Silly poo (The Giggler Treatment - Roddy Doyle)

Member Name: pje

Product:	The Giggler Treatment - Roddy Doyle
Date:	20/02/02 (247 review reads)
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Advantages: Poo.

Disadvantages: Black & white illustrations only.

Shall I read The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle? Eek! No.
Shall I read A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle? Yawwn... no.
Shall I read a little kids book by Roddy Doyle instead? Oooh YEAH!

There's this man, and he's about to step in some dog poo. That's it really.
Not much of a plot is it? Admittedly it is "a big pile of wet, fresh dog poo", but as the author himself says in chapter two: so what?
Well, the question is: how did it get there? [Answers on a postcard to...]

So why is this book called The Giggler Treatment then? Well, there are these things called The Gigglers and they look after children, following them everywhere... Luckily they are "baby-sized and furry" and not old-man sized and wearing a dirty mac, otherwise they'd be arrested. Anyway, if someone is mean or unfair to children they will find themselves on the receiving end of the Giggler Treatment: which consists, quite simply, of poo on the shoe. That's poo, on the shoe. A rendezvous twixt shoe and poo, euugh!

And the man about to put his foot in it is called Mister Mack, and he works as a biscuit tester in a biscuit factory. Now there's a job!

And what has Mister Mack done to deserve a pooey shoe? I'm not telling you. Read the book. :-P All I'm saying is that it had something to do with him being cream crackered after a hard day at work the day before...

En route to the poo, he passes a seagull sitting on the branch of a tree:

"Do you know what, Mister?" said the seagull. "I hate fish."
"I didn't know seagulls could perch in trees," said Mister Mack.

Now what's all that about? And then nothing at all happens in chapter four - which is fair enough I suppose. But at one point the Mack lads casually balance their baby sister on a wall - a bit of a no-no I would have thought.

Mrs. Mack's maiden name is Fleet
wood by the way. I suppose Roddy Doyle thinks he's funny...well he is - almost as funny as poo in fact, but not quite.
The Giggler Treatment was shortlisted for the W.H.Smith Children's Book of the Year 2001, but (inevitably) lost to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

The Giggler Treatment is rubbish, but it's slightly rude rubbish, so kids will love it. Read The Giggler Treatment today! G'wan. G'wan, g'wan, g'wan... Oh, sorry, wrong Doyle!

¶ Paperback: £4.99 ¶ ISBN: 0439993857 ¶ pp 111 ¶ For ages 6-9 ish ¶
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