Professor Von Hootalot

An 18th century very British woodland creature adventure. Where all the animals dress in period clothes and act human-like.

Professor Von Hootalot and Bob's Barrelbright Adventure to the Moon Cheese Planet.

A cottage-core, pre-technology adventure for little inventors, cheese-lovers, and dreamers aged 4-8!

What do you get if you cross a very clever owl, a brave rabbit in a waistcoat, and an old wooden barrel?

Barrelbright - the most extraordinary spaceship Puddleton Village has ever seen!

Professor Von Hootalot has been listening to the stars, and his big brass telescope has found something very strange. The Moon is humming! Could it be cheese?

With his best schoplar Bob, his pocket watch ticking, the Professor builds a rocket like no other. Not silver metal, not painted plastic - but a real oak barrel with brass hoops, copper pipes that go pfft, portholes that glow, gauges that twirl, and a shiny brass nose cone pointing straight for adventure.

3...2...1... Blast off from Farmer Toad's field!

Join them as they soar over thatched cottages, past the twinkling constellations, all the way to the Moon and discover an alien from the planet Glob Glob - a whole planet made of wobbling, glowing, giggling cheese! There they meet Blub Blub, friendly eye-stalked Blobs who love nothing more than sharing.

Can the Professor and Bob bring home hundreds of new flavours - Swirly Star Cheese, Green Supernova-Mint Wheels, Pink Bubblegum Blocks, Blue Nebula Triangles and more - to throw the biggest cheese festival Puddleton has ever seen?

With music, dancing, feasting, bunting, Union Jacks, and a whole town cheering for Britain's greatest achievement, this warm, funny, watercolour picture book celebrates friendship, curiosity, invention, and sharing.

Perfect for bedtime, classroom STEM inspiration, and any child who has ever looked up at the Moon and thought: "Is that made of cheese?"

20 beautifully illustrated pages, gentle rhyming text, and a glorious British village finale. THE END - but the cheese lives on!