Tuesday, 8 August 2017

Quentin Blake & John Yeoman - The World's Laziest Duck


Rating 5/5

Review: 
A delight



This was originally published in 1975 as The Puffin Book Of Improbable Records, and has been making me smile ever since.  The wonderful absurdity of imagination combined with Quentin Blake's incomparable illustrations make this an absolute joy – even to this definitely-not-young person.  I mean, who wouldn't want to know that the friendliest woodlouse in the world is called Sidney, and that he has 985 friends?  Or that the world's soppiest fairy story is Cuddly-Bunnykins and Little Fairy Twinklewand by Emily Tichweed?  I rest my case.

This is an absolute delight of a book.  Very warmly recommended.

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