After being driven out of the village baby contest Worzel decides he wants his mum. The only person who can help him is the Crowman who deduces that a scarecrow called 'Sarah Pigswill’ was made from a row of turnips which, twelve months later, seeded Worzel. Technically making her Worzel’s mother. The wheels are set in motion and Worzel prepares for the arrival of his mother on his ‘bestest birthday'. Unfortunately, he soon realises that her idea of a birthday tea and his own are very different.

• Keith Waterhouse
• Willis Hall
• Barbara Euphan Todd

• Una Stubbs
• Charlotte Coleman
• Bill Maynard