It’s a bold new look for Mr Gum, the best-selling cult classic, ready for a new generation of nibbleheads. You have the option to opt-out of all non-necessary cookies, although doing so may have an adverse effect on your browsing experience. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Today he is best-known for the hilarious and much-loved Mr Gum books, which are published in 34 countries worldwide in over 30 languages. As well as illustrating the Mr Gum series, he has illustrated many picture books including Eleanor’s Eyebrows, You Can’t Take an Elephant on the Bus, Michael Rosen’s Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots and My Mum’s Growing Down by Laura Dockrill.

And, who could forget loveable Jake the dog, or the angry fairy who lives in Mr Gum's bathtub and whacks him on the head with a frying-pan? Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire is the second book in the internationally best-selling series by Andy Stanton, which has won everything from the Blue Peter Book Award (twice) to the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Red House Children’s Book Award. I have since illustrated the Agatha Parrot series by Kjartan Poskitt and The Donut Diaries series by Anthony McGowan. My career in children's books started in 2006 when I was approached by Egmont to do the Mr Gum series of books.Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire is the second book of the Mr Gum series which was published in 2007. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. As midnight struck, the two robbers were racing away over the dark muddy fields in their hobnail boots, churning up great clods of earth in their wake and ruining the farmers’ crops. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Luckily I found success as a commercial illustrator quite quickly and have illustrated campaigns for Cream, Bass, Natwest, Vodafone, Orange, Yahoo, Fiat and We Love Muzic among others. The robbers dashed and their teeth gnashed and the rain lashed and the thunder crashed and the lightning flashed and the puddles splashed and the pigs in the fields went oinkety-oink. This was a runaway success and I feel very privileged to have worked with the brilliant author Andy Stanton.One day he’d like to live in New York or Berlin or one of those places because he’s got fantasies of bohemia. The series has won numerous awards, including the inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Red House Children’s Book Award and two Blue Peter Book Awards.