The drawings of Farley Cupstart are really quite frightening and others are rather heartwarming with great attention to detail’
Benjamin Tooth is a budding botanist and scientist. He is only 11 years old but he is already nursing baby birds, mounting butterflies that he has caught and claiming that one day he will be remembered as the greatest scientist the world has ever known!
Benjamin lives with his foul mother and his ancient great grandfather, who has some strange traits – he reads the newspaper by sniffing it. Hard to imagine, but the quirky illustration of him doing so gives you an early insight into the weirdness inside this book. There are some horrid descriptions of his meals at the end of each day’s diary entry and the author adds humour along the way to balance out the foulness.
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