You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum!: Volume 1

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Mr Gum lived in a great big house in the middle of town. Actually it wasn’t that great, because he had turned it into a disgusting pigsty. The rooms were filled with junk and pizza boxes. Empty milk bottles lay around like wounded soldiers in a war against milk, and there were old newspapers from years and years ago with headlines like Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2013-01-25 15:29:32 Boxid IA158318 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donor and as you can see, it’s a big but) he was always extremely careful to keep his garden tidy. In fact, Mr Gum kept his garden so tidy that it was the prettiest, greeniest, floweriest, gardeniest garden in the whole of Lamonic Bibber. Here’s how amazing it was:

Mr Gum was a fierce old man with a red beard and two bloodshot eyes that stared out at you like an octopus curled up in a bad cave. He was a complete horror who hated children, animals, fun and corn on the cob. What he liked was snoozing in bed all day, being lonely and scowling at things. Shabba me whiskers! It’s that bestselling and award-winning first ever Mr Gum book by Andy Stanton. The Mr Gum books are only the craziest, funniest most best books for children in the whole wide world.Not an excellent time, mind you, but a good time. Celyn laughed like a drain, we both smirked. Mr Gum's nastiness was foiled. The big whopper of a dog did not die of poison. All was well. I get to read a lot of children's books in my 3rd job as carer for my very disabled 8 year old, Celyn. She can't see well or play, so stories is where it's at. Good evening. Mr Gum is a complete horror who hates children, animals, fun and corn on the cob. This book's all about him. And an angry fairy who lives in his bathtub. And Jake the dog, and a little girl called Polly. And there's heroes and sweets and adventures and EVERYTHING. Whatever number you started with, you should now be thinking of an amazing garden. And that’s how amazing Mr Gum’s garden was. In spring it was bursting with crocuses and daffodils. In summer there were roses, sunflowers, and those little blue ones, what are they called again? You know, those blue ones, they look a bit like dinosaurs – anyway, there were tons of them. In autumn the leaves from the big oak tree covered the lawn, turning it gold like a gigantic leafy robot. In winter, it was winter.

Herra Gummi -sarjan ensimmäinen osa on ihan kiva ja nopsalukuinen pläjäys, täynnä mahtavaa nonsense-huumoria ja kielellä leikittelyä. Jokusen jutun olisi voinut lapsille suunnatusta tekstistä jättää poiskin (kuten "Minne se vanha herra Gummi meni?" hän kysyi. "Luultavasti juomaan päätään täyteen Ville Viljamin kanssa", Perjantai arvasi ja oli oikeassa.), mutta kaiken kaikkiaan tämä on hauska kirja - ja sopivassa mielentilassa luettuna varmastikin to-del-la-hauska. Saatanpa tarjota opusta myös kahdeksanvuotiaalleni ja siirtyä itse seuraavan osan kimppuun. You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum! is the first book in the internationally best-selling series by Andy Stanton, which has won everything from the Blue Peter Book Award (twice) to the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Red House Children's Book Award. Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL8406617M Openlibrary_edition Shabba me whiskers! It's a bold new look for Mr Gum, the best-selling cult classic, ready for a new generation of nibbleheads.Mr Gum is a wildly random tale of a positively Dahlian nasty-old-man. The humour has a Python-esque feel to it and delights in running along abstract corridors of word association. PDF / EPUB File Name: Youre_a_bad_man_Mr_Gum_-_Andy_Stanton.pdf, Youre_a_bad_man_Mr_Gum_-_Andy_Stanton.epub Stanton also draws on more traditional literary sources, claiming that his creation is "remixing all the books I read". Alongisde Roald Dahl's old-fashioned Englishness ( he won the first Roald Dahl funny prize award), he mixes in elements of other writers' work: some of the "feel" of CS Lewis, bits of Enid Blyton ("any time you see tunnels, that's from Blyton") and dollops of Asterix – "the fact that so many of the books end up with the characters having a feast is taken directly from Asterix". He credits his favourite children's author, the American Newbery medal-winner Betsy Byars, meanwhile, for the "bittersweet melancholy" of the books. "If you're writing surreal stuff or nonsense you have to keep the emotional underpinning of it together or it just becomes tiresome," he says. Book Genre: British Literature, Chapter Books, Childrens, European Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Juvenile, Middle Grade, Novels In the nicest possible way, "haphazard" isn't a bad description of Stanton's slightly drifting life until the point that You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum was published, with a string of casual jobs following a swift and unexpected departure from Oxford university. It also captures his genial, appealingly geeky appearance – all beard and glasses and waving hands – and entertainingly rambling conversational style.

