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'Save ten lives with a paperclip, discover how a big banana can ruin your sister's holiday, make a new friend with a garbage bin, develop a taste for sheep's spleen and chips, bounce on a vampire's bed, rescue your dad from a dog and a spider, use a toilet roll to get justice, upset the neighbours with a pickaxe, eat a pizza that makes you fearless, and imagine a world where...' (From the publisher's website.)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Camberwell,
Camberwell - Kew area,
Melbourne - Inner South,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Puffin
, 2011 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Saving Ms Fosdyke, single work short story
- Pizza Cake, single work short story
- Charles the Second, single work short story
- Secret Diary of a Dad, single work short story
- Can't Complain, single work short story
- Draclia, single work short story
- Tickled Onions, single work short story
- Stationary Is Never Stationary, single work short story
- Big Mistake, single work short story
- Harriet's Story, single work short story
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
-
[Review] Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 56 no. 1 2012; (p. 29)
— Review of Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories 2011 selected work short story -
[Review] Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 27 no. 1 2012; (p. 36-37)
— Review of Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories 2011 selected work short story -
Stay in the Good Books
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7-8 January 2012; (p. 37)
— Review of Bom! Went the Bear 2011 single work picture book ; The Jewel Fish of Karnak 2011 single work picture book ; A Bus Called Heaven 2011 single work picture book ; The Carousel 2011 single work picture book ; Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories 2011 selected work short story ; Act of Faith 2011 single work novel ; The Coming of the Whirlpool 2011 single work novel 'Frances Atkinson rounds up some summer children's titles from top Australian and international talent.' (Editor's abstract) -
The Very Best of Company
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 17 December 2011; (p. 26-27)
— Review of Bom! Went the Bear 2011 single work picture book ; The Jewel Fish of Karnak 2011 single work picture book ; A Bus Called Heaven 2011 single work picture book ; The Carousel 2011 single work picture book ; Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories 2011 selected work short story ; The Coming of the Whirlpool 2011 single work novel -
[Review] Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , October vol. 91 no. 4 2011; (p. 31)
— Review of Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories 2011 selected work short story
-
Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 15 October 2011; (p. 30)
— Review of Rip Off 2011 single work novel ; Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories 2011 selected work short story ; World's End 2011 single work novel -
[Review] Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , October vol. 91 no. 4 2011; (p. 31)
— Review of Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories 2011 selected work short story -
The Very Best of Company
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 17 December 2011; (p. 26-27)
— Review of Bom! Went the Bear 2011 single work picture book ; The Jewel Fish of Karnak 2011 single work picture book ; A Bus Called Heaven 2011 single work picture book ; The Carousel 2011 single work picture book ; Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories 2011 selected work short story ; The Coming of the Whirlpool 2011 single work novel -
Stay in the Good Books
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7-8 January 2012; (p. 37)
— Review of Bom! Went the Bear 2011 single work picture book ; The Jewel Fish of Karnak 2011 single work picture book ; A Bus Called Heaven 2011 single work picture book ; The Carousel 2011 single work picture book ; Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories 2011 selected work short story ; Act of Faith 2011 single work novel ; The Coming of the Whirlpool 2011 single work novel 'Frances Atkinson rounds up some summer children's titles from top Australian and international talent.' (Editor's abstract) -
[Review] Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 27 no. 1 2012; (p. 36-37)
— Review of Pizza Cake and Other Funny Stories 2011 selected work short story
Awards
- 2015 honour book KOALA Awards — Younger Readers
- 2013 honour book KOALA Awards — Younger Readers
- 2013 winner COOL Award — Fiction for Younger Readers
- 2012 honour book KOALA Awards — Older Readers
- 2012 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
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