a Town Learning to Dance in the Rain
Epilogue: One Year Later
~ The End ~
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Free book 72 pagesDyslexic edition 82 pages
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The Tremendous Wobble of the Wibble-Blob

A Comedy Adventure

In Clockwork Crumble, feelings are strictly timetabled, fun is practically illegal, and Comptroller Starch hasn't cracked a smile since 1987. Eleven-year-old Ned Noodlewick and his heroic hamster Admiral Crouton are the only ones who think this is completely bonkers. Then something wobbly, blobby, and magnificently chaotic arrives — and Clockwork Crumble will never tick the same way again.

🎧 Listen: 11 chapters
Chapter 1: The Day the Clocks Went Wobbly
Chapter 2: The Custard Chronicles
Chapter 3: Comptroller Starch's Rigidity Ray
Chapter 4: Granny Tick's Gadget Garage
Chapter 5: The Rhyming Epidemic
Chapter 6: The Wobble Resistance
Chapter 7: The Great Custard Caper
Chapter 8: Operation: Maximum Wobble
Chapter 9: The Flan at the Centre of Everything
Chapter 10: Clockwork Crumble Gets Its Crumble Back
Epilogue
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Free book 72 pagesDyslexic edition 82 pages
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The Baffling Bubblegum Beast

A Comedy Adventure

Giant pink blobs are oozing through Sweetwhistle, and the grown-ups are blaming children (as usual). But twelve-year-old Mia Muddlepuck has spotted something the adults haven't — the blobs grow bigger every time someone grumbles, and one of them just squeaked at her. Can Mia crack the gloopy mystery before the whole town gets stuck for good?

🎧 Listen: 11 chapters
Chapter 1: The Great Gumball Gloom
Chapter 2: The Beast in the Basement
Chapter 3: Mayor Sourberry’s Sticky Situation
Chapter 4: The Secret of the Snicker-Snack Tree
Chapter 5: The Tickle Feather Fiasco
Chapter 6: The Revolt of the Grumpy Grown-Ups
Chapter 7: The Underground Gigglemarch
Chapter 8: The Bubblegum Beast’s Belchy Battle
Chapter 9: The Sticky Sweet Surrender
Chapter 10: Mia’s Marvelous Mischief Emporium
Epilogue
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Free book 72 pagesDyslexic edition 94 pages
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Muffin Man

Sammy Sprocket thought the villain business was over — until a secret message turned up baked inside his breakfast muffin. Now Sammy and his crumb-detecting best friend Penny must follow a trail of clues, catastrophic baking, and impending doom before Jellybean Junction gets itself into another sticky mess. Whatever you do, don't trust the muffins.

🎧 Listen: 11 chapters
Chapter 1: "The Note, the Nose, and the Smell of Trouble"
Chapter 2: "Mayor Biscuit and the Emergency Biscuit"
Chapter 3: "The Muffin Man's Magnificent Lair"
Chapter 4: "The Secret Ingredient (And Why It's Illegal)"
Chapter 5: "Operation: Counter-Muffin"
Chapter 6: "Training Montage (With Biscuits)"
Chapter 7: "The Great Bake-Off (Phase One: Setup)"
Chapter 8: "The Great Bake-Off (Phase Two: Chaos)"
Chapter 9: "What Oven 3 Had to Say"
Chapter 10: "The Verdict (And What Came After)"
Epilogue: The Crumbs of Consequence
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Free book 72 pagesDyslexic edition 76 pages
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The Bothersome Bubbles

A Floaty Factory Adventure

When the Pufferton Floaty Factory starts belching out bubbles that shimmer in colours nobody's ever seen before, Blunderburg-Upon-Fizz wakes up to floating cats, bobbing lampposts, and a mystery that smells of lemonade and pencil shavings. Twelve-year-old Clementine Snodgrass has her notebook ready and her best yellow wellies on — because somebody needs to find out what's inside those bubbles before the whole town drifts away.

