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The Person Controller

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The Person Controller by David Baddiel and Jim Field

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By David Baddiel and Jim Field

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From the author of THE PARENT AGENCY comes a thrilling, funny and touching new adventure.

Fred and Ellie are twins. But not identical (because that’s impossible for a boy and a girl). They do like all the same things, though. Especially video games. Which they are very good at. They aren’t that good, however, at much else – like, for example, football, or dealing with the school bullies. Then, they meet the Mystery Man, who sends them a video game controller, which doesn’t look like any other controller they’ve ever seen. And it doesn’t control any of their usual games. When the twins find out what it does control, though, it seems like the answer to all their problems. And the key to all their wildest dreams. At least it seems like that…

Reviews

29 Dec 2025

I really enjoyed this book as it was really funny. Sometimes it it so interesting that it can feel like a different world, as I got So engrossed in it!

04 Oct 2025

Really good- it was fun because the enemies got controllers and were beating people up! It was good and interesting.

18 Sep 2025

Very good

21 Aug 2025

This book absolutely deserved its five out of five. Funny, witty, with jokes in all the right and wrong places, I loved this book. David baddiel is officially my favourite author!

11 Aug 2025

I liked It because there was a controller and it controlled them and I thought it was very cool

09 Aug 2025

When Fred Stone karate chopped the person controller into the air and hit Ellie on the head was very funny.

03 Aug 2025

Fred and Ellie are twins.But not identical (because that is impossible for a boy and and a girl).
They both are good at the same things like: Video games, maths, football or dealing with school bullies.

They meet the mystery man, wsho gives them a special video - game controller... But this is not a normal one, it has 6 buttons instead of 4 where the X, Y, A and B! Plus this isn't for any usual games, you can control people with it... I really like this!

01 Aug 2025

Loved it. I am a gamer and owning a controller like that would be cool

26 Jul 2025

It was a fiction book and my favourite character is Fred and especially when he scored 4 amazing goals in the final

20 Jun 2025

i love books about twins so i loved this book

25 Jan 2025

David Baddiel is really funny and I love his books.
This one is amazing, totally recommend!I
I also like how he added in Barry from The Parent Agency

28 Dec 2024

I think this book is very interesting and a lot of great adventures.

17 Dec 2024

This book was very interesting as there was a set of twins who found out that a controller could control both of them and what they could do each day. I would recommend this book to others

10 Sep 2024

Awesome
Must read , so fun , so interesting, couldn't stop writing!!!

04 Sep 2024

This book gave me confidence reading longer words and paragraphs/chapters

18 Aug 2024

It was fascinating to read! The author is a superb writer!
My favourite character is Ellie because she is grateful, kind, modest and makes her brother into the greatest footballer!

16 Aug 2024

i dont even like video games but i still liked this book tremendously.

12 Aug 2024

I liked how the controller could control the person wearing the bracelet.

08 Aug 2024

nice book

03 Aug 2024

Really good book for fans of football and video games with a great message about getting out and being active. My favourite part was when the controller ran out of power but Fred didn't know and still scored the winning goal. Ellie was my favourite character because she's into video games like me!

27 Jul 2024

Really interesting and funny

13 Apr 2024

Excellent

15 Dec 2023

My favourite character was Ellie because she is very good at controlling her brother to do cool things in different games.

29 Nov 2023

I really enjoyed the storyline of controlling a person with a controller.
I also like that the bracelet and controller pair together. My favourite characters were Ellie and Fred.
Great book, hard to put the book down.

16 Sep 2023

YES I will recommend the book to someone. I like the Eric who was the dad of Fred and Ellie the most, Because he ate so much sandwiches and the more he ate it the more he grew. The book interested me because, the children liked video games so much.

01 Sep 2023

Looking nice

26 Aug 2023

I thought it was really good even though I've read it before so I would recommend it of you like to read books over and over

24 Aug 2023

Exiting and fun to read.

23 Aug 2023

Adventurous

19 Aug 2023

Two twins find a controller that can change a person’s appearance and can control them. They use it to control bullies and to change their appearance for a party

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