Funny kid for president by Matt Stanton
ABC Book, 2017. ISBN 9780733335976
(Age: 8-11) Funny kid for president is the hilarious junior
novel from the popular author illustrator team of Matt and Beck
Stanton. Their extremely popular picture books include This
is a ball and Did
you take the B from my -ook? In the style of Diary
of a wimpy kid and Tom
Gates, Max Walburt, funny kid, class clown and Redhill
Middle School student, introduces us to the ups and downs of his
life.
Who pooped in Mr Armstrong's storeroom? His teacher is a volcano
waiting to erupt and Max is singled out as the culprit. Even though
Max has not pooped since Monday, he has to clean up the mess. After
school, Max and Hugo, his second best friend, plot a
super-massively-red-faced-embarrassing revenge for Mr Armstrong.
This plan leads them into all sorts of trouble, as disaster follows
them and so does a stalker duck. Abby Purcell overhears the friends
plotting and dobs to the teacher.
Principal Sniggles becomes involved in the altercation between Max
and his teacher and suddenly their class is involved in electing a
class president. With Hugo as his political manager and someone
sabotaging the other candidates' campaign, does Max have any chance
of winning?
This is a funny junior novel, filled with comical close-ups of Max's
emotional outbursts and plenty of gross situations including the
great library vomit-apocalypse.
Rhyllis Bignell