The Klangaroo by Mark Bird

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The Klangaroo by Mark Bird

Two baby kangaroos, one wacky inventor and a gigantic robot have a day at the zoo no one will ever forget!

Genre: Children’s Poetry
Pub: HB Publishing House
Pages: 40

With no Mummy or Daddy to teach them to hop,
the zoo’s baby joeys just wobble and flop.

Dr Try builds a robot to help them bounce high,
but when things all go wrong
will their bouncing dreams fly?

My Review

This book is hilarious, and like nothing I’ve ever read before. It’s all written in rhyme and the illustrations are a bit bonkers, but I mean that in a good way.

The poetry is clever and entertaining and I know children will love it – this is just the sort of wacky book that will appeal to my (somewhat wacky) nine-year-old granddaughter. I’m not sure if it’s aimed at slightly younger children, but it doesn’t really matter – they’ll love it anyway.

Poor Dr Try is ‘trying’ to help two joeys to sky-bounce without much success. So she builds a robot but unfortunately it just waddles and clangs and falls flat on its face. But the joeys don’t care, ‘You’re like us,’ they cheer,’You’re the best,’ and they love it! It’s called the Klangaroo.

This book is full of joy and fun and will become a firm favourite with children everywhere.