Автор: Andy Stanton
Година: 2007-2008 г.
Страници: 420
Език: Английски
Състояние: Отлично
Забележка: Нови, неизползвани книги. Леко захабен картонен футляр.
Подзаглавие: Winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize!
Издателство: Egmont UK
Град на издаване: London
Наличност: 1 бр.
Тегло (гр. ): 441
Ширина (мм): 130
Височина (мм): 185
Дебелина (мм): 36
Корици: Меки

Mr. Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire

Shabba me whiskers! It's one of those Mr Gum books by Andy Stanton. They're only the craziest, funnest most amazing books for children in the world. Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire Mr Gum is back in this second hilarious book and he's as nasty as ever! In fact, he's absolutely grimsters. But this book's not just about him. Meet a gingerbread man named Alan Taylor who has electric muscles! Plus, all our favourite characters are back: the little girl called Polly, the evil butcher called Billy William The Third, and the very wise man, Friday O'Leary. And, who could forget loveable Jake the dog, or the angry fairy who lives in Mr Gum's bathtub and whacks him on the head with a frying-pan?

Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire is the second book in the internationally best-selling series by Andy Stanton, which has won everything from the Blue Peter Book Award (twice) the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Red House Children's Book Award.

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'Smooky palooki! This book is well brilliant!' - Jeremy Strong

'Worryingly splendid' - Guardian

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Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear

When seventy-year-old Maura Murphy discovered she had cancer, she left her husband of fifty years and started writing her memoirs.

Born 'chronically ugly and as cross as a briar' into a poor rural homestead in 1920s Ireland, Maura lived much of her adult life in England, where she raised nine children and fought to keep together a family ravaged by poverty and alcohol. The voice of a silent generation of an immigrant-Irish underclass, Maura Murphy's tough and remarkable life is a compellingly written account of struggle and survival like no other.

With all the immediacy and impact of Frank McCourt's prize-winning ANGELA'S ASHES, Maura's voice is feisty, funny and fearless. And she needed to be all those things to survive an extraordinary series of privations and abuses. Her story is compelling and upbeat despite everything.