Book description
Three crazy, funny stories, featuring the two clumsiest talking mice
you'll ever meet…
'The mouse started to trundle away, glancing at Howard over its
shoulder, nervously. “You may well glance at me nervously," said
Howard, picking up an empty water glass and placing it over the mouse.
"You'll stay in there so I can eat my breakfast in peace. I shall
deal with you afterwards…”'
But you can't really deal with the Clumsies, afterwards or at any time.
Once you've got them, you're stuck with them. From the moment when
Howard Armitage first finds two talking mice under his desk - the
inimitable and hilarious Purvis and Mickey Thompson - his life, and his
belongings, are turned forever upside down.
Obsessed with biscuits and forever playing incomprehensible games of
their own devising, the Clumsies are not your average mice - and though
they're desperate to help Howard get out of trouble with his evil boss,
they're only really good for one thing…
…making a mess. Praise for The Clumsies Make a Mess:
“Anderson has a gift for combining simple, sparse elements - meek man,
bully boss, shabby office, talking mice - to wonderfully surreal
effect.” Financial Times
"Charming debut… With its stylish cartoons and pages that look
crumpled, blotted and scattered with biscuit crumbs, this book will win
youngsters over with its child-like illogicality and the way in which
Howard goes happily along with anything that the anarchic inventiveness
of the Clumsies leads him to." Sunday Times Culture - Children's
Book of the Week
"Occasionally a book comes along that makes my children collapse
into fits of giggles… my children were near hysterical by the end of the
first paragraph."
The Telegraph Magazine
"The kids will love getting mucky with them" Irish World
"If you enjoy these stories as much as I did, you will be waiting
for the next book in the series" Families Magazine Sorrel
Anderson hasn't always been a writer. Once upon a time she worked as a
civil servant, and it was there that she found the inspiration for her
characters - quite literally. One morning she came into work to find a
pair of mice in a plastic bag under her desk, eating up her biscuits.
She named them Purvis and Mickey Thompson, and that very day, the
Clumsies were born!
