I love all funny books, but it’s rare for one to make me actually laugh out loud… the Mr Gum books never fail to make this happen. This particular one is probably my favourite in the brilliant series, not least because of the song, ‘Crazy Barry Fungus’, which is a work of total genius. If my daughter and I want to make each other laugh like drains, we just quote the song’s line, ‘You stupid dangerous weirdo’ at each other and proceed to fall about in fits of giggles for the next week or two. Our lives were incomplete before we discovered Polly, Friday O’Leary, Alan Taylor (the best name for a gingerbread man with electric muscles EVER) and of course the always-foul Mr Gum and Billy William. These books always cheer me right up.
Hooray for super-cute and funny Claude, and his brilliant sidekick Sir Bobblysock, who has wormed his way into my heart like no sock before or since. His sandcastle prowess in this book is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen, and I think of him every time I’m on a beach with sandcastle-show-offs around. Gorgeous, whimsical and a little bit bonkers.
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