Tim Clark
This is a magnificent children's book. It captures the loose, pythonesque world of Polly, Mr Gum and Friday O'Leary and makes adults laugh as much as kids. Stanton plays with all the conventions at once - the writing is both insane and inspired on occasions - it was meta before meta was cool in kids books - and despite the silliness it has real emotions hidden if you look carefully.
If you read it out loud (doing all the voices of course - which Stanton helps you with cunning use of spelling) you may accidentally attract a crowd.
This is a magnificent children's book. It captures the loose, pythonesque world of Polly, Mr Gum and Friday O'Leary and makes adults laugh as much as kids. Stanton plays with all the conventions at once - the writing is both insane and inspired on occasions - it was meta before meta was cool in kids books - and despite the silliness it has real emotions hidden if you look carefully.
If you read it out loud (doing all the voices of course - which Stanton helps you with cunning use of spelling) you may accidentally attract a crowd.