What-a-Mess has Breakfast ¦ What-a-Mess has Lunch ¦ What-a-Mess has Tea ¦ What-a-Mess has Supper

In these four 'Square Meal' books the unbelievably scruffy Afghan pup gets into all manner of scrapes in his unflagging efforts to appease his hunger. Joseph Wright's visual interpretation of the stories is a good deal more approachable for the child reader than is Frank Muir's somewhat over-complicated narrative: his sentence construction occasionally left this experienced reader gasping for breath. The sub-plot involving various diminutive human and animal characters adds to the visual fun. What-a-Mess is definitely an acquired taste and one which can prove over rich so far as the text is concerned for many would-be young readers.