The Diddle that Dummed

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The Diddle that Dummed

Kes Gray and Fred Blunt

(Hachette Children’s)

The Diddle that Dummed is ‘meant to do a DIDDLE not a DUM!‘ Flinty shouts, ‘STOP!’ ‘halfway through the tune’ as a DUM interrupts . However, the diddle explains that he’s ‘not like other diddles’ for sometimes he likes ‘to go dum’. Flinty explains that he can’t go dum, for the diddle is a diddle, not a dum. Furthermore the diddle’s been ‘put in the middle to go diddle not dum.’ Then he repeats the tune for his fiddle… 

What happens when the diddle goes dum again? Is it so vital that the diddle diddles and doesn’t dum? What about a rearrangement suggests the diddle, so that ‘if you put me at the beginning instead of in the middle, maybe I’ll remember to go diddle’?  Could this work? What happens if it doesn’t?

We love Kes Grey and Fred Blunt for titles such as “You’re Called WHAT?!” and Santa Claus vs The Easter Bunny. These are creators who dum and diddle! Therefore, a combination of their talents in The Diddle that Dummed is symphonic and a huge, creative laugh for readers of all ages!