Comic Stories (Red Hot Reads)

Hilarious!

You'll find yummy cakes and hairy spiders, smelly goats and talking dogs, outrageous aunts and magic mice in this rib-tickling collection.

Includes:
In the shower with Andy /Andy Griffiths --
Woof! (extract) /Allan Ahlberg --
Who needs and Aries ape? /Walter Dean Myers --
The Snooks family /Harcourt Williams --
Double fudge (extract) /Judy Blume --
Wunderpants /Paul Jennings --
A work of art /Margaret Mahy --
Harry the street pigeon /M.L. Greenall --
William's New Year's Day /Richmal Compton --
The day of judgement /Richard Peck --
The yellow ribbon /Maria Leach, adpt by Virginia Tashjian --
The ship of fools /Terry Jones --
Spellshocked /Finbar O'Connor --
The adventures of Tom Sawyer (extract) /Mark Twain --
The great golden belly-button /Michael Rosen --
The ratcatcher /Errol Lloyd --
At the zoo /Brian Patten --
Julius Caesar's goat (extract) /Dick King-Smith --
Viking treasure /Roger McGough --
Break a leg /Joel Schwartz --
Uncle Trevor's magic flying slippers /Ian McMillan --
Blabber mouth (extract) /Morris Gleitzman --
How Tom beat Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen /Russell Hoban --
The hitchiker /Roald Dahl --
Spider George /Alex Shearer.

Roger McGough is one of Britain's favourite poets. Born in Liverpool, he trained as a teacher, but his true calling was poetry. Over the past four decades he has published over 50 books, as well as writing for radio, film and television. He has compiled several highly successful poetry collections, including the best-selling Kingfisher Book of Comic Verse. He received an OBE in 1997 for services to poetry. He lives in London. Adam Stower is a talented illustrator who has worked for many different publishers, including Kingfisher and Bloomsbury. He lives in Brighton.