- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (3 July 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571239501
- ISBN-13: 978-0571239504
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 422,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ever wished you could swap your mum? Be careful what you wish for . . .
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Ever wished you could swap your mum? Be careful what you wish for . . . MUM TROUBLE! Oli wants to swap his mum for someone who’ll let him eat loads of pepperoni pizza and watch Real Blood Bath Murders on telly. Mother 44 drives a tank and trains secret agents.But she’s also hatching an evil anti-children plot – and she’s looking for a boy to help. When the Mum Shop’s Matcher puts them together, it’s trouble!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What child hasn't been convinced that the Mum they were born to is just about the worst in the world and sometimes wished they had a different one? This book shows that better the devil you know: and ten-year old Oli finds out that the grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence when he swops a perfectly decent mother (who admittedly won't let him watch Blood Bath Murders on the TV and encourages fresh fruit and vegetables every single day) for first one and then another ghastly/terrifying alternative.
It's a brilliant idea and a strong imaginative story-line involving a mysterious machine, the Matcher, in the Mum Shop with its straight-laced operator; a grumpy bus-driver, and most excitingly a suspicious tank-driving Mum 44 who wants to take over the world. She plans to subject all small children to the tortures of eating tapioca and would cane them for the slightest misdemeanour. Oli is a believable and fresh-faced lad who, with his best friend, Skipjack, prevents Mum 44's sinister world take-over bid. Oli also has two sisters, one younger who he doesn't get along with but actually turns out to have some sense, and one older - amusing in that her entire reaction to the replacement Mums is a standard teenage "Yeah, Whatever."
The illustrations inside are by the same illustrator as those on the cover -the characters, appear as everyday children tending towards the scruffy with appealing wide-eyes.
Not only is this a smashing story with a good ending, it's also well written:
"So entranced was Oli by the vision of himself as a secret agent that phrases such as `no junk food' and `no telly', which would normally have crashed into his brains like rocks through a window, merely floated about like bubbles in his head."
Although less chatty in writing style(and managing to avoid toilet humour) this bright and cheerful story will appeal to Jeremy Strong fans. It's a lovely step up from Horrid Henry, and also a good bet for fans of The Ice Cream Machine (Bertagna) - that's the original books not the TV series. It's up there with Spy Dog as a hot new series for junior readers and I recommend it whole-heartedly. Congratulations Ceci Jenkinson!
It's a brilliant idea and a strong imaginative story-line involving a mysterious machine, the Matcher, in the Mum Shop with its straight-laced operator; a grumpy bus-driver, and most excitingly a suspicious tank-driving Mum 44 who wants to take over the world. She plans to subject all small children to the tortures of eating tapioca and would cane them for the slightest misdemeanour. Oli is a believable and fresh-faced lad who, with his best friend, Skipjack, prevents Mum 44's sinister world take-over bid. Oli also has two sisters, one younger who he doesn't get along with but actually turns out to have some sense, and one older - amusing in that her entire reaction to the replacement Mums is a standard teenage "Yeah, Whatever."
The illustrations inside are by the same illustrator as those on the cover -the characters, appear as everyday children tending towards the scruffy with appealing wide-eyes.
Not only is this a smashing story with a good ending, it's also well written:
"So entranced was Oli by the vision of himself as a secret agent that phrases such as `no junk food' and `no telly', which would normally have crashed into his brains like rocks through a window, merely floated about like bubbles in his head."
Although less chatty in writing style(and managing to avoid toilet humour) this bright and cheerful story will appeal to Jeremy Strong fans. It's a lovely step up from Horrid Henry, and also a good bet for fans of The Ice Cream Machine (Bertagna) - that's the original books not the TV series. It's up there with Spy Dog as a hot new series for junior readers and I recommend it whole-heartedly. Congratulations Ceci Jenkinson!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I think everyone, young and old will enjoy this book. I am already loooking forward to the next story about Oli and Skipjack in January.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Never mind whether I can put it down, the fact is my six year old son has yet to put down the book (he carries it everywhere). I look set to be reading this wonderful book twice in quick succession - I read him the first chapter last night but after we said "good night" I just had to sneak the book from under his pillow to finish it for myself. So having enjoyed it enormously once I now can't wait for his bedtime when I get the pleasure of reading it again, this time to an enthralled young fan.
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