Nasty Little Beasts facts for kids

Nasty Little Beasts is a 2007 children's horror short-story collection by British author Jamie Rix. It was the first book published by Orion in the Grizzly Tales book series, which is continuation/reboot of the book series Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, and is illustrated by Steven Pattison, who illustrated the rest of the books in this new series.

Synopsis

The Grub a Blub Blub

Monty's Python

The Lobster's Scream

Wolf Child

The Fruit Bat

The Clothes Pigs

Trueman Shuffle (nicknamed Truffle by his family) is a lazy boy who refuses to clean up after himself. His parents are frequently exhausted because they are constantly chasing after him, but when they complain, Truffle either ignores them or argues. They tell him that "clothes pigs" will get him if he insists on living "in a pigsty", but Truffle points out that pigs would never be seen in the streets of their city. One day, his mother falls down the stairs after tripping over clothing he had dropped earlier, breaking her leg. Truffle ignores her painful cries for help and orders her to make his dinner, and leaves the house to go the fish and chip shop when she "refuses". When he returns home, his father scolds him for his selfish, which is at a pitch to carry across the city through the vibrations of garden washing lines. It reaches the countryside, where four starving piglets are scavenging for food. They hear a high-pitched "truffle" and decide to leave the farm and look for the truffles.