Mr Gum and the Goblins

Mr Gum #3

by Andy Stanton

The third side-splittingly funny book in a series for very brave readers

Well, that old roo-de-lally Mr Gum and the hideous Billy William the Third are once more mucking things up for everyone. They're a-schemin' and a-hatchin' an' making their bad plans up on Goblin Mountain. And why? Because they're raising up an army of goblins to stink up the town of Lamonic Bibber once and for all! Can the brave travelers (the wise old man Friday O'Leary and the small girl Polly) make it past the Three Impossible Challenges of Goblin Mountain and save the town from a fate worse than something very bad indeed? In an epic tale of courage, valor, and plain idiocy only one thing is sure: The truth is a lemon meringue!

Genres: Childrens, Humor, Fiction, Audiobook

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Andy Stanton lives in North London. He studied English at Oxford but they kicked him out. He has been a film script reader, a cartoonist, an NHS lackey and lots of other things. He has many interests, but best of all he likes cartoons, books and music (even jazz).

One day he’d like to live in New York or Berlin or one of those places because he’s got fantasies of bohemia. His favourite expression is ‘Good evening’ and his favourite word is ‘captain’. Andy has now written more than one book, but less than twenty.

-from publisher's website at http://www.mrgum.co.uk/author/

Reviews

[Kian · Rating 4 out of 5]

بیشتر از جلد یک دوست‌ش داشتم.
۱۴۰۳/۱۲/۲۳

[Markku Kesti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tätä lukiessani muistin etten ole lukenut ensimmäistä Gummia loppuun vaikka muistini vahvasti niin väittää. Aion silti vinkata sitä eka osaa, koska Herra Gummin kylpyhuoneen sisällön ja hänen puutarhansa välinen yhteys nyt vain on parhautta tässä lastenkirjakategoriassa!

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

آقای گام خودش مثل جن بوداده است،در درگیری با جن ها دیگر چه داستانی درست می شود!
خیلی این جلد را دوست دارم.خیلی.

[Jo Bennie · Rating 5 out of 5]

The brave small girl Polly, wise old man Friday O'Leary and gingerbread man come nature teacher Alan Taylor climb the mysterious Gobin Mountain, face the Three Impossible Challenges and solve the mystery of the missing children of Lamonic Bibber.

Me and my 7 year old daughter completely loved this audio book. Stanton's hilarious text is brilliantly augmented by the BBCs sound effects, Stanton's voicing of the different characters and the disgusting goblin songs.

[joanne shaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing love it keep it up because your number 1☝ best book ever✌✌✌

Funny and cool
:-)

[Anthony Buck · Rating 1 out of 5]

I found this pretty tiresome, but my 8 year old loved it.

[Oz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Joke starts to wear thin here, it's basically a less clever version of the previous two, but what kid's gonna notice?

[Zoë May · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book is very funny!! i found my self almost bursting with laughter!! as i do with all the others as well. i particularly like friday oleary when he says "THE TRUTH IS A LEMON MERINGUE!!" and "BREAD BIN!!" haha c:

[Suvi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Herra Gummi sikailee taas. Mitä onkaan käynyt 300 kadonneelle lapselle ja mitä ilkeää herra Gummi on taas keksinyt. Huippu!

[Sophie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm just going to randomly review the third book in a series when I haven't done any of the others. Mr Gum was one of my favourite book series growing up. I found it hilarious then and at 21 still do & proud of it. I read this one to my seven year old sister a bit out of nowhere as we had a bookmark in #2 after starting it ages ago, after finishing that a couple of days ago she requested we continue. Before I convinced her to finish #2 she told me she doesn't like Mr Gum because it's disgusting but once we got started she didn't want me to stop.

This instalment is as great as always. Disgusting, yep. Ridiculous, absolutely. Funny, FOR SURE. Polly & Friday doing a 10k piece jigsaw while the witch is chasing them is a stand out moment of the entire series and catching the rabbit to cook still makes me laugh out loud. The Spirit of the Rainbow is so much fun and Polly and Friday are such wonderful heroes.

