The premise of the book is great and the author really delivers. Great read. Highly recommended. .

I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

A wacky story. Lots of silliness and a fun teacher at the center of the story. Kids will enjoy this silly book.

I am going to have to find the first book. are there others? This one was fun, but could have used a bit more background from the earlier story. I'm betting middle grade school kids will enjoy this book. Miss Frost was a bit harsh, but I can recall far more teachers like her than nice and creative ones like Mr. Bambuckle! Schools need more teachers like him (give them more money!).

This is part of a wacky series, Mr. Bambuckle,’s Remarkables, set in a school. In this book, Crazy fun teacher Mr. Bambuckel has been replaced with Belladonna Frost. Fun loving Mr. Brambuckle rides a unicycle, keeps a bluejay in his pocket and cooks his students gourmet food. Mrs. Frost is an absolutely no nonsense teacher. The main story is about the students’ quest to get their favorite teacher back and rid the school of Mrs. Frost. Well.....it kinda works at least for a while. The story is definitely kid friendly with such as pee-graffitied toilet walls. For me an adult reader, I thought there were too many plots in this one book. I worried a bit about Slugger’s homemade sauce with radiator fluid. It is said to leave the body feeling refreshingly cool. That stuff can kill ya! I guess kids will understand it all in fun and not drink radiator fluid to feel refreshed. Oh me, we do worry so much these days.
Funny reading, funny kids and teachers, a little bit of magic and lots of silly.
Fun series by a very creative Australian author who knows what kids like.

Take Mary Poppins and Doctor Who, and combine them together, and maybe you will come up with Mr. Bambuckle.

Mr. Bambuckle keeps a scrub jay in his pocket. He rides a unicycle, and offers gormet food to his students. He teaches by doing, and the principal does not like him.

This book, the second in what appears to be a series of books about the class of 12b, and Mr. Bambuckle, their teacher, is light hearted, and fun, but like cotton candy, is not very filing. There is a huge introduction of pictures of the major players, the students, at the beginning of the book where we learn their dislikes and likes. Very odd. Once we get past that, we get to what appears to be the crux of the story, of how to get Mr. Bambuckle back.

Through the students, with some unexplained magic, the students learn how to send the new teacher far away, so that Mr. Bambuckle can return.

But the plot wanders off form there, so that we have stories of disruptive kindergartners and parents that change the age of majority from 18 to 8.

It is not clear what this has to do with the main plot, and thes stories seem to be side adventures.

But perhaps that is the way this wacky series works.

And honestly, the stories are cute and good, and probably just right for the market of middle-grade.