Utter hilariousness, brilliant main characters and anything but lies are the secret ingredients of this black-and-white illustrated middle-grade series.
It's not every day you find a book that makes you laugh out loud and almost cry tears. This series does it. It follows main character Beaky who loves telling lies ... until one day his sister shoves him into the truth-telling machine at Madame Shirley’s Marvellous Emporium of Peculiarities. Now Beaky can't tell a lie – not even a teeny-weeny one. In each book, he must try and keep his truth-telling mouth at bay, or he might just get into even more trouble than he would if he was telling a lie!
This may not be exactly a graphic novel, but it very much feels like one, so it's a great way to vary young readers' choices and further develop language and reading skills. The series is perfect for fans of Tom Gates and all books by Pamela Butchart.
All the Beaky Malone books in order:
Book 1: The World's Greatest Liar (2016)
Book 2: Worst Ever School Trip (2017)
Book 3: Super Creepy Camp (2017)
Book 4: Weirdest Show on Earth (2018)
I picked up this book by chance, and I’m glad that I did. It is really very funny. As an adult, the plot was a little predictable but, no matter, I ha...
I would imagine younger children would find this very funny, especially the toilet humour! Aimed at 7+...
Really funny. This book made me laugh out loud.
A good story - would recommend it!...