A laugh-out-loud funny book of excuses for terrible timekeeping.Why Steve Was Late is a book of hilarious (and even - occasionally - plausible!) reasons for tardiness, handily dreamed up by someone else. Here are 101 real corkers for you to enjoy And maybe even borrow...- Overcome by the urge to alphabetise my pets- Forgot how trousers work- Became temporarily feral- Got stuck in a romantic montage

Daniel Rigby, Mike Wozniak, Cariad Lloyd, Henry Paker and Jessica Ransom star in this comedy sketch show featuring overblown, melodramatic scenes from modern life.From ludicrous scenarios ranging from conspiracies behind cryptic crosswords, the perils of dating a banker, and someone accidentally being buried alive, this sketch show takes the normal and makes them ridiculous. The team uncover a cons...

The first-ever picture book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker - n****ow Children’s Picture Book of The Year 2024 – The Week Junior Book Awards!The judges said: “This poo-filled picture book [...] reveals scientific facts in an engaging, silly and original way, with lots of icky illustrations to add to the fun.”This is the hilarious (and admittedly a tiny bit gross) tale of Amy, a small piece of sweetcorn who is eaten by Noah, a...

Winner of the Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2025 (non-fiction)Do you ever wonder where the stuff around you all came from? No, not from eBay. I mean, who had the amazing idea of making a mobile phone or the annoying idea of building a school? For example, did you know that Velcro was invented by a dog and WiFi by a movie star? (Spoiler alert - it wasn’t Zendaya.)In the fourth laugh-out-loud book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker, you’ll learn all about the coolest...

‘Joyfully absurd and hilarious.’ ADAM KAY'One of the funniest things I’ve ever read. It is brilliant.' CLAUDIA WINKLEMANHere before you is Joe Wilkinson's brilliantly absurd and utterly fictional account of his time on - and briefly off - planet Earth.Through cartoon stories (illustrated by Henry Paker) Joe recounts the defining moments and bizarre encounters of his imaginary life – from his schoolboy misfortunes to his form...

The hilarious new picture book from the record-breaking Adam Kay and Henry Paker.Meet Simon. Simon is the hero of this story. But unlike most heroes in most stories, Simon is a piece of snot. He lives with his family in the left nostril of a girl called Phoebe.Follow Simon on his hilarious and extremely slimy adventure as he learns about everything snot does to protect our bodies – a fascinating and uplifting journey of self-discovery about how brilliant and...

Dexter Procter, the world's youngest-ever doctor, is back for a follow-up medical mystery!All is not well in Dexter's world. His granny has broken her leg, his friends Rupi and Otto have been expelled from school, there's a strange asthma epidemic he can't get on top of, and slimy politician Barbara Burnhall is trying to shut down everything fun at the hospital. And then his boss, Dr Marigold, goes missing!What Dexter doesn't realize is that he and his frie...

THE RECORD-BREAKING NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER FROM THE UK'S BESTSELLING NON-FICTION AUTHOR.Discover all the weird and wonderful things that go on inside your body with Adam Kay. This fun-filled anatomy book for kids covers key stage 2 / 3 human biology syllabus (in a slightly repulsive way).'Hilarious and fascinating! I wish Adam had been my biology teacher' - Konnie HuqDo you ever think about your body...

The highly-acclaimed, No. 1-bestselling children's fiction debut from Adam KayIt was clear from an early age that Dexter Procter was different.He started speaking at four seconds old. By the age of three, he had 87 A-levels, from Afrikaans to Zoology.And by ten, he was working as a paediatrician at Lilydale General Hospital.Despite a loving but annoying family and a couple of good friends (Rupi and Otto), Dexter’s always struggled t...

This complete (and completely gross) guide to the human body is the hilarious debut nonfiction children's book from world-wide multi-million bestselling author and former doctor Adam Kay!Do you ever think about your body and how it works? Like really, really think about it? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well...pretty weird. Yours is weird, mine is weird, your math teacher's is even weirder.This book is going to tell ...

Brought to you by Puffin.Have you ever thought about the fact that before the fridge you'd have had maggots in your margarine? Ever thought about what you might use to wipe your bum before loo roll was a thing? And what about what everybody did before computers?!In this third hilarious book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker you'll learn about all of these and more. Full of funny findings and disgusting discoveries, you'll uncover important inventions that chang...

From the record-breaking, Number One bestselling author of KAY'S ANATOMY comes the funniest, most fact-filled and most disgusting activity book about the body ever written!This new Adam Kay activity book contains over 500 hilarious, disgusting activities - codes to crack, experiments, recipes and more, including 144 all-new "True or Poo" quiz questions!Do you know your patella from your paella?