Captain Cat And The Umbrella Kid In Fruit Of Fury

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'.

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. Someones 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 cant 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 Cats 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 awaitBeneath the dark, placid waters of the Squidd Sardine Farm something stirs. An enormous sardine-guzzling sea-serpent! But surely such things dont 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 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'.

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.

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