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The Bolds

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The Bolds by Julian Clary, and David Roberts

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By Julian Clary, and and, David Roberts

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213 reviews

Mr and Mrs Bold are just like you and me: they live in a nice house (in Teddington), they have jobs (like writing Christmas cracker jokes) and they love to have a bit of a giggle. One slight difference: they’re hyenas. Yes, that’s right – they’re covered in fur, have tails tucked into their trousers, and they really, really like to laugh.

So far, the Bolds have managed to keep things under wraps, even when their children Bobby and Betty were born. But the nosy man next door smells a rat (or a hyena), and a trip to the local wildlife park, and the brilliantly wacky heist that results, could be the end of Teddington’s best-kept secret. Whatever will the neighbours think?

Reviews

12 Dec 2024

This book was just a great book with a fun story and set of characters. It's suspenceful when the plot kicks in about Mr.Mcnumpty Miranda and Tony are great along with the other hyenas at the driveby zoo thing. I recommend this to any readers age 8 and above to appreciate the humour.

11 Aug 2024

Very good book. I found it funny and I couldn't put the book down. I liked every single character. For this book, I liked it when Tony came to live with the Bolds too.
I would recommend this book to anyone.

29 Jul 2024

They are hiyenas!

27 Jul 2024

What a fabulous series of books Julian has produced here, they have had my 9yr old and me giggling away.
Can you imagine animals passing them selves off as humans.. well in this book a pair of hyenas do just that.
Full of humour and family adventures.
I will be adding this to my class library for sure

24 Jul 2024

I really liked this as the Mr. bold was so funny with his jokes and I got to
know about there secret. The characters fit into the story too.

15 Jul 2024

I loved it because the hyena dad Fred told lots of funny jokes and mr mcnumpty turned out to be a bear

13 Jul 2024

The person I like is the little childrens. It fun though a bit boring but i still like it i recommend it to someone is that likes funy things

13 Jul 2024

It’s a really funny book perfect for all ages!

07 Feb 2024

Such a funny book!

13 Dec 2023

This book was really funny and interesting. It is about a family of heyanas that are so smart that they've learnt English and taken place of a woman. Later in the book, they find out about an old heyana that the zoo wants to put to sleep. So they make a plane but Mr MC numpty is watching.

10 Sep 2023

This book was funny following them exploring places and it has good illustrations

29 Aug 2023

I loved Mr. Bold because of his jokes.
The Bolds were very clever Hyena People. Their kindness was also lovely.

18 Aug 2023

Not my favourite book

17 Jul 2023

It is a really, really, really good book. I especially liked the part when Mr. McNumpty reveals his identity. I like how the daring Bolds manage to rescue Tony and the trick with Minnie's dad's bones and how the keepers thought Tony's family had become traitors to him.

12 Jul 2023

Interesting because they rescued Tony and because they are hyenas.

06 Jul 2023

It was really funny

01 Jul 2023

Very funny, amazing story, and just really good

12 Jun 2023

it was very funny & interesting.

22 Dec 2022

I love this book it is so funny

07 Sep 2022

I thought it was a really good book very interesting my favourite character was Betty

05 Sep 2022

I really like the hieners

22 Aug 2022

Funny -great story

18 Aug 2022

This book introduces you to The Bold Family (a family of hyenas) pretending to be humans.

It is hilarious and very funny. Additionally, there are loads of jokes to tell your family and friends.

They get up to lots of mischief. I can't wait to read the next Bolds books.

16 Aug 2022

This is a really funny book! It is about a family of hyenas who live lives like us but with funny consequences.

10 Aug 2022

I found the bolds super funny and creative. My favourite character is Mr bold because he never fails to make anyone laugh. It only took me two days to read.

08 Aug 2022

I really enjoyed this book as it was about a family of hyenas who lived as humans. It was quite funny as Mr. Bold said many many jokes throughout the book. I especially liked when their grumpy neighbour revealed himself to be a polar bear.

25 Jul 2022

I would recommend it to my best friend, because it was funny. The reason it was really funny was because it had quite a lot of good characters although there was a bad character at the start. At the end the bad character, Mr McNumpty, actually turned out to be good after the Bolds rescued him from some gangsters. My favourite character was Bobby, the reason Bobby was such a good character was because he helped to save Mr McNupmty.

22 Jul 2022

I love it because they are all funny and next door was a wild animal

12 Jul 2022

Hilarious

09 Jul 2022

This story makes you want to keep reading. I couldnt put it down. My favourite character was Mr Bold because he told lots of funny jokes.

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