It's Not Funny!

Bill desperately wants to be a clown, but not everyone is impressed with his  clowning around...

JAN PAGE is a freelance writer, drama worker and arts adminstrator. She has run hundreds of drama and writing workshops for children over the years and has been an event organiser for large-scale events, including international circus, music and firework concerts! A regular scriptwriter for BBC TV's PLAYDAYS, she has written eleven plays for young audiences. 
 
Author lives: Staffordshire

"WE'VE ALL HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR CLOWNING ABOUT...IT'S NOT FUNNY!" 
 
Every morning, before school, Bill dresses in baggy trousers, a silly blue wig and a red plastic nose, as... the Great Bilbo! 
 
But clowns belong in the Big Top, not in the classroom, and everyone is getting really fed up with Bill's clowning! Then Mum takes Bill to a real circus, and the Great Bilbo discovers that being funny is a serious business... 
 
All the fun of the circus in this hilarious story from the author of DOG ON A BROOMSTICK and DOGNAPPED!

The Chocolate Monster

A brilliant beginner reader's tale of a girl who keeps losing things - and the Chocolate Monster who helps her get them back.

JAN PAGE is a freelance writer, drama worker and arts adminstrator. She has run hundreds of drama and writing workshops for children over the years and has been an event organiser for large-scale events, including international circus, music and firework concerts! A regular scriptwriter for BBC TV's PLAYDAYS, she has written eleven plays for young audiences. 
 
Author lives: Staffordshire

Lucy Locket lost her pocket,' teases Lucy's brother, Matthew. 
 
Lucy doesn't lose things, she insists to her brother, they just disappear! But who'd have guessed that a monster under her bed was taking them? Finally Lucy discovers the monster and his secret passion - chocolate. Before too long, she enters an excellent bargain with the greedy little monster. He gets all the chockie he wants, she gets all her things back...but Matthew's stuff suddenly starts vanishing!

Jan Page

Witty, funny and touching . . . Super storytelling

The appealing humourous drawings on every page will make this an instant favourite

Perfect for that potentially tricky new reader stage and especially for those who revel in otherness

Thoroughly entertaining, with amusing illustrations and a subtle underlying message about discrimination

The countdown has started for the Grand Spell Contest and the Witch's cat has run off to be a cat-food tester! Then the Dog appears on her doorstep. He can't scratch, but he can dig big holes. He can't hiss and spit, but he can growl, dribble and cover everthing in muddy pawprints. Will the Witch let the Dog help her at the Grand Spell Contest? And, most importantaly, can they both fit on her brooomstick?

Jan Page

Praise for Dog On A Broomstick

Witty, funny and touching . . . Super storytelling

The appealing humourous drawings on every page will make this an instant favourite

Perfect for that potentially tricky new reader stage and especially for those who revel in otherness

Witty, funny and touching . . . Super storytelling

The appealing humourous drawings on every page will make this an instant favourite

Perfect for that potentially tricky new reader stage and especially for those who revel in otherness

Witty, funny and touching . . . Super storytelling

The appealing humourous drawings on every page will make this an instant favourite

Perfect for that potentially tricky new reader stage and especially for those who revel in otherness

Books by Jan Page

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