Published by Black and White Publishing, £5.99
Summer is over and the schools have gone back. Scotland’s favourite cheeky wee schoolboy, Oor Wullie. is also back on the scene, this time with two new books that promise readers they’ll have buckets of fun. The spiky-haired wee scamp has gathered hundreds of jokes and riddles from his pals – Fat Bob, Soapy Soutar and Wee Eck, and says: “If ye’ve heard ony o’ them afore, blame them. There are mair jokes in this book than I’ve had hot dinners and Ma has gi’en me plenty o’ them in my time.”
The jokes are categorised in different sections including classroom capers, ha ha-halloween, Christmas crackers and funny food. There’s gems like: Teacher to William – how do you spell chrysanthemum? Oor Wullie: Well miss, if you dinna ken how am ah supposed to? Plus golden oldies like: What do you call a man with a stamp on his head? Frank and, How did the witch know she was ill? She had a dizzy spell! With Halloween not too far away, this is a very handy book for young guisers to call upon.
The second publication is the Oor Wullie Funbook, another paperback this time priced at £4.99. This book features Wullie and his pals in a series of puzzles, quizzes, jokes, word searches and comic-strip cartoons. There’s plenty here to keep young gamesters entertained during a long car journey or when the weather’s not so good. It’s the sort of book I’d have loved as a kid, and now I’m a granny myself now, I can’t wait for my own wee grandson to be old enough to enjoy it.
