Blabber Mouth and Sticky Beak

Morris Gleitzman's classic stories Blabber Mouth and Sticky Beak are now together in one volume, with with a fantastically hilarious cover look from Sarah Horne! Rowena Batts is always in trouble. It probably has something to do with her quick temper - stuffing a frog into bully-boy Darryn Peck's mouth wasn't the best idea in the world. Neither was stealing his crazy cockatoo . . . But Rowena has a bigger problem. Her dad. Somehow she has to tell him that his revolting shirts and his horrific habit of bursting into song in public are even more disastrous than she is. And it's not easy talking your way out of trouble when you were born unable to speak. Rowena and her dad rock from one batty but bittersweet scenario to the next, across two stories in one book!

Morris Gleitzman was born in England, but has lived in Australia since 1969. He has worked as everything from a frozen-chicken thawer and department-store Santa to a newspaper columnist and freelance screenwriter. Then in 1985 he wrote his first novel for young people. Now he's one of Australia's favourite children's authors, with a large following in Britain and many other countries. Blabber Mouth & Sticky Beak combines two of Morris's most well loved books into one bumper edition.