Beano Dennis & Gnasher: Super Slime Spectacular: Book 3 in the funniest illustrated series for children – a perfect Christmas present for funny 7, 8, 9 ... old kids – new for 2022! (Beano Fiction)

My grandson loves theses books . He now has all six .

A wonderful book my 7yr old loves the Beano

This book is a mix of cartoon and a novel. It has the classic Dennis the Menace and Gnasher characters but it is a good way to introduce your comic-obsessed kids to reading books.

I’m channelling most of this review from my six-year-old boy. He’d not encountered Dennis and Gnasher’s adventures before, though I was a Beano reader as a kid. Since reading the book, he’s now become an avid fan of their current TV show, for better or worse. Here’s what he had to say about the book.*Sometimes it can be really funny, like when Dennis does something like a burp when he doesn't have to. The characters can be really funny.Sometimes there are dramatic things, when the whole science research lab fills up with water.It's a lot of fun. The character I like the most I think would be Pie Face, because he's really funny, and I really like funny people.It's a bit like the Tom Gates books, but more adventurous. It's similar in a way that there's a school and they have the same sort of adventures. There are a few drawings like the Tom Gates books, which I really like.Think it's for 7 year olds. I would definitely recommend it to people who like reading and stories.There are a few surprises and twists in the story, which I liked. Like when the slime started picking things up, and stacking them on top of each other.It wasn't difficult to read - some words might need a dictionary, otherwise it's totally suitable.At some points it can be boring.It's been quite long to get through. It has chapters - fourteen - they are quite big, and each chapter needs more than ten minutes (maybe).I would like to read other Dennis and Gnasher books like this. It's got some more characters than the TV cartoon.It's not a good story to read yourself to sleep, as some bits could be a bit scary for people my age, and it's quite funny too, so too lovely before sleep.*I can’t add much to that. I like the presentation of the book, it does feel modern and engaging and a nice balance between the Beano cartoon heritage and proper reading books. The print quality is good.I was pleasantly surprised by the diversity and representation that’s been introduced to the set of characters since I was a young reader of it. It doesn’t feel forced or tokenistic, and each of the new characters has their own character traits, instead of their unique minority feature being treated as a character trait. I think they’ve handled that well. Beano writers have clearly grown up too!If your kids are fans of the TV show already then they’ll take to this book straight away, if you can persuade them to turn the telly off.

I grew up reading the Beano comic as a boy. So getting this book was a no-brainer. However this isn’t a comic, it is a novel, although it still has lots of pictures, and includes things as seen in the comic, e.g. speech bubbles in the pictures and notes from the Ed. Anyway, a novel like this is the next stage up from a comic in terms of reading progression, and it is still funny. There are plenty of jokes here.Beanotown is under attack from some giant slime. "The slime is pranking the town, and at the same time it's making endless fart noises - It's like Attack of the Fifty-Foot Whoopee Cushion!" Is Dennis to blame or is it, once again, the Beanotown mayor, Wilbuir Brown?The story includes Minnie the Minx and other cameo appearances from other Beano characters (e.g. Calamity James and even the Bash Street Pups). It is illustrated by Nigel Parkinson (who also does the comic), and written by I. P. Daley (funny pen name). It is good, funny, but is not in the comic format that the Beano is known for.⭐⭐⭐⭐