Good news! Bad news! - Colin McNaughton

Good News Bad News is the crazy tale of what happened to one small boy on his way to the dentist, but being a Colin McNaughton book it's not a straightforward story! It starts: 'Bad news! It's a school day. Boo! Good news! You've got the day off. Hooray! Bad news! To got to the dentist. Boo!' & so it continues. Good news alternates with bad, & the story gets dafter & more outrageous, so that soon the boy escapes from aliens ('Hooray!') but lands on a big hairy monster ('Boo!'). Each twist is funnier than the last & keeps you turning the pages to find out what happens next. ...  Read the complete review

Good news! Bad news! An amusing book, following a day in the life of a little boy who obviously has a vivid imagination! ~~Story and Illustrations~~ Each page or double page has a good and a bad news feature, starting when the little boy wakes up and realises that the good news is that it’s a beautiful day, but the bad news is that it’s a school day. His imagination runs away with him at the point when he realises that he has the day off (good news) but he has a dental appointment (bad news). So…we now know he doesn’t like school or dentists!! He gets rescued from the girls (hooray!) by aliens (boo!) who happen to be friendly, ...  Read the complete review