Spangles McNasty and the Fish of Gold

By Author / Illustrator

Steve Webb, Chris Mould

Genre

Funny Stories

Age range(s)

Publisher

Andersen Press

ISBN

9781783444007

Format

Paperback / softback

Published

05-05-2016

Synopsis

Welcome to Bitterly Bay. Spangles McNasty has decided to spend his summer doing what he loves the most: shouting at babies, pulling faces at old ladies, eating cold chips from bins and best of all, collecting other people's spangly things!

Having convinced themselves that goldfish are made of gold and that they grow to the size of whales, Spangles and his friend Sausage-face Pete decide to find the great Fish of Gold. They'll be rich forever!Only young Freddie Taylor can stop Spangles' dastardly plan, in a tale full of time-travelling jet skis, madcap chases and haunted custard. It is a tale so odd, your mind-cogs will jam with happiness for ever after!

Reviews

Spangles McNasty has a heart as cold as a box of frozen fish fingers and with a love of shiny spangly things, he's bound to cause trouble in Bitterly Bay. Spangles McNasty refers to himself as a collector - a collector of things that do not belong to him - and in this bonkers, fast-paced adventure, he is on a mission to appropriate the town's gold fish to melt into gold!

With his best friend Sausage-Face Pete, who is as nutty as a custard sandwich, Spangles plans and carries out a dastardly goldfish heist. Armed with fake beards and a bathtub strapped to the handle bars of their tandem bike, what could possible go wrong?

When their fishy thievery plans include the town's new tourist attraction the 'Fish of Gold', the residents of Bittery Bay take action. Local boy Freddie Taylor, who just wants a pet goldfish of his own, candy floss stall owner Wendy Mckenzie, and fortune teller Horatio Spectacles, band together and set off in hot pursuit of Spangles and Sausage on a daring goldfish rescue.

The adventure almost ends with a picnic of goldfish and chips but luckily Wendy has brought her portable candy floss machine and isn't afraid to use it! Fortunately for Spangles and Sausage, 'He who runs off and don't get caught, lives to collect another day'!

Spangles McNasty and the Fish of Gold is a completely crazy adventure for newly independent readers that will leave then wondering what crazy plan Spangles McNasty might possibly come up with next!

176 pages / Reviewed by Emily Beale, school librarian.