by Cas Lester
Sam Hearn for his awesome and hilarious illustrations.
Cait Davies and Livs Mead at Hot Key Books for their energetic and inventive support.
Sara O’Connor for her excellent editing (as ever) and for choosing Harvey Drew and the Junk Skunks to be part of the amazing Story Adventure. But above all, for launching Harvey Drew as Captain of the Toxic Spew and for launching me as a writer. Flickering Spew, thank you.
And finally,
All the Story Adventurers for giving me their brilliant ideas and lots of laughs!
Cas Lester
Cas spent many years having a fabulous time, and a great deal of fun, working in children’s television drama with CBBC. She developed and executive-produced lots of programmes including Jackanory, Muddle Earth, The Magician of Samarkand, Big Kids and The Story of Tracy Beaker.
Her programmes have been nominated for numerous awards, including BAFTAs, Royal Television Awards and Broadcast Children’s Awards.
Now she’s having a fabulous time, and a great deal of fun, writing books for children, helping out in a primary school library and mucking about with her family. She has four children and a daft dog called Bramble. She would absolutely love to go into space. But not on the Toxic Spew.
Cas loves doing school visits, so ask your teacher to get involved! To find out more, or just to keep an eye on what Cas is up to, you can visit her at: http://www.caslester.com/
or on Twitter: @TheCasInTheHat
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First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Hot Key Books
Northburgh House, 10 Northburgh Street, London EC1V 0AT
Text copyright © Cas Lester 2015
Cover illustration copyright © Sam Hearn 2015
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All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN: 9781-4-714-0334-7
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