The fart that changed the world - Stephen Mangan

A high-energy, laugh-out-loud, fully illustrated adventure
story by much-loved actor Stephen Mangan and talented artist
Anita Mangan.

"Laugh-out-loud stuff"Ray D'Arcy

It's the most important day of the year for King Fabian as he
is hosting all the neighbouring rulers. Everything
simply must go perfectly.

King Fabian wakes up, stretches, and...

farts.

His wife's fury is so huge that he panics and blames the butler,
who is carted off to the dungeons. Leaving behind a big problem:
Fabian isn't really the brains behind the crown: it is the butler...
how will dithery Fabian manage to pull off this high-pressure
event alone? His small and smelly fart looks like it will kick
off a crisis...

Frank - a kitchen boy with a big imagination - is drafted in as
an emergency butler. As the banquet descends into a food fight
and processions catapult out of control, Frank finds himself in an
all-out farty farce. Can he save the day?

• Wildly funny and endlessly surprising, this
  is delightfully imaginative, surreal storytelling with a message
  that small events can trigger big change, and children can be heroes!


• Packed with pictures by Stephen Mangan's sister
  Anita Mangan.


• Escape the Rooms is one of the most loved and bestselling
  children's debuts of 2021.

Stephen and Anita Mangan are comic dynamite.

Praise for Stephen and Anita's books:

Escape the Rooms:

"A brilliant, clever, kind of genius book" Graham
Norton, Virgin Radio

'Richly imagined and deeply heartfelt' Hadley
Freeman, Guardian

'Manages to feel both classic and modern at the same time'
Good Housekeeping

'A beautiful and exciting adventure that ignites the imagination'
Edith Bowman

The Fart That Changed the World

"A sure-fire way for kids to entertain themselves. What's
more, it's also excellent for reading aloud" LoveReading4Kids

"A high-energy, brilliantly imaginative and laugh-out-loud tale
that is guaranteed to blow away young readers" Lancashire
Evening Post

The Unlikely Rise of Harry Sponge

"After the runaway success of joint debut novel, Escape
the Rooms, and the hilarious The Fart That Changed the World,
the dynamic duo return with an all-action, marvellously manic and
laugh-out-loud tale with a message that any child can be a hero"
Lancashire Evening Post

"hilarious ... A right royal romp"First
News

ABOUT THE MANGANS

Stephen Mangan is an author, script-writer and
actor with huge range across TV, radio, film and theatre. From
classic comedy such as Green Wing,
Episodes and I'm Alan Partridge
and acclaimed drama such as The Split,
Stephen also presents Portrait and Landscape
Artist of the Year and regularly appears on
stage, most recently as a highly praised Ebeneezer Scrooge in A
Christmas Carol. Stephen also voiced the
title role in Postman Pat: The Movie.
He has been a member of the judging panels for the Costa Book of
the Year prize and The Laugh-Out-Loud Awards (The Lollies). His children's
books are the bestselling Escape the Rooms and
The Fart that Changed the World.

Stephen on writing for children (interview on ITV's
Lorraine):
"Every page has to grip them, make
them laugh, be interesting because they can drop it. There are
screens everywhere that they can pick up. That's part of
the reason why I started writing books because I had such fun as
a kid reading books. I always had my head in a book. I wanted to
write books that were unputdownable for children, that were full
of adventure and crazy big characters and made them laugh."

Anita Mangan is a celebrated graphic designer
and illustrator who has designed over 60 books including for Leon
Restaurants, Gizzi Erskine and Fearne Cotton. She illustrated the
best-selling Be a Unicorn series. Her first children's
book was the bestselling Escape the Rooms.