🎧 Listen: 9 chapters
Chapter 1: In Which Blunderburg-Upon-Fizz Wakes Up Bubbly
Chapter 2: In Which Clementine Meets Sir Reginald Pufferton-Pomp
Chapter 3: In Which the Town Tries Very Long String
Chapter 4: In Which Clementine Sneaks Into the Vat Room
Chapter 5: In Which Clementine Pretends to Be Impressed
Chapter 6: In Which the Billionaires Arrive (and So Does a Pin)
Chapter 7: In Which Sir Reginald Goes Up, Up, Up
Chapter 8: In Which the Sky Returns Everyone
Chapter 9: In Which Everything Settles (But Only a Little)
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Free book 72 pagesDyslexic edition 92 pages
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The Dastardly Doughnuts of Dr. Dipple's Diner

Gigglefest is ruined, the whoopee cushions are flat, and every grown-up in Jellybean Junction is queuing for doughnuts with a glazed look in their eyes. Sammy Sprocket knows something is horribly, stickily wrong — especially when his best friend Penny, who once called doughnuts 'sugar-coated tyranny,' tells him to try one. Behind the counter, the dastardly Dr. Dipple is cooking up something far worse than pastry.

🎧 Listen: 11 chapters
Chapter 1: The Day the Laughter Stopped
Chapter 2: The Secret Ingredient (Hint: It’s Not Sugar)
Chapter 3: The Midnight Munchies Mystery
Chapter 4: The Rebellion of the Sarcastic Clowns
Chapter 5: The Great Pie-tastrophe
Chapter 6: The Doughnut Dimension
Chapter 7: The Underground Baker’s Brigade
Chapter 8: The Final Frosting Fight
Epilogue: The Crumbs of Victory
Chapter 9: The Un-Glazed Truth
Chapter 10: The Last Laugh
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Free book 72 pagesDyslexic edition 90 pages
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The Grumbling Gobstoppers

A Sugary Mystery Adventure

Sweetwhistle-on-Toffee makes the finest gobstoppers in the world — until the gobstoppers start grumbling back. Eleven-year-old Pippa Muddlepuck, armed with her yellow notebook and far too much cleverness for the grown-ups' liking, is the only one who notices that something in this sticky little town doesn't add up. When sweets start telling the truth, some very important people have a lot to worry about.

🎧 Listen: 9 chapters
Chapter 1: A Town Built on Toffee
Chapter 2: Inside the Whistlewerks
Chapter 3: The Great Liquorice Lane Stampede
Chapter 4: Gold-Plated Dentures and Other Clues
Chapter 5: Recruiting the Resistance
Chapter 6: Operation Honeytrap
Chapter 7: The Reading of the Notebook
Chapter 8: A Mayor in a Million Pieces (Of Sweet)
Chapter 9: In Which Sweetwhistle Gets Its Just Desserts
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Free book 72 pagesDyslexic edition 90 pages
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The Marvellous Misbehaving Clocks

A Tick-Tocking Time Adventure

Every clock in Cogglesworth Hollow has gone barmy — ticking backwards, hiccupping, and making Tuesday feel suspiciously like last Thursday. Eleven-year-old Wendell Sprocket, keeper of the Book of Suspicious Things, is on the case. But when time itself starts misbehaving, how do you solve a mystery before it's already un-happened?

🎧 Listen: 9 chapters
Chapter 1: A Most Peculiar Tuesday (Or Was It?)
Chapter 2: The Curator With The Clockwork Waistcoat
Chapter 3: The Afternoon That Never Was
Chapter 4: The Attic Above The Clockmaker's Shop
Chapter 5: A Chase Through Backwards Streets
Chapter 6: Midnight, Or Possibly Last Tuesday
Chapter 7: The Biggest Fib in Cogglesworth Hollow
Chapter 8: Winding Things Right
Chapter 9: In Which Cogglesworth Hollow Keeps Excellent Time
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Free book 72 pagesDyslexic edition 88 pages
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The Peculiar Pickles

A Briny Brouhaha Adventure

Gherkinford-by-the-Sea is a town drowning in vinegar, pickle parades, and not a single sensible adult. So when a jar of pickles whispers 'PSSST' at eleven-year-old Wendell Snodgrass, he does what any too-clever-for-his-own-good boy would do — he listens. What the pickles have to say is going to turn this briny little kingdom upside down.

🎧 Listen: 9 chapters
Chapter 1: A Town That Smelled of Vinegar
Chapter 2: Mr. Brinebottom and His Pickle Monocle
Chapter 3: The Great Pickle Escape
Chapter 4: The Grown-Ups Make a Plan (a Bad One)
Chapter 5: A Midnight Visit to Brinebottom's Diner
Chapter 6: Wendell's Plan (Which Is Bonkers, but Brilliant)
Chapter 7: The Rally Begins to Wobble
Chapter 8: A Gloriously Messy Comeuppance
Chapter 9: In Which Gherkinford-by-the-Sea Turns Over a New Leaf (of Dill)
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Free book 72 pagesDyslexic edition 90 pages
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The Whispering Wallpaper

A Mysterious Museum Adventure

When a wheezing lorry delivers rolls of ancient wallpaper to Blunderburg's Museum of Curiosities, twelve-year-old Clementine Muddlepuck smells trouble (and possibly a very small ghost). She's got her notebook, her chipped front tooth, and a firm suspicion that whispery things are almost never good things. Whatever's hidden in those dusty old rolls, it's about to peel itself right off the walls.

