The Fantastic Life of Eric Clapper

Eric Clapper lived a brown sort of life, in a house painted and decorated all in brown, with his wife Morag and their two children, Daisie and Albert, who tended to wear brown clothes.
One day, Eric walked into the school where he was head teacher, resigned, gave everybody the rest of the day off, walked out, sold the car, bought a multi-boloured hot-air balloon and took his family off in it. His fantastic life was beginning
This is a fun story for adults to read to children and for children to read for themselves.