BACK TO FRONT BENJY does everything backwards and is thrown out of school for starting a backward trend amongst all the children. Then he's struck by lightning and does everything forwards. In THE HITMUS-POTMUS Benjamin Bean is a very rude boy untilhis uncle tells him the story of the terrible Hitmus-Potmus who eats rude boys. A young wizard in BROWN'S BONES turns his family and everyone he dislikes into animals, until he meets a young witch who gets the better of him. In LITTLE LIAR, Lionel tells lies but is cured after a disastrous tea party with his Auntie Marigold.

 

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Judy Brown is an illustrator of picture books and younger fiction. This is her first novel and begins a series featuring Portia. Judy is married with two children and lives in South London. Authors featuring on this anthology include Margaret Mahy, Allan Ahlberg, Dick King-Smith, Adele Geras, Michael Rosen, Linda Allen and Vivian French