Rascal Takes Off
By (Author) Paul Jennings
Penguin Random House Australia
Puffin
30th July 2007
Australia
Children
Fiction
Teaching of a specific subject
A823
Paperback
32
Width 220mm, Height 295mm, Spine 3mm
171g
'Flap your wings, Rascal,' says Ben. But Rascal's wings don't work. What else can he use Read a Rascal story to your children and before long they'll read it to you.
The Paul Jennings phenomenon began with the publication of Unreal! in 1985. Since then, readers all around the world have devoured his books. Paul Jennings has written over one hundred stories and has been voted 'favourite author' over forty times by children in Australia, winning every children's choice award. The toprating TV series Round the Twist and Driven Crazy are based on a selection of his enormously popular short-story collections such as Unseen! which was awarded the 1999 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Children's Book. In 1995 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to children's literature and was awarded the prestigious Dromkeen Medal in 2001. Paul has sold more than 8 million books worldwide.