Back to Front Benjy does everything backwards and is thrown out of school for starting a backward trend amongst all the children. Then he's struck by lightning and does everything forwards. In The Hitmus-Potmus Benjamin Bean is a very rude boy until his uncle tells him the story of the terrible Hitmus-Potmus who eats rude boys. A young wizard in Brown's Bones turns his family and everyone he dislikes into animals, until he meets a young witch who gets the better of him. In Little Liar, Lionel tells lies but is cured after a disastrous tea party with his Auntie Marigold.