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Giles Andreae, Author
Spike Gerrell, Illustrator
Series: Billy Bonkers
Imprint: Orchard Books
Publication date: April 3, 2014
Category: Humorous stories (Children's / Teenage)
ISBN: 9781408330586
Put your trainers on, Billy Bonkers is back with more amazing adventures!
This time he’s landing a plane and flying through the air in a hot-air balloon to watch the World Cup’s final. Billy and his family are so wacky, you will laugh your socks off!
Giles Andreae is the author of many top-selling, award-winning picture books. These include Elephant Me, Rumble in the Jungle, Commotion in the Ocean and I Love My Mummy. However, it is for the international bestseller Giraffes Can’t Dance that he is best known. Giles is also the creator of Purple Ronnie, Britain’s favourite stickman, and of the artist/philosopher, Edward Monkton. These two ranges of greetings cards, books and merchandise have made Giles the country’s top-selling living poet. Giles lives with his wife, Victoria, a children’s clothes designer, and their four children by the river in Oxfordshire.
Spike Gerrell is a prolific cartoonist known for his ‘spiky-nosed’ illustrations. His work has been published in the New Scientist, Independent, Times Educational Supplement and Guardian. Spike lives in north London.