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Published on Leave a comment on Total Quack Up Again edited by Sally Rippin and Adrian Beck

It's the return of the quack!

Get ready to laugh out loud again with a whole new collection of funny stories by some of your favourite Australian children's authors in Total Quack Up Again!

Do your brains really fall out if you pick your nose? Is there a cure for Dad's Death Breath? How do you join the Secret Dutch Oven Society? What happens when your Dad eats dog food? Will Hammond P. Duck win his fight to ban the Total Quack Up books?

Twelve fun stories plus top writing tips...what more could you want?

Here is the beginning of If You Pick Your Nose, Your Brains Will Fall Out...

 

Congratulations to nine year old Colby Sanchez who won the competition to be published in Total Quack Up Again! with his story The Duck Pond. Will Derek the Duck ever achieve his dream of becoming a comedian? 

Total Quack Up Again! is the second book in a wonderful initiative by authors Sally Rippin and Adrian Beck. Once again generous authors have donated their stories and the royalties from the book will go to the Dymocks Children’s Charities. It's a win-win! When you buy a copy of Total Quack Up Again! you can have fun reading the stories and know that you are also helping other kids have access to books to read and enjoy too.

Awesome Adrian Beck with a copy of Total Quack Up Again!

Happy reading!

Published on Leave a comment on Total Quack Up! edited by Sally Rippin and Adrian Becks

Total Quack Up! is a collection of short stories from some of Australia's funniest children's authors guaranteed to have you quacking up and laughing out loud! So be careful where you read this book...

Sally Rippin and Adrian Beck are the editors of Total Quack Up! They wanted to help raise money for Dymocks Children's Charities who work very hard to make sure kids across the country get their hands on great books and develop the skills they need to read them. Sally and Adrian asked eight author friends if they would like to write a funny story and James Foley to be the illustrator. These generous people donated their story and illustrations to create this book and all of the proceeds from Total Quack Up! will go to Dymock's Children's Charities.

Buying a copy of Total Quack Up! is a 'win-win' because you get a funny book to enjoy AND you will be helping other kids to have books so they can enjoy reading too!

Here's a taste of the stories in Total Quack Up!...

After reading Total Quack Up! you might be inspired to write your own funny short story...

Happy reading!

Published on Leave a comment on Tom Weekly is back…looking a little different!

'Every single word in these books is true. Except the stuff I made up.'

The Tom Weekly series by Tristan Bancks is back with a whole new look...new covers, bigger illustrations by Gus Gordon and more space inside. The first three rebranded books came out on April 1st.  This a perfect time to try out this funny and sometimes gross series if you haven't read it yet! These books are guaranteed to make you laugh out loud, your stomach squirm and you will want to keep turning the pages to see what Tom Weekly gets up to next or how he manages to wangle himself out of trouble.

I also recommend these stories as great fun to read aloud to a class and they generate lots of creative ideas for writing with students.

Some of my favourite Tom Weekly stories are Toe, Scab, The Good Boy, Meatball and of course Ninja Librarians.
Do you have a favourite Tom Weekly story?

Fans of Tom Weekly will be excited to know that the next book in the series called 'My Life and other Failed Experiments' will be out on July 1st.

Happy reading!

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