New Releases by Terry Denton

Gasp as Andy careers down a hill in an abandoned pram wearing only a nappy! Groan as he desperately looks for a toilet in a shopping centre before he explodes! Squirm as he shoves twenty marshmallows in his mouth without swallowing! But most of all, laugh! Because Andy Griffiths is back with nine hysterically stupid tales.

Do you bounce so high on your bed that you hit your head on the ceiling? Do you ever look in the mirror and see a crazy maniac staring back at you? Nine highly original, humorous stories complemented by imaginative and hilarious illustrations from one of Australia''s most well-known and acclaimed illustrators, Terry Denton.

Full of highly original, and extremely funny stories, which established Andy Griffiths as the world''s most annoying person. They include convincing his best friend Danny that he is invisible so that he will wreak havoc in the school library, and pretending that corn relish is vomit to make an old lady move seats on a plane.

Big Red Hen looks after everyone else''s babies, but what she wants most of all is someone special of her own to love . . . ''The magic created in this lovely tale is the kind of delight expected from its author and illustrator; two of Australia''s best-loved picture book creators.'' Courier Mail ''Together, Wild and Denton have created a memorable picture book about how pure and unprejudiced love can be.'' Sunday Age

From a frog on a log chasing a dog, to a yak named Jack with a fondness for snacks, this zany collection finds animals in silly situations, which will make young children just learning to read laugh out loud! Reprint.

Wombat and fox''s summer holiday adventure which includes tackling a stressful bus trip, a wacky sandcastle competition, a crab-hunting expedition and the five cheeky monkeys intent on ruining their holiday.

Packed with illustrations and diagrams and extremely informative entries, this is a fun-filled guide to prehistoric bumosaurs, including the Bumheaded Idiotasaurus and Poopigator.

Gasp! Clever and hilarious, this story is about a naughty, greedy little fish who nearly gets what he deserves. Zapt! This hilarious sequel to Gasp!will leave you breathless, as our favourite fish stars again in an extraordinary and shocking adventure. Splat! A third side-splitting adventure about everyone''s favourite fish. Mayhem follows when our shocked hero discovers a stranger in his bowl. Visit www.gaspseries.tvfor lots of Gasp fun and downloads.

Featuring Wombat & Fox, sometimes Croc and Bandicoot, and those mischievous five monkeys. Wombat & Fox: summer in the city is three stories for beginner and developing readers, featuring a never-ending game of ''I spy'', a surprising sand-sculpture competition and a search for crabs that leaves Wombat and Fox scrambling to beat the tide. Perfect for 7-11 year olds with a laugh on every page.

A collection of three interlinked illustrated stories for beginners and developing readers, featuring Fox and Wombat and their hilarious adventures in the city. Wombat and Fox are the best of friends - native animals in a human city. They are like children who find themselves in a grown-up world and they don''t quite understand the rules of life. Their everyday adventures in the urban environment are dramatic, charming and funny. Warm-hearted Denton-style sketch comedy presented as three stories in one for beginner readers. There will be more books featuring these endearing characters.

Gasp, a fish, falls in love with another fish who lives next to his bowl, and he will do anything to get her attention, even leave his monstrously hungry nephew alone.

These illustrated stories about best friends Fox and Wombat are jam-packed with action, adventure and humour and are perfect for beginner readers.

Explores how inventors and scientists throughout history unlocked the secret of human flight through such means as war kites, hot-air balloons manned by barnyard animals, an aerial steam carriage and a giant catapult.

WARNING! This book contains nothing but bad stories, bad illustrations, bad poems, bad cartoons and bad riddles about bad characters doing bad things. It is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very bad book.BAD JACK HORNERBad Jack HornerSat in a cornerPulling the wings off a fly.He swore at his mumKicked his dad in the bum,And said ''Oh, what a bad boy am I''.

Bigger than Fishzilla and Karp Kong combined! At last, the return of the return of GASP! Driven by endless hunger, our rotten fish surfs cyberspace. The heavens become furious. Skies rumble. Fish tumble. Neighbourhoods crumble. This tale of greed and megalomania explores to epic proportions . . . With a crushing climax that will leave you hungering for more. and more likely covered in great lumps of sodden fish food.

Nico, Claudia, and Mikey travel to a surfing competition on the planet Eeeno, where Nico encounters the Obelisk of Eeeno as he is trying to win the championship.

If you like calm, sensible, fluffy stories, then GO AWAY! Because this is a story about a LUMP OF ROCK!! The dialogue is not very interesting because lumps of rock don t talk! I bet you didn t know that. I bet you thought all the rocks and little stones chatted amongst themselves when you were not around. Well, it s not true. But here are 22 things that are true: 2 An obelisk is a piece of rock. A long thin pointy piece of rock. 4 The planet EEENO is just a piece of rock floating in space. 6 A parallel universe is really another-other piece of rock, just like the other piece of rock, but in the wrong place. 8 An author is just a piece of rock with a laptop. 10 Nell Smith had a dog, called Spot. Spot used to leave little rocks all around the garden. Little smelly rocks. 12 An obelisk is a big, fat, dumb, French comic-strip character. 14 Nico s favourite rock group is the Red Hot Chili Pebbles. 16 My mum s favourite actor was Rock Hudson. 18 He had rocks in his head. 20 So did my mum. 22 So do you.

