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    The Ghastly McNastys: The Lost Treasure of Little Snoring
    The Ghastly McNastys: The Lost Treasure of Little Snoring
    The Ghastly McNastys: The Lost Treasure of Little Snoring
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    The Ghastly McNastys: The Lost Treasure of Little Snoring

    By Ros Aquith and Lyn Gardner

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    The Ghastly McNasty twins are the ghastliest, nastiest pirates ever to sail the seven seas, and they have invaded the town of Little Snoring in their hunt for treasure. But best friends Hetty and Tat are determined to stop them. The clever kids must deal with the Big, Scary, Very Dark, Dense Forest Where No One In Their Right Mind Would Want To Go, poisonous fudge and other nasty obstacles on their quest. Who will find the treasure first?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKids Can Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2015
    ISBN9781771384339
    The Ghastly McNastys: The Lost Treasure of Little Snoring

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    • 5/5
      This is a really good early chapter reading series for young children. It is fun and I am sure they will love it. This is the second volume in the "Ghastly McNastys" series. The villains are the McNasty pirate twins, Gruesome and Grisly McNasty. They are described as nasty, vile, despicable, rotten, and more. They are after Captain Syd's treasure that is hidden somewhere in Little Snoring Castle. Tat (Trevor Augustus Trout) and Hetty who stopped them in their last attempt, along with Dog (the cat) and Peg Leg Polly (a parrot) are planning to find the treasure, unaware that the McNastys have returned. A movie is being made at the castle by Bigwig, who hires the McNastys for the movie. This book goes for the children's humour with lots of slime, snot, boogers, smells etc. There's a race for treasure, much derring-do, displays of courage and guile, and a lot of silliness. The drawings with their descriptions and anecdotes are a hoot and will add to the amusement of the kids. A great series for the early readers.

      Thanks Netgalley and Piccadilly Press for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.
    • 3/5
      Readers who liked The Lost Treasure of Little Snoring, the first book in this series, will be pleased to see the whole gang back for another go, but readers need not know the first book to enjoy this one. Raiders of the Lost Shark is an easy chapter book for readers gaining confidence with independent reading and for anyone who likes an icky, sticky mess of a tale. It complements the slightly surreal world of many Roald Dahl stories and could push young readers, when they're ready for it, toward absurd comedy like Monty Python.Read my complete review in RESOURCE LINKS 21.3 (February 2016).

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    The Ghastly McNastys - Ros Aquith

    Chapter 1

    Captain Gruesome McNasty and his twin brother, Captain Grisly McNasty, were standing on the deck of their ship, The Rotten Apple . They had just thrown their rusty old anchor over the side of the ship, which had screeched to a halt leaving a terrible trail of skid marks in the sea.

    Sweaty socks! What a wickedly wonderful day for gruesomeness, declared Captain Gruesome gleefully, scratching his mustache, which was home to 761 nits, 77 fleas and a ferret.

    Squeaky underpants! What a dastardly delightful day for ghastliness, agreed his brother, Grisly.

    Captain Gruesome got out his telescope, stroked his mustache thoughtfully and considered the treacherous rocks that jutted out from the sandbanks and formed a semicircle not far from the harbor mouth of the small village on the island shore. The village was called Little Snoring on Sea. The rocks, which rose from the sea like vicious teeth, were known locally as the Jaws.

    Interesting, he mused, and very useful. If a ship hit those rocks, it wouldn’t stand a chance. It would be smashed to pieces.

    He looked delighted at the prospect.

    And if another ship was waiting nearby  …

    … it could go to the rescue of all the passengers and crew, squawked Pegleg Polly, the parrot.

    Idiot bird, snarled Captain Gruesome, swiping his fist in Polly’s direction and missing. The waiting ship could snaffle any treasure that happened to be on board and leave the passengers and crew to their grisly fate on the sandbanks as the tide rises.

    Nasty boys! squawked Pegleg Polly, flapping her wings and lifting off her perch just in time to avoid Captain Gruesome’s fist again.

    The McNasty twins were the nastiest pirates ever to have sailed the seven seas. Everyone called them those nasty boys, except their friends, who called them Bob and Tim. They didn’t have any friends though, only imaginary ones, and even they refused to play with the twins and would only play with each other.

    But they did have a second mate called Mrs. Slime, who was called Mrs. Slime on account of her nose, which ran a great deal. She didn’t like the McNasty twins much either, but they paid her in boxes of tissues. That was very useful because she had already used up both sleeves wiping her nose.

    Captain Gruesome and Captain Grisly were so ghastly and nasty that even the fish put their fingers over their eyes and swam in the opposite direction when they saw the twins coming in The Rotten Apple.

    The twins were the meanest of the mean, and horrible in every way. The thing that Captain Gruesome McNasty liked best was making anyone he spied doing something nice or helpful walk the plank into shark-infested seas. Captain Grisly McNasty’s favorite thing was eating cold, lumpy mashed potato left over from last night’s dinner. He kept it hidden in his big bushy beard just in case he felt peckish and was more than 700 leagues from the nearest McNasty’s (a fast-food chain run by distant relatives featuring those famous octopus burgers that taste of brussels sprouts with custard).

    But their absolute favorite thing was TREASURE! Particularly treasure that didn’t belong to them but that they could STEAL. Every night, straight after dinner, they counted all their stolen treasure. However much they had, it was never enough to satisfy the greedy McNastys — they always wanted more.

    Now there were lots of things that the McNasty twins didn’t like. They didn’t like brushing their teeth, so they didn’t brush them except on February 29, and they never ever made an appointment to see the dentist because all dentists terrified them. They loathed boiled cabbage, which they thought smelled like cats’ pee (which it does, however much your mom tries to tell you otherwise). They hated doing long division, which all pirates learn at

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