The roar of engines, the bright lights of the amusement park, and a Phantom Cabaret! Packed with high speed and high jinks, Mauri Kunnas’s new offering is ideal for little petrol-heads.

The travelling carnival has come to Pawchester, and all the youngsters are flocking to see the world-famous motorcycle daredevil, Hurricane Harry. Old Man Dracula, on the other hand, just wants to get his hands on Spiritus Butelli Babylonicus, the powerful but timid genie-in-the-bottle on display at the Phantom Cabaret.

When Hurricane Harry’s rubber-burning manoeuvre kicks up a hail of gravel and smashes the bottle, the genie escapes and tries to hide – first in a ketchup bottle at the Hotdog Diner, then in Chrome-Dome’s shampoo bottle, and finally in little Rosie Bunch’s baby bottle - and the whole town is thrown into chaos.

That evening, hundreds of spotlights converge on Hurricane Harry as he attempts a trick that has never been done before: to jump over 78 cars. But just before the leap, Old Man Dracula’s lawn-mower roars up with a tank full of ultra-high-octane fuel and Mr. Clutterbuck hanging on behind – fast asleep, as usual...

Mauri Kunnas is Finland’s best-selling and most internationally renowned living children’s author and illustrator. His books have been translated into almost 30 languages and have sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. Publishers of Kunnas’s works include Oetinger, Kaisei-sha, Ploegsma, Rabén & Sjögren, Schibsted, Il gioco di leggere, and Beijing Yuanliu Classic Culture.