Triggtrogg Farm is an imaginative and lively fantasy adventure story, filled with action and lightened by a sense of humour which ranges from the sturdy to the anarchic by way of spectacular, broad comedy. In conceptual terms it isn t the most original children s story ever written, containing as it does so many archetypal elements (the secret entrance to a magical land, for example, and the struggle to free a repressed people). But what makes it outstanding is the sheer verve of the narrative, the rich characterisation and the comedy.