Andrew Daddo s outrageous new collection of short stories, You re Dropped, follows some of the characters in the Sprung! collections and introduces some new ones. And this time the stories are all about love. There s how to get your arm round your date at the movies, where to put your noses, how to help your mum and dad through The Talk, and how to handle being dropped. Crushes, first dates, first kisses, first break-ups: for young readers it s a handbook on what to expect; for adults it s a hilarious reminder of what they were hoping to forget! Through his television work with children, and his own parenting, Andrew Daddo started to write a series of short stories for young readers. Anyone who has seen Andrew on television knows that he is a born storyteller. And the stories in You re Dropped are the kind that parents and grandparents long for, and the kids themselves love: stories of adventure, comedy and mischief from an almost legendary Australia, a place that is often not reported in the daily news. Andrew Daddo is fast becoming a major figure in Australian writing for young readers. Terry Denton is one of the secrets behind the success of Andy Griffiths Just series, and his illustrations put another mischievous twist in Andrew Daddo s adventures.

Just when you thought it was safe to stick your hand in the fish bowl, Gasp is back! In this latest adventure, our rotten fishy has to baby-sit his nephew Winston. What he doesn''t suspect is that Winston is the baby fish from the black lagoon, determined to cause havoc, mayhem and destruction wherever he goes. This is an epic story of mad babies, short attention spans and microwaves, with a climax that will leave you gasping - with laughter!

"This book is overflowing with 200 litres of rotten riddles that you''ll wish you never heard, 5000 sq metres of stupid drawings done by a monkey with a paintbrush, 4.3 kgs of pathetic puns that''ll make you want to tear your hair off, 70 hectares of a Paul Jennings story, a very ratty one, and that''s not all..."-Back cover. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

The second book in the .Storymaze. comic-book series, .The Eye of Ulam. will appeal to all lovers of comics and loopy adventures.

Here s another collection of Andrew Daddo s hilarious short stories that sold straight through their first print run for Christmas 2001, and generated a fantastic publicity campaign. Anyone who has seen Andrew on television knows that he is a born storyteller. And the stories in Sprung Again! are the kind that parents and grandparents long for, and the kids themselves love: stories of adventure, comedy and mischief from an almost legendary Australia, a place that is often not reported in the daily news. But what immediately strikes readers is that these stories are real . They re about football, fishing, camping, holidays, school gangs, growing up and dealing with the whole messy business of boyfriends and girlfriends, being part of the group or a nerd, so they will be eagerly read by both boys and girls. The stories are pacy and cheeky enough to appeal to the kids who love Andy Griffiths, but their resolution often involves little ethical issues that give them a strong appeal to adults. So Sprung Again! will be an ideal Christmas gift, and will have young readers and adults alike laughing with embarrassment at an author who s caught them out when they weren t looking. Terry Denton is one of the secrets behind the success of Andy Griffiths Just series, and his illustrations put another mischievous twist in Andrew Daddo s adventures.

A grandmother and her young grandchild treasure the time they have together. The wonderful hours spent reading, fishing and paddling in the sea will always be remembered. An uplifting story about a relationship that never dies.

200 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT STORYMAZE 2 The Eye of Ulam 1. It is written and illustrated by the FUNNIEST MAN in a small part of the SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE. 2. It is a COMIC EXTRAVAGANZA printed with soy sauce on dolphin-free recycled tuna flesh pages. 3. It contains drawings by an ILLUSTRATOR with NO FORMAL TRAINING. 4. It is the second in a series of 12 books ... But I warn you, I may not get around to writing the others because I am a busy man (the busiest man in the southern hemisphere) (and maybe I have better things to do). 5. The word ''STORYMAZE'' describes a combination of a story and a maze. It has 9 letters. So does the word ''DOGCATFLY'' and the word ''CATDOGCAR'' and the word ''DOGDOGDOG''. 6. A rogue iceberg that escaped from Nell Smith''s fridge in 1902 smashed into a bridge in Nepal killing 328 penguins. 7. If you have ever wanted to travel to parallel universes, this is the book for you. It contains a lot of factual information that will assist you. 8. + 9. The person sitting next to you is an idiot. If there is no one sitting next to you then you are an idiot. 200. Because this book is printed on tuna flesh, when you have finished reading it, you can feed it to your cat. If your cat won''t eat it, then it is an alien dressed as a cat!

Storymaze 2 - the comic extravaganza full of LAUGHS, no SEX and of course absolutely no BLOOD!