Cirrus@Austlit

'The hilariously spooky Big Trouble series is back with Maddie and Clare's second adventure in Dead End! Can they beat a prehistoric mutant fart gas from zombifying everything in Dead End, including their own dad? Will Terrible Chicken finally rule the world? And how do you defeat killer pineapples?!

'Goosebumps meets Twilight Zone in this ridiculously funny new series from storytelling mastermind Lachlann Carter and Last Kids on Earth illustrator Douglas Holgate. With three madcap adventures in each book and every spread packed with comic-style illustrations, this silly-spooky series has enough trouble to keep the whole family on the edge of their seat!' (Publication summary)

'The first adventure in this riotously funny and absurd hybrid graphic-fiction series that smashes together the spookiness of Twilight Zone with the craziness of Adventure Time! 

'Maddie & Clare live in a quiet, palm tree-lined dead end with their dad and pet chicken. It’s not a place where not much happens, except for the odd small incident. Like a mass uprising of angry chairs. And the appearance of a prehistoric mutant fart gas. And an invasion of killer pineapples.

'But other than that, things are pretty boring in Dead End. You can see why Maddie and Clare have to make their own fun …

'From storytelling mastermind Lachlann Carter and Last Kids on Earth illustrator Douglas Holgate comes this hilarious and action-packed series for readers aged 6 and up! ' (Publication summary)

'Maralinga spins an alternative history from the 1956 British nuclear tests in the Woomera. Three hundred years later a ruined, irradiated, post-apocalyptic Australia is a place where monsters are real and one girl, the last of an isolated and dying community in Melbourne's south, launches on a desperate journey to find sanctuary and a mythical inland sea.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Some of the animals are deeply unhappy and the zoo keepers can’t figure it out. The spider monkey, for example, won’t spin his web or eat his flies and he seems scared of the other spiders. It’s bewildering!

'A picture book about confused animals, even more confused zookeepers and one very smart kid.' (Publication summary)

'In Zoo Sleepover, Will, Mia, Mum and Dad go to the zoo not just for a visit, for a sleepover! While they re there, they discover just how much they have in common with the animals some are cheeky, some are noisy and some are cuddly. But unknown to Will and his family, some of the animals are following them Douglas Holgate s character-filled illustrations will delight kids and adults alike, with plenty of humorous detail to pore over.' (Publisher's blurb)