The Runaway Pea

This pea is ready for an adventure! It is time for tea, but one pesky pea has decided to ping himself off the plate in search of fun! A rhyming tale begins as the pea bounds from one disaster to another…SPLAT! PLOP! SPLASH, bouncing from a puddle of sauce to a dog bowl to a fish tank. BANG! TWANG! Mousetrap and spider’s web and almost a red hot toaster waylay him as he next flies straight into the tumble drier. He is buffered and battered and bounced all about. All these near disasters are illustrated with a masterly hand, with lots of humour and characterisation of the creatures and the inanimate objects that pea encounters. UNTIL… finally deposited near a compost heap, pea starts to feel funny… sprouting out roots and shooting up shoots!! And of course, his offspring all have his adventurous gene, so the story ends with a warning; if one should hear POP, PING or SPLAT, or a SPLOSH in the sink… it’s only those runaway peas! A quirky book which will be loved by all.