Harry the Poisonous Centipede: A Story to Make You Squirm

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Harry and George, the incident-prone centipede buddies who have had fans laughing through two hilarious sagas of accidental derring-do, Harry the Poisonous Centipede and Harry the Poisonous Centipede's Big Adventure , are back in their third and final escapade—and this time our two favorite arthropods are in really over their heads! She has written forty books, including the best-selling children's novel The Indian in the Cupboard, which has sold over 10 million copies and been made into a film. Banks (Angela and Diabola) paints a touching portrait of growing up amid the upheavals in Belfast in this coming-of-age fantasy.

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While you have to remember to separate truth from fiction, this book does weave them together into an entertaining story. Thirty-five years earlier, Mariolain and her husband, Niels, suffered unimaginably during the Second World War. Harry the Poisonous Centipede was so fun because our son (5 years old / first grade) had fun guessing what the centipedes were talking about throughout the book. But there are some things that a poisonous centipede must never try to eat – dangerous things like flying swoopers, belly wrigglers, furry biters and the most dangerous of all. His mother's scary stories about ""flying swoopers,"" ""furry biters,"" and the dreaded ""Hoo-mins"" are not enough to dissuade the curious centipede from joining his mischievous friend, George, on forbidden excursions upward.

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It was later made into a movie of the same name and led to two sequels, The Backward Shadow and Two is Lonely.A delightfully squirmy story starring Harry the Poisonous Centipede in a scary world of flying swoopers, furry biters and the dreaded Hoo-Mins!