Meerkat Madness

Meerkat Madness #1

by Ian Whybrow

The first book in the hilarious Awesome Animals series – awesome adventures with the wildest wildlife.Told in Ian Whybrow’s unique style, this hilarious animal adventure starring ever-popular meerkats is a funny, fast-paced, sure-fire hit.Meerkat Madness is the story of a burrow of meerkat pups and their eccentric babysitter, Uncle Fearless who once travelled to the Blah-Blah camp at the edge of the desert. Truth be told, Uncle is a bit of a show-off but the pups love his colourful stories even if they don’t really believe them.But then they find a mysterious object buried in the sand and it isn’t long before they are caught up in a daring adventure of their own!A hilarious story about ever-endearing meerkats from the creator of Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs.

Genres: Animals, Fiction, Childrens

208 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2011

About the author

Ian Whybrow is a British writer of children's books, first published in 1989. He has written over 100 books for children, has been translated into 27 languages and is published in 28 countries. His books are humorous and range from picture books to novels, short stories and poetry.

Reviews

[¸.•*¨*•Gina *A Bookwyrm in Belgium*•*¨*•.¸]

Cute with a good vocabulary. A bit on the long side though.

[Claudia G-D]

Good introduction to chapter books. Suitable for year 3/4 children. Could be used within guided reading as offers a lot of opportunities for discussion of events and characters, and comprehension of text.

[Maddie]

it was funny i think it was a slapstick humour and a nice quick book it was really funny how the meerkats called human things like a human is a bla bla or a car is a vroom vroom

[Frank Becker]

Niedliches, lustiges Kinderbuch (ich hab's vorgelesen...).
Die zahlreichen "alterntive" Begriffe für Menschen, menschliche Dinge und menschliches Tun sind unterhaltsam - allerdings wird in der ersten Hälfte des Buches ein bisschen viel darauf herumgetrampelt, so dass es dort teilweise ein bisschen zäh ist. In der zweiten Hälfte nimmt das Buch deutlich fahrt auf!
Die Kinder mochten es; für 4 Sterne reichte es knapp trotzdem nicht...

PS: Das Ende kenn' ich nicht, weil es meine Frau zuende vorgelesen hat ;-)

[Lil Old Bookworm]

My 7 year old and I quite enjoyed this book, although perhaps it was a bit too long and could have been edited down a little. Still the adventures of the adorable meerkat family was charming and fun and full of thrills too. We both liked seeing the world through meerkat eyes and enjoyed how the humans (blah blahs) and their world was described. Very cute. Will probable read the next ones in the series too.

[beckys_book_blog]

This is a funny series about the adventures of some meerkat pups in the Kalahari desert. They are looked after by their much older 'Uncle Fearless' who used to be King of the meerkats and has exciting tales of when he met the 'blah blahs' (humans). It is a light hearted funny book and my daughter loved it and we have now read all four books in the series.

[Lizzie]

My favourite Awesome Animals book yet!
I love the descriptions of the Blah Blahs items in the egg chamber. The pictures were needed to understand some of them though.
Read to my son at bedtime. Hopefully, when he's older and reading it again he will enjoy it as much as I did.

[Tornam]

I kind of like this book because it has some mysterious people that Mimi, Skeema and Little Dream don't know about like the blah-blahs and the battling enemies in the grasses and in the skies.

[Maria]

This series was dope back then. Bahaha.

[Marlo]

Fun book to read with your kids.

[Anna Davidson]

A madcap meerkat adventure, kids will love this fast paced read.

[Mybussywroteathesisoncolonialism]

god my childhood bookshelf is a mess

[Shannon]

An easy read. A good book to use in guided reading for inference and speech beats.

Kids enjoyed it.

[Cortney Eldridge]

(Rated by my 9 year old, who I read this with)

[Nyah Oxby]

it got me scared at points but I really like the ending.

[Palmer]

Meerkat pups realize they are low on the totem pole in their mob which feels outrageous because the beloved uncle who raised them is a former King. They decide to rescue a suitcase they ignorantly think is an egg belonging to monkey like large creatures called click clicks. They have adventures on the way. Ultimately, the battered uncle makes the biggest click click submit to his rule by perching on the man's head. Thus the meerkats establish a new home near the people.

[Jacqueline]

It's cute when animals look at humans and make up names for their things like "vroom, vroom" for car. Meerkats are animals that fascinate kids but lots of us don't know too much about. I learned a little about them from this book. The large print would make this good for an emerging reader.

[Lucas]

I thought it was funny.

[Ruben]

I thought it was a good book. The author also tried to think like a meerkat.

[Stephanie (Gorelenore) Cover2CoverBlog]

Coming soon...

[Abbie Ambrose]

Funny and makes me want to be a meerkat now and experience all their madness

[Kelly]

very funny book! My 9 year old really liked it.

[Hillvan]

720L

[Aurora Rivera]

I love meerkats