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BfK No. 101 - November 1996

Cover Story
The cover illustration for this issue is by Tony Ross for Allan Ahlberg’s latest addition to the ‘Happy Family’ series, Miss Dirt the Dustman’s Daughter. We are grateful to Puffin Books for their help in producing the cover of this November issue.

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The Amazing Mr Pleebus

Nick Abadzis
(Orchard Books)
978-1860390326, RRP £3.50, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
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The Freaky Beastie of Hill Road School

Nick Abadzis
(Orchard Books)
978-1860390364, RRP £3.50, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
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Mr Pleebus is a vaguely humanoid, shapeshifting creature who emerges from a parallel universe into Joey and Pandora's world via a television set on which they have been playing computer games. He appears to be a benign creature, but his obvious distress is explained when he is followed by a hoard of demonic grooblies whose leader wants to take over the universe. The groobiies are defeated in the first book, but a resurgence of residual evil occurs in the second, when a wicked doppel-ganger of Mr Pleebus invades the children's school.

Both of these crowded little cartoon books are a lot of fun. The slapstick and surreal stories, whose texture is somewhat reminiscent of Pratchett's Discworld, bound along at an exhilarating pace. But I found it troubling that the evil forces in the books are depicted as jet black creatures who struggle against fairer skinned goodies.

Reviewer: 
George Hunt
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