Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the Badness of Badgers

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That sounds very much like what I’ve tried to do with the adventures of my two little heroes. When I sat down to write the book, my aim was to produce a work of deep silliness, and I decided that the best way to do this was: b) to remove the brakes from my imagination; to switch off the internal censors that tell me, but that ’s impossible, or, that doesn ’t make sense, or, you can ’t do that. From November 2013 – 2015, he was chair of the Children's Writers and Illustrators Group (CWIG), a sub-group of the UK's Society of Authors. [1] Published books [ edit ] Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face

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Done it? Good. Now, where was I? Oh, yes, Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face, The Times, Children’s Book of the Week, and me being thrilled. In fact, I was so thrilled that I didn’t even notice the article next to the review until a couple of days later. But when I did, I found it both fascinating and serendipitous. A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014) - a retelling of the Shakespeare story for the Collins' Big Cats rangeHe worked as a primary school teacher in London during the 1990s and early 2000s; during this period, he began to write stories for children. His first book was published in 2004 and he left teaching the same year to concentrate on his writing career. Finn MacCool & the Giant's Causeway (2011) - a retelling of the Irish legend for the Oxford Reading Tree My children love the Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face series and a new addition is always welcome. If you haven’t read any of the books before, you will need to know that Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face are a brother and sister, who live on the Isle of Great Kerfuffle. Oh, and there are some very evil badgers, who regularly cause mayhem.

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You can’t imagine how thrilled I was to have my new book, Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the Badness of Badgers, chosen by The Times in early February as its Children’s Book of the Week. Surrealism and children’s fiction is a perfect match. As Picasso said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ” And as Megan, aged 8, said about Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the Badness of Badgers, “Blueberry jam! I laughed so hard my head fell off. ” Remember what it was like? Those days when anything could happen; when, no matter what was needed by the story you were acting out, it could be imagined into existence? When you had no idea where your game of let ’s pretend was going to end up, but it was fun getting there?John Dougherty is an award-winning Northern Irish children's writer, born in the town of Larne in 1964. He now lives in Gloucestershire. Find sources: "John Dougherty"author– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) The rascally BADgers have escaped from jail again and they made an amazing discovery–a pizza mine! They love eating it, of course, and selling it to make money to fund their villainous plots. But there’s a big problem: the Loose Pebbles library is tipping over without all that pizza to hold it up. And if it tips any farther, the entire island of Great Kerfuffle will flip over into the ocean!

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This results in lots of characters from lots of different stories colliding and, of course, this leads to chaos (accompanied by "comedy saxophone music"). Well, perhaps you can. And in a way, this blog post is going to be all about imagination. So go on, give it a go. The article was one in which a chap by the name of Philip Howard examined the word ‘surreal’, explaining in a few column inches what it actually means. Apparently, the aim of surrealism was to explore the unconscious mind and “liberate thought from the constraints of logic”, whilst its practitioners “startled the conventional world with imaginary worlds in which natural laws were suspended”.

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He worked as a primary school teacher in London during the 1990s and early 2000s, and during this period began to write stories for children. His first book was published in 2004 and he left teaching the same year to concentrate on his writing career. CWIG committee". Society of Authors. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015 . Retrieved 2 April 2015. Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face are a mischief-making brother and sister who are not afraid to make a mess or strike out on their own adventure.” —School Library Journal