I Wrote A Book (and now you have to hear about it)
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum launches on Feb 2nd 2023. It's suitable for kids aged 8-12, but they tend not to have credit cards, so you should buy a copy: booklink.walke...
Illustrations © Claire Powell 2023
I would argue that since a book is enclosed on 3 sides by its cover, it is actually a form of wooden hot dog
Or a taco?
It's more like a taco
I believe hotdog belong to the larger set of sandwich.
@@ABeckettKing This is how controversies and feuds are born
@@ABeckettKing Grain comes from a plant, as does wood. Therefore, a sandwhich must be made out of wood. Now, does wood float? Yes. And what else floats? Yada yada yada - your book is a sandwich witch, Bob's your uncle.
Fine, I'll buy your goddamn book. But only because of the mustache-adhesive thing.
I bought the book thinking I’d be in the clear, but my ten year old said I was too old to read it. So, I sent it back and am turning his room into a library.
My child is imaginary, so I bought two imaginary copies after receiving imaginary permission.I imagine that doesn't help much.
You can send them back!? Even after ten years?
@@visigothic67 My children's imaginary friends were better than them so I swapped
That was the only sensible thing to do.
Can't wait till my kid is older so I can buy this book for her and enjoy it myself.
Buy it now for yourself and read it to her later 😂📖
I'm pregnant and want to buy and read it now, and then hope she'll enjoy it in a few years! Already doing that with several books, tbh
I'm going to have to wait until my kids are younger.
@@CarolineCarnivorous Thaťs the way to go!
@@elvwoodwait WHAT
My partner and I weren't sure we wanted kids but I guess now we'll have to have one.
My partner and I were sure we did but now know we were wrong
So inclusive and business-like
You're by far my favorite red haired british children's author who does murder mysteries
Definitely in the top three for sure
I am a red haired British children's author who writes murder mysteries and all I can say is ouch 😂
@@Sophie_Cleverly Well at least you're not named Jolene 🫂
Oddly specific.
@@kutter_ttl6786 ABK doesn't fund hateful legislation 🥰
What an interesting-looking chair! I cant help but feel I've seen it somewhere before...
Hey, aren't you the fellow who ate an entire hammock of albatross chicks live on television? I'm a fan of your work!
So what role from his book did ABK promise you to play if it ever gets adapted to film? Is it grandpa? I bet it is!
LINDYBEIGE!
ABK: Here's a book. I made it. Maybe buy it.
Lindybeige: CHAIRRRRR!!!!
Weren't you also writing a book?
I will buy the book. For myself. I’m 40.
Remember to ask permission for a child first, then.
Permission granted.
(Still a child at heart!)
40 is a new 12
Haha love this guy's sketches. How does he come up with this stuff? A character who wrote a book! Incredible
And of course, it's like, the dumbest, most unbelievable book anyone would ever write. When Satire becomes Self-Parody, right?
A UA-camr who can read AND write ... such whimsy!
I think my favorite was HP Lovecraft buying groceries.
@@trublgrl really? This book would actually be pretty well on par with Eloise, Ms Viola Swamp, The Boxcar Children, and other stuff I grew up with.
@@thegrimmretails3777 i think it was a joke. i hope
i am 100% going to get this for my 11 year old, she simply loves death and murder, also she made me watch your fantasy video game traier on repeat for ages so i'm hoping for the inclusion of a low polygon dog
I've never heard anyone so pleased their child is obsessed with death and murder.
@@trublgrl In contrast, my kid hates anything to do with violence and scary meanies. Her kindness is amazing, but sometimes mummy needs a bit of murder you know. Ah well, maybe she'll grow out of it.
The book looks awesome, ABK! Congratulations on getting it finished and published, and you managed to get a great artist involved. Must be an amazing feeling.
@@RadishTheFool No offense was meant, I just thought it was a funny sentence. Sometimes we obsess on things that are most alien to us. Much love to you and your daughter! ♥
@@trublgrl No worries, I wasn't offended at all. 😁 I just enjoy the diversity in how even very young kids respond to stories. Mine can't even bear scary soundtracks or facial expressions showing fear.
And even though she knows stories and videos aren't real, they still evoke emotions in her as if they are real. So a murder mystery is still very very far away. And then other kids I know thrive on the most exciting scary stuff while laughing their heads off.
I was a very scared kid myself. So I wanted to help her in that regard without crossing any of her boundaries. So I've always watched 'scary' content with her, but in safe, non-scary settings.
Skeletons, ghosts, all the classic monsters, she knows them from halloween-related songs and cartoon specials, we draw them a lot, and very daringly, I watched Hotel Transylvania with her. She loved it.
Halloween is now her favourite month (in our house, one day is simply not enough), she loves all things jack 'o lantern, and feels such a deep and carefree connection to all these creatures.
