<p><strong>'How I Lost My Ear is an extraordinary imaginative achievement.'</strong></p><p><strong>'Adam Beck is a master storyteller, a master of invention.'</strong></p><p><strong>'Reminds me of the best of Roald Dahl.'</strong></p><p><strong>The epic, laugh-out-loud novel from author Adam Beck and illustrator Simon Farrow. A wildly entertaining page-turner for both children and adults, to read alone or read aloud. Finalist in both the Readers&#39; Favorite 2019 International Book Award Contest and the 2019 IAN Book of the Year Awards.</strong></p><p>Grandpa Gristle spins the story of a book-loving boy and his spiraling adventure with a state champion marching band, a moody grandmother with beautiful blond curls, a long-lost hero and his three-legged moose, a dancing bear, a poisonous spider, a baby-snatching owl, a shaggy yak of a man and his snapping turtle, a cold-hearted sheriff and his grinning deputy, a herd of 144 spitting llamas&mdash;and a very large, very hungry ogre.</p>