- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Puffin Books; New edition edition (29 April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140367764
- ISBN-13: 978-0140367768
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.4 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 428,421 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Martin Jarvis reads The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm by Norman Hunter. Unbelievably, these tales were first published in 1933 and sound as if they'd been written today. Branestawm is the epitome of the mad professor, inventing a machine that gets you where you want to go before you've even left, a spring cleaning machine that doesn't quite work as intended, and all sorts of other things that will have 7 -11 year-olds hugging themselves with glee. Beautifully appropriate music, a Naxos signature, adds to the pleasure. --- Kati Nicholl, Daily Express
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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A Genuine All Time Classic,
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This review is from: The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (Puffin Classics) (Paperback)
Professor Branestawm was a classic on a par with (and of the same era as) Winnie the Pooh: these are funny short stories of the Professor who is brilliant, eccentric and forgetful. He inventions always work, but usually are fatally flawed. Set in the 1930s, he occupies his bachelor pad with Mrs Flittersnoop the housemaid who usually gets the wrong end of a bad experience of one of his inventions. Highlights are stories such as "The Too-Many Professors" where an elixir of life brings photographic characters out of the pictures, including a picture of the one-year old professor wearing nothing but a smile, half a policeman saying "Pass along p..." and generally far too many professors charging around.
The best thing about the book are the "seventy-six" illustrations by W Heath Robinson - he of rickety machine fame which make the book and perfectly complement the wildly imaginative stories. Wonderful for reading to the children (as an excuse to re-read them yourself).
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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I bought this book together with another Professor Branestawm book, for my two older grandsons (8 and 7) at Christmas. Both are allowed time before 'lights out' to read in bed and when saying goodnight to the 7 year old saw him tucking into a chapter or two with relish. This is a second generation thing - our daughters both read and enjoyed these books 30 years ago and. I think, watched dramatisations on TV. Despite having been written a good few years ago, they still stand up today. My grandsons also love Captain Underpants (what boy wouldn't) and these books are just as crazily amusing.
34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
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A hilarious book for 8 to 11 year olds (particularly boys),
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This review is from: The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (Puffin Classics) (Paperback)
This book appeals to 8 to 11 year olds with an interest in home spun technology and foreseeable disasters. Fans of the Chuckle Brothers will recognise the genre. The inventions and science are broadly based in reality, but never actually work. My rather serious 9 year old giggles non-stop at the antics. Our favourite stories include the chemical which makes photogaphs come to life resulting in multiple Professor Branestawms of various ages from baby upward and one where the Professor loses a library book and tours the area's librarys... Great Fun.
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