"I promised to come to your aid when the horn of Q'zaal Q'zaal was blown- and here I am."
"Thank you, sir" said Friday graciously. "But there is one thing I have to ask. Couldn't you have come a bit sooner?"
"Old man," explained the boy. "When you blew that horn I was in Newcastle, staying over at my cousin's."

[James Warwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

Same old brillance from Andy Stanton.

I tip my hit to the author . . . this series is fantastically funny. I just can't fault them. It's the perfect mixture of silly, silliness and sillinessness that makes them such great books. The only thing I that would make them better is if it made me a nice cup of tea.

If I'm ever in the middle of a stuffy, adult book and my brain is slowly trickly down my neck from sheer boredom, I know exactly what to. Pick up the next Mr. Gum book and start giggling!

[Krissy · Rating 2 out of 5]

⭐️ 5/10 (But its a children’s book so, definitely higher if we’re adding that to the rating).

📝 This book was ridiculous in the best way. I had to read it for school. It was funny and ironic. I could definitely see children enjoying this, but also parents/teachers reading it. It was filled with humor and adventure. I also loved how it ended abruptly. Poor Friday, never got to sing a song 🥲 Definitely a book that can be read in a classroom, but for young children.

[Lanchi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quyển sách này rất thú vị và hài hước. Các nhân vật bao gồm : cô bé Polly dũng cảm và thông minh,ông Thứ Sáu O’Leary , bà Đáng yêu , lão kẹo gôm,vv...💁🏻‍♀️
Nó có rất nhiều thứ thật vô lý: mùa đông chết chóc❄️, lão bà bà đạt giải olympic khi vượt qua một xe buýt ẩu ! Tóm lại thì nó là một truyện hài hước, vô lý và “hâm”.Thôi tôi nói đến đây nhé ! 😋( vì tôi ko còn gì để ghi nữa . ).😁

[Eleanor Sturdy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best in series

We laughed and laughed. Very few children's books stay in the memory like these, and have become family favourites. Great to read aloud, really interesting illustrations that generate imaginings beyond the story.

[Yeji · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 / 75 ⭐️
Really fun and quite descriptive. It is slightly different the the first two books but in my opinion it is better! It got me out of my book slump and this book made me notice how much I love lamonic bibber. But i didn’t like the ending that much.

[Grace Sargeant · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really enjoyed.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good 'un. Very funny if Mr Gum is your cup of tea.

[Jenika Ioffreda · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5/5 stars

[Joel Etra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love all the Mr Gumm books.
Clever and hilarious for young readers. I use them in teaching.

[Ngọc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hình như càng lùi về trước thì truyện càng vui? =))))))
Đỉnk vãi =)))))

[Carlotta · Rating 2 out of 5]

These types of stories are little darlings to me; but this one just didn't quite hit the mark.

[Tim Robinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as clever as the first two, but still good fun.

[Austin Ajit · Rating 5 out of 5]

All these series is super crazy I got only three please read full and I will try too

[Josh · Rating 5 out of 5]

cor, blimey! what a spiffing book

[☆ ☆ kurjenmiekka ϵ( ‘Θ’ )϶☆⌒* · Rating 4 out of 5]

😭😭

[Dolores Gilles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Het is een heel leuk en grappig boek

[Daniel M20 Blackburn · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastically wacky book which my son absolutely adored. He laughed a lot and would not let me stop each night as we read this as part of his accelerated reader initiative in his school. Loved it.

[Alice Modlock · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love Mr Gum, think this is one of his best yets.

[Andy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Literary non sequiturs and situationalist nonsense - like a slapdash Roald Dahl, but somehow still perfect for seven year olds. Not quite as amazing as Book 1.

[Emily Card · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book made me chuckle quite a bit but definitely not the best book of the series I would say probably the 2nd best