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Paul Jennings (Author, Illustrator)

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Paul Jennings (Photo credit: Peter Mack)

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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.

 

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Book Cover: Another Box of Rascals
Another Box of Rascals
By Bob Lea & Paul Jennings

Real books for beginners

Join Rascal the Dragon and his friends in the next six Rascal books!
This gorgeous little box contains the following Rascal stories:

Rascal to the Rescue
Rascal and Little Flora
Rascal and the Hot Air Balloon
Rascal and the Dragon Droppings
Rascal and the Monster
Rascal goes Fishing

Read a Rascal story to your children and before long they'll read it to you.





Real books for beginners

Join Rascal the Dragon and his friends in the next six Rascal books!
This gorgeous little box contains the following Rascal stories:

Rascal to the Rescue
Rascal and Little Flora...

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Published: 27/10/2008
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ISBN: 9780143304159
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: Come Back Gizmo!
Come Back Gizmo!
By Paul Jennings & Keith McEwan
The third story in the successful Gizmo series, involving a mean-spirited hoodlum who – via a toilet seat getting stuck on his head – discovers compassion and becomes a hero.
The third story in the successful Gizmo series, involving a mean-spirited hoodlum who – via a toilet seat getting stuck on his head – discovers compassion and becomes a hero.
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Published: 11/09/1996
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140378450
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover: Deadly! 6: Pluck
Deadly! 6: Pluck
By Morris Gleitzman & Paul Jennings
The nail-biting, gut-wrenching, spine-tingling conclusion to the wackiest adventure ever. Will Amy and Sprocket escape the clutches of the Brats long enough to discover the ultimate secret behind the world's deadliest tea? It's exciting, it's enthralling and it is very, very deadly ...
The nail-biting, gut-wrenching, spine-tingling conclusion to the wackiest adventure ever. Will Amy and Sprocket escape the clutches of the Brats long enough to discover the ultimate secret behind the world's...
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Published: 05/03/2001
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141306063
RRP: $4.95
Book Cover: Deadly! Bindup
Deadly! Bindup
By Morris Gleitzman & Paul Jennings

ALL SIX BOOKS IN ONE!

Join Amy and Sprocket as they uncover deadly secret after deadly secret on the most tumultuous journey of their lives.  An adventure full of delight, terror, tears and laughter, DEADLY! will leave you gasping.

IT'S DARING!

IT'S DANGEROUS!

IT'S DEADLY!








ALL SIX BOOKS IN ONE!

Join Amy and Sprocket as they uncover deadly secret after deadly secret on the most tumultuous journey of their lives.  An adventure full of delight, terror, tears and laughter...

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Published: 03/04/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143300243
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare, Robbed a Grave, Made a New Friend Who Might Not Have Really Been There at All, And While He Was at it Committed a Terrible Sin Which Everyone Was Doing Even Though He Didn't Know it
How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare, Robbed a Grave, Made a New Friend Who Might Not Have Really Been There at All, And While He Was at it Committed a Terrible Sin Which Everyone Was Doing Even Though He Didn't Know it
By Paul Jennings
Hedley Hopkins has a few problems: he is the new kid at school, straight off the boat from England in the 1950s. The only friends he has made are the kids at the Loony Bin especially bald headed, long armed Victor. But if he could just fulfil a dare and dig out the hideous skull hidden in a grave in the sand dunes, he could impress the bullies at school and become their friend. But Hedley is not so...
Hedley Hopkins has a few problems: he is the new kid at school, straight off the boat from England in the 1950s. The only friends he has made are the kids at the Loony Bin especially bald headed, long...
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Published: 30/05/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141306117
RRP: $16.95
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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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