Quirky Tails: More Oddball Stories, Paul Jennings, Puffin Books, 1995, 0140376372, 9780140376371, 108 pages. .

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Wicked Bindup , Paul Jennings, Morris Gleitzman, Oct 31, 1998, Juvenile Fiction, 360 pages. Something very weird is happening to Dawn and Rory. And it's not just their new step-family. Slurping slobberers want to suck their bones out. Strange steel sheep want to smash ....

Singenpoo strikes again , Paul Jennings, May 5, 1998, Pets, 62 pages. Scott knows that Singenpoo can read. But will he be able to prove it? The competition is on... The hilarious sequel to The Paw Thing..

Skin Deep , Lois Ruby, Oct 1, 1999, , . Laurel's boyfriend Dan becomes a neo-Nazi skinhead and gets the attention and respect he has been denied all his life, especially when he becomes involved in a First Amendment ....

Listen Ear And Other Stories to Shock You Silly!, Paul Jennings, May 1, 1998, , 112 pages. In a collection of eight bizarre tales, a boy is chased by his own face, another travels through time to change his own destiny, and the food-chain develops a strain of cat ....

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Spooner Or Later , Paul Jennings, Ted Greenwood, 1992, , 34 pages. it's largely loopy, over the top and it'll drive you crazy. But for a laugh and a challenge, this award-winning weird word book will lead you on a wacky hunt for the Reverend ....

I Like This Poem A Collection of Best-Loved Poems Chosen by Children for Other Children, Kaye Webb, Antony Maitland, 1979, , 191 pages. "A collection of poems chosen by children for children in aid of the International Year of the Child" -- Cover..

David & Della A Novel, Paul Zindel, Dec 1, 1995, , 176 pages. David Mahooley, a teenage playwright suffering from writer's block, finds himself drawn into the passionate world of a flamboyant, alcoholic young actress with a talent for lying.. The cabbage patch fib , Paul Jennings, 1996, Family & Relationships, 49 pages. A father at eight years old? It could only happen in a Paul Jennings story... and it does! But how...'.

Unmentionable! More Amazing Stories, Paul Jennings, Oct 1, 1995, , 132 pages. A collection of nine stories about the scary, the supernatural, or the unusual, including an ice maiden with a deadly kiss and a magic harmonica with the power to do good or evil..

Uncollected Every Story from Undone, Uncovered and Unseen, Paul Jennings, 2002, , 432 pages. Includes every story from Undone!, Uncovered! and Unseen! - twenty-six weird, wacky, wonderful stories in one volume from Australia's most popular author..

Tongue-Tied! , Paul Jennings, 2002, Children's stories, 141 pages. Have you ever . . . bull; swallowed a live fish? bull; seen bugs in hailstones? bull; had luminous teeth? bull; used a smell-detector? bull; been a ghost? No? Then read about ....

Paul Jennings worked as a special-education teacher before becoming a full-time writer. He has been voted 'favourite author' by children in Australia over forty times and has won every children's choice award in Australia. His books, including Undone!, Unreal! and Tongue-Tied! are hugely popular and he has sold more than 6.7 million books worldwide.

Paul Jennings is an excellent author. His books are made up of about 9 short storys. The storys are just meant to be funny. The plot is designed to have as many funny points as possible - not to be an interesting plot but that is how it should be for the type of story. All the characters go through a very embarrasing situation which ends up being very funny.

This particular book is a good one. ALthough I read it a while ago I remember the story Santa Claws and Tonsil Eye 'Tis as being the best. The storys are: 1. Sneeze n Coffin 2. Santa Claws 3. A Dozen Bloomin Roses 4. Tonsil Eye 'Tis 5. Unhappily Ever after 6. Spooks incorporated 7. The Copy 8. Stuffed 9. No is yes

"Quirky Tails" (first published in 1987) is a rather odd book in Paul Jennings' "Un" series. For one, it's title doesn't begin with "Un" (like "Uncanny" and "Unreal"), plus the stories are a little more foreboding too. It's a lot shorter than the other books too, it's thin spine almost making Jennings' creepier-than-usual stories more claustrophobic. At least, that's how I used to feel when I was a kid reading this. It's still good fun, though, and still classic Jennings. It's funny, it's weird and, as usual, is very Australian, featuring a lot of locations in and around the city of Melbourne. Plus, it's easy read for all ages (8 years and up, I'd say).

"No is Yes" is a tale you could almost call a science fiction story. It features a man who has raised his daughter in isolation, teaching her a language opposite to English. Yes is no, no is yes, boy is girl, girl is boy, fork is chicken, etc. Pretty clever one, actually. The ending gets you thinking.

Quirky Tails is the third in a series of collections of short stories by Australian author Paul Jennings. It was first released in 1987. One of Jennings' darker collections, many of the stories are based around themes of death – most significantly Unhappily Ever After (which serves as an allegory for hell), and A Dozen Bloomin' Roses and No Is Yes (which have ambiguous implications of suicide and murder respectively).

A girl's mother remarries an undertaker, which embarrasses the girl because he always drives in his hearse, and also because he tells her younger brother that his coffins are boats. As a result, the girl's younger brother launched the coffin into the water, thinking it was a boat and ends up disgracing the family but the undertaker didn't even care, which also makes the girl's life been messed up. When the undertaker brings a corpse from work and the girl gets locked in the room with the corpse, the story sure gets interesting. A boy visits a hypnotist on Christmas Day because he somehow gets a small mouth that is the size of a marble. The boy explains through writing that while taking his younger brother Christmas shopping, they encountered a Santa Claus that had claws for fingernails and gave them, as well as their older sister, two wishes.

A young man works by clearing cane toads from peoples' yards end releasing them in a swamp - despite the cane toad's status as an invasive species in Australia, he actually loves toads and ends up having two of them for pets. A man who lives near him sells souvenirs, but he ends up becoming a toad clearer himself. But he is different - he enjoys killing the toads and stuffing them for his new line of souvenirs.

A man has kept his 14-year-old daughter Linda locked up in his house for her entire life; he is the only person with whom she has interacted, and he has deliberately communicated with her in 'mixed-up English', using words in opposite contexts (e.g. interchanging the words 'yes' and 'no') to demonstrate a point about the way a person learns to speak. A young plumber visits and is horrified, and the father gives him permission to attempt explain the experiment to Linda, convinced that she will not be able to comprehend what he is telling her; he tries several times, and as the story progresses she shows signs of beginning to understand what her father has done.

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