Penguin Books Australia

Do babies look at you and shriek?
Do talking parrots give you cheek?
And when you kneel to say your prayers
Do all the mice jump up on chairs?

Is life for you a diving plank
Above a large piranha tank?
Then what you need, my little ones,
Is Sister Madge's Book of Nuns .

'Wouldn't it be funny if they were real?'
'Shiny red men?'
'What if I were the sane one and everyone else was mad?'

One night, the shiny guys visit fifteen-year-old Colin Lapsley.  They don't speak, but Colin can read their thoughts.  They want him to pay for the terrible thing that he has done.  When the shiny guys won't go away, Colin is admitted to ward 44.  Ther he discovers...

Read entirely ridiculous stories about Jack and the Branstalk, Snow White and the Seventy Dwarfs and the Gingerbread Mane. Once you've read this book, you'll agree that Leon Stumble's new fairytales have that magic ingredient - stupidity!

Jam-packed with load of jokes, and especially designed to appeal to boys.

When Mozzie and Midgie meet a colourful parrot who boasts of being the most beautiful bird on the island, the two young spoonbills set off to find out what could make them beautiful and special.

'I want to see what's behind the door.'
'Amber, maybe we should leave.'
'We can't back out now.'

There is something strange at Tallis Point.   Siggy knows, because he's seen it.   And now the mysterious, non-blonde Amber want to see it too.

Should Siggy take Amber to Tallis Point?   On the good side, he might end up with a girlfriend.   On the bad side, he might explode.  ...

'Life would be a whole lot easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead.'

Nothing is how it seems in the forest. Your best friend may turn out to be your worst enemy. A deadly poison might save your life. And two smiling children could become the most horrifying monsters of all.