Samson Superslug

A cleverly constructed book based on the scrawled letters of Samson Superslug to his teachers, local council, Prime Minister, Jim'll Fix It and anybody else he feels like whinging to about a world too mundane for his raging, conspiracy-haunted imagination. The letters, written in a rather unconvincing attempt at child dialect, are interleaved with sardonic responses, newspaper cuttings and reports from school, police and child psychologists - all of them struggling to cope with a delinquent who thinks the country is in the grip of aliens, spies and vampires. The irreverence of the humour should appeal to most junior school children although, old grump as I am, I found myself flinching at the sexism in some of Superslug's quips.