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First published 2017

The moral right of the author and illustrator has been asserted

Cover illustration by Nick Sharratt

ISBN: 978-0-141-38605-8

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Puffin Books

Penguin Random House Children’s

80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL

1. Watch Out, Dad’s About!

2. Really Gigantic Strawberries and an Awful Lot of Teeth

3. Ice Cream and Pumpkin Pie

4. Captain Disaster

5. Three Lobsters and a Bumpy Problem

6. Belly Dancing in the Rain

7. The Hissing Bush

8. The Big Splash

9. Wardrobes and a Very Scrappy Plan

10. Those Orange Trainers Should Be Arrested!

11. Centipedes as Big as Elephants

Not Quite the End

Author’s Note

JEREMY STRONG once worked in a bakery, putting the jam into three thousand doughnuts every night. Now he puts the jam in stories instead, which he finds much more exciting. At the age of three, he fell out of a first-floor bedroom window and landed on his head. His mother says that this damaged him for the rest of his life and refuses to take any responsibility. He loves writing stories because he says it is ‘the only time you alone have complete control and can make anything happen’. His ambition is to make you laugh (or at least snuffle). Jeremy Strong lives near Bath with his wife, Gillie, three cats and a flying cow.

www.jeremystrong.co.uk

It all started with a scarecrow …

Puffin is over seventy years old. Sounds ancient, doesn’t it? But Puffin has never been so lively. We’re always on the lookout for the next big idea, which is how it began all those years ago.

Penguin Books was a big idea from the mind of a man called Allen Lane, who in 1935 invented the quality paperback and changed the world. And from great Penguins, great Puffins grew, changing the face of children’s books forever.

The first four Puffin Picture Books were hatched in 1940 and the first Puffin story book featured a man with broomstick arms called Worzel Gummidge. In 1967 Kaye Webb, Puffin Editor, started the Puffin Club, promising to ‘make children into readers’. She kept that promise and over 200,000 children became devoted Puffineers through their quarterly instalments of Puffin Post.

Many years from now, we hope you’ll look back and remember Puffin with a smile. No matter what your age or what you’re into, there’s a Puffin for everyone. The possibilities are endless, but one thing is for sure: whether it’s a picture book or a paperback, a sticker book or a hardback, if it’s got that little Puffin on it – it’s bound to be good.

www.puffin.co.uk

ARE YOU FEELING SILLY ENOUGH TO READ MORE?

My Brother’s Famous Bottom

MY DAD’S GOT AN ALLIGATOR!

MY GRANNY’S GREAT ESCAPE

MY MUM’S GOING TO EXPLODE!

MY BROTHER’S FAMOUS BOTTOM

MY BROTHER’S FAMOUS BOTTOM GETS PINCHED

MY BROTHER’S FAMOUS BOTTOM GOES CAMPING

MY BROTHER’S HOT CROSS BOTTOM

MY BROTHER’S CHRISTMAS BOTTOM – UNWRAPPED!

MY BROTHER’S FAMOUS BOTTOM GETS CROWNED!

MY BROTHER’S FAMOUS BOTTOM TAKES OFF!

MY BROTHER’S FAMOUS BOTTOM MAKES A SPLASH

The Hundred-mile-an-hour Dog

THE HUNDRED-MILE-AN-HOUR DOG

RETURN OF THE HUNDRED-MILE-AN-HOUR DOG

CHRISTMAS CHAOS FOR THE HUNDRED-MILE-AN-HOUR DOG

WANTED! THE HUNDRED-MILE-AN-HOUR DOG

LOST! THE HUNDRED-MILE-AN-HOUR DOG

THE HUNDRED-MILE-AN-HOUR DOG GOES FOR GOLD!

KIDNAPPED! THE HUNDRED-MILE-AN-HOUR DOG’S SIZZLING SUMMER

THE HUNDRED-MILE-AN-HOUR DOG: MASTER OF DISGUISE

Cartoon Kid

CARTOON KID – SUPERCHARGED!

CARTOON KID STRIKES BACK!

CARTOON KID – EMERGENCY!

CARTOON KID – ZOMBIES!

Romans on the Rampage

ROMANS ON THE RAMPAGE

ROMANS ON THE RAMPAGE: JAIL BREAK!

ROMANS ON THE RAMPAGE: CHARIOT CHAMPIONS!

AND EVEN MORE?

THE BEAK SPEAKS

BEWARE! KILLER TOMATOES

FATBAG: THE DEMON VACUUM CLEANER

INVASION OF THE CHRISTMAS PUDDINGS

JEREMY STRONG’S LAUGH-YOUR-SOCKS-OFF JOKE BOOK

JEREMY STRONG’S LAUGH-YOUR-SOCKS-OFF EVEN MORE JOKE BOOK

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Contents

Your story starts here …

It all started with a scarecrow …

My family is off on holiday …

But I don’t think it’s going to be very relaxing …

ARE YOU FEELING SILLY ENOUGH TO READ MORE?