Books - What are you reading?

If you can find a copy of the Borribles books and the nephew has any kind of a dark sense of humour, he might love it. First book, a group of runaway children who have turned into Borribles (a goblin/pixie kind of thing) form a hit squad to go to Rumbledon and kill the Rumbles, a tribe of rat-like creatures with names like Vulgarian and Oroccoco.

I though they were great books. Hard to find copies, though, because satire for children (and genocidal warfare against Wombles) isn't much liked by newspapers and politicians and the original publishers were scared of getting in trouble.