This was the first proper-sized book I read all the way through in one sitting. I remember it clearly - I was off school with some illness or other (probably just faking it), and was confined to my bed. Having bought this book at a my mother's craft fayre some months earlier (and had it signed by Keith Chatfield - legend!), I started reading. By the evening I had finished.
Hmmm. Not really a 'review' of the book, as almost thirty years later I recall little beyond 'This side up. Use no hooks', but I remember loving it as a kid. I still have the book somewhere....