🎧 Listen: 8 chapters
Chapter 1: A Most Peculiar Delivery in Blunderburg
Chapter 2: Behind the Velvet Rope
Chapter 3: A Most Unfortunate Vicar
Chapter 4: Great-Aunt Hortensia and the Tea That Tells
Chapter 5: The Day the Town Lost Its Mind (and Several Marriages)
Chapter 6: A Trap of the Stickiest Sort
Chapter 7: The Wall Has Some Things To Say
Chapter 8: In Which Blunderburg Redecorates
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Free book 72 pagesDyslexic edition 86 pages
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The Whispering Wellies

A Squelchy Seaside Adventure

Sprinkleton-on-Sea is a town absolutely stuffed with secrets — the mayor's wig looks like a startled badger, and the postman reads everyone's postcards. But when a mysterious crate marked 'HANDLE WITH HONESTY' washes up on the beach, ten-year-old Barnaby Whifflepuff discovers that some secrets are far stranger than dodgy scones and pretend extra legs. Something in that crate is whispering, and it wants the truth.

🎧 Listen: 9 chapters
Chapter 1: A Town Built on Fibs
Chapter 2: The Sploshing Bakery
Chapter 3: The Lighthouse of Lies
Chapter 4: Operation Splurge-the-Truth
Chapter 5: The Town Meeting (Underwater)
Chapter 6: The March of the Mostly-Honest
Chapter 7: The Master Crate
Chapter 8: Pickled, Pinched, and Properly Punished
Chapter 9: In Which Sprinkleton-on-Sea Airs Its Laundry (Literally)
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Free book 72 pagesDyslexic edition 92 pages
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Wally's Bold & Easy Colouring Book

Colouring pages

Big, bold, easy pictures of Wally and the folk of Blunderburg to colour in. Print the pages and grab your pens.

Free download 26 pages
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The Grand Piano

A Wobble & Magoo Adventure — Book 1

M.C. Wobble and Mr Magoo McGhee are two perfectly respectable gentlemen who will take on any job at all. Today's job is simple: carry Mrs Crumpet's grand piano up the stairs. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot, as it turns out: a runaway piano, a very clever contraption, one exploding grandfather clock and a hole in the ceiling that Mrs Crumpet will never, ever forget. The first laugh-out-loud adventure of Wobble & Magoo. Two Gentlemen. One Disaster.

🎧 Listen: 7 chapters
Chapter 1: A Perfectly Ordinary Tuesday
Chapter 2: Mrs Crumpet's Very Expensive Piano
Chapter 3: The First Step
Chapter 4: The Great Piano Climb
Chapter 5: Wobble's Brilliant Invention
Chapter 6: Mrs Crumpet Returns
Chapter 7: The Final Note
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Free book 84 pagesDyslexic edition 88 pages
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The Decorating Disaster

A Wobble & Magoo Adventure — Book 2

Mrs Crumpet has given Wobble and Magoo a second chance. All they have to do is wallpaper her sitting room. Nicely. Neatly. Respectably. Unfortunately, Wobble has built a machine. Before long there is paste on the ceiling, a ghost under the dust sheets, a porcelain dog in orbit, and a door that has completely disappeared. And where, exactly, has Magoo gone? The second laugh-out-loud adventure of Wobble & Magoo. Two Gentlemen. One Disaster.

🎧 Listen: 9 chapters
Chapter 1: A Fresh Start
Chapter 2: Mrs Crumpet's Generous Offer
Chapter 3: The Wallpapering Experts
Chapter 4: A Sticky Situation
Chapter 5: The First Strip
Chapter 6: The Automatic Wallpapering Machine
Chapter 7: The Unexpected Visitor
Chapter 8: The Door That Disappeared
Chapter 9: The Final Rose
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Free book 100 pagesDyslexic edition 104 pages
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The Window Cleaners

A Wobble & Magoo Adventure — Book 3

Wobble has found the perfect job: cleaning windows for prim and proper Miss Puddington at number twenty-three. All they need is a ladder. A very tall ladder. A ladder that would rather go sideways than up. Before the day is out there will be a startled neighbour, a bucket of soapy water, an apple tree, a washing line and one pair of very surprised braces. The third laugh-out-loud adventure of Wobble & Magoo. Two Gentlemen. One Disaster.

