From the dust jacket:
John Verney, the author of February's Road, Friday's Tunnel, and Ismo, now creates another wonderful mystery for the Callendar family to solve, involving, of all things, a new breakfast food called Vita-Mix, an Edward Lear poem, and seven sunflower seeds!
Berry, a member of the remarkable, non-conformist Callendar family, and their domineering guest, Rupert, discover that Vita-Mix has a very strange effect on race horses and they undertake to find out why. Rupert directs the mission and tells Berry to do all the digging, amass the facts, but to leave the deductions to him – he's the creative one of the group! Good-natured Berry, who's very curious about this strange food, goes along with the suggestion and she and the others become deeply involved in wild speculations and experiments that create havoc in the grown-up world they are so desperately trying to understand – and in their own!
With the exciting action set in the Sussex Downs and London, but also in the strange private landscape of Edward Lear's nonsense world, Seven Sunflower Seeds makes it very evident that the world of children and the world of adults are remarkably, amusingly similar.
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