Babette Cole’s wonderfully ridiculous families
The Trouble With Series
Five families. Absolutely no normal grown-ups. Meet a mum who flies on a broomstick, a dad whose robots run riot, an extraterrestrial gran, a vegetable-growing grandad and a pirate uncle.
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Five brilliantly mischievous books
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The Trouble with Mum
Mum wears extraordinary hats, keeps unusual pets and flies her son to school on a broomstick.
The Trouble with Dad
Dad spends all his spare time building crazy robots—and every one of them seems to cause more mayhem.
The Trouble with Gran
Gran is secretly an extraterrestrial and she certainly livens up a seaside trip.
The Trouble with Grandad
Grandad grows enormous vegetables, but one tomato plant gets seriously out of hand.
The Trouble with Uncle
Uncle sets sail in search of treasure, gets lost at sea, battles pirates and finds love instead.
A decade of trouble
The series through the years
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Meet the first truly troublesome grown-up in the family: a broomstick-flying mum whose unusual talents may be exactly what everyone needs.