He is best known for the hilarious, bestselling and award-winning Mr Gum series and has also written picture books, including Danny McGee Drinks the Sea. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. This was a runaway success and I feel very privileged to have worked with the brilliant author Andy Stanton. The series has won numerous awards, including the inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Red House Children’s Book Award and two Blue Peter Book Awards.

The robbers dashed and their teeth gnashed and the rain lashed and the thunder crashed and the lightning flashed and the puddles splashed and the pigs in the fields went oinkety-oink. My career in children's books started in 2006 when I was approached by Egmont to do the Mr Gum series of books. Luckily I found success as a commercial illustrator quite quickly and have illustrated campaigns for Cream, Bass, Natwest, Vodafone, Orange, Yahoo, Fiat and We Love Muzic among others. Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire is the second book in the internationally best-selling series by Andy Stanton, which has won everything from the Blue Peter Book Award (twice) to the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Red House Children’s Book Award.Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire is the second book in the internationally best-selling series by Andy Stanton, which has won everything from the Blue Peter Book Award (twice) to the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Red House Children's Book Award. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Advertisement cookies are used by third parties (such as YouTube) to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns off-site.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire is the second book of the Mr Gum series which was published in 2007. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. You have the option to opt-out of all non-necessary cookies, although doing so may have an adverse effect on your browsing experience. And, who could forget loveable Jake the dog, or the angry fairy who lives in Mr Gum’s bathtub and whacks him on the head with a frying-pan?I have since illustrated the Agatha Parrot series by Kjartan Poskitt and The Donut Diaries series by Anthony McGowan. As well as illustrating the Mr Gum series, he has illustrated many picture books including Eleanor’s Eyebrows, You Can’t Take an Elephant on the Bus, Michael Rosen’s Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots and My Mum’s Growing Down by Laura Dockrill.

It’s a bold new look for Mr Gum, the best-selling cult classic, ready for a new generation of nibbleheads. The big ones are Red House Children's Book Award , two Blue Peter book awards for Best Book With Pictures , and the first inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize Award . I’ve read this twice to my three kids, and bought another for our friend’s seven-year old daughter My 15 year-old still roars at it and I end up making large animal-like snorts. Today he is best-known for the hilarious and much-loved Mr Gum books, which are published in 34 countries worldwide in over 30 languages. As midnight struck, the two robbers were racing away over the dark muddy fields in their hobnail boots, churning up great clods of earth in their wake and ruining the farmers’ crops.One day he’d like to live in New York or Berlin or one of those places because he’s got fantasies of bohemia.