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| Muddle Earth | 
 enlarge | Authors: Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Category: Book
List Price: £5.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 96941
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0330426281
EAN: 9780330426282
ASIN: 0330426281
Publication Date: March 5, 2004
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Muddle Earth is not quite like our earth. For a start is has three moons. And of course, the abundance of pink, stinky hogs, sleeping, farting trolls and exploding gas frogs mark it out as something quite extraordinary. In fact, welcome to a world where nothing is quite as it should be, especially for young Joe Jefferson, an ordinary boy who somehow finds himself not only transported to this curious planet, but discovers fairly quickly that he is also its saviour-apparent. Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles series has built the author/illustrator team a seriously solid fan base of children and young-at-heart fantasy-fevered adults. Muddle Earth will delight them all. Vivid characters--from young, bewildered Joe in his Warrior Hero suit comprising saucepan helmet, dustbin lid shield and toasting fork spear, to the deliciously bad-tempered battle-axe wife of a pointy horned baron--weave their way through this delightful but totally mad book. This is a story that ultimately results in a time honoured tradition: a battle between good, evil and the "sort of OK but just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time". A fantastic read that should be added to the "what do we read between Harry Potters" lists at home and in schools, Muddle Earth is a funny, clever, completely loony novel with wicked illustrations. Stewart and Riddell are indeed a winning team who may well be able to tempt even the most reluctant of young readers into the library, while ensuring that the older readers (who really should know better!) are well and truly catered for. Age 9 and over. --Susan Harrison
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 Brill Book April 2, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
`A Little Bit of Winter' is short, colourful and great for little ones. It is one of my favourite young children's books and now `Muddle Earth', a hilarious, long, upper KS2 children's book, which is by the same author, is on my all time favourite books list! It's a bit like JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings but with lots of humour. I practically laughed from opening the book at front cover to closing the book at the back cover! I would rate this book 10/ 10 (obviously) and recommend it to children aged 9 - 11/ 12. Here is the plot of this story: the heroes in this book are a wizard, whose knowledge of magic is merely one spell, an ogre, who is usually upset and is nearly always, crying; there is also a very bossy budgie and a boy from normal Earth called Joe Jefferson! Will they defeat the evils of Muddle Earth? Find out in this brilliant book...
Spectacular! October 15, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an absolutely amazing book! Stewart novel. And, as always, Chris Riddell's illustrations are brilliant. The two put together never fail to amaze and delight a reader!
Who else could think of a book like this? September 17, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Muddle Earth is in Danger. It's three moons, it's Perfumed Bog, and it's Pink Stinky Hogs and Exploding Gas Frogs are threatened by the schemes of a sinister villain, Dr Cuddles...
As you can see the story is set by is title, in Muddle Earth. It all starts off when Quentin the Cake decorator wasn't good enough to be a warrior hero. So Randalf the wise, the best (and only) wizard in the whole in Muddle Earth (though he only knows 1 spell) summons a new warrior hero, this ends up to be Joe Jefferson (a 12 year old schoolboy from normal earth) and his faithful hound, Henry. He is kitted out with the "best" equipment around, the Wellies of Power, the Woolly Gloves of Determination, the Trident of Trickery (a toasting fork) and the Helmet of Sarcasm (a saucepan). Suddenly Joe is expected to wrestle dragons, fight ogres and defeat sinister flying wardrobes. Tagging along are Norbert the Not-Very-Big a wimpy, soft hearted ogre, obsessed with cooking (though he is rubbish), and Veronica, Randalf's bossy, sarcastic budgie whose sarcasm get everyone bursting out laughing along with the famous reaction from Randalf "Shut up Veronica!"
There has been nothing that I have hated from this book it has all been laughter, especially when Veronica steps in with a comment, gets me on the floor all the time, this book has been written well, building a good picture in your head, sometimes the imagination is funnier than the words itself.
I'd recommend this to anyone who likes a bit of random humour from the ages of 10 onwards.
Brilliant Book : Muddle Earth - By Dana August 30, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a highly recommended book!
If you like to read fiction, have and imagination or are simply young at the heart, please read this spell binding book!!!
A bit of good clean fun reading! July 10, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have now read this to my 8 year old daughter three times and she still laughs at Veronica's sarcasm and Norberts attempts at almost anything. I have now bought the book (the library were getting worried that they would not recover it).
Also, I will be looking into the edge chronicles as these sound interesting. I am sure they are written for a different audience from what I have read in the reviews. THIS book is fun and should not be expected to reach thriller scale, though there are some really funny battles with flying wardrobes etc.
It is rare to find a book without death and deep demonism implied or described. This is a book free of such effects but with a fairytale element nonetheless. Enjoy it!
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