🎧 Listen: 9 chapters
Chapter 1: A Business of Great Heights
Chapter 2: The Lady at Number Twenty-Three
Chapter 3: The First Ascent
Chapter 4: The Travelling Ladder
Chapter 5: Magoo Takes Charge
Chapter 6: The Bucket Problem
Chapter 7: The Great Escape
Chapter 8: The Unexpected Inspection
Chapter 9: The Last Window
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Free book 88 pagesDyslexic edition 96 pages
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The Runaway Railway

A Wobble & Magoo Adventure — Book 4

Lady Locomotion is the grandest steam engine in the county, and she wants a thorough clean. There is only one rule: under no circumstances must anyone touch her controls. Wobble touches her controls. Soon two respectable gentlemen are aboard the fastest train in England, with a cow on the line, a bridge of certain disaster, a very dark tunnel and one farmer's washing line. The fourth laugh-out-loud adventure of Wobble & Magoo. Two Gentlemen. One Disaster.

🎧 Listen: 9 chapters
Chapter 1: A Most Unusual Customer
Chapter 2: The Cleaning Begins
Chapter 3: The Trouble With Steam
Chapter 4: The Fastest Train in England
Chapter 5: The Cow on the Line
Chapter 6: The Bridge of Certain Disaster
Chapter 7: The Tunnel
Chapter 8: The Great Railway Rescue
Chapter 9: The Last Whistle
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Free book 102 pagesDyslexic edition 110 pages
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The Motor Car

A Wobble & Magoo Adventure — Book 5

Mr Pumbleton's beautiful little racing-green motor car needs mending in time for the village motor show. Wobble has a hammer. Wobble has a spare part. Wobble has absolutely no idea where the spare part goes. Before long the horn won't stop, the brakes won't start, and two respectable gentlemen have accidentally entered the most prestigious motor rally in the county, with a stubborn duck, a hairpin bend and twenty very excited chickens. The fifth laugh-out-loud adventure of Wobble & Magoo. Two Gentlemen. One Disaster.

🎧 Listen: 13 chapters
Chapter 1: The Finest Motor Mechanics in England
Chapter 2: The Gentleman With the Broken Car
Chapter 3: The Horn That Wouldn't Stop
Chapter 4: The Mysterious Spare Part
Chapter 5: The First Test Drive
Chapter 6: The Village Motor Show
Chapter 7: The Most Unlikely Racing Drivers
Chapter 8: The Hairpin Bend
Chapter 9: The Bridge, the Duck and the Picnic Basket
Chapter 10: The Great Chicken Incident
Chapter 11: The Finish Line
Chapter 12: The Unexpected Bill
Chapter 13: The Last Honk
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Free book 110 pagesDyslexic edition 114 pages
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A Day at the Seaside

A Wobble & Magoo Adventure — Book 6

After a week of disasters, Wobble and Magoo deserve a holiday. A peaceful day at Bumblewick-on-Sea: deckchairs, ice cream, and absolutely no excitement whatsoever. Unfortunately, nobody told the deckchairs. Or the sandcastle. Or the ice-cream trolley. And certainly nobody told Captain Squawk, the biggest, boldest, most ice-cream-stealing seagull on the whole south coast. Luckily, Admiral Quackers is on duty. The sixth laugh-out-loud adventure of Wobble & Magoo. Two Gentlemen. One Disaster.

🎧 Listen: 9 chapters
Chapter 1: The Holiday Begins
Chapter 2: Welcome to Bumblewick-on-Sea
Chapter 3: The Deckchair Disaster
Chapter 4: The Greatest Sandcastle in England
Chapter 5: The Ice-Cream Incident
Chapter 6: The Battle of the Birds
Chapter 7: The Rescue of M.C. Wobble
Chapter 8: The Most Unexpected Prize
Chapter 9: The Journey Home
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Free book 104 pagesDyslexic edition 112 pages
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The Chimney Sweeps

A Wobble & Magoo Adventure — Book 7

Mrs Crumpet's chimney is blocked, and she has very bravely hired Wobble and Magoo to sweep it. The rules are simple: no mess, no damage, and under no circumstances light the fire. Within minutes there is soot on the curtains, soot on the clock, soot on Magoo and a very curious Admiral Quackers halfway up the chimney. And next door, poor Mrs Butterworth is about to get a surprise with her afternoon tea. The seventh laugh-out-loud adventure of Wobble & Magoo. Two Gentlemen. One Disaster.

