If you do not know this book, buy it now and read it. After you have done that, watch the film. It is truly funny and wonderful.

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This book works on many levels. It has layers of narrative, meta narrative and meta-meta narrative. For this reason it works as a story book for children as young as six, but it is certainly enjoyed by adults. I would read this aloud to younger children focusing on the story - skipping over some of the sections that are more dry ‘scholarly humour’.

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This book - as the author decided himself - is a classic. A book for the whole family.