Johnny Casanova - Softcover

Jamie Rix

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0744590477 ISBN 13: 9780744590470

Publisher: Walker Childrens Paperbacks

Synopsis

JOHNNY WORMS is a fourteen year old boy who has an eye for the girls. Unfortunately the girls don’t seem to have an eye for him. So he changes his name to CASANOVA in the hope that it will change his luck, but it doesn’t. Sex remains as elusive as ever. He has swallowed the image of a romantic lover as a caring, sensitive soul. He writes love poetry and learns the guitar to serenade the girls. He prinks and preens his sacred locks and dresses to kill, but can’t pluck up the courage to ask a girl out. He’s a mass of hormonal confusion, hopelessly in love with any girl who will give him the time of day unless they’re Deborah Smeeton.

About this title

About the Author

Jamie Rix is the son of actors Brian Rix and Elspet Gray. A TV producer in his spare time (Smith and Jones, KYTV, Harry Hill), his first children's book, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, was published in 1990 and was the Smarties Book Prize Children's Choice. Since then he has adapted Grizzly Tales and his other collections of cautionary tales, Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids, Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids and More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids into an award-winning animation series on CITV. He has written several other books, including the sequel to this title, called The Changing Face of Johnny Casanova; Free the Whales; The Fire in Henry Hooter and his first picture book, The Last Chocolate Biscuit. Married with two grown-up sons, he lives in south London.

Review

"Genuinely funny... sparklingly well-written." The Independent; "Hilariously funny." The Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Walker Childrens Paperbacks
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0744590477
• ISBN 13: 9780744590470
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176