a childhood memory is brought back to life ----- full of action and adventure with some scary and gross bits too!
A mother gazing out a window in her backyard.
This reminds her of an adventure she had.
In meeting Grumblebug who leads her through a secret passageway at the base of her garden wall into an underground world full of adventures.
She meets Nathan, an explorer. He tells our heroine her friends name is Old Grumble. Nathan is on a mission to find a solution to the Slidge problem.
Our heroine falls into helping Nathan in his quest both hoping they will find Old Grumble. They come across. Gadrina and Padrina who are friends of Nathan and Old Grumble.
The group head off to Slidgetown in the hope of finding Old Grumble. They overhear The Great Slidge threaten to destroy Grumbletown.
Old Grumble is grumblenabbed, there is a daring escape. At the end of the story we flash forward as the mother watches her own daughter slowly climb over the garden wall......