A high-energy, laugh-out-loud, fully illustrated adventure story by much-loved actor Stephen Mangan and talented artist Anita Mangan. 

'Just read the title... that will draw them in. It's a bit naughty, a bit silly, a bit funny but you start reading and it's an adventure Holly Willoughby

A sure-fire way for kids to entertain themselves. What's more, it's also excellent for reading aloud LoveReading4Kids

'Laugh-out-loud stuff' Ray D'Arcy

It's the most important day of the year for King Fabian as he is hosting all the neighbouring rulers. Everything simply must go perfectly.

King Fabian wakes up, stretches, and...

farts.

His wife's fury is so huge that he panics and blames the butler, who is carted off to the dungeons. Leaving behind a big problem: Fabian isn't really the brains behind the crown: it is the butler... how will dithery Fabian manage to pull off this high-pressure event alone? His small and smelly fart looks like it will kick off a crisis...

Frank - a kitchen boy with a big imagination - is drafted in as an emergency butler. As the banquet descends into a food fight and processions catapult out of control, Frank finds himself in an all-out farty farce. Can he save the day?

• Wildly funny and endlessly surprising, this is delightfully imaginative, surreal storytelling with a message that small events can trigger big change, and children can be heroes!
• Packed with pictures by Stephen Mangan's sister Anita Mangan.
• Escape the Rooms is one of the most loved and bestselling children's debuts of 2021.

Praise for Stephen Anita's first book, Escape the Rooms:

"A brilliant, clever, kind of genius book" Graham Norton, Virgin Radio

'Richly imagined and deeply heartfelt' Hadley Freeman, Guardian

'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 an author, script-writer and actor with huge range across TV, radio, film and theatre. From classic comedy such as Green Wing, Episodes and I'm Alan Partridge and acclaimed drama such as The Split, Stephen also presents Portrait and Landscape Artist of the Year and regularly appears on stage, most recently as a highly praised Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Stephen also voiced the title role in Postman Pat: The Movie. He has been a member of the judging panels for the Costa Book of the Year prize and The Laugh-Out-Loud Awards (The Lollies). His first children's book was the bestselling Escape the Rooms.

A high-energy, laugh-out-loud, fully illustrated adventure story by much-loved actor Stephen Mangan and talented artist Anita Mangan.

“[Escape the Rooms] is richly imagined and deeply heartfelt, and Anita Mangan’s cartoonish and poignant illustrations capture the tone perfectly … It reminded me a little of The Wizard of Oz, with the children on a quest through different lands to get home.” Hadley Freeman, Guardian

“It’s been described as a cross between Alice in Wonderland and The Crystal Maze and it manages to feel both classic and modern at the same time.” Good Housekeeping 

"A beautiful and exciting adventure that ignites the imagination" Edith Bowman

"A brilliant, clever, kind of genius book" Graham Norton, Virgin Radio

The last thing Jack expected when he bungee-jumped at the fairground was to go plummeting right through the ground into the weird, wonderful Rooms...

There he must face a series of puzzles and traps alongside a mysterious girl called Cally, in order for them to find their way home.

Throw in a murderous polar bear, hundreds of tiny yet ferocious lions, some mind-blowing riddles, and get ready for a hilarious, helter-skelter adventure like no other!

• Escape the Rooms follows two children dealing with loss on an amazing adventure.
• Wildly funny and endlessly surprising, Escape the Rooms is also a story about friendship, overcoming fears and being kind to yourself.
• Packed with fantastic pictures created by Stephen Mangan's sister, Anita