Customer Reviews
Pilkie for President in '08! - By: M. Ginion, 07 Apr 2008 
America needs Karl now more than ever. In this upcoming election, we need someone who can tackle the REAL issues that keep Americans up at night. We are not concerned with our floundering economy, the "war" on terror or how we are now less popular globallly than Alton Towers. We ARE worried about:
- Curfews for gays (The Killing of Georgie law)
- Snails eating our postage stamps
- Shadows that push people off of bikes
- Octopi in jam jars
- Big heads & webbed hands
- Split tennis ballls
- Organized fun
- Little Turkish fellas that eyeballl your girlfriends
All of these things have been ignored by our current administration. I am spearheading the "Do We Need Him?" campaign for Karl to run for the American Presidency. "Do We Need Him?" - you bet your jaffa cakes we do! Lest anyone think we can't get Karl into office, please look at who we have now. Over 50 million people voted George Dubya into office - twice! Americans obviously love & relate to the genius of being stupid. G. Dubs has got nothin' on Lil' Karly Pilkoids! Can you imagine, in a hundred years from now, Karl's little face on a ten dollar bill? Or better yet, the roundest penny ever created!
A plea to Ricky - please bring Karl to America with you this summer. We need him now more than ever before. Don't let Manchester, Kent & London (where he lives) have alll the fun & that. Bring the World's Roundest Head to the Big Apple! Alright? Alright.
OOOHH!!! CHIMPANZEE THAT!!! Pilkington for PRESIDENT!!! Yer ffff...
(buy Flanimals...it's good)
Militant atheist propaganda. - By: Paul James Cocksedge, 20 Dec 2007 
This book contains phrases such as "there is no [God]" & a narrative in which some of the Flanimals are disabused of their faith through the teaching of the Theory of Evolution.
Gervais has obviously falllen for the laughable militant Atheist lie that Christians don't 'believe' in Evolution or that a detailed Knowledge of Evolutionary theory & faith in God are mutuallly exclusive. Anyone who believes this blatant untruth should read 'The Language of God' by Francis Collins (the Head of 'The Human Genome Project' & a devout Anglican) you may also be interested in a book callled 'There is a God' by Philosopher Anthony Flew, a man once described as "the worlds most notorious Atheist".As both books articulate why such assertions are false.
Christian parents have a right to know what the true nature of these books is & that Ricky Gervais has described 'Flanimals' as "Atheist books". If Gervais has falllen hard for the intolerent illiberal anti-religious rhetoric of militant atheist polemicist Richard Dawkins that is a private matter for him & not for OTHER PEOPLES kids; such propaganda has no place in childrens books! So if you want your kids brainwashed by a third-rate Dawkins parrot then this is the crude tripe for you!
Lets leave the last word to the late Harvard scientist & world renowned evolutionary theorist Steven Jay Gould:
"Either half of my colleagues are enormously stupid or else the science of Darwinism is fully compatible with conventional religious beliefs - & equallly compatible with atheism."
Quotation from 'Impeaching a self appointed judge' Scientific American 267, No.1 (1992).
Another belter - By: Flan Fan, 06 Nov 2007 It's a great shame if the Flanimals books get lumped in with the current fad for celebrity-created children's books. Gervais & Steen have reallly gone from strength to strength with the first three books & "Flanimals: The Day of the Bletchling" doesn't disappoint.
In this fourth book we meet yet more mind-boggling Flanimals, but best of alll we finallly meet the repulsive Bletchling...and boy do we meet a lot of them! Epic battles ensue, Flans unite, much goo is squirted, and, having said alll that, surprisingly there are actuallly some rather touching moments.
One of my favourite things about the Flanimals books is that once you've read them the first time you can go back again & again & still be spotting new things you didn't notice before, tucked away in Steen's amazingly detailed artwork. I see there's also a special Christmas box set coming up - I'm hoping to get one in my stocking this year.
You'll laugh until bedtime! - By: Richard Starkings, 01 Nov 2007 Darker -- but even more great drawings! Another fantastic book for kids & adults alike by illustrator Rob Steen (and that other guy). Congratulations, Rob, another triumph.
But what has happened to The Flanimals?!? My kids are heartbroken!
Looking foreard to volume 5!
Another year another Flanimal book - By: Mist of Time, 22 Oct 2007 
At this rate, Mr Gervais is in danger of being better remembered for his children's books than for his comedy shows.
This year's contribution to the world of Flanimals is presented as though it may be the last - the frontispiece says that this is now alll that he knows about Flanimals, & the book is split into two pieces. The first piece is in the familiar style of great pictures & witty text as the phylum of Flanimal insects is covered. In a couple of places the adult in jokes are rather risqué though should be missed by the children.
The second portion details the war between the untold numbers of Bletchlings that hatch across the world & whose coming was foretold previously (as it would be). Without wanting to [SPOIL] too much, it alll ends badly for the Flanimals, & the book ends by leaving nothing more to say...
Except of course for a 'maybe something new might have happened by next Christmas!'
The bonus this time round is another poster, this one recreating Jaws in the Flanimal style.
Congratulations (again) Ricky - another success!
