Spoon!

Three Tales About Goblins With Excellent Hats

Meet the Goblins of Spoon: a wonderfully peculiar people whose logic is baffling, flawless, and almost always noisy. Living in Greenland among trolls and orcs, they face royal visits, droughts, missing wizard heads, and musical emergencies with boundless enthusiasm, questionable planning, and the occasional sudden burst of competence.

Guided by the lifelong observations of Professor RJK Paddlehope, SPOON! brings together three gloriously absurd tales from L.G. Surgeson’s goblin world. There is the mysterious Oolongoola, a hay-cart-sized musical instrument with a closely guarded secret. There are the famous Chunx brothers, summoned by an angry king to squeeze rain from a nearly empty sky. And there is Monty Zooma, the legendary goblin wizard whose towering reputation hides a secret that absolutely must not get out.

Whimsical, inventive, and full of goblin-sized chaos, SPOON! is a celebration of strange ideas, unlikely solutions, and the undeniable importance of an excellent hat.

Discover the Goblins of Spoon and step into three tales of magical nonsense, musical mayhem, and wonderfully absurd adventure.

Excerpt from the book

The Oolongoola is a goblin musical instrument built on top of a hay cart. The construction of the Oolongoola and how it works is very closely guarded secret, known only to the musicians who play it. It makes all sorts of different noises that come out of different horns that stick out of a canvas cover. One of these horns is called the ‘cat-a-walla’, which has broken.

Captain Dippn Flapdangl is the goblin who will take the blame if the Oolongoola isn’t ready to welcome the Admiral, who is coming for a visit. She is very upset when she discovers that JeyJ A Spline, the Oolongoolator (the goblin officially in charge of the Oolongoola) and his team of musicians are running about the place obviously looking for something. Some of them are calling ‘here kitty, here kitty’ and waving cardboard mice. At this point, a frazzled looking cat appears in the illustrations.

Furious, Captain Flapdangl goes to find out what is going on. When she reaches the Oolongoola, the musicians have all run back to it and JeyJ A Spline is ready to conduct it. At first, Captain Flapdangl wonders why there seems to be half as many goblins as before. However, when the Oolongoola starts to play, she forgets all about it. She is so proud when the Admiral arrives that she doesn’t notice the ‘cat-a-walla’ sounds odd. It is at the end of the story that we find out that the Oolongoola contains nothing more complex than goblins making strange noises down long tubes.