Issue 7.3 | Autumn 2005

Published on September 21st


Makeover Madness

by Josephine Feeney

Junior

Oxford University Press

£4.99

ISBN: 0192752960

Reviewed by Yvonne Coppard

[Armadillo 7.3 Autumn 2005]

'All you have to do is write and tell us why we should come to your grotty, run down school and give the place a complete makeover (including the teachers!)...'

When Leanne calls in a television makeover team for her primary school, she gets more than she bargained for. It's supposed to be the children who come up with the ideas, right? Wrong. And then there are the teachers and parents literally knocking the pupils out of the way in their rush to get near the celebrities. These include: the interior designer who washes the place with pink; the chef who ignores advice that his 'fragrant mediterranean meatballs' will meet opposition, and the psychologist and stylist whose session with a grumpy teacher puts a rather alarming smile on her face... a glorious spoof on just about every makeover show there is, with enough wit to allow you to forgive the slightly predictable ending.

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