He is best known for the hilarious, bestselling and award-winning Mr Gum series and has also written picture books, including Danny McGee Drinks the Sea. As well as illustrating the Mr Gum series, he has illustrated many picture books including Eleanor’s Eyebrows, You Can’t Take an Elephant on the Bus, Michael Rosen’s Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots and My Mum’s Growing Down by Laura Dockrill. One day he’d like to live in New York or Berlin or one of those places because he’s got fantasies of bohemia. I’ve read this twice to my three kids, and bought another for our friend’s seven-year old daughter My 15 year-old still roars at it and I end up making large animal-like snorts.

You have the option to opt-out of all non-necessary cookies, although doing so may have an adverse effect on your browsing experience.Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire is the second book in the internationally best-selling series by Andy Stanton, which has won everything from the Blue Peter Book Award (twice) to the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Red House Children’s Book Award.

Luckily I found success as a commercial illustrator quite quickly and have illustrated campaigns for Cream, Bass, Natwest, Vodafone, Orange, Yahoo, Fiat and We Love Muzic among others.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. And, who could forget loveable Jake the dog, or the angry fairy who lives in Mr Gum's bathtub and whacks him on the head with a frying-pan? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire is the second book in the internationally best-selling series by Andy Stanton, which has won everything from the Blue Peter Book Award (twice) to the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Red House Children's Book Award. I have since illustrated the Agatha Parrot series by Kjartan Poskitt and The Donut Diaries series by Anthony McGowan.