Mr. Hookumbacker and the Yella Yella Yum Yum Tree by Richard Silverton • The Naptime Reviewer

I recently discovered the eBook Mr. Hookumbacker and the Yella Yella Yum Yum Tree by Richard Silverton. This children’s book is an adventure story with a magical and whimsical plot. It has the silliest names such as The Forest of the Cracking Stone or the village of Wiggle Twig.

This book is sure to get your kids’ imaginations flowing and will teach them about friendship. The author, Richard Silverton, describes even the smallest of details in this magical land so you truly feel like you are right there with the characters. He describes the Bumble Tums, which are similar to bumble bees, as “tree keepers” that work to keep the forest healthy. In return for the Bumble tums good work, the trees allow them to feed off of their honey sap, the Bumble Tums favorite food.

I love how this book also gives a great message about how we need to protect and take care of nature. It also teaches a very important lesson in teamwork and friendship when a group of characters work together to save their friend when she gets stuck outside the forest boundaries.

Book Description:

“Mr. Hookumbacker and the Yella Yella Yum Yum Tree is a children’s adventure story. The Forest of the Cracking Stone is full of wonder and natural beauty. It is also a place of magic as well as honey tickles, bumbletums, sapling shines and a kindly old tree master called Mr. Hookumbacker.When the sapling shine Holly Shallina leaves the safety of the Forest of the Cracking Stone, she becomes trapped in the ground by the first rays of the rising sun. Holly’s friends Buddy Trix, Cherry Petals and Shubbie Willows ask for Mr. Hookumbacker’s help. When he agrees a race against time begins. Together they must journey far away to find a Yella Yella Yum Yum tree. Their journey takes them to a forbidden wood full of grubble wig and needle node weeds and on to the Forest of the Falling Waters. From there they must return with enough time to save Holly Shallina.”