🎧 Listen: 10 chapters
Chapter 1: A Very Black Monday
Chapter 2: Mrs Crumpet's Strict Instructions
Chapter 3: The Brush That Went Missing
Chapter 4: The Black Gentleman
Chapter 5: Admiral Quackers Investigates
Chapter 6: The Great Duck Rescue
Chapter 7: The Wrong Chimney
Chapter 8: The Fire That Shouldn't Have Been Lit
Chapter 9: Mrs Crumpet Comes Home
Chapter 10: The Final Puff
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Free book 100 pagesDyslexic edition 108 pages
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The Wedding Cake

A Wobble & Magoo Adventure — Book 8

Wobble and Magoo have been hired as waiters at the wedding of the year, and the hotel manager, Mr Pompington, has only one rule: DO NOT TOUCH THE CAKE. It is seven tiers tall. It is covered in sugar roses. It is about to go on the most unexpected journey of its life. With spinning soup, a runaway cake wheel, a very hungry Admiral Quackers and one extremely surprised hotel manager, this is a wedding nobody will ever forget. The eighth laugh-out-loud adventure of Wobble & Magoo. Two Gentlemen. One Disaster.

🎧 Listen: 11 chapters
Chapter 1: A Most Important Occasion
Chapter 2: The Wedding of the Year
Chapter 3: The Duck and the Sugar Rose
Chapter 4: The Champagne Problem
Chapter 5: The Wedding Breakfast
Chapter 6: The Cake Must Be Moved
Chapter 7: The Seven-Tier Wobble
Chapter 8: The Great Wedding Cake Chase
Chapter 9: The Wedding That Was Saved by a Duck
Chapter 10: The Wedding Photograph
Chapter 11: The Last Slice
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Free book 122 pagesDyslexic edition 128 pages
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The Garden Experts

A Wobble & Magoo Adventure — Book 9

Lady Lavender's garden party is this afternoon, and her garden is a jungle. Luckily, two gentlemen have just bought a gardening book. Before the guests arrive there will be a runaway lawnmower, a hedge shaped like a duck, a hosepipe with a mind of its own and a very wet Wobble in the fountain. And then everybody turns up: every friend, neighbour and victim from the whole series. The grand finale of the first great adventures of Wobble & Magoo. Two Gentlemen. One Disaster. One very big splash.

🎧 Listen: 10 chapters
Chapter 1: The Last Job
Chapter 2: The Garden of Lady Lavender
Chapter 3: The Lawn That Wouldn't Behave
Chapter 4: The Duck-Shaped Hedge
Chapter 5: The Hosepipe From Hell
Chapter 6: The Garden Party Begins
Chapter 7: Everybody Comes Back
Chapter 8: The Grand Garden Dance
Chapter 9: The Finest Gentlemen in Primrose Village
Chapter 10: The Very Last Advertisement
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Free book 128 pagesDyslexic edition 138 pages

For older readers

Longer, funnier novels for ages 11 to 15, with a dyslexic edition and every chapter read aloud.

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The Diary of an Accidental Genius

Book One: The Wood End Years

My name is Oliver Percival Wiggins. I am twelve years, eight months and four days old, and I believe I may be the most intelligent person in the West Midlands. Unfortunately, nobody else appears to have noticed. In one year on Fernhill Road, Wood End, Oliver builds a burglar alarm that catches a hedgehog, an electric car that goes through next door's hedge, and a time machine that travels exactly one minute. Along the way he discovers the A-Team, a grumpy neighbour with a secret under a tarpaulin, a dad who once raced rally cars, and a mystery buried in the woods since 1944. A very funny, very Coventry diary, for ages 11 to 15.

🎧 Listen: 12 chapters
Chapter 1: The Beginning of My Empire
Chapter 2: The Wiggins EV1
Chapter 3: Operation A-Team
Chapter 4: The Discovery of Ancient Civilisation
Chapter 5: The Peeping Tom Investigation
Chapter 6: Christmas at the Wigginses
Chapter 7: Operation UnderCoventry
Chapter 8: Thirteen!
Chapter 9: The Portland Conspiracy
Chapter 10: The United Kingdom of Underground People
Chapter 11: The House That Time Forgot
Chapter 12: The Shelter in the Woods
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Free book 506 pagesDyslexic edition 570 pages