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Alice Toolie #1
Yours Troolie, Alice Toolie
Something very bad has happened to Alice Toolie. Her secret diary has been read by her worst enemy - Jimmy Cook.
It's war! Until Ms Fennel decides that Alice and Jimmy need to make peace and become pen pals for the term.
And it works. Before long, Alice and Jimmy are planning to make billions of dollars for the school fete - and with a captured ghost and jars full of unicorn vomit, it's sure to be their time to shine.
A laugh-out-loud book filled with sparkle and slime, from the CBCA award-winning writers of the Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers series.
It's war! Until Ms Fennel decides that Alice and Jimmy need to make peace and become pen pals for the term.
And it works. Before long, Alice and Jimmy are planning to make billions of dollars for the school fete - and with a captured ghost and jars full of unicorn vomit, it's sure to be their time to shine.
A laugh-out-loud book filled with sparkle and slime, from the CBCA award-winning writers of the Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers series.
303 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 25, 2018
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About the author
Kate Temple
36 books24 followersHello to you! We are Kate and Jol Temple and we write silly books for kids! Some of them love to rhyme and others do not at all but all of them have pictures, because pictures are cool and anyone who says they're not is a two headed yeti. We live in Sydney with our human sons and a dog that thinks it's a raccoon.
We love to visit schools. We talk about and read picture books to little kids preschool through to junior primary. We also love to talk to bigger kids about our chapter books and what it's like being a writer. For more info about our school visits contact us and we'll be in touch.
We love to visit schools. We talk about and read picture books to little kids preschool through to junior primary. We also love to talk to bigger kids about our chapter books and what it's like being a writer. For more info about our school visits contact us and we'll be in touch.
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November 27, 2021
Started reading this to kids in the library. The kids really loved it and it made me want to finish. A fun read.
December 20, 2018
The Captain Jimmy Cook series will forever have place in my heart, after we performed it for Book Week last year (my colleague was the BEST Jimmy - i was in tears.)
Alice Toolie is a great character so i was excited to see she had a book. It does not disappoint.
Written in letter format between Alice and Jimmy, i was delighted by porridge cheese ghosts, egg cup dogs, sugar and citrus free lemonade and jars and jars of unicorn slime.
Top notch.
Alice Toolie is a great character so i was excited to see she had a book. It does not disappoint.
Written in letter format between Alice and Jimmy, i was delighted by porridge cheese ghosts, egg cup dogs, sugar and citrus free lemonade and jars and jars of unicorn slime.
Top notch.
September 2, 2018
Jimmy Cook (or Captain Cook, as he likes to call himself) found Alice Toolie’s diary in the Library. He read it, and it contained some not very nice things about Jimmy. Alice and Jimmy were both really mad with each other, so their teacher made them write letters to each other, to apologise. Not so surprisingly, neither of them were really in the mood to say sorry. In fact, when Alice started the letterbook by writing to Jimmy that he was a robber for stealing her privacy, he was furious. He wrote:
“If we were in the olden days, like before the Titanic sank, when there were cavemen, our families would be at war because you said that.”
And so the story goes, one decent giggle after another. Alice and Jimmy find plenty to fight about in their letterbook, but they also, quite by accident, find they have more than a few things in common. This was a delightful read that took me straight back to the letterbook days Jules and I enjoyed - especially the couple of years when he worked nights and we would write long letters to each other predicting and explaining episodes of Lost (man, I miss that show). Even West’s illustrations were reminiscent - Jules and I drew some pretty silly things for each other. I wonder where that letterbook ended up... no doubt it’s in one of the million boxes still waiting for my attention in the garage... sigh... Any way, this book was lots of fun. Highly recommended for the 8-12 reader in your life. I gave it an extra star for its super-cute cover.
“If we were in the olden days, like before the Titanic sank, when there were cavemen, our families would be at war because you said that.”
And so the story goes, one decent giggle after another. Alice and Jimmy find plenty to fight about in their letterbook, but they also, quite by accident, find they have more than a few things in common. This was a delightful read that took me straight back to the letterbook days Jules and I enjoyed - especially the couple of years when he worked nights and we would write long letters to each other predicting and explaining episodes of Lost (man, I miss that show). Even West’s illustrations were reminiscent - Jules and I drew some pretty silly things for each other. I wonder where that letterbook ended up... no doubt it’s in one of the million boxes still waiting for my attention in the garage... sigh... Any way, this book was lots of fun. Highly recommended for the 8-12 reader in your life. I gave it an extra star for its super-cute cover.
September 6, 2018
From the authors of the ‘Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers’ series comes another singularly silly, fun and unique junior novel. Alice Toolie is Jimmy’s third-grade nemesis, she’s a famous Yootootuber, popular class member who loves unicorns, glitter and ballet. When Jimmy find’s Alice’s secret diary in the library and reads some unpleasant comments about himself, a massive fight occurs. Ms Fennel their class teacher intervenes and both students have to apologise and write letters to each other for the whole term.
