My name is not actually Penny Dreadful. It is Penelope Jones. The 'Dreadful' bit is my dad's JOKE. But I do not mean to be dreadful... sawing Bridget Grimes in half for the school show was supposed to be a GOOD THING. And I didn't mean to get up to any SHENANIGANS on the school trip.

Plus I worked extra-especially hard on the CAKE OF DREAMS for Mum's birthday... but somehow it still turned into a HUGE calamity. "In her time, Joanne Nadin has been a broadcast journalist, a special adviser to the Prime Minister, a cleaner and a juggler, so little wonder then that Penny Dreadful is her eclectic creation!

Nadin has slotted comfortably into the madcap world of children's comedy books and Penny Dreadful Cooks Up a Calamity features three adventures for her funny, feisty heroine." - Lancashire Evening Post