Children's books about miserly, nasty, no good, rotten old men go one of two ways. Either the old man is redeemed at the end and Tiny Tim lives, etc. etc. or you get to the end of the book and the miserly, nasty, no good, rotten old man hasn't changed a jot. He's just been thwarted. A kind of Count Olaf ending, if you will. The nice thing about Andy Stanton's Mr. Gum books is that they're written with a two-dimensional villain in place with whom you never, at any point, sympathize. Stanton is a fan of goofiness and is willing to pile a whole bunch of weirdness on top of itself in the hopes that there will be enough funny material to keep the kids ah-reading. For the most part, You're a Bad Man, Mr. Gum! works and even when it doesn't it just seems to be so pleased with itself that you can't help but feel some affection for it. This isn't the strongest silly book for kids I've ever read, but it has its heart in the right place. Bouncing off the walls with festive excitement and too much chocolate, his young audience didn't really pay attention to the story and the manuscript went into a drawer to be forgotten. He happened upon it again a couple of years later, realised that it still made him laugh, made a few changes and sent it off on spec to some agents. "It took a night to write, about a month to find an agent and then about a month-and-a-half to find a publisher… but it actually took me all my life to do that work," he says now.

Buy it by all means. I got Celyn another Mr Gum book for Christmas and we're enjoying that one too. It's even a pretty accurate take on the baroque style of the books themselves, the eighth of which, Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout, has been longlisted for the Guardian children's fiction prize. "Hilarious", "surreal" and "anarchic" are also frequently bandied about in association with the tales, which are based in the small town of Lamonic Bibber and feature a cast of weird characters, bizarre plots and nonsensical catchphrases. The eponymous Mr Gum is a truly disgusting old man – a "horror" of Roald Dahl-esque proportions, who is thwarted in his evil by a sweet nine-year-old girl called Polly (or rather, as Stanton often recites, to the delight of school groups, her real name is Jammy Grammy Lammy F'Huppa F'Huppa Berlin Stereo Eo Eo Lebb C'Yepp Nermonica Le Straypek De Grespin De Crespin De Spespin De Vespin De Whoop De Loop De Brunkle Merry Christmas Lenoir, but her friends call her Polly). Polly, meanwhile, is helped by an eccentric old man called Friday O'Leary who has a tendency to shout out "the truth is a lemon meringue". Millä tahansa numerolla aloititkin, ajattelet nyt ihmeellistä puutarhaa. Ja juuri niin ihmeellinen oli herra Gummin puutarha.

It's silly, surreal, often abstract, did I mention silly? And it works enough of the time to pull you through the book and deliver the promised good time. It's cult humour for kids," explains Stanton. "When I was a kid I really liked The Young Ones. I was only about eight but really got into it. All the irreverence and randomness in Mr Gum – that's what they call it these days, the kids, 'randomness' – comes from The Young Ones." urn:lcp:yourebadmanmrgum00andy:epub:070ad06d-ec8e-493d-800f-791ac87c3c9f Foldoutcount 0 Identifier yourebadmanmrgum00andy Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0ks8176g Isbn 9781405223102 Hän piti puutarhansa jopa niin siistinä, että se oli koko Lamonen-Pulin viehkein, vehrein, kukkaisin ja puutarhaisin puutarha. Näin ihmeellinen se oli:

Insects lived in the kitchen cupboards, not just small insects but great big ones with faces and names and jobs. urn:oclc:772189454 Republisher_date 20130128191902 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20130125181125 Scanner scribe2.toronto.archive.org Scanningcenter uoft Worldcat (source edition) Eight books on, and Stanton is thinking about taking a break from the creation that changed his life one Christmas Eve, describing himself as being "in head-scratching mode about it at the moment". He has just published a picture book, Here Comes the Poo Bus! ("I've used up my toilet humour quota for, well, probably the rest of my life") has plans for another and is considering all his options.