THE BUM TRILOGY 2001-2005
Absurd adventures for older readers
The Bum saga comprises three novels that tell the epic tale of Zack Freeman and his runaway bum. It begins with The Day My Bum Went Psycho, continues with Zombie Bums from Uranus and ends with Bumageddon: The Final Pongflict. Be bold, be brave, and be entertained beyond your wildest dreams by the best-selling saga that you and your bum will NEVER forget. (And if three books about bums isn’t enough for you, then also check out the illustrated guide What Bumosaur is That?)
“I gave it to my two older sons (aged 8 and 10) and they gobbled it up in a few sittings and pronounced it a silly book, great fun and one that they would certainly recommend to their friends.”
“With more bums, more grossness and more plain silliness than the first book, Zombie Bums from Uranus is bound to be a hit with the primary school audience. Of course, most adult readers will simply be grossed out, but then it’s not aimed at adult readers, is it?”
“This epic conclusion to the Bum trilogy will have children chortling and adults smiling sheepishly as the talented Andy Griffiths crafts another tale of mad adventure, wild action and off jokes.”
The Day My Bum Went Psycho
The first book in the series, published in 2001
What’s the Story?
This is the story of a boy called Zack, his runaway bum and some of the most dangerous bums in the world, including kamikaze bums; nuclear bums; and Stenchgantor, the Great Unwiped Bum. With the help of The B-team (a crack bum-fighting unit comprising three of the best bum-fighters in the business: the Kicker, the Smacker and the Kisser), Zack must risk methane madness crossing the Great Windy Desert, death by stink-bog in the Brown Forest, and the perils of the Sea of Bums before finally descending into the heart of an explosive bumcano to confront the most dangerous bum of them all: his own!
Zombie Bums From Uranus
The second book in the series, published in 2003
What’s the Story?
The nostril-blasting, zombie-bums-from-Uranus-filled sequel to THE DAY MY BUM WENT PSYCHO. Zack Freeman is back … and so is his bum. Aided by little more than a squeezy bottle of tomato sauce, a rudimentary grasp of the hokey pokey and three of the oldest bum-fighters on the planet, Zack and his bum are fighting to protect the Earth against an invasion of some of the smelliest and most dangerous bums ever to pollute the universe: zombie bums from Uranus! Can they prevent the unthinkable—total zombie bummification of the world?
Bumageddon: The Final Pongflict
The third book in the series, published in 2005
What’s the Story?
After having twice saved the world in The Day My Bum Went Psycho and Zombie Bums from Uranus, Zack Freeman is now facing his nastiest challenge yet. Hundreds of thousands of great white bums are attacking Earth. Humanity is about to be great-brown-blobbified … to extinction!
Zack has no choice but to join forces with Robobum and travel 65 million years back in time to the reign of the prehistoric bumosaurs. Can Zack and his bum battle the tyrannosore-arses, juggle a giant arseteroid and come from behind to beat back the bums? They’d better—before the earth gets wiped!
