Meet the most eccentric inventor ever in THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF PROFESSOR BRANESTAWM by Norman Hunter.
The wonderfully eccentric Professor Branestawm is always inventing weird and wonderful things, such as a devise to capture burglars, and a spring-cleaning machine! But housekeeper Mrs Flittersnoop is at her wit's end as the Professor's inventions always make life far more complicated than it was before!
With the wonderfully inventive original illustrations throughout by W. Heath Robinson, Professor Branestawm is as funny as he was when he first appeared in A Puffin Story Book in 1947.
This is Book 7 in the A Puffin Book Series. See all A Puffin Book books here.
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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 1
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