The Mighty Slide

Nov 23, 2024 5:26 PM

Author:Allan Ahlberg

The Mighty Slide

‘This is the story

Of Alison Hubble,

Who went to bed single,

And woke up double.’

Here, in verse, are the hilariously original stories of a mighty slide, a man who fought crocodiles, a girl who doubled, a couple of baby skinners and a thing that lived under a school. A wonderful collection from Allan Ahlberg, author of ‘Please Mrs Butler, Woof!’ and ‘Happy Families’, illustrated throughout with delightful drawings by Charlotte Voake.

Reviews

Stands out in triumph. It is firm, intelligent, in tune with twentieth-century mentality and well-written

—— Times Literary Supplement

Quite up to the best standards of its predecessors, and to all old Ransome devotees the return to the lake of the first novels gives an added pleasure

—— Glasgow Herald

The Alices are the greatest nonsense ever written, and far greater, in my view, than most sense.

—— Sir Philip Pullman

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