The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (Puffin Classics) [Paperback]

Martin Jarvis reads The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm by Norman Hunter. Unbelievably, these tales were first published in 1933 and sound as if they'd been written today. Branestawm is the epitome of the mad professor, inventing a machine that gets you where you want to go before you've even left, a spring cleaning machine that doesn't quite work as intended, and all sorts of other things that will have 7 -11 year-olds hugging themselves with glee. Beautifully appropriate music, a Naxos signature, adds to the pleasure. --- Kati Nicholl, Daily Express --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Ingenious and timelessly hilarious stories, presented in a new hardback edition --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Could there be an inventor as absent-minded as Professor Branestawm? However good his ideas are - a clock that doesn't need winding, a trap for burglars, a machine that does the cleaning all by itself - the mad professor always seems to end up in hilarious scrapes!

Welcome to the wonderfully nutty, fabulously entertaining mishaps of Professor Branestawm!

Professor Branestawm is madly sane and cleverly dotty. He simply hasn't got the time to think about ordinary things - his head is too full of brilliant ideas and wild inventions. Yet the professor's absent-mindedness means that his devices rarely seem to work as they should, and wacky mishaps are never far behind . . .

These ingenious stories have delighted generations of children, and are as timelessly hilarious today as they ever were.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

'The Professor Branestawm stories really made me laugh when I was a boy. I rediscovered them recently and have greatly enjoyed reading them to my own kids. It's brilliant that a book written in 1933 can still make a modern kid laugh like a drain' - Charlie Higson --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Norman Hunter was born in 1899 in Sydenham, London. After leaving school and finishing what he described as a 'course of all-in wrestling with typewriters', he became an advertising copywriter. He also began, in 1915, giving performances of conjuring, and made over two hundred appearances at Maskelyne and Devants. His first Branestawm book was published in 1933. After the Second World War, Norman Hunter moved to South Africa, where he continued to work in advertising. Conjuring was still one of his spare time occupations. He returned to England in 1969 where he lived near the river at Staines until his death in 1995.