The Beastly Baron of Beaux Bottom
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley December 8, 2023
Author Jeremy Hullah. Illustrations Zsuzsa Goodyer.
Distributor: Digit Publications/Amazon UK
ISBN: 9781739357900
Publisher: Digit Publications
Release Date: August 2023
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With a title like The Beastly Baron of Beaux Bottom it makes this a book you simply must have and read as it is a tale of being nasty, beastly, spoilt and well, horrible and what happens when you are not nice to people.
Lots of not nice things happen and the Beastly Baron was a not nice person. He was very spoilt as he was the Baron of Beaux Bottom, which meant that he was the “big’ man in the area and people had to do what he said, or else! And he nearly always or always broke his promises, which is not a very nice or smart thing to do!
His mother was a nice lady and she was doing her best to make him get out a bit more, play some sport and get some exercise, but he would not; he only wanted to be nasty to people and do only what he wanted. No one in the Castle liked him at all, but because he was the Baron they had to pretend they did.
On this particular day he did decided to go out and join the local Military group who were going out into the country to do some military exercises. They were not very happy about this but had to agree to take him with them. After a while the Beastly Baron was only thinking about lunch and all the good things the cook would have packed for him. He was also very fat!
He decided to go and explore around the forest of Beaux Bottom to try and find the Witch who apparently lived there, but he knew nothing about, which he decided was not a good thing. So off he went and eventually got lost and that is when a goat, magic and huge big farts become a very interesting thing for the Beastly Baron.
What happens next is very funny, tells a very cautionary story and ends in a lovely, fairy-tale ending, which maybe, after everything the Beastly Baron went through, he deserved.
Only you can say yes or not to that, after you have finished the story.
Very colourful illustrations highlight the plight of the Beastly Baron as a time old tale of nice verses nasty with farts of gigantic proportions, for the boys, as well as a grand adventure and a little romance, for the girls, all held together with magic, craft a fast moving story which for the 8-10 year age range of the readers, will certainly become a favourite.