Marge in Charge
Book one in the fun family series by Isla Fisher
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4.2 • 6 Ratings
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- £4.99
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Publisher Description
"Isla Fisher is hilarious" David Walliams
"Charming, funny, delightful: Marge is the babysitter all children would wish for" David Baddiel
Meet Marge, the mischievous babysitter with rainbow hair who loves to make a mess and bend the rules . . . At dinnertime Chef Marge cooks up chocolate soup, and at school Marge the Muscian conducts a chaotic concert in the playground!
Jake and Jemima have brilliant fun with their new babysitter, but will they manage to tick off all the jobs on Mummy's list?
The first fun family story in the MARGE IN CHARGE series, written by actor & comedian Isla Fisher and illustrated throughout by Eglantine Ceulemans.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Spontaneity and mayhem reign in actress Fisher's first children's book, which unfolds over three chapters and kicks off a series about an eccentric babysitter. Marge shows up in the guise of a strict, elderly matron, but after Jemima and Jake Button's parents leave, Marge sheds her dowdy hat, reveals fabulously multicolored hair, and announces that she's a duchess who has abandoned palace life. Marge regales the kids with tales of her days as a renegade royal while bringing chaos into their lives, filling the bathroom with bubbles, serving chocolate soup for dinner, saving a rained-out birthday party with magic tricks, and turning a school concert rehearsal into a free-for-all. Though the children sometimes feel that the caregiver-child roles have been reversed, Marge's whimsy has a purpose: she manages to liberate timid seven-year-old Jemima and calm rambunctious four-year-old Jake. Both Marge and the individual stories feel stuck in overdrive, but readers will get some laughs out of the unpredictability she brings to the children's lives, captured in Ceulemans's buoyant b&w cartoons. Ages 8 12. Author's)
