What would you do if a heap of rubbish shaped like a man suddenly started talking to you? Or if you realised one day that your pet mouse was smarter than the headmaster of your school? Twelve-year-old Pete Smith does not believe in magic or fairies, but life tends to change when someone is murdered and you suddenly have to rely on talking mice, dwarfs and garbage heaps that fly around in revved-up dustbins to save you from an evil sorcerer and hordes of boy-eating rats.
A fast-paced fantasy adventure with a touch of the bizarre.
This book was awarded the M. E. R. Prize for Youth Literature.
Sobre el autor
Wynand Louw is an ear, nose and throat specialist and lives in Tableview. He also lectures at the Tygerberg Hospital Training Unit. In 2005 he received the M.E.R. prize for children’s fiction for Mr Humperdinck’s Wonderful Whatsit. In 2009 the Afrikaans translation, Mnr. Humperdinck se wonderlike watsenaam, was also published by Human & Rousseau.