Stanley Bagshaw and the fourteen-foot wheel.

In Huddersgate, near where Stanley Bagshaw, lives there is a factory that makes sprockets and wheels. Passing by the gates one day his old mate George the works engineer calls him over and asks if he will just keep an eye on the foundry while he has his tea break. Our Stanley, 'being kind and obliging', of course says yes. At first he finds the job quite exciting but he soon gets tired and bored, falls asleep and omits to pull an important lever at the appropriate time. The result is a loud BANG! and the instantaneous manufacture of a huge bicycle wheel which then proceeds to run amok through the streets of Huddersgate causing hilarious levels of chaos as it goes. "Stands in a class of it's own." - British Book News "Preposterous comic-strip stuff for the reluctant reader." - The Observer "Colourful pictures and amusing rhyming couplets make this charming tale an enchanting and useful tool for early readers." - Google books "Told in a marvellously varied and inventive series of pictures, comic strip and bubbles A real treat for juniors." - Books for keeps. "Satisfies both the child's aesthetic sense and taste for words as well as giving pleasure and delight." - The School Librarian Mother Goose Award -Short-listed