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De Verhalen van Grubtown

Deze serie vertelt verhalen uit een eigenaardige en onverklaarbare stad die niet op kaarten voorkomt. Duik in een wereld vol excentrieke personages, van zingende meisjes tot een familie die eenden haat. Volg de bewoners terwijl ze bizarre gebeurtenissen meemaken die hun leven op zijn kop zetten. Het is een boeiende leeservaring vol humor en onverwachte wendingen.

Grubtown Tales: The Far From Great Escape
Grubtown Tales: The Year that it Rained Cows
Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky

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  1. You won't find Grubtown on any maps. The last time any map-makers were sent anywhere near the place they were found a week later wearing nothing but pages from a telephone directory, and calling for their mothers. It's certainly a town and certainly grubby - except for the squeaky clean parts - but everything else we know about the place comes from Beardy Ardagh, town resident and author of these tales. Grubtown is full of oddballs - from the singing Grumbly girls to a family of duck-haters, and an out-sized mayor who's knitting a new house - but Manual Org is too repulsive even for them. Getting him to leave town is top priority, until the discovery of a humongous diamond changes everything...

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  2. A startled cow falling out of nowhere onto Limbo Goulash while he's riding Marley Gripe's bicycle marks the start of a chain of events strange even by Grubtown's standards. Soon damaged property includes Purple Outing's Music Shack and Minty Glibb's attempt at the world's largest (strawberry) jelly- trifle.

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  3. You won't find Grubtown on any maps. The last time any map-makers were sent anywhere near the place they were found a week later wearing nothing but pages from a telephone directory, and calling for their mothers. When the local lighthouse is plunged into darkness and a ship runs aground it's hard to imagine things can get much worse in Grubtown.

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