by Roddy Doyle · Blackie Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9788418187735
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«El Mètode Xof» is the children's book by Roddy Doyle, illustrated by Brian Ajhar, published by Blackie Books in hardback (104 pages, in Catalan).
The Mofetes, tiny and stealthy creatures, watch over children to make sure adults take good care of them. If an adult sends them to bed without supper, scares them, or lies to them, they subject the adult to the Mètode Xof, a secret punishment; it is only revealed that the «xof» is the sound a foot makes when stepping on something huge and disgusting.
Original work in English titled «The Giggler Treatment», translated into Catalan by Armand Caraben; published in Barcelona on 17 March 2021.
Recommended for children aged 9 and up; humour, tiny creatures and a secret that invites you to open the book.
Roderick Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
