Gervais pens bestseller's sequel

Ricky Gervais is to release a second volume of his Flanimals children’s book in time for the lucrative Christmas market.

The first book sold 300,000 copies in hardback, plus another 30,000 in the States in its first month on sale.

Now publishers Faber is to release More Flanimals in October – a year after the original was released.

A spokesman for Faber said: “More Flanimals takes the subject to a new level, and comes complete with charts, a fold-out genealogical table, family trees, and anatomical diagrams.”

Gervais added:  ‘Book two is a sort of Advanced Flanimals. Things get a bit more detailed - their evolution from simple Splorn and Blobs of Gumption through Austrilo Ployb to Fud Dumpton , there’s a  Flanatomy section
where we see inside the Mernimbler and the Glonk, and we try to understand what makes them tick with a more in depth Flanimal behavior study.

“Basically I’ve made up some more nonsense for a laugh. Hope you like it.’
 
Faber’s editorial director Suzy Jenvey said: ‘Nobody can match Ricky Gervais’s extraordinary creative imagination – there’s simply no-one like him.”

Flanimals has been translated into six languages and aHollywood studio is planning to bring Flanimals to the big screen, with Gervais providing the voice for one of the characters.

A “pocket-sized” edition of the first Flanimals book will be published  in October at the same time as the sequel.

More Flanimals will be priced £9.99. Click here to pre-order from Amazon at £6.99

Published: 7 Jun 2005