Flanimals: The Day of the Bletchling

America needs Karl now more than ever. In this upcoming election, we need someone who can tackle the REAL issues that keep Americans up at night. We are not concerned with our floundering economy, the "war" on terror or how we are now less popular globally than Alton Towers. We ARE worried about:
- Curfews for gays (The Killing of Georgie law)
- Snails eating our postage stamps
- Shadows that push people off of bikes
- Octopi in jam jars
- Big heads and webbed hands
- Split tennis balls
- Organized fun
- Little Turkish fellas that eyeball your girlfriends

All of these things have been ignored by our current administration. I am spearheading the "Do We Need Him?" campaign for Karl to run for the American Presidency. "Do We Need Him?" - you bet your jaffa cakes we do! Lest anyone think we can't get Karl into office, please look at who we have now. Over 50 million people voted George Dubya into office - twice! Americans obviously love and relate to the genius of being stupid. G. Dubs has got nothin' on Lil' Karly Pilkoids! Can you imagine, in a hundred years from now, Karl's little face on a ten dollar bill? Or better yet, the roundest penny ever created!

A plea to Ricky - please bring Karl to America with you this summer. We need him now more than ever before. Don't let Manchester, Kent and London (where he lives) have all the fun and that. Bring the World's Roundest Head to the Big Apple! Alright? Alright.

OOOHH!!! CHIMPANZEE THAT!!! Pilkington for PRESIDENT!!! Yer ffff...

(buy Flanimals...it's good)

Militant atheist propaganda. (2/26 people found this helpful)

This book contains phrases such as "there is no [God]" and a narrative in which some of the Flanimals are disabused of their faith through the teaching of the Theory of Evolution.
Gervais has obviously fallen for the laughable militant Atheist lie that Christians don't 'believe' in Evolution or that a detailed Knowledge of Evolutionary theory and faith in God are mutually exclusive. Anyone who believes this blatant untruth should read 'The Language of God' by Francis Collins (the Head of 'The Human Genome Project' and a devout Anglican) you may also be interested in a book called 'There is a God' by Philosopher Anthony Flew, a man once described as "the worlds most notorious Atheist".As both books articulate why such assertions are false.
Christian parents have a right to know what the true nature of these books is and that Ricky Gervais has described 'Flanimals' as "Atheist books". If Gervais has fallen hard for the intolerent illiberal anti-religious rhetoric of militant atheist polemicist Richard Dawkins that is a private matter for him and not for OTHER PEOPLES kids; such propaganda has no place in childrens books! So if you want your kids brainwashed by a third-rate Dawkins parrot then this is the crude tripe for you!
Lets leave the last word to the late Harvard scientist and world renowned evolutionary theorist Steven Jay Gould:

"Either half of my colleagues are enormously stupid or else the science of Darwinism is fully compatible with conventional religious beliefs - and equally compatible with atheism."

Quotation from 'Impeaching a self appointed judge' Scientific American 267, No.1 (1992).

Another belter (5/6 people found this helpful)

It's a great shame if the Flanimals books get lumped in with the current fad for celebrity-created children's books. Gervais and Steen have really gone from strength to strength with the first three books and "Flanimals: The Day of the Bletchling" doesn't disappoint.

In this fourth book we meet yet more mind-boggling Flanimals, but best of all we finally meet the repulsive Bletchling...and boy do we meet a lot of them! Epic battles ensue, Flans unite, much goo is squirted, and, having said all that, surprisingly there are actually some rather touching moments.

One of my favourite things about the Flanimals books is that once you've read them the first time you can go back again and again and still be spotting new things you didn't notice before, tucked away in Steen's amazingly detailed artwork. I see there's also a special Christmas box set coming up - I'm hoping to get one in my stocking this year.

You'll laugh until bedtime! (5/6 people found this helpful)

Darker -- but even more great drawings! Another fantastic book for kids and adults alike by illustrator Rob Steen (and that other guy). Congratulations, Rob, another triumph.

But what has happened to The Flanimals?!? My kids are heartbroken!

Looking foreard to volume 5!

Another year another Flanimal book (9/11 people found this helpful)

At this rate, Mr Gervais is in danger of being better remembered for his children's books than for his comedy shows.

This year's contribution to the world of Flanimals is presented as though it may be the last - the frontispiece says that this is now all that he knows about Flanimals, and the book is split into two pieces. The first piece is in the familiar style of great pictures and witty text as the phylum of Flanimal insects is covered. In a couple of places the adult in jokes are rather risqué though should be missed by the children.

The second portion details the war between the untold numbers of Bletchlings that hatch across the world and whose coming was foretold previously (as it would be). Without wanting to [SPOIL] too much, it all ends badly for the Flanimals, and the book ends by leaving nothing more to say...

Except of course for a 'maybe something new might have happened by next Christmas!'

The bonus this time round is another poster, this one recreating Jaws in the Flanimal style.

Congratulations (again) Ricky - another success!

Flanimals: The Day of the Bletchling

Ricky Gervais

Reader Reviews:

Pilkie for President in '08! (0/0 people found this helpful)

Militant atheist propaganda. (2/26 people found this helpful)

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You'll laugh until bedtime! (5/6 people found this helpful)

Another year another Flanimal book (9/11 people found this helpful)

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