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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Jeremy Strong
‘Tis the season to be jolly tra-la-la-la-la… but wait! Father Christmas’ Evil brother, Bad Christmas, is plotting to take over the world. His poisonous Christmas puddings that turn humans into…
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Captain Blackpatch has bought a pirate truck to take the pirates on a camping holiday. Once there he becomes convinced that treasure is buried on a small island.
Sennapod, the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, is still living at 27 Templeton Terrace with the Lightspeed family. By accident, he wins a competition to find the Face of the Future, and…
Nicholas and his family are hatching eggs for his school’s Easter Fair. But the eggs keep going missing and their new rabbits, Saucepan and Nibblewibble, are causing havoc in the…
Charlie and his great mate Ben have landed in a spooky House of Horror - all because of Charlie’s new pyjamas! The mean old Stitcher and her stinky sidekick Grumpfart…
Streaker the dog is brilliant at many things but most of all she’s brilliant at getting into TROUBLE! Something MYSTERIOUS has happened to Streaker’s puppies and Trevor is on a…
Batpants the orang-utan is completely, wildly Hairy. Most of all she loves her family, the Loveharts, and all their madcap adventures. Mrs Lovehart is a stuntwoman and so the whole…
You’ll be crying with laughter in the playground and chuckling in class - no school bag is complete without a copy of Classroom Chaos! Jam-packed with jokes and silliness and…
How can Nicholas save Christmas? Nicholas’ dad has lost his job just before Christmas. This means no money for yucky cake or for presents. But then the ding dong merrily…
By day Casper’s a regular school kid but by …later on in the day he’s Cartoon Kid. That’s right - Casper is a Superhero - but shhhhhh, keep it quiet…
You’ll never guess what Mr Butternut said at school today: ‘This is your first day with me and I can see that there is something amazing about you …all of…
Casper and his friends have an amazing ZEEOWWW! WHIZZ! SPLATT! secret - THEY ARE ALL SUPERHEROES! Which will come in very handy this Sports Day when a dog named JAWS…
Casper and his friends have a not-so-well-kept secret …they’re all Superheroes! That’s right; no emergency is moo, sorry, Too big for Mr Butternut’s class, not even a herd of playground…
Aargh - the school inspectors have arrived. There’s trouble at school, but Casper and his friends have an out-of-this-world secret …they’re all superheroes. Masher McNee and his monster zombie mob…
Nicholas’s neighbours are in a royal frenzy! They’re celebrating the Queen’s coronation (whatever that means) and everyone’s gone Bonkers! Dad’s dressing up as a banana and why has Cheese got…
3 …2 …1 …Lift Off! My brother’s famous bottom is going into space! Well, a video of it, anyway. And the best news is that the whole family gets to…
With mysterious pet-kidnappings going on all around and Dad threatening to send Streaker to behaviour boot camp, Trevor needs to come up with a way to keep Streaker safe. Enter…
Nicholas and his family are off on holiday to Turkey! But with Cheese and Tomato causing chaos with stray tortoises, Dad having to be rescued by the lifeguard, and Mum…
Nicholas’s baby brother, Cheese, is famous. Well, his bottom is, because he advertises Dumper disposable nappies. Now the whole family is being whisked off on a nationwide tour starring Cheese…
Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh! Here comes Streaker, fastest dog in the world! Streaker is in trouble AGAIN! She’s stealing food and Trevor, owner, has no idea why. The police are tailing her and…
Jodie hates her life and her looks, but when she wakes up one morning as a stegosaurus things are even worse. Coping with school is impossible and when her parents…
Jack’s in trouble, big trouble. Not only is he in hospital with a leg in traction (boring) but he knows the police are coming for him: because of an accident…
Tim’s family is the most boring family in the world and he’s fed up. He wants fun! Thrills! Adventure! And school’s just as boring too. But one day a phantom…
Two hilariously funny stories in one book! The Indoor Pirates are fierce, lawless bandits, but they have one fatal weakness: they hate the sea!
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It’s the first day at Pirate School for Ziggy, Smudge, Carkella and Flo. Their headteacher is the scary Patagonia Clasterbotton and they have to take lessons include walking the plank…
Streaker was so gobsmacked she leaped into air as if she had a pogo stick attached to each leg. KER-POING! Streaker runs like a jet-propelled hurricane, which could cause problems…
Something strange has happened to Rosie and her brothers. Rosie’s new pyjamas have led them to a dangerous discovery. Doctor Starkly-Bonkers has invented the Doombuster and history is all muddled…
When Giant Jim comes to town, people are terrified they’ll be eaten, or squashed. But Jim is a good giant - unfortunately he just can’t do things right!
A collection of new essays that examine how taste is learned, developed, and represented. It spans such diverse topics as teaching wine tasting, food in Don Quixote, Soviet cookbooks, cruel…
When the Lovehart family receive a mega-massive delivery, there’s only one thing it can be. An elephant of course! A gentle giant named Fudge has come to live with them…
Stuff is the nickname of our hero, Simon (because he knows a lot of weird stuff). Stuff’s parents have split up, and his dad has brought back a new step-mum…
Film nonetheless provides the central focus, with analysis of both the corpus as a whole-from Dr. No to Spectre-and of particular films, from popular and much-discussed movies such as Goldfinger…
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Streaker is a mixed-up kind of dog. Streaker is no ordinary dog. She’s a rocket on four legs with a woof attached, and Trevor has got until the end of…
‘That’s the one!’ she cried. ‘That’s the bottom I’m after. Darling, you have the most gorgeous bottom!’ Nicholas’ dad has a plan to make some fast cash. Nappies! Some disposable-nappy…
Streaker the dog is lost. And not just a bit lost, but really lost. It wasn’t even her fault! She wanted to protect some pies from the PIE ROBBER and…
Nicholas’ dad has had an idea - always a cue for disaster! This time he’s planning to take the whole family camping. Sounds great, but Tomato is taking her pet…
When Ellie puts on her new pyjamas, strange things start to happen. She and her little brother, Max, are whisked off to the Christmas Shop where a battle is raging…
Guess what’s coming to town! The Animal Games! There’ll be show-jumping for horses AND rabbits, and discus for dogs - so of course I have to enter Streaker. Mum says…
An irresistibly funny story about set in Ancient Rome about a boy who wants to be a champion charioteer, from the original King of Comedy for young readers, Jeremy Strong…
Some dads bring home rabbits. Or dogs. Or parrots. Not Nicholas’ dad. The latest member of their family is Crunchbag - the Alligator! Soon he’s running riot in the bathroom…
Rob worries about everything - being bitten by snakes to dinosaurs waiting round the corner. So when the Vorks move in across the road, he is convinced that they’re aliens…
Fiction, PYP Level 7
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Sigurd, the Viking from the tenth century, is still stuck in the twentieth century. He lives with his friends the Ellis family in a seaside hotel and constantly causes chaos…
‘Oooh! I’m going to be a granny!’ she cried. ‘You already are a granny, Granny.’ I pointed out. ‘Oh yes. So I am!’ Nicholas’ mum is having a baby. It’s…
Nicholas’ granny has fallen in love - with the elderly Hell’s Angel next door! Nicholas’ dad isn’t happy about it - but Granny won’t let him get in the way…
Tony Lightspeed is always bringing home sick and injured animals, so when he turns up with an unconscious man dressed from head to tie in rather stinky bandages, his family…
The Jeremy Strong joke book is back and filled with even more bottoms and quizzes and silliness and, best of all, pranks! Blow up stuff, glue stuff and PHHHFFWWWWWHHHHH -…
