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It's concerned me for a while that it's relatively easy to pick up early readers for girls – princesses, magic soft toys, mermaids and pets abound – but there's a much smaller choice for boys. It's important too with early readers that the content is ''interesting'' and reading becomes more than just something which you ''have'' to do at school and moves into being fun. Matt and Dave have found the answer in Yuck.
For those of you who don't know , Yuck is a laddish boy, brighter than others suspect and with an irrepressible sense of fun. There's not a bit of malice in him and I'm probably not the only one who will think of Dennis the Menace when they look at pictures of him. In this book there are two stories (each just the right length to give oodles of confidence to those just beginning to read without being too much to cope with) – Yuck's Robotic Bottom and Yuck's Wild Weekend.
They're full of the sort of things that young boys love – smelly underpants, whiffy cheese, dog poo, curdled milk, pongy cheese and sisters who get their comeuppance. There are names they'll love such as Mrs Wagon the Dragon and Mrs Appliance from the science museum. Quite a lot of vocabulary is going to be absorbed as painlessly as possible.