But show her a relatively harmless chase scene in a kids' cartoon where someone looks scared and/or the music is hectic, and she refuses to keep watching.
So in summary: I mostly just wanted to share the dichotomy. Kids are wonderfully diverse in what's scary to them, and how they feel about being scared.
@@RadishTheFool ah i jest my little un isn't any of more of a death and murder fan than the average person, though she is a little weirdo in the best possible way, she does have a buddy (also 11) who is massively into horror so they do exist! for example she's watched all of stranger things and imo that last season got pretty hardcore with the violent death, come to think of it i watched terminator 2 at a v. young age and loved it so maybe i'm also a death murder kid
Asked my nine year old daughter for permission, gladly she allowed me to pre order at our local book store though I have to translate it for her
As you asked nicely, I pre-ordered 2 copies...One for myself and one for a child to read beforehand and give permission to me...
As a 12 year old child stuck in a 23 year old man’s body, I grant everyone permission to read this book.
Thank you for setting us all free.
You're a saint😇
I felt this deeply
I've bought the book for my daughter. She's almost 2, and thus can't read yet. I will, therefore, read it for her. And because I'm reading it for her, I automatically have her permission.
Edit: 1st of Feb.
I was very excited to read the book, to my daughter of course, and was utterly disgruntled to see that it is only available tomorrow. What an inconvenience
At least until she's old enough to tell you not to 😏
I like how he has to clarify that he actually really wrote a book that does indeed exist
I was already going to buy the book. Then I heard it was for ages 8-12. So now I am buy TWO books. One for me, and one for my niece! She's learning English, and I feel this is going to be a fantastic motivator! Thank you for bringing this into our world. It's worth the tears formed after tearing a fake mustache, off of your real one.
Edit: My niece has allowed me to read my copy, but only if I buy one more book to donate to her school's library. Her will be done!
Ya know I'm not convinced that Bonnie Montgomery and Montgomery Bonbon are different people... 🤔
I may have to purchase a copy to find out.
...but they have completely different accents.
This is so exciting! Unrelatedly, I just booked a trip to London on March. Now I can buy it, in the flesh, in the UK! It's already been added to my Things To Do In London List. Can't wait.
Went on my trip. Bought the book. Read it. Loved it! And am now demanding you write many, many more of them. And quickly. And with the hilarious, always on-the-money illustrations. I honestly loved the book. It was filled with great characters, and I can't wait to read more of their adventures. Congratulations on a wonderful first book. I'll stop gushing now -- I'll start sounding insincere.
If only Montgomery Bonbon had been there in Helgasund. Gunnar Gunnarssonsson's case would have been solved immediately
Aw man, I work in a museum and I'm a huge fan of murder mysteries. That would be so cool to have in our shop, although we're a German museum.
I'll definitely get one for myself. Err, for my as of yet unborn nieces and nephews, I mean.
Hello fellow German. :)
Do you get foreign visitors? Then a few English things in the museum shop wouldn't hurt. ;)
@@Alinor24 We are technically a national museum, but we're not necessarily in one of the prime tourist hot spots, i.e. just south of the Rennsteig in rural Thuringia. We always get quite a lot of foreign visitors during the International Doll Festival, though.
I guess I'll just make a suggestion and see what our new director thinks of it.
@@swagromancer Sounds like a good idea during the time of the International Doll Festival then. If not the book then maybe something related to the festival.
Please tell me the outcome of your recommendation when you know it.
@@Alinor24 Will do!
@@Alinor24 Exciting news! We finally discussed the book in a staff meeting today. Our director seemed to like it a lot, and she suggested to offer a few copies for sale during the International Doll Festival, without me mentioning it. Our museum educator also indicated interest.
Essentially, all that's left to do is for our district administrator to greenlight the purchase. Which could still take a while, considering the snail's pace our bureaucracy tends to move in, but I don't see why our request should be denied. Honestly, that worked out better than expected.
It was Gunnar Gunnarson, wasn't it?
No, it was his son.
No it was his son, Gunnar Gunnarsonson
Bwahaha, evil laugh, I am a grown adult old lady (37, absolutely ghastly), currently acquainted with microscopic amounts of children and I shall absolutely read this book anyway, no matter that I don't have any children available to allow me. It shall be the crime of a life time and I shall totally enjoy it, all the while drinking cocoa without spilling a drop under a blanket dreaming of Spring and twirling my invisible evil mustache in the way of evil masterminds reading books meant for younger audiences everywhere =D
You fiend! I am a grown 40 yr old lady and know zero children, so I shall join you in a life of dastardly crime :D
Good luck with this and I hope it's a success.
I'm still not quite grasping this "book" concept. How does one scroll up and down the pages?
