Desperate Dan many contexts. A limited selection is mentioned here. Desperate Dan Desperate Dan is a wild west character in the British comic magazine "The Dandy" and has become their mascot. He made his appearance in the first issue which was dated 4 December 1937. He is apparently the world's strongest man, able to lift a cow with one hand. The pillow of his (reinforced) bed is filled with building rubble and his beard is so tough he shaves with a blowtorch. The character was created by Dudley D. Watkins, originally as an outlaw or ‘desperado’ (hence his name), but evolved into
The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas Best Story and the 2013 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize shortlist. The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas is a 2012 book by David Almond. It is about a boy, Stanley, who runs away from home and joins the circus. A "BookTrust" review of "The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas" wrote "Full of surreal, fairy-tale touches, this is an joyful and warm story of self-discovery, perfectly accompanied by the quirky illustrations by Oliver Jeffers." and "The Guardian" wrote "Almond has produced a circus ride of a story, with thrills and spills and all the fun of