Flanimals - Ricky Gervais

Flanimals - Hardcover Author: Ricky Gervais Illustrator: Rob Steen Publisher: Faber and Faber Publish Date: October 2004 Genre: Children’s picture book (although I secretly think it is aimed at parents tired of reading the same book night after night!) Age Suitability: 7 – 106 (although my son who is almost three loves it!) Pages: 96 RRP: £9.99 Amazon Price: £5.99 ***Summary*** This is a humorous study of the “Flanimal Kingdom” with images and hilarious descriptions of these extraordinary creatures and their unusual habits as they go about their ordinary lives in their own imaginary ecosystem. ...

'Flanimals' is the brainchild of Ricky Gervais, creator/writer/actor of the hit BBC comedy shows 'The Office' and 'Extras'. It is a collection of wacky and wonderful creatures, superbly illustrated by Rob Steen. The cover features the Flanimal called a 'Grundit'on the front, with a 'Baby Mernimbler' on the back, as well as some 'fan-mail' written to Ricky Gervais. Inside the front cover there is a note that 'Loads of Flanimals were hurt during the making of this book.', whilst the back has a photo of the author and a brief biography of him The book is divided into three chapters: 'Spotter's Guide', 'Flanimal Behaviour' and 'Flanimal ...

The first book from the distinguished Gervais comedy house, Flanimals is a random collection of made-up creatures, whose whole purpose in life is to be as absolutely pointless as possible. Although "written" as a children's book, adults can enjoy this just as much (a similar situation to the Simpsons) simply through the bizarre pictures and descriptions of Flanimals included. For example, take the Wobboid Mump (Lumpus-Chuck-Goggler), which is: "One of the most useless organisms in the universe. It is basically an eye in jelly. It spends most of it's time looking around trying to find reason in it's existence. It never ...