Children’s Book Review: Mouth Almighty

Title:   Mouth Almighty  Author: Salilah Agbaje  Publisher: Walker Books        Number of pages:  111           Type of Book: Fiction, Play  Age: 8 and up Available here: Terrakulture Victoria Island, Lagos  Price: N1200   MY SUMMARY (without the ending): Justice has a big mouth literally and figuratively. His mouth is quite large and he talks too much. He is also quite mischievous and inquisitive. Justice goes down the street to buy a pint of milk for his mother and ends up disappearing after meeting a strangely fascinating man, Mr. Cringe. Justice’s experiences with, and after Mr.Cringe make this both magical and realistic. A really good read.   THUMBS UP AND DOWN UP: It is a musical play and I enjoyed imagining a group of children actors doing justice to it. Mr. Cringe the evil/mad scientist was another highlight of this book for me. DOWN: Well, it may be a weeeeeee bit slow.   RATING 3 stars   TRIVIA

1. The name of the evil genius: Cringe.
2. How Justice and Tata planned to make some money: By making kids pay $5 to watch a performance by Bud and the Choir in Justice’s mouth.
3. The experiment Mr. Cringe carried out on Justice: He put a group of singing dwarfs in his mouth
4. The names of the dwarfs living in Justice’s mouth: Bud and the Choir
5. Who dons a private investigator’s hat and decides to find Justice alone: Justice’s father.
6. Justice’s father’s vices: Gambling and Laziness.

    Next Book of the Week (24/June/2015 – 10/June/2015):  Akata Witch/What Sunny Saw in the Flames     About the Writer: Ugochinyelu Anidi is a lawyer and a children’s literature enthusiast. She blogs at ugochinyeluanidi.wordpress.com and tweets @UgochinyeluA