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The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Anthony McGowan (view source)
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* '''BB: We won't ask what style of pants! We know and love you as a writer of books for older children, having missed out on the ''Bare Bum Gang''. Does shifting down a couple of years in terms of readership make things easier or more difficult? Or simply more openly lavatorial?'''
AM: I can't tell you how much I loved writing the ''Bare Bum Gang'' books, but they aren't, actually, much more lavatorial than [[''Hellbent]] '' and [[Henry Tumour]]. I'm afraid that bodily functions are to me what daffodils were to Wordsworth. It's probably something to do with being northern and at the nexus between upper-working and lower-middle class. The ''Bare Bum'' books came very easily. They were a combination of my childhood memories (and mine was in general a very happy childhood) and my observations of my own children.
* '''BB: Which three books should every child read?'''