When he sees that his perfect garden has been destroyed by an overly excited and playful dog, mean Mr. Gum puts a plan in motion to seek his revenge until a young local girl steps in and gives her evil neighbor a much-needed lesson in kindness and understanding. 50,000 first printing.

You're a Bad Man, Mr. Gum!

Children's Books

Stanton, Andy

Animals

Harpercollins

Mr. Gum may be the nastiest man on Earth, but he has the tidiest, greeniest, floweriest, gardeniest garden in the world…that is, until a giant whopper of a dog named Jake destroys it in a fit of doggy joy. In retaliation, Mr. Gum hatches one of his astonishingly evil plots, involving some poisonous meat, and soon—very soon—things will get uglier than Mr. Gum in his underwear.
Unless, of course, Polly—a golden-haired local girl with hair like cat’s daydream who is as good and true as Mr. Gum is wretched and smelly—can stymie Mr. Gum, save Jake, and prove to the world why the truth is lemon meringue . . .

HarperColl

Mr. Gum and the Gingerbread Billionaire

Harpercollins Childrens Books

In the eccentric town of Lamonic Bibber, evil Mr. Gum, with the help of some onions of doom and a Frenchman named Monsieur Bellybutton, tries to steal the fortune of Alan Taylor, a gingerbread man with electric muscles, but is thwarted once again by the goodness of a local girl named Polly.

Mr. Gum and the Goblins

HarperFestival

All aboard, all aboard! But beware, this isn't any ordinary bus. Oh no. Uncle Toad may seem a friend as he collects the insects for a special trip on his bus of poo, but it's just a cunning ruse. Because when they reach the seaside, it's gobble, gobble, munch munch as greedy Uncle Toad gorges himself rotten. Eeuugggh.

Here Comes the Poo Bus

Humor

Puffin

Mr Gum: 2 Mad Bad Books

Dean & Son

Benny the Blue Whale: One Author's Descent into the Madness of AI

AI is changing the world at frightening speed. A bestselling author decides to find out more... 'It'll really make you think, if you can stop laughing.' Chris Addison, co-creator of&nbsp;Breeders Is ChatGPT the end of creative industries as we know them? An ethical quagmire from which there is no return? A threat to all our jobs, as we keep hearing on the news?&nbsp; Bestselling children's author Andy Stanton has made a career out of writing differently - from the unconventional 'hero' of his bestselling Mr Gum series to his penchant for absurdist plots, his children's books are anything but formulaic. When a friend introduces him to ChatGPT, the new large language chatbot, Andy is as sceptical as he is curious. Can this jumble of algorithms really mimic the spontaneity of human thought? Could it one day replace human authors like him for good? And are we soon to be ruled over by despotic robot overlords? He decides there's only one thing for it - he must test this bot's capabilities. Eventually, he settles on a prompt that will push the algorithm to its creative limits: 'tell me a story about a blue whale with a tiny penis.'&nbsp; Chaos ensues. What follows is a surprising and illuminating battle between Andy and ChatGPT that maybe, just maybe, might help us all understand AI a little bit better. Join Andy and his beleaguered AI lackey on a rollicking metafictional journey through the art of storytelling. Presenting his prompts and the AI-generated narrative alongside extensive commentary, Stanton provides a startling paean to the art of a good story and boundless human creativity. Hopeful and hilarious, Benny the Blue Whale provides a joyfully anarchic meditation on AI, literature and why we write.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Oneworld Publications

AI is changing the world at frightening speed. A bestselling author decides to find out more... 'Something profound and utterly brilliant is going on... hilarious.'&nbsp;THE TIMES Is ChatGPT the end of creative industries as we know them? An ethical quagmire from which there is no return? A threat to all our jobs, as we keep hearing on the news?&nbsp; Bestselling children's author Andy Stanton has made a career out of writing differently - from the unconventional 'hero' of his bestselling Mr Gum series to his penchant for absurdist plots, his children's books are anything but formulaic. When a friend introduces him to ChatGPT, the new large language chatbot, Andy is as sceptical as he is curious. Can this jumble of algorithms really mimic the spontaneity of human thought? Could it one day replace human authors like him for good? And are we soon to be ruled over by despotic robot overlords? He decides there's only one thing for it - he must test this bot's capabilities. Eventually, he settles on a prompt that will push the algorithm to its creative limits: 'tell me a story about a blue whale with a tiny penis.'&nbsp; Chaos ensues. What follows is a surprising and illuminating battle between Andy and ChatGPT that maybe, just maybe, might help us all understand AI a little bit better. Join Andy and his beleaguered AI lackey on a rollicking metafictional journey through the art of storytelling. Presenting his prompts and the AI-generated narrative alongside extensive commentary, Stanton provides a startling paean to the art of a good story and boundless human creativity. Hopeful and hilarious, Benny the Blue Whale provides a joyfully anarchic meditation on AI, literature and why we write. *** A WATERSTONES AND NEW SCIENTIST&nbsp;BEST BOOK OF 2023 'There's no book like it. Scholarly, childish, fascinating and hilarious - one of our funniest writers dissects what it takes to build a story and what that tells us about being human. It'll really make you think, if you can stop laughing.' Chris Addison, co-creator of BREEDERS 'Entertaining and alarmingly relevant, provocative and philosophically satisfying, it's ultimately a profoundly human text.'&nbsp;OBSERVER 'A magnificent experiment by a perfect fool - deep and shallow and stupid and clever - the perfect use of AI (Andy Intelligence).' Robin Ince, author of&nbsp;THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING INTERESTED 'Benny the Blue Whale is many things. It's a fascinating discourse on the nature of language and storytelling. It's a philosophical treatise on the possibilities of artificial intelligence. It's a receptacle for obscenely hilarious jokes... A brilliant and beautiful cyborg: part human brain, part computational muscle. It's a post-post-modern work of genius.' Anthony McGowan, Carnegie Medal-winning author of&nbsp;LARK

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

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Books by Stanton, Andy

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You're a Bad Man, Mr. Gum!

You're a Bad Man, Mr. Gum!

Mr. Gum and the Gingerbread Billionaire

Mr. Gum and the Gingerbread Billionaire

Mr. Gum and the Goblins

You're a Bad Man, Mr. Gum!

Here Comes the Poo Bus

Mr Gum: 2 Mad Bad Books

Benny the Blue Whale: One Author's Descent into the Madness of AI

Benny the Blue Whale: One Author's Descent into the Madness of AI