The Day My Bum Went Psycho
The first book in the series, published in 2001
What’s the Story?
This is the story of a boy called Zack, his runaway bum and some of the most dangerous bums in the world, including kamikaze bums; nuclear bums; and Stenchgantor, the Great Unwiped Bum. With the help of The B-team (a crack bum- fighting unit comprising three of the best bum-fighters in the business: the Kicker, the Smacker and the Kisser), Zack must risk methane madness crossing the Great Windy Desert, death by stink-bog in the Brown Forest, and the perils of the Sea of Bums before finally descending into the heart of an explosive bumcano to confront the most dangerous bum of them all: his own!
Awards
Bookseller’s Choice Award Shortlisted Book of the Year 2001
YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards) Winner Older Readers 2002
YARA (Young Australian Readers Award) Older Readers Award 2001
“I gave it to my two older sons (aged 8 and 10) and they gobbled it up in a few sittings and pronounced it a silly book, great fun and one that they would certainly recommend to their friends.”
“Griffiths’ first novel is every bit as wicked and absurd as young readers have come to expect from the author of the cheeky Just short story series. With a bum for a villain, a laugh (or snigger) is guaranteed on every page.”
“Children will love the inventiveness and extreme ickiness of scenes like exploding an enormous pimple on the Great Unwiped Bum to propel themselves through the air, and the pervasiveness of the colour brown.”
“Griffiths has written a book that is very clever, a little rude and laugh-out-loud funny.”
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