Something’s afoot on the streets of Belfast. When Jack sees a single shoe in the road, he knows it must belong to a pirate. Why? Because pirates have wooden legs, of course, and thus only one shoe to lose. Such loopy logic leads Jack to the Ministry of Strange, Unusual and Impossible Things, where his incurable curiosity gets him recruited as a special agent, taking care of things that ordinary people don’t believe in, from unicorns and monsters to a very scary tooth fairy.
This gloriously nutty book will delight middle grade readers with its hilarious characters and faultless trains of ridiculous thought.