Reviewed by Dianne
Bates
Everyone’s favourite teacher, Mr Bambuckle, is back in another book in the Remarkables series with more stories, shenanigans, and silliness at Blue Valley School.
In
this, the fifth book in the series, the students in Room 12B have four new
students -- Fern who loves animals, Twirl who loves to dance, Chip who likes
computer hacking and Veer who enjoys playing the drums. Principal Sternblast is
once again the thorn in the side of all: this time he
is planning to use the Sprinkler Building Corp to privatise Blue Valley and
fill it with only exceptional students. This is anathema to those in room 12B
and they must find a way of changing this.
Just before term
break, the class’s students are expelled from the school with only five remaining.
Their new teacher Mr Stodge is a colourless, middle-aged man, nothing like Mr
Bambuckle who rides a unicycle in the classroom and distributes free goodies to
his students. Happily, thanks to Chip’s work on the computer, the government
orders that the new school building is ceased until further notification. The
book finishes with a new acting principal (Miss Frost), and Mr B and his class
are reinstated and planning an overseas trip.
This fact-paced,
humorous book uses a variety of writing genres to advance the story (eg speech balloons
when Mr Bambuckle talks to Canteen Carol, notes passed between students, lists
of emails, and love letters). At the front of the book are vignettes of the 17
students in Mr B’s class with their likes and dislikes. There are frequent
black, grey and white cartoon-style illustrations to add to the general overall
feel of the book.
Recommended for
readers aged 8+ years.
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