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Collected stories by Andy Griffiths
The Bad Book
First edition
AuthorAndy Griffiths
IllustratorTerry Denton
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's
PublisherPan Macmillan
Publication date2004
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages172 pp (paperback edition)
ISBN978-0-330-36425-6 (paperback edition)
OCLC156029078
Followed byThe Very Bad Book 

The Bad Book is a 2004 book by Andy Griffiths, who wrote the novel The Day My Bum Went Psycho, with Terry Denton, who also did the illustrations. It is a compilation of stories, drawings, rhymes and poems about such quirky characters like 'Bad Baby', and 'Bad Daddy' doing such bad things like miss-throwing knives, and blowing up objects and people at Christmas. It was followed by The Very Bad Book (2010) and The Super Bad Book (2011)

Stories (in chronological order)

The Bad Book contains forty-five stories overall.

  • Bad Jack Horner - Nursery Rhyme
  • Bad Humpty Dumpty - Nursery Rhyme
  • Bad Diddle Diddle - Nursery Rhyme
  • The Bad Ant - Story
  • Joan Purst - Limerick
  • Greedy Little Grace - Poem
  • Bad Daddy and the Big Swing - Cartoon
  • Badtown - Story
  • The Old Lady who swallowed a Poo - Song
  • The Girl Who Slammed Doors - Limerick
  • Bad Riddles - Jokes
  • The Sad Bad Bad-man - Story
  • Little Willy - Poem
  • Jeff Pest - Limerick
  • Bad Mummy And The Very Busy Six-Lane Hig-way - Cartoon
  • Penny McRose - Poem
  • Bad Terence - Poem
  • Bad Baby - Cartoon
  • Silly Billy - Poem
  • Very Bad Riddles - Jokes
  • The Bad Little Boy, His Father and the Very Tall Mountain - Story
  • Bad Little Betty - Poem
  • Bad Daddy Says 'No' - Cartoon
  • Little Snotty Steve - Poem
  • Bad Baby's Christmas - Cartoon
  • Ruth Punny - Limerick
  • Pirates, Trucks, Bombs, Sharks, Dinosaurs and Football - Story
  • The Bad Knife-Thrower - Cartoon
  • The Girl Who Asks Too Many Questions - Story
  • Pete Pedderson - Limerick
  • Bad Mummy and the Big Cliff - Cartoon
  • The Bad Old Duke of York - Story
  • The Bad Granny - Story
  • Little Bad Riding Hood - Story
  • Peter, Peter Junk-food Eater - Poem
  • The Bad Builder - Story
  • Ed & Ted and Ted's Bad Dog Fred - Story (Similar writing in The Cat On The Mat Is Flat)
  • Very, Very Bad Riddles - Jokes
  • If You're Bad and You Know it - Song
  • The Day Nothing Bad Happened - Story
  • Bad Mummy and the Very Hungry Lion - Cartoon
  • Very, Very, Very Bad Riddles - Jokes
  • Bad Baby at the Circus - Cartoon
  • Badword Puzzle - Puzzle
  • The Very Bad Story - Story
  • The Very, Very Bad Story - Story
  • The Very, Very, Very Bad Story - Story

Awards

In 2005 The Bad Book was awarded the BILBY Award for Younger Readers.

References

  1. "Previous Winners of the BILBY Awards: 2001 to date" (PDF). www.cbcaqld.org. The Children's Book Council of Australia Queensland Branch. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
Works by Andy Griffiths
Short story collections
Bad books
Bum trilogy
Cat 'n' Cow series
Just! series
Miscellaneous
  • Killer Koalas from Outer Space (2011)
Novels
Schooling Around series
The Treehouse series
  • The 13-Storey Treehouse (2011)
  • The 26-Storey Treehouse (2012)
  • The 39-Storey Treehouse (2013)
  • The 52-Storey Treehouse (2014)
  • The 65-Storey Treehouse (2015)
  • The 78-Storey Treehouse (2016)
  • The 91-Storey Treehouse (2017)
  • The 104-Storey Treehouse (2018)
  • The 117-Storey Treehouse (2019)
  • The 130-Storey Treehouse (2020)
  • The 143-Storey Treehouse (2021)
Miscellaneous
  • Fast Food and No Play Make Jack a Fat Boy (2006)
  • What Bumosaur Is That? (2007)
  • What Body Part is That? (2011)
  • Stinky Stories
Plays
Books I Love Best Yearly: Younger Readers Award
Canberra's Own Outstanding List: Fiction for Older Readers Award
1991-1999
2000-2009
2010-present
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