Arthur's Computer Disaster is the 23rd book in the Arthur Adventure series. It was written and illustrated by Marc Brown, and published by Little, Brown and Company. It is based upon the first half of "Arthur the Wrecker", and it is also the second Arthur Adventure book based on an episode, but the first to be published after its episode counterpart's original airdate. In the story, Arthur Read plays a game, and accidentally breaks his mother's computer. In the end, he finds that it is not, in fact, broken, but he gets into trouble for disobeying his mother's orders to stay off the computer.