The Ice Monster
From No. 1 bestselling children’s author, David Walliams comes his biggest and most epic adventure yet! Illustrated by the artistic genius Tony Ross.This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth…Read all about it! Read all about it!ICE MONSTER FOUND IN ARCTIC!When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster – a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole – she’s determined to discover more…A chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, and sparks the adventure of a lifetime – from London to the heart of the Arctic!Heroes come in all different shapes and sizes in David Walliams’ biggest and most epic adventure yet!
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Contents
Copyright
Thank-Yous
The year is 1899
Part 1: London 1899
Chapter 1: Cockroaches for Breakfast
Chapter 2: Monkey Feet
Chapter 3: Pong
Chapter 4: Expert Thief
Chapter 5: Universe of Wonder
Chapter 6: Giant Ghosts
Chapter 7: A Likely Story
Chapter 8: The Unnatural History Museum
Chapter 9: The Devil’s Work
Chapter 10: Hullabaloo
Chapter 11: Human Net
Chapter 12: Sabre-toothed Teeth
Chapter 13: A Sea of Old Men
Chapter 14: Dead as Dead Can Be
Chapter 15: Extinction Business
Chapter 16: Cheeks Ablaze
Chapter 17: Curious Creatures
Chapter 18: Darkest Dark
Chapter 19: Lightning in a Bottle
Chapter 20: Dark Fire
Chapter 21: A Thousand Silk Handkerchiefs
Chapter 22: The Beauty of the Scheme
Chapter 23: The Sticky Fingers Gang
Chapter 24: Handprints
Chapter 25: Pickpocketing on Ice
Chapter 26: A Little Problem
Chapter 27: Thundersnow
Chapter 28: A Giant Catapult
Chapter 29: Dino-ladder
Chapter 30: The Heart of the Storm
Chapter 31: Don’t Look Round
Chapter 32: Knocked Awake
Chapter 33: What’s in a Name?
Chapter 34: Cage
Chapter 35: Eternal Sleep
Chapter 36: Missing Mammoth
Chapter 37: Bang! Bang! Bang!
Chapter 38: A Slap on the Bottom
Chapter 39: An Unwelcome Sight
Chapter 40: Chocolate Balls
Chapter 41: Good Eye
Chapter 42: Back-door Barrage
Chapter 43: A Grave Mistake
Chapter 44: Right Up My Whatsit
Chapter 45: A Lidollop
Chapter 46: Bottom Explosion
Chapter 47: A New Comrade
Chapter 48: North, North, North
Chapter 49: Audacious
Chapter 50: Relic
Chapter 51: One Lonely Medal
Chapter 52: Rampage
Chapter 53: Danger Everywhere
Chapter 54: HMS Victory
Chapter 55: Black Silence
Chapter 56: Titch Stitch
Chapter 57: Revenge
Chapter 58: Slicing Through the Ice
Chapter 59: A Diamond Dust of Stars
Chapter 60: Ships Ahoy!
Chapter 61: Open Fire!
Chapter 62: Down But Not Out
Chapter 63: Surrender!
Chapter 64: A Pool of Blood
Chapter 65: Hard Rain
Chapter 66: A Watery Grave
Chapter 67: Heads Bowed
Chapter 68: Battered and Bruised
Chapter 69: Some Kind of Machine
Chapter 70: Behind You!
Chapter 71: Smothering to Death
Chapter 72: A Perfect Circle
Chapter 73: Headlines Across the World
Chapter 74: A Fleet of Carriages
Chapter 75: An Audience with the Queen
Chapter 76: The Bravest
Chapter 77: Never Forget
Chapter 78: Not a Day Goes By
Afterword
Notes on the Real Victorian World
and we’re in Victorian London. Meet the characters in the story…
Elsie is a homeless orphan, who lives on the streets of London.
Dotty is the cleaning lady at the Natural History Museum. She is as daft as her brushes.
Private Thomas is Dotty’s boyfriend, the shortest soldier who ever served in the British Army. His fellow soldiers call him “Titch”. He is now retired, and lives at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, making him a “Chelsea Pensioner”.
