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Penny Dreadful Cooks Up a Calamity
Summary
Penny Dreadful
Penny Dreadful Cooks Up a Calamity
by Joanna Nadin
- Three brand-new, fantastically funny Penny Dreadful adventures in one fab book! Join Penny for more calamitous capers as she tries to turn over a new leaf...
- The first book in the Penny Dreadful series, ‘Penny Dreadful is a Magnet for Disaster’, was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011
My name is not actually Penny Dreadful. It is Penelope Jones. The 'Dreadful' bit is my dad's JOKE. But I do not mean to be dreadful... sawing Bridget Grimes in half for the school show was supposed to be a GOOD THING. And I didn't mean to get up to any SHENANIGANS on the school trip. Plus I worked extra-especially hard on the CAKE OF DREAMS for Mum's birthday... but somehow it still turned into a HUGE calamity.
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Joanna Nadin
Joanna Nadin was born in Northampton. She is a former broadcast journalist and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister, and continues to freelance as a political speechwriter. She has also been a cleaner and a juggler.
Visit www.joannanadin.com to find out more.
Press & Blog Reviews
Full of throwaway lines and details that will have you, like Penny's dad, laughing like a honking goose, even though Penny herself is blissfully unaware of how hilarious she is.
Books, bonnets and full-frontal blogging
There is never a dull moment when Penny Dreadful and her best friend Cosmo Moon Webster are around. Simply wonderful!
First4Dads
Who could fail to like the calamity-prone but delightful Penny Dreadful?
Parents in Touch
In her time, Joanne Nadin has been a broadcast journalist, a special adviser to the Prime Minister, a cleaner and a juggler, so little wonder then that Penny Dreadful is her eclectic creation! Nadin has slotted comfortably into the madcap world of children’s comedy books and Penny Dreadful Cooks Up a Calamity features three adventures for her funny, feisty heroine.
Lancashire Evening Post
Extras
- Find out about the real Penny Dreadful
Read Joanna Nadin's guest blog at Bookbabblers. - Find out what makes Joanna Nadin laugh
Penny Dreadful author, Joanna Nadin, talks to the Guardian about her top ten laugh-out-loud, side-splitting books for children. - Penny Dreadful masks
Print out and make masks of Penny Dreadful and her faithful friend Cosmo. - Visit the Joanna Nadin's website.
Also by Joanna Nadin
Penny Dreadful is Incredibly Contagious
Joanna Nadin
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