The Giggler Treatment

This story was very funny, but I would say its silliness is for boys. Very good book, but me, being a clean little girl, would rather not read about poo and shoes in poo.

But even then, I do agree that parents should be punished for treating children in bad ways. I mean, we children are real people who should be respected for, aren't they?

This book was very good, had chapters named after Elvis Presley, after his fridge(!), after Mammy Doyle and many other funny and witty things. Have you heard of 'The Tudors' song in Horrible Histories? It's funny...very, very funny...da dun dun dunn....

This particular story was about a man who was quite mean to his children, Robby and Jimmy. Then he got the 'Giggler Treatment', which is when an adult is show more mean to his/her kids or someone else and then, as a punishment, steps in remarkably disgusting poop. But this was not just any old poo. It was Rover's, a pooping millionaire who is just a dog but a great one too...

Can Robby and Jimmy save their poor father from the wopper-sized poop? Poo is a very disgusting thing. Hmph.

Roddy Doyle also made a book called 'Wilderness', which I put down as not liking it. I don't know if it just 'wasn't my type of book' or if it was a particularly awful one, but I know that this giggling one is good! show less

Non si può vivere solo di libri per adulti :-) Questo è non solo per adulti, ma *anche* per bambini. Educativo per entrambi, dalla penna di D. è uscito un libro buffo, molto creativo e altrettanto intelligente. Visto l'utilizzo continuo della parola 'cacca' e di qualche 'scoreggia', non puo' non essere apprezzato dai bambini in età prescolare. Rimane grottesca la figura del gabbiano, che diventa di difficile spiegazione razionale. Anche se, per parziale consolazione, il libro è ben lungi dall'esserlo... :-)

Great book for teaching character and voice. Laugh out loud humor, needs teacher explanation in places, clever shifts in time and space. The story of a parent about to be disciplined for having disciplined his child! Involves dog poo, blue Gigglers and talking cream crackers... wonderful!

A talking dog, the Mack children, and the small elf-like Gigglers themselves must try to stop the prank that the Gigglers have mistakenly set in motion to punish Mr. Mack for being mean to his children; namely, they're going to have him step in dog poop!

This was a cute children's book. I enjoyed Doyle's little jokes with the chapter numbers, etc.

Clever. Hilarious! Unique and super cute. What a great whimsy, clever break from the boring and too serious life. Hooray for the Gigglers and the Rovers!

I know that I'm approaching 18 years old and I should really be reading more intellectual books, but I can't even describe how much I love this book. It makes me laugh out loud everytime I read it. It's so funny and such a great book to just pick up and read for a good laugh. Roddy Doyle is a genius.

A very funny and cute book. I read this when I was little, and I enjoyed it as much when I re-read it a few years older.