Best Selling Books by Paul Jennings

(Percussion). This beginner''s guide for anyone learning to play the cajon take you through the basics of the instrument and its techniques. The accompanying online videos include demonstrations of many examples in the book. Topics covered include: playing position * notation * bass and slap tone exercises * grooves * changing pitch * foot slide exercises * finger doubles and triples * playing with brushes * and much more.

Oh yuck. The mice were running up my trousers. They wriggled under my shirt. They were even inside my underpants. Mice, madness and mayhem. From the Magic Pen of Paul Jennings

Collection of eight humourous, entertaining and slightly vulgar short stories. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

At last, Ricky is friends with Samantha. But he still wants to be famous. Find out if he can finally realise his dream even though he can''t let anyone see him fly. A brilliant series presented in words and pictures by master story tellers Paul Jennings and Andrew Weldon. DON''T LOOK NOW will have readers laughing out loud at Ricky and his hilarious adventures - on and off the ground.

Book 1 in the fantastic four-book series about taking risks and flying high, presented in words and pictures by master story tellers Paul Jennings and Andrew Weldon. Don''t Look Now will have readers laughing out loud at Ricky and his hilarious adventures - on and off the ground. Ages 7+.

This book charts the history of gin from its arrival in England in the sixteenth century to the present day. In doing so it uses a range of perspectives: economic, social, cultural and political to give a rounded picture of how the spirit developed in the way it did over some 400 years. It looks at how gin’s popularity has ebbed and flowed over the centuries among different groups in society. It is therefore concerned with the drinkers of gin and why they chose it and at the meanings which they attached to its consumption. Gin was particularly popular with women and the spirit is often associated with them, in phrases like Mother’s Ruin. This also alerts us to the fact that gin has often had a bad press, never more so than in the infamous Gin Craze of the first half of the eighteenth century, so vividly depicted in Hogarth’s Gin Lane. The book attempts to tell something of the real history of gin beneath the frequent condemnation. It ends with the resurgence of gin’s popularity with the emergence of so-called designer gins in the twenty-first century.

A collection of 8 shocking stories.

Believe it or not … a kid can grow younger; birds can bury you; ghosts have exams; there are eyes in the milk. A brilliant collection of funny, weird and whacky short stories from Paul Jennings.

The fourth - and very last - Gizmo story from Australia''s master of madness.

Designed for reluctant readers whether children or adults, the Spirals series has been expanded with 12 titles for 2003, including four non-fiction titles. Dynamic plots and storylines encourage readers to pick them up again and again, while engaging themes and attractive cover designs aim to motivate readers. Short but substantial chapters give a sense of achievement in reading whole texts and a clear text design without illustrations and activities that may distract, encourages focus on reading and enables low achievers to improve at their own pace.

Watch out for the gizmo! It can make anything happen, and it might have a surprise in store for you! Here is another weird and wacky tale from this phenomenally successful author.

First published in 1991, winner of the 1992 Kids Own Australian Literature Award (NSW). Collection of nine humorous stories by well-known children''s writer whose other publications include ''Uncanny'', winner of the 1989 Young Australians Best Book Award (Victoria) and ''Unbearable'', winner of the 1993 Young Australians Best Book Award (Victoria). Stories from this series form the basis of popular television series ''Round the Twist''.

A collection of eight stories about the scary, the supernatural, or the unusual, including a mysterious bottle whose contents let you read people''s minds and homemade granola that turns a boy into an apple tree.

In this sequel to ''The Cabbage Patch Fib'', Dad has his vegie garden and one giant cabbage that is his pride and joy. When Dad has a barbie and invites all his mates except the man next-door, an all-out war begins, and ends with a missing cabbage. Who is the villain? As the cover declares, ''It could only be a Paul Jennings story. And it is.'' Ages 8-11 years.

Scott knows that Singenpoo can read. But will he be able to prove it? The competition is on... The hilarious sequel to The Paw Thing.

When Amy arrives home for her birthday tea, her parents have vanished and in their place is a baby she''s never seen before. At around the same time Sprocket wakes up naked on a deserted mountainside and realises that he has lost his memory. Both kids set out on journeys to find the people they belong to, little knowing that they will soon join forces and embark, with the baby, on the deadliest quest of their lives. Morris Gleitzman writes Amy''s story and Paul Jennings Sprocket''s, with each of them contributing alternate chapters.

SUMMARY: A small dragon follows Bron to school and rescues the teacher from a large teacher-eater dragon.

SUMMARY: Spooky stories with a surprise ending every time.