Billy Bonkers

by
Giles Andreae
Illustrator: Nick Sharratt

Meet Billy Bonkers, the star of three stories from best selling author Giles Andreae, and discover how an average day with the Bonkers family always seems to turn into something extraordinary.

Mrs Bonkers's frilly pants become a human catapult; a trampoline sends Billy into space and an experiment with rocket boosting armbands results in a collision with a shark.

These comic stories are accompanied by illustrations from Nick Sharratt, reflecting the action-packed but ultimately cosy world of the Bonkers family, where Billy, with a little help from his sensible sister Betty, always saves the day.

Billy Bonkers is likely to tempt the most reluctant of readers and boys in particular will love the mischievous humour. A perfect read alone book but also suitable for reading aloud.

Publisher: Orchard Books

Nick Sharratt

Nick liked drawing from an early age. 'When I was nine,' he says, 'a picture that I'd drawn at school was pinned up in the hall, and the husband of one of the teachers saw it and offered me five pounds to do a similar picture for him. That's when I decided I was going to be a professional artist one day! I nearly always drew in felt tip pens then, and I liked drawing big crowd scenes. I'd start in the bottom left-hand corner of the paper and just let the picture grow, telling myself stories about each of the characters in turn as I drew them.'

Nick Sharratt
Giles Andreae

Giles Andreae is an award-winning children's author and has written both fiction titles and bestselling picture books, such as Pants and The Lion who Wanted to Love. He has won the Federation of Children's Book Award and the Booktrust Early Years Award, but he is probably most famous as the creator of the phenomenally successful Purple Ronnie, Britain's favourite stickman. Giles lives in Notting Hill, London with his wife and four children.

Giles Andreae