Books in Hooey Higgins series

Meet Hooey Higgins — along with his oddball family and friends — in a laugh-out-loud madcap adventure loaded with boy appeal.Hooey Higgins is desperately in love — with the humongous chocolate egg in Mr. Danson’s store window, that is. Too bad he and his best friend, Twig, have nowhere near enough money to buy it. But when a shark is spotted off the coast, Hooey and Twig dream up a plan: capture the shark and charge people to view it. Brilliant! With Hooey’s older brother masterminding the foolproof scheme, they set off with ketchup, a cricket bat, a floral quilt, and a rope in tow. What they find is so amazing it blows the shark plan out of the water! Aided by Emma Dodson’s comical illustrations, Steve Voake introduces a hilarious new character in a fast-paced story kids will sink their teeth into.

Like explosions? Like trousers? Like to see some exploding trousers? Read this book and you...might! The world's a dangerous place, innit? Have you ever found yourself in danger and thought, 'what I really need is a pair of super-protective trousers to keep me safe from crocodiles, flying toffee-apples and log-flume malfunctions?' Yes? Well, come visit Shrimpton-on-Sea, where Hooey, Will and Twig are working on their genius health and safety invention - the all-new-super-TremTroo! This is the second book in "The Hooey Higgins Series" for kids who like to larf, with madcap illustrations by Emma Dodson, part-time prop-maker for Harry Hill's "TV Burp" and "Mitchell and Webb". Book one - "Hooey Higgins and the Shark" is published in March 2010.

Like boats? Like bouncing? Like to see a bouncing boat? Read this book and you...might! You'll never guess what Hooey, Will and Twig are up to now - they've only gone and built a crazy bouncing boat to enter the Shrimpton-on-Sea home-made boat race! But who's that coming up on the outside? Is that Grandad in a battleship? Bob the Baker in a doughnut dinghy? Philbert the farmer on a floating cow? And where's that Basbo? Madness! Chaos! Marshmallows with too many E-numbers! Grab your paddles - We're Off! This is the third book in the "Hooey Higgins" series for kids who like to larf, with madcap illustrations by Emma Dodson, part-time prop-maker for Harry Hill's "TV Burp" and "Mitchell and Webb". It follows Hooey Higgins and the Shark and Hooey Higgins and the Tremendous Trousers. Book 4 - "Hooey Higgins and the Olympics" - is coming in Sept 2011. It is perfect for fans of Horrid Henry and Mr Gum.

Hooey Higgins and friends are back for another hilarious madcap adventure — this time, their dubious inventive skills are put to the test.Have you ever found yourself in a slightly risky situation and thought, What I really need is a pair of super-protective trousers to keep me safe from crocodiles, flying toffee apples, and log-flume malfunctions? Head for Shrimpton-on-Sea, where Hooey, Will, and Twig are working on an ingenious contraption sure to make the world a safer place: the all-new Tremendous Trousers, aka TremTrows! All you do is slip on a pair of yellow sweatpants, stuff them full of bubble wrap, add some soda bottles topped with balloons, and inflate them with gas from a bunch of mints dropped into the soda. What could possibly go wrong? It’s a brilliant invention guaranteed to win the class prize — tickets to the carnival! Shweet!

Screwball antics on and off the footie pitch. Why does Twig NEVER win an award? Why? WHY? Anyway, he doesn't. In school assembly everyone else (even Basbo) wins Mr Croft's Awards Certificates - Sarah-Jane Silverton has so many that her parents have actually built an extension to display them all. There's only one solution: Hooey and Will decide to invent their own AWARDS OF AWESOMENESS, strategically tailored to Twig's ... erm ... talents. But one mayhem football game and one Green "innovation" later, Twig is still tragically prizeless. Will he EVER be Awarded an Award, Awesome or otherwise?