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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka (Penguin, 1992) Matilda by Roald Dahl (Penguin, 2008) Muncle Trogg by Janet Foxley (The Chicken House, 2011)  Too Small to Fail by Morris Gleitzman (Penguin, 2011) It's a Book by Lane Smith (Pan Macmillan, 2011) The Adventures of Tintin by Herge (Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 1994) The Cat on the Mat is Flat by Andy Griffiths (Pan Australia, 2006) Funniest Stories by Paul Jennings (Penguin, 2008)Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book? by Lauren Child (Hodder Children's Books, 2008)Judy Moody by Megan McDonald (Candlewick Press, 2010What Body Part is That? by Andy Griffiths (Pan Australia, 2011) Staircase to the Moon by Bronwyn Houston (Magabala Books, 2011) Leon Stumble's Book of Stupid Fairytales by Doug MacLeod (Working Title Press, 2005) Boris by Andrew Joyner (Penguin, 2011) Two-Hearted Numbat by Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina (Fremantle Press, 2010)Owly by Andy Runton Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl (Penguin, 2009)Head Spinners by Thalia Kalkipsakis (Allen & Unwin, 2011)Comic Adventures of Boots by Satoshi Kitamura (Random House, 2004) My Dog May Be a Genius by Jack Prelutsky (HarperCollins, 2008)The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan (Lothian, 2000)

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