You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum!: Volume 1

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Not an excellent time, mind you, but a good time. Celyn laughed like a drain, we both smirked. Mr Gum's nastiness was foiled. The big whopper of a dog did not die of poison. All was well. and as you can see, it’s a big but) he was always extremely careful to keep his garden tidy. In fact, Mr Gum kept his garden so tidy that it was the prettiest, greeniest, floweriest, gardeniest garden in the whole of Lamonic Bibber. Here’s how amazing it was: Mr Gum was a fierce old man with a red beard and two bloodshot eyes that stared out at you like an octopus curled up in a bad cave. He was a complete horror who hated children, animals, fun and corn on the cob. What he liked was snoozing in bed all day, being lonely and scowling at things. It's even a pretty accurate take on the baroque style of the books themselves, the eighth of which, Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout, has been longlisted for the Guardian children's fiction prize. "Hilarious", "surreal" and "anarchic" are also frequently bandied about in association with the tales, which are based in the small town of Lamonic Bibber and feature a cast of weird characters, bizarre plots and nonsensical catchphrases. The eponymous Mr Gum is a truly disgusting old man – a "horror" of Roald Dahl-esque proportions, who is thwarted in his evil by a sweet nine-year-old girl called Polly (or rather, as Stanton often recites, to the delight of school groups, her real name is Jammy Grammy Lammy F'Huppa F'Huppa Berlin Stereo Eo Eo Lebb C'Yepp Nermonica Le Straypek De Grespin De Crespin De Spespin De Vespin De Whoop De Loop De Brunkle Merry Christmas Lenoir, but her friends call her Polly). Polly, meanwhile, is helped by an eccentric old man called Friday O'Leary who has a tendency to shout out "the truth is a lemon meringue". Shabba me whiskers! It’s that bestselling and award-winning first ever Mr Gum book by Andy Stanton. The Mr Gum books are only the craziest, funniest most best books for children in the whole wide world.

Good evening. Mr Gum is a complete horror who hates children, animals, fun and corn on the cob. This book’s all about him. And an angry fairy who lives in his bathtub. And Jake the dog, and a little girl called Polly and an evil, stinky butcher all covered in guts. And there’s heroes and sweets and adventures and EVERYTHING.urn:lcp:yourebadmanmrgum00andy:epub:070ad06d-ec8e-493d-800f-791ac87c3c9f Foldoutcount 0 Identifier yourebadmanmrgum00andy Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0ks8176g Isbn 9781405223102 Good evening. Mr Gum is a complete horror who hates children, animals, fun and corn on the cob. This book's all about him. And an angry fairy who lives in his bathtub. And Jake the dog, and a little girl called Polly. And there's heroes and sweets and adventures and EVERYTHING. Herra Gummi -sarjan ensimmäinen osa on ihan kiva ja nopsalukuinen pläjäys, täynnä mahtavaa nonsense-huumoria ja kielellä leikittelyä. Jokusen jutun olisi voinut lapsille suunnatusta tekstistä jättää poiskin (kuten "Minne se vanha herra Gummi meni?" hän kysyi. "Luultavasti juomaan päätään täyteen Ville Viljamin kanssa", Perjantai arvasi ja oli oikeassa.), mutta kaiken kaikkiaan tämä on hauska kirja - ja sopivassa mielentilassa luettuna varmastikin to-del-la-hauska. Saatanpa tarjota opusta myös kahdeksanvuotiaalleni ja siirtyä itse seuraavan osan kimppuun.

PDF / EPUB File Name: Youre_a_bad_man_Mr_Gum_-_Andy_Stanton.pdf, Youre_a_bad_man_Mr_Gum_-_Andy_Stanton.epubMr Gum lived in a great big house in the middle of town. Actually it wasn’t that great, because he had turned it into a disgusting pigsty. The rooms were filled with junk and pizza boxes. Empty milk bottles lay around like wounded soldiers in a war against milk, and there were old newspapers from years and years ago with headlines like Eight books on, and Stanton is thinking about taking a break from the creation that changed his life one Christmas Eve, describing himself as being "in head-scratching mode about it at the moment". He has just published a picture book, Here Comes the Poo Bus! ("I've used up my toilet humour quota for, well, probably the rest of my life") has plans for another and is considering all his options. It's cult humour for kids," explains Stanton. "When I was a kid I really liked The Young Ones. I was only about eight but really got into it. All the irreverence and randomness in Mr Gum – that's what they call it these days, the kids, 'randomness' – comes from The Young Ones." Children's books about miserly, nasty, no good, rotten old men go one of two ways. Either the old man is redeemed at the end and Tiny Tim lives, etc. etc. or you get to the end of the book and the miserly, nasty, no good, rotten old man hasn't changed a jot. He's just been thwarted. A kind of Count Olaf ending, if you will. The nice thing about Andy Stanton's Mr. Gum books is that they're written with a two-dimensional villain in place with whom you never, at any point, sympathize. Stanton is a fan of goofiness and is willing to pile a whole bunch of weirdness on top of itself in the hopes that there will be enough funny material to keep the kids ah-reading. For the most part, You're a Bad Man, Mr. Gum! works and even when it doesn't it just seems to be so pleased with itself that you can't help but feel some affection for it. This isn't the strongest silly book for kids I've ever read, but it has its heart in the right place. I get to read a lot of children's books in my 3rd job as carer for my very disabled 8 year old, Celyn. She can't see well or play, so stories is where it's at.

Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2013-01-25 15:29:32 Boxid IA158318 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donor Whatever number you started with, you should now be thinking of an amazing garden. And that’s how amazing Mr Gum’s garden was. In spring it was bursting with crocuses and daffodils. In summer there were roses, sunflowers, and those little blue ones, what are they called again? You know, those blue ones, they look a bit like dinosaurs – anyway, there were tons of them. In autumn the leaves from the big oak tree covered the lawn, turning it gold like a gigantic leafy robot. In winter, it was winter.Insects lived in the kitchen cupboards, not just small insects but great big ones with faces and names and jobs. urn:oclc:772189454 Republisher_date 20130128191902 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20130125181125 Scanner scribe2.toronto.archive.org Scanningcenter uoft Worldcat (source edition) Book Genre: British Literature, Chapter Books, Childrens, European Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Juvenile, Middle Grade, Novels