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Pizza Cake: And Other Funny Stories
STORIES WITH THE LOT!Save ten lives with a paperclip… discover how a big banana can ruin your sister's holiday… make a new friend with a garbage bin… develop a taste for sheep's spleen and chips… bounce on a vampire's bed… rescue your dad from a dog and a spider… use a toilet roll to get justice… upset the neighbours with a pickaxe… eat a pizza that makes you fearless... imagine a world where teachers earn more money than a rock star!------------------PRAISE FOR MORRIS GLEITZMAN‘Readers can't get enough of him.’ The Independent‘A brilliantly funny writer’ Sunday Telegraph‘A virtuoso demonstration of how you can make comedy out of the most unlikely subject’ Sunday Times‘He is one of the finest examples of a writer who can make humour stem from the things that really matter in life.’ The Guardian
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192 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 26, 2011
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About the author
Morris Gleitzman
121 books976 followersMorris began his writing career as a screenwriter, and wrote his first children's novel in 1985. His brilliantly comic style has endeared him to children and adults alike, and he is now one of Australia's most successful authors, both internationally and at home. He was born in England in 1953 and emigrated to Australia in 1969 so he could escape from school and become a Very Famous Writer.
Before realising that dream, he had a colourful career as paperboy, bottle-shop shelf-stacker, department store Santa Claus, frozen chicken defroster, fashion-design assistant and sugar-mill employee. In between he managed to gain a degree in Professional Writing at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. Later he became sole writer for three award-winning and top-rating seasons with the TV comedy series The Norman Gunston Show.
Morris wrote a number of feature film and telemovie screenplays, including The Other Facts of Life and Second Childhood, both produced by The Australian Children's Television Foundation. The Other Facts of Life won an AWGIE Award for the Best Original Children's Film Script.
He also wrote live stage material for people such as Rolf Harris, Pamela Stephenson and the Governor General of Australia. Morris is well known to many people through his semi-autobiographical columns in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald magazine, Good Weekend, which he wrote for nine years.
But the majority of Morris' accolades are for his hugely popular children's books. One of his most successful books for young people is Two Weeks with the Queen, an international bestseller which was also adapted into a play by Mary Morris. The play had many successful seasons in Australia and was then produced at the National Theatre in London in 1995 directed by Alan Ayckbourn, and also in South Africa, Canada, Japan and the USA.
All his other books have been shortlisted for or have won numerous children's book prizes. These include The Other Facts of Life, Second Childhood, Misery Guts, Worry Warts, Puppy Fat, Blabber Mouth, Sticky Beak, Belly Flop, Water Wings, Bumface, Gift Of The Gab, Toad Rage, Wicked! and Deadly!, two six-part novels written in collaboration with Paul Jennings, Adults Only, Toad Heaven, Boy Overboard, Teacher's Pet, Toad Away, Girl Underground, Worm Story, Once, Aristotle's Nostril, Doubting Thomas, Give Peas A Chance, Then, Toad Surprise, Grace, Now, Too Small To Fail, and his latest book, Pizza Cake. Morris' children's books have been published in the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, Japan, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Indonesia and Czechoslovakia, Russia and China.
Before realising that dream, he had a colourful career as paperboy, bottle-shop shelf-stacker, department store Santa Claus, frozen chicken defroster, fashion-design assistant and sugar-mill employee. In between he managed to gain a degree in Professional Writing at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. Later he became sole writer for three award-winning and top-rating seasons with the TV comedy series The Norman Gunston Show.
Morris wrote a number of feature film and telemovie screenplays, including The Other Facts of Life and Second Childhood, both produced by The Australian Children's Television Foundation. The Other Facts of Life won an AWGIE Award for the Best Original Children's Film Script.
He also wrote live stage material for people such as Rolf Harris, Pamela Stephenson and the Governor General of Australia. Morris is well known to many people through his semi-autobiographical columns in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald magazine, Good Weekend, which he wrote for nine years.
But the majority of Morris' accolades are for his hugely popular children's books. One of his most successful books for young people is Two Weeks with the Queen, an international bestseller which was also adapted into a play by Mary Morris. The play had many successful seasons in Australia and was then produced at the National Theatre in London in 1995 directed by Alan Ayckbourn, and also in South Africa, Canada, Japan and the USA.
All his other books have been shortlisted for or have won numerous children's book prizes. These include The Other Facts of Life, Second Childhood, Misery Guts, Worry Warts, Puppy Fat, Blabber Mouth, Sticky Beak, Belly Flop, Water Wings, Bumface, Gift Of The Gab, Toad Rage, Wicked! and Deadly!, two six-part novels written in collaboration with Paul Jennings, Adults Only, Toad Heaven, Boy Overboard, Teacher's Pet, Toad Away, Girl Underground, Worm Story, Once, Aristotle's Nostril, Doubting Thomas, Give Peas A Chance, Then, Toad Surprise, Grace, Now, Too Small To Fail, and his latest book, Pizza Cake. Morris' children's books have been published in the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, Japan, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Indonesia and Czechoslovakia, Russia and China.
