Paul Jennings

Paul Jennings has written over one hundred stories and has been voted 'favourite author' by children in Australia over forty times, winning every children's choice award. The toprating TV series Round the Twist and Driven Crazy are based on a selection of his enormously popular short-story collections such as Unseen! which was awarded the 1999 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Children's Book. In 1995 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to children's literature and was awarded the prestigious Dromkeen Medal in 2001. Paul has sold more than 8 million books worldwide.

Eight weird and wonderful stories from Paul Jennings. Plans come undone. Zips come undone. Bullies come undone. And so will readers who try to predict the endings of these stories.

En ningún lugar se prepara el pollo más deliciosamente que en Mayor Mac: Pollo frito para llevar. Por eso su dueño guarda en absoluto secreto la receta para prepararlo. Pero un día, se inaugura un negocio que vende el pollo a mitad de precio y con el mismo sabor. Alguien evidentemente ha robado la receta. Pero, ¿quién?

It was unbearable. Lehman stared at his hands. The nails had grown up his arms to his elbows. His legs were covered too. Toenails grew up to his knees. It was unbearably weird.

Unha barra de labios que volve tolas as rapazas. Uns calzóns que proporcionan calidades prodixiosas a quen os pon. O esterco dun xardiñeiro afeccionado que produce unha praga de moscas. Unha cola milagrosa que, despois de catro horas, deixa de funcionar. Un esqulete no retrete e osos que camiñan pola praia... Vaiche boa! Historias alucinantes que hai que gozar e ler con cautela porque... coidado!, crean adicción á lectura. Este libro, que no 2004 volve a aparecer no prelo de Galaxia, xa ten demostrado que sabe facer lectores, e que os lectores gozan cos relatos que contén ata o punto de pediren máis. Os medos da infancia, todos os interrogantes que caben na cabeza dun rapaz, as teimas do adultos, as pequenas incapacidades, os primeiros fracasos configuran, neste volume, un conxunto ben aderezado co humorismo e a axilidade narrativa que son característicos na obra do autor, o inglés afincado en Australia, Paul Jennings. O volume conta coas magníficas ilustracións de Kiko da Silva, que nos agasalla nesta edición cunha soberbia ilustración de cuberta realizada en técnica tridimensional.