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  • Published: 18 August 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761357749
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $14.99

Toilet Time Machine 2




Introducing the NEW and IMPROVED* Toilet Time Machine!

*Shinier and now runs on rotten food.

Max should be happy. The toilet time machine is fixed and now runs on safer renewable energy (rotten food), his little brother is no longer feral, and his dad has even started dating. (EWWW!)

But Max has a new problem: he wants to be friends with Evie, the cool teenager from next door. Yet there's no way she'd want to hang out with some lame kid she's getting PAID TO BABYSIT. Right?

If only there was some sort of MACHINE that could turn Max into a teen as well . . .

  • Published: 18 August 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761357749
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $14.99

About the authors

Mark Serrels

Mark is based in Sydney and has spent more than 10 years as an award-winning games journalist, editing the cult website, Kotaku Australia. He was later an editor at CNET, the world's biggest tech website, before transitioning to CHOICE Australia, where he is currently Editorial Director. Mark liked rock climbing before it was cool and is a video game obsessive. He's also a dad - not like the other dads, he's a cool dad. One time, he raced his 10-year-old for $1000 and lost. Mark is also the most Scottish man alive.

Ruby Innes

Co-host of a Twitch video game show, Ruby Innes has been drawing her entire life. While not all of her drawings have been good, most of them have been either intentionally or unintentionally funny. While it was her work at Kotaku Australia as a games journalist that brought her to Mark's attention, it was her illustrations that brought them together. One of Ruby's lifelong dreams was to be an illustrator for a children's book, having grown up reading Andy Griffiths, Paul Jennings and Jacqueline Wilson. Her approach when it comes to illustrating has always been, 'What little thing can I include to really make this funny?', which has largely worked in her favour. Ruby is based in Sydney and is half Scottish. Not as much as Mark, but it counts.