My Mum's Going to Explode!

Nov 23, 2024 6:39 AM

Author:Jeremy Strong

‘Oooh! I’m going to be a granny!’ she cried.

‘You already are a granny, Granny.’ I pointed out.

‘. . . Oh yes. So I am!’

Nicholas’s mum is having a baby. It’s going to mean some big changes. His mum’s getting ENORMOUS and Granny wants to live in the garden! But that’s not all, because there’s an even bigger shock to come . . .

Reviews

Strong's books are hugely popular with young children with their breezy, daft exuberance

—— Sunday Times

His books crackle with good humour and invention

—— TES

King of comedy

—— Guardian

His books are preposterously entertaining

—— Observer

Every now and then a book comes along that's unusual, compelling and deeply absorbing yet is so tragically simple, it leaves an indelible trace on the memory. The Year the Gypsies Came is one of these

—— Irish Independent

All demand to be read in translation of the originals and not sanitized retellings. Here, by examining letters, journals, annotations and posthumously unavailable papers, Zipes found some hitherto untranslated "ironic and macabre fables, humorous anecdotes, stories about the crusades, Norwegian legend, one 'feminist' tale among other things

—— Buffalo News

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