The Clumsies Make a Mess of the School
Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny prize 2010, The Clumsies are back in their fifth and most hilarious book yet! Full of surreal invention and sparkling wit, this latest installment will have everyone checking under their desks for talking mice!
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| ISBN-13 |
9780007438679 |
| ISBN-10 |
0007438672 |
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| Stock |
Available |
| Status |
In-stock at publisher; ships 3-10 working days |
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| Publisher |
HarperCollins |
| Imprint |
HarperCollins Children's Books |
| Publication Date |
23 March 2012
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| International Publication Date |
5 January 2012 |
| Publication Country |
 United Kingdom |
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| Format |
Paperback |
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| Author(s) |
By Anderson, Sorrel |
| Series |
The Clumsies |
| Category |
Animal Stories
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| Interest Age |
7-10 years |
| Reading Age |
7-10 years |
| NBS Text |
Children's Fiction |
| ONIX Text |
Children/juvenile |
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| Number of Pages |
224 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 130mm
Height: 185mm
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| Weight |
178g |
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| Dewey Code |
823.92 |
| Catalogue Code |
219117 |
Description of this Book
Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny prize 2010, The Clumsies are back in their fifth and most hilarious book yet! Full of surreal invention and sparkling wit, this latest installment will have everyone checking under their desks for talking mice! More sparklingly funny adventures about the much-loved talking mice that live under Howard's desk, eat his biscuits, try and help him out, but only ever end up making a mess. With loveable characters, fabulously funny plots and dynamic design The Clumsies are destined to be classics of the future
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Awards & Reviews
| NZ Review |
Praise for The Clumsies Make a Mess: Anderson has a gift for combining simple, sparse elements -- meek man, bully boss, shabby office, talking mice -- to wonderfully surreal effect. Financial Times Charming debut! With its stylish cartoons and pages that look crumpled, blotted and scattered with biscuit crumbs, this book will win youngsters over with its child-like illogicality and the way in which Howard goes happily along with anything that the anarchic inventiveness of the Clumsies leads him to. Sunday Times Culture -- Children's Book of the Week Occasionally a book comes along that makes my children collapse into fits of giggles! my children were near hysterical by the end of the first paragraph. The Telegraph Magazine The kids will love getting mucky with them Irish World If you enjoy these stories as much as I did, you will be waiting for the next book in the series Families Magazine |
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Author's Bio
Sorrel Anderson hasn't always been a writer. Once upon a time she worked as a civil servant, and it was there that she found the inspiration for her characters -- quite literally. One morning she came into work to find a pair of mice in a plastic bag under her desk, eating up her biscuits. She named them Purvis and Mickey Thompson, and that very day, the Clumsies were born!
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