The Gumby Gang on Holiday

Devotees will enjoy this latest group of stories in which the Gang spend a holiday with Steve's Gran. Lively, Knockabout humour, good interplay between the characters, nice, unpatronising treatment of the adults. I've used the earlier stories with eight and nines to spark off their own thinking and writing about friendship and the nature of gangs. Solid, uncomplicated writing, from which children can be led to say, Phillipa Pearce's Elm Street stories, or to Bernard Ashley.