'What's For Dinner, Mr Gum?'

Well, Shabba Me whiskers! Mr Gum's back! But what's he up to this time? Oh, dreadful things my friends, dreadful things indeed. It seems he's found himself a brand new treat - rancid kebabs just dripping with dirty grey sauce. And he just can't get enough of them. He's gotta have more! More! Less! I mean, More! But not everyone's too happy about Mr Gum's new dinnertime arrangements and soon the town of Lamonic Bibber is gearing up for war. Can Polly and her friends save the town from being torn apart? Will Mr Gum's hunger ever be satisfied? And who on earth is Thora Gruntwinkle? All will be revealed when you read "What's For Dinner, Mr Gum?" You'll see a gingerbread man driving through London! You'll see an annoying little monkey driving everyone mad! You'll see Friday O'Leary falling asleep in a hedge! Yes, it's all there in glorious black and white, my friends. Except for the cover, which is in colour. It's Bonus.

Mr Gum in 'The Hound of Lamonic Bibber'

There's a terrible beast in Lamonic Bibber and it's haunting peoples dreams and tearin' up their gardens. The townsfolk accuse Jake the Dog, but Polly and Friday O'Leary set out to prove his innocence.

Especially created for World Book Day 2009 Mr Gum in 'The Hound of Lamonic Bibber' is available for £1 in good bookshops or free with a World Book Day book token while stocks last. The 2009 books are flip books so it’s like a normally brilliant Mr Gum book with another flippin' book on it's bottom. Or, as Mr Gum says: its flippin' brilliant!

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Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear

Mr Gum returns in the fifth shamelessly hilarious book... Good evening. Do you like bears called Padlock? Course you do. Do you like hot-air balloons? Course you do. Do you like tall sailing ships with mad sea captains, and horrifying old villains and words like 'wab!', 'tungler' and 'kelp'? COURSE you do! Well, guess what, you lucky little nibbleheads? This book’s got all of those things - and a lot more besides. It’s a rollicker! It’s a frolicker! It’s a funtime sun-time yollicker! So what you waiting for? GET READING!

Mr Gum and the Power Crystals

Smooky palooki! Mr Gum is back, lurk-lurk-lurkin’ about about and doing lots of menacing and a spot of snurfling. Book 4 features an extraordinary tale, one so strange that it can’t be explained, not even by Old Granny.

It's the tale of Polly and that old tumbledown windmill down by the riverside in Lamonic Bibber. Just what is the windmill’s terrible secret? Who is Nicholas de Twinklecakes? And what does "Vorsicht! Es Gibt eine kleine eule hinter dir!" mean? There’s also an epic chase scene, better than anything you’ll ever see at the cinema (unless it’s a chase scene in a film called "Mr Gum and the Power Crystals").

Mr Gum and the Goblins

Shabba me whiskers This is barking bonkers... Well, that old roo-de-lally Mr Gum and the hideous Billy William the Third are once more mucking things up for everyone. They're a-schemin' and a-hatchin' an' making their bad plans up on Goblin Mountain. Can the wise old man Friday O'Leary and the small girl Polly make it past the Three Impossible Challenges of Goblin Mountain and save the town from a fate worse than something very bad indeed? In an epic tale of courage, valour and plain idiocy only one thing is sure: The truth is a lemon meringue!

Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire

Mr Gum is back in this second hilarious book and he's as nasty as ever! In fact, he's absolutely grimsters. But this book's not just about him. Read this book and you'll meet a gingerbread man named Alan Taylor who has electric muscles! Plus, all our favourite characters are back: the little girl called Polly, the evil butcher called Billy William The Third, and the very wise man, Friday O'Leary. And, who could forget loveable Jake, the furry wobbler of a dog?

You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum!

Weird, wacky and one in a million! Mr Gum is a truly nasty old man. He's absolutely grimsters. But this book's not just about him. There's also a little girl called Polly, an evil butcher, heroes and sweets and stuff, and Jake the dog WHO MUST BE SAVED FROM TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE EVIL. And that's not all ... this is only the first in a series of stories about the evil Mr Gum. Stay tuned...