Jim Smith is the keelest kids’ book author in the whole wide world amen. He graduated from art school with first class honours (the best you can get) and is the author of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize-winning and bestselling BARRY LOSER series and the FUTURE RATBOY series. He lives in London, and designs cards and gifts under the name Waldo Pancake.

`Hugely enjoyable, surreal chaos . . . The review of the eight-year-old boy in our house who devoured it in two days? “Can I keep it to give to a friend?” Best recommendation you can get’ Observer` I laughed so much, I thought I was going to burst’ Finbar, aged 6`Twice as good as my other favourite book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ Ben, aged 7

Jim Smith is the keelest kids’ book author in the whole wide world amen. He graduated from art school with first class honours (the best you can get) and is the author of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize-winning and bestselling BARRY LOSER series and the FUTURE RATBOY series. He lives in London, and designs cards and gifts under the name Waldo Pancake.

`Hugely enjoyable, surreal chaos . . . The review of the eight-year-old boy in our house who devoured it in two days? “Can I keep it to give to a friend?” Best recommendation you can get’ Observer` I laughed so much, I thought I was going to burst’ Finbar, aged 6`Twice as good as my other favourite book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ Ben, aged 7