Larry Lemming is a lemming just like any other – except he’s not. Larry is very much his own lemming, and he does his own thing even when his friends can’t seem to understand why. He goes sledging with the puffins because he wants to, he wears a top hat because he knows he looks cool! But can Larry teach his friends that it’s fun and maybe even important to be different?
The President has some extremely important documents to sign at Dublin Castle but he simply can’t do it without his glasses! Cue a rescue mission undertaken by one Presidential Pigeon who knows exactly what to do – follow the President’s car and deliver his glasses on time.
Gringer the Whinger is a naughty and very irritating dragon who visits the family when people are tired and cranky and prone to giving out about things. Gringer swoops in and annoys Mammy with his whingy voice and constant badgering, stretching her patience to the limit, much to the cheeky delight of the children. Dad, however, is not amused …
This book of horrors is not for the faint of heart, nor should anyone of a delicate disposition consider delving into the recipes that lurk within. Disgusting-looking meals and snacks are guaranteed in this freakishly awful compilation of revolting recipes (that actually taste delicious!). What brings this cookbook a step beyond other novelty food books is that for every DIY recipe that your cheeky children can make there are details of real recipes from across the world that are sure to cause shrieks of disgust.
Pug-a-Doodle-Do! is a doodle and activity book with a difference, full of drawing and writing adventures inspired by the wacky world of Reeve and McIntyre who have previously brought us the best-selling fiction titles Oliver and the Seawigs, Cakes in Space, Pugs of the Frozen North, and Jinks and O’Hare Funfair Repair.
Meet Greta Zargo, an 11-year-old ace reporter, and protagonist in AF Harrold’s hilarious new novel, Greta Zargo and the Death Robots From Outer Space. Using subversive humour, this fast-paced novel is truly entertaining for children and adults alike with a host of characters including Mr Teachbadly, Mrs Wedlock, and a vegetarian squirrel with a nut allergy. Indeed, some of the humour will be lost on young readers.
Nibbles is a little yellow monster, whose huge appetite results in him nibbling through books. Children may be familiar with our eponymous hero from his first book, Nibbles: The Book Monster which saw him chewing through a book of fairy tales and disrupting the stories within. This time Nibbles is back and chomping through a book about dinosaurs. However, the little monster is in danger of being chomped himself, as he encounters triceratops, diplodocuses, velociraptors and even the ferocious Tyrannosaurus Rex along the way.
Sam Hannigan and her friend Ajay love animals. When Sam’s next-door neighbour is cruel to his dog Barker, she uses her grandad’s invention, the Brain Swap 3000, to inhabit Barker’s body and give the dastardly neighbour a fright he’ll never forget. All goes according to plan – until the Brain Swap 3000 runs out of power and Sam is trapped in Barker’s body for four whole days.
A blue circle asks you if you’re really sure you want to play and then we’re off on a wild and noisy journey through sound and colour! Hervé Tullet, master of interactive picturebooks, returns with another fabulous text which claims to do for sound what Press Here did for touch. Circles, dots and bubbles of blue, red and yellow dance and pop across the page, encouraging readers to shout, whisper and sing out loud. With each turn of the page Tullet asks us to vocalise these simple circle characters, ohhing, ahhing and wahooing our way through the text in a riot of play-acting and silly noises.
Entering the canon of funny children’s books by such authors as David Baddiel, David Walliams and Liz Pichon, a super hero, or rather super zero, has arrived.
