Fed up with your mum always telling you what to do? No problem - just nip down to The Mummy Shop and swap her for another, more agreeable version! There are plenty on offer - and any one of them will surely be an improvement on the current grumpy incumbent. Jim and Jody try out several mums, but somehow none of them is quite up to the job. One specimen is very keen on holidays but doesn't know what to do when Jim falls down and hurts himself, another adores sweets and Jim and Jody are thrilled until they all eat themselves sick; another seemingly sweet-looking candidate turns out to be a mean, toy-hating bully. Well, there is nothing for it - Jim and Jody rush back to The Mummy Shop having realised that there is no one quite like your very own mum.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2002 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .

Genevieve Webster was Art Director of Egmont Children's Books for many years before leaving to work freelance in order to spend more time creating her own picture books. She lives with her two children Isaac aged seven and Honey aged four. Martin Muscatt was born in London and is a musician, the guitar being his main instrument. He also works as a counsellor. Genevieve Webster studied Graphics and Illustration at Canterbury and Norwich Schools of Art before moving to London in 1988. She has worked in children's books for over twenty years. It was Genevieve's passion for language and dialect and her love of Caribbean culture that inspired her to co-create Rastamouse.