Michael Rosen picked The Beano Annual as one of his favourite books: "A cornucopia of nutty, bad, silly ideas, tricks, situations and plots.'"
William Nicholson – April 2010 Guest Editor remembers The Beano: What more can I say? The single most formative reading of my childhood, which made Thursdays a day of full colour and deeply peculiar satisfaction. I will never forget Smiffy in the Bash Street Kids emitting the immortal sound, 'Muffled eek.'
