Mr Bean's side splitting stories by Official Mr Bean

Mr Bean's side-splitting stories is a new paperback comic book based on the Mr. Bean: The Animated Series. It joins several "Official" Mr Bean comic books including Mr Bean's entertaining escapades, Mr Bean's Absurd adventures and Mr Bean's terrific tales. Each book features ten comic strip stories. 

Although Mr Bean's side-splitting stories is targeted at the 7-10 year-old age group, it is a book to be enjoyed by older age groups too - especially by lovers of graphic novels, reluctant readers and fans of Mr Bean.

Mr Bean's side-splitting stories feature ten stories including a class room story where Bean tames an unruly class (somehow), hilarious misadventures with his foil, Mrs Wicket, adventures with Teddy, outings and disasters with the hapless Irma...well what can we expect when Mr Bean arrives with Irma at a Valentine Fair on Valentine's Day? What could possibly go wrong? For the real Bean aficionados the blue 3 wheeler car does keep turning up and Mr Bean is always in his mini causing trouble (especially in the game park where he keeps on bumping deliberately into lions amongst other things).

The animated series translates well into graphic novel format as Bean never says much. There is no need for much dialogue but lots of "Hmmm...", "Oo-er...", etc. The fun is in the action, the facial expressions and the visual gags. Mr Bean gets himself into ridiculous situations and always seems to bumble his way out leaving behind a trail of chaos of which he is usually not aware (except for the times when he deliberately and mischievously sets up the situation).The comic strips are bursting with onomatopoeic words e.g.,... " FWOOP", "YAY". "THUNK". "GIMME" etc.

With its brightly coloured comic strips, tilted panels (which emphasize the chaotic action), multi coloured fonts and speech/thought bubbles Mr Bean's side-splitting stories is a visual pleasure and hilarious to read. If you want a good laugh read this book, share it with your friends and collect more of the series! 

Themes: Humour, Chaos, Misunderstandings.

Wendy Jeffrey