Secondhand Picture Book Bargain Book Box SP4112

Secondhand Picture Book Bargain Book Box SP4112

Twelve picture books with a comedy streak: Mums Don’t Fart, Okay!!, Do Not Open This Book Ever, Smelly Bill Stinks Again, Nick Bland’s The Very Itchy Bear and Dahl’s Enormous Crocodile, with Paddington, Mem Fox’s Tough Boris, Eugene Trivizas’s Three Little Wolves and two Colin Buchanan Easter books. Nearly all hardback.

1. Paddington and the Grand Tour — Michael Bond & R.W. Alley — Paddington takes the Browns on a tour of London, and takes charge of the itinerary. Marmalade, buses, chaos.
2. Australians All Love Easter Eggs — Colin Buchanan & Sarah Hardy — The Easter Bilby and friends hunt eggs across the bush. Sung to a tune parents will recognise.
3. Mums Don’t Fart, Okay!! — A mum insists she doesn’t, a classroom of kids knows better, and the illustrations don’t hold back. The book that gets requested every night for a month.
4. Tough Boris — Mem Fox & Kathryn Brown — Boris is the toughest pirate on the sea, and when his parrot dies, he cries. Fox’s shortest, best book about feelings.
5. Smelly Bill Stinks Again — Daniel Postgate — The dog who won’t be washed, back for a second bath he’s determined to escape.
6. Do Not Open This Book Ever — Andy Lee & Heath McKenzie — The blue creature from Do Not Open This Book is back, begging the reader harder, and losing again. Australian bestseller.
7. The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig — Eugene Trivizas & Helen Oxenbury — The pig has a sledgehammer, then dynamite, and the wolves end up building a house of flowers. The best fairy-tale reversal there is.
8. Incy Wincy Spider — illustrated by Karen Erasmus — The rhyme as a picture book, with the drainpipe from the spider’s point of view.
9. Aussie Easter Hat Parade — Colin Buchanan & Simon Williams — The bush animals make hats and parade them. Companion to Easter Eggs.
10. Small Knight and George and the Pirates — Ronda Armitage & Arthur Robins — A small knight, a small dragon and a shipful of pirates who want their treasure. Third in the series.
11. The Very Itchy Bear — Nick Bland — Bear has an itch, Flea is the itch, and Flea won’t leave. From the Very Cranky Bear author. Scholastic.
12. The Enormous Crocodile — Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake — The crocodile has secret plans and clever tricks for eating children, and every animal in the jungle stops him. Dahl’s picture book, and the one small children ask for.