A new story from Australian Children's Laureate for 2020 - 2021 by Ursula Dubosarsky. This is about a boy who does a series of odd jobs for his eccentric neighbours as he is saving up to buy a box of magic tricks. Luckily, he has plenty of neighbours who need his help. Whether it's lending a hand to Professor Calamari or doing an out of season spring-clean for Queen Claude, no job is too odd for Hercules. We have created 6 activities for this book including the rules for how to play tiddlywinks, a maths activity to see how much pocket money Hercules has saved, a life cycle of a tadpole cut and paste activity, a spot the difference, a Venn diagram showing the similarities and differences between a squid and an octopus and an animal word matching activity.