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Harry the Poisonous Centipede: A Story To Make You Squirm
By (Author) Lynne Reid Banks
Illustrated by Tony Ross
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
5th July 2012
26th April 2012
United Kingdom
Primary and Secondary Educational
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
823.914
Paperback
176
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 13mm
170g
Winner of the Smarties Silver medal, and best-selling title, Harry the Poisonous Centipede is the delightfully squirmy story of a little centipedes adventures in the scary world of the dreaded Hoo-Mins!
Its a Hoo-Min! crackled George. Walking on its hairy-biter feet!
But now it was Harry who felt brave. Come on! Lets peep at it!
They crawled the rest of the way up the tunnel towards the light.
Harry is a poisonous centipede but hes not very brave. Still, he is the star of this seriously squirmy story. Harry likes to eat things that wriggle and crackle, and things that are juicy and munchy! But there are some things that a poisonous centipede must never try to eat dangerous things like flying swoopers, belly wrigglers, furry biters and the most dangerous of all Hoo-Mins!
Harry and Georges adventures up to the world of Hoo-Mins sparkle with fun and will be a delightfully squirmy experience for all young readers.
Praise for Harry the Poisonous Centipede:
A real ground level story that rockets along on hundreds of legsBug fans will love this. Kidstuff School Books RTE Guide
Praise for Tiger, Tiger:
Tiger, Tiger burns brightly to the very last page, and long afterwards too. Michael Morpurgo
Praise for The Indian in the Cupboard:
An assured piece of storytelling, well able to stand comparison with older classics. Times Educational Supplement
Enthralling and hair-raising reading. TLS
Praise for The Secret of the Indian:
There have been many famous stories in which childrens toys come alive: this book is in the same great tradition. -School Library Association.
Lynne Reid Banks is a best-selling author for children and adults. Her classic childrens novel The Indian in the Cupboard has sold nearly six million copies worldwide. She was born in London in 1929 and worked as an actress, writer and TV news reporter. Lynne has written thirty books: her first, The L-Shaped Room, was published in 1960. She now lives in Dorset, where she continues to write. Lynne says that writing for children comes much more easily than writing for adults.