White Ravens’99/Australia/77896
Gleitzman, Morris
 Bumface
 Ringwood: Puffin/Penguin, 182pp
 ISBN 0-14-038797-8
 Single mother - Brother/Sister - Responsibility - Neglect
 Angus has problems with sex but what he really wants most is to be a kid and play Bumface the pirate.
 His childhood has been turned topsy-turvey by a vain TV star mother, currently between partners and
 rarely at home, who counts on twelve-year old Angus to manage the daily routines for himself and his two
 younger siblings. In depicting the many entanglements, crises and disasters that ensue over several weeks,
 Gleitzman has a gift of creating comic, exaggerated situations with serious undertones to entertain and
 touch the reader. For this witty social satire in no way overshadows his compassion for a child’s dilemmas
 in a modern adult world. (10+)

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