The World According to Humphrey

Betty G. Birney, Jason Chapman

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571248162
• Year: 2008

'The time had arrived to put my plan into action. I was in grave danger and I had no choice. I only had one weapon: a rubber band. It had taken me a long time to get it hooked around the edge of my food dish. Now I carefully pulled it back as far as I could, aiming directly at those big doggy nostrils.'

You can learn a lot about life by observing another species. That's what Humphrey was told when he was bought as a classroom pet for Room 26. And it's definitely true! In addition to his classroom escapades, each weekend he gets to sleep over with a different student like Stop-Giggling-Gail and Repeat-That-Please-Richie. Humphrey learns to read, write, shoot rubber bands and much more. With adventures galore, Humphrey's life would be absolutely perfect if only the teacher, Mrs Brisbane, wasn't out to get him . . .

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• 1 The Return of Mrs Brisbane
• 2 Night Life
• 3 The Two Faces of Mrs Brisbane
• 4 The Most Important Man in the World
• 5 Plans Are Hatched
• 6 Moonlight Madness
• 7 Sayeh Speaks Up
• 8 Tricks and Treats
• 9 The Art of Self-Defence
• 10 Garth Versus A.J.
• 11 TV or Not TV
• 12 Peace Breaks Out
• 13 Thanks But No Thanks
• 14 Hide-and-Go-Squeak
• 15 Happy Hamsterday
• Humphrey’s Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans
• About the Author
• By the Same Author
• Copyright