By W. Heath Robinson

This illustrated kid's booklet was once released in 1912 and includes 16 chapters.

Bill the Minder is the identify of a booklet and tv sequence that tells of the adventures of a fifteen yr outdated boy and his cousins Boadicea and Chad. within the strategy of their adventures they meet many unusual humans and aid remedy their targeted issues of using incredible machines which invoice is particularly able to crafting in a quick time.

The unique e-book was once written and illustrated by means of W. Heath Robinson and released in 1912. The televised sequence includes a huge variety of the wonderful machines that Robinson is famed for.

The brief sequence was once produced at Bevanfield motion pictures for significant autonomous tv and proven on ITV. (*)
*.....summary from wikipedia

Book excerpt:

Old Crispin, the mushroom gatherer, and
his reliable spouse Chloe had ten childrens, and
nine of them have been bad-tempered. There
was Chad, the youngest and such a lot bad-tempered of the
lot, Hannibal and Quentin the twins, Randall with
the pink head, Noah, Ratchett the short-sighted, Nero
the worrit, weeping Biddulph and Knut. the one
good-tempered baby was once a bit woman named Boadicea.
It is widely known boy frequently takes after
his father, and a lady after her mom, and those
children have been no exception to the guideline, for the lads
all resembled previous Crispin, whose mood have been
rather attempted, terrible guy, via the early hours at which
he needed to upward push, to be able to assemble the mushrooms whilst
they have been fairly new and younger. however,
Boadicea may perhaps merely have inherited her good-temper
from Chloe, who surely used to be the main stable-
tempered dame alive.