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Zusatztext For up-to-date fiction! Giles Andreae's Billy Bonkers is a real laugh. Informationen zum Autor Giles Andreae is the author of many top-selling! award-winning picture books. These include Rumble in the Jungle ! Commotion in the Ocean and I Love My Mummy . However! it is for the international bestseller Giraffes Can't Dance that he is best known. Giles is also the creator of Purple Ronnie! Britain's favourite stickman! and of the artist/philosopher! Edward Monkton. These two ranges of greetings cards! books and merchandise have made Giles the country's top-selling living poet. Giles lives with his wife! Victoria! a children's clothes designer! and their four children by the river in Oxfordshire. Nick graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1984 and has been working as an illustrator ever since. His work encompasses books for babies through to books for early teens and he has produced around 150 books to date. He is perhaps best-known for his illustrations for the multi-million selling author Jacqueline Wilson! but as well as this! he writes his own picture books and collaborates with various reputed picture book writers! on books such as PANTS and EAT YOUR PEAS.Recent awards include the Children's Book Award! Sheffield Children's Book Award! The Stockport Schools Award! the Experian Big Three Award. He has also been nominated for the 2003 Kate Greenaway Prize. Klappentext Three madcap adventures with huge naughty boy appeal. Zany! fun-filled text and illustrations. Ages: 6-9yrs. A strong central character, with huge naughty boy appeal. These three madcap adventures read brilliantly by Morwenna Banks will have children rolling with laughter! Zusammenfassung Mad stuff just happens with Billy Bonkers! Billy is a bouncy! bubbly! bonkers boy. And wherever he goes! off-the-wall adventures always seem to follow. From bouncing so hard on his trampoline that he bounces up! up and away...into space! and eating so much porridge his stomach puffs up and he floats into the garden tree (and gets stuck...until he burps anyway)! to a flight on a deflating lilo to biff a big! vicious shark right on the nose! Along with his wacky dad! brainy sister and down-to-earth mum! Billy's life is never boring! it's bonkers! This zany text is perfectly accompanied by Nick Sharratt's energetic illustrations. ...
