You're a Bad Man, Mr. Gum!. Andy Stanton

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      You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum! First published 2006 by Egmont UK Limited This edition published 2019 by Egmont UK Limited, The Yellow Building, 1 Nicholas Road London W11 4AN

      Text copyright © 2006 Andy Stanton

      Illustration copyright © 2006 David Tazzyman

      The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been asserted

      First e-book edition 2019

      ISBN 978 1 4052 9369 3

      Ebook ISBN 978 1 4052 4939 3

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      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Dedication and Copyright page

       Front series promotional page

       1 The Garden of Mr Gum

2 A Massive Whopper of a Dog

       3 Mr Gum Lays His Plans Like the Horror He Is

       4 Mr Gum Has a Cup of Tea

       5 Jammy Grammy Lammy…

       6 Mr Gum Lays Down His Hearts

       7 Friday O’Leary

       8 Some Things Happen

       9 Polly and Friday Ride into Town

       10 Jake’s Darkest Hour

       11 How It All Turned Out

       About the Authors

       Praise

       Chapter 1 The Garden of Mr Gum

      Mr Gum was a fierce old man with a red beard and two bloodshot eyes that stared out at you like an octopus curled up in a bad cave. He was a complete horror who hated children, animals, fun and corn on the cob. What he liked was snoozing in bed all day, being lonely and scowling at things.

      He slept and scowled and picked his nose and ate it. Most of the townsfolk of Lamonic Bibber avoided him and the children were terrified of him. Their mothers would say, ‘Go to bed when I tell you to or Mr Gum will come and shout at your toys and leave slime on your books!’ That usually did the trick.

      Mr Gum lived in a great big house in the middle of town. Actually it wasn’t that great, because he had turned it into a disgusting pigsty. The rooms were filled with junk and pizza boxes. Empty milk bottles lay around like wounded soldiers in a war against milk, and there were old newspapers from years and years ago with headlines like

      VIKINGS INVADE BRITAIN

      and

      WORLD’S FIRST NEWSPAPER INVENTED

      TODAY.

      Insects lived in the kitchen cupboards, not just small insects but great big ones with faces and names and СКАЧАТЬ