The Fart that Changed the World (the Top 5 Children's Fiction Bestseller!)

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Wildly funny and endlessly surprising, this is delightfully imaginative, surreal storytelling with a message that small events can trigger big change, and children can be heroes! The RRP is the suggested or Recommended Retail Price of a product, set by the publisher or manufacturer.

I will say it was funny and as you can tell by the title there was a lot of toilet humour. I enjoyed some of the illustrations more than the story though! And so it falls to young kitchen hand Frank to step into the breach (or should that be breeches?) as the royal butler, and it falls also to Frank to step up to save Fabian from unfortunate fart-triggered embarrassment. While there’s certainly no shortage of fart-themed books for children, and no sign that the perennial appeal of parps is waning among contemporary readers, actor and comedian Stephen Mangan’s The Fart that Changed the World is a satisfyingly surreal addition to the canon of flatulence-themed fiction.We're always happy to answer any questions or queries you might have, please get in touch using one of the methods below.

Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial? Anita Mangan added: "Illustrating books written by Stephen is so exciting. We share the same sense of humour and love of the absurd. Like his writing, I make my pictures as funny, weird and wonderful as possible and I am loving illustrating the characters that he has created in The Fart that Changed the World. Humour is such a great way to connect with young readers so I am working in as many details as possible for them to spot!” Fortune said: "Stephen knows exactly how to make kids laugh. The Fart that Changed the World is wildly funny, endlessly surprising and brilliantly silly. Anita’s artwork is a complete joy: lively and full of personality. Escape the Rooms[the duo's first book together]is one of the breakout children’s fiction debuts of 2021 and we are so thrilled and proud to be continuing our publication adventure with Stephen and Anita." Frank - a kitchen boy with a big imagination - is drafted in as an emergency butler. As the banquet descends into a food fight and processions catapult out of control, Frank finds himself in an all-out farty farce. Can he save the day?I read this with my 9yo. We were both expecting lots of laughs from this (especially me) as it's another kids book written by a comedian.

Stephen Mangan commented: “Writing for children is a joy. As a young reader, I loved books that made me laugh, scared and amazed. In The Fart that Changed the World, I wanted to tell a story that shows how the smallest (and, in this case, smelliest) action can have BIG consequences. Once again, I have let my imagination run wild and filled the story with as much humour, drama, danger and excitement as I could cram in – now Anita just has to illustrate it all! I can’t wait for children to enter the kingdom and find out how a fart really can change the world.” It came across like very boring. Characters where introduced and that didn’t help. There was no feeling of a story line to evolve. Frank—a kitchen boy with a big imagination—is drafted in as an emergency butler. As the banquet descends into a food fight and processions catapult out of control, Frank finds himself in an all-out farty farce. Can he save the day? We where looking for a funny book but didn’t laugh once when reading the sample. So we won’t bother to read more.

His first children’s book was the bestselling Escape the Rooms. Anita Mangan is a celebrated graphic designer and illustrator who has designed over 60 books including for Leon Restaurants, Gizzi Erskine and Fearne Cotton. She illustrated the best-selling Be a Unicorn series. Stephen Mangan is an author, but he has many other talents! In fact, he is also a script-writer, comedian, presenter and actor. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here.

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One of my main negatives about the story is the language used by the author. Even I didn't know what some of the words meant so I'm not sure how younger children would! And I couldn't even figure out from the rest of the text. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month. The point of the storyline was something for children to think about. If you tell a lie, it can have a negative effect going forward! Maybe not change the course of history like King Fabian did, but well... let's just say Mangan wrote accurately about leaders of countries! 😂 Lauren Fortune, fiction publisher, acquired world rights for Stephen Mangan's text via Paul Stevens at Independent Talent and rights for Anita Mangan's illustrations from Anna Pallai at AMP Literary. The Fart that Changed the World will be published in May 2022. From classic comedy such as Green Wing, Episodes and I’m Alan Partridge and acclaimed drama such as The Split, Stephen also presents Portrait and Landscape Artist of the Year and regularly appears on stage, most recently as a highly praised Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Stephen also voiced the title role in Postman Pat: The Movie. He has been a member of the judging panels for the Costa Book of the Year prize and The Laugh-Out-Loud Awards (The Lollies).