HONOUR BOOK: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2017
Jimmy Cook has discovered that he has quite a lot in common with the explorer Captain James Cook. No doubt they were related. So when he finds out that Captain Cook met with a sticky end in Hawaii, he’s determined to travel to the island to finish what he started. His parents aren’t so interested but luckily Jimmy’s favourite brand of cereal is running a competition. First prize: a Hawaiian Holiday.
Jimmy is going to have to eat a lot of full-fibre Wheetblocks to enter, but big dreams come with a big price. And no price is too big when it comes to Jimmy Cook, especially if it means beating the world’s most annoying person, Alice Toolie.
Captain Jimmy Cook has made a Top Secret Important Discovery: a real dinosaur footprint! And everyone knows that underneath a real dinosaur footprint will be a real dinosaur bone. Jimmy has to keep the amazing discovery a big secret because he found it behind a toilet block (that’s totally out-of-bounds).
But even the greatest explorers have problems.
Jimmy’s are these:
1) Everyone in the school now wants to help in The Dig, so it’s just a matter of time before his teacher Ms Fennel puts a stop to the greatest discovery of all time, and
2) a large smelly cat is sitting in his hole.
But luck is on his side. Jimmy’s found a map of the school with a large X on it. And everyone knows what that means—
Treasure! Treasure! Treasure!
If you think you’ve heard every funny story there is then think again … Funny Bones is a super-huge collection of rib-tickling stories, cartoons, comics, jokes and much, much more that’s bound to get even the most serious kid laughing.
With over 100 funny stories, hilarious poems and side-splitting drawings from some of Australia’s favourite and funniest people including Zoë Foster Blake, Josh Pyke, Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton, Hannah Gadsby, Lawrence Leung, Michelle Law, Adrian Beck, Katrina Nannestad, James O’Loghlin, Tom Jellett, Gus Gordon, Danny Katz, Mitch Vane, Sally Rippin, Tristan Bancks, Jessica Walton, Dougal Macpherson, Garth Nix, The Listies, Georgia Productions as well as Oliver Phommavanh and Kate & Jol Temple, Funny Bones will be a bumper addition to any child’s bookshelf. It might get you laughing out loud, but it’s all for a serious cause – all royalties go to the international aid charity, War Child Australia.
Meet a snake who looks like a rake and a parrot who looks like a carrot! This delightful rhyming picture book is for lovers of silly wordplay and funny pictures – a perfectly entertaining book for preschoolers.
This book will make you giggle every time you read it! It takes a very simple concept – what would happen if you mixed an animal with an object? – and adds some kooky illustrations to create a book with lots of mixed-up animals and quirky visual humour.
Small Panda has lost his bottom. It was there when he went to sleep but now it has disappeared. He searches high and low, and finds stripy bums, pink butts, feathery derrieres. ‘Are you my bottom?’ he asks, but none of these bottoms are his. Finally, he spots a furry bum which just has to be his – but the answer is surprising!
A cheeky story for anyone who has ever left something behind.
