Next-door neighbours Ruby & Jackson get the surprise of their lives when they discover a Thing living at the bottom of their gardens. & when Thing places a curse on the inhabitants of the new house that's been built over his old home Ruby & Jackson find themselves up to their eyeballs in jellybabies magic & big trouble. I never expected to be friends with a Thing. Well you don't do you? You usually think of friends being either boys or girls or maybe even cute yappy dogs. Well Thing certainly doesn't fit into any of those categories. Thing is just a...a... Actually I'm not sure quite how to describe it. 'A sort of troll crossed with a fairy crossed with a squirrel?' Jackson suggested after we first discovered Thing. 'I is not a squirrel ' Thing purred grumpily twitching its squirrelly ears. ' And not a fairy or a trolly. Whatever they is.' By the way I never expected to be friends with Jackson Miller either. I guess I've got a bit of explaining to do about Jackson & about Thing. (Oh & about curses & jellybabies too & the magic. I mustn't forget the magic!) This title contains charming black & white line illustrations by Alex T. Smith.