Mubbles are a community of creatures who enjoy life.
A stranger (an alien) comes to town in this story - and, we get glimpses of the Mubbles’ world and reactions.
The colour scheme is vivid and lively. The creatures are either cute or funny,
Though, I decided against sharing the whole graphic novel with my child, because it did not appeal to me.
The plot, story, the story world and somewhat, the characters, did not fully engage me, and although my child initially showed a bit of interest, they rather focused on the jokes and the colours. I finished the book on my own.
The story and characterisation need unique angles and a different appeal than in this book in my opinion.

Meet the Mubbles is a new graphic novel from the author of the Tom Gates series, Liz Pichon, aimed at younger independent readers (around age 5 - 7). The Mubbles live on the very colourful Isle of Smile which is full of flowers and plants and where they love to sing, eat and be fabulous. Young readers who love graphic novels such as Dogman or those from Jamie Smartt will enjoy this. This is not aimed at older fans of Tom Gates but I do think children will need to be able to read it independently (as an adult reading it to them will take away some of the joy of it). It is silly, colourful and fun.

This was fun and filled with mystery and friendships. When a mysterious box appears on their island, the Mubbles have to figure out what it does! There’s a button… who wouldn’t be tempted by a button?! Vibrantly coloured with fun illustrations. This will be a great graphic novel series for younger readers.

This is the new book from Liz Pichon (Tom Gates) and is her first graphic novel. It's about a community of colourful creatures and how their day is affected by a mysterious object appearing behind the Uncertain Curtain.

Children at the primary school where I work love Liz Pichon's Tom Gates books and so I was pleased to receive this review copy as it will probably be added to our library at some stage. I liked the use.of colour throughout and the contrast when things became more monochrome but other than that, I can't say I especially enjoyed this book. I appreciate that I am not the intended audience but I am the one who buys the books and it's not one I'll be spending money on. I felt that the story was pretty dull and the whole book had a bit of a Teletubbies feel to it, only with characters (and there are many) that are all pretty much the same. I did like the bright colours and the detail on some of the scenes though.

Four stars, just about, for the positives - brightness in art and design, characters are entertaining, humour in places and I'm sure children will find more. As a story it is very long for a 'turn it off and on again' ending. The sections with different character tasks/stories are fine enough in themselves. In short there are good aspects to be found, as a whole it just feels like a bit of a jumble.

All I can say about this is that it was fed by the same drugs as 70s kids' TV. (It does mention 'flower power' a lot, let's face it.) I'm talking ringing, clinging trees, Dougal and the Blue Cat and much, much more. All of it is in the cheapest comic book fashion, until it has to break out into prose, some of the characters only converse with thought bubbles, and the whole proves to be sort-of short stories based on a day's activities for some utterly weird characters. The whole is a completely unedifying, charmless, gaudy pile of bonkers, for a choice of audiences – the very, very young and undiscerning, and hippies and students who really get what The Clangers are saying to them, man.