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Fast Facts
- When Uncle Drac delivers bags of bat poo to the mushroom farm, it's always dry. But when Wanda and her dad do it, the poo is...not so dry.
- Edmund glows a little bit green in the dark.
- Self-rising flour makes the bread rise, not the person using it! (That's why Araminta still couldn't fly.)
- "Balconie" is not a faraway land or an ancient underground city or a desert island. It's just an old-fashioned way of spelling "balcony."
- Cheese and onion potato chips are vital to any secret passage search because they help you think and make good decisions about which direction to follow.
- The secret passage to the grotto was built by smugglers.
- Seaweed on the ceiling is a clear sign that water has been there recently --- and a big hint: get out of the grotto, fast!
- Sir Horace's full name is Horace Cuthbert Shirley George.
- It is the fear of being turned into cat food cans that finally forces Sir Horace to come forward and admit to being a ghost.
- Angie Sage has written many picture books for young readers, but SEPTIMUS HEAP, her first novel, became a bestseller.
- Angie's favorite books as a child were by E. Nesbit and Elizabeth George.
- Angie originally studied medicine but later changed her mind and decided to go to art school instead.
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