Cautionary tales for a dangerous world #1

OVER the next few weeks we'll be bring you selections from Brett Woodward's brilliant new book.
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From "It's Time To Go Home When The Ferris Wheel Breaks" by Brett Woodward. Published by Hardie Grant Books.

"It's Time To Go Home When The Ferris Wheel Breaks" is a collection of blackly humorous cartoons that provide practical advice for surviving childhood or, at the very least, a police siege of your family home. Told from a kiddie viewpoint and illustrated with blithely sinister toilet-wall scrawls the book is a compendium of life lessons with a cruel twist.

The perfect gift for adults looking back nostalgically on their traumatic tender years, 'It's Time To Go Home When The Ferris Wheel Breaks' is like Roald Dahl with a snarl. Like "The Fox in Socks" with pox. Like Maurice Sendak off his Prozac. Like Edward Gorey with extra gory bits. Like Dr. Seuss on the juice.

Sick like baby's first seafood spew. Twisted like Granny's leaky colon. Dark like your alcoholic uncle's drinking moods.

Side-splitting in an inguinal hernia kind of way this funny frightmare will have you choking with laughter like your morbidly obese aunt gagging on a toenail. True stories, albiet from some leafless, stunted corner of the family tree. If that's not enough, flick straight to the section on where to look when Pop loses a toe to the Whipper-Snipper.

Available from Dymocks, Angus & Robertson, Pan Macmillan, Borders or Readings stores.

It can also be ordered online from...
Dymocks, Angus & Robertson, or Pan Macmillan.

4 March 2007

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