B'sghetti by Mark James

B'sghetti by Mark James

A children's comedy adventure about a boy called Finn who has a brain that is too big for his head. One night a part of his brain leaks out and over the course of the day it grows into a fully formed exact clone of Finn. The clone is named 'Twin' and is an instant hit at school when he puts some unsavoury characters firmly in their place. When Twin tricks his way into becoming the Prime Minister of Great Britain all seems rosy and Finn and all his friends move to London to become part of Twin's government. However, it does not take long before Twin starts to change, he is all brain and no heart. Twin sees all the wrong in the world and hatches a plan for world domination. Human civilization is under threat and it is up to Finn and his friends to stop Twin.

B'sghetti is written with humour as a key element throughout. It contains 100 hand drawn illustrations that bring the book to life and make it impossible not to engage with the story and characters. It is creative, funny, exciting and unpredictable but the most important element in this book is by far the characters in it. The friendship group the book centres around contains 6 characters that are wildly differing in their personalities. They each bring human characteristics that are promoted as equal to just 'academic intelligence', this enables all readers to feel inclusion and acceptance in whoever they are.