I am very excited to have recently signed up with a new publisher, Bloomsbury (famous for the Harry Potter series) to write three new children's books. Two of these will appear in 2014 with the third to follow in 2015 and I am very excited about them.
The books are fun, non-fiction titles full of humour, information and things to do. The first one, due to be published in May is The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff. This is a collection of lists, facts, jokes and funny true stories all about silly people, silly inventions, silly animals, silly events, silly food and much, much more. It's an information book with a twist - full of amazing, strange things, written in short chunks with cartoons and amusing illustrations.
This book was great fun to write and I so enjoyed researching facts about some of the silliest people from history and nutty people from the present. There's a section on silly things that have happened in sport, as well as silly names, films, TV, places, words and poems. You will not believe some of the stupid things that have been said and done - nearly all by adults...
Here is a bit of a flavour of the content:
From Silly Animals:
Nonsensical
names
Some animals’ names are silly
because they are confusing. Have a look at these and you’ll see what I mean:
Starfish It’s
not a fish
Horny toad It’s
a lizard, not a toad
Electric eel It’s not an
eel but a knifefish
Mountain goat Although
it does live on mountains it’s not a goat
Guinea pig They’re
not from Guinea and they’re not pigs
Flying lemur It’s not a lemur and it can’t
fly (OK, it can glide a bit)
Black rhino It’s
not black
White rhino It’s
not white
From Silly Names:
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Angry
Salad
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Big
White Undies
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Crispy
Ambulance
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Hitler
Stole My Potato
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Planet
of Pants
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Zombies
Under Stress
From Silly Jokes:
Transport puns
A pun is a
‘funny’ wordplay using a word or phrase that has a double meaning. Most puns
(especially dads’ puns) are AWFUL. But these are really good!
A man crashed
his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.
All the
forms of motor racing had a competition to see which was the fastest and
Formula won.
Prince Harry tried a Fiat but fancied
something a little more Porsche.
Crossing the
Atlantic on a Jumbo Jet is not plane sailing.
Hearse
racing is dead good.
I couldn't work
out how to fasten my seatbelt. Then it clicked.
The Queen
bought a new limo but she had nothing to chauffeur it.
Watch out
for whales – they eat fish and ships.
I went on a
long bike ride and got wheely tyred.
Our school
boarded the train before anyone else and took the best seats: first class idea.
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It's not a goat. |