The Adventures Of Bert

Illustrated by Raymond Briggs.

Bert has all sorts of ridiculous adventures and they're told in this book in slapstick, almost farcical way. The reader is made to feel part of the story when they are told to turn the page quietly so as not to wake Bert's baby, and is blamed when the baby starts to cry. Bert rescues a barking cardboard box from the river, is chased down the street by a giant sausage - and much more.