Book description
Give fun a chance! Surprise your mum with a chainsaw, be a bigger star
than Tom Cruise, save the world with a plate of vegetables, start your
new life in a taxi, rescue your family with a tomato, send your dad into
a panic with a tractor, do a good deed with a paper bag on your head,
pack your suitcase for a trip to the spleen, upset your auntie with ten
kilos of chocolate, swap a bomb for three ice creams on a steam train .
. . and lots more. Morris Gleitzman grew up in England and went to
live in Australia when he was sixteen. He worked as a frozen-chicken
thawer, fashion trainee, store Santa, TV producer, newspaper columnist
and screenwriter. Then he had a wonderful experience. He wrote a novel
for young people. His many books include Boy Overboard, Toad Rage,
Bumface, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Award and the Carnegie
Medal, and Two Weeks with the Queen, winner of the Children's Book
Award.
