Beebo and other books by Philippe Fix

Beebo is a character in a series of children’s books -

• Beebo & Ben and the Funny Machine
• The House that Beebo Built
• Beebo and the Fizzimen
• Beebo and the Funny Machine

Each book starts with Beebo, his buddy Mop (called Ben in the first book), and Mop’s hamster Hector arriving in an unfamiliar town. They work hard and well, whilst keeping mostly to themselves. In his spare time Beebo builds wonderful things out of junk - an enormous pipe organ, a mechanical fire-breathing dragon, an automatic fence-builder.

By about the middle of each book, Beebo and Mop become happy, if not rich … at which point trouble strikes: in Beebo and Ben and the Funny Machine, Beebo and Ben are expelled from an angry and nameless authoritarian principality for having no visa, no identity card, and no passport. In The House that Beebo Built, their ramshackle mansion finds itself in the middle of a apartment construction zone; in Beebo and the Fizzimen, Beebo wakes up one day to find his face on billboards all over town, his stolen image being used to sell soft-drink; Beebo and the Funny Machine is a reprint of Beebo and Ben and the Funny Machine. Ben's name has been changed to Mop.