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Big Trouble with an Old Fart

Big Trouble #2
By Lachlann Carter
Series: Big Trouble
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The hilariously spooky Big Trouble series is back with Maddie and Clare's second adventure in Dead End! Can they beat a prehistoric mutant fart gas from zombifying everything in Dead End, including their own dad? Will Terrible Chicken finally rule the world? And how do you... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Big Trouble with an Old Fart

The second adventure in the silly-spooky Big Trouble junior-fiction series!

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The hilariously spooky Big Trouble series is back with Maddie and Clare's second adventure in Dead End! Can they beat a prehistoric mutant fart gas from zombifying everything in Dead End, including their own dad? Will Terrible Chicken finally rule the world? And how do you defeat killer pineapples?!

Goosebumps meets Twilight Zone in this ridiculously funny new series from storytelling mastermind Lachlann Carter and Last Kids on Earth illustrator Douglas Holgate. With three madcap adventures in each book and every spread packed with comic-style illustrations, this silly-spooky series has enough trouble to keep the whole family on the edge of their seat!

Big Trouble is perfect for:

  • Early and independent readers aged 5-10 years
  • Fans of funny, highly illustrated series such as Bad Guys, Real Pigeons, Dog Man and the Treehouse books.
  • Parents, teachers, and librarians looking for fast-paced, inventive, entertaining storytelling

Get into Big Trouble with the whole series now!

  1. Big Trouble with Angry Chairs
  2. Big Trouble with an Old Fart
  3. Big Trouble #3 (coming soon)

Series: Big Trouble

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761212215

Publisher: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 April 2025

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

Illustration: Black & White

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Douglas Holgate

Audience: Primary and secondary education, Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 190.0mm

Weight: 208g

Pages: 208

Collections

Children's Books Children's Fiction Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Graphic Novels Humour Lachlann Carter Series: Big Trouble Young Adult

About the Author

Lachlann Carter is author of the Big Trouble series. He is a former primary school teacher, and co-founder of 100 Story Building, a creative writing centre for children and young people. He lives on a dead end in Gimuy/Cairns with his small but loud family, surrounded by large but quiet mountains, and lots and lots of palm trees. He writes all of his stories standing up. 

Douglas Holgate is the illustrator of the #1 New York Times Bestselling series, The Last Kids on Earth from Penguin Kids (mow also an Emmy winning Netflix animated series), and the co-creator and illustrator of the graphic novel Clem Hetherington and The Ironwood Race for Scholastic Graphix. He has worked for the last 20 years making books and comics for publishers around the world from his garage in regional Victoria, Australia. He lives with his family in the Australian bush on five acres surrounded by 80 million year old volcanic boulders and a large fat dog that could possibly be part-polar bear.

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