In Issue nine Tracey Time’s attempt to buy tickets to see her favourite band “The Rockturnals” on the 9th of September sends her glitchy time travelling phone into a 9 times table meltdown. Nurse Skuttlefish is never short of verbs while chasing around after The Doctopus with his multitasking tentacles and Jessica gets some help from Miriam the friendly nightmare with a tricky percentage calculation in an Octopus’ garden. Basil is shocked by Ernie (literally) to learn that he has made some common spelling mistakes on certain words and Agent Ang is masterfully decoding noun phrases to try and get one over on his annoying big sister. Clockwork Clive’s attempts to use magnets and gravity to his advantage backfire (again, quite literally) when he encounters his old foe Pickle-Nibbling Pete the prospector, and the Dekko Kids work together to try to raise some funds to fix the grimy old bench in the local park for Ms Fraser - with unexpected results…Now Piwi the Posh Kiwi and Ricky Rhino may seem unlikely acquaintances but their mutual love of money (and how it works) brings them to the negotiation table. Another potion has gone awry for Wilma and Wurton and this time they have unleashed some state of matter monsters onto the world. In “Tales of Words” we follow a young owl’s quest to have his night-time play time extended; but if the sun never moves then how does it go down and come up every day? Timbot and Crowball discover some fossils, crystals, granite, and chalk but they must fight off Megabite and Toadatron to keep hold of their treasure trove, while Dan’s internal body battles mimic the night Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the houses of parliament in England during 1605. Issue nine also includes a poster showing a sneaky secret trick for your 9 Times Tables and others on Noun Phrases and States of Matter.