Norman Hunter

When it was a case of inventing an unspillable teacup, or a collapsible-cum expandable house, or a liquid carpet to be applied with a brush, or a machine for peeling and pipping grabes, a bomb or a fire alarm, Professor Branestawm was the man for the job. This marvellously funny book is for nine - twelve-year-olds, particularly boys.

Professor Branestawm is madly sane and cleverly dotty. He simply hasn't got the time to think about ordinary things - his head is too full of brilliant ideas and wild inventions. Yet the professor's absent-mindedness means that his devices rarely seem to wark as they should, and wacky mishaps are never far behind -- cover.

Disaster strikes yet again when Professor Branestawm dreams up an ingenious idea to abolish washing-up for ever ...

In this series of adventures, Professor Branestawm invents more dotty devices that seem like a good idea at the time but invariably go wrong! The climax comes when, after a bit of tampering by the Professor, a highly ferocious pudding threatens to engulf the town of Pagwell!

Divulges the secret of such tricks as making time disappear, shuffling a deck of cards by using radio waves, cutting a girl in two, and many others.

Here is the instant answer to those numerous questions of general knowledge that are always coming up in everyday life, Professor Branestawm's Compendium. This is a an amazing collection of zany ideas - conundrums, riddles, crazy proverbs, dotty descriptions and brain-teasers, all appropriately illustrated.

Professor Branestawm's amazing genius for invention produces an inflatable motor car to solve parking problems and, in Wild Letters, an extremely clever letter-writing machine. Unfortunately, trouble is never far away when the Professor's inventions get going and soon the sparks really begin to fly!

Twelve fantastic tales of the King and Queen of Incrediblania and the wicked schemer Count Bakwerdz.

The magic in this book will not enable you to turn your schoolteacher in a chocolate-cream frog, or cause a mighty palace to arise in the back garden. But it does show you how to perform exciting, amuxing, mysterious and somewhat joyous conjuring tricks, to entertain your friends and cause them to think you no no end of a clever guy or girl.

Professor Branestawm is still hard at work on his inventions, and still causing calamity after calamity and laugh after laugh.

Professor Branestawm that erratic genius from Great Pagwell, has been delighting readers young and old with tales of his hilarious and incredible exploits for over fifty years. Here now is a bumper, omnibus collection of all the best of the Branestawm stories, including old favourites from the very first book with W.Heath Robinson's inimitable illustrations, and newer stories such as 'Professor Deals with Inflation' which demonstrates just how the Professor has kept abreast of the times.

He's madly sane and cleverly dotty. He's the craziest genius you'll ever meet and he's about to cause havoc in Pagwell with his wild inventions.....