![]() (audience titter) … I am a monkey who taught myself to read.” (children now starting to giggle) … ![]() Except … Here is how books work“ Then comes the all-important proviso… “everything the words say, the person reading the book has to say. Apart from the highly colourful nature of the text itself, the whole thing is a typographic orchestration, the changing tenor of which is cleverly conveyed through alterations in font size, type and colour. There’s not a single illustration in sight though there’s plenty of colour. There isn’t a plot (not in the accepted sense anyway). Its author, TV writer and actor, is certainly accustomed to large audiences and knows just how to exploit willing players to the full.īack to the book itself. Giggles and guffaws galore are guaranteed when you read this wonderfully subversive book aloud to one or preferably lots of children it really depends on how big an audience you are willing to make a fool of yourself for. ![]()
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