Big Trouble with an Old Fart: Big Trouble #2: Volume 2
By (Author) Lachlann Carter
Illustrated by Douglas Holgate
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
1st April 2025
Australia
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Humour and jokes
Childrens / Teenage: Chapter books (transitional storybooks)
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Humorous
Paperback
208
Width 150mm, Height 190mm
208g
The hilariously spookyBig Trouble series is back with Maddie and Clare's second adventure in Dead End! Can they beat a prehistoric mutant fart gas from zombifying everything in Dead End, including their own dad Will Terrible Chicken finally rule the world And how do you defeat killer pineapples!
GoosebumpsmeetsTwilightZonein this ridiculously funny newseries from storytelling mastermind Lachlann Carter andLast Kids on Earthillustrator Douglas Holgate. With three madcap adventures in each book and every spread packed with comic-style illustrations, this silly-spooky series has enough trouble to keep the whole family on the edge of their seat!
Big Trouble is perfect for:
Praise for Big Trouble series:
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
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 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.
DouglasHolgate is the illustrator of the #1 New York Times Bestselling series, The Last Kids on Earth from Penguin Kids (mow 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 hisfamily in the Australian bush on five acres surrounded by 80 million year old volcanic boulders and a largefat dog that could possibly be part-polar bear.