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The Grunts

  • Author: Philip Ardagh
  • Illustrator: Axel Scheffler

Mr and Mrs Grunt, who are neither clean nor clever, live with their adopted – in fact, abducted – son, Sunny, in a donkey-drawn caravan somewhere or other at some time that is a bit like now but not exactly now. Sunny is an odd-looking boy, what with his left ear being higher than his right ear and that kind of sticky-up hair which NEVER goes flat, even if you massage glue into it and then jump on it. Together the unusual family find themselves in frankly improbable but very funny adventures involving bendy railings, double-barrelled shotguns, full-fat yoghurt and, always, a beard of bees.

Titles
The Grunts in Trouble
The Grunts all at Sea
The Grunts on the Run
The Grunts in a Jam

In the Series

The Grunts in Trouble

  • Author: Philip Ardagh
  • Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
  • Publication: 6 Sep 2012
  • Age: 9+

Meet Mr and Mrs Grunt and their son, Sunny, who isn’t really their son because they stole him off a washing line when he was a baby. Follow their adventures in their homemade (badly made) caravan, drawn by Clip and Clop (whom the Grunts took to be one donkey until they realised that they could see them both at once)…