Big Trouble with Too Many Frogs: Big Trouble #3: Volume 3
By (Author) Lachlann Carter
Illustrated by Douglas Holgate
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
14th October 2025
Australia
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Humorous
Paperback
208
Width 150mm, Height 190mm
The angry chairs are back in their hilarious third BIG TROUBLE adventure! Can the Dead Enders free Terrible Chicken Junior from a devious captor AND avoid the clutches of a mind-controlling frog prince Or will it finally all be too much trouble
From storytelling mastermind Lachlann Carter and Last Kids on Earth illustrator Douglas Holgate comes this funny and action-packed series for readers aged 6 and up! With three madcap adventures in each book and every spread bursting with illustrations, this silly-spooky series has enough trouble to keep anyone aged 6-10 years on the edge of their seat.
Absurd, thrilling, hilarious! Kids will love getting into Big Trouble, with its crazy storylines and loveable characters. Big Trouble is BIG FUN!' Andrew McDonald & Ben Wood, author and illustrator of the best-sellingReal Pigeons series.
Big Trouble is perfect for:
'The pace is furious, so are the laughs, and Holgates illustrations are both sublime and ridiculous.' Fran Atkinson,The Age
Absurd, thrilling, hilarious! Kids will love getting into Big Trouble, with its silly storylines and loveable characters. Big Trouble is BIG FUN!'Andrew McDonald & Ben Wood, author and illustrator of the best-selling Real Pigeonsseries.
'Sure to be a hit!These whacky stories will appeal to all those in junior and middle primary with a sense of imagination and humour.' Lamont Books
'Clever writing, really lough-out-loudfunny, utterly ridiculous' Your Kids Next Read
Lachlann Carter is author of the Big Trouble series. He is a former primary school teacher, and co-founder of 100 Story Building, a creative writing centre for children and young people. He lives on a dead end in Gimuy/Cairns, Australia with his small but loud family, surrounded by large but quiet mountains, and lots and lots of palm trees. He writes all of his stories standing up.
Douglas Holgate is the illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestselling series, The Last Kids on Earth from Penguin Kids (now also an Emmy winning Netflix animated series), and the co-creator and illustrator of the graphic novel Clem Hetherington and The Ironwood Race for Scholastic Graphix. He has worked for the last 20 years making books and comics for publishers around the world from his garage in regional Victoria, Australia. He lives with his family in the Australian bush on five acres surrounded by 80 million year old volcanic boulders and a large fat dog that could possibly be part-polar bear.