At first their letters are niggly, Alice calls Jimmy a privacy-stealing robber and Jimmy replies, “If we were in the olden days, like before the Titanic sank, when there were cavemen, our families would be at war because you said that.” As the letters continue both Alice and Jimmy begin to share more humorously about their interests, family life and dramas. They team up to solve the problem of the mysterious ghost in the Level 2 girls’ toilets who repeatedly sings a song from Annie the musical. This unfortunately leads to an incident with extremely expensive smelly cheese in the ghost bait jar which reappears right in the middle of the school fete.
Alice and Jimmy become a dynamic duo fund-raising – selling water instead of lemonade because of the school rules - no sugar week, no citrus and no plastic. Dog washing proves problematic it involves a cat and finally selling a wonderful array of jars of slime at the school fete. Their letter closings are expressive, resonating with the incidents or actions mentioned in the letter, from ‘Yours truly, Alice Toolie,’ ‘Yours Figuratively,’ ‘Yours invincibly’ to ‘Yours wide awake’.
Grace West’s cartoons add sparkle to this letter-book, that is jam-packed with emoji’s, doodles, ghosts and sketches of the main characters. ‘Yours truly, Alice Toolie’ is an engaging junior novel suited to readers from 8-10.
At first their letters are niggly, Alice calls Jimmy a privacy-stealing robber and Jimmy replies, “If we were in the olden days, like before the Titanic sank, when there were cavemen, our families would be at war because you said that.” As the letters continue both Alice and Jimmy begin to share more humorously about their interests, family life and dramas. They team up to solve the problem of the mysterious ghost in the Level 2 girls’ toilets who repeatedly sings a song from Annie the musical. This unfortunately leads to an incident with extremely expensive smelly cheese in the ghost bait jar which reappears right in the middle of the school fete.
Alice and Jimmy become a dynamic duo fund-raising – selling water instead of lemonade because of the school rules - no sugar week, no citrus and no plastic. Dog washing proves problematic it involves a cat and finally selling a wonderful array of jars of slime at the school fete. Their letter closings are expressive, resonating with the incidents or actions mentioned in the letter, from ‘Yours truly, Alice Toolie,’ ‘Yours Figuratively,’ ‘Yours invincibly’ to ‘Yours wide awake’.
Grace West’s cartoons add sparkle to this letter-book, that is jam-packed with emoji’s, doodles, ghosts and sketches of the main characters. ‘Yours truly, Alice Toolie’ is an engaging junior novel suited to readers from 8-10.
November 25, 2018
Alice Toolie is mortified. Her arch enemy Jimmy Cook has found and read her diary. This is the final straw, and this means war!
But their teacher has decided that they need to put their differences aside and find out more about each other. Do they have anything in common? Could they be friends? They now must write letters to each other to find out.
Alice and Jimmy finally agree on something. This is the worst idea ever and their teacher must be bonkers! But the letters begin. Jimmy brags about all he knows about being a famous explorer, and Alice does all she can to pop his imaginative delusions.
But just as planned, they do find things in common – a ghost in the girl’s toilets, great ideas to make money for the school fete, and how to get their mothers to STOP being friends, and making them spend time together out of school as well!
It was great to see these characters in another story, after the hilarious Captain Jimmy Cook discovers Third Grade, and X marks the Spot. Alice loves sparkle, unicorns and positivity, and Jimmy is all about exploring, digging, and handling all the dangerous stuff. Their back and forth baiting banter is funny.
But their teacher has decided that they need to put their differences aside and find out more about each other. Do they have anything in common? Could they be friends? They now must write letters to each other to find out.
Alice and Jimmy finally agree on something. This is the worst idea ever and their teacher must be bonkers! But the letters begin. Jimmy brags about all he knows about being a famous explorer, and Alice does all she can to pop his imaginative delusions.
But just as planned, they do find things in common – a ghost in the girl’s toilets, great ideas to make money for the school fete, and how to get their mothers to STOP being friends, and making them spend time together out of school as well!
It was great to see these characters in another story, after the hilarious Captain Jimmy Cook discovers Third Grade, and X marks the Spot. Alice loves sparkle, unicorns and positivity, and Jimmy is all about exploring, digging, and handling all the dangerous stuff. Their back and forth baiting banter is funny.
November 7, 2018
Alice and Jimmy have fought and their teacher makes them write letters to each other. The letters are adorable, as are the doodles and illustrations around them. A good one for the 8-10 year old age range.
October 13, 2018
A fun series of letters between Jimmy Cook and Alice Toolie. The layout is great, the pictures are great. Maybe just a tad long for lower primary?
March 26, 2019
Уморительно смешная детская книжка с симпатичными картинками. Переписка двух третьеклашек заставляет постоянно улыбаться. Думаю, ее прикольно читать вместе с детьми :)
May 22, 2020
Typical of Kate &Jol. A fun book of letters between frenemies :) Eternal kids with no fear to go outrageous.
June 18, 2021
If I judged this book by its cover I probably wouldn’t have even thought about reading it. It turned out as a pretty good book with great ideas.
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