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Publication date
  
2004

OCLC
  
156029078

Author
  
Andy Griffiths

Publisher
  
Macmillan Publishers

Country
  
Australia

3.9/5
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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
2004

Genre
  
Children's literature

Illustrator
  
Terry Denton

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Pages
  
172 pp (paperback edition)

ISBN
  
978-0-330-36425-6 (paperback edition)

Similar
  
Andy Griffiths books, Other books

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The Bad Book is a 2004 book by Andy Griffiths, who wrote the novel The Day My Bum Went Psycho, with Terry Denton, who also did the illustrations. It is a compilation of bad stories, drawings, rhymes and poems about such quirky characters like 'Bad Baby', and 'Bad Daddy' doing such bad things like miss-throwing knives, and blowing up objects and people at Christmas. It was followed by The Very Bad Book (2010) and The Super Bad Book (2011)

Contents

Stories (in chronological order)

The Bad Book contains forty-five stories overall.

  • Bad Jack Horner - Nursery Rhyme
  • Bad Humpty Dumpty - Nursery Rhyme
  • Bad Diddle Diddle - Nursery Rhyme
  • The Bad Ant - Story
  • Joan Purst - Limerick
  • Greedy Little Grace - Poem
  • Bad Daddy and the Big Swing - Cartoon
  • Badtown - Story
  • The Old Lady who swallowed a Poo - Song
  • The Girl Who Slammed Doors - Limerick
  • Bad Riddles - Jokes
  • The Sad Bad Bad-man - Story
  • Little Willy - Poem
  • Jeff Pest - Limerick
  • Bad Mummy And The Very Busy Six-Lane Hig-way - Cartoon
  • Penny McRose - Poem
  • Bad Terence - Poem
  • Bad Baby - Cartoon
  • Silly Billy - Poem
  • Very Bad Riddles - Jokes
  • The Bad Little Boy, His Father and the Very Tall Mountain - Story
  • Bad Little Betty - Poem
  • Bad Daddy Says 'No' - Cartoon
  • Little Snotty Steve - Poem
  • Bad Baby's Christmas - Cartoon
  • Ruth Punny - Limerick
  • Pirates, Trucks, Bombs, Sharks, Dinosaurs and Football - Story
  • The Bad Knife-Thrower - Cartoon
  • The Girl Who Asks Too Many Questions - Story
  • Pete Pedderson - Limerick
  • Bad Mummy and the Big Cliff - Cartoon
  • The Bad Old Duke of York - Story
  • The Bad Granny - Story
  • Little Bad Riding Hood - Story
  • Peter, Peter Junk-food Eater - Poem
  • The Bad Builder - Story
  • Ed & Ted and Ted's Bad Dog Fred - Story (Similar writing in The Cat On The Mat Is Flat)
  • Very, Very Bad Riddles - Jokes
  • If You're Bad and You Know it - Song
  • The Day Nothing Bad Happened - Story
  • Bad Mummy and the Very Hungry Lion - Cartoon
  • Very, Very, Very Bad Riddles - Jokes
  • Bad Baby at the Circus - Cartoon
  • Badword Puzzle - Puzzle
  • The Very Bad Story - Story
  • The Very, Very Bad Story - Story
  • The Very, Very, Very Bad Story - Story

    • Awards

    In 2005 The Bad Book was awarded the BILBY Award for Younger Readers.

    References

    The Bad Book Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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