Sophy's family has had enough of her helpful hints and her mother tells her to find someone who really needs help. So Sophy sets up as a rent-a-genius. Customers flock in, desperate for advice about mud and grandmothers, friends and tomatoes - but soon there are too many problems.

 

This book is part of a book series called Antelope Series .

There are 88 pages in this book. This book was published 1991 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Gillian Cross is perhaps best known for her Demon Headmaster series and its BBC adaptation. She has won many of the most prestigious awards for children's fiction, including the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the Smarties Prize. Victor Ambrus is one of Oxford's favorite children's author/illustrators and has twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal. Other books for Oxford include Blackbeard the Pirate, and Peter and the Wolf. His wife, Glenys Ambrus is an accomplished illustrator for children and has collaborated with her husband on several other books.