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Very Yummy Stories. Stop your mum picking her nose, read the secret diary of a dog, catch a bus and then let it go, discover how one slice of toast can make you the most popular person in school, start wearing a crown and give up eating pig-nostril gruel, use a wrecking ball to defeat a bully, show your big sister the very scary secret in your wardrobe, unleash the awesome power of chips, live in a house that gets wiped clean more often than a bottom. Funny stories from a favourite Australian author.
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Published June 6, 2017
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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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Displaying 1 - 9 of 9 reviews
March 25, 2018
We loved it - great collection of funny short stories
My son is only 7 and we've never read short stories before together, but I chanced him with these in the car, the audiobook version. He certainly didn't understand everything about these stories (context of historical periods, terminology - internet trolls) but overall he got the gist of each tale and was begging me not to turn the engine off!
Nine funny stories from Glietzman, one of my favourites, all with messages - from a medieval story of a farm boy told he's the new King, to a girl competing with another student for her own friends with food, and to a child watching her lawyer mum defending two men accused of stealing chocolate and seeing her become addicted to it...
Would you believe, I was in tears a few times as I drove listening. Gleitzman has a way with his writing, just as Morpurgo manages, of bringing out pathos, and often unexpectedly. The children are a great bunch of characters, very likeable and sympathetic.
I've previously read Give Peas a Chance, a bigger collection from the same author, this one is suitable for the same age range. I'd say 8-12 is the ideal age as there are a few slightly upsetting concepts (deaths, illness) but on the whole, the humour and wonderful ideas had us rapt.
Well read by the author, his voice conveys the young protagonists very well and it was an easy listen for my son and I.
My son is only 7 and we've never read short stories before together, but I chanced him with these in the car, the audiobook version. He certainly didn't understand everything about these stories (context of historical periods, terminology - internet trolls) but overall he got the gist of each tale and was begging me not to turn the engine off!
Nine funny stories from Glietzman, one of my favourites, all with messages - from a medieval story of a farm boy told he's the new King, to a girl competing with another student for her own friends with food, and to a child watching her lawyer mum defending two men accused of stealing chocolate and seeing her become addicted to it...
Would you believe, I was in tears a few times as I drove listening. Gleitzman has a way with his writing, just as Morpurgo manages, of bringing out pathos, and often unexpectedly. The children are a great bunch of characters, very likeable and sympathetic.
I've previously read Give Peas a Chance, a bigger collection from the same author, this one is suitable for the same age range. I'd say 8-12 is the ideal age as there are a few slightly upsetting concepts (deaths, illness) but on the whole, the humour and wonderful ideas had us rapt.
Well read by the author, his voice conveys the young protagonists very well and it was an easy listen for my son and I.
November 28, 2017
not one of his best, but i am an adult, kids might enjoy it more.
February 1, 2017
This collection would make a great read-a-loud for 9-12's. There is a medieval tale, a diary of a dog, a Fairy Demolition Contractor and a boy trolling the internet, not to mention a nose picking mum. With lots of humour, and also leaving the reader something to think about.
8 great short stories from this master storyteller.
8 great short stories from this master storyteller.
November 30, 2016
A good selection of zany stories, each with a message about life for the reader.
May 18, 2017
I think 10 years olds will think it as i did
January 10, 2018
A collection of nine short stories. Each fun story contains a serious message.
September 20, 2022
Some stories were pretty funny 😅😂
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December 25, 2016
A good selection of short stories. Doesn't have the humour of his Toad series and stories tended to be more serious by nature. All had a moral or message for the reader. A very worthy addition to any school library collection.
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