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BUMPFIZZLE THE BEST ON PLANET EARTH

Patricia Forde

Bumpfizzle is an alien, sent to Earth from Planet Plonk on a research mission. Or is he really just a ten-year-old boy who is feeling a bit disgruntled at all the attention his parents are lavishing on The Baby? It is up to readers to make up their own minds.

Either way, Bumpfizzle's confusion at Earthling behaviours, as reported in his diary and his frequent reports back to Plonk, are hilarious, and his adventures are ridiculous, from eating the cat's food (it makes him throw up, always good for attention) to biting his teacher (to check if humans would make a good source of food for Plonkers) and attempting to sacrifice a goat (he soon discovers what goats' horns are for).

Illustrated by Elina Braslina.
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Published 2018-06-01 by Little Island Books

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So hilarious! I think Patricia Forde is definitely the high queen of Irish comedy. -- Eoin Colfer

Selected as UNESCO Citywide Read for Dublin 2019.

France: Talents Hauts; Spanish: Anaya;

'Meet Bumpfizzle the Best, the famous alien warrior from Planet Plonk, who was sent to Earth on a secret mission and assumed the form of a 10-year-old boy named Daniel. [...] Forde's inventive wordsmithing and her instinct for the ridiculous will have kids in stitches. [...] Forde knows exactly what young earthlings love.' --Abby Hanlon, New York Times Read more...

White Raven Award