Captain Cat And The Umbrella Kid

BOLT FROM THE BLUE: This is it! Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid’s most Cataclysmic Caper yet!! The Sinister Snowman escapes from Hammerstein Prison*but that’s only the beginning. The giant washing-machine of Maxburg is the first of the world’s great monuments to be vaporised by an energy beam from space. Who is the Menacing Mastermind behind this outrage? Could it be international crime syndicate FFANG? To solve the mystery, the Tremendous Two will have to travel to Egypt to prevent the Sphinx from being zapped, break into a maximum security girls’ school, don disguises to check into a gangster-packed hotel and, finally, come face to face with their most Fiendish Foe yet * the diabolical Big Boss of FFANG! DAY OF THE DINOSAURS: Monumental Studios want Captain Cat!! * to star in their latest movie extravaganza about rampaging dinosaurs. The Umbrella Kid is keen*until he discovers his part is to be played by obnoxious child star Tom Timm. But Captain Cat has no time for such frivolities. The prized teddy bear belonging to Theodore Thursday, the Brekkie-Bikks billionaire, has been kidnapped by the terrible, terrible Toymaker! And that’s not all. Pterodactyls are attacking Aunt Titania’s washing-line, plesiosaurs are cavorting in park ponds, and Tyrannosaurs are striding down free-ways! Monumental Studio’s life-sized robot dinosaurs are out of control. A mechanical fault? Or can the Toymaker be playing a duplicitous double-game? Whatever the reason, the Day of the Dinosaurs is going to be a very long day!

THE GREED OF GOLDFEVER: Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid go for gold!! From a strawberry farm infested with North American Apache Attack snails; to hanging from a zeppelin high above Maxburg City; to a tropical isle guarded by Giant Robot Crabs, the Tremendous Two have no time to catch their breaths, let alone hold them. Someone’s made all the gold in the Lockstock Stockade Gold Depository smell Absolutely Stinky. But is this only the First Step in a pongy plot to plunder the gold vaults? Who can be behind it? Sultry saboteur Dinah Myte? Evil mad scientist Dr von Feendkraven? Surely it can’t be Eddie Goldfever the world famous rock star? Join the Captain and the Kid as they tackle head-on the all-consuming Greed of Goldfever! THE SARDINES OF SUSPICION: Captain Cat’s penthouse HQ is flooded and pumped full of piranha!! A seemingly unprovoked attack by gross gangster Fish-Face. But this is only a pulse-pounding prelude. Greater perils await...Beneath the dark, placid waters of the Squidd Sardine Farm something stirs. An enormous sardine-guzzling sea-serpent! But surely such things don’t exist? Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid investigate *and discover Mystery upon Mystery. Who is the sinister man in black weaving a Tibetan ghost-trap around the lake? Who is the face-swapping traitor behind all the sabotage at the Sardine Farm? Diving-bells are attacked, Ye Olde Country Tea-Roomes are machine-gunned, and assorted heroes are sucked up by giant vacuum-cleaners before one thing is finally made clear: the Sardines of Suspicion cast their sinister shadow over everyone, and No One Can Be Trusted * not even Captain Cat!

Fiction for young readers and first in a series featuring characters Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid. No sooner is Billy named the Umbrella Kid, than super villain Dr Daffodil threatens the Metropolis of Maxburg with flesh-eating fungi, deadly carrot spears, kamikaze fruit, and his Bellicose Banana Beast. Can Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid save the citizens of Maxburg? Includes illustrations and cut-out Captain Cat mask. Other titles in the series include 'Revenge of the Refrigerators' and 'Cards of Chaos'.

2 Excitement-packed Escapades!! FEAR CAN BE FATAL: Beware the moor at night when the moon is high, the shadows long and the pub’s closed – that’s when the Phantom Fiery Giraffe haunts the land! The sinister Snakecharmer strikes – leaving the Umbrella Kid stricken with a slight case of Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). He is packed off to the exclusive mountain-top Phobia Clinic of famous Doctor Balthazar Batkiss, where he discovers all manner of mystery: mountainside ghost-train rides, an exiled dictator laden with the stolen Crown Jewels of Qvania, not to mention a Giant Brain throbbing away in the basement! Meanwhile, Captain Cat is up to his wire whiskers in even more mystery: why have all the workers at a fly-spray factory been replaced with gangsters armed with tubas and trombones? Why is an African witchdoctor dancing out on the moors in the dead of night? And just why are all the locals so afraid of the eerie Phantom Fiery Giraffe? Before this Harrowing Adventure is over, Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid will learn that Fear Can Be Fatal! THE AUNT FROM THE BLOOD LAGOON: Acid peach-bombs pelt Captain Cat’s penthouse HQ, an unprovoked attack by perfidious gangster The Peach! A berserk robot postman batters at the front door! A giant gorilla kidnaps Aunt Titania! What does it all mean? The trail leads Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid to murky Blood Lagoon – and the Horrors stirring within the submerged, seemingly long-abandoned Tix Top Toaster factory... Sinister sextuplets, the Tix Brothers, are hatching an Insane Plot: to appropriate (ie steal) the amazing Captain Cat Crime Catalogue Computer! To achieve this goal, they unleash the Greatest Horror to Ever Walk the Earth – an army of android aunts, marching up out of Blood Lagoon and invading Maxburg City. Will Captain Cat be able to put a spanner in their works? Will the Umbrella Kid, cornered by bossy aunts, finally be forced to tidy his room – or will he have to take the only means of escape: leaping out of the window of the thirteenth tallest building in the world? The Aunt From the Blood Lagoon – Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid’s Most Awesome, Epic Adventure ever!!

Novel for primary school age readers. The fourth title in a series about Captain Cat and his sidekick the Umbrella Kid. In this instalment, super villain Dr Daffodil joins forces with The Peach, who plans to steal a peach topaz with the aid of Dr Daffodil's hybrid plants.

Fiction for young readers in a series featuring characters Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid. In the height of summer, the Massive Metropolis of Maxburg has been plunged into a winter wasteland by an invasion force of refrigerators under the control of the villain Snowman. Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid must combat vampire penguins, robotic polar bears, and freezing phalanxes of fridges. Includes illustrations and cut-out Captain Cat mask. Other titles in the series include 'Fruit of Fury' and 'Cards of Chaos'.

Fiction for young readers featuring Captain Cat and his sidekick, the Umbrella Kid. With a full hand of tricks up his sleeve, super villain Cardsharp is taking Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid on a merry chase. Can they return the only remaining Vootenkube Screecher to the Maxburg Extinct Hunters Club? Includes illustrations. Other titles in the series are 'Fruit of Fury' and 'Revenge of the Refrigerators'.

Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are "just the right size - fitting into a single, magical day." She is an expert at baking and eating fancy iced cakes, and her favorite mode of travel is par avion. On windy days, she takes her sixteen cats out for an airing: Minky, Misty, Taffy, Purrsia, Pirate, Mustard, Moutarde, Hemdela, Earring, Grigorovitch, Clasby, Captain Captain, Captain Catkin, Captain Cothespin, Your Shyness and Sizzles. With the aid of her favorite tea party tablecloth as a makeshift balloon, Miss Petitfour and her charges fly over her village, having many little adventures along the way. Join Miss Petitfour and her equally eccentric felines on five magical outings -- a search for marmalade, to a spring jumble sale, on a quest for "birthday cheddar", the retrieval of a lost rare stamp and as they compete in the village's annual Festooning Festival. A whimsical, beautifully illustrated collection of tales that celebrates language, storytelling and small pleasures, especially the edible kind!