Timbuctoo is a book series about Funny Animals by Roger Hargreaves. (Yes, that Roger Hargreaves)
The animals are named after the sound they make.
There was also a tv show by Cosgrove Hall which was narrated by the late Ronnie Corbett.
Tropes
- Does Not Like Spam: Moo is not fond of porridge, which is the only thing she can eat until she tries grass for the first time after trying other varieties of food and not liking them either.
- Funny Animal: Half of the population of Timbuctoo consists of animals who can stand up on two legs and talk.
- Forgetful Jones: Woof. His own story involves him forgetting how to bark and instead ends up doing different animal noises to scare birds until he meets another dog who tells him that dogs should woof, which ends up going wrong because the other dog calls him a silly billy and in the end, instead of barking at the bird, he shouts "You silly billy!" at a bird.
- Stubborn Mule: Bray, in both a literal and figurative sense.
- The Klutz: Bleat.
- World of Funny Animals: Downplayed. While Funny Animals take up a majority of Timbuctoo's population, Living Polyhedrons like the Mr. Men also live there.
