Hopefully, young children will love this one because it’s playful with amusing elements of danger. The rhythm and rhyme is lively and there are crocodiles on the loose! What could be more fun than that? The book has noise and action with themes of imagination, teamwork and courage. They were pretending that crocodiles were coming to get them. I had the idea for this story while watching a group of children play in the sandpit. Escaping invisible crocodiles is like dodging molten lava it’s an imaginary game that is played universally by children. (from the publisher) Little Book PressĪuthor, Katrina Germain says, The story was super fun to write. It teaches young readers about working together, being brave, facing challenges and problem solving.

Shoo You Crocodile! is a fun tale for imaginative young readers and small, brave adventurers. Much loved children’s author, Katrina Germain and illustrator, Tom Jellett have a wonderful new book! My son used to decorate his school blazer with the labels from fruit and I thought it would be funny if Eddy did this. If your friend or someone you know does funny things, ask if you can use them in your books. For example, in both my Eddy books I describe liverwurst sandwiches as tasting a lot worse than they actually do. If you’re writing a funny book – exaggerate. In this book, Eddy buys a rabbit that he calls Chewy and chewy chews up his homework, but that teacher won’t believe him.

For example, our rabbit, Pickachew used to chew things up that he wasn’t supposed to and he used to chase the dog and it was very funny to watch, so I thought that I’d use these things in Eddy Popcorn’s Guide to Teacher Taming. Think about the things that you find funny and use them in your story. This is tip number two – write about things you know about or that you like to do – for me, that’s writing. So in Eddy Popcorn’s Guide to Parent Training, he writes a book for kids about how to deal with problem parents.

Seeing as I love to write, I wanted Eddy to be a writer too. In the first book, Eddy has been grounded for the school holidays for not writing his book reflections. Eddy is just like popcorn in that he’s full of life. Firstly, it’s great to think of a funny name for your character – and Eddy Popcorn was perfect. You can find out more about his work here.īut today I want to share some things I learned about writing funny books. The illustrations are by the amazing Benjamin Johnston and they’re hilarious. It was so much fun to write and it was the follow up book to Eddy Popcorn’s Guide to Parent Training which came out last year. I just had a new book published in February – Eddy Popcorn’s Guide to Teacher Taming.

Do you like reading funny books? Do you like writing books that make other people laugh?

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