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The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls

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'Wonderfully weird and lots of fun!' Andy Griffiths

Winner of the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing

Kipp Kindle always knew his family wasn't like other families. They were weird, in fact they were probably the weirdest family on Earth. It was just as well they lived in the town of Huggabie Falls, because Huggabie Falls was the weirdest place on Earth.
On top of all the usual weird things that happened in Huggabie Falls, one day an extremely weird thing happened. It was by far the weirdest thing that ever happened anywhere. It was so weird that someone should write a book about it. In fact, somebody has, and you are reading it.

Kipp Kindle and his friends Tobias Treachery and Cymphany Chan live in Huggabie Falls, the weirdest town on Earth. Weird things happen all the time—that's normal. But when an extremely weird thing happens Kipp and his friends know that something is wrong. They embark on a fast-paced, action-packed, hilarious adventure to find out what is making everything turn normal, and to return the weirdness to Huggabie Falls.

With an evil villain, Felonious Dark, a creepy scientist and a fierce wand-wielding teacher, who has turned Cymphany into a baby hippopotamus, to contend with, not to mention killer vampire bats, vegetarian piranhas and a Portuguese-speaking lab rat called Ralf, Kipp, Tobias and Cymphany have quite a task ahead of them.

This is the first book in the Huggabie Falls trilogy, the funniest, craziest, weirdest series ever written, so far.

Look out for Book 2: The Unbelievably Scary Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls in October 2018.

Adam Cece loves wondering about weird things, like, for instance, if you lived in space, in zero gravity, would there be any point in owning a piggy bank? So he wrote a book about a place where only weird things happen. Adam lives in Adelaide with his wife and two children.

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    • Books+Publishing

      February 28, 2018
      Welcome to Huggabie Falls, where, on a normal day, you might encounter mad scientists, vegetarian piranhas and a spell-slinging schoolteacher with a penchant for turning students into hippopotamuses. In a town full of strangeness, Kipp Kindle’s family is the strangest. At least, they were the strangest, but now a mysterious thing has turned Kipp’s odd parents normal. Together with his friends Tobias and Cymphany, Kipp investigates and finds that one Felonious Dark, Weirdness Eradicator, is to blame. Now it’s fallen to Kipp and Co to stop Dark before he turns the whole town normal. The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls won the 2017 Text Prize, and it’s easy to see why: it’s a funny read, full of hijinks and adventure. Most of the humour comes from the narrator’s many deviations and asides that are reminiscent of authors such as Lemony Snicket or Pseudonymous Bosch. At times it feels like a guidebook to the residents of the town, but it works because the many peripheral characters are fresh and humorous (think Portuguese-speaking lab rats). The illustrations from cartoonist Andrew Weldon are a good fit. This will be an easy book to recommend to kids aged nine to 11 who are looking for a quirky read that celebrates all things oddball. Holly Harper is a children’s bookseller at Readings Kids

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