[LISTENED TO: December 2016] The League of Beastly Dreadfuls
I was looking for an audio book to listen to with the kids and I found this one. I didn’t know anything about it, but the title was interesting.
I never suspected just what a peculiar story this turned out to be.
It is the tale of Anastasia McCrumpet, an otherwise normal 11-year-old girl who suffers from flatulence and a mum who does little more than yell from her bed all day. Her father is a loving man, but as of a few years ago he has been quite obsessed with vacuum cleaners. She also has a guinea pig who is quite ill-tempered; when it feels crossed by someone, it takes revenge by pooping in their slippers.
On this particular morning, they were having a funeral. A funeral for her father’s plant (they wound up tossing it out the window). And then her father made them his famous waffles (which her mother screamed for upstairs).
But Anastasia was running late for school that morning because of the funeral and she ran out of the house wearing a most unusual outfit (part of a Halloween costume, which was top on the laundry pile). (more…)
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