Meet Dirty Bertie – a boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits! He's full to bursting with madcap plans and crazy ideas, and if it's trouble you're after, look no further – Bertie's sure to be up to his neck in it. Bertie devises a new scheme for making filthy lucre, has a sickly time at the fairground and manages to teach a toddler her first word: Bum!
Readers might already know that king Henry VIII is horribly famous for: * having a bit of a weight problem * marrying six unlucky wives * getting very carried away with his chopping block. But this book will also tell them the facts no other biography is likely to tell them - that Henry * was a handsome hunk and sports star * accused his second wife of witchcraft * bricked up his bedroom door a…