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Yuck's Robotic Bottom by Matt and Dave (view source)
Revision as of 11:07, 30 October 2009
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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 cheesesocks, 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.
Pictures – yes there are pictures. I don't think there's a double page spread without a zany illustration. They're interesting in themselves, break up the text so that it isn't ''too'' daunting for the young reader and there are some hints in there as to what one or two of the longer words might be.