LEIGH HOBBS: AUSTRALIA’S CHILDREN’S LAUREATE 2016-17

In 4F for Freaks Miss Corker came up with a great idea for tricking 4F into obedience, but in this hilarious sequel, she finds her disguise has stuck and it looks like she’ll be Miss Schnorkel forever. With One-Eyed Eileen on the case to unmask her, and a rendezvous with a boatload of teachers on long-service leave, Freaks Ahoy! is hilarious entertainment for young and old.

4F are all at sea. Who’d have thought so many Freaks could fit on a boat?

‘This time Hobbs has gone too far!’ Fenella Frump, Librarian, Tasmania

‘More worrying than the first one.’ Winton Windbag, Teaching Today Quarterly

‘a world of barely contained anarchy, borderline menace and irresistible humour It’s reassuring to think that the truly anarchic tradition in children’s literature is still being honoured’ Brisbane’s Child, Sydney’s Child