!  CAUTION  This book contains slime, snot, mud, and other trollific treats!  Crude (finger up your nose)  upper primary and lower intermediate grade humor is laced throughout this collection of three – 4 chapter stories dealing with the lives of two trolls – The Grunt and Grouch.

In story one – ‘ Pick ‘n’ Mix! The Grunt and Grouch are excited about the new movie showing at the theater. They cut to the front of the ticket line by making a terrible smell after eating moldy cheese. The theater’s snack bar has a sign reading ‘ Pick ‘n’ Mix” , which they take to mean they should add some of their own ear wax, real-worms, long slimy booger, and belly-button lint snacks to those already in the snack bar. The Grunt and Grouch get escorted out of the theater by the manager, but they re-enter dressed in the movie’s monsters’ costumes. The audience is scared away, so The Grunt and Grouch are able to watch the rest of the movie by themselves.

In story two- ‘Spick and Span!’ Aunt Greta comes for a long visit and begins cleaning up their house. She sends them to bed without dinner for their terrible ‘dinner-table behavior’. The Grunt and Grouch decide to scare Aunt Greta away using ghost costumed, but that doesn’t work. Finally, they figure out that to beat Aunt Greta’s cleaning, they should keep the house clean themselves, then she won’t have a reason the stay. It works. Aunt Greta is out the door, The Grunt and Grouch mess up the entire house only to have Aunt Greta ring the door bell saying she’s forgotten her purse.

In story three- ‘RAT RACE!’ A teacher becomes ill on his way to school and The Grunt and Grouch decide to take his place at school when they learn it is RATS Award Day. Little do they know RATS stands for Reading and Thinking Silently. The Grunt and Grouch turn the children and their classroom upside down making rats’ nests, an obstacle course, and rat masks.

Almost every page turn reveals some of Lee Wildish’s black, white, and grey illustrations.