It has been translated into 37 languages and is winner of four National Book Awards, including Book of the Year, and will be a major new comedy drama for the BBC. Full of Adam Kay’s trademark humour, this is an amusing and educational picture book and is sure to be a favourite. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.

My toddler loves anything he deems yucky or rude and this ticks all the boxes, while also strangely being educational. Hours of gruesome fun guaranteed’ i ‘Like listening to a teacher who makes pupils fall about’ Sunday Times ‘Totally brilliant! Jacqueline Wilson'Fun and informative' Malorie Blackman'Very funny - this exciting book is bound to inspire the next generation of medics' Sunday ExpressPraise for Kay's Marvellous Medicine:'A ridiculously funny read that will delight, gross out and educate all at the same time' Independent'Educational and entertaining. The trend for acclaimed novelists of adult fiction to sidestep into picture books shows no signs of abating.

The non digestion of sweetcorn is legendary and to pick the only vegetable that could tell the full sticky story is a stroke of genius. You can understand the allure: children’s publishing is booming and the task of conjuring a whole world in a slim clutch of pages must seem a tantalising exercise in efficiency and imagination for authors more accustomed to turning in dozens of chapters. His first book "This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor" was a Sunday Times number one bestseller for over a year and has sold over two million copies.

When Oliver finds a little rusty bundle in a field one day, his mum cleans it off, and the metal bird they discover starts slowly coming to life.Hours of gruesome fun guaranteed' i'Like listening to a teacher who makes pupils fall about' Sunday Times'Totally brilliant!