The Greenies Book 1: A Mountain Of Trouble!

By Dean Wilkinson

A collaboration between Dean Wilkinson (Little Big Planet) and Engaging Education. The Greenies is a comedy series encouraging recycling with good vs evil battle!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sixth Element Publishing
• Release date: Feb 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9780956275028

Dean Wilkinson

Dean Wilkinson is a television scriptwriter, novelist and games writer. He was Ant and Dec’s writer for 7 years penning the multi award winning SMTV Live & Chums. He penned 2 series of his own CBBC sitcom Bad Penny starring Graham Fellows (aka comedian John Shuttleworth), as well as 2 series of his sketch show Stupid starring Marcus Brigstock and Phil Cornwell. As a games writer he has written for the entire LittleBigPlanet series, Fantasia : Music Evolved, Driver San Francisco and Worms, amongst many many others. His long writing career has seen him scribbling for Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, John Cleese, Smith & Jones, Matt Berry, Brian Conley, Noel Edmonds, Chris Barry, Zig & Zag, The Krankies, Simon Pegg and Harry Hill to name drop but a few. Dean is father to three daughters, Emily, Alice and Grace. www.deanwilkinson.net

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Book 1: ‘A Mountain Of Trouble!’

by Dean Wilkinson

It was Saturday morning and the Greenies were busy preparing for the final of Action Town’s very first Recycled Arts And Crafts competition.

The Arts entries were sculptures and pictures; things that were nice to look at. They’d been made by the town’s folk out of old furniture, household waste, bits of broken computers, etc. Basically, anything that was deemed fit for the rubbish tip.

Amongst the fantastic ideas was a version of the Mona Lisa made from string, a stained glass window made from pop bottles, and a sculpture of a typical binman refusing to take someone’s rubbish away (because the wheelie-bin lid wasn’t down enough and he might injure himself).

Jack and Jill were in charge of the Crafts section. These were things that people could use or wear, also from recycled garbage. There were some amazingly creative ideas on display in this section, too. Jack’s favourite was the table and chairs made from shopping trolleys, whilst Jill favoured the plastic bottle bin made from discarded plastic bottles.