Jake and the Man-eating Picnic Basket

Jake Crabtree is an unwilling volunteer for his granddad’s inventions. They’re supposed to cure the twelve-year-old of his stammer, but more often than not he’s lucky to escape with all of his limbs intact.  

He has an accident at a local science fair when his secret formula spills onto his neighbour’s harmless picnic basket. This creates a creature that starts to abduct the villages of Little Codswallop, replacing them with not so perfect copies.

Jake and his family have to come up with a plan to stop the man-eating picnic basket taking over the planet. And try to avoid Granddad’s crazy inventions.