You can’t scroll. You tap the upper-right corner of the page and drag it to the left. This displays the next two pages.
If you think that's bad, just wait until you get to the comments section.
Fun loophole: even if someone is over twelve, they are still _someone_ else's child. So just get the permission of literally anyone else!
That French accent from Belgium was brilliant Herr ABK.
See I knew having kids would pay off someday, now all I have to do is get their permission to read this book that I preordered for them.
I'm a librarian, and this looks like an interesting book for our collection.
Wish I'd known about this eight to twelve years ago. If I get started now, I might be allowed to enjoy it October 2031 at the very earliest. Volunteers!? Anyone!?
always nice to see a collab! who's the mustachioed guy in the middle bit?
I was 12 years old once, i will buy it for myself .
I've laughed before when hearing an ad, but this might be the first time I've ever laughed out loud the whole way thru an ad. Really proud of you
I just saw this on a list of new middle grades! I will ask my child’s permission and buy a copy.
I don't know any children to ask for permission to read it, and fear that asking a random child on the street may get me put on some sort of register, or at the very least attacked by a handbag-wielding mother.
Since I never grew up I am going to buy this book for myself! *giggling
I've got a number of grandchildren in that age group who enjoy murder (and mystery). Hmm! Is it available in the US now?
This will be brilliant. Get pre-ordering, people!
Cheers, Tom!
Smells.. Artisticly, perfection.
I am now shopping online for a 10 year old so I can legitimately buy this book
Off up to Belfast in May for the Limelight gig, so hopefully will have also chance to pop into one of those Actual Bookshops while I'm there and pick up a copy in the futile hope it might get signed. Ideally by Interdimensional ABK himself. Otherwise, I'll just have to ask some rando on the street...
I'd be happy to sign it!
I appreciate the endorsement from the famous foreign detective Beckett Alasdair-King
I'm 61 years old. I bought the book for my grandson and I was going to wait for his permission but I sneaked a peek and now I can't stop. I have only got to the bit with the twelve owls but I am hooked! Grandson can read it when I've finished.
Ah, but does it taste like a book?
Guess I'll have to order and find out.
He wrote an entire book just to make a scetch, what a guy!
Aha! Very clever, Monsieur Detective! I see that you have hidden beneath your mustache a smaller yet even more impressive mustache!
I would pay for a dramatic reading of this ABK! An audiobook for vision impaired but also super into murder and/or mystery young folks?
Hopefully - keep your ears open for news.
This will be perfect for teaching my kids how dangerous museums can be. They just won't stay away from the damn things.
Since I as a fully grown male adult need to ask a kid first, I hope this book will give me comfort while serving prison time.
Clair Powells illustrations reminded me of Quentin Blake. Very nice indeed.
I prefer to think of books as Baumkuchen that have been seasoned with emotions instead of sugar
Corned beef is to meat sandwiches what chipboard is to wood sandwiches.
Dangit. I wanted this book, but I have no kids to ask permission
Excellent, I look forward to reading it, but as someone in their 30s I do need permission to do so.
Ask your inner child.
I have watched too many of your elaborate sketches and now I have trust issues to think this is actually a real book.
Circle of life. (probably).
It is real, lol
it is not real, lol
It’s a real book.
he released a book based on this sketch
It's a real book, but this isn't a real video.
I would have absolutely loved this as a kid!
@Sorry, its "Moops" - Love the cultural reference your user name evokes. Is it a coincidence or did George get it from YOU?
I tried running up to young children and yelling “Give me permission to read ABK’s book!” but that just got me put on a ‘list’ and I still can’t buy the book. What do I do?
At that young and tender age, I too enjoyed mystery and murder.
Will it be a series?
Yes, there's a second book coming later this year.
I loved how you addressed the fact that you wrote a book about MURDER and it's for children! LOL! Love it. I'll be on the lookout for it. :D Def buying that one!
Yes but is it a how to? I teach children archery and usually include a warning to the parents that they are increasing their odds of ending up on the police blotter.
I bought this book for my wife, and she absolutely LOVED it. Thank you for your wonderful sense of humor and love of mystery!
This sounds absolutely awesome! Wish I’d had this as a kid - lucky I know friends whose kids may enjoy this one day. :3
Even better, you can have it as an adult!
Well Imma buy this for my 12yr old daughter! She loves murders and mysteries!
I can't afford to buy a copy, but I hope your book does well!
Seems to already be in stock at Waterstones, so neat! Im sure my Nephew won't mind me getting the book. For myself.
It may smell like a book but does it taste like one?
I happen to have a few 8-10 year olds in my life who love books. So. I guess I have to get this now.
Well, that looks like a proper hoot!
Right right, I'll buy it at soon as I get permission from one of the neighborhood's children... Time to get stalking!
