When a mad scientist steals and then genetically engineers the world's microorganisms they grow to be the size of buses. Before they can take over the world, Dr Pockets, an apple pie loving family doctor, is sent underground to save the day. Dr. Pockets has to overcome the GIANT germs, warts, and colds that are big enough to catch a child to lead the planet's immune system to victory. Will he find all he needs in his pockets, or will DR POCKETS remain forever in THE LAND OF GERMS AND WARTS?

What do you get if you cross a purple bearded pirate, a headmaster that still wears nappies, a misfiring electronic parrot called Percylove, the most bed-like spaceship in the universe and saber tooth bunnies that love reading?A fun, funny, fantastic, fantastical, futuristic yarn that will have you yelping, laughing and clapping all the way to the ends of the universe.Frightened? I closed my eyes as I wrote this one. - Dr NickI was about to stroke the fluffy bunnies, until I realised they had saber teeth. - Grandpa TubNo way, we are in space! - twins Li and La in unisonSeeing we have been captured by the dreaded Pirates of the Milky Way, does this mean I don't have to do my homework? - Curtis

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