SuitabookMeet the Mubbles
Liz Pichon
- Reading
- Read it as a shared visual-comedy experience: pause to name unfamiliar creatures, notice how pictures and words work together, and invite predictions about arrivals. Revisit any confusing invention rather than expecting every detail to be explained immediately.
- Themes
- Joyful imaginative play: The Isle of Smile is presented as a place of singing, dancing, laughter and imaginative inhabitants, with a wonky rainbow signalling an arrival. The presentation clearly celebrates exuberance and playful invention rather than treating them as problems.
- Welcoming the unfamiliar: The Mubbles’ world includes established inhabitants and new arrivals signalled by the Uncertain Curtain and the wonky rainbow. Visitors and unusual characters are central to the premise, but the extracts do not show whether difference is welcomed, challenged or given mixed treatment.
- Worth knowing
- The main point to notice is the deliberately anarchic, energetic tone: singing Earworms, a one-eyed character and an ‘Uncertain Curtain’ suggest surreal comedy rather than realistic situations. Check whether this level of silliness matches the child’s preferences.