''I liked playing trains with my dad when I was seven or eight. But I''m eleven now. Where''s the excitement . . . Where''s my life?!''

Tim''s family is the Most Boring Family In The World and he''s fed up. He wants fun! Thrills! Adventure! And school''s just as boring too. But one day a phantom message about Tim appears and everything changes. Who is the day-glo scribbler – and what''s so special about chickens anyway?