A laugh-out-loud magical story featuring witches & fun the first in a series of three books by Carnegie & Branford Boase long-listed author Joanne Owen Martha Mayhem (real name Martha May) is always causing chaos! She just can't help it somehow chaotic things just happen to her Martha lives in the small village of Cherry Hillsbottom with her eccentric grandfather Professor Gramps & her small pet hog Elvis Life gets really exciting though when on her way to school one day she discovers a rather bedraggled-looking witch in a ditch Griselda Gritch (the witch) tells a thrilled & alarmed Martha that she has accidentally let loose a ghastly ghoul that Griselda was trying to catch
- & Martha is going to have to help her to get it back again! Griselda though is a rather grumpy & difficult accomplice Can Martha with the help of Gramps Elvis & her best friend Jack (AKA Scrambled Egg Head) retrieve the ghoul & prove herself to Griselda? A brilliantly funny magical story full of energy & action! With fantastic illustrations from internationally-renowned illustrator Tony Ross