My Great Success and Other Failures

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Wilkins is a writer and comedian. She writes jokes and stories which she performs around the country to strangers in the dark, trying to make them laugh. Catherine has always wanted to write funny stories for children and is finding the whole process more exciting than that time she bungee jumped. Which is pretty exciting. If you think about it. Sarah grew up in Derbyshire, mainly under a snowdrift. She spent much of her childhood scampering in the nearby fields with a few goats. Then she decided to be sensible and studied Illustration at Falmouth College of Arts and gained a Masters degree at Kingston University. Sarah lives in London and specialises in funny, inky illustration and words for children's books. Klappentext Jess's cartoons are actually beginning to take off. A local comic store wants to use them in a campaign and she is in danger of becoming really rather famous (at school). This leads to some tensions with her friends. Why can't people be happy for her? It's not as if success is going to her head, or anything. Or actually that it's anything like success at all... The fourth hilarious novel from Catherine Wilkins Zusammenfassung Jess's cartoons are actually beginning to take off. A local comic store wants to use them in a campaign and she is in danger of becoming really rather famous (at school). Why can't people be happy for her? It's not as if success is going to her head, or anything. Or actually that it's anything like success at all...

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Wilkins, Wilkins Catherine
• Assisted by: Sarah Horne (Illustration)
• Publisher: Nosy Crow
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 12
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.08.2015
• EAN: 9780857634900
• ISBN: 978-0-85763-490-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Und andere Katastrophen; Catherine Wilkins series; A Jess Jackson Book
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship, School stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: School stories, Humorous stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories