My Mum's Going to Explode!

Nicholas's mum is pregnant and it is making her do strange things, like organising nappy changing races and having sausages morning, noon and night. However, there is a bigger shock to come when after a scan at the hospital, Mum discovers she is going to have twins. This is a humorous tale from the author of the 1997 overall winner of the Children's Book Award, for The Hundred Mile an Hour Dog, Jeremy Strong, who is good at creating larger than life characters. Particularly comical are Nicholas's rather deaf granny and her second husband Lancelot, an ageing Hell's Angel. Gran first thinks Mum has got rabies and then that she's going to have 'tins' instead of twins. Silly, but very appealing to children. Sharratt's illustrations capture the slightly wacky characters perfectly.