Vulgar the Viking and the Great Gulp Games

Vulgar the Viking is all a-quiver. The villages of Blubber and Gulp are about to compete in the Great Gulp Games! Every year, Blubber gets clobbered, but Vulgar is determined that this time, things will be different... With the help of his friends, Vulgar starts training in earnest. There isn't a goat he doesn't hurdle over, a hammer he won't throw or a walrus he hasn't wrestled. Vulgar is out for glory and he'll stop at nothing - NOTHING - to bring home the gold...

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We'd like to tell you all sorts of things about Odin Redbeard. We'd like to tell you he's a Viking who likes to pillage in his spare time. We'd like to tell you he lives on a fjord where he fishes from his longboat. We'd like to tell you that he wears a horned helmet when he goes down to the supermarket. But we can't tell you anything: Odin Redbeard is - you've guessed it - a pseudonym. His true identity must be kept secret... Sarah Horne (Illustrator) Sarah grew up in Derbyshire, mainly under a snowdrift. She spent much of her childhood scampering in the nearby fields with a few goats. Then she decided to be sensible and studied Illustration at Falmouth College of Arts and gained a Masters degree at Kingston University. Sarah lives in London and specialises in funny, inky illustration and words for children's books.

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Viking based fiction, perfect for fans of How to Train Your Dragon!

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"In this downright funny and entertaining series, Vulgar wants to be a real Viking however things don't always go according to plan for him... Full of humour, your children will devour these and they'll be begging you to read them the next one in the series!" - Theschoolrun.com

Every year, the village of Blubber competes against the neighbouring town of Gulp in the Viking Games, and every year, the Blubberers get thrashed. Convinced he can do better this time, Vulgar starts training - with comically catastrophic results - but worse is to come when he arrives at the Games to discover he and his friends have all been mistakenly entered into the goat hurdling! And when Vulgar's arch-enemy Gunnar turns up in the same event, the stage is set for the most ill-tempered and chaotic goat-hurdling race in Viking history.