CHILD OF THE BEAST Paperback / softback

by Jack Meggitt-Phillips

Part of the BEAST AND THE BETHANY series

Paperback / softback

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Description

The book that bites back is BACK! In the fourth beastly book from Jack Meggit-Phillips, the most distinctive new voice for readers of 8-12, there are surprises in store for Bethany about her missing familyâ€¦ For centuries, the beast has tormented the world.

But now, thereâ€™s a change to a menu, and the beast is going cold turkey â€“ which essentially means eating no priceless works of art . . . or purple parrots . . . or CHILD-SIZED PRANKSTERS. Ebenezer and Bethany are attempting to help the beast vomit some good into the world â€“ even though they really havenâ€™t come anywhere close to managing the business of do-gooding themselves.

But Bethany is distracted by her date-not-a-date with Geoffrey, while Ebenezer is worried by a file which reveals a truth about Bethanyâ€™s parents that might just ruin life for everyone at the 15-storey house . . . The beast is left to teach itself how to be good.

But its impulses canâ€™t be ignored, and all the worst parts of the beast crawl out of the beastâ€™s belly to form a dreadful child. At first the beast is charmed by its ghastly progeny.

So clever! So horrible! But to its surprise, it develops something approaching a conscience.

When the child finds out the truth about Bethanyâ€™s parents and plans to use it against her, can Ebenezer and the beast stop it from destroying Bethanyâ€™s hopes and dreams for ever? The Beast and the Bethany has all the classic macabre humour of Roald Dahl with the warmth and charm of Despicable Me, finished off with a gleeful bite of Little Shop of Horrors!