After complaining about his boring, poor and strict his parents are, Barry is brought to an agency that gives him five chances to find new parents before he turns ten, with onimous consequences awaiting him should he not choose before time runs out. The Parent Agency received positive praise from editorials such as The Guardian [5] and HuffPost UK, [6] while The Independent critiqued it, saying that '[Baddiel] just tries too hard to be funny'.

so I thought maybe on my birthday, next Saturday, when I wake up, it would be good if waiting outside was an Aston Martin DB6…’ Barry was saying, in between forkfuls of low-sugar, low-salt baked beans on jacket potato.The first few chapters were very fun to read but as the story progressed, it became kind of repetitive.

Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. Reading together doesn’t have to stop once your children can read for themselves – it’s still fun to read aloud to older children!ok, I get that 10 year olds have limited brainfunction, but if I had read this as a 9 -12 year old I would have found it sooooo akward.