{"product_id":"the-spick-and-the-span","title":"The Spick And The Span","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eImaginative, magical, wildly funny, and with a truly unique\nworld, The Spick and the Span is an extraordinary, exciting fantasy middle\ngrade adventure - perfect for fans of Jessica Townsend's Nevermoor, Jonathan\nStroud's Lockwood and Co, Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle, and Terry\nPratchett's Discworld.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThanks to many generations of careless magicians, the city of Helm is\noverflowing with magic, which has made it a very dangerous place to live. Leave\nanything alone for too long and it will transform into something else: your\nhouse will turn to gingerbread, your teapot will start pouring pond water or -\nif you're really unlucky - your floor will turn to lava.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe magicians liked to pretend it's them who keep the worst magical hiccups in\ncheck, but the real heroes of the whole sorry situation are of a wholly\ndifferent occupation: equally well known but decidedly less respected.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe heroes of the city of Helm are the cleaners.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWard, an ambitious twelve-year-old cleaner, wants nothing more than to belong\nto the League of Cleaners, who will grant him the prestige and popularity he's\nbeen looking for all his life - if only he can pass three near-impossible\ntests. Struggling toward this goal with a team he doesn't trust, Ward's world\nis upended when his friend disappears and mysterious magic-eating monsters\nappear all over the city and start tearing holes in the fabric of reality.\nSuddenly his ambitions are the least of his problems...\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHugely funny and exciting, and with an incredibly imaginative, original story,\nThe Spick and the Span is the unmissable fantasy middle grade debut of 2025 -\nyou'll never look at magic the same way again...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44824715559119,"sku":"9780008724788","price":18.48,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_eb360884-d728-451c-8459-183cfa2496bd.jpg?v=1770092380","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/the-spick-and-the-span","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}