Barry Hutchison
The Shark-Headed Bear-Thing
Nosy Crow, 2015
Paperback
210pp £5.99 ISBN 978-0-85763-269-2
What do you do when adventure beckons? Do you
hide and tremble under the bed covers and hope it goes away or do you gallantly
strive towards strange looking beasty-things brandishing your wooden sword?
Benjamin Blank is summoned for the adventure
he’s been craving when a diminutive girl named Paradise, comes knocking on his
door seeking a great warrior to save her village from a terrorising monster. Unfortunately,
there’s no monster vanquishing hero in sight and Ben steps in to answer the
call to slay the Shark-Headed Bear-Thing. Joined by the hapless wizard, Wesley,
with sleeves so deep that he may one day find a tonic of courage, the trio head
off in an attempt to save everyone from the creature with the head of a shark,
the body of a bear and a bunny’s tail.
First time author, Barry Hutchison, apparently
has a family that is unappreciative of his jokes and sense of humour, but lucky
for his young readers, he’s found a method with his writing to search for a new
audience. Entertaining from first page to last, Barry Hutchison’s humorous ‘The
Shark-Headed Bear-Thing’ is the beginning of heroic adventures involving
strange monster-things.
Children 8-10, 10-12
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