That's so weird because last night I was having a dream about a murder mystery. It was in a mansion and the crime was still going on as the detective and their dog companion (who was a basset hound dressed up like Sherlock Holmes) was investigating. The mansion was so big that the killer could easily hide and keep doing their thing and even attacked the police and the detective. The killer had also somehow brought in a pack of ferocious dogs, making the investigation more difficult. I woke up with so many cliff hangers. Does anyone else dream like this?
I wasn't expecting a Real Book despite every effort made by ABK to alleviate my usual suspicion.
Congrats, I think I'll pick up a copy for my niece.
that actually sounds like an interesting premise
Very interesting, and well described! My eldest child is only 5, would it be appropriate to purchase a copy now, and use the next 3 years to establish a mystery for them to solve? At the end they could receive the copy of the book, and with their interest freshly piqued, one hopes they would be primed to appreciate the material.
My copy just arrived, and I've put it on my desk in my classroom. Tomorrow I'll challenge the children that everyone should take a turn reading it. Hope the sales went well. I'll get a few more in the future if it's popular with the class.
I'll buy the book, but I need to wait for my kids to be old enough to give me permission.
Well, now I need to have a kid and wait for 8 years so I can buy this book. I'll be putting a reminder.
The production quality of his videos is so high that I don’t know if this is a real vid about a book, or a skit
I preordered! very excited to receive it here in the states
update I got it 😁
“Alasdair” is the most Brit name ever. Except for maybe “Basil”
And then there's the double-barrelled name.
I'll let you into a secret - he's not real - he's a fictional character created by the British Tourist Board to try to fool unsuspecting foreigners into thinking we're all well spoken eccentric author-types (rather than angry drunken misanthropes, like wot we actually is).
@@BarryChumbles C'mon, you didn't have to break character and say it out loud. We all knew it but just enjoyed going along with it and now that's just ruined.
I mean, it was pretty obvious. They couldn't even get the eyebrows right!
Congrats, ABK! I just pre-ordered my copy, now I need to persuade my Grand-Nephew to allow me to read it. Wish me luck!
ABK - Another awesome and fun video! You are on a very short list of channels where I get excited to see a new video.
ADK - Just dropped back to tell you that my son (9YO) says he is “absolutely loving” your book. He’s found the “coming soon” page and he’s excited for the next book too. Hope that’s not too much pressure! But we just wanted to thank you and let you know how much he is enjoying it.
Claire has really nailed that Quentin Blake look
Book ordered!
that scream is simply iconic
I like the idea of this "book" thing. Maybe it'll catch on. The only child I know is my four year old nephew, so that gives me four years to get him interested in murder and reading. Perfect.
Preordered a copy for my niece who hopefully will give me permission to read it as well. Can't wait!
There is now a Kindle edition, which I must purchase for my cat, yes definitely for my cat, Darcie.
Darcie is not yet 10 years old and really enjoys murder mysteries.
We still have no idea how our eldest son nearly had his jugular mysteriously slit one night…
the illustrations are magnificent
Hello from Australia :-) Just preordered it for the kid but I can’t wait to sneak a peek myself!
Good for you mate, congrats
Monsieur ABK, have you ever done any tabletop roleplaying? I get the vibe you'd fit right in round a D&D podcast table!
Certainly he has done, with a dragon in fact. Or rather an elf. Which has darkvision.
Well, this is an exciting development for 2023!
I don't read much, but I would read this. Although I need to go and get one of the kids of storage to get an expert opinion
I need more convincing. Will this 'book' have any other uses after I've read it? Is it, for instance, suitable for throwing at irritating siblings, or propping things open?
Loved your book, it was so much fun! (sorry, didn't get permission from a child first)
Looking forward to the sequel in October!
Yes! I've been trying to find some mystery books for my niece.
I'm not the target group but I'm gonna read it anyway. You can't stop me!
You only mentioned two items that children might like, Murder and Mystery… what about children who like Museums? I like museums but I will admit to having been a very odd child…
Hell's blaze, where can I find a child to give me permission to buy one copy, let alone multiple children so I can acquire a numerous amount of them? Truly a conundrum...
I'm over the age of 12, and I don't know any children I can ask permission from. What should I do?
@@catxtrallways i don't know anyone personally who has kids. Should I just wander around the parking lot of a Wal Mart asking strangers if they have children?
@@catxtrallways Never mind, I just realized I can drive my windowless white van over to a playground and ask some kids directly. As a late-30's man with an unkempt beard, this should not cause any problems for me whatsoever.
I have several kids in my family including my own son in roughly that age range who've developed a keen interest in the murder mystery genre largely thanks to their time spent around me and the fact children are very impressionable on average. I may end up buying more than one lol