Wonderfully Wacky Families
By (Author) Jackie French
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
1st January 2009
Australia
Children
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
466
Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 26mm
378g
So you think your family is wacky Wait till you read these stories...How can Buster solve the disappearance of his werewolf parents when Uncle Wal keeps bugging him to act like a human all the time What would TJ's friends say if they knew his gran was a gorilla Is Drackie's Auntie Chook really a vampire chicken And what will Fuzz do when his Pa makes him travel in the Arctic dressed as a polar bear With drawings by award-winning illustrator Stephen Michael King - this collection of four new hilarious Wacky Family stories is guaranteed to delight younger readers. Containing:My Uncle Wal the Werewolf; My Gran the Gorilla; My Auntie Chook the Vampire Chicken; My Pa the Polar Bear.
Jackie French AM is an award-winning writer, wombat negotiator, the 20142015 Australian Children's Laureate and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. In 2016 Jackie became a Member of the Order of Australia for her contribution to children's literature and her advocacy for youth literacy. She is regarded as one of Australia's most popular children's authors and writes across all genres from picture books, history, fantasy, ecology and sci-fi to her much loved historical fiction for a variety of age groups. A book can change a child's life. A book can change the world' was the primary philosophy behind Jackie's two-year term as Laureate. jackiefrench.com facebook.com/authorjackiefrench