Books with author Alan Trussell-CUllen

This cheerful kids’ book is loaded with all kinds of fun but scary information about super toxic creepy-crawly critters, toads that never should be kissed, spiders just waiting to jab you with their poisonous fangs, venom-spitting snakes, and fabulously cute and colourful frogs that you should never – make that NEVER touch. Why? Because the slime on their skins could have you dead by dinner time! Yes, this book is full of all kinds of fun facts and alarming information that kids will then be able to use to intrigue (or terrify) their friends, and captivate (or horrify) their teachers and parents! Kids will find the answers to important questions like: Whose bite is more dangerous – Mr. or Mrs. Black-Widow spider? And why you should never dance the samba with a Mamba. (And even if you do, why you’ll only do it once!) Kids will also find out if they suffer from arachnophobia – or at least how to spell it – and what they should do if they get stung by a bee or a wasp. Poisonous Stuff is loaded with super cool images, a lively down-to-earth text, some laugh out loud bad jokes, and amazing photos and information about some of the most astonishing and scariest things on our planet. Kids aged seven to seventeen, will not only want to read this book – they’ll want to share it with others and find out more for themselves. Some will probably even grow up to become toxicologists or famous arachnologists like Little Miss Muffet’s dad! Kids reading this book will also learn how to keep themselves safe in a world full of fangs, stingers and toxic chemicals. They’ll probably be surprised to find out about the many poisons that may be lying about their own homes. And what is even more surprising, they’ll learn about how some poisons can actually be useful! Poisonous Stuff features include full color images, text boxes, visual gags, an index and glossary, plus fun quizzes to test the reader’s knowledge and understanding. Poisonous Stuff is the second in the Good Stuff Books series by New Zealand children’s author Alan Trussell-Cullen who has written over 400 books for kids, as well as stage plays, TV comedy scripts, and lots of zany kid’s poems. Other titles in the series include Really Big Stuff, Smelly Stuff, and Really Fast Stuff.

Kids, (and teachers and parents), welcome to Really Fast Stuff! Here you’ll find all those vital pieces of information that you never knew you always wanted to know! Like, could you run faster than a Mongolian wild ass? (Doesn’t everyone want to know that?) And, if you had to, could you outrun a grizzly bear? Or a charging elephant? Or a very angry chicken? Who Glamorous Glennis? And do you know what record she broke? And if you were a very fast runner as well as a very smart time-traveler and you happened to zoom back a few centuries and found yourself in ancient Greece and about to compete in their ancient Olympic running races, why would you be feeling a little embarrassed? (Well, make that very embarrassed!) When you’ve read this book you’ll learn all about this and so much more! There are chapters on fast birds in the air and fast animals on land and in water. You’ll even become an expert on superfast bugs, like Tropical cockroaches. Fast cockroaches? Yes, these ones can run at 43 times their body length every second! Is that fast? Well, to match that, we humans would have to be able to run at 155 mph or 250 km/h! These bugs would even embarrass Husain Bolt! Then there’s information to make you an expert quiz kid on fast cars, trains, boats, and space travel machines. Also, fast talkers, fast turkey pluckers, and superfast eaters – no, not your Uncle Fred, we’re talking hungry Piranhas! Really Fast Stuff is just the thing for kids between the ages of 7 and 17 years. (And grown-ups up to at least 77 years!) It is loaded with weird and wonderful information on all things that go really superfast, plus super cool images, a lively down-to-earth text spiced up with prolific author Alan Trussell-Cullen’s wacky sense of humor. Other features include text boxes, visual gags, an index and glossary, plus fun quizzes to test the reader’s knowledge and understanding. Read this book and you’ll even be able to do the Final Really Fast Stuff Quiz! Better still, you’ll be able to try it out on your friends! Here are some sample quiz question to test your general knowledge: Which would be the slowest animal to cross the road? (a) an ostrich (b) a zebra (c) a chicken How come Roland Wegner won a 100 metres race in world record time without actually seeing the finish line? (a) He was blind (b) There wasn’t one (c) He was running backwards What would red-bellied piranhas say if you jumped into a river full of them? (a) ‘Delicious!’ (b) ‘Next course please!’ (c) Nothing. Piranhas can’t talk, and anyway, they’d be too busy eating. Not sure about any of this? Better read this book. Then you’ll be able to impress everyone, including your teacher (and your Grandma)! Really Fast Stuff is the third in the Good Stuff Books series by New Zealand children’s author Alan Trussell-Cullen who has written over 400 books for kids, as well as stage plays, TV comedy scripts, and lots of zany kid’s poems. Other titles in the series include Really Big Stuff, Poisonous Stuff, and Smelly Stuff.

Now kids, here is a book that will really get up your nose! It will give you a good look around inside those nostrils, too! Yum! We know dogs are good at following a scent, but what about us poor humans? And by the way, guys, if you really want to impress your girlfriend with a bunch of flowers, what’s the one flower you should never have in that bouquet? Yes, it’s the dead-horse arum. One sniff and you’ll know why the poor flower got that name! There’s even a chapter on farts! (Sorry, “gas” or flatulence”!) And did you know that the ancient Romans actually had a law making it legal to fart at banquets! You’re feeling sick? Don’t go to the doctor, ask your dog. One sniff and he’ll give you a diagnosis! (Maybe that should be a “dognosis”?) Smelly Stuff is loaded with super cool images, a lively down-to-earth text, author Alan Trussell-Cullen’s wacky sense of humor, and amazing facts about the work done by that incredible organ we humans use to hold up our sun glasses, yes, the nose. Other features include text boxes, visual gags, an index and glossary, plus fun quizzes to test the reader’s knowledge and understanding. Yep! There’s a lot to be sniffed at in this book, especially if you are a kid between the age of 7 and 17 (or 70!). You’ll really enjoy showing it to all the kids in your class! You might even make your teachers laugh! (Either that, or they’ll confiscate your book so they can read it themselves!) Smelly Stuff is the third in the Good Stuff Books series by New Zealand children’s author Alan Trussell-Cullen who has written over 400 books for kids, as well as stage plays, TV comedy scripts, and lots of zany kid’s poems. Other titles in the series include Really Big Stuff, Poisonous Stuff, and Really Fast Stuff.

Really Big Stuff is loaded with mind-boggling facts, super cool images, lively down-to-earth text, laugh-out-loud bad jokes, and copious quantities of quirky information about just about everything that is astonishingly BIG! This is just the thing to capture the curiosity and imagination of kids and preteens aged seven to fifteen. Kids won’t only want to read this book. They’ll want to share it with others, as well as find out more for themselves. Reading Really Big Stuff is a great way to get kids (and adults) hooked on mathematics, science and history, too. Like, do you know how tall you are in smoots or in London double-decker buses? Or how beautiful you are in Helens? Do you know who invented the mile, or who stretched the mile to make it a little bigger, and why? Have giants ever really existed? How big was Bigfoot? Has anyone actually seen a yeti? (Probably not yeti…). And do you know what makes us grow? And if you don’t grow as tall as you’d like, who do you blame – your Mom or your Dad? Really Big Stuff features include full color images, text boxes, visual gags, an index and glossary plus fun quizzes to test your knowledge. Really Big Stuff is the first in the Good Stuff Books series by New Zealand children’s author Alan Trussell-Cullen who has written over 400 children’s books as well as stage plays, TV comedy scripts and lots of zany poems for kids. Other titles in the series include Poisonous Stuff, Smelly Stuff, and Really fast Stuff.