Mo O’Hara’s Live and Let Swim is the fifth My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish book, a gloriously silly aquarium adventure for 7 year olds.<\/p>\n
Frankie was once a perfectly ordinary goldfish. Then Mark, Tom’s big brother, dunked him in toxic gunk, and Tom and Pradeep (his best mate) used a battery to zap him awake again. Now he’s green-eyed, hypnotic and fiercely loyal. Tom takes him everywhere, and today that means smuggling him into the City Aquarium in a glittery water bottle.<\/p>\n
What could go wrong? Quite a lot. Pradeep points out that the dancing shark mascot’s song doesn’t rhyme, and the shark and the octopus quit on the spot. A janitor called Oddjobz has an umbrella that turns into a mop. And Pradeep’s three-year-old sister Sami decides the famous octopus looks lonely, so she tips Frankie into his tank to play.<\/p>\n
The Amazing Antonio can predict football results. He’s also very keen on lunch.<\/p>\n
What follows is a chase through the aquarium’s pipes, from the ray pool to the seahorse nursery. Frankie flings starfish at Antonio like ninja throwing stars. And somewhere behind a Staff Only door, Mark and Pradeep’s brother Sanj have an evil plan involving the octopus, the lottery and a tank of hammerhead sharks.<\/p>\n
Tom tells it, and it’s properly funny. He and Pradeep have whole conversations just by looking at each other. Sami is pretending to be a shark and bites everyone’s sleeves. Mark strokes his vampire kitten, Fang, and does his evil laugh.<\/p>\n
Is any of it sensible? Not remotely. Will your reader giggle? Almost certainly. The evil big brothers call the younger ones morons a lot, which is part of the joke, and there’s a scary moment with Sami dangling over the shark tank that’s sorted out quickly.<\/p>\n
There’s a second story in the book too, where a TV talent show for pets comes to town.<\/p>\n
If they want to know how a goldfish ends up a zombie in the first place, it’s all in the very first Zombie Goldfish book. That’s the one where Mark gets a chemistry set for his birthday, and a bug-eyed goldfish seems to mouth “Help me” through the glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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