Welcome to Weird Street

Author: Mangan, Stephen

Reading age: from c 8 years

Published on 7 May 2026 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 320 pages
128 x 197 x 22 | 218g

A high-energy, brilliantly silly, fully illustrated collection

of weird and wonderful linked short stories by much-loved

actor Stephen Mangan and talented artist Anita Mangan.

Welcome to Weird Street...

what appears to be a very ordinary place, filled with very ordinary

houses and very ordinary people...

but wait.

When Sarah moves to the street and sees a cat prowling up and

down, she decides to find its owner and return it. She knocks on

each door and discovers a wonderfully weird and a little bit dangerous

array of delights within:

from a haunted painting to a headmaster whose alter ego is a clown,

to a jet-powered garden swing, a ghost-pet adoption agency

and a wild hall of mirrors.

Short stories starring the unexpected inhabitants of the houses

on Weird Street - bite-size, page-turning tales perfect for less

confident readers

From the bestselling creators of The Fart That Changed the

World and The Day I Fell Down the Toilet

Incredibly funny and wildly imaginative storytelling at its finest 

Praise for Stephen & Anita's books:

'Brilliant, clever, kind of genius'

Graham Norton

 'Manages to feel both classic and modern at the same

time' Good Housekeeping

 'A beautiful and exciting adventure that ignites the

imagination' Edith Bowman

Stephen Mangan is a bestselling author, actor

and presenter. His comic gift is seen in shows such as Green

Wing, I'm Alan Partridge and Episodes.

Stephen appears in drama such as BBC One's The Split

and regularly performs on stage in roles such as a much-praised Scrooge

in The Old Vic's A Christmas Carol. Stephen presents Portrait

and Landscape Artist of the Year and new gameshows Password

and The Fortune Hotel. He is a guest presenter

on Pointless and Have I Got News for You.

Anita Mangan is a successful illustrator and

designer whose remarkable artwork sparks with wit and style. She

worked for Comic Relief before becoming a designer and illustrator.

Since then, she has worked on award-winning books and

the bestselling 'Be a Unicorn, Sloth, Flamingo...' series

- as well as illustrating Stephen's children's novels.

Stephen and Anita have appeared together on Celebrity Gogglebox