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Professor Branestawm is a series of thirteen children's books written by the English author Norman Hunter. Professor Theophilus Branestawm is depicted throughout the books as the archetypal absent-minded professor and his name is a variant of the word "brainstorm". The first two books in the series were first published in the 1930s, but the ...
Aug 31, 2011 · Books. The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm. Norman Hunter. Random House, Aug 31, 2011 - Juvenile Fiction - 240 pages. 'It1s brilliant that a book written in 1933 can still make a modern kid laugh like a drain' CHARLIE HIGSON Still one of the immortals of children's literature - Professor Branestawm's continues to amuse generations ...
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The Professor Branestawm series is a series of 13 books, written by Norman Hunter.
The Professor was a great (if absent-minded) inventor, always ready to turn his genius to the practical affairs of housekeeping, whether in the matter of a burglar trap of some comprehensive device to get spring-cleaning over quickly. His best intentions, however, seemed to land him in the worst scrapes. Sometimes they involved his housekeeper, Mrs. Flittersnoop, sometimes his best friend Colonel Dedshott, but somehow he never managed to solve the comparatively simple problem of keeping count of the five pairs of spectacles which he generally wore simultaneously so as to be prepared for all eventualities.
•The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (1933)
•Professor Branestawm's Treasure Hunt (1937)
•The Peculiar Triumph of Professor Branestawn (1970)
•Professor Branestawm Up the Pole (1972)
•Professor Branestawm's Great Revolution (1974)
•Professor Branestawm Round the Bend (1977)
of Professor Branestawm came in 1970, Professor Branestawm Up the Pole in 1972, and so on until the last volume, the 13th: Professor Branestawm’s Hair-Raising Idea (1983). The first volume was famously illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, who created the classic image of the Professor with his shiny bald head bedecked with glasses.
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The first Professor Branestawm book, The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, was published in 1933. It was illustrated by W Heath Robinson (1872-1944), whose already published cartoons ...
Norman Hunter. Hunter wrote popular books on writing for advertising, brain-teasers and conjuring among many others. His career started as an advertising copywriter and in the 1930s he was performing as a stage magician in Bournemouth. It was at this time he started to write the Professor Branestawm series, originally intended for radio.
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'It's brilliant that a book written in 1933 can still make a modern kid laugh like a drain'. Charlie Higson still one of the immortals of children's literature - Professor Branestawm's continues to amuse generations of young readers. The wonderfully nutty, fabulously entertaining mishaps of Professor Branestawm. He's madly sane and cleverly dotty.
