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The Person Controller
- Narrated by: David Baddiel
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Categories: Children's Audiobooks, Literature & Fiction
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Critic reviews
"I love this book because it really made me laugh! The best book I've read since I was born!" (Tom, 11, LoveReading4Kids)
"Exciting and funny - I didn't want to put it down!" (Daisy, 10, LoveReading4Kids)
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- Phil
- 04-10-16
Person controller
Epic book, lots of lessons to be learnt here. Great lessons like believe in yourself and you'll go so far!
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- Badger
- 31-12-19
Body shaming from chapter one.
Because of the inequalities in finding good female protagonists and role models in children's books, I really wanted to like it.
I do like Baddiel's The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked, and we are currently enjoying his The Taylor Turbochaser.
What I hadn't expected was a long critisism of a person in the book, describing how fat they were and put very simply, it was body shaming and fat shaming. Then it talked about diets as a way of fixing the fatness.
It's hard enough stop children becoming obsessed with thiness and diets as it is.
Come on Baddiel I expected better from you, but I don't know why.
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- Mr. D. Brown
- 27-10-16
It's worth buying
If you are a gamer or interested i n soccer/football you will enjoy this book definitely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Natalie - Independent Midwife
- 19-01-21
amazing
my kid loves it he listens to it all the time I finally have some time to work🤩
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- -°8_LION MASTER_8°-
- 10-01-21
Best ever written book
All I can say is that I love it and is totally brilliant. It was perfet
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- TB
- 06-12-20
The Person Controller
I loved this book everything about it great! Just get it it’s great!
I loved it.
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- Heather Hunter
- 03-10-20
This was amazing!!
This was amazing, I listened to the audiobook whilst reading the book! It was FAB.U.LOUS, it had great humour and it Ed read brilliantly. I would tots reco ❤️❤️❤️
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- EC
- 16-09-20
Great audiobook
Amazing audiobook and very funny with a very special story and
Ps: great author! Nice to listen to😀
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- Chris Lishman
- 14-05-20
Lollll
Lol😜😝🙂🙂😂😄😉 wo o o o o o o o o o o o o o I love it haha
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- Dr LB
- 01-12-15
Great for boys 8-11
Would you consider the audio edition of The Person Controller to be better than the print version?
Boys of a certain age can be reluctant readers of fiction and this audio version, delivered in David Baddiel's best blokey banter, is just the right thing to remind them that there are novels out there that can entertain and 'speak' to them.
What other book might you compare The Person Controller to, and why?
This was no disappointment to us following on from Baddiel's The Parent Agency, which was also a great hit with our family. If your family enjoy David Walliams or The Wimpy Kid series, this one is also for you.
Which scene did you most enjoy?
The references to current football discourse were a real hit with my Arsenal fan of a son.
3 people found this helpful