HOUSE CALLED AWFUL END EDDIE DICKENS， NO 1

hen both of Eddie s parents catch a disease that makes

them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly around the edges, and smell

of old hot-water bottles, it s agreed he should go away and stay

with relatives at their house. Alas, the house is not the loveliest

of places. In fact, it is named Awful End. And the relatives are

Mad Uncle Jack and Even Madder Aunt Maud.

Along the way to Awful End, Eddic will be hypnotized by a

handkerchief, threatened by a bearded stranger, mistaken for a

poor little orphan boy at St. Horrid s Home for Grateful

Orphans, and granted an audience with Thc Empress of All

China (who isn t really the Empress of All China--but that s

another story).

You might not cry at everything Eddie Dickens has to go

through . . . but you will most certainly laugh.