Tim Burton and Baz Luhrmann should team up and make this into a film. I haven't read anything so FUN and NUTS in ages. I'm naming Joshua Donnellan, Roald Dahl's alter-ego; the guy that accidentally got into the medicine cabinet.

This book reads like a children's book, but it's not. It's extraordinarily clever and brilliant, some genius stuff in there that kids just would not understand, so don't even try to give it to a kid to read. Well you could try. They may not understand the jokes, but they might still enjoy the ride.

But YOU should definitely read it. It is laugh-out-loud funny in places, action-packed and even a tad of a tear-jerker (yes, I have to admit I shed a happy tear in the end, I think it channelled my child-soul or something).

Ever heard of a wereflamingo? Lettuce cake? A disease that makes you speak in rhyme? Abnormal fauna? What? You haven't? Then you'd better get with the program guys and read Zeb and the Great Ruckus.