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Gervase Phinn
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Pages: 128 (Paperback)
ISBN: 014102688X
Pub: Penguin
Pub date: 2006-11-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 821
Reader Reviews:
As only a child can! (1/1 people found this helpful)
Funny, lovable and heartwarming. Better because it comes from the heart as only children can present the story of 2000 years ago in a Nativity play. I could imagine the voices of the children and Gervais Phinn as I read the book.
Fantastic, laugh out loud book review by Maz-Manchester (3/3 people found this helpful)
having had 3 boys myself and experience of childhood "clangers" over the years, I laughed out loud at the antics of the children in this book, never has a book made me giggle so much or marvel and enjoy the innocence of childhood. The book has a lovely feel-good factor and one which you can dip into again and again, every page you open makes you smile at one antic or another. The storyline really jumps out of the page and you can almost hear the children with their Yorkshire accent and lovely sayings. A really heart-warming, delightful book full of enchanting anecdotes and I'm delighted to recommend it to all, great family reading.
:o) (3/3 people found this helpful)
NOT to be read when you are travelling on public transport. A laugh-out-loud book. The only fault was that it wasn't long enough.
What a bore (3/19 people found this helpful)
Quite who Gervaise Phinn had in mind as his potential audience is quite beyond me. This book is full of the kind of drivel that, if spouted by someone at a dinner party, would have everyone coming up with excuses involving babysitters or early starts, anything but endure another "witty" anecdote from Mr Phinn. Full of the kind of nauseating tales that would be hard enough to bare from the children's doting parents, Gervais Phinn lives up to Charles de Montesquieu's definition of an author as "a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations".
Wish there'd been more! (8/10 people found this helpful)
This is a funny and touching book - it took me right back to watching my Son's nativity plays and at times gave me a lump in my throat...
My only regret is that there isn't enough content: this book could have easily been half as thick, but the canny folks at Penguin have used LARGE TYPEFACE to help fill up the pages and that's a shame. It would have been better as a slimmer volume at a cheaper price than p-a-d-d-e-d o-u-t in this way.
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