Fungus the Bogeyman (1977)

Family life, strange creatures, weird inventions, subcultures ( )

This book is about a Bogeyman whos name is Fungus. Fungus and his family go around scaring kids or simply grossing them out by the green sticky slime, and simply saying BOO. I choose this book because it was differnt from all the other kinds of books that are graphic novels. it isn't really a book I would read to a child unless they know that the Bogeyman really doesnt exsist. The images and drawings in this book are some od the most innteresting ones I have seen in a book. Each frame is soo detailed you could look at it ten different times and pick something new out each time.

A teacher may use this book in the classroom to introduce graphic novels because its an easy read and will most likely keep the kids attention. As a classroom activity each student could draw a frme or two of thier own that they would add to the book. This activity could also be counted as a art activity as well as their reading one! ( )

Typical Briggs - sly humour, pathos, a moral that is so well woven into the story that it isn't moralising. Oh, and a funny story and great illustrations. Clever, clever, clever ( )

Very odd little book but lots of detail in the drawing. I bought it with my baby in mind (not born yet but has a great library to look forward to when he/she pops out in April 2008) but it turned out not to be the kind of book you can sit and read to a baby. It'll have to keep until the baby is older but is quite entertaining for adults too so I've had some use out of reading it myself. Not as cute as the snowman but then I don't think cute was what Raymond Briggs was going for when he decided to write about a bogeyman. ( )

Fungus is part of a bogeyman family. Their job is basically to be gross and go around scaring kids and all that sort of thing, slime, nastiness, saying boo, and that whole caper. What if this is your destiny and you don't want it to be? That is the issue under investigation in this amusing and clever tale by Briggs.

http://graphicsf.blogspot.com/2006/12/fungus-bogeyman.html ( )