The Nose Pixies by David Hunt

The Nose Pixies Reviews

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  David Hunt

  I give The Nose Pixies five stars, mainly because I wrote it. The Blytonesque illustrations are wonderful. Good pickings.
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  Bex B

  Well, we’ve read this book a few times now and it hasn’t worked. My darling toddler still picks his nose.
  
  It’s a very quirkily written book and for that I give it more than the 3 stars, but it’s also geared towards an older child in my opinion, a lot of the jokes are sadly missed (sorry son) but I think by around 8 or 9 it would be deemed hilarious and would teach children a very warped kind of humour. I don’t know how else to describe it, other than to say it’s very ‘British’.
  
  However, by 8 or 9, I would hope to the powers that be, that my darling boy has removed said finger from nose and is over this charming little habit. So that kinda nullifies the point of this book. I am basically reading it for my own entertainment, but it is just a few big words too many to actually have any impact on the three year old booger fanatic.
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  Dimity Powell

  It might be our warped sense of humour but this really appealed. As Miss 11 stated, 'It is really quite funny and a clever way of getting kids to stop picking their nose'. So true. We both enjoyed the grotty humour, slippery word play and rising tension brought about by the Nose Pixies imminent demise, depletion of nose gold. Masciullo does excellent pixies, too. Worth looking up, as in nose!
• 
  Lara Bate

  A book teaching children not to pick their nose and eat it!
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  Bruce Gargoyle

  I received a copy of this title from HarperCollins Australia for review.
  
  Ten Second Synopsis:
  Oliver is a nose-picker. This has enormous ramifications for the Nose Pixies, whose job it is to harvest nose gold and return it to the Right Royal Kingdom of Schnozz.
  
  If you can get past the first three pages without throwing up, you will be treated to a funny and seasonally appropriate story (in the southern hemisphere at least) with a cast of adorable little pixies who could really use a good trade union.
  
  The illustrations in this one, though cartoonish, evoke the hellish reality of nose-picking, with close ups of the dastardly deed within the first few pages. Some readers will be put off by these no doubt, but for those that can stomach such representations, I am certain the book will be a regular on the bedtime request list, simply because it cleverly creates a problem that can only be solved the nose-picker – and could well provide some food for thought for any sneakily nose-picking young readers.
  
  Hunt and Masciullo have created quite an epic adventure for the poor little nose pixies, who have to hunt high and low for nose gold thanks to Oliver’s nose-picking tendencies. The double-page spreads give a great feel for the sheer effort that the pixies expend in trying to fulfil their nose-gold quota and avoid the wrath of the nose pixie king, from hunting through discarded tissues to plumbing the depths of the loo.
  
  Don’t even get me started on the Bottom Pit.
  
  For those that don’t mind a bit of bodily grossness in books for mini-fleshlings, I can definitely recommend The Nose Pixies as a tale of adventure and derring-do that places the fate of the nose pixies firmly in the hands (or more accurately, fingers) of the reader.
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  Tina

  A whimsical cautionary tale about picking your nose and eating it. Will appeal to kids who love icky stuff - like phlegm fountains....
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  Rebecca

  I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
  
  http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/14713216