Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face live on the peaceful little island of Great Kerfuffle. One day Stinkbomb notices that a tenner has gone missing from his piggy bank. "The badgers have taken your tenner. What are we going to do about it?"
And so the tale begins as brother and sister Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face try to find the badgers and bring them to justice, along the way meeting the King ("I'll just have to send someone on a mission to drive all badgers from the kingdom. You'll do") and several other characters, including a talking shopping trolley that they rescued from a stream.
The book is being pitched as for fans of the Mr Gum books, and I'd go along with that. It has the same silly, surreal nature, plus it also makes use of repetition, recognition humour. My 7-year-old daughter said it was really funny and deserving of a 5-star rating.
Her favourite character was Malcolm the cat who would always change his mind then change it back before changing it again to his original line of thought before changing it back again etc. She also liked the bit where one chapter ended in the middle of a sentence because "a chapter can finish wherever they like."
Of course a review can't do
Publication Date: 2 Jan 2014
Amazon UK Link: Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the Badness of Badgers
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