Product Description: The ingenious Professor Branestawm is always inventing weird and wonderful things, such as a burglar-catching machine, or a pancake-slipping device, and a spring-cleaning machine! But housekeeper Mrs Flittersnoop is exasperated as the Professor's inventions alway seem to make life far more complicated than it was before...read more

Product Description: This antique book contains a guide to learning a variety of interesting and impressive magic tricks and illusions that require little in the way of skill, previous experience, or special equipment. Complete with simple, step-by-step instructions coupled with helpful illustrations, this is a text that will be of much value to the amateur magician and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of antique conjuring literature...read more

Product Description: He's back again, the lovable Professor with his five pairs of spectacles, his pockets full of all manner of things, and of course, his wonderfully bizarre inventions. Norman Hunter's irrepressible humor packs every page and the illustrations entirely capture the eccentricity of the professor and the hilarity of his incredible adventures...read more

First published in 1980, this collection of hilarious stories, tricks and puzzles about Professor Branestawm reveals what happens when he creates zany inventions and carries out mind-boggling experiments.

Product Description: Includes "The Dribblesome Teapots", "The Priceless Present", "The Unexpected Banquet", "The Queen Who Economized", "The King With The Paper Face", "The King Must Be Obeyed", "The Secret of Squelchways", "The Unsuitable Suits", "The Dragon Who Cheated" and "The Secret Document".

The traps the Professor makes are all so attractive to mice that rodents come from all over the neighborhood to make their homes in them