Yuck's Pet Worm (Yuck

by Matt and Dave

Featuring two more mucky, yucky adventures, this title includes 'Yuck's Pet Worm' and 'Yuck's Rotten Joke'.

112 pages, Paperback

First published June 4, 2007

About the author

Matthew Morgan (Matt) and David Sinden (Dave) co-developed and wrote the YUCK stories. They're lifelong friends who met at a primary school sports day and grew up in Kent. Matt and Dave both worked in children's publishing before turning to fulltime writing. They also write AN AWFULLY BEASTLY BUSINESS series with their friend Guy MacDonald.

Reviews

[Holly Letson · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first part of this book was alot of fun, what with Yuck having his pet worm, Fang, constantly going after his sister, Polly. He even used Polly's recorder to hypnotize a worm army into going after her.
After that, in the second part, we have Yuck and Eric challenging Polly and Lucy, their sisters, about getting 10 stars on their report cards. Of course, the boys do get the stars, but I do not approve of their methods.
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The second part was so went so perfect for Yuck and Eric that it seemed unrealistic to me, and therefore it was boring and predictable. That, of course, took this from being a 4-star or 3-star book to being a mere 2-star book instead.
Also, none of the teachers caught on to Yuck and Eric constantly pranking their sisters? They got away with all those pranks AND got REWARDED for doing them? GET REAL!! Gimme a Break!
In real life, teachers would have saw through those tricks, parents would have been called on the boys, and butts would have been spanked. Plain ridiculous how this was handled.
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This book was provided to me, via Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed here are my own.

[Wai Lim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yuck is really discusting.

[Nan · Rating 2 out of 5]

It perpetuates too many male/female stereotypes.

[Kelly Carey · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another gross book that many young kids will love.