by Mangan, Stephen | Interest age: from c 9 years Published 26/05/2022 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom Paperback | 368 pages198 x 129 x 25mm | 268g A high-energy, laugh-out-loud, fully illustrated adventurestory by much-loved actor Stephen Mangan and talented artistAnita Mangan. 'Laugh-out-loud stuff' Ray D’ArcyIt's the most important day of the year for King Fabian as heis hosting all the neighbouring rulers. Everythingsimply must go perfectly.King Fabian wakes up, stretches, and...farts.His wife's fury is so huge that he panics and blames the butler,who is carted off to the dungeons. Leaving behind a big problem:Fabian isn't really the brains behind the crown: it is the butler...how will dithery Fabian manage to pull off this high-pressureevent alone? His small and smelly fart looks like it will kickoff a crisis...Frank - a kitchen boy with a big imagination - is drafted in asan emergency butler. As the banquet descends into a food fightand processions catapult out of control, Frank finds himself in anall-out farty farce. Can he save the day?Wildly funny and endlessly surprising, thisis delightfully imaginative, surreal storytelling with a messagethat small events can trigger big change, and children can be heroes!Packed with pictures by Stephen Mangan's sisterAnita Mangan.Escape the Rooms is one of the most loved and bestsellingchildren's debuts of 2021. Stephen and Anita Mangan are comic dynamite. Praise for Stephen and Anita's books:Escape the Rooms:'A brilliant, clever, kind of genius book' GrahamNorton, Virgin Radio'Richly imagined and deeply heartfelt' HadleyFreeman, Guardian'Manages to feel both classic and modern at the same time'Good Housekeeping'A beautiful and exciting adventure that ignites the imagination'Edith Bowman The Fart That Changed the World'A sure-fire way for kids to entertain themselves. What’smore, it’s also excellent for reading aloud' LoveReading4Kids'A high-energy, brilliantly imaginative and laugh-out-loud talethat is guaranteed to blow away young readers' LancashireEvening Post The Unlikely Rise of Harry Sponge“After the runaway success of joint debut novel, Escapethe Rooms, and the hilarious The Fart That Changed the World,the dynamic duo return with an all-action, marvellously manic andlaugh-out-loud tale with a message that any child can be a hero”Lancashire Evening Post'hilarious ... A right royal romp' FirstNews ABOUT THE MANGANSStephen Mangan is an author, script-writer andactor with huge range across TV, radio, film and theatre. Fromclassic comedy such as Green Wing,Episodes and I'm Alan Partridgeand acclaimed drama such as The Split,Stephen also presents Portrait and LandscapeArtist of the Year and regularly appears onstage, most recently as a highly praised Ebeneezer Scrooge in AChristmas Carol. Stephen also voiced thetitle role in Postman Pat: The Movie.He has been a member of the judging panels for the Costa Book ofthe Year prize and The Laugh-Out-Loud Awards (The Lollies). His children'sbooks are the bestselling Escape the Rooms and The Fart that Changed the World.Stephen on writing for children (interview on ITV'sLorraine): “Every page has to grip them, makethem laugh, be interesting because they can drop it. There arescreens everywhere that they can pick up. That’s part ofthe reason why I started writing books because I had such fun asa kid reading books. I always had my head in a book. I wanted towrite books that were unputdownable for children, that were fullof adventure and crazy big characters and made them laugh.”Anita Mangan is a celebrated graphic designerand illustrator who has designed over 60 books including for LeonRestaurants, Gizzi Erskine and Fearne Cotton. She illustrated thebest-selling Be a Unicorn series. Her first children'sbook was the bestselling Escape the Rooms.
