by Roddy Doyle · Hippo/Scholastic · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780439993852
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«The Giggler Treatment» is Roddy Doyle's humorous children's novel, published by Hippo/Scholastic in paperback (112 pages, in English).
The dog Rover sells his poo to the gigglers, tiny creatures who punish adults who treat children badly by making them step in excrement. When the gigglers decide that Mr Mack deserves this punishment, Rover, convinced that his owner is innocent, races to stop him from taking the fatal step.
First instalment of The Rover Adventures series. Nominated for the Book Sense Book of the Year Award in the children's literature category (2001).
Aimed at young readers aged 7 and up and at those who enjoy zany humorous stories with a dog as the protagonist.
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.
