What-a-mess the Beautiful

What-A-Mess

by Frank Muir

Genres: Animals

Paperback

First published December 7, 1989

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Frank Herbert Muir was an English comedy screenwriter and radio and television personality. From 1977 on he also wrote children's books based on his family dog, What-a-Mess. In 1997 he published his autobiography.

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of my writer friends who lives in Canada recommended the What-a-Mess books for my five-year-old son. When I saw that the books were based on an English television series, I was both apprehensive and intrigued. I bought a book, anyway.

What-a-Mess is an Afghan hound. The only time I've seen Afghan hounds as pet dogs was when I lived in England. Afghan hounds are one of the oldest breeds of dogs, and they tend to be very dignified, and, occasionally, clownish. What-a-Mess' mother is very dignified...

The illustrations are hilarious, starting with the end-papers. And it is not often I read a children's book with the word "pong" in it.

[Kate H · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a child I read "What A Mess" and did not discover there were more books in this series until I was an adult visiting Hay On Wye. All of the picture books in this series tell great stories and the pictures are beyond cute and clever. NO matter your age these books are a definite must read.

[LJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book as a kid because of all the different weird stuff going on in the illustrations. It wasn't until I found it again in the attic as an adult that I realised it was a Ladybird book TV tie-in.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brings back memories.