Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Bees of Stupidity

Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face #4

by John Dougherty, David Tazzyman (Illustrator)

Ssh! Keep the noise down! Shut Uuuuuppp!!! Thanks ...There are strange things happening on the island of Great Kerfuffle. Listen carefully ...can you hear that humming noise? It's getting louder ...and louder ...it's coming this way! I think we'd better LEG IT!! Oh, hang about, here come our heroes, Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face to save us. They're sure to know what's beehind all this strange beehaviour. Let's hope they don't buzz off beefore the end of the story!

192 pages, Paperback

First published July 2, 2015

About the author

John Dougherty is an award-winning Northern Irish children's writer, born in the town of Larne in 1964. He now lives in Gloucestershire.

He worked as a primary school teacher in London during the 1990s and early 2000s, and during this period began to write stories for children. His first book was published in 2004 and he left teaching the same year to concentrate on his writing career.

From November 2013 – 2015, he was chair of CWIG, the Children's Writer's and Illustrators Group, a sub-group of the UK's Society of Authors.

Reviews

[Ali Wilkinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

'It was excellently funny and weird,' says my 7 year old son. I say don't be put off by the name, this book is impressively inventive and hilarious for adults and children - a difficult feat.

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

what a strange book about nothing really. But my daughter loved its quirkiness