Books with author Alan Trussell-Cullen

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 chickenHow 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 backwardsWhat 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.

Fast Lane is a brand new reading intervention series developed for 8 to 14-year old struggling readers. It provides them with a variety of engaging, wonderfully illustrated stories and non-fiction texts which will appeal to even the most reluctant child reader. The series provides a complete programme for junior reading intervention, and each book comes with a mini-audio disk for supporting and reinforcing children's fluency in reading.