Angus Soloman is a boy with one thing to do: Become a Pirate in the school play. Angus lives with his glamorous TV mother who plays a mother in an Australian soap opera. He has to look after his little brother and sister (technically his step-brother and sister) because his mother is ALWAYS working. Angus’s dad is a ‘to-be’ book writer hoping to write the next, great Australian picture book. He is Angus’s real dad, and Angus’s little brother and sister are ‘made’ from Angus’s mums’s boyfriends. 

Angus meets a girl named Rindi who he doesn’t know, changes his life. He thought he had the worst life in the world, well that all is about to change…

 Bumface is a cleverly written book by Morris Gleitzman and shares the tales of Angus and Rindi as they both try to save Rindi from her horrible fate…

Review by Patrick McTaggart

Available in BLRC at F GLI