‘Crook also illustrates the book and these are fantastic’
Benjamin Tooth is a budding botanist and scientist. He is only 11 years old but he is already nursing baby birds, mounting butterflies that he has caught and claiming that one day he will be remembered as the greatest scientist the world has ever known! Benjamin lives with his foul mother and his ancient great grandfather, who has some strange traits... (He reads the newspaper by sniffing it. Hard to imagine but the quirky illustration of him doing so gives you an early insight to the weirdness inside this book.) There are some horrid descriptions of his meals at the end of each day’s diary entry and the author adds humour along the way to balance the foulness.
One day when Ben is at the nearby Winchvale Moor he meets a curious man named Farley Cupstart. What does the mysteriously suspicious Cupstart want, something that lurks on the Moor?
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