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June 15, 2022
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do you like short little stories Instead of these books that drag out or take forever just to find out the mystery I introduce to you Pizza cake! (and other stories)
I recommend this book to you because the stories in it are quite funny and they have amazing characters. a good example of humour in Pizza cake is in the last story, the person needs a drink of water so badly that they have silly hallucinations and then they end up and going to dig up their neighbour’s water pipe to get water. Now to characters there are just amazing characters in each story but the best one I would say would be in the story Tickled onions where there are a group of people called the overweight watchers where they bully people for being overweight it’s just such a weird concept but I like it.
Pizza cake: and other funny stories is a book about lots of little stories that will make you laugh and question Why didn't I read this sooner? (I will now explain one of the stories instead of the whole book) the story I will be explaining is the first story of the book which is about if teachers earned more than Rockstar's this story is called Saving Ms Fosdyke, In the start of the book we get introduced to three characters (the main character) Emmy, Mum and dad they are in the kitchen talking about that the school are selling Ms Fosdyke for 50 Million dollars after Emmy found out about that she was sad and didn't want Ms Fosdyke to go because she wants to be a teacher when she is older. When she arrives to schools she talks to Ms Fosdyke and she is sad to but before they could talk anymore the bell went then Ms Fosdyke had to go teach (Emmy was in the same class as Ms Fosdyke). But Ms Fosdyke let Emmy teach and then that gave her confidence to peruse her dream to be a teacher.
A reason I like this is the length of the story's in the book there not to long so you don't get bored of them and they drag on forever and then you don't want to read that book ever again, (ok maybe not that far but you get the point) there nicely short to not bore you but they have enough for a good story. The other reason is the topic of the story's there simple but amazing for example save ten lives with a paper clip that story's about people getting locked in a mechanical house and then they get out by lockpicking the door with a paper clip to get out.
Even though this book is amazing there of course is things that can make it better such as more stories in the book when I finished the book I just felt like ten stories wasn't enough I wanted more good stories but apart from that I think the book is outstanding.
In conclusion go over to your nearest book store and grab a copy from the same person who wrote the other amazing book toad rage.
do you like short little stories Instead of these books that drag out or take forever just to find out the mystery I introduce to you Pizza cake! (and other stories)
I recommend this book to you because the stories in it are quite funny and they have amazing characters. a good example of humour in Pizza cake is in the last story, the person needs a drink of water so badly that they have silly hallucinations and then they end up and going to dig up their neighbour’s water pipe to get water. Now to characters there are just amazing characters in each story but the best one I would say would be in the story Tickled onions where there are a group of people called the overweight watchers where they bully people for being overweight it’s just such a weird concept but I like it.
Pizza cake: and other funny stories is a book about lots of little stories that will make you laugh and question Why didn't I read this sooner? (I will now explain one of the stories instead of the whole book) the story I will be explaining is the first story of the book which is about if teachers earned more than Rockstar's this story is called Saving Ms Fosdyke, In the start of the book we get introduced to three characters (the main character) Emmy, Mum and dad they are in the kitchen talking about that the school are selling Ms Fosdyke for 50 Million dollars after Emmy found out about that she was sad and didn't want Ms Fosdyke to go because she wants to be a teacher when she is older. When she arrives to schools she talks to Ms Fosdyke and she is sad to but before they could talk anymore the bell went then Ms Fosdyke had to go teach (Emmy was in the same class as Ms Fosdyke). But Ms Fosdyke let Emmy teach and then that gave her confidence to peruse her dream to be a teacher.
A reason I like this is the length of the story's in the book there not to long so you don't get bored of them and they drag on forever and then you don't want to read that book ever again, (ok maybe not that far but you get the point) there nicely short to not bore you but they have enough for a good story. The other reason is the topic of the story's there simple but amazing for example save ten lives with a paper clip that story's about people getting locked in a mechanical house and then they get out by lockpicking the door with a paper clip to get out.
Even though this book is amazing there of course is things that can make it better such as more stories in the book when I finished the book I just felt like ten stories wasn't enough I wanted more good stories but apart from that I think the book is outstanding.
In conclusion go over to your nearest book store and grab a copy from the same person who wrote the other amazing book toad rage.
December 10, 2017
Not to bad. It started to bore me after a while but I still enjoyed it :)
February 25, 2018
This is such a great book and its so funny! Its a great book for teens and children and it akes you smile and laugh sooo much!
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October 3, 2012
cute and funny short stories
March 3, 2014
hilarious book
March 26, 2014
Had to analyse this at school, so I didn't think i would like it but its actually fantastic! All the short stories have a good story line and they're so humourous! Morris have done it again!
March 14, 2015
Loved the book
Really funny and very intersting
Really funny and very intersting
March 23, 2015
Title story was good. Not really a kid's book that adults will enjoy.
April 18, 2017
The book was